Short-Stacked Shamus
- Gender: Male
- Location: Personville : United States
About Me
Name’s Shamus. A.k.a. "Short-Stacked Shamus." I play poker. Strictly recreational. Mostly micro, or "low" (hence the monicker). Primarily limit ring games. The occasional tourney. Won’t be quitting the day job. Basically your average jingle-brained sap. Once in awhile an idea’ll pulse through. None of that dizzy "poker-is-like-life-because” applesauce. (Nothing is "like" life, by the way -- either it's living or it ain't.) No, I aim lower. Another hence for the monicker, if you will. I play on several sites under different names (none of them "Short-Stacked Shamus"). Thus whenever hands are recounted, all names (including my own) have been changed to protect the innocent. And the guilty.
Interests
Favorite Movies
Favorite Music
- Cannonball Adderley
- John Coltrane
- Miles Davis
- Eric Dolphy
- Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Charles Mingus
- Thelonious Monk
- Wes Montgomery
- Soft Machine
- Cecil Taylor
- Sonny Rollins
- Frank Zappa
- Tortoise
Favorite Books
- Red Harvest (Hammett)
- The Maltese Falcon (Hammett)
- The Glass Key (Hammett)
- The Big Sleep (Chandler)
- The Long Goodbye (Chandler)
- The Getaway (Thompson)
- Pop. 1280 (Thompson)
- Savage Night (Thompson)
- The Killer Inside Me (Thompson)
- Pick-Up (Willeford)
- The Burnt Orange Heresy (Willeford)
- The Cincinnati Kid (Jessup)
- Small Stakes Hold 'em (Miller/Sklansky/Malmuth)
- The Theory of Poker (Sklansky)
- Harrington on Hold 'em (Harrington)
- The Biggest Game in Town (Alvarez)
- Big Deal (Holden)
- Positively Fifth Street (McManus)
- The Gambler (Dostoevsky)
