David Sklansky is best known as an author of gambling articles and books. However, I suspect he considers himself to be a general thinker for whom gambling problems represent just some of his many interests. He has written articles on diverse subjects including crime and punishment, race relations, and general expertise, and some of these were collected in a previous book called, Fighting Fuzzy Thinking in Poker, Gaming & Life. Written with psychologist and noted poker author in his own right, Alan Schoonmaker, DUCY?

Mike and I were talking the other day and he quoted a phrase, verbatim, from one of his books, Caro on Gambling. “Adventurers prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.” Wow, that is powerful!
 

We continue figuring the probability of pocket aces and pocket kings among ten players at a hold’em table. The first table (not shown) shows the known cells and the remaining five cells for which we obtain these probabilities.
 

The Bicycle Casino’s annual Stars and Stripes poker series commemorates Independence Day and kicks off every year on or around the Fourth of July. This year’s Stars and Stripes event began July 1 and ran through July 14. Now there’s only a short, two-week break in the action until the start of the Legends of Poker, the Bike’s signature event, which runs from July 28 - August 30.

It took two weeks, but the WSOP’s main event has finally been whittled down to nine remaining players: the November Nine, the Novembrists, the final nine, the final table—call them what you will—but just nine remain from a field of 7,319 starters, and one of them will be world champ this November.