Making Mental Notes At The Irish Open 2012 It was the Spring of 2012 and I was starting to dabble a bit more away from the virtual felt. I had a bit of live poker experience, maybe a hundred or so tournaments played, but I was predominantly a 40-tabling online
Territorial Pissing "The game’s out there, and it’s play or get played." Always delivered with aplomb by the late great Michael K Williams, Omar Little had an aphoristic way with words and a distinctive way of beholding the nature of things. He recognised the dog-eat-dog world in which he lived
Koon’s Stoicism If you have ever sat at a poker table, you know that the game is a test of endurance, patience and resilience. If live poker is hours of boredom punctuated moments of sheer terror, then online poker is a test of your mental sturdiness, regular bad beats eroding
A Life Raft With an Engine Let me begin with a confession. The first time I heard someone mention the Kelly Criterion at the poker table, I thought it was the name of a Scandinavian online reg. The phrase “Just use Kelly” was completely alien to me but I made
Close But No Battered Cigar Close but no battered cigar, I came third in last week’s Partypoker UK Tour Glasgow. On the week that WPT Global announced their 3-year sponsorship of the International Poker Open in Dublin, it was great to support another Celtic grassroots festival in a city where
Kassouf 86ed Speaking exclusively on the latest episode of ‘The Chip Race’, poker professional and tournament director Kenny Hallaert gave a frank interview which included a conversation about William Kassouf, the man who received penalty after penalty in this year’s WSOP Main Event. Hallaert had a front row seat for
Disruptor A legacy brand is a brand that endures and thrives across product cycles and management tenures, its values rooted in consistency and a commitment to excellence that resonates with its customers. A disruptor brand challenges the status quo, offering something new and different, changing the way that the consumer
Nine out of ten readers enjoyed this article on The Appeal To Probability Fallacy, so you will too. Blind Spot In 2009, the statistician, data-journalist author and poker player Nate Silver was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time Magazine after his election forecasting model correctly
On March 24, 1991, 16,158 people gathered at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, millions of fans were glued to their TV sets at home watching the Pay Per View broadcast and at least one Irish nine year old was given permission to stay up late to watch WrestleMania VII.
Disruptor-In-Chief No matter what your political persuasion, there is one undeniable thing about current US President Donald Trump and that is how he is an agent of chaos. Trade Wars have been started, paused and started again in the same news cycle. Executive Orders are being signed on a daily
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce." ~ Karl Marx The Brink of Catastrophe On Thursday April 14th 2011, the online poker world was on the brink of catastrophe. Online poker operators who had knowingly and wilfully flouted legislation by transacting with US customers were teetering
Flight of the Concorde One of the most expensive aircrafts ever built, the Concorde was a joint project between the British and French governments. Eight years of studies, three years of development, and four years of construction resulted in the creation of six prototypes by March 1969, but the project
