Paris Hilton Offered New Bentley
When you’re young, rich and famous, you can do just about anything you want to do. This is true not only in the movies but even in real life. Just take the case of Hollywood celebrity and heiress Paris Hilton. This young lady has hogged the headlines in recent years being involved in a variety [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2009 by socrates | Filed Under Celebrity, Culture, Off the felt, Poker, Women
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An Amusing Poker Story from Macau
  Macau is hosting it’s first poker tournament ever, so the local dealers had to be trained from scratch. The following online report is about one of these poker dealers.  “During the $300 mega-satellite on the first day, we had a dealer at our table who was new and pretty nervous as it was his [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2007 by Suber | Filed Under Off the felt, Stories, Tournaments
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Poker tragedy: amateur poker player Frank Desena was murdered November, 1, 2007
Frank Desena, 55, of Wayne NJ was murdered Thursday night Nov 1, during an 11PM robbery at the just re-opened Straddle Club at 28th and 5th. I heard about this tragedy from a friend of mine named Steve, who had played poker with Frank at the old Mayfair club in NYC.  Frank was one of the small group [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2007 by Suber | Filed Under Off the felt, Poker, Poker Players
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Two Noteworthy Stories Concerning Neteller
                                                                      Neteller used to provide payment services to online gambling Web sites. I used the company to transfer money in and out of online poker rooms.  After the American government cracked down on online poker and Neteller’s two founders were arrested, Neteller stopped dealing with online poker rooms. They also froze the deposits of American players, which meant that they [...]
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Posted on June 29, 2007 by Suber | Filed Under Government, Off the felt, Online Poker, Poker
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Loss Aversion: What to do about it?
I have written about loss aversion before. It is the irrational tendency that people have to prefer avoiding losses rather than acquiring gains. I know I have this problem, which becomes highlighted when I play poker. I’m sure that if I could deal with it better, I would become a much better poker player. Why do [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2007 by Suber | Filed Under Analysis, Off the felt, Poker
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Marc Salem – potentially the best poker player who ever lived
You have to watch this video of Marc Salem. It is simply amazing what this guy can do in terms of reading peoples’ behavior.  I am certain that he would make a phenomenal poker player, always knowing what other players are holding. There is a philosophical view called behaviorism.  According to an unsophisticated version of the view, mental [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2007 by Suber | Filed Under Off the felt, Philosophy, Poker
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PokerMoments transforms into The National Enquirer
Did Nicole Richie get breast augmentation? What’s the scoop on Clay Aiken’s new hairstyle?? Is Pamela Anderson headed for a breakdown??? Well, we don’t know any of that, but here’s what secret we do know… As a follow up to our review on Bringing Down the House, the exciting book by Ben Mezrich about MIT [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2007 by sparky | Filed Under Book Review, Culture, Movies, Off the felt
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