Let’s take a brief pause and think about the Poker God Theory. Out of all the people in the world playing poker at any given moment of the day, the Poker God just zips in and snaps you off of a big win or the absolute reverse…gives you the only River card that you can win with.

Why? How does the Poker God decide where to land and who to screw with? Is it strictly random or planned? What about the player that goes on a rush for months at a time and wins every time they play…then one day it turns around and they cannot win, no matter what they do? Is that a diabolical Poker God trick? Did this player make a pact with the Poker God which allowed them to win and then reneged on it? Is it the Twilight Zen of Poker?

This really isn’t going anywhere but a few people would like to know because a reference to the Poker God has been made a zillion times over the years. Next time you see the Poker God, why don’t you ask Her? Oh yeah, if there’s a Poker God, is there a Shuffle Master God also? Check that out too, please!!!

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Back to the real world. You jump into a $1-$5 7 Card Stud game, it’s on table 29 which has a Shuffle Master installed, deal to a bunch of newbies that you’ve never seen before and most of them have no idea what’s going on except they want to play poker. And you’re off and running…dealing away…about half way through your down, you forget about the Shuffle Master, scramble the deck, shuffle, cut and deal. After the hand has been dealt, it dawns on you that you forgot to use the deck in the Shuffle Master. Best part of it is that no one even noticed that you did it the hard way. Sweet! Love these players

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$60-$120 Holdem…action, action, action! Five players take the Flop in a capped hand. Flop, 4-3-J. Bet, raise, raise, raise, raise. Four players take the Turn – a 7.

Check, bet, raise, raise, checker folds, raise, raise. Three players take the River. River, Q.

Bet, player 2 raises, player 3 calls, Better raises, player 2 calls going all-in, player 3 overcalls. The Better shows down 5-6 OS.

The all-in player turns over Q-Q, he thought he got a bad beat…grumbled and mumbled and held onto his hand for a few minutes mourning the death of a Set. After the Turn he was drawing dead and got there. See…the limit doesn’t change a thing when it comes to gamble, gamble, gamble. Some people just want to play!

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This post is done by Chanzes – during the time period that I took a break from posting in the Diary.