On Tuesday, February 2, I celebrated my third anniversary of producing the Full Tilt Poker Blog by Michael Craig. If you look back in the archive, you will see the very first post, “The Playboy of Full Tilt,” dated February 2, 2007. I had no idea I would have the blog this long, write this much, or do this much. It has been a wonderful and often startling experience. But the foundation for all that appeared in my very first post.
As a regular feature, I asked my assistant Shauna to compile an ongoing list of Full Tilt Promotions. Every Friday, she will arrange to post the list in this blog under this title. For additional information, you can go to Full Tilt’s Promotions page.
PARABLE #3 – THE LEDERER PERSPECTIVE
Howard Lederer would seem the perfect person to mediate between the Ferguson and Straus approaches. He is extremely smart and introspective and had the benefit of obtaining a lot of his post-graduate-equivalent brains on the streets.
PARABLE #2 – HIGH-STAKES LIFE
I really regret never having met Jack Straus. Straus, a contemporary of Doyle Brunson and a member of the Poker Hall of Fame, is known to me primarily from the stories written and told by Al Alvarez and Anthony Holden.
Because I have needed to withdraw substantial amounts from my Full Tilt account these last few months (and because I haven’t been winning much), I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on bankroll management – playing lower, exercising patience, and generally at least simulating the condition of not having the money to play big.
As a regular feature, I asked my assistant Shauna to compile an ongoing list of Full Tilt Promotions. Every Friday, she will arrange to post the list in this blog under this title. For additional information, you can go to Full Tilt’s Promotions page.
You can call Full Tilt “buttah” – because it’s on a roll. In back-to-back weeks, Full Tilt has rolled out a pair of monster promotions. Last week, it was Rush Poker, which I’m finding addicting despite having no prior interest in online cash games. This week, it’s Double Guarantees, which seems less than revolutionary but is having a gigantic impact.
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Because of Andy Bloch’s offer last October, I found myself in the worst position a fat gambler could imagine: losing weight but NOT having a weight-loss bet. After posting Part II of this blog, I sent Andy Bloch a consolation note. I wanted to thank him for getting me motivated to lose weight and let him know I was on a path to doing so even though he hadn’t proposed an actual weight-loss bet.
Last Thursday, Shauna and I drove from Scottsdale to Tucson to have lunch with Roland de Wolfe. Roland was staying at the Canyon Ranch health spa with his friend Bryan. Considering Arizona’s normally excellent weather, the thunderstorm on the trip out and the windstorm on the way back were very unusual. But probably not as unusual as spending a random couple of hours with Roland de Wolfe. In contrast to the rotten weather, however, the surprises from encountering Roland and his world were most enjoyable.
During my first several sessions at Rush Poker, I jotted down notes about features, consequences, and lessons. These observations are presented in no particular order.
