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<title><![CDATA[Il teorema fondamentale del poker: quando l'abilità conta più della fortuna]]></title>
<link>http://azzurrablog.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/il-teorema-fondamentale-del-poker-quando-labilita-conta-piu-della-fortuna/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[di Noemi Azzurra Barbuto “Ogni volta che giochi una mano diversamente da come l&#8217;avresti giocat]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong>di Noemi Azzurra Barbuto</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-301" title="poker-d-assi" src="http://azzurrablog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/poker-d-assi.jpg?w=300" alt="poker-d-assi" width="300" height="225" />“Ogni volta che giochi una mano diversamente da come l&#8217;avresti giocata se avessi potuto vedere tutte le carte dei tuoi avversari, vincono loro; e ogni volta che giochi la tua mano nello stesso modo in cui avresti giocato se avessi potuto vedere tutte le loro carte, loro perdono. Viceversa, ogni volta che gli avversari giocano le loro mani diversamente da come avrebbero fatto se avessero potuto vedere le tue carte, tu vinci; e ogni volta che giocano le loro mani nello stesso modo in cui avrebbero giocato se avessero potuto vedere tutte le tue carte, tu perdi”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>E&#8217; questo il teorema fondamentale del</strong> <strong>poker</strong>, enunciato <strong>David Sklansky</strong>, matematico e giocatore di poker statunitense, nonché autore di diversi libri sul poker.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dunque, nel gioco del poker fondamentale per vincere risultano essere <strong>l&#8217;intuito del giocatore</strong>, ossia la sua capacità di comprendere e di prevedere il comportamento dell&#8217;avversario; e <strong>la sua capacità di dissimulare</strong>, ossia di fingere e di non lasciare trasparire nulla che possa in qualche modo svelare le sue intenzioni, <strong>al fine di trarre in inganno l&#8217;altro</strong> <strong>giocatore.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">E <strong>forse il successo del poker dipende soprattutto</strong> <strong>dal fatto che</strong>, offrendo tale gioco molte possibilità tattiche e<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-302" title="poker" src="http://azzurrablog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/poker.jpg" alt="poker" width="359" height="540" /> di influenza sugli avversari, <strong>l&#8217;abilità del giocatore è molto più importante che in altri giochi</strong>. La lettura dell&#8217;avversario richiede infatti una <strong>buona capacità di osservazione</strong> ed una <strong>spiccata intelligenza</strong>. Per questo si tratta di un <strong>gioco d&#8217;azzardo</strong>,<strong> ma anche psicologico.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La fortuna è ovviamente determinante, ma la valutazione delle probabilità, l&#8217;osservazione attenta del comportamento degli altri giocatori e la possibilità di bluffare per indurli in errore, possono capovolgere l&#8217;esito della partita.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Questo amato gioco sembra racchiudere in sé la metafora stessa della vita: non conta tanto l&#8217;essere nati</strong> <strong>sotto una buona stella quanto il</strong> <strong>sapersela cavare bene in ogni</strong> <strong>situazione</strong>, l&#8217;essere intraprendenti, il riuscire a risollevarsi dopo essere caduti, il sapersi ritirare dal gioco quando sembra che la circostanza lo richieda, l&#8217;attitudine a sfruttare anche i propri umili mezzi per arrivare dove si desidera, il saper mantenere la calma e il sangue freddo davanti alle difficoltà, inoltre, l&#8217;essere pronti a rischiare tutto per ottenere di più.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sì, <strong>nella vita</strong>, in fondo, <strong>anche chi è sfortunato può vincere</strong>,<strong> ammesso che sappia giocare bene le sue carte.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Le origini del gioco del poker non sono tanto chiare</strong> ed esistono diverse scuole di pensiero. Alcuni ritengono che il poker moderno derivi da un gioco persiano, diffusosi in Europa grazie ai colonizzatori francesi; altri che derivi da un gioco tedesco del primo ottocento. Ma sembra che esso sia molto simile ad un gioco francese,<strong> il poque</strong>, che si diffuse all&#8217;inizio del seicento in Francia, poi in Olanda e da qui in tutta l&#8217;Europa. Ma, quali che siano le sue origini, <strong>il poker oggi è diffuso in tutto il mondo</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Anche nella provincia di Reggio Calabria sono sorti negli ultimi anni dei casinò, in cui gli appassionati spesso si incontrano per dedicare alcune piacevoli ore al loro passatempo preferito e dove vengono periodicamente organizzati dei tornei.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Abbiamo rivolto alcune domande a <strong>Vincenzo Morabito</strong>, delegato regionale della <strong>Federazione Italiana</strong> <strong>Gioco Poker.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Cosa è più utile per vincere a poker: carte buone o una</strong> <strong>buona testa?<br />
</strong><em>“Conta la buona testa, o, per meglio dire, contano le giuste decisioni, che alla lunga decretano il successo. Ad esempio, è possibile prendere decisioni errate nonostante si abbiano delle ottime carte e decisioni profittevoli nonostante si abbiano delle brutte carte”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Ha notato un incremento nel numero</strong> <strong>di coloro che praticano questo</strong> <strong>gioco?<br />
</strong><em>“E&#8217; divenuto il terzo sport più seguito in tv, dopo il calcio e la formula uno”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>E&#8217; un gioco prettamente maschile, come</strong> <strong>siamo abituati a credere,</strong> <strong>o è praticato anche dalle donne?<br />
</strong><em>“Resta un gioco prettamente maschile, ma molte donne si sono approcciate al poker e continuano a farlo con ottimi risultati”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Cosa distingue il poker dagli altri giochi d&#8217;azzardo?</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>“Il poker, nella variante sportiva a torneo, non è un gioco d&#8217;azzardo. Ogni giocatore paga una quota di iscrizione, per cui viene meno l&#8217;elemento del rischio aleatorio e tutti I giocatori hanno le stesse possibilità di vincere. Questo fa sì che anche un giocatore novellino possa</em> <em>confrontarsi con I più bravi senza problemi economici”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Lei organizza tornei ed eventi legati a questo gioco, quale sarà il prossimo appuntamento importante per la nostra provincia?<br />
</strong><em>“A ottobre inizierà il campionato italiano. Quest&#8217;anno l&#8217;ha vinto un crotonese, Francesco Graziano, che attualmente si trova a Las Vegas per i mondiali. Sarà un campionato ricco di sorprese e novità. Appuntamento il 7 agosto al Mirage di Lazzaro, dove si terrà la finale estiva</em> <em>di circuito minore”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Cosa consiglia a chi vuole imparare questo gioco?<br />
</strong><em>“Una sedia, una chip e due carte in mano!”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>“C&#8217;è qualcosa di davvero speciale nella sensazione che provi quando solo, in terra straniera, lontano dalla patria e dagli amici, senza neanche sapere quel che mangerai domani, punti l&#8217;ultimo fiorino, proprio l&#8217;ultimo! Ho vinto, e venti minuti dopo uscivo dal casinò con centosettanta fiorini in tasca. E&#8217; un fatto! Ecco cosa può significare certe volte l&#8217;ultimo fiorino! E cosa sarebbe successo se quella volta fossi stato vile e non avessi osato?&#8230;Domani, domani tutto finirà!”.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-303" title="dipendenza_gioco_d_azzardo" src="http://azzurrablog.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dipendenza_gioco_d_azzardo.gif" alt="dipendenza_gioco_d_azzardo" width="337" height="251" />Con queste parole, tratte da<strong> <em>“Il giocatore”,</em></strong> <strong>Fedor Dostoevsky</strong> descrive le sensazioni speciali che prova il giocatore nel momento in cui inaspettatamente vince, ma rappresenta anche l&#8217;effimeratezza del gioco stesso.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sì, <strong>vincere è bello, ma forse lo è</strong> <strong>di più giocare,</strong> è un istinto insito nell&#8217;uomo, che gioca da sempre; lo è di più rischiare, puntare e stringere tra le mani la speranza di stare per esaudire i propri sogni, sentire l&#8217;adrenalina che sale, il cuore accelerare i suoi battiti, <strong>il respiro che si blocca nel petto per un istante infinito&#8230;, quello in cui tu vinci, o perdi.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Negli ultimi anni, <strong>da quando il gioco è stato legittimato, si è assistito ad un grandioso incremento del mercato del gioco in Italia.</strong> Gli italiani, grandi giocatori, ogni giorno spendono milioni di euro per tentare la fortuna.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Ma il gioco, che dovrebbe essere uno svago, può arrivare a volte a rovinare la vita, quando diventa “patologico”.</strong> <strong>Di gioco ci si può anche ammalare</strong> ed arrivare a perdere non solo denaro, ma tutto ciò che si possiede, compresi lavoro, dignità, interessi, persino gli affetti più cari. In questi casi diventa <strong>indispensabile il</strong> <strong>sostegno psicologico</strong>, senza il quale non si può guarire.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ricordiamoci quindi che ogni gioco ha le sue regole, ma che ne esiste una comune a tutti, ossia quella di <strong>giocare responsabilmente</strong>, senza mai perdere il controllo di noi stessi e senza mai perdere di vista ciò che veramente conta nella vita e il contatto con la realtà, <strong>affinché il gioco non si trasformi</strong> <strong>in incubo.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Quando il gioco diventa troppo serio</strong> <strong>può fare molto male.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Librería para los pokeros]]></title>
<link>http://pokeros.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/libreria-para-los-pokeros/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pokeros</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Intentaré recopilar todos los libros que existan por la red sobre poker y así añadir un espacio más ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Intentaré recopilar todos los libros que existan por la red sobre poker y así añadir un espacio más en donde poder conseguir estos archivos. Si disponeis de otros libros o sabeis donde se encuentran los que aquí no esten, mandarme un mail o escribirme un comentario para poder añadirlo lo antes posible. Gracias a todos por colaborar!</p>
<p>Empezamos con el primer libro de poker que todos nos solemos leer:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/dlmk54nnmiq/Ganar_al_Poker_-_D._Sklansky__by_RayoBcn_.pdf"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53" title="Ganar_al_Poker_Front" src="http://pokeros.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/ganar_al_poker_front.jpg?w=201" alt="Ganar_al_Poker_Front" width="201" height="300" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/dlmk54nnmiq/Ganar_al_Poker_-_D._Sklansky__by_RayoBcn_.pdf">&#8220;Ganar al Poker&#8221; de D. Sklansky </a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[JOHN L. SMITH: Las Vegas may have lost one of its last characters, but a first-rate huckster's dreams live on ]]></title>
<link>http://af11.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/john-l-smith-las-vegas-may-have-lost-one-of-its-last-characters-but-a-first-rate-hucksters-dreams-live-on/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Come on, Bob Stupak. Give us a sign. From up above or down below, tell us how you placed your life]]></description>
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<p><strong>Come on, Bob Stupak. Give us a sign. From up above or down below, tell us how you placed your life&#8217;s final bet.</strong></p>
<p>Because as surely as this community will miss your insanely colorful character, those of us who knew you also know that you couldn&#8217;t have resisted making a play on your life&#8217;s final day</p>
<div><a title="http://www.lvrj.com/news/las-vegas-may-have-lost-one-of-its-last-characters-but-hucksters-dreams-live-on-62091362.html" href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/las-vegas-may-have-lost-one-of-its-last-characters-but-hucksters-dreams-live-on-62091362.html">Read the full story by JLSmith</a></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Poker books dvd]]></title>
<link>http://pokerbooksdvd.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/poker-books-dvd/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[www.pokerbooksdvd.com PokerBooksDvd is a poker information source for poker players. Information on ]]></description>
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<p align="center"><strong>PokerBooksDvd</strong> is a poker information source for <strong>poker players</strong>. Information on <strong>Texas Hold em</strong>, Tournaments, <strong>WSOP, WPT, EPT</strong>, Cash games, <strong>Poker after dark</strong>,<strong> Cash poker, High Stake poker, Poker books</strong>, Poker Theory, <strong>Poker Strategy</strong>, Poker Tricks</p>
<h3 style="text-align:center;">Winning at poker is as much about skill as it is about luck</h3>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.pokerbooksdvd.com" target="_blank">www.pokerbooksdvd.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Me and the HORSE ft. Der Alte Mann und die Schlampe (never ending story ... but well, sex sales)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[So, da bin ich mal wieder. Viel ist nicht passier &#8211; war ja klar. In FL hab ich mich mal rein g]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="justify">So, da bin ich mal wieder. Viel ist nicht passier &#8211; war ja klar. In FL hab ich mich mal rein gelesen und auch angetestet und zusätzlich ein bisserl Stud Content gelesen.  Morgen gibt´s das große &#8220;<a href="http://www.intellipoker.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16935" title="Link zum IP-Thread" target="_blank">H.O.R.S.E. BBV Tunir</a>&#8220;-Turnier und sollte mir nix dazwischen kommen, will ich unbedingt mitmischen. Der BBV auf <a href="http://www.intellipoker.com/" title="IntelliPoker" target="_blank">IntelliPoker</a> wird langsam was. Wäre da bloß nicht diese grummelige Katze, die mich immer disst <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
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<p align="justify">Gestern hab ich ein bisserl PLO8 mit ein paar Intellis gezockt und danach gab´s noch ein $3 H.O.R.S.E.. Lief ganz gut und ich wurde gut ausbezahlt (Stud hi und einmal auch bei Razz). Hab dann allerdings alles im Omaha hi/8 verkackt und eine Razz Hand dumm gespielt. Extra dämlich war, dass ich an der Bubble war und als Bubbleboy rausgedonkt bin.</p>
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<p align="justify">Ich musste mit [A-3]-J den Bring-in zahlen und Bully [Doorcard war ein Ace] hat completed. Ich war mir sicher, das er nur einen Steal ansetzten wollte (alle waren verhältnismäßig tight) und als ein weiterer  Spieler [Doorcard war ´ne 7] gecallt hat, habe ich gepusht (hatte noch etwas mehr als den Betrag zum Callen). Ich war der Meinung, dass der Bully den anderen rausdrängen würde und ich somit gute Odds bekommen würde. Aber ich habe keine Ahnung von Razz . Selbst mit Random-Hand des Bullys und einer durchschnittlichen Hand des Anderen, war ich zu sehr Underdog.</p>
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<p align="justify">Zur Dummheit (Unwissen) kam dann noch Pech,  ich hab zwei weitere Jacks bekommen und bin rausgebubbelt. Sunchez &#8211; ein Intelli und ich glaube auch PTipler &#8211; landete vier Plätze besser und hat mächtig Kohle gemacht ^^.</p>
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<p align="justify">Auch erfreulich war, dass ich einen alten Kumple aus PA-Zeiten an den PLO5 Tisch getroffen hab. Er arbeitet  inzwischen für die Konkurrenz (Strätegschie) und ich hatte seine ICQ# verlegt. Ein bisserl geschnackt und es war ganz lustig.</p>
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<p align="justify">So, nun mal wieder zu <b>Sex</b>. Ich bin zwar nicht so der <b>Gossip</b>-Fan aber ich bin heute Morgen auf eine dieser Nachrichten gestoßen.  Es geht (mal wieder) um <b>Brandi</b> und <b>Sklansky</b>. Keine Ahnung wie lange der Zirkus schon läuft, aber teilweise ist´s nur noch lustig.</p>
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<p align="justify"><b><a href="http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=141276" target="_blank" title=" The Post You Were Waiting For">Hier das original Posting von Sklansky auf 2+2</a></b></p>
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<p align="justify">- David schreibt wie Brandi ihn nun versucht zu erpressen und will aber eigentlich nur seine Freundin schützen, die halbblind und behindert ist. &#8230;.. ganz großes Kino (unbedingt lesen !)</p>
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<p align="justify">Zitat von David Sklansky:</p>
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<p align="justify">&#8220;<i>For the last 2 1/2 years I have been living with a handicapped 23 year old girl named Sue. She is blind in one eye and partially blind in the other. She is slightly disfigured, slightly autistic, and has frequent seizures. She can&#8217;t drive and can&#8217;t distinguish left from right. The cause of these things is that she is the product of incest.</i></p>
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<p align="justify"><i>[...] </i></p>
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<p align="justify"><i>But we did occasionaly get flirtatious and slightly naughty. I once grabbed a vibrator out of my glove compartment and put it between her legs. If that disgusted her she never mentioned it. When I would visit her she often lay down in my lap.<br />
And she was flirtatious to Sue also. Sue hoped I would bring her home to her.</i>&#8220;</p>
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<p align="justify"><b><a href="http://www.neverwinpoker.com/forums/content/Shooting-Off/50596/BRANDI-HAWBAKER-DAVID-SKLANSKY-PUBIC-RED-PANTY-PUBIC-HAIR-THREAD/" title="BRANDI HAWBAKER / DAVID SKLANSKY PUBIC RED PANTY PUBIC HAIR THREAD" target="_blank">Hier ist sind die (angeblichen) eMails die David an Brandi geschickt haben soll</a></b> (NeverWinPoker)</p>
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<p align="justify">- jetzt wird´s noch lustiger. David gibt Brandi (mal wieder) Geld. Dann kommen noch verwirrende Bilder von Schamhaaren vor:</p>
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<p><a href="http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6531/94546194wf2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6531/94546194wf2.jpg" alt="Bilder von ´nem Höschen und " height="150" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="400" /></a></p>
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<p align="justify">echt knorke !</p>
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<p align="justify">Zitat auf Wicked Chops Poker (<a href="http://wickedchopspoker.blogs.com/my_weblog/2008/02/david-sklansky.html" title="David Sklansky Too Old to Be Doing This" target="_blank"><b>Link</b></a>):</p>
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<p align="justify"><a href="http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=116531" title="No-Girls-No-Goats, My Real Home Life" target="_blank"><img src="http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/5378/eju9aqtm9.jpg" alt="David mit Papagei und den Katzen" align="left" height="240" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="320" /></a><i>&#8220;First, let&#8217;s just get this out of the way: David Sklansky is freaking 60 years-old. Eventually and at some stage, there comes a time in a man&#8217;s life (like when he&#8217;s 60) to stop trolling forums (even if it&#8217;s your own forum) and posting sorted details of your personal (sex) life with women 30 to 40 years younger than you. Especially when it&#8217;s not a sex forum for old dudes but a poker forum. &#8220;</i></p>
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<p align="justify">Wie auch immer &#8230; k.a. was &#8211; außer Brandi &#8211; David so gerittten hat, dass er so abgeht.</p>
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<p align="justify">Zu guter letzte noch das &#8220;Blowjob-ich-mach-Schluß-mit-Dir&#8221;-Video von Brandi (od. jmd. der ihr irgendwie ähnlich sieht): <a href="http://www.redtube.com/8509" title="For Brandon (billiges Blowjob-Video)" target="_blank"><b>LINK</b></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cash Games]]></title>
<link>http://luckystraights.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/cash-games/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[After another disappointing run in the Sit-N-Go&#8217;s, I finished the day off with a 2 1/2 hour NL]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>After another disappointing run in the Sit-N-Go&#8217;s, I finished the day off with a 2 1/2 hour NL cash game session. Things where going terrible at first, no good cards at all in the first hour and lost big with my set over set, and AJ running into AK.</p>
<p>After that table broke up, I spent another hour and a half grinding it out and regained most  of my losses and started to have a little fun, it was a nice change of pace from the tournaments.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve decided to take a short break from the Sit-N-Go&#8217;s now, I&#8217;m not sure how I&#8217;ll achieve this break, either take a day off and only play cash games, or only play one or two tournaments compared to my usual three or four, but its something I feel I need to do right now. Hopefully I&#8217;ll then be able to return with a clear head and start to rebuild some success in the Sit-N-Go&#8217;s again.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been advised to get hold of a copy of NL Hold&#8217;em Theory by David Sklansky, which I will order today. I&#8217;m not very experienced with NL cash games, so it will be interesting and very rewarding to try and build up via these instead of the Sit-N-Go&#8217;s, which I have predominantly been playing for some time  now.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[We are so very distracted]]></title>
<link>http://growthmadness.org/2007/09/22/we-are-so-very-distracted/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>John Feeney</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a title="Distracted"><img style="margin-right:10px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1178/1426472588_9f4484372e_o.jpg" alt="Distracted" height="197" align="left" /></a><em>By John Feeney:</em></p>
<p>This screenshot is from a <a href="http://www.bouldercountygoinglocal.com/keynotes.html">talk I&#8217;ll be giving</a> at <a href="http://www.bouldercountygoinglocal.com/festival-expo.html">A Renaissance of Local</a> in Lyons, Colorado. It concerns the media&#8217;s consistent failure to recognize the most important news story in human history.</p>
<p>The stories making headlines are mostly important. They do need  good coverage. There&#8217;s no question about that. But their importance pales in comparison with that of our ecological plight. No question about that either.</p>
<p>Ecological issues should be the headlines everyday. Ironically, the stories which do make the front page often have ecological bases which go unrecognized.</p>
<p>Many will disagree with my assessment. Understandably, they feel passionately about issues like the Iraq war. They can&#8217;t imagine any other story is as relevant as long as people in Iraq are dying. Yet I believe this reflects a simple lack of ecological awareness. Once one grasps the numbers of lives at risk as a result of looming ecological crises, one&#8217;s perspective shifts. Consideration of the potential impacts on global food supplies of climate change as well as the depletion of oil, natural gas, and aquifers is enough to make this clear. Factor in additional problems such as the <a href="http://growthmadness.org/2007/02/22/the-specter-of-mass-extinction/">mass extinction</a> of species now playing out, and it&#8217;s impossible to retain any doubt about the media&#8217;s ecological blindness.<!--more (more...) --></p>
<p>It&#8217;s bad enough <a href="http://trinifar.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/immigration-and-us-population-growth/">so few discuss</a> certain thorny but relevant environmental subtopics, but we&#8217;re not even seeing stories on the broadest global challenges likely to have pervasive  and severe impacts in the coming decades.</p>
<p>The media need to wake up. Let&#8217;s wake them up. Letters to editors and comments under online articles are a good start. A great example was this comment by &#8220;Stilba&#8221; under an <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3219/">article by Naomi Klein</a> on Common Dreams:</p>
<blockquote><p>Not to be a downer, but little of this matters if our planetary life support system is kaput. I can’t even look at this “a better world is possible” stuff any more without thinking about that the whole way through. Sort of like a super-sized version of what Gandhi said about sanitation being more important than independence.</p></blockquote>
<p>Stilba&#8217;s comment reminds me of a lesson I learned well in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Poker-Mind-General-Concepts/dp/1880685264/sr=1-1/qid=1166679478/ref=sr_1_1/104-2830994-9610358?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books">my days</a> as a professional poker player. It came from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sklansky">David Sklansky</a>, a pioneering poker and professional gambling theorist with an ability to see through and simplify many seemingly complex problems. The lesson was to focus on <a href="http://www.twoplustwo.com/books/gambling/getting-best-of-it/">what&#8217;s truly important</a>, those decisions that have major impacts rather than those which, while correct, have less long term significance. It has generalized easily to decisions concerning where to focus my writing and activism as an environmentalist. And it makes it easier to spot those instances, which are today unfortunately the norm, when the media focus on issues of relatively less importance.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t help thinking the future of humanity hinges, in some large measure, on our learning to recognize what&#8217;s important.<br />
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<link>http://pokerbooksdvd.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/pokerbooksdvd/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pokerbooksdvd</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[www.pokerbooksdvd.com Watching the poker dvd&#8217;s &#8211; poker videos from WPT, WSOP, EPT, High ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Poker books]]></title>
<link>http://pokerbooksdvd.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/poker-books/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[www.pokerbooksdvd.com A big variety of poker books that help a poker player to play like the pros. P]]></description>
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<link>http://pokerbooksdvd.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/watch-poker-tournament/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[            www.pokerbooksdvd.com  World Series of Poker   World Series of Poker Europe  World Poker]]></description>
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