Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[The Poker Chronicles] Low Stakes: Actually I wish I had had $.5/$1 games when I was first learning. I was forced to jump into $3/$6 (only game around at the time) which is pretty high stakes for a college kid. You're guaranteed to go broke numerous times while learning at those stakes. Actually I probably only went broke once due to not being good at the game, all subsequent bottom outs were due to spending habits, but whenever I did lose my entire roll I had to save up a few hundred before I could even get back in action.
[Virtualbookmakercollegebasketball.blogspot.com] Virtual Bookmaker Triple Crown Odds Preakness Stakes Betting: Want to see the best 3-year-old Thoroughbreds in the world charge down the homestretch at Churchill Downs under the famed Twin Spires on the first Saturday in May? Then don't miss this opportunity to get your hands around one of the toughest tickets to find in sports - box seats to the 2006 Kentucky Derby and Oaks - not to mention three chances to win a trip to the 2006 DRF/NTRA Handicapping Challenge in Las Vegas, and other great prizes as well .Play the 2005 Kentucky Derby "Road to the Roses" Fantasy Challenge!
[Buffoonery.org] buffoonery.org | a seattle weblog: In the main campus dining hall, known as 'Commons,' (not 'the Commons' for some reason) there are people known as 'scroungers' who can not afford to eat. They apparently loiter in the eating area, near the conveyor belt that takes your dirty dishes back to the dishwasher, and ask you for your unfinished portions of food before you throw them away. Reedies happily offer their perfectly good, half-eaten hippie vegan fare to these people who may have an apartment and clothes, but just can't afford food (hey, I've been there.). Now, Reed has formal dances, like in high school.
[Cnnsi.com] SI.com - SI On Campus - SI On Campus: All In - Tuesday April 26 ...: ... and nobody is buying into the poker craze more religiously than college students. ... "I just can't afford to be in college right now either." ...
[Worldmagblog.com] World Magazine Blog: Self-employment increase: Has no likelihood discussed of workers who had left prominent positions being able to regain that level of position within the same or different company when things return to "normal." In other words, there is no speculation as to whether or not careers have been sidetracked permanently or whether this is just a blip in the road for most people. I know it is just speculation, but it would still be important to note. (Most of the article was speculation anyway.)
[Chessninja.com] The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: Red Hot Poker: Poker may be to some extent an "unsolvable" problem because it is, in some sense, inchoate: other than the ability to calculate mathematical probabilities (e.g., pot odds, the odds of making a hand, etc.) and make rational decisions based on those odds, the greatest skill factor in poker seems to be the ability to observe your opponents and predict their future play based on those observations, while preventing them from doing the same to you. While I admit that skilled poker players are often eerily good at "reading" their opponents (particularly their unskilled opponents: reading a good poker player is of course much harder given that he/she is much more conscious about the dangers of predictability and will often consciously generate disinformation), I don't think that this factor makes poker somehow more interesting than chess. It just means that poker has a strong psychological element.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Poker, Poker Library
