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	<title>Why Do I Play Poker? &#187; Why Do I Play Poker?</title>
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	<description>Getting Better. Even if it means reading a book.</description>
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		<title>Sit &#8216;n Go Strategy Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 17:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SNGs used to be the reason for the lion&#8217;s share of my poker winnings. Â Then I got busy and didn&#8217;t play for a couple of years. Â When I came back I found myself a loser. Â I went from crushing $50SNGs to losing at $16&#8217;s. WTF? Â Turns out, in my absence, everyone got better but me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay the man his money. Eric Schwartz &#8211; $100 richer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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. Â We learned a lot. Â Mostly, that people don&#8217;t want to submit their stories. Â This is why Eric Schwartz will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not showing my cards any more.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/im-not-showing-my-cards-any-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think sometimes I&#8217;m too nice. Â I like to think of myself as a hard-nosed player. Â But I&#8217;m not. Â Sometimes It hits me that I want people to like me almost as much as I like chips. Â Especially at home games.
Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I don&#8217;t want to be the dick who begrudgingly gets an [...]]]></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. Â But after a little reflection, I realized the bad night wasn&#8217;t the point, it was my bad thinking.
It started with me sitting at a $100 NLH game. There was this drunk guy,Â so drunk the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poker Optimism &#8211;  Number 1 Sign of a Losing Poker Player</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/poker-optimism-number-1-sign-of-a-losing-poker-player/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone loves an optimist. Â Their enthusiasm is contagious. Â They&#8217;re go-getters.
You know what? Â I&#8217;ve had an assload of optimists lately. Â And truthfully, the only place I want to see them is at the poker tables. Preferably, with their optimistic fucking mouths shut.
Here&#8217;s why? They&#8217;ll optimistically go to the ATM machine way more times than they&#8217;ll make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Tilt&#8217;s Rush Poker &#8211; A lesson in focus&#8230;..I think.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/i-learned-something-playing-full-tilts-new-rush-poker/</link>
		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/i-learned-something-playing-full-tilts-new-rush-poker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could tell you a surefire strategy to beat the online poker site&#8217;s new game. Â But I can&#8217;t. Â Not even close. I have no idea how to win in that game. Â I think it starts with a raise and then I&#8217;m not sure where to go from there. Maybe a little patience might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Dexter, I also have a &#8220;Dark Passenger.&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/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[&#8220;I&#8217;m all in!&#8221;
&#8220;I call!&#8221;
He shows me his straight. I muck my 2 pair in disgust. It&#8217;s not that I got outplayed. That doesn&#8217;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&#8217;t go well together. Connectivity and sit-n-go bubble strategy come to mind.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/some-things-dont-go-well-together-connectivity-and-sit-n-go-bubble-strategy-come-to-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/some-things-dont-go-well-together-connectivity-and-sit-n-go-bubble-strategy-come-to-mind/#comments</comments>
		<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. Â  Mad at my boss. Â 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 Â + $2 Turbo 90 person tourney with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes I need a break from Dockers and fat free salad dressing.</title>
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		<comments>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/sometimes-i-need-a-break-from-dockers-and-fat-free-salad-dressing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man can not be sustained on good, wholesome family life alone. Â Or, at least, I can&#8217;t. Â On a regular basis I like to head to my local casino, Hollywood Park. Â It&#8217;s not just for the poker either. The place is a real melting pot and I get to rub elbows with people from walks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, it was very hot today.</title>
		<link>http://whydoiplaypoker.com/yes-it-was-very-hot-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Why Do I Play Poker?</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all been there. Â You sit down at the poker table next to a guy
who has a comment about everything. Â Someone makes a routine fold.
&#8220;Sometimes you can&#8217;t fight &#8216;em.&#8221; he says. Â No. Â Sometimes you can&#8217;t
fight &#8216;em. Â He&#8217;s right. Â He&#8217;s also going to ruin my night with this
bullshit. Â  Usually I try and be nice and [...]]]></description>
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