Chasing The Blue Beyond

Instant Gratification Takes Too Long

Viva Venetian Macau For Valentine's Day In a rare display of compassion for casino owners, now that Las Vegas Sands-owned Venetian Macau posted Q 4 loses , Ed Reif has decided to "Go East, Far East", Going on the Dopamine Power Diet—In Search of the “All-In” Button . I'll be headed for Macau. The Venetian is among the city’s largest venues but there's no Poker! The Grand Lisboa is on my hit list and so is The Wynn. I hear the tables are soft as most players are coming straight from the Bacarat tables, with many Chasing ,or staying in a pot to make an unlikely hand, usually (but not always) with poor odds. Poker is a lot like investing---both are games of incomplete information. Graduating from the West point of Capitalism, Harvard University won't inform my poker. Behavioral finance can . If I am to have a Superlative performance, it will not be just the ability to eliminate chance, but also to recognize opportunity. Many irrational poker-player behaviors ...

See Full Image Show Dossier Fictional intelligence dossier · declassified travel file Operation Golden Gun · Phang Nga Bay · April 2018 All Thai’d Up: James Bond Island A Hero’s Journey through limestone towers, cinematic mythology and the dangerous intelligence of believing that seeing the location is the same as completing the mission. Status: Shaken · Not Stirred Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Executive briefing The assignment looked simple: find the island. But every serious journey begins with a false objective. The map names the place. The traveler has to discover the mission. Khao Phing Kan sits in Thailand’s Phang Nga Bay, reached from our ship in Phuket after a journey inland. The island belongs to a landscape of limestone tower karsts inside Ao Phang Nga National Park. Since its appearance in the 1974 film The Man with t...

Fish is now a vegetable I'm in Vegan paradise---Soi Khao San, Bangkok,with one low price guarantee----an economy class ticket to cool, with complimentary mojo on take off. I have just redefined what it means to be a Vegan--- thanks to a street vendor who curried up som e Padi Thai with octopus and shrimp. "We have located the durian smell to this room, please step aside." Coconut Magic I'm coo coo for Coconuts--- They are anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-microbial. I'm up to six a day.The water is the purest liquid second only to water itself. It is full of electrolytes, calcium and magnesium. An average size coconut has more potassium (at about 294 mg) than most sports drinks (117 mg). Coconut Water has more food value than whole milk; is a Natural Isotonic Beverage - The same level we have in our blood; and, it contains lauric acid, which is present in human mother's milk. Budweiser may be the King of beers, but Durian is the King Of Fruits . You just can...

Big Yellow Taxi "Paved paradise to put up a parking lot" Wheels Down, I enter Lonely Planet, and wish there were more people. Countdown-3-2-1... Remember the gypsy curse--- May you get what you wish for . Ba-bamm, like rap music, in your face, pedal to the metal, one is none, and I am part of the idea that everyone is better than anyone, kind of an open source chaos for living freely in the land of smiles. All sorts of seemingly contrasting things and peoples share space. Here Comes Everywhere About to get stuck in happy chaos, completely unaggressive, I hardly hear a rude noise or anyone shouting. Nobody cares. The great mingle-mangle flows smoothly and I am about to wonder how so many cars and people can be jammed into such a small space and not one soul seems disturbed. I hit the ground running and grab an Airport Taxi. So many to choose from. I bump into my PokerPlayer friend Dennis coincidently again.... saw him at the layover in Bahrain... He's hard to miss, kinda b...

The Grass Is Greener Where You Water It ...Siam's gonna be the witness to the ultimate test of cerebral fitness.... ...This place grips me more than would a Muddy old river or reclining Buddha...