Comments on: Donut http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/ Begging your indulgence since 200x. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:44:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Absinthe http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/comment-page-1/#comment-8168 Absinthe Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:31:28 +0000 http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/#comment-8168 Gallows humor being close to tops in my book, messr. Francis has a point. The feeling that one has when one has very little left to lose (metaphorically, it's your life, but it's just not worth much at that point to anyone but you) ... it's quite liberating. And now I feel the urge to deconstruct the notions of the compulsory and the inevitable in poker. Which I think would be quite a long post. Which is why I'm going to go to bed and, in the morning, think better of it. Gallows humor being close to tops in my book, messr. Francis has a point. The feeling that one has when one has very little left to lose (metaphorically, it’s your life, but it’s just not worth much at that point to anyone but you) … it’s quite liberating.

And now I feel the urge to deconstruct the notions of the compulsory and the inevitable in poker. Which I think would be quite a long post. Which is why I’m going to go to bed and, in the morning, think better of it.

]]> By: smokkee http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/comment-page-1/#comment-8164 smokkee Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:18:41 +0000 http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/#comment-8164 how the hell did that guys KK hold up? joke. how the hell did that guys KK hold up? joke.

]]> By: Francis http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/comment-page-1/#comment-8159 Francis Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:17:08 +0000 http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/#comment-8159 I'm not playing at nearly the levels you're at, but I definitely find that being short-stacked in a tournament forces a certain clarity on my play. Perhaps the sort of clarity I might experience if, say, I were standing at the gallows ... I’m not playing at nearly the levels you’re at, but I definitely find that being short-stacked in a tournament forces a certain clarity on my play. Perhaps the sort of clarity I might experience if, say, I were standing at the gallows …

]]> By: sirfwalgman http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/comment-page-1/#comment-8149 sirfwalgman Tue, 19 Sep 2006 18:00:12 +0000 http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/#comment-8149 I would not be poker if he did not.. I would not be poker if he did not..

]]> By: Shelly (phlyersphan) http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/comment-page-1/#comment-8144 Shelly (phlyersphan) Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:28:46 +0000 http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/#comment-8144 It's amusing how technology can lead us to miss stuff - I was reading your post through my RSS feed reader, so I didn't see Otis' comment, until of course I ran across Otis' post, which led me back here, and I thought, "Hey! I already read this!" I hadn't commented, but I was thinking, "Damn, KK in the blinds. That sucks ass." :) It’s amusing how technology can lead us to miss stuff – I was reading your post through my RSS feed reader, so I didn’t see Otis’ comment, until of course I ran across Otis’ post, which led me back here, and I thought, “Hey! I already read this!”

I hadn’t commented, but I was thinking, “Damn, KK in the blinds. That sucks ass.”

:)

]]> By: Otis http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/comment-page-1/#comment-8135 Otis Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:21:13 +0000 http://www.absinthetics.com/blog/2006/09/19/donut/#comment-8135 It’s funny that Billy needed me at all. He could talk and tell stories all day long. And if you got a few beers in him, he could start a story at midnight and finish it up just as the bartender shouted last call. His timing was as good in story-telling as it was with playing cards. The first time he told me the story of the hooker and the poker game, it lasted two hours and hit the punch line just as the waitress dumped the ashtray into an empty pint glass and told us it was time for us to slur our words somewhere else. So, it’s not that I want to start the story like that, but if I’m going to tell a story about Billy Banks, it’s only appropriate that I start it with, “Jeeeesus.” After all, that’s how all the stories started. *** Next: Poker Perspectives http://www.pokerperspectives.com/ It’s funny that Billy needed me at all. He could talk and tell stories all day long. And if you got a few beers in him, he could start a story at midnight and finish it up just as the bartender shouted last call. His timing was as good in story-telling as it was with playing cards. The first time he told me the story of the hooker and the poker game, it lasted two hours and hit the punch line just as the waitress dumped the ashtray into an empty pint glass and told us it was time for us to slur our words somewhere else.

So, it’s not that I want to start the story like that, but if I’m going to tell a story about Billy Banks, it’s only appropriate that I start it with, “Jeeeesus.” After all, that’s how all the stories started.

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