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Knoxville, Tennessee

Nina and I went to Knoxville, TN, yesterday for her early birthday present of tickets to a James Taylor concert. We spent the day doing some sightseeing before the main event. First we took a long walk through the lovely Ijams Nature Center . A log just a few feet from the Tennessee River was studded with hundreds of mushrooms. I decided this photo of some of them worked best in black and white: This is a " geologic fold ." Bee on a sunflower: This magnificent creature is a red-tailed hawk. It has an irreparably damaged wing, and therefore can't be released back into the wild, so the nature center rehabilitated it and uses it for education about raptors. Her name, unofficially, is Tiger. Next we went up into the Sunsphere , a structure built for the 1982 World's Fair. I have no good photos from that part of the day. Then it was on to the Knoxville Museum of Art , just a stone's throw from the Sunsphere. One intriguing piece was this one, by Devorah Sperber . It...

Going light

It's not often I hear of a poker term that is new to me, but it happened today. I was listening to today's new episode of the  "Top Pair" podcast  when they talked about "going light." (The discussion goes from about 37:15 to 40:45.) The subject was prompted by one of the hosts having read this recent PokerNews article by Ashley Adams , which mentions it. Here's the relevant part of Adams's article: Some games allow players to “go light,” meaning that they may call a bet even if they don’t have enough money on the table to do so, then can settle up at before [sic] the next hand. Other games actually allow players to reduce the size of their bet after they make it, to accommodate the smaller stack of an opponent, as in: “I bet $15. Oh, you only have $6? Okay, make it $6.” The second half of that is neither remarkable nor controversial, assuming there are only two players in the hand. It's just an informal shortcut to get to the same result as form...

Something went wrong

I played an online tournament today for the first time in about 18 months. The first time I was dealt The Mighty Deuce-Four, I called a pre-flop raise. We saw this excellent flop: The only question here is whether the turn will be an ace for a 5-high straight, or a 6 for a 6-high straight. Right? So Player 72 bets more than I have. I call all-in. Obviously. And the turn was an ace. Of course. Got this hand locked up tight as a drum. Until something went terribly, terribly wrong. I'm reeling. I don't understand how something like this can happen.