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	<title>Why Do I Play Poker? &#187; Poker</title>
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	<description>Getting Better. Even if it means reading a book.</description>
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		<title>GUEST POST: Poker Bankroll Management when playing No Limit Texas Hold’em SNGs and MTTs.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/guest-post-poker-bankroll-management-when-playing-no-limit-texas-hold%e2%80%99em-sngs-and-mtts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, my name is Mark and I’m the owner and one of the writers of Poker Bankroll Blog. The people behind Why Do I play Poker have very kindly given me the opportunity to write a guest post for their site.
Before I start on the main topic for this article, I want to give a short introduction to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sit ‘n Go Strategy Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 17:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SNGs used to be the reason for the lion’s share of my poker winnings.  Then I got busy and didn’t play for a couple of years.  When I came back I found myself a loser.  I went from crushing $50SNGs to losing at $16’s. WTF?  Turns out, in my absence, everyone got better but me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay the man his money. Eric Schwartz — $100 richer.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/pay-the-man-his-money-eric-schwartz-100-richer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time to pay up, just like KGB said in Rounders so many years ago. Eric Schwartz is the winner of one hundred American dollars for his submission to whydoiplaypoker. Thanks to everybody who submitted.  We learned a lot.  Mostly, that people don’t want to submit their stories.  This is why Eric Schwartz will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Tilt Poker — I Banned Myself</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/full-tilt-poker-i-banned-myself/</link>
		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/full-tilt-poker-i-banned-myself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WhyDoIPlayPoker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Beats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Full Tilt Poker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[coin flips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be that I would put $100 in my FTP account and have a good time. Play a few sit-n-gos and win or lose, it was entertaining.
Wait, what the fuck am I saying? I NEVER and I mean NEVER have really felt that way. I am competitive to the bone and every fiber [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’m not showing my cards any more.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/im-not-showing-my-cards-any-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think sometimes I’m too nice.  I like to think of myself as a hard-nosed player.  But I’m not.  Sometimes It hits me that I want people to like me almost as much as I like chips.  Especially at home games.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to be the dick who begrudgingly gets an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning Poker  — How to Crack the Code</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/winning-poker-how-to-crack-the-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WhyDoIPlayPoker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy the process of figuring things out.  Puzzles make me feel alive. Get my brain swirling about in the best of ways.
You probably think I am going to say that poker is the biggest puzzle I have ever encountered. Not true.  That award goes to being a husband and father. Much harder AND much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning Poker Formula:Play Against the Weak. Losing Poker Formula:Play Against the Strong</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/winning-poker-formulaplay-against-the-weak-losing-poker-formulaplay-against-the-strong/</link>
		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/winning-poker-formulaplay-against-the-weak-losing-poker-formulaplay-against-the-strong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WhyDoIPlayPoker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce Casino]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deepstacks University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll just come out and say it: I play poker to win money.
Just like any other poker player, I will take money from my friends, my enemies, my neighbor, the fathers of my son’s pre-school friends and even my wife.  Hell, if my grandmother would sit down with me I would try my darnedest to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At first I thought I was playing poker.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/at-first-i-thought-i-was-playing-poker/</link>
		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/at-first-i-thought-i-was-playing-poker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was going to start with me fuming on the car ride home after a dismal night at the casino.  But after a little reflection, I realized the bad night wasn’t the point, it was my bad thinking.
It started with me sitting at a $100 NLH game. There was this drunk guy, so drunk the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poker Optimism —  Number 1 Sign of a Losing Poker Player</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/poker-optimism-number-1-sign-of-a-losing-poker-player/</link>
		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/poker-optimism-number-1-sign-of-a-losing-poker-player/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves an optimist.  Their enthusiasm is contagious.  They’re go-getters.
You know what?  I’ve had an assload of optimists lately.  And truthfully, the only place I want to see them is at the poker tables. Preferably, with their optimistic fucking mouths shut.
Here’s why? They’ll optimistically go to the ATM machine way more times than they’ll make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Online Poker — a safe way to be on full tilt</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/free-online-poker-a-safe-way-to-be-on-full-tilt/</link>
		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/free-online-poker-a-safe-way-to-be-on-full-tilt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WhyDoIPlayPoker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Beats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a fan of free poker. It’s an oxymoron. Poker by its very definition needs to be played for money. If it doesn’t hurt to lose, it’s not poker.
That said, I have come to realize there is a time and place for the free online game.
In order to win in poker, you have [...]]]></description>
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