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Bad Beats are Overhead;Chips, The Cost of Doing Business As Usual

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The Poker Years / Decision Science Under Pressure Trials Your Brain on Poker: Zero-Gravity Thinking Poker does not think. The player has to. The edge appears when you stop waiting for certainty, create pressure without becoming reckless, and judge the decision before the river rewrites the story. See Full Image The One With the Most Chips Still Dies A Real Cool Hand Online Poker Full Tilt Archive Selective Aggression Variance Resourcefulness Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Opening Signal Everything we think we know about online poker keeps changing, which ...

Feel athletic, go to a sports bar; feel lucky, a casino

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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 high fiber diets---it reinvented the often indigestible into an energizing and delicious (peak) experience t...