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PlayerN: Speed kills...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008. Thoughts of a bad-ass poker player v. 1. I looked down at pocket 5s, I wanted a cigarette pretty bad, but I had a feeling about the hand. A pretty flop of A59 rainbow played out in my head. I scratched my temple. Might even raise this bitch I thought to myself. The dealer, another jackass with a rap, the same one, over and over again, put the flop cards down, and teased us before turning them saying his catchphrase, "Wait for it.". The turn looked like brick city to the guy i...
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PlayerN: Cut-Day
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009. I can't go for that, no-o, no can do," she smiled with a glint in her eye. We had spent half a day together, a long reckless day, driving 100 mph on the interstate in a beat up Honda that looked like it would struggle to go 70. Already that morning we took a dip in a fountain in a public park. We split a beer and then she came up with the destination. No can do.". She wrangled the lighter from me, and laughed some more. The window's open. Don't worry.". I shook my head. I shook my...
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PlayerN: Folding Pocket Twos
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Saturday, February 7, 2009. I waited, and waited for the next raindrop to hit. A gust rattled the drainpipe on the side of my house and shifted even the sturdy oak in my front yard but no more drops. Still, I waited for the second rain drop. I looked for darkening mositure on the street but it did not come. I dejectedly hit the fold button. I made it more of decision then I needed to. Even if I was right I didn't need to get involved in the hand. We were on the cusp of the bubble. The truth of the matter...
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PlayerN: Silverback Issue Two Gulf Coast Poker Magazine part three
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Sunday, May 23, 2010. Silverback Issue Two Gulf Coast Poker Magazine part three. For those two. Yet, it didn't feel standard at all to me. Action on Two Times and he stared at Silverback’s cards and right through them, I knew he was waiting. Silverback had nothing, complete garbage, and was waiting to make a move if Two Times checked. I was frozen stiff I didn’t know who scared me more. Suddenly I was playing a game of Texas Holdem. 8221; he bellowed. Did he know I had signaled, how could he? 8220;Well, ...
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PlayerN: Okay, there's a card in there...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Okay, there's a card in there. I quickened my step even more. The gaps between gusts shortened with each bluster and through the last of the pauses, as the branches unbowed and the leaves and moss settled, the house encompassed more with each step on the hardened mud. As I ascended the rise, it loomed, like the storm at its back, rising bigger and broader with darkness. An iron knocker as pitch black as the door raked my temple as I tried to envelope my head in my jacket. A...
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PlayerN: I Hate Big Hands
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Monday, April 20, 2009. I Hate Big Hands. In live play, you look at those Ogre hands and you never know if it's your turn to act or if the guy has got a pair of cards buried under there and he is contemplating monosyllabically in his head. "DO. I. CALL? You chose not to pee next to him because if his hands are that big. Yeah, admit it, just like farting your way to an Earthrise on the portal window, this thought has creeped in your mind too. And not see the guy mashing his mouse with brick hands. Wow Gre...
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PlayerN: Do You See What I See (Part 2) Gulf Coast Poker Magazine Issue 1
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Saturday, March 27, 2010. Do You See What I See (Part 2) Gulf Coast Poker Magazine Issue 1. 8220;What do you see on that table, son? 8221; The Grey Bear pointed to the five cards face up in the middle of green felt. “ I say that’s two clubs and a spade. They say that’s three clubs,” he hissed at me. “What do you see? One of the gangsters looked at me menacingly. The smack didn’t come. 8221; he bellowed. I did as he asked and walked out toward the bartender for the Bourbon and Branch. The bartender laughe...
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PlayerN: March 2012
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Thursday, March 8, 2012. I gave him a steely look, and he inhaled quickly through his nostrils, "Sorry guy." I tried to wave him off, but his hand didn't move. I had to look him in the eye. He said, "I don't think so." His hand now found the tendon to my neck and his grip gathered force. There was no paradoxical soft evil holding me, it was throttled aggression. Whoa," I tried to jump back. The situation devolving, "Easy brother. I don't have nothing.". This new man had no subltety to him, he bull rushed...
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PlayerN: Silverback Issue Two Gulf Coast Poker Magazine
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Sunday, May 9, 2010. Silverback Issue Two Gulf Coast Poker Magazine. Games were legendary in the city. I had a limited knowledge of the game and though it took me a while to learn the rules of stud, Pot Limit Omaha. 8220;Tough break in there sir,” I nodded at him feeling sorry that the politician had lost a big pot when one of the more inexperienced players couldn’t get off a hand and caught a lucky river card to end his night. 8220;Well, you got a second kid? 8220;Okay." This was starting to feel a ...
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PlayerN: Do You See What I See (Part 1) Gulf Coast Poker Magazine Issue 1
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Friday, March 26, 2010. Do You See What I See (Part 1) Gulf Coast Poker Magazine Issue 1. Do You See What I See? I had seen the men that filtered in and out of that room throughout the night, they came when the bar was open and when the bar was closed, and they were the type that scared most people and I could tell he scared them. The Texas Hold 'em and Omaha. It got worse, “Boy! In here. Now! 8221; he bellowed. I swallowed hard, stole a glance back at the bartender, who shrugged helplessly, and I walked...
