tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160711212026-06-07T06:24:31.958-07:00Observations on some of the people and the culture of poker. Also a little off topic ranting now and then.Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.comBlogger368125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16071121.post-84132552193218665692010-08-28T22:47:00.000-07:002010-08-28T22:49:42.631-07:00

The harder they try to convince you of something, the more likely it's not true. That's often the case in poker, in love, and in the world at large.The Economist points to a very interesting study by Stanford’s David Larcker and Anastasia Zakolyukina on the use of deception in the business environment (HT: Brian McCann). The article’s title, “How to Tell When Your Boss is Lying,” gets at the

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Here's a snip of an old RGP post and a comment from Badger that I found on Badger's site:Gary Carson wrote...> I've played in games (20/40 games and 3/6 games) where the right> thing to do with KQo in second position after an under the gun raise> was to 1) fold 2) call 3) raise. It's not a function of the KQo, it's a> function of who those other guys are, the kinds of hands that> under the gun

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Danny Boy gives us some examples of being outdrawn, outplayed, and coolered. His cooler example:oolered: I limped with 6-8 and he raised to isolate me and I decided to call. The flop was K-9-7 with one heart. Check check. Turn is the 10h, I bet 6000, he raises 15,000 more, I move all in with the straight, he quickly calls me with... QJ. Ugly turn card yuk.You've been coolered when you raise with

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If you close your eyes real tight and wish really, really hard (and, I guess, click your heels together), your wishes will come true.I've kept half of my streak alive.That's a quote from Danny Boy's blog. I think he really believes that a lucky streak is the result of his concentrating really hard on being lucky.I think he's so funny.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16071121.post-85952491331468939462010-02-23T06:09:00.000-08:002010-02-23T06:12:39.751-08:00

Let's Play Casino has a review of The Complete Book of Casino Poker.The book's unique contribution to poker literature is Carson's 5-dimensional model of poker players. Just about everyone who plays poker is aware of Alan Schoonmaker's tight-loose and passive-aggressive dimensions. Carson finds these two dimensions insufficient, and he adds three more of his own: weak-tenacious,

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This is an interesting short video on the value of counter-factual thinking.Although they talk about it in terms of a life narrative it's also a valuable way to approach a self-evaluation of your poker game.

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Doyle and his wife give some tips on a long-lasting marriage in the Wall Street Journal• Keep (some) secrets. When poker legend Doyle Brunson met his wife Louise at a country-and-western club in Texas in 1961, he told her he gambled for a living. And she accepted him for who he is. "Love is the most important thing," says Louise Brunson, 78. "You have to love your spouse more than life itself."

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Decision analysis is bundle of procedures and concepts used in the analysis of the decision making process. I’m going to describe some of those procedures and concepts as they might apply to the analysis of decision making situations in poker.Outcome is the result of either your decision or of the unrolling of a previously unrevealed state of nature. The value of the next card to be turned is

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BaddBeatBobb reviews The Complete Book Of Hold 'Em Poker: A Comprehensive Guide to Playing and Winningand The Complete Book Of Casino Poker

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Danny boy gives us an example of angle shooting but then follows up with a plea that it can't be angle shooting if he does it, because he doesn't shoot angles.clearly an infraction of the rules took place when my opponent tabled his hand with action remaining. The video doesn't show it, but the players at my table all saw his hand, I saw the Ad and only half of the other card, which looked like

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I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.Registration code: 592953

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According to a NYT article, the Connecticut casinos cater to an Asian crowd on Thanksgiving.Thanksgiving doesn’t mean a lot to us; it’s a vacation,” said Chan Juan Zhou, a 21-year-old college student who lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and studies civil engineering. Ms. Zhou arrived at the casino with 13 friends around midnight on a jammed bus from Chinatown.... On any other day, 50 buses might

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I used to read a lot of poker blogs but I don't so much anymore. I still read a few regularly, Danny Boy's blog is one that I read regularly. I actually like his blog.One of the things I like about it is that it keeps me in touch with different ways of thinking about things. There really aren't many topics that Danny thinks about in the same way that I do. If you're going to play poker at all

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A review of The Complete Book of Casino Poker

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There are so few American poker players that we have to travel to Canada to find players to play on an American team.

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Harrah's goes deeper and deeper in debt.Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. (“Harrah's”) announced today that Harrah’s Operating Escrow LLC and Harrah's Escrow Corporation (the “Escrow Issuers”), wholly-owned unrestricted subsidiaries of Harrah’s Operating Company, Inc. (“HOC”), are proposing to issue $1 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2017 Harrah’s intends to use the net

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At least not without inside information.

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I guess George Will thinksHoward Lederer, a.k.a. "the Professor," is a professional poker player, not a gambler. If Congress will acknowledge this distinction, it will rectify one of its recent mistakes. Howard used to be a professional poker player. He was also a bookie for a time. And was a gambler, gambling on poker, sports, chess, and probably other games as well.More recently he's an owner

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I'm suprised (and pleased) to see that it's still getting reviewed.

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I wonder if Danny (or his brother) have ever been a hospital patient?So I'm in Toronto visiting my mother. She's still in ICU, in fact, she has been in ICU longer than any other patient at the hospital. The real problem is her breathing- she can't do it on her own. Doctors gave us the bad news a little while ago that because she can't breathe on her own... she'll never leave the hospital. They

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n an apparent crackdown on Internet gambling, federal authorities in New York have frozen or seized bank accounts worth $34 million belonging to 27,000 online poker players, according to representatives for the players and account holders.That's the lead paragraph in a Wall Street Journal article the other day. And it's wrong.It's correct that Poker Player's Association said that, but it's not

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Joan Rivers beat Annie Duke on Celebrity Apprentice. I didn't watch the final episode, although I did watch most of them during the season. I watched Breaking Bad last night and switched over in the final moments to see who Trump was going to pick as the winner.2+2 has a long discussion on the show, most of which focuses on personalities and conspiracy theories. The best analysis of the show

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I'm sorry, but this woman really does remind me of Annie.

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Andy Beal is the Texas banker who played a series of headsup matches against members of a Las Vegas "poker corporation". Micheal Craig wrote The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time about the series of matches.It seems that Beal plays poker with his bank assets also. And he plays pretty well.A banker who resisted the urge to invest in toxic

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No, Danny-Boy doesn't have a drinking problemI broke pretty much all of my rules going into this tournament, some of which just aren't my fault. My rules are simple:1. Unpack immediately (did that)2. No socializing the night before3. Dinner alone in the room4. No drinking5. 8 hours of sleepI broke 4 out of the 5 rules. I played in the Ante Up for Africa Celebrity event and came in 5th place. It

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