Back in the olden days there was a thing called luck. You could have good luck and bad luck. If you brought a lottery ticket and won that was good luck. If you got married to a princess that turned into a moaner, but not in a nice way, that was called bad luck. It […]
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The Betting Gods
When the gambling gods are against you two things happen. 1 You lose confidence and 2 you lose bets in which you are favourite to win. The reason why confidence is first is that gambling should hurt. When you put a bet on you should be pretty confident that the bet has a reasonable chance […]
Being An Idiot
I cant stop acting like an idiot! When I get onto a good thing I cannot help but push the self destruct button and ultimately act like an idiot. This will not come as a surprise to some people as they ‘know’ that I am an idiot some time a go. What is galling for […]
The ‘Ex’ Comes Back and Haunts Me!
Its a bad poker player that blames random external things for the reason that he or she loses spectacularly on the poker tables. Well, I must fit that bill because I truly believe that certain things, people, or astrophysical happenings can affect your luck. If this is not the case why did the Romans devise a […]
J.D Salinger Dies!
The life and death of the great writer JD Salinger is testament of life imitating art. Quite clearly Salinger hated growing old and therefore a ‘responsible adult’. In the book he wants to be a noble warrior a saviour of children but is persuaded not to do this. In a way it is like the […]
Art for art sake…
Yesterday I wrote a piece about a report written by Kyle Siler about poker called School of The Bleeding Obvious. In it I basically slammed the report called Social and Psychological Challenges of Poker for being a long tract saying in an email correspondence ‘…that being tight/aggressive and not playing too many hands is the […]
School of The Bleeding Obvious
There is a august forum called ‘Journal of Gambling Studies’ which publish stuff on gambling and the its psychological effects on people and society. It maybe a worth while thing to read and is probably a great thing to partake in. However, you do have to wonder why would anyone spend so much time to […]
Whats Going On?
I alluded to some strange behavior in the last couple of days, It began when I was looking forward to the festive season and actually like the idea of mixing with the other sad and deluded folks buying stuff to give away. I even gave stuff away to charity, street beggars and carol singers/Salvation Army […]
A Fool And His Money…
…are soon parted. Or, to put it another way, the easiest way to be a gambling millionaire is to start out as a billionaire. One Terrance Watanabe is an object lesson on being idle rich and stupid equals bankruptcy. He is in the process of sueing several Las Vegas casinos for letting him gamble while […]