Poker Perambulation

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This isn’t about that deplorable ad from Allstate. You know the one. Some idiot named Mayhem does idiot thing to get you to buy overpriced insurance from a company with idiot policies. Did I mention idiotic along the way? But, no this is about my deplorable behavior. Read more…

wait 5 minutes. It is a line favor by wags of all stripes. The weather around here can be described as changeable. But the line is more jape than truism. That has sure been true this summer. The weather has been nasty…day after day after… Read more…

That usually a modifier to Hold’em. The idea is they chase but then catch at a rate that causes one’s blood pressure to peak. In Mediterranean types, it leads to broken keyboards and flying mice making cracks in the wallboard. Seeing that I’m partial to MS Keyboards and Logitech track balls, it wouldn’t be cost effective to join them. Read more…

Mom was a great cook but all American in concept. I ate out a lot and got to liking things a bit different from her style. Julia Child hit the airways about that time and I still have her cookbook from that original series. One of the recipies was for a ramequin. It has been a staple in my cooking ever since. Read more…

This is for all you soccer moms and dads who take pride in Junior's accomplishments.  This is also for those of you who actually like soccer for whatever outlandish reason Read more…

That’s what the Supreme Court uses to define obscenity. Obscenity is one of the areas that constantly wars with freedom of speech detractors. The problem is one of defending something you think reprehensible. It makes drifting to the side of the book burners appealing. Read more…

Not my poker one. This one looks like it might be in though. Another A.G. – this time in CT – is on a price fixing case. For this one I will add – ABOUT TIME. Read more…

With the campaign season in full swing the operative word is negative.  I can be negative.  Maybe I could become a political consultant; Best not, I've a maker to meet and I don't think that sin would be expunged in time.  Then,  I got directed to the following ad.  It introduced humor of all things.  I'm sure that the next campaign practices bill will halt such a diabolical practice. 

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Jim Croce had an interesting list of things not to do. Probably most guys have even agreed when an errant gust at least had the woods help conceal their error. In a bar, we tend to avoid drunken confrontations over matter that other times would be minor. And, then there that thing called common courtesy. They combine to make the world most know better than the wild west. Read more…

Well, it is a topic that just won’t go away. Poker players know risk:reward either well or in a way that puts their sign in Pisces with Pluto ascending their leg – the dog and not the former planet. The site I’m going to leave nameless disclosed their “security alert” for UB. They found the same on Cake. It is a BFD only in their SEO directed minds. That seems a vested interest. Read more…