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This is a photograph of the biggest room at the 2010 World Series of Poker, minus the people. You know how we’ve been trained to think of a “football field” as a standard unit of area? Like a hectare or acre, except that we actually know how big it is? I paced off this roo...
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I’m reading Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen. There’s a section in there where he says:
Ideas often have the tendency to lie stagnant until we are jolted into action by either excitement or fear… For this reason, competition — regardless of whether it stems from...
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Here are some hands I wrote up for the Cardplayer article Final Table Takedown. These were some of my more interesting hand from the final 2 and final tables of the tournament.
Hand 1: A5s is so pretty, how could you fold?
So right now there are 12 people left in the tournament and both tab...
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From an old folder, here’s a poker hand from about 2002:
I was playing $20-40 limit hold’em at Lucky Chances during the thinning hours. The game had gone from too-loose when it was full, to just-right when it was seven-handed, to not-nearly-as-good-as-it-just-was when the last whit...
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In 2003, I intentionally folded pocket aces before the flop in a live, $20/40 limit hold’em game. It was, according to my meticulous calculations, the worst play ever. But that wasn’t the only reason I did it. I wrote an article at the time in which all is revealed:
http://tommyangelo.com/ar...
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