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Bonus update (23 Nov 2016):   My good friend Poker Grump wrote a great article over at Poker News on the same issue of selective attention...

AUTHOR'S NOTE:  This post is the second of two related posts. Part I is  HERE . * * * * * As discussed in my last post , the recent...

One of my favorite TV shows is the CBS drama, Person of Interest . The show's plot is driven by the concept that a fully functional art...

Last month I was in Vegas for a work conference and stayed at the Encore just to check it off my list of Vegas hotels. The rooms were comfy...

"What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that notion were true? If no practical difference what...

Gin card: In poker, a card that gives two players strong but different hands. Usually, one player will make the strongest possible hand (of...

"I rob banks because that's where the money is." —Attributed to famed bank robber Willie Sutton An anonymous commenter from...

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the "Up" button. —Sam Levenson During my past couple of trips to Vegas, I played a ...

But it’s a totally different story in a big game. If I raise it $3,000 or $4,000 and the other guy and I have a lot of chips on the table, h...

During my recent Festivus/WPBT trip to Vegas, I played a fun session of Pot Limit Gamboool! (TM) at the Venetian.  I've played in this...

"Blue Wizard needs food, badly!" — Gauntlet video game Twenty-odd years ago, I was a teen in a tiny farm town in western Nebr...

"When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." — Medical aphorism attributed to Nobel Prize winner  Dr. Theodore Woodward...