As most people know, banks make their money by investing customers' money. They use fancy calculations to decide how little money they can keep on hand for people that come in wanting to withdrawal.  The rest is then invested at a higher interest rate than they pay their customers. Grocery stores make money by doing a [...]...

I listen to all of Bart Hanson's Cash Plays podcasts on pokerroad (most are pretty good - check out the Samoleous interview if you haven't), and one of the shows had him discussing the idea of negative EV hours with a psychologist. The basic gist of the idea was that a lot of poker players focus [...]...

I decided that I am better suited for limit games, in particular playing HORSE seems to be my best bet; it has taken me a while to come to the conclusion that limit poker is not a four letter word. I will continue to play NLHE SNG's and tourney's I enjoy the kill or be [...]...

Well, that's the allegation in 2+2.  Big news, the superuser account on Ultimate Bet is highly suspected of being 1994 Main Event champion Russ Hamilton, along with some other co-conspirators.  Russ has been known to angle shoot before (gaining weight for the 1994 silver bonus during the ME, hosting a fake $100k televised UB tournament), [...]...

Ok so the title may be a little dramatic but what I experienced tonight will haunt me for some time. It has been a long time since I posted. I have had little time for poker due to grad school which started in June. I've deposited a few times on Star's for the sole purpose [...]...