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July 20, 2006

Learn to earn / Software armoury

Just back. Two articles I filed before I left were published while I was away.

The first, this piece about coaching, is the best I’ve come up with yet - certainly the one I learnt most from, for which I have to thank Tommy Angelo, Bob Ciaffone, Donovan Panone, Eric Lindauer, and, once again, Stoxtrader. All their websites are more than worth looking at, though I could spend all day reading Tommy Angelo’s work. Check out ‘Stuck’ for a taste.

Is it time I got some coaching myself? Not quite. There are still plenty of things I’m doing wrong that I know how to do right. But when I’ve ironed out a few of those I think I’ll be giving one of these guys a call. I’d be interested if anyone reading has had any experience getting coached - use the comments link below. Somebody has to say something sometime.

The second piece is about poker software. At least it looks nice. Thanks though to all those who took the time to help, I hope I've done justice to your work.

No poker on Samos, but played plenty of gin with the huggable one. Favourite hand, I’m drawing live to about 5 outs with more than half the deck gone, but I can hardly peg her on anything. I make gin, she frowns and, for once, shows me her hand. “So frustrating, I was so close,” she sighs. I look and giggle. She’s got the 4 fives, 4,6,7 hearts and 7,8,9 clubs or something. She’s had them for about ten turns but still can’t see it. I’d better go win some money on Pacific now - I’m in trouble for telling that story when she gets home from work. It might need some serious making-it-up cash.

 

July 02, 2006

Tales of the Online Kings

Who are these other guys playing online for a living? I thought I’d find a variety of geeky college students and McJob drop-outs but, no, if this is anything to go by, (and take away the kids) they’re not a world away from me. Published today, here’s a full-colour PDF scan of my latest article.

June 29, 2006

Bonus Whoring

Here is my latest article for The Sportsman, published last Sunday.

Writing a couple more is now keeping me busy, too busy. There are a lot of adjustments I need to make in my game at the moment (ie. I‘ve had a horrible month and my confidence is shot), and real work - paid work - is getting in the way.

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May 23, 2006

Rakeback: Are you getting yours?

What is it and where do you get it? This article, which I wrote for the The Sportsman newspaper (May 21 2006) should help. The guys I interviewed for the piece have since been good enough to set me up as a sub-affiliate so if you sign up with them using the links at the bottom of the article and mention ShePlaysPoker, I'll get to share the commission. I might not reach the highest standards of journalistic ethics but at least I'm honest. Right? Sword of truth and all that.