OddsBeDamned

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As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I think the life experiences I share in this blog will be more likely to hold value for others if they know a bit about who I am and what it is that makes me tick. So…
For starters, my real name is Jeremy. …

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I’ve been toying with the ‘About’ page for this site over the last few days, and it’s surprised me how much difficulty I’ve had revising a simple description. What I’m realizing as a result is that the evolution of this blog’s identity is still very much in the works, …

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Introduction
Over the course of my poker ‘career’, I’ve made countless adjustments in an effort to remain competitive at an ever-evolving game. I’ve shifted emphasis back and forth between tournaments and cash games, experimented with various combinations of looseness and aggression, and played extensively both live and online. But …

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INTRODUCTION
A month ago, I took a closer look at the contexts from which I had been choosing my daily undertakings. At the end of the post, I concluded that the most effective way for me to personally evaluate a day’s work is from the broader perspective of ‘how I …

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Back in 2008, Jean-Claude Van Damme made a brief comeback of sorts with the movie “JCVD“, a drama surrounding a character based loosely on Van Damme himself. As a whole, the movie was merely decent, in my opinion. But there is one very unexpected scene near the end …

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Introduction
Have you ever given much thought to exactly what it is that happens when someone offends you? I mean really broken it down and considered what transpires, one step at a time?
When I think about all the times I’ve felt insulted in the past, the pattern has generally resembled …

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In a poker tournament, each player is allotted the same number of chips at the start. Once the tournament begins, you then play one poker hand after another, trying to increase your chip stack whenever possible. This continues until you are either crowned the winner or eliminated by …

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Rather than simply voicing my concerns about America’s emotionally underdeveloped society in an article on my blog, I decided it would be more effective to take my message directly to the article’s subject. So I submitted a message to Richard Simmons through his website, contents below. Yeah, I …

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The other day, I mentioned a Facebook initiative intended to protect children from bullying and how I felt that its efforts to modify the behavior of the bullies rather than the victims would ultimately prove ineffective. Well, the recent response to a joke made by George Lopez about Kirstie …

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Introduction
There’s a popular saying in poker that “scared money doesn’t make money”. What it basically means is that if you’re preoccupied with the prospect of losing the money you’re playing with, you’ll often be too gun-shy to follow through on some of the riskier moves available to you, even …