How to Win at Poker and at Business

I just read an interesting article at BusinessWeek entilted How to Win at Poker and at Business. The title is much better than the actual article. Hopefully, I’ll do a better job of the article.
The main point BusinessWeek addresses is that you improve people skills while playing poker.
Acting persuasively, reading opponents’ motives, and handling the [...]

WSOP – Scotty Nguyen wins HORSE

Scotty Nguyen has won this year’s H.O.R.S.E event. It’s a $50,000 event and considered by many to be the most prized tournament. H.O.R.S.E covers 5 differents types of games. The winner being a true poker champion.
The final table of 8 players had 16 WSOP bracelets between them. E-Dog finished 3rd and Barry Greenstein 6th.
Other recent [...]

WSOP 2008 Update

There are a lot of big name winners in the WSOP this year. In recent years there haven’t been so many superstars winning events due to the very large fields, but this year there are. It may due to fewer entries, the Superstars getting better at playing through huge fields of players, or there are [...]

Sport Update

British number one, Andy Murray, is doing well in Wimbledon. He’s into the 3rd round.
Spain vs Germany in the finals of Euro 2008. Should be a good game. Spain must be the favourites, but never underestimate the Germans. Can Spain finally win their first major competiton? Should be a great game. The game is Sunday night.
Villa [...]

Blog unsuspended

My blog has been suspended for the past few weeks. Finally, it’s back online. It was difficult getting hold of the WordPress support, but once I finally did, they unsuspended the account immediately.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused to readers.

Downswing again

I feel I’m playing fine and the reason I lost today and yesterday are due to the cards. Today I’ve lost $500 so far. Yesterday I lost $1000.
Here is one truly sick hand that made me go on a tilt a bit. I left shortly after:
AA gets bad beat. The reason this hand happened was [...]

Terrible day

I started off great as I mentioned in the previous post. But things have turned around a bit. I lost around $1600 at Party later in the day. I won about $100 back at TowerGaming, but I’m still down approximately $700 for the day.
Still a few hours left of the day so hopefully I’ll win [...]

Apple iPhone to include online gambling and poker sponsor

The iPhone will come preinstalled with Full Tilt online poker software.
Strange move by Apple – especially since Steve Jobs is against gambling.
Full Tilt Poker made an offer that Apple “couldn’t refuse”. I think a lot of money must be involved in this deal. There seems no other logical explanation for this. Apple will probably take [...]

BetFair Promotion

BetFair is a great site. I played for the bonus there and left. I made a healthy profit.
Click here to join.

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