Railbirds has decided to limit the amount of room on our profile pages. So I am slowly rebuilding my page by using images of the text in place of the actual text. This blog has all the original text which I shoot pictures of for use on my Profile Page.
))))) Except for a couple of small sections my entire profile consists of pictures of the text I had on here originally. Almost all of the images have weblinks under them. Click almost anywhere on my page and your browser will open a new window to a webpage somewhere. Usually on RB..... but not always
Have Fun!
Anywhere on my pages that you see underlined green text it is a link to another Railbird members page. Any underlined blue text is a link to a Railbird member's blog. Any underlined red text is a link to one of my own blogs. This page and all my blogs are first written and formatted on Openoffice.org. A FREE open source word processor and office software suite that also opens and saves Microsoft Office documents. Bill Gates is the Anti-Christ!!!
Put an infinite amount of monkeys in front of an infinite amount of
typewriters they'd eventually produce the entire works of Shakespeare.
Do the same with humans and computers and you get Windows NT
Score: Monkeys 1, Humans 0
---Jordan Hardgrove
I use to accept the offers of friendship from everyone who asked. I no longer do so. I have gone through my friends list and pared it of those who were either gone from Railbirds for good or not participating. I will not accept you onto my friends list unless you participate in the site. If you are a newer member of Railbirds don't be discouraged from requesting my friendship. I will not, however, accept your friendship immediately. Just keep the request for my friendship in your "New friend request" list. I occasionally look at the profiles of those on my own "pending friends" list. Once you have met my minimal participation goals I will then happily accept your friendship. Usually a month of steady participation is enough - post blogs, comment on the blogs of others or post on the message boards of RB members. I don't want to add anyone just to find out they were a "flash in the pan" member of the site here just to get to get passwords or those who make nasty comments on blogs. I had enough of them on my list and getting rid of them was work I do not want to do again. Please do not think I am "mean" because I don't accept your friendship immediately. If you participate in the site and make reasonably nice comments I will accept your friendship eventually.
Just because I'm not on your friends list yet don't hesitate to ask me for help. I'll answer any reasonable private message that is sent to me asking for help or directions about Railbirds or poker. It might not be a comprehensive answer ....... but if it isn't I'll at least steer you in the right direction to find what you need.
On occasion I host private tournaments. They are typically open to all, and if so, the password will be posted with the announcement below. If there is no password posted below it is a tournament restricted to those on my friends list or those invited by good friends of mine. Read all the description of the tourney below (if one is currently in the works) before asking for an invite to it. And don't get mad if I tell you "No".
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This is a collection of links to many sources about how things work on Railbirds. Included are: official and unofficial F.A.Q.s; various sticky threads in the Railbirds Forum; “How To” information to help ANY railbird member (new ones and old ones) do things on the site; answers to common questions often asked by poker players new to Railbirds and/or online poker; pages railbird members should look at everyday; and for those that are here to learn how to be a better poker player there is my
This is a huge collection of links to many of the posts made on Railbirds about poker playing strategies. There are articles on all the major types of poker games played and skills needed to maximize your poker potential. It will never be finished and it gets updated regularly as I discover or I am informed of useful blogs.
If you know of, or encounter, any blogs on Railbirds that might help out members of the site, or any good strategy posts, please Send A Private Message to me with the link or leave the link in a comment on one of the blogs. The two banners above are designed to be cut and pasted and placed onto blogs or in your own profiles. They have links underneath them and will open the blogs in a new window or tab in the browser of whoever clicks on them. (Thanks Storm!)
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My name is David. I'm an avid poker player. As a child I first learned to play poker with my cousins for pretzels. Then at Boy Scout summer camp as a wee lad of 13 I played my first game for anything other than pennies or pretzels. I cleared the table and to this day I still remember the rush of winning that poker game for ~$50...not chump change for a 13 year old in 1984. Once I got home I bugged my dad until he taught me and some of my friends the ins and outs of most of the basic poker games and we played occasionally when we had sleepovers. By the time I was in high school some friends and I had a weekly penny-ante poker game where a player called the type of game, the deal went once around the table until it was to left of the caller of that game, who would then get to pick a different game. What I'd call a ring game these days. Once I got to college I had no one to play with and soon switched to playing drinking games and chasing women instead of playing poker and chasing flushes. After I left college and joined the real world, I tried to get some poker games going but, alas, takers were few and far between. That was until poker started to appear on TV and everyone wanted to play. At that point I became the MAN. I had chips, knew the rules and basic strategy for most of the common poker games (although all they wanted to play was holdem...LOL), and I was willing to share that knowledge, slight and rusty though it was at the time.
At about the same time I started playing poker online. I started with play money on Pacific and Party Poker. Then around the start of 2004 I switched to playing real money online; mostly ring games on Full Tilt and tourneys on Pacific. It was then that I had my biggest scores and near the end of the year I cashed out on both sites since I needed the money. Then I stopped playing real on both sites. I switched to playing with play chips on Poker Stars and live poker at home games and a local bar that has charity poker nights a couple times a week. Until I joined Railbirds in March 2007 my online poker playing was limited to play money “games” such as guts, races, and shootouts on the play money Omaha Hi/Lo tables on both Poker Stars and Test Poker Stars. Then I got the "real money" bug again. Using Railbirds free-rolls, selling play money chips from Poker Stars, and some tourney play on the weekends I have rebuilt small bankrolls on Poker Stars and Full Tilt.
Aside from poker I have 5 years of college education in engineering and archeology but no degree. I am a pop culture junkie with a large collection of music, magazines, and comics. My passions are science fiction and history and I have a vast collection of books which I add to in a voracious manner. I also dabble in poetry and writing science fiction (Don't bother asking...the answer is....NO!).
Want to know even more about me?
Click these banners for two interviews where I get into a lot more detail.
A few blogs that will give a bit of perspective on how I TRY to live my life, my philosophy, and a few other odds and ends
.A Message of Love.
.A Flight in an F-14 Tomcat.
.The Two Concepts Of Semi-Divinity – Rules For Living A Long Life.
.The Sayings of Lazarus Long.
.Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
.About those Ball00ns......
.Human Stupidity - An Acedemic Monograph - with Poker Implications.
.Common Sense & Paranoia.
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10 Poker Rules My Dad Taught Me
Here are the 10 rules my dad taught me when I was first learning to play in the 80's. "Almost every other rule you learn from someone else will be variations or combinations of these", he told me. I can't really argue with him.
1. Poker player = liar. Though this does not mean they lie ALL the time.
2. You can raise with anything but you can't call with anything.
3. Patience pays.
4. Raise. Callers lose.
5. Position (button).
6. Position (stack).
7. Position (attitude).
8. God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were. --- Mark Twain
9. There is no such thing as "social gambling". Either you are there to cut out the other blokes heart and eat it -- or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice -- don't gamble. --- Lazarus Long
10. Rules are made to be broken. Just remember that getting caught has a cost, often large.
Other Strategy blogs I have posted:
.Omaha 8 point system - the Hutchinson way.
.Mike Caro - on cheating at poker.
.Blogs reposted for inclusion in the (In)Complete Strategy Guide.
.Human Stupidity - An Acedemic Monograph - With Poker Implications.
.Poker "Schooling" by Steve Badger.
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