Journal
8 entries, newest first
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
Drawing Dead: The Term Behind The Title
A hand is drawing dead when there is no card left in the deck that can win it. Not unlikely to win. Not a long shot. Dead. The cards are still to come, the c...
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AUGUST 7, 2014
Two Chairs, One Screen
The film is built around two perspectives on the same activity: a poker pro, and a gambling addict. Both sit in front of a screen. Both open the same client,...
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JUNE 24, 2014
Variance Without The Mathematics
Variance is the reason a good decision and a bad result can be the same event. It is also the single hardest thing to convey to anyone who has not sat throug...
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MAY 12, 2014
The Table That Never Closes
A card room has hours. It has a drive to it, a door, a floor staff, and a moment where the chips have to be pushed across a counter and turned back into some...
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MARCH 27, 2014
Bankroll As A Boundary
Bankroll is one of the oldest ideas in the game and one of the most consistently misread. It is not a score. It is not a measure of how well someone is doing...
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FEBRUARY 11, 2014
Tells Without Faces
The popular image of poker reading is a face: the flicker, the hesitation, the hand that goes to the chips too quickly. Remove the face and the room and the ...
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DECEMBER 9, 2013
Why Poker Resists The Sports Film
The sports documentary has a shape that works: a season, a build, a contest with a scheduled ending, and a result that arrives in front of a crowd. Poker off...
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OCTOBER 22, 2013
The Vocabulary Of Losing Control
Players have a large and specific vocabulary for the state in which their play stops being governed by their judgement. Tilt is the best known of these words...