Digger

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...

Friday May 30, 2008

published 39 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 6

Groping the Elephant

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 inasmuch as they are all given very different anatomical regions, they each decide on completely different ideas as to what the...

Thursday May 01, 2008

published 68 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 5

Delta Force

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 noncommercial, noncensored newsgroup, and was really the first mainstream place for people interested in poker to share...

Tuesday Apr 01, 2008

published 98 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 4

Over the Cliff

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 at the local public house. I'm not even certain how true...

Friday Feb 01, 2008

published 158 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 2

I Shall Be Telling This With a Sigh

At the time of writing, my poker year-end is fast approaching. And what a year it has been. Although I have very rarely been what you would term a "professional," I have always been more than "pro" in my record keeping; and this has been one of my worst years since records...

Tuesday Jan 01, 2008

published 189 days ago in
Card Player Europe Magazine Volume 5, Number 1

Chaotic Fractals

Sometime ago, a friend of mine came up with an interesting idea around tournament play. Basically, it boiled down to the notion that a strange attractor existed for playing in these events. Strange attractor is a mathematical term, and without going into too much detail, he was coining something...

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