"The old mafia look? I put the TV on one day and everybody looked like me. They all had the shades and the suits on. And apart from that, my young girlfriend decided that I looked better with my hair like this."
Devilfish on his new look.
Dear Dr Tom
I hear people talking about triple range merges and stuff like that, but I don’t even know what a single range merge is. Help, please. Is poker passing me by?
Richard, London
As awesome as it is to pull off a big bluff, as we showed you last month, it’s perhaps even sweeter to get away from a hand that a mere mortal would have gone broke on. Some may argue it’s even harder – any monkey can shove chips into a pot, it takes a true master to realise that they are up against a straight flush and let four of a kind go...
You may have heard of “Life Tilt”. This month I want to introduce a new term: “Life Variance”. I love poker terms which cross over into general life. They allow us poker obsessives to assert that our pastime has actually helped us grow as people.