I’m heartened to see I got a few comments on my last post.  Thanks to all who left comments or read my post, I’ll address the questions raised at some point (even the hooker one, even though I’ve never knowingly patronized one so I guess my opinion isn’t worth a whole lot in that regard).  [...]

November was pretty damn good to me.  A lot of aspects of life are “progressing nicely” at the moment – I’ve got a rekindled desire to play online MTTs again, I’ve been successful at cash games, my coaching group is plugging along nicely, I’ve spent a ton of time working on my own game, and [...]

So on PokerVT there was a post yelling at me to make more blog posts so I’ll make an effort.  It’s not like I’ve forgotten about the blog, but rather that anything I want to write has another platform for it.  Strategy stuff I pretty much limit to the PokerVT forums.  In fact, I’ve made [...]

a few days ago I found a package on my porch. it was pretty large – the side of the box informed me that it weighed almost 35 pounds. I was worried that I’d have to call some burly friends to help me move it, but I remembered a trick I had learned [...]

A few weeks ago I found myself with my friend Chris still up and drinking at 7:30am in the Penny Black (one of Edinburgh’s more notorious drinking institutions which opens at 6am, conveniently exactly as casinos shut). One of the strangers we were chatting with mentioned that he quite liked chess. “Oh, Chess is a [...]

I’m not quite sure what it is exactly – maybe it’s the changing of seasons (winter is the best), maybe it’s the fact the super-draining WCOOP is finally in the rear-view mirror, maybe it’s the fact I’m actually training again and eating better than I have in a long time (more fish and plain chicken [...]