Your correspondent reflects on the slowness of live poker and how it can make life feel very, very long.FORUM DISCUSSION:... more

Your correspondent thinks back to how he thought about poker six years ago. Then, he plays a $5/$10 game where... more

Your correspondent prepares for a brief trip to Las Vegas. He then thinks about what it means that the real... more

Your correspondent reviews some of his recent activities, then journeys to the $5/$5 tables and tries to control for luck... more

Your correspondent meditates on banging his head against the wall. Featured topics include being surrounded at the table by people... more

Your correspondent reflects on getting slowrolled -- or something? -- in an annoying all-in pot, then reviews a $5/$10 session.FORUM... more

Your correspondent returns to the subject of his downswing, which continues despite his best efforts to jinx it into going... more

Your correspondent discusses his thought process as he endures the worst downswing of his poker career. He also reviews a... more

Your correspondent visits poker rooms in the Bay Area and Sacramento, folding flopped straights and finding ways to lose ridiculous... more

Your correspondent discusses Michael Craig's poker-boom-era classic "The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King." He follows up on how... more