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

• poker
• hard-boiled fiction
• existentialism
• film
• jazz

Favorite Movies

• The Cincinnati Kid
• California Split

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)

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