I thought, for a change of pace, we would actually talk about poker. Not all the stuff which is important, that meta-game, thinking guff that I ramble on about every issue, but actual, real, playing of hands poker. That which involves money and gambling. And yes, I do actually play the game now...

It would be a bit of an understatement to say that there are mixed views about the British Empire. The British, well the "English", tend to look back on this time as a halcyon age when the "Great" was truly in Great Britain. Most of the colonies, and old foes, see it as an...

As my faithful reader will no doubt now realise, I am what is often termed a "working Joe". I have been a pro on several occasions but by and large, I like keeping work as work and poker as a (hopefully) profitable hobby. I was fortunate enough, perhaps unfortunate is the right word, to...

Sometimes, rarely, every now and again, a whole group of people realise they are wrong. Barking up the wrong tree. Holding the wrong end of the stick. The rather grandiose term for this is paradigm shift. I prefer a different analogy, which was once made about science; scientists can be viewed as...

There is an old Indian proverb about what happens when several blind men are confronted with an elephant. Each of them is given a part of the elephant to feel, and as they are all given very different anatomical regions, they each decide on completely different ideas as to what the animal is. So...

Most arrivistes to the world of Internet poker will barely know of the existence of rec.gambling.poker, or RGP as it was commonly referred to by its participants. This was a non-commercial, non-censored newsgroup and was really the first mainstream place for people interested in poker to share...

Once upon a time, I heard a great story involving lemmings. Like all great stories I cannot remember exactly who told it to me; whether it was a documentary on television, some snippet on the Internet or just the usual suspects down the local public house. I'm not even certain how true it is....