Johnny Kampis
Heads-up play is poker at its most basic, yet it’s also among the trickiest aspects of the game. If you’re predictable when facing only one opponent, you’re going to get beat. (And when I mean only one opponent, I mean…
In a quest to quell some of the fury over the content that shows up on its website, Facebook has erred too far in the other direction — pulling often innocuous posts and infringing on users’ free speech, critics argue….
Advocates of government financial transparency hope that Missouri’s new website providing detailed information about the state’s finances will spur other states to do the same. ShowMeCheckbook.mo.gov, a play on Missouri’s Show-Me State nickname, shows state taxpayers where their money is…
Mickey Mouse is turning down corporate welfare in Anaheim. The Walt Disney Company and the City of Anaheim have agreed to end a plan that would have given $267 million in subsidies for a luxury hotel to serve Disneyland Resort,…
Shortly after saying zero-tariff trade with the European Union isn’t good enough, President Trump told Congress to butt out of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations. The United States and Mexico reached an agreement on some concessions on a…
States are telling bond investors that the increasing trade wars stirred up by President Trump’s tariffs could have negative impacts on their financial bottom lines. In documents outlining recent bond sales, Illinois and Washington cautioned investors about the impact of…
The mainstream and tech media are pointing to Verizon’s throttling of the data speeds of the Santa Clara County Fire Department as it battled blazes in California as another reason why net neutrality is needed. But upon closer examination, the…
A bill pending in Congress would effectively serve as government-sanctioned theft and could prevent the development of future life-saving medications. H.R. 6505, The Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act, introduced by Texas Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett last month, would allow…
One thing that took me a few years to learn, as I transitioned from primarily limit Texas Hold’em to primarily no-limit Texas Hold’em a decade ago, was that playing a big hand fast on the flop tended to yield a…
