Archive for March, 2025

I just visited Salt Lake City over the past four days.  I enjoy trying new poker rooms whenever I travel. I have a large collection of poker chips that I collect when I play in a new casino. All the SLC locals know the place to go play poker is in Wendover, Nevada. I had to go check it out so I made the 2 hour drive to the border town of Wendover. I played some $1 – $2 no-limit poker at the Wendover Nugget and Montego Bay Read more »

Still stinging from several bad beats today, I started thinking about the predictability of luck coming in streaks.  I'll spare you the details of my bad beats. We all have these lucky and not-so-lucky streaks.

It occurs to me that this would be the normal or expected fluctuation of probably occurrences in poker. Read more »

I just played a $55 + $5 sit-n-go tournament. We were in the final three and I looked down at Ace Ace in the pocket. The other players were aggressive and I was on the button so I limped in. Sure enough the big blind went all-in. Delighted, I called the all-in for all my tournament chips. The big blind turned over King 5 of diamonds. The flop came and gave me trips with a flop of Ace (d) 3 (d) 7 (h). Read more »