Chasing The Blue Beyond

Spending Your Derelict You(th) at the Poker table-The Helium Report It's been a real crazy week playing my own version of The Asian Poker Tour---Macau is where it's at. What happEND in Vegas now happens in Macau. Poker is not a form of gambling---but Macau gambling is a form of poker; and the Chinese are just getting to know holdem and took huge gambles that rarely, but eventually, payed off---But anyone who gambles in poker can get lucky on one hand 100% of the time. Sex And The Gambling Man In Macau-Denial is a river one outter. A little past playing good is playing badly. I couldn't help myself. It was like potato chips---I couldn't just eat one....I eventually ended up like all the other JOES, played ATC, any two cards...but was hitting flops and winning not just pots but chips. I call that Card Lust . My malignant optimism got to me when I switched games and went to Blackjack. afterall, In Blackjack, there is always a correct decision, a perfect strategy right? The...

The Hero's Journey · Foreign Land · February 27, 2009 Vintage Chaos The Kowloon Report From Bangkok's user-friendly universe to Mong Kok's concrete forest: caffeine, density, Chinglish, monopoly money, location-neutral living, and the strange moment when the extraordinary becomes ordinary. Enter Kowloon Previous Field Ledger · Macau Mong Kok Concrete forest Hotel @nyware Chinglish From nation to notion Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Where was all that feng shui in sardine land's concrete forest? Greetings from the user-friendly universe of Bangkok to one of the most de...

There's No Limit Like No Limit! in Money Heaven Aircrafts (Metal) and Yachts are not the latest fad in Macau---Texas Hold'em is. China’s version of the Forbes list — the country now has 106 billionaires, second only to the U.S---were out throwing away their money on the house games this weekend, but poker is catching on. There are some sick pots being taken down. Tonight, t he Slumdog Chinese Millionaires of Hong Kong are playing deep stack poker 3 Mill. HK Behind them, a credit to conspicuous consumption and a What the F*ck attitude of the global financial crisis--- with a 7 Million Hong Kong Dollar pot just an hour ago, before I broke for the Hotel. I'm staying across the street at the Grand Lisboa--the epitome of bling.In it's hey day, it was the greatest hotel Macau had to offer. Inspired by the lotus – Macau’s national flower, check out this photo , where I played a real Sunday night loose game and was up $600. My hourly rate was $100 US an Hour. Today I went to t...

The Hero's Journey · Trials · Bangkok Field School Reading the Game Before Playing the World The Theory of Poker on Khao San Road Bangkok became the study hall: David Sklansky in hand, cash money on the table, birthday beer in the background, and Khao San Road supplying the friction that turns borrowed theory into personal judgment. Enter the Field School The Urban Monk on the Hong Kong Express Khao San Road The Theory of Poker Cash money Birthday beer Process over outcome Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Catching up on my reading—David Sklansky's The Theory of Poker —in Bangkok. There are ...