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Re: poker
just be aware Darth that the Small Stakes book is not a beginners book. the concepts in there are pretty advanced -- despite the title saying its Small Stakes.
poker is a funny game statistically. the 'variance' in your results is high relative to the win rate. often times, a few hours of playing will show a profit or loss based on just a small number of the hands you played. did you make a flush on that big pot? did your Aces (AA) hold up or get cracked by 97 offsuit? the nice thing is a lot of the time you can take solace in studying the hands you played and seeing if in retrospect you played them well. if you consistently play hands well and minimize the 'tilt' factor, you can clean up at small stakes games. I suggest you start at the very lowest online stakes you can find and play at least 20 thousand hands before you even attempt to move up. The free games probably won't teach you much. But if you can't beat those, you can't beat money games. You should clean up over time if too many players are playing too many hands. In the short-run, say over a few hundred hands, poker is a luck game. Over the course of thousands of hands, skill wins. Over tens of thousands of hands, skill dominates.
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