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Ramblins'

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--First, as always the Pokers.  Nope... just kidding a couple of far more interesting stories: 1.  .  Got a scout come to my door to see if we would let them use our house to film a Kristen Wiig movie. You might have heard of her, at least for her work in the underrated TV show Joe Schmoe, I mean SNL. Or that huge movie MacGruber, I mean Bridesmaids. Btw, I love that TV show Joe Schmoe. Genius reality TV. The scout came in and took pictures of the place and told us, we'd get paid for the service plus our house would be in a... Kristen Wiig movie. Then came two days of no phone calls..Like the 13 year old girl hoping for a call before the big dance, we were frazzled, disappointed, heartbroken and listening to Air Supply on the radio, though thankfully we were relatively acne free. Then, two guys break into a house a couple of streets over from us.  Want to case a joint?  Have I got a cover for you.  Tell, a dim house owner you want to put t...

Black Friday in retrospect on a Sunday that should be spent playing online poker......

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What's up?  Been sometime since I've blogged, I've done plenty of poker and plenty of writing so there's no real excuse. Anybody interested in my strategy blogging can go places like here  http://www.pokergames.com/poker-games/texas-holdem/sitn-go-poker-strategy.html . It seems I may have another writing gig doing a blog post about once a week on poker issues.  I'm sure there will be some overlap with GCP's frontpage and this blog and I will likely cross link to it a lot.  So that's good.  Nice to be able to write about poker one year out of Black Friday. The landscape I think one year later has changed remarkably. Poker on TV is down to just a few options, most reruns.  Most fresh content comes from YouTubes of other places that still have customers for online sites to advertise to.  Enjoy this gem which reinforces the value of always looking one last time at your hand. Domestically, we have WPT and WSOP.  I think The level ...