I can’t help it. I can’t help it if people read and take everything out of context and apply it to themselves and where they are. I can’t help it if people profess to be all knowing and understanding andreally know nothing and do not care to explore the over view. What I can do is keep doing what I do, and I will. In the meantime here’s one of the latest comments, approved – and at the bottom of the post it was meant for-but pasted here because it’s just too precious to have this little pearl lost at the bottom of a post.

Continue reading Another post on comments →

The $100 bills laid in a broken pattern. Their centers were twisted and mangled into a ball. The bills resembled bow ties as they filled the pot and came flying in to crash into the green felt from the 8s in a $100-200LH game. It didn’t start out this way, but everything has to start at some point or it wouldn’t be an incident or situation. Continue reading Twisted! →

PSHAW! I don’t know why I didn’t get into this on the last post, but it’s positively a must. Continue reading I forgot the most important part →

I’ve received a lot of fantastic, supportive comments from a lot of you. NICE! I want to follow through on a few without having to go back and leave a comment in a long thread of comments -and those are the ones that pertain to ‘what is the right amount to tip’ and on ‘tournament tipping’. Somewhere in the myriad of posts here on Tango, I have one that specifically outlines what happens with tournament tips and how they are disbursed – but even using the search capability here, I’ve not been able to find it. Maybe I will, in the event that I do, I will link it up. And I’m a little in ultrashock that there are so many comments. Continue reading More on Comments →

“Just move quietly into the office and no one will get hurt,” from one of the four security guards that surrounded me as I entered the poker room. I found out later they had my picture on file and watched me enter the casino from the employee’s entrance, tracked my progress through the crowds milling around “O”, and the sea of slot machines that surround the poker room. I was numb. What had I done? Continue reading Fired! →

“Is that that loud mouth guy?” came from someone behind me as I stood outside the ropes watching Tony G. play the 7 Card Stud event. “Yeah, that one over there!” Another voice agreed, “Yeah, that’s the loud mouth guy.” Continue reading More of this and that →

On comments: Even though I have stressed repeatedly that my posts are not about tipping, that’s the general thread in comments received. If Sam’s lady sweater hadn’t opted to try to remind the two of them to tip, I would have simply left it as, This was a working deadspread for me. If the majority of you don’t know what a working deadspread was before that post, you must know it now. Continue reading Comments and Tipping →

For the first time in close to two weeks, I drew table 17 as my start in the line-up. SWEET! That means I was going to deal mainly $30-60 and lower limit holdem, one $20-40 stud game, $10-20NLH and lower…the part of the poker playing public that comprises most of the poker world and the most fun people to deal to – with the least ATTITUDE! Continue reading Dodging a Bullet! →

“I’m going to have to punch you…or get punched…it could happen that way,” by Sam Farha as he’s facing a $18,000 raise in PLO from Brian Townsend. It appeared that Sam was going to raise to defend his $3000 live blind – he called instead. Continue reading Behind the noise →

Card Player has made a big move in resolving the issues that I wrote about yesterday. You can catch Tony G.’s blog for an update. It’s refreshing to find there are still ethics in the business world. Continue reading Moving Forward →