So I still can fail to be a lifetime winner; better work on my game. :)

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 01:21:24 GMT

I always joked that my wife is a lifetime winner at poker. She played poker once, in one of the penny-ante stud games I used to run in the 1990s in college. She played for an hour and won $0.15. She never played again. She'll surely never play again. So, she's a lifetime winner.

I was a lifetime winner, too. As became clear that this journal just plain went dead in late 2009, I basically stopped playing around 2010. I started a new (non-profit) business and it took nearly all my time. Now, we have four full-time employees, and I actually have time for poker again in my life. So, I started playing again.

As most people know, for USA players, online poker is effectively dead. I did play a bit for a while circa 2014 on the New Jersey sites (when I was still in NYC). The action wasn't bad, but the players were much better than the old days, and it's obvious that you can't beat online poker without a giant hand database, and the like. It's just not worth my time, and I was frankly always a much better live player than I was an online player.

So, meanwhile, I left NYC for Portland, OR. A few months after moving here, I discovered that poker is actually legal here, at least a form of it (which I hope to explain about more in this journal over time). Still, I was busy with my day job, which also became a night job from 2010-2016, so I just had no time to investigate.

I took the hiring of a fourth employee to have a hobby again. No, I'm not going to try to be a pro again, it's not the life I want to lead, but being a part-time pro again might be, for lack of a better analogy, in the cards.

So, I figured out where the poker clubs are here, and I've played a bit in the last few weeks. I decided that the online poker journal should go with it.

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It's still abbreviated HE, though.

Sat, 01 Nov 2014 18:23:53 GMT

Jon Stewart said a few nights ago (just catching up) in a bit about how Texas puts its name on everything: "Texas Hold'em? There are no other Hold'ems".
Of course, poker players cringe to hear that because Omaha is actually Omaha Hold'em.
OTOH, most poker players call Texas Hold'em by just the name "Hold'em" and Omaha Hold'em by the name "Omaha".
So I guess he has a point: the texas variety owns the name a bit.
What really bugs me is people who say they play "no limit", as if NL HE and Limit HE are the only two games that exist. ;)

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Ship It, Fish!

So I still can fail to be a lifetime winner; better work on my game. :)

It's still abbreviated HE, though.