http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/ Alan Bostick explains the which of the what-he-did. en-us 2008-05-05T01:26:09-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000685.html Play of the final table of this year's World Series of Poker $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Championship event will be delayed until November 9, 2008, four months after the originally scheduled July 16. The purpose of the delay is to... Poker abostick 2008-05-05T01:26:09-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000684.html Raise It Up! Originally uploaded by abostick59. In just about every book about Texas Hold'em that I've read[1], the authors discuss starting hand selection in the same way: They sort starting ranges by position, starting with early position (under... Poker abostick 2008-04-12T17:03:42-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000683.html Guerrilla improvisational theater group Improv Everywhere went to a Little League baseball game in Hermosa Beach, California, and turned it into a major-league experience, giving the players and spectators alike a taste of The Show. (via Debbie Notkin) Tags: baseball... Videos abostick 2008-04-10T14:56:14-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000682.html Over at the 2+2 Mid-Stakes Limit Hold'em forum, forum members are discussing the virtues of bluffing and thin value betting after the last card. I take the position that a player should bet for value on the river when there... Poker abostick 2008-04-08T12:59:38-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000681.html Fafnir is back, and Giblets has got him! (via just about everyone)... Blogosphere abostick 2008-04-01T11:37:36-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000680.html Ed Felten tells us about the discrepancies in vote tallies from electronic voting machines manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems and used in the New Jersey primary election on February 5. Candidate totalsParty totals(image source: Ed Felten) The summary tape from... Politics abostick 2008-03-19T11:12:10-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000679.html ABC's Brian Ross says that Eliot Spitzer, caught red-handed in a prostitution scandal, was investigated because a bank tipped off the IRS. This doesn't sound right to me. When banks and other financial institutions are suspicious about customer transactions,... News & Events abostick 2008-03-11T11:08:21-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000678.html Tim Goeglein, Plagiaristimage source: New York Times Timothy Goeglein, the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, wrote at least two op-ed columns for the News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Indiana, that were copied substantially from other... Politics abostick 2008-02-29T09:12:37-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000677.html YES WE CAN HAS is a blog of LOLcat pictures promoting the cause of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obamamania has spread as far as the world of cute agrammatical animals. Or is it that the cat macro craze... Politics abostick 2008-02-28T15:53:33-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000676.html ann summers Originally uploaded by guerrillaguru. Amy Gifford at InventorSpot asks, "What is the best way to get your message across about lingerie and sex toys without the use of half naked models?" Her answer is a list of... Main abostick 2008-02-27T17:19:34-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000675.html image source: The Arbor Day Foundation The Arbor Day Foundation has on its Web site a Flash-animated map that dramatically illustrates the impact of climate change in the United States. The map shows the changes in hardiness zones between... Main abostick 2008-02-26T10:14:58-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000674.html Happy Birthday Originally uploaded by ameliatzeni. Five years ago today, I posted my first entry to As I Please. Thanks to all my loyal readers — and I continue to be amazed that I have them. My next milestone... Life abostick 2008-02-26T07:38:40-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000673.html image source Card Player Poker players, at least those who play in brick-and-mortar cardrooms and casinos, usually wind up handling and keeping amounts of cash that would boggle the minds of most people who aren't initiates of the green... Poker abostick 2008-02-23T17:40:57-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000672.html L to R: Charles H. Keating, Jr., John McCain, Vicki Iseman Scandalmongers and their eager audience are focused on the hints of sexual hanky-panky between John McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman. As Mark Klieman points out, however, the real meat... Politics abostick 2008-02-22T11:27:33-08:00 http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000671.html Vicki Isemanimage source: Alcalde & Fay John McCain, the presumptive Republican Party nominee for President, is having a bimbo eruption. The New York Times reports that Vicki Iseman, a lobbyist for the telecommunications industry, had been often seen with... News & Events abostick 2008-02-21T08:09:26-08:00