Isildur1 as told to Luckyjim
The last few months have been frustrating. I hated having to play so low, splitting tables, and never getting a real run going. But I knew I'd get back up there. And yesterday, thanks to the generosity of my nemesis Cole and Hastings, I did it.
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After two hours six-tabling $100/$200 NLHE, I'm down $100k and really need the bathroom. "brb" I type in chat and dash across the hall. I get back to find my kid sister Gunilla in my room, on my computer, watching Justin Bieber videos again. I tell her to get off and, as usual, she threatens to tell our parents I'm playing for real money. So I cover my ears while she watches him sing 'Someday at Christmas' to Obama for like the hundredth time. When I've got rid of her I open-shove for the next ten minutes. It costs me $50k.
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Simon Galloway
An economics concept normally associated with international trade, which looks at ways where country A has an absolute advantage producing two commodities over country B (i.e. is better at producing both) yet they can find a way to trade with each other so the output of both commodities can increase, or savings can be made, by specialising in the commodity in which you are “most best” or “least worst.”
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Pete Birks
One of the downsides of getting old is that there never seem to be any certainties any more. This is not a comment on the recent lack of “cannot fails” running in the second race at Lingfield, but an observation that, quite often, principles which when you were younger you held to be inviolate begin to develop grey fuzzy lines around the edges. Take the principle of “never leave a game while it’s good”. Now, in the old days, when you went out for an evening’s social poker, this was a non-question. You began when the game began and, unless you went broke, you ended when it ended.
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David Lloyd
Once upon a time, in a poker world, not so far, far away, the idea of hold’em on TV was purely fantasy. Media coverage amounted to little more than a bi annual feature on the World Series in one of the colour supplements, if you were lucky. The internet was but a glint in Bill Gates eye and the concept of playing online was something they didn’t even do on Star Trek.
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