Training For Vegas

You’ll forgive me if I’m a little distracted this month. The thing is I’m in the ‘zone’. I’ve got my game face on. I’m …you know… ‘locked in’ n that. The problem is it’s the few days before going to Vegas for the series and I’m in training. I’m in a hyped up volatile state. [...]

Talking

I’m not into rules. In fact I slap the face of rules and stamp on the fingers of regulators. I’m a middle class rebel with a healthy disrespect for authority. If you come at me with rules I’ll…. um… politely question them in a semi-forceful manner. Of course poker has no rules – there are [...]

Genius Or Madness?

The endlessly fascinating thing about poker is that there are so few options in the gameplay but that it produces such a subtle, complex game. After all you can only ever bet (or raise), call or fold – 3 or 4 options; even a monkey could do it – actually some do, PM me I’ll [...]

Nick is a Heater

Ahem – if I could start with a little poetry ‘I can think of nothing sweeter…than to be a massive bloody heater’. Thanks; I was up all night on that one. Actually I’ve been up all night quite a bit recently – winning cold hard cash. Because I, my friends, am on that far too [...]

Poker Isn’t About How Good You Are

Poker isn’t about how good you are. Poker is about being better than the people you’re playing against. Like the man trying to escape a bear in the woods you don’t have to be a fast runner just faster than the other bloke the bear is also chasing. Actually an even better option is not [...]

Don’t Panic…Keep Calm and Carry On

Do you remember Dad’s Army the programme about the old people pretending to be in a war? And by ‘do you remember’ I mean can you think back about 3 weeks to the last time the beeb repeated it in prime time. There was an hilarious character whose only line, presumably because that’s all he [...]

Playing Poker All Night Long

As I’ve grown up some things have become soul crushingly clear to me – father Christmas isn’t real, love often fades and every tv programme I adored as a kid wasn’t just bad looking back; it was bad at the time. However one inalienable truth remains; all night poker sessions are cool. To be clear [...]

Nick’s 2008 Review

As I write this it’s just a few days before the end of 2008. Despite writing for magazines for years I still don’t fully understand publishing deadlines so you’re probably reading this in mid-March and you’re approaching the end of the tax year which is much much less exciting.
At the end of every year I [...]

My Name is Nick – Karmic Poker?

Karma is the idea that if you do good things to others and the universe around you good things will happen to you in return. The reverse is also said to be true. It’s a lovely sweet idea that makes people do more nice stuff, helps you get over it when someone rains on your [...]

World Series Dreams (and Nightmares)

As I write this I’m in the middle of packing to travel to the 2008 World Series of Poker. I mean literally in the middle of packing by the way. My room looks like someone threw a clothing hand grenade into it. Some items have made their way into the case but I think that’s [...]

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