Archive for September, 2007

One of the Best Things to Happen to Poker In A While

For those of you who don’t follow the poker world too closely, an 18 year old girl just won the first WSOP Europe Main Event. Anyone who does follow the poker world closely is well aware of which girl it is, Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad. She’s basically been destroying online tournaments since before she even turned [...]

Poker Commentary, Poker Community

Link To: Incredible Iraq Story

I realize making a blog entry just to link to an entry in someone else’s blog makes this blog pretty suck-ass, but I wanted to pass along this story from Paul Phillips’ blog about a relative of his who had quite the harrowing experience just before returning home.
The conclusion made the misogynist in me chuckle [...]

Non-Poker

Pale Blue Dot

The survival of our species might depend on if our minds can evolve quickly enough to be constantly aware of the lesson taught in this video. If we never develop to that point of consciousness, it will be because we destroyed ourselves too soon.

Non-Poker

A Poker Confession

A lot of people (myself included, before now) like to live in a state of silence that borders on denial in the midst of a downswing. Sometimes there’s nothing more refreshing than brute honesty, so here we go: Since writing the “Chop at the Venetian” article on July 6th, I’m down $36,000 from gambling! That’s [...]

General Gambling, Poker Commentary