OddsBeDamned

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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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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 …

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After my initiation into the world of present-mindedness, the first thing I attempted to tackle was the frustration that would grow whenever things didn’t go my way at the poker tables. I didn’t set right out to identify the source of the problem; instead, I settled for using my …

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Well, it’s already been half a year since I registered this domain name and posted the blog’s introduction. The fact that I haven’t added a single post during that time span would seem to indicate either that there hasn’t been much poker-related progress for me to write about or …

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The primary purpose of this blog will be to track my personal growth as I endeavor to join the ranks of professional poker players. This is actually the third iteration of a blog I started back in 2006. I ended up scrapping the original version a few months …