There Is No Limit Like No Limit

There's No Limit Like No Limit! in Money Heaven Aircrafts (Metal) and Yachts are not the latest fad in Macau---Texas Hold'em is. China’s version of the Forbes list — the country now has 106 billionaires, second only to the U.S---were out throwing away their money on the house games this weekend, but poker is catching on. There are some sick pots being taken down. Tonight, t he Slumdog Chinese Millionaires of Hong Kong are playing deep stack poker 3 Mill. HK Behind them, a credit to conspicuous consumption and a What the F*ck attitude of the global financial crisis--- with a 7 Million Hong Kong Dollar pot just an hour ago, before I broke for the Hotel. I'm staying across the street at the Grand Lisboa--the epitome of bling.In it's hey day, it was the greatest hotel Macau had to offer. Inspired by the lotus – Macau’s national flower, check out this photo , where I played a real Sunday night loose game and was up $600. My hourly rate was $100 US an Hour. Today ...

The Kowloon Report -Vintage Chaos 2/27/2009 Where's all that Feng shui in Sardine land's "concrete forest" ? Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Bangkok, to the most densley populated piece of real estate on the planet; at least according to The Guinness World Records, three blocks from the Mong Kok subway station 旺角, Hong Kong. Caffine Central,Bean and Nothingness At some point, inevitably, the "off-the hook-off-the-chain"- extraordinary becomes the ordinary. The steady diet of fast food, the 24 hour news cycle a ka the CNN effect of knowing everything, the napsterization of cutting out the middleman, the tivoization of on demand time-shifted-content. Here comes everywhere again---this time in Chinglish. So it was with Bangkok; and so it is with Hong Kongness. Giant escalator take me "up" to get a cup of coffee from my favorite drug dealer, Starbucks. Coffee is the new tea in China. The Starbucks Effect--Ever...

Spending Your Derelict You(th) at the Poker table-The Helium Report It's been a real crazy week playing my own version of The Asian Poker Tour---Macau is where it's at. What happEND in Vegas now happens in Macau. Poker is not a form of gambling---but Macau gambling is a form of poker; and the Chinese are just getting to know holdem and took huge gambles that rarely, but eventually, payed off---But anyone who gambles in poker can get lucky on one hand 100% of the time. Sex And The Gambling Man In Macau-Denial is a river one outter. A little past playing good is playing badly. I couldn't help myself. It was like potato chips---I couldn't just eat one....I eventually ended up like all the other JOES, played ATC, any two cards...but was hitting flops and winning not just pots but chips. I call that Card Lust . My malignant optimism got to me when I switched games and went to Blackjack. afterall, In Blackjack, there is always a correct decisio...

Moneymaker Effect in Poker Poker Pros Chris Farrell and Ed Reif Moneymaker Effect? What effect did it have on you? Calling poker a sport is like calling bald a hair color. Yet this male pattern madness--- an 800 lb gorilla known as Texas No Limit Hold em (a.k.a. NLH)--- has replaced baseball not only as the national pastime, but also America’s bellybutton. The real deal is that gambling is an addiction, and the Addictionary- is spelt with the letters WSOP, WPT, GSN and ESPN. The mess is the message---winjuries--- a cool revenue stream for the networks and promoters, OME, out of money experiences for everyone else connected to the "sport". Why? because NLH, no limit holdem is 100% skill and 100% luck, and luck lends but never gives. ESPN’s WSOP (World Series of Poker), High Stakes Poker on GSN, and the Travel Channel’s WPT (World Poker Tour) have done for poker what Jamba smoothies did for ...

Poker Strategy The Possibility of Sudden Significant Change in Your Game The way to get better is to think about process, not results —focus on better decision-making and ignore short-term results. This is extremely hard to do because neurons that wire together fire together—that’s the real thrill of poker. The Power of Thin Slicing There's a wonderful phrase in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink —"the power of thin slicing"—which suggests that humans can make sense of situations based on the smallest slices of experience. Poker isn't just a game; it’s a strategic mental challenge. Hello, My Name is "I'm All In"—when bad things happen to good decisions. Poker is about risk and reward, where bad plays can sometimes be rewarded, but long-term skill prevails. Commitment & Equity NLH revolves around the thre...

Poker and Investing: Games of Incomplete Information Poker and Investing: Games of Incomplete Information Poker: A Game of Skill and Chance On any given hand, poker may be 85% luck and 15% skill, but over thousands of hands, the percentages flip—85% skill and 15% luck. Understanding patterns and probabilities is crucial. "Mo' money is lost by players who know the right thing to do, but fail to do it anyway." - Behavioral Finance Insights Behavioral Finance Meets Poker Behavioral finance can inform poker strategy. Superlative performance isn’t just eliminating chance but recognizing opportunity. It’s when your left brain trains your right brain to act correctly under pressure. Risk Assessment: Know the odds before betting. Folding Discipline: Winning isn’t about pots—it’s about chips. Bias Awareness: Recognize patterns of irrational behavior. Winning by Minimiz...

Poker is considered the purest of games; and No Limit Holdem (NLH) is surely the purest of the "sacred" illnesses, also known as, addictions, because it is behavioral rather than chemical. see Grey Matters- In search of The All-In Molecule Gambling isn’t as scandalous as writing about it. You can’t be a poker blogger and not think about addiction. It’s like not thinking a bout death becaus e it lasts too long. More than that, there is very little difference biologically be tween what is going inside the head of a drug addict and a poker "pro". There is no shame, however, in being a Poker Pro, only in still being one, once you realize your brain made you re-buy. Furthermore, as the selfish brain fears death and looks for predictable experiences, poker is a great placebo that hijacks the brain with a predictable surprise: card players are surprised if they win and surprised if t hey lose. see: Poker= f(dopamine flow); Money= happiness in the United States of Unc...

Free will or free won't- T exas Holdem Cowboy Card Junkies In the United States Of Unconscious gambling, poker without mon ey is an opinion; and opinions about poker are just shovels we use to dig our own graves: because if you are n ot playing poker but thin king about playing poker you are already dead. 24 Hour Casinos-I Don't Have Time For That "Get Rich Click" Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobod y wants to die. Poker Zombies who are playing 24/7 just do n’t like being here in the USA all the time. Now you're gambling from home and can lose the house! while thinking you're more "in control", it becomes part of everyday living. The original name of this blog---Hotel @nyware is about location neutral internet gambling. Playing online poker insinuates its way in into our daily lives deeply and invisibly, whether by laptop, desktop or phone. Something incredible happens with poker which is never put down or can always be picked up. Gam...

Ed Reif - Online Poker Quotes Ed Reif - Online Poker Quotes Sponsored by his bad beats at Riverstars and Full Tilt Pain For Sale "When you lose, you lose money, when you win; you lose the value of money." Eating What You Kill "We’re not playing together, but we're not playing against each other either." Get Your Freak-onomics On "You can't lose what you don't put into the pot." SHIP IT HOLLA Poker is less an exploitative strategy and more an optimal one. Strategy trumps math—play with selective aggression and jam the pot with confidence. Lights Out Poker Bet that your opponents don’t have the cards rather than assuming they do. Play in the dark and take control. The "NEW" Way Small Ball Strate...