The Surly Poker Gnome

In high school, I was on the cross-country running team. I asked one of my friends on the team what his goals were for the season. "I d...

I had just gotten back above my original buy-in at the weekly game when I heard yelling at the other table. I thought a fight had broken out...

Am I playing bad cards, or am I just running bad? I wish there were a PokerTracker filter that would let me know the definitive answer. I wi...

I decided to figure out the probability of any one of three cards falling on the flop. I wanted to figure this probability out after I won $...

Daniel and I are playing at our weekly no limit game in Atlanta, and the fish are biting. I won my first hand on a bluff, and Daniel racked ...

I first read "Small Stakes Hold 'em" by Miller, Sklansky and Malmuth about a year ago. I still consider this book to be the bi...

I don't believe in luck, but I know what works. Jumping out of a plane works. I went skydiving yesterday for the second time, hopeful I...

Dad walked down to the basement to watch me play poker for a few minutes before he went to bed. He sweats me so bad I might as well have Mik...

I broke one of my rules by playing poker late into the night at the weekly game. As always, it was a good game. I quickly lost about $200 to...

There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace--those qualities you find always in that...

Well, I knew it had to happen sometime. You can't run that well forever. Sometimes you have to feed the fish. It's OK ... I'll e...

I crossed $20,000 in career poker winnings last night! This run is really amazing. It was just on Aug. 19 that I wrote about passing $10,000...

What's up! This is the evolution of my former blog, 5,589 Miles From Vegas. I should have changed the blog title after I moved back to ...