Jews and Poker (part 3)
On : --I’ve written about Jews and Poker in two earlier posts. In my last post about Jews and Poker I said that I read that the Torah is opposed to gambling if it’s done as a profession or out of greed. I asked…
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5 reasons why I didn’t like 21
On : --Last night my wife and I went to the opening of 21, the movie based on Ben Mezrich’s book “Bringing Down the House”. We were looking forward to the movie. My wife had written a very positive review of “Bringing Down the House”,…
PurePlay – a way to play poker for real money, but without the risk
On : --A friend just sent me a link to this site called PurePlay. You can win money playing poker, but you don’t have to deposit any of your own money, which means that it is legal to do. How is this possible? I haven’t…
Learning About Bluffing in Poker from Playing Pool – An Interesting Story About Nick Schulman
On : --I just read a story in the New York Post about this 21-year old guy named Nick Schulman, who won $2 million by winning the 2005 World Poker Tour finals at Foxwoods Casino. Two things in this story piqued my attention. One,…
Top 5 Poker Quotes From Rounders
On : --I finally saw Rounders (1998) last night. It was a good poker movie. There were, however, a couple of weak scenes. For example, Mike McDermott, played by Matt Damon, is supposed to be this brilliant poker player. But he looks pretty amatuerish in the opening scene,…