Tips and secrets on hunting


The Poker Gods

Some of you may believe in it and some of youwhat we had, then she did not want to be with
may not. The majority of poker players knowa moron like me. She also let me know that
that poker is a game of skill, not luck. Luckshe would be packed and gone by the time I
is what keeps the bad players coming back tocame back. Trying to explain that I was doing
the table. Then there are the even smallerall of this for the both of us was useless
amounts of us that believe in the poker Gods.and  headed  out.
I am one of them and if you play your cards
right, no pun intended, they will smile downThe kinds of players in the game were mostly
on  you.people with money to burn, and lacking in
poker skill. I had played my best game and
As many of my friends know, my on-againmanaged to make it to the final table. The
off-again girlfriend has driven me to all newpay out was for the top 5 players. Having an
levels of insanity. My addiction to poker wasaverage chip stack I decided to ride it out
one of the reasons for the many ultimatumsand let the short stacks battle it out and
she handed down to me. It was not so muchhopefully push me into the money. The Poker
that she disliked my gambling; it was more soGods smiled and it worked. I had been knocked
that she disliked my losing. She was alwaysout in 5th place when my pair of tens got
there  for  me  to  spend  my extra winnings.beat by a set of 8's on the river. I did not
complain though, as I walked away with $800,
I had just gotten paid and found that we weremore than enough to cover the rent and other
short $300. As the end of the month inchedbills.
ever so near and the prospect of being
evicted loomed, I felt there was something IWhen I walked into the front door, there she
needed to do. I was too proud to call mywas with her bags packed. "So?" she asked.
parents for cash, so I thought I could parlayObviously her leaving depended on how well or
my  poker  skill  into some much needed cash.badly I did. "$800," I said with a smile.
Running up to me to hug me, she told me about
I decided to buy in to a no-limit $100 buy-inthe vacation we could go on with the money,
tournament structure game. I am normally athat she needed to get her nails done and
cool and collected person, but you know theneeded  some  new  clothes.
saying - desperate times call for desperate
measures. When you are first out of collegeI slowly counted out enough money for the
and the best job you can get pays $10 perrent and bills and left it on the table.
hour, you need to do some hustling to makeWalking out the door I said to her "This
the  rent  and  pay  the  bills.moron is going to buy some new tires for his
truck with the extra money. I could care less
The last thing she said as I walked out theif you are still here when I get back," and
door was if I was stupid enough to gamblewalked out the door with a smirk on my face.



1 A B C D E F 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137