tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-315002362012-01-05T07:07:36.779ZJeremiad1971http://www.blogger.com/profile/17492719929128271249noreply@blogger.comBlogger3221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31500236.post-38061491845299247822010-04-03T19:57:00.002Z2010-04-03T20:16:14.035Z

Packing bags should be classified as an emotionally high risk activity by [the] Department of Psychology.

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I am a recovering nerd.I am trying my best to make progress but the road to rehabilitation is long and beset on all sides by the inequities of the elfish and the tyrannies of evil students. I have tried many methods to erase my nerdiness: I have listened to gangsta-rap, developed a minor interest in gridiron and have seriously contemplated purchasing a Stadium Pal; but still I feel stained by my

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The reason that there has not been as many posts in Feb is because the gaming site that I write for has asked me not to post the poker articles here, as they want search engines to find their site.Fair enough.If you are still interested in reading the poker articles, and can access gaming sites from work, you will find them here: http://www.eurolinx.com/en/Poker/DavidCorner.aspxI'll also add a

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(News from other sources)Scientists have announced that they have now discovered there is a gene responsible for shyness.They would have found it sooner but it was hiding behind another gene.

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Unfortunately, it is going to be a while until I notice any poker improvements through meditation, although I’m already aware of a heightened sense of self when I strike my hand-beaten Tibetan singing bowl with my dong. However, just because I’m still in the departure lounge of my journey to inner peace does not mean that I can’t find a topic to blog about.You may have noticed that the site has

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It would not be a huge exaggeration to say I have had one of the weirdest seventy-two hours of my life. I’d love to tell you about it. However, this is a family site with a cuddly image so unfortunately I will have to restrict myself to writing about the latest experiment in stress reduction.Just to recap, we have already deduced:1. A bit of stress is beneficial as it can make you play in the

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Welcome back to David’s Corner and another ill-conceived ramble about poker.Regular readers, and some other members of my family, may recall that I posted this a few days ago:‘I will give some serious thought to how to manage stress at the table and will attempt to devise a proper inoculation program.’Christ.I have since made plenty of notes and some of them are not warnings against making bold

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Here in London it is a day of disruption and chaos.Is it because of a burst water pipe?Nope.Power cut?Guess again.Terrorist attack?Get real.It is because of snow.Overnight, we experienced a relatively heavy snowfall and the city is at a standstill. People are unable to get to work and everywhere there are signs of broken routines.Lives disrupted can promote a time for reflection. As I contemplate

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On Wednesday, you may recall that we left you with the following poser:A bat and a ball set costs €1.10. The bat costs €1 more than the ball. How much is the ball?Most people do not arrive at the correct answer straight away. I know I didn’t. I was with the majority of people who experience an immediate impulse to say ’ten cents.’The question was taken from Dan Gardner’s book, ‘Risk – The Science

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(News from other sources.)A new Middle East crisis erupted last night as Dubai TV refused to broadcast The Flintstones. A spokesperson said that people in Dubai do not understand the humour but those in Abu Dhabi do.

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For today’s post, I’d like to continue to talk about stress and how it is vital to understand how it can affect a player’s decisions the poker table.Consider this quotation from Samuel Johnson, English man of letters:Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of the other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it.As I take a moment to restore Sammy J

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I’d like to start the week’s posts by slapping down another chunk of poker goodness. It is part of an ongoing series of pieces that illustrate ways in which absorbing popular science and psychology can assist you at the poker table.Regular readers may recall that a previous post suggested that recent WSOP main event winner, Peter Eastgate, is a good example of what author Malcolm Gladwell terms

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My fellow bloggers, I sit here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by the weaker players.Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. We have travelled a long way and the end of our journey is near. We should now be ready to take our seat at an oval table and establish a more

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According to Sir Richard Turnball, the penultimate Governor of Aden, it is 'two monuments: the game of Association Football, the other the expression 'Fuck off'.'

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Welcome back class, we hope you had a good weekend. Hopefully, you are now ready to knuckle down and continue with our deconstruction of Omaha Hi/Lo. If not, please feel free to pop to the tuck shop and order yourself a pastrami on rye, or do something that rocks your boat. We want you happy. We will not be home to Captain Sourpuss. When you return, we’ll still be here, immersed in probabilities

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Welcome back to our series of posts dealing with the complex beauty that is Omaha Hi/lo. The previous text covered the first of our fundamental rules for profit. Just as a quick reminder, here are those guidelines again:1. You must have stricter starting requirements than your opponents.2. You must remember that the nut low hand will regularly tie.3. If you decide to play for a drawing hand, it

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It probably feels like we have been trailing it for years but now, at last, with no further ado, live and direct from a two bedroom house in London, comes the one, the only, guide to playing Omaha Hi/Lo! We promise that this series of articles will be so exciting, so full of profitable plays, that after reading it, you WILL believe in God.It is a game that has broken many players’ faith in poker,

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Welcome back gang. We hope your weekend was agreeable, sociable and profitable. On Friday, I was a shattered individual when I left you. I had poker formulae swimming past my eyes and I pledged that I would endeavour to explain some of the game’s more technical terms. I’ve also decided to include some of the game’s slang as it should help offer colour to the piece.(Incidentally, anyone looking

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I’m under pressure. I read somewhere that the most depressing day of the year is the fourth Monday of January. It is official.(UK only. If you are reading from other parts of the world, there may be different days that make you feel like you have stumbled onto the set of a Bergman movie. For further details, please consult your regional Eeyore. They are easy to find. Either search for a wet

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You may recall that on Monday, we were looking at a list of New Year’s resolutions. We had gone through three of the top five most common and made them appropriate to a poker player. In today’s post, I will deal with the final two resolutions and also offer some general advice about how to stay focussed on your poker goals. I will also end the post with details about how, in the months to come,

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Hello everyone and welcome to the first post of the New Year. I hope you all had a very profitable time over the holidays and have started 2009 with a pack of good intentions.With that in mind, I thought we could add to the weight of material posted at this time of year and think about Resolutions for a Poker Player.We’ll start with a list of the Top Five New Year's Resolutions, according to

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WPT Boot Camp Battle for the Season Pass IIIDavid’s JournalDecember 6th – Day 7.Bavaro Princess Resort: Suite 3124 - 11.50pmMy relaxation consultant and I are enjoying our final night. We have just returned from the resort’s Piano Bar where, according to the extremely flexible dance troupe, ‘Everything’s good in America’. As Brits we are not the ideal punters to verify those lyrics but, right now

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WPT Boot Camp Battle for the Season Pass IIIDavid’s JournalDecember 5th – Day 6.Bavaro Princess Resort: Chow Hall – 2.25pm.Team Eurolinx has just finished the first session of the Second Chance Tournament. It has played like an online turbo event: the blinds are going up every half an hour and the starting chip allocation was 10,000. There were 170 starters but only six players win prizes;

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WPT Boot Camp Battle for the Season Pass IIIDavid’s JournalDecember 4th – Day 5.Bavaro Princess Resort: Chow Hall – 9.35am.After a splendid day for the team, spirits were high as we shared communal rations. We were feeling a little sorry for Eurolinx VIP Consultant and fellow booter Jackie Gatt as she does not play poker. She has been forced to endure beach detail and was displaying symptoms of

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WPT Boot Camp Battle for the Season Pass IIIDavid’s JournalDecember 3rd – Day 4.Suite 3124 – The following takes place between 6.15am and 8.15am.I can’t sleep but not because my relaxation consultant is snoring like a slumbering dragon. (Just in case, I had boned up on snoring busting techniques before departure and was very tempted to try the following: forget all the nice methods about moving

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WPT Boot Camp Battle for the Season Pass IIIDavid’s JournalDay - 3December 2nd.After the rigours of a transatlantic crossing, I actually relished the prospect of a further day of preparation. Live tournaments can be quite a gruelling affair, involving stomach flutters, heart palpitations and spectacular wardrobe malfunctions. Given that we were in the Caribbean, the potential for a sense of style

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WPT Boot Camp Battle for the Season Pass IIIDavid's JournalDecember 1st – Day 2.Flight at 10.15am: Heathrow to Paris. At 8.15 am, I experience my first surprise of the day when it transpires that my travelling companion, a life-long friend that I have prised away from his wife to serve as my relaxation consultant, has a higher class ticket than me. It is only for the connection to Paris but I now

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David’s Journal November 30th – Day one.Due to a cock-up during mission briefing, I’m still grounded in London and not due to fly out until tomorrow. I’m feeling anxious as I’m yet to meet the other members of the unit and I’m keen to high-five them as soon as possible. I’m also missing the induction. I try to quell worried thoughts by reading poker manuals and information about the WPT boot camp

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In December 2008 a crack unit was selected by Eurolinx.com to experience the shock incarceration of a boot camp on a Caribbean island. Instead of the standard thirteen weeks, the unit had just seven days to acclimatise to the punishing regime of psychological torture bellowed out by full-throated drill instructors. To keep the members of the unit disorientated, some of the team were deliberately

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You may recall that we were having an online chin-wag about how Peter Eastgate, WSOP millionaire, is an example of what author Malcolm Gladwell defines as an ‘Outlier’. We looked at how The champ has benefited from application – he has been able to gain enough experience to achieve mastery – and now will look at how he has helped by his birth year – 1985.On January 1, 1998, the first real money

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Regular readers that did not spend their weekend having their poker game water-boarded may recall that Friday’s post suggested that WSOP winner Peter Eastgate could be an example of what author Malcolm Gladwell calls an ‘Outlier’. (If any people reading this are sufficiently curious, check out the content dated 18th November but be prepared to experience a rapid heartbeat. It may even leave you

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New millionaire and recent WSOP top dog Peter Eastgate is a man who can afford to screen calls right now. Word on the (fibre-optic) grapevine is that there is a three month wait just for the right to text the guy that scours the champ’s laptop for fingernail shrapnel. As there should be: when a guy bites off a $9.1 million sized chunk of change from the poker circuit, he has the right to take

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Previously on Eyebrows..... (To achieve the required level of anticipation, please imagine the whooshing windows from the intro to TV’s ‘24’ and shout at least one of the following lines of dialogue: ‘I’m federal agent (insert) and this is the longest hand of my life’; If you don’t show your hand, then it will just be a question of how much you want to hurt’; ‘When I’m finished with you, you’re

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For the sake of argument, let’s imagine that there are only three types of people: the bores, the students and the wise. If that sounds simplistic, please consider that I’m British and that over here we only have three genres of film: comedy, tragedy and Guy Ritchie. Now let’s argue that the former three categories have defining philosophies for poker: the bores believe there are lessons for life

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It took over four hours of feverish heads-up competition but we have a winner at last: Peter Eastgate from Denmark has become the youngest ever World Series of Poker main event champion. He is 22 and he has just earned himself $9.1 million dollars as well as a place in the record books. The tournament itself also provided a few new entries for fans of sporting lists: the final table was the

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Tonight, at 10pm PST, the Penn and Teller Theatre at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino will host the heads up showdown for the main event of the 2008 WSOP and the bracelet will be leaving North America.Yesterday, some four months after they had begun their campaign to be crowned champion, the November 9 sat down at the final table. By the end of the night, the two survivors were Denmark’s Peter

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Now that the US election is over, there may be some fixated people who have suddenly found that their lives have become an intellectual void and they are craving a hit of bamboozling statistics and barely grounded media opinion. Fortunately, the final table of the main event of the WSOP begins on Sunday, so that presents me with an opportunity to wildly splutter enough thoughts so by the time I

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Tuesday night/Wednesday morning was a time when the pace of social justice finally accelerated. For once, all of the available statistics were upheld and there was not a calamitous turn around. A journey that had begun 248 orbits ago ended in triumph. An opponent, who had threatened to sustain ill judged philosophies, was vanquished.Yes, the guy who, when he was told he couldn’t win by playing 8-

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A mid level poker pro should always be on the lookout for ways to attract new blood. It becomes a little tedious grinding against the same opponents day in, day out, and eventually, as the individuals become more experienced, the profit margin is squeezed. There are always the Friday night blowhards who return sozzled from the bar and who are partially correct to believe they are the next

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People claim it is impossible to establish reads online. After all, it is not as if you can glance over the table and see the Russian stereotype play with his Oreos. However, because a lot of players believe that you can’t spot tells, they tend to play quite a conservative style – and that means it can be quite easy to read their game. For starters, always keep tabs on those players who are

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One of the hardest aspects of poker is to remain focused when you are losing. If, during a session, you have watched stack after stack head south, you mind can easily become a jail populated by evil thoughts. It can be even worse if one particular player has been the beneficiary of your bad run. He is not going to tell himself he’s been lucky: he is going to think he’s the Daddy.Try to recall

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Today’s page from The Writer’s block is about opening lines. Apparently, editors often use the ‘Airport Test’ on manuscripts – if you read the opening line in an airport bookshop, would you buy the book before boarding the plane?It offers one from a master of the art:‘The decision to bomb the office of the radical Jew lawyer was reached with relative ease.’ (The Chamber, by John Grisham).It

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Poker players with memories that didn’t get erased through a summer of partying may recall that the main event at this year’s World Series of Poker began on July 3. After eleven days of intensive flopping, the field was trimmed from an impressive 6844 to a mere 9. Rather than playing the final table the next day, it was delayed for four months so the company that bought the TV rights could

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So far, these posts have offered an overview of the different stages of Texas Hold ‘em and how they have a bearing on your choices. For the next few pieces, I’ll try to explain some of terms, styles and strategies you can employ during your session.I’ll start with pot odds as it is arguably the simplest to understand. The term represents the probability of receiving the card you need to make your

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It is with a certain sense of inevitability that we arrive at Hold ‘em’s ultimate destination: the river card. Until the arrival of the final card, you won’t know for sure if the play will prove to a comedy or a tragedy. When it is the latter, you will usually find yourself against someone who lives by the river to such an extent he/she thinks such play will pay for a house facing the Thames. The

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I’m back again everyone, continuing my journey around the poker table and trying to break down boundaries so that the Hold ‘em hopefuls need not feel intimidated by the indigenous types here at Eyebrows.Yesterday we unearthed the truth about the flop, comparing it to the front page story of a newspaper. Today, we deal with the turn card, which we can see as the first few lines of an editorial

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You may recall that the previous post left an impression that seven years of professional poker had left me embittered, sarcastic and with blood on my hands. Well, this latest post will do little to disabuse you of that but, for the record, I would like to state that the goat was suffering from terminal acrophobia and was becoming a nuisance in my study. It was what he would have wanted, had he

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As we promised, we are going to kick-start this blog’s content with an overview of Texas Hold ‘em. However, conscious that our site has some reasonably well informed individuals, we will also provide some alternative definitions for those who, over the years, have had their faith in the immutable laws of probability eroded to such an extent that the mere mention of a coin-flip causes them to

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Ok everyone, prepare to be entertained.Cutting its way through the swirls of dry ice and gyrating to thump of a celebratory tribal beat is a brand new poker blog from Eyebrows.You may have played poker before. You may have a read a blog before. Hell, some of you might have read a book before (Ed – let’s not go nuts), but we promise you will not have read a poker blog like this before.Yes, aside

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I have a book called The Writer’s Block. It is designed to stimulate ideas. You open it and there is a photo, a flash-word or an exercise. Inspired by the page, you then proceed to write roughly four hundred words in a freeform fashion. After that, your block should be lifted so you can celebrate by dancing away from the laptop and not doing any more work. As I was blocked today, I opened it and

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Ernest Hemingway used to maintain that you should always do sober what you said you do while drunk. Even though the scar on his forehead was a permanent reminder of the effect of alcohol on judgement, he was usually good to his word. He believed the practice would teach him a lesson. The author of The Sun Also Rises would therefore presumably be outraged by the latest application from Google –

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Some in the book trade are calling today 'Super Thursday': nearly 800 titles will be published and many of them are contenders to be in the Christmas top 10.One of those is cyclist Bradley Wiggins' autobiography 'In Pursuit of Glory'. The blurb states 'he first competed at twelve and immediately knew that this was what he wanted to do for his career.'To put that into perspective, he made the

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On Monday, a man was up a tree near Telscombe Cliffs, East Sussex. John Stirling was cutting branches when his chainsaw slipped and he sliced off his arm below the elbow. He then knocked at a neighbour's door and said 'Please help, I've just cut my arm off.'The neighbour whisked him and the limb off to hospital, pausing only to store the arm in a bag containing frozen pastries. After fourteen

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The Daily Telegraph is unhappy that the UK’s first identity card for sixty years does not contain the union flag or any mention of the word Britain. For something that will be used as a proof or residence, it is a shame, say the campaigners, that there are not more symbols of Britishness.It is not the first time that the identity card scheme has provoked hostility. Other critics have suggested

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Inspired by the shenanigans at a friend's recent wedding, I've attempted to offer a selection of tracks that cause the men to hit the dance floor en masse. Normally we lurk around the periphery, reluctant to indulge in frivolities, but there are certain numbers that tend to cause some primeval movement in the hips and leave us valiantly attempting to decimate the dance floor.Let's start with one

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Britain has tumbled a few places in a table, compiled by Transparency International, that ranks countries for their level of corruption. We have fallen from 12th to 16th.There will probably be some hand-wrangling about what we can do to reach the heights of New Zealand but I am going to take immediate, positive action.Will someone fetch a large cattle prod while I go and lasso the Hamiltons?

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According to a piece of dialogue from the film The Nines, a pretentious piece of mumbo-jumbo from director John August(a man well versed in the Dummy's Guide to Philosophy), the bean counters from the Office of Cosmological Statistics rank koalas higher than humans. Harsh, I thought, although found myself nodding when I remembered that the males have a bifurcated penis and females have two

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Here is a small report from yesterday's Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/sep/17/drugsandalcohol.healthIt identifies nine different types of heavy drinker.

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A film generating a significant amount of buzz at the Toronto International Film Festival is The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.Although she hasn't directed many films, Bigelow's cinematic offerings can leave a strong impression. In Point Break she created what one critic on the Internet Movie Database referred to as 'the greatest surfer-action movie of all time' but it was with the

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I dedicate today's post to the Large Hadron Collider, which was yesterday put through its paces for the first time in Cern.The LHC, the acronym I'm sure is on everybody's lips, is a hundred meters underground and utilises a seventeen mile tunnel. According to chemistry professor Otto Rossler, there was a danger that the collider might cause 'mini black holes' which may 'survive and grow

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There is a post from earlier this month stating that I have created a new blog because this one was becoming top heavy with poker articles.Well, with uncanny timing, the new blog was rendered unnecessary as the day I created it, the gaming company made their London editorial team redundant and my freelance arrangement was terminated.Therefore, I have deleted the other blog and I can now only

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‘Shall we step outside?’ If I tell you I heard those words in a south London pub at around 11pm on a Saturday, what would you think?Here’s more info.It’s the (official) last weekend of the summer. We have reached the stage of the day when parts of the British psyche kicks off its heels and decides if the rest of the night should feature slippers or jackboots.It is best if you look at the question

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Please feel free to check out my new blog at : http://spectacles71.blogspot.com/

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We at Eyebrows can’t help but think that the winner of Saturday’s Bodensee Poker Championship, Michael Keiner, made the right decision to quit medicine and become a professional card player. He is just a little too comfortable taking risks and we’re not sure that is a desirable character trait for a plastic surgeon.Creativity and inventiveness have their place but arguably not in the head of a

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It is time to wheel ourselves around the expansive shelves of the library and only hit the brake when we hit the section marked ‘Poker History of the Wild West’.Ah, here we are.Welcome to Deadwood.Fans of quality American television may remember the series in which Ian McShane plays the aptly named Al Swearengen, a character based on a real life brothel owner.Most of the show’s characters were

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It is appropriate that one of the richest cities in the world should host a poker tournament with largest (guaranteed) prize pool in Asia.Macau, the first and last European colony in China, is home to the Galaxy StarWorld Casino, an establishment that is ‘thirty-eight storeys tall as an emblem of Asian wit and experience’.Both of the latter qualities, if not the ethnicity, were evident as

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There a quite a few chin-stroking veterans of the poker circuit who like to tell you that it is possible to learn a lot about life from time at the table. They tend to be the kind of people who, whatever situation they find themselves in, think they could write a book about it.Whilst not denying there are certainly lessons to be learned at the table, they are almost solely about individual

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For a multitude of reasons, it is good to see Mark Hayes ensnare the £12,000 first prize for the main event at the Gutshot Series of poker last week.It was Mark’s first cash in a mid-range poker tournament and his triumph over seventy-nine rivals should boost his confidence at the tables so we expect to be writing about him again soon.However, it is also good to see the Gutshot Poker Club, which

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Ok, we finally have it folks!After labours worthy of Hercules we have, in our hands, the final results from the Irish Poker Classic.You may recall it was Ireland’s premier poker event for August and its €150,000 guaranteed prize pool had attracted some big names. You may also recall that it was to a ‘Deep Stack’ event, with 15,000 starting chips and slower level increases.Well, we had expected

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As we approach the end of August, regular readers of Poker Unclogged may recall that we have used this month’s pieces to explore the topic of poker vacations as alternatives to the package holiday.With yesterday’s Bank Holiday (UK) traditionally marking the end of the summer for the working man, we have decided to wed ourselves with the preoccupations of a lot of households at this time of year

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Regular readers may recall that last week’s tips column was the first part of a two piece series about whether or not to show your cards when you don’t have to. The first part detailed a situation in which a player made a huge mistake when he let an egotistical opponent know he had made a correct lay down.This week, let’s start with another example.It’s a NL game and an opponent, let’s call him

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Possibly inspired by all the hand clapping and anthem playing currently taking place in Beijing, the think-tank at the EPT has decided to have an award ceremony just before its new season flops off in Barcelona. On September 9, at the Barcelona lounge called the Opium Mar, seven trinkets of community appreciation will be handed to players who offered great individual performances from EPT season

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Most self respecting sports fans should be fully immersed in the Olympics by now. There has been a spectacular opening ceremony, a new world record for the men’s 100m and an open slanging match between the Aussies and the Brits. When it comes to sports, the former are rather too used to spanking the latter and so the Aussies are currently finding Britain’s high gold medal tally hard to swallow.

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As the silly season continues, this week Poker Unclogged brings news of another alternative way to take a break and still play cards. Linda Johnson is a card player who has been inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame but she doesn’t rest on her laurels and she continues to push the boat out. She is always keen to attract new players to the game and she is blessed with stacks of charisma,

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The popularity of poker throughout the whole of Europe was underlined this weekend at the Casino Austria Graz. It hosted the CAPT Graz €2,000 NL tournament and no fewer than five nations were represented in the final ten players. 105 entrants created a prize pool of €199,500 and the lion’s share went to Piotr Jopp, a Pole celebrating his first tournament win. When the €57,850 is plonked into his

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Most people who have played poker for a reasonable amount of time know that successful players have a devastating combination of aggression and confidence. However, people often forget that confidence is not a constant and it will be susceptible to fairly large swings over the course of a poker career or even an individual session. When players have their confidence pounded, their aggression can

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Any players heading over to County Cork will be hoping that success in the sixth annual Irish Poker Classic might divert some of the lips that were otherwise bound for the Blarney Stone. The combination of suckers and rocks is expected to produce some lip-smacking poker action and the organisers at the Macau Sporting Club are salivating at the prospect of the main event.It begins tomorrow and is

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As of 7pm Beijing time today, Finland has just two medals at the Olympics. Thirty-seven year old mother of two, Satu Makela-Nummela, won the gold in the women’s trap shooting on Monday (and her country’s 100th gold medal in the history of the games) whilst Henri Hakkinen owns a bronze after the men’s 10m air rifle battle.However, looking at the recent no-limit shootout in Estonia, should poker

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As the new series of 'Dragons’ Den' has just started in the UK, we thought Poker Unclogged would bring news of the continued success story of Steve Bellis, founder of the Nuts Poker League.For those who are unfamiliar with the show, think of it as ‘The Nerd Factor’: it features contestants who have ideas for business who have to make their pitch to five ‘Dragons’. The Dragons are highly

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Sam ‘Tricky’ Trickett has not been on the professional poker circuit for long, but in a short time he has managed to rack up ten cashes and three first place finishes, including last weekend’s Leg 6 of the GUKPT at Luton.At 22, he is the youngest winner of a GUKPT event and his prize money of £106,000 is the second highest of this season’s tour.376 players had coughed up the £1,000 buy in and the

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Stop right there. Before you read any further, we want you to get up and find a mirror, preferably one that is not too flattering.Don’t move from that mirror for two minutes.During that time, breathe deeply and try to mentally focus on the different parts of your body whilst continuing to stare at your face in the mirror.If you do all that correctly, you should be in a higher state of

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If you’re a UK poker player keen to catch some top tournament action in a swish location then speed over to Luton and try to take part in Leg 6 of the GUKPT.The main event starts today at 2pm but players with advanced ability in the dark arts of palm greasing may be able to wangle themselves a seat at tomorrow’s Day1b.The tournament follows the familiar structure and has a £1,000+60 buy in.

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There are plenty of signs that poker continues to broaden its appeal and bring new players to the table.Take the climax of the National Deaf Poker Tour (NDPT) on Friday. Its 2007-2008 season featured four events, that last of which took place in the Venetian Casino, Las Vegas.The NDPT was created by six hearing impaired players. One of those founders, James Rydstrom, said‘We wanted to be able to

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Regular readers, or just the ones that are yet to succumb to the urge to smoke A-bombs, may recall that last week’s Poker Unclogged contained some advice for the reluctant traveller. Unfortunately, it is still that time of year when you can find yourself away from the comforting confines of the casino.However, it is possible to combine some time away from the stresses of domestic life with the

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The poker community’s collective esteem is taking a bit of a kicking right now. The eyes of the sporting world are turning to Beijing and the Adonises of the felt are feeling a bit left out.Unbelievably, poker is still deemed to be unworthy of the Olympics.That is the first cause for depression.Secondly, the players have had the final of the ultimate test delayed for four months so a TV company

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This week, we open the satchel of poker tips and pull out the exercise book that deals with M-ratio.It a term invented by professional backgammon player Paul Magriel who, when he's not tumbling dice, also finds time to sit down at the occasional poker game and pen a few books.Although the term and theory are his babies, as is often the case with these definitions, the basic principles were

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August is a lazy month.The kids are off school, a lot of Europe's governments are in recess and it is silly season for the newspapers.Some may argue it is the perfect time to play poker – it can be relaxing, it can take your mind off work and it can be a way of funding trips to the slide park.However, irritating members of the non-poker playing community tend to become a little prickly at the

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Michael McCool, winner of the main event of the July Festival of Poker at the Broadway Casino, Birmingham, UK, has, in the past, offered some interesting comments to the press.Here he is on his ambition:'I'm naturally gifted with my mouth so if I continue to win whilst living a simple life in the country with my dogs, I will be very happy.'Although some may argue that parts of that are a tad

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Shane Sigsbee, recent graduate of Notre Dame University, was clearly not overwhelmed by his recent triumph on the Heartland Poker Tour.Interviewed after the $2,500, televised tournament, he said, 'This feels pretty good. Now it is off to the golf course.'He was competing in a US Amateur qualifier in Indiana where he had his daddy as a caddyHe persevered at the Majestic Star Casino after one of

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July can be a strange month.In the UK, the forty day period beginning July 3 and ending August 11 is listed in The Old Farmer’s Almanac as the Dog Days.They are believed to be an evil time ‘when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad and creatures became languid, causing to man burning fevers, hysterics and phrensies.’Although that was written in 1813, it clearly still has some

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The Dusk Till Dawn poker club held a mini festival last weekend.An organisation with the needs of the player at heart, the club was born from Rob Yong's frustration at being turned away from a poker tournament because he was a minute late.Dwelling on his anger he decided, with friend Nick Whiten, to scrawl a few ideas on paper and conceive the club.Three years, after surviving the loss of their

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The multi-event Poker Worthersee Trophy concluded on Sunday at the Casino Capt Velden, and there were plenty leaving the Austrian holiday resort with prizes in their pockets.The main event, Saturday's two-day, €2,000NL tournament was won by Stefan Rapp, who is clearly having a good summer. By beating 185 other players and scooping €95,420, he adds a 1st place to the two cashes he achieved in this

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For this week's Poker Unclogged we are going to examine some of Doyle Brunson's advice from his 1984 book, Poker Wisdom of a Champion.Doyle believes that most 'players would do well to examine themselves carefully before every game', and given that he is regularly touted as one of the best three individuals ever to peep at pocket aces, his words might be worthy of consideration. Keeps them moving

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Mike Caro’s nickname as ‘The Mad Genius of Poker’ is well chosen. Resembling a cross between Sigmund Freud and Dr Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy, if someone told you that he could travel back in time to find out why you grasp your earlobes in times of stress, you would nod your head.Luckily for us mortals of the felt, Caro is now more famous as a leading poker ‘theorist’ and

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Larry Flynt is not a man to take things lying down.An energetic individual, in his time he has worn the American flag as a nappy, survived an assassination attempt by a white supremacist and ran for U.S. President as a Republican against Ronald Reagan.When the bid failed, (in his official announcement, he wore a 'Spot the Difference' T-Shirt with depictions of Reagan and Hitler) the pornographer

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1.Dennis Phillips - 26,295,0002.Ivan Demidov - 24,400,0003.Scott Montgomery - 19,690,0004.Peter Eastgate - 18,375,0005.Ylon Schwartz - 12,525,0006.Darus Suharto - 12,520,0007.David Rheem - 10,230,0008.Craig Marquis - 10,210,0009.Kelly Kim - 2,620,000

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As the WSOP now goes into its four month hiatus, we at Eyebrows can now place our sweaty palms on our mystic orb of poker and be guided to a different feast of flopping.The mighty orb shudders, resenting its period of neglect, but eventually eases us in the direction of Velden, for it is there that Casinos Austria are presenting an event called the Poker Worthersee Trophy.Its week- long series of

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We now have the November 9.After four day ones, two day twos and the following days three, four, five and six, even hardened poker journalists, accustomed to the Vegas time distortion, were at sixes and sevens.Twenty seven players remained from the field of 6,844 at the start of day seven. Two thirds of the remainder would have to slope home, a mere quarter of a million dollars richer, but no

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Yesterday, I hit the wall.I spent the whole of the afternoon reading the paper and a history book, before having a few drinks in the evening, then watching The Darjeeling Limited for inspiration.This happens to me a lot during the writing process and I suspect I’m not alone: James Joyce was once found by a friend - the author was slumped over his keyboard.‘What’s the matter?’‘I’ve only managed

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After Day 6 of the WSOP's main event at Harrah's All Suite Hotel & Casino, the field was trimmed to 27 and today's action will see the formation of the tournament's November 9.When the day began, hardcore fan-boys were hoping that at least one of Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Victor Ramdin and Kido Pham would make the final table.However, it was to be a day when the mighty toppled as all four

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