One of my best friends set the high school national bench press record as a senior at Fargo South High School.  He bench pressed 402 pounds at a body weight of 165 pounds.  Invariably, whenever someone heard about this they always knew a relative or a friend who could replicate the feat.  Of course, their [...]

I won a poker tournament! Feel free to congradulate me.
Once or twice a month, I participate in a series of home-games, run by a collegue of mine named Charles.*
(*Names have been changed to protect the innocent.)
It’s basically a cash league, run much like the free poker league, with the exception that each tournament [...]

So, I have been in contact with one of the poker pros who supports the radio show, Alec Torelli. He has a blog at www.cardplayer.com and has compiled a list of 25 things he would like to do by age 25. (25×25) Oh, how I wish……………
Anyway, one of the things on his list is host a poker talk [...]

In 2003, the greatest chess player who ever lived, Garry Kasparov, took on Deep Junior, a supercomputer, in a chess match.   Six years earlier, Kasparov had choked and lost his match to another supercomputer, Deep Blue.  (Although there was some controversy since rumors surfaced that Deep Blue’s programming team (yes an entire team) had [...]

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Gina. After being invited to join Northland Poker as a featured blogger, she decided that she could use her blog as a vehicle to share some of her poker experiences. Not thinking much of her decision at the time, Gina posted what she thought happened to [...]