Archive for September 2006

Once you find the best, you never mess with the rest. Isn’t that how it always works, or should, at least? The only problem with placing the title of “The Best” on any given organization, person or idea is the fact that everything is constantly changing. 10 years ago a mobile […]

You may have met me in one of many poker rooms; I get around. Chances are, you may think I’m exceptionally rude. Now that I think of it, I may well be, though honestly not intentionally. Typically, I have both player and observer chat set to ‘off’. My reasons for this — […]

If you missed it, Pam Anderson and Kid Rock had a live chat last weekend on pamelapoker.com. John’s friend sent a snippet of the session (which I’ll post later), but the highlights apparently were about baby poop and that Cindy Crawford was baby-sitting for them. (Not sure but I think the baby’s name is “kid […]

Way back in my punk days in Toronto, I knew a kooky girl, D, who told me she intentionally farted in elevators if there was a man in there she liked. She was of the opinion that men dug that sort of thing. While I cannot agree with D’s assessment, I do dig Shana Hiatt’s […]

If you haven’t had enough of the poker chip tricks previewed here in the last few days, here are a whole bunch more. Click on the post’s title above to see the video clips.
Butterfly

Chip Twirl

Chip Twirl - Slow

Corkscrew
This one looks really complicated and impressive, but all it really takes is some serious patience and trial […]

Poker pro Dutch Boyd explains why you need to know how to do tricks with poker chips, as well as demonstrating some fairly impressive ones.

Found this clip of the final hand for this year’s 2006 WSOP poker tournament. It was down to Jamie Gold, the Hollywood agent, versus Paul Wasicka, who I’ve not heard of before. Unfortunately, the volume is really low, so you’ll have crank it up (and don’t forget to turn it back down so you don’t […]

And then there was Muffy. Muffy is usually miffed because a) she plays online poker, and b) utilizes that arcane science of mathematics . . . specifically, the branch of probabilities for hand odds.
Quite rightly, Muffy is ecstatic when her pair of sevens (spades and diamonds) turns into a sevens four-of-a-kind on a 9h, Kh, […]

If you’ve watched this card trick video, then here are some behind the scenes of how it was done.

Here’s another trick: simple but fun anyways.