As you all know, WSOP 2006 is about to start any minute and I am intended to follow it quite closely this year. I’ve been waiting for it for the past 3 weeks, reading the rules, schedules and a couple of behind the scenes interviews.

As it goes, a watched pot never boils, and I was really watching my pot. However, once an event you’ve been waiting for starts there’s practically no way to hold it back. It gains speed and you hardly even notice it till it’s all gone.

I did not want that to happen to me while I was waiting for WSOP. That is exactly my brand new countdown counter is for. Installed a couple of days ago, it used to show how many days, hours and even minutes are left till the WSOP. Now the counter is showing the time of the next event and how many days are left the main event.

Actually, I am even hoping to get a free DVD with 2005 WSOP recorded if this blog returns visitors to the authors of the counter… I hope I can still win it.

At the moment I’m not sure what is more complicated - Poker or Life?
One part of me screams - are you stupid? of course life!
Another part of me has doubts.
This month I played online texas holdem almost in all poker rooms I found. Some of them I liked, some of them seemed to me not interesting. The point is that more I play more I understand that I know nothing about poker.
There are a lot of books about this game, a lot of movies, etc. And I really respect people who know at least half of all theory.

Few days ago I finally(!!!) went out to play some poker (offline one)!
It was usual NL Texas Holdem. But one thing was really unusual - first time in my life I saw an offline fish. He was sitting with his “supersystem2″ at the table, and I was waiting the whole evening when he will put his glases on and start to have consultation with it. What was really funny - he was dealing exactly like tagged fish in PokerRoom!

The idea behind this whole thing is that someone starting from scratch will be coached into becoming a winning poker player. This person will be instructed real-time, and anyone can monitor his progress. To me, sounds great.

Online Poker Experiment

In general, gambling is illegal in most states. There are varying levels and degrees to which it is illegal, and of course many states will have exceptions to the law. In short though, gambling is not something that most state governments take a favorable view on. With that said, lets take a look at some of the accepted, exempt, forms of gambling that exist in most states.
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I decided to write about useful poker habits. The success probably depends mostly on the players’ behavior. For example, lots of poker players hide their eyes under sunglasses. I guess it’s a good idea, because eyes can say a lot. Also it’s quite important to control your facial expressions.
IMHO a poker player with sunglasses and without any trace of emotions on his/her face has more chances to win. I’m not really discussing the rules, I’m just trying to compare two players of same level.
And I feel that the one who has such poker habits has more chances to win.
Any ideas?

I haven’t been at offline poker tournament for ages!
Lucky people who go there often. It’s so exciting to play with real people, look at their reaction, touch cards, win some money…
Well, I can play for now only in online poker. But I promice to myself to go some day to a real tournament.
By the way, what was your biggest achievment?

Located off The Strip, The Palms caters to both the bread-and-butter tourist trade and to young hipsters eager to experience a taste of the glitz and the glamour of the Rat Pack’s heyday. It has 10 tables divvied up between 2 rooms, one of which is dedicated to No-Limit High Stakes. The poker rooms are off the casino but still open, and as such get a lot of slot machine noise.
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I think poke is one of the most exciting games in the world. It teaches you so many things. Poker is a lot like life: it’s risk vs. reward; it’s pleasure and pain, courage and fear. Anyone can play thins game: young and old, men and women. What other game allows playing on equal terms with the biggest stars? Poker can even teach you to think like a business-oriented person, because you learn to evaluate the situation, you learn to vital negotiating skills and think in risk vs reward terms on a micro level.
Thoughts?

A man walked by a table in a hotel and noticed three men and a dog playing cards. The dog was playing with extraordinary performance. “This is a very smart dog.”, the man commented.
“Not so smart,” said one of the players. “every time he gets a good hand he wags his tail.”

There are TWO rules for ultimate success in poker: 1. Never tell everything you know.

A man came home from a poker game late one night and found his hideous
harpy of a wife waiting for him with a rolling pin.
“Where the hell have you been?” she asked.
“You’ll have to pack all your things, dear,” he ad-libbed. “I’ve just
lost you in a card game.”
“How did you manage to do that?”
“It wasn’t easy, honest. I had to fold with a royal flush.”