So you may be pretty handy and fancy with shuffling the cards.  That’s great.  Unfortunately not everyone is as good as you, so that means they sift the cards willy-nilly hoping for some semblance of randomness when all they’ve done is move the previous pattern around, so that you and the others see the same [...]

It’s easy to get started in poker.  Learn the rules, read a few poker books, play a few hands, and in no time you’ll figure out the basics enough to get hooked.  Then you start playing for real stakes, and get a feel of how much the adrenaline affects and the real costs of success [...]

When you develop your game room, you might want to consider décor.  Rooms can be more than just rooms to put stuff in.  As you know they can be made in ways that convey experiences strong and subtle to what you want that room to evoke.  When it comes to a game room, you don’t [...]

So you’ve got a poker room in your basement, you play with a few friends and you smoke, drink, and play for money.  Playing among your water heater, washer and dryer and where you store your stuff might be quaint for awhile, but it gets old.  It won’t be long until your friends might start [...]