The Shark Tank

I’ve been a Phillies fan since I was seven, which is an embrassingly long time ago. I was never much of an athlete. In fact, the highlight of my athletic career was when I was ten years old and knocked in the winning RBI in our little league championship game for (you can [...]

I’m up to about 9,000 VPPs now, but I’m finding it very boring.  It is hard to find good games on Stars right now, so I often wind up playing 5/10 because that seems to have a lot of full tables running more often than any other limit.  I’ve been up and down and am [...]

I just agreed to an interesting offer.  A friend of a friend is doing some coaching for one of the November 9.  As you probably know, the final table of the WSOP Main Event has been set for some time.  The nine guys who are still alive in the event have had almost half a [...]

The thing is that I essentially stopped playing when I got back from the WSOP, so I have to turn up the pace just a bit to get there.  To give you an idea how little I’ve played, I still haven’t cleared the deposit bonus from July.  Essentially, I need to hit 12,000 VPPs a [...]

Due to the effects of jet lag on my lovely bride and my general refusal to sleep I found myself with an unexpected opportunity to play poker late one night in Stockholm.  Based on my general experience with Swedish players and the tendency of brick and mortar play to be even looser than online and [...]