A Major Problem at JonWoodGaming – An UNBELIEVABLE Poker Story!!!
As my faithful readers know, I’ve been playing no limit hold’em for a while (since August 8th) at JonWoodGaming (henceforth JWG), a relatively new online flash poker room, and have been doing relatively well. I started with a $5 no deposit bonus and last week I was up to about $146. You can read about my [...]
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Posted on September 5, 2006 by Suber | Filed Under Free Money, Philosophy, Poker, Stories
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A Problem With My Analysis of Luck in Hold’em
In one of my previous posts I tried to explain what it means to say that you’re lucky in a hand of Hold’em.  I explained this idea in terms of the following conditions, which I thought were individually necessary and jointly sufficient: (1) You have to win the hand. (2) Your odds of winning the hand at each round [...]
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Posted on August 28, 2006 by Suber | Filed Under Philosophy, Poker
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Poker and Philosophy: “Jewish Philosophy Wins the Pot: How Stu Ungar and Emmanuel Levinas Corralled the Texans”
Last month I received a collection of essays edited by Eric Bronson called “Poker and Philosophy: Pocket Rockets and Philosoper Kings.” I requested the book from the publisher Open Court and promised that I would give a review of it on this site. Here is the first entry of this review. There should be many [...]
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Posted on August 15, 2006 by Suber | Filed Under Philosophy, Poker, Religion
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Knocked Out at i4: My Sandbagging Days are Over
Gone. All gone. I no longer have any money in my account at i4 Poker. So sad. i4 started me with 5 free pounds (equivalent to about 8 dollars). I didn’t have to make a deposit, just signed up and in about 5 days they sent in the mail (not email) a code to get [...]
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Posted on July 28, 2006 by Suber | Filed Under Free Money, Online Poker, Philosophy, Poker, Promotion, Stories
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3-Day Losing Streak at i4 Poker
So it’s day three of my new conservative approach to limit hold’em at i4 Poker. Each time I play I start with only a little bit of money and if I lose it, I’m done for the day. No reloading. I can’t yet say that it’s a winning approach, as I have lost each day. [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2006 by Suber | Filed Under Philosophy, Poker, Strategy
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Poker and Philosophy
I just got a new book called Poker and Philosophy edited by Eric Bronson, a philosphy professor at Berkeley College in New York City. He co-edited The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy (2003) and edited Baseball and Philosophy (2004). The book is a collection of essays written by philosophers who play poker. Or was [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2006 by Suber | Filed Under Book Review, Culture, Philosophy, Poker
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