Poker Culture

There is a current poker culture, no matter how much I close my eyes to it on this blog. I realize if I am to properly document my poker growth, then I have to look beyond me into our current poker state:

"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

-John Donne

While I am not going to cover every event, I will touch upon some things that either affect me directly or indirectly, or things that occupy my mind.

That being said, here are two blurbs on the latest:

1. A Pennsylvania judge ruled that poker is a game of skill; the Poker Player's Alliance should wipe off their newspaper; a small step in an uphill battle against the UIEGA
2. Looks like I'm going to have to buy this book (Elements Of Poker), as everyone is talking about it.