If there’s one thing any poker player can agree on, it’s that money comes and goes like water. Once we put enough away for a bank roll (and I know many of us don’t), it’s our natural instinct to go out and spend the big bills. Whip out that wad of Benji’s. Buy some toys.  One minute you’re going through the hottest run of your life where everything seems to make perfect sense to you. Your aces don’t get cracked by jack asses with Q 8... Read More

AC Trip Recap: 1/30/09

Scared money don’t make money. That’s was the first mantra I adopted when I begin playing cards seriously and competively nearly four years ago. No person, not just in poker, can make any money if they are scared to invest it. Poker is not gambling. It is a game that has statistics and skill, but most of all, the room for imagination and creative play. Any hand can potentially win. It’s just how you choose to play it. I’d been logging in a few hours online... Read More

AC Trip Recap: 1/11/09

I was going to go home this weekend to visit my parents and friends down in Maryland, but at the last minute my card partner and good friend Brendan asked if I could make a trip down to AC this weekend for a session. I had looked up some rooms earlier this week to see if I could get Comped for the weekend but couldn’t so I originally told him I couldn’t make it because I didn’t want to pull a 24 hour grind like in the old days… but determined and feeling... Read More