There’s an old saying in behavioural modelling circles: “Once is luck, twice is coincidence, thrice is a pattern.” It’s sometimes a little difficult to get 3 examples of the same behavioural pattern at a poker table, but sometimes you aren’t looking for the most useful and information-packed pattern. In order to even know you are [...]
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Posted 12 September 2006
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Sometimes when writing an article I get tired of constructing a scenario to illustrate a point. This has nothing to do with laziness or apathy but primarily because most of the “constructed” scenarios are from my personal history and I have to relive them every time I write about them. Inevitably, the hands are ones [...]
Inevitably when you play poker for any length of time the ups and downs will come and go like the cycles of the moon. If only poker cycles were as predictable as that! Only one thing is certain; that as a poker player you will experience as many rushes as lean runs. I have witnessed [...]
This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly- with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a [...]
In the days of pinball, ‘TILT’ was the inevitable result of giving the oversized chrome bearing too much ‘English’. This was usually the result of the ball not behaving as it should, which led the controller of the ball to lose state and begin trying to force the ball to do as it was told. [...]
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