Everyone is scattered to the winds for the holidays, so I don’t have a game on my schedule for another few weeks - but I can’t go weeks without poker anymore. Fortunately, through the wonder of the internet, I can play in the comfort of my own home and I can play with a friend who is currently living in Pakistan. As anyone without an effective popup blocker knows, there are dozens of websites for playing networked poker with other housebound obsessives. Betting online is strictly caveat emptor. I have started to play the free networked games in the freeplay cocoon at Poker Pages, but “free gambling” is, not surprisingly, flawed. Without the frisson of risk that betting actual money provides, the game is diminished. Still, if I wanted to learn how to box my first step would not be to invite Lennox Lewis to punch me in the face. Shadowboxing at a poker table looks like this:
Ugarte's Poker Grovel #3
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