Your correspondent briefly muses on the difficulty of finding ways to improve when poker continually finds new ways to challenge and mislead you. He then reviews a $5/$10 session that featured some wild street-poker hands, including two in which he made huge folds. FORUM DISCUSSION: CLICK...

Your correspondent reads the anthropologist David M. Hayano's "Poker Faces," a book that, 42 years since it was published, has much to say about modern poker culture. FORUM DISCUSSION: CLICK HERE 0:30 "Poker Faces"18:21 Anatomy of a Downswing, Part 1,000,000, featuring some weird digressions...

Your correspondent struggles with his proximity to the recent Nick Vertucci scandal and wonders how long he should stay in the poker world. Then, he plays a $5/$5/$10 session. FORUM DISCUSSION: CLICK HERE 0:16 On the Nick Vertucci scandal12:17 $5/$5/$10 NLHE session13:03 4c4x on T32ccxQxTx16:06...