Bad Beat Bob

Poor, poor Bob, to whom all bad things happen. His wife hates him; his children think he's an idiot and his co-workers walk all over him like he's part of the carpet. He spills hot coffee on his shirt every morning burning his white delicate skin and staining his already wrinkled shirt. Bob just kept telling his bad beat stories over and over again until it became the very fabric of his being. He seemed not to be a child of God anymore but of the beat. The bad beat. Triple "B" some called him.

Don't be like Bad Beat Bob this New Year, basically he doesn't know what he's doing and when one doesn't have enough knowledge they become a magnet to "bad beats." Learn the game well and if you play well and lose, that's just a part of gambling. Read everything you can get your hands on about poker, be a student of it and learn it classically first, then, you can get fancy about your play because you will know why you're doing it. Research also helps you find out what "they" know...

Dr. Fink walked in the first day of film class and said I know the movies that are popular at the moment are unconventional and break all the rules. A movie like Pulp Fiction (which is a great film) breaks almost all the rules of dramatic structure...He continued expressing that the beginning works of Picasso were perfect life like, so mastered one felt like reaching into the painting to grab a piece of fruit from the bowl for example. Picasso's pieces were so real that they looked like photographs. Pablo had mastered his art form, "classically." It was later in Picasso's life when he decided to put a nose on the forehead and an eye on the cheek...He did those things with purpose not just to be odd. He did them when he was a pro and knew ALL the rules and reasons. And until you learn the way it's done classically, until you learn the rules you should not break them.

Rules like showing your cards (especially when you've bluffed your opponent), rules like chit-chatting too much at the table, rules like listening (this is to all the new players who listen to music instead of listening for table tells) rules like not calculating the pot odds and memorizing percentages, rules like strategic use of position, rules like being able to muck your Ace/Ten after the pot has been raised twice. There are so many rules that one needs to know before you can be a "bad ass" while playing cards and if you try to be a "bad ass" before you learn those rules you are just going to look like a dumb ass, pardon the language.

Happy New Year Everybody!!!... Turn it all around this year, God has and always will give you a second chance, call your parents you do not speak to (no one will ever call you a fool for doing that no matter what the outcome,) start exercising, slowly, walk around the block, I know a marathon runner who began by running to the first street light on his block, baby steps that's key, donate money you will get it back tenfold, trust me that's how it works, donate your time, go visit that elderly family friend that nobody ever goes to see, you'll make her day, SMILE, you have a beautiful smile, LAUGH it's contagious, it's strengthens your immune system, finally put to rest that relationship you know is bad for you, don't romanticize what you thought you had. And last but not least take time to be silent...

Deepak Chopra said something like this, that between each thought there is a silence before the next thought and it is in that silence that you can attract anything you desire by tapping into the infinite energy of the universe....Be still, slow down and take time for your spirit...See you next year...God bless you...It's never too late, stay strong and may love penetrate all that you are...

"Let the rain come down and wash away my tears
Let it fill my soul and drown my fears
Let it shatter the walls for a new sun
A new day has...come."