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	<title>Why Do I Play Poker? &#187; Poker</title>
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		<title>Full Tilt Poker — I Banned Myself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Winning Poker  — How to Crack the Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WhyDoIPlayPoker</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<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>
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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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		<title>Full Tilt’s Rush Poker — A lesson in focus.….I think.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/i-learned-something-playing-full-tilts-new-rush-poker/</link>
		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/i-learned-something-playing-full-tilts-new-rush-poker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whydoiplaypoker.net/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could tell you a surefire strategy to beat the online poker site’s new game.  But I can’t.  Not even close. I have no idea how to win in that game.  I think it starts with a raise and then I’m not sure where to go from there. Maybe a little patience might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poker Therapy</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/poker-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In elementary school I got beat up everyday by Jarett Moore. We were about the same size, but for some reason when he picked on me, I wouldn’t fight back.
Thirty years later the sense of shame for never fighting back is still palpable. Actually, it’s embarrassing and haunting. The only comfort I have in these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Dexter, I also have a “Dark Passenger.”</title>
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		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.net/like-dexter-i-also-have-a-dark-passenger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m all in!”
“I call!”
He shows me his straight. I muck my 2 pair in disgust. It’s not that I got outplayed. That doesn’t piss me off too much. What DOES piss me off is when I make a solid game plan on the way to the casino, but when I get there, my dark passenger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some things don’t go well together. Connectivity and sit-n-go bubble strategy come to mind.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been all sorts of things that keep me from playing my best poker online.   Mad at my boss.  Looking at too much porn. You get the picture.
Well, the other night was the first time my computer got the best of me.
I played a $24  + $2 Turbo 90 person tourney with a [...]]]></description>
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