Poker gems, #144

John Vorhaus, in Card Player magazine, July 2, 2008 (Vol. 21, #13), p. 110.


No matter where we are in our poker [progress], the first thing we must do is acknowledge that we're much closer to the beginning than to the end, because the beginning is well-defined, but the end remains, like the end of the rainbow, always out of reach. That's no problem, nor any cause for dismay, for, as Robert Browning said, "A man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?" But if we think we have the game sorted, we're doomed, for, as someone other than Robert Browning said, "If you're not slowly getting better, you're slowly getting worse."