I do believe those are English Pigeon feathers. I always liked these feathers as they remind me of a two piece suit.
Dark grey flannel trousers, a prestinely ironed white Oxford Shirt (if you love ties, then pair it with a dark purple silk tie, preferably with a pattern of some sort) and a black Herringbone jacket, fitted with dark brown or black buttons. The shoes...for casual...monk strap shoes in dark brown/mahogany, jus to give the whole look a splash of more subtle colours. If formal then you can't go wrong with a pair of Oxfords; the base of the shoes i prefer rubber, as i dislike the tick-tack sounds a pair of formal leather shoes makes...unless you're ballin' then knock yaself out with the tap dancing.
Ey yo don't forget the pocket square too. I personally don't like ties, so i prefer a crimson red pocket square or a dark purple/navy type deal; the puff formation is my preferred pocket square fold. This brings the black suit jacket to life. Now to finish it off you need a lapel pin...i prefer a full brass Ace of Clubs label pin...black with a gold border (i used to own one from the Lackadaisy Cat's webcomic...but they since revamped the design and i do not like); this lapel pin is placed on the opposite side/lapel to where your pocket square is...of course you may have to do some tailoring for that.
As a side note i rarely wore white shirts back in my suit-wearing days. I prefer dark navy shirts most of the time. Sometimes a mocha brown shirt, the darker brown the better.
Now pair your trousers with a black belt with a silver buckle, and a silver chrome pen in the inner breast pocket alongside your moleskin pocket notebook (or the Erdnase pocket edition of "Expert At The Card Table", the green one from Conjuring Archives shop)...
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[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
Memories of my late teens up to my late 20s appear before my mind's eye-hole; seated in front of my desk, with my custom card mat from "Pattrick's Magic Mats", a pack of cards and the sounds of riffling, shuffling, cutting, dealing, assembling order out of chaos.
I never dreamt that i would put down my hopes for a life on stage; i also never dreamt that i would find myself in Gung Fu. Like a glove, though not snugly fitting yet, i trace many similarities between the two disciplines here mentioned.
All those hours in my study with books like "Expert At The Card Table", "Expert Card Technique", the "Inner Secrets of Card Magic" by Dai Vernon the legendary Professor; "The Books of Wonder" by Tommy Wonder; the various mnemonic works by Juan Tamariz; then onto the awesome works of Darwin Ortiz and then at the end of my journey, the works of my two mentors Michael Vincent and Rene Lavand; all of this laser focused discipline lasted 18 years. What it taught me was that i am someone who needs a discipline, due to my nature of being abhorrent. When you look deep enough, you'll see what i mean. It ain't all sunshine and candy floss, not out there and not inside either.
Hours upon hours in the rehearsal studio, pouring my life into a 27 inch wide by 20 inch height card mat, translating to a call and response on stage; the applause, the appreciate, the thrice standing ovations; the theatre shows. I do miss it all; i had to let that life go.
I close my eyes and recall the encouragement and the guidance of my mentors along the chain/road of excellence; I could never live up to anyone's expectations. I've wasted a lot of people's time and believe me... i lament it.
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Here in this garage taking all that i've known in the world of artifice, letting my body express itself in movement past midnight; often this is the remedy for my restlessness. Sleep does not come easy and a notebook really helps.
My love for script writing (when you design a 1 hr one-man theatre show, you are the producer, script-writer, director, salesman, artist and also the audience) and creating environments were not lost. Spacial awareness of hiding card-sleights in various positions with or without a table had translated to spacial awareness in the Wing Chun frame-work and my own bodily limits.
The ability to notice cadence and then manipulate it had created in me the ability to view things in many angles simultaneously, allowed me to actively operate both my left and right brained (to talk and perform hidden card sleights at the same time whilst keep my audiences engaged in an hour long show); this ability seems to have transformed itself in giving me angles of simultaneous attack and defence according to the Wing Chun framework.
In becoming a performer and getting over the absolute fear of public speaking (one of the many great fears of any lay person) forced me into associating with people from almost all echelons of society; the poor, the middle class and the somewhat extravagant/eccentric (i never associated myself with wealthy people; i never did banquets nor weddings, nor private gigs for big names as i detested the concept of money from an early age). This taught me how to see with the eyes of my soul and not the eyes of limitation; allowing me the privilege to feel out people, to see straight through people. To hear what they say and also what they do not say; to see what they do and also what they do not do. This has become second nature that i cannot turn off, reaching cynicism at times if not careful. Translated to the Wing Chun framework, this forces the need to refine my tactile and sympathetic sensitivities when dealing with people. Empathy is not needed in this line of work, but sympathy is a great instinct to develop.
The many years of drilling sleight of hand into my nerves and sinews, engraved into the grooves of my brain, stretched out in the corridors of my mind over and over and over again has caused me the affliction of not being able to be bored. Now that the cards are gone and the applause no longer, the neuro-pathways are still sharp and vibrant. Where once i dreamt of stage-angles, audience reactions, cadence and timing, i now envision what this means in terms of self-protection and combatives.
What is it that works? What is it that don't work? Am i here for sport fighting? Or actual combatives? Is this for sparring purposes and i accepting the fact that violence may be a necessity for me in the future? I don't have any thread of larceny in my soul, but i recognise the way the world moves, especially now.
[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
YayoGerardo: "Crypto will not save you from financial burdens. Not for the average Joe anyways."
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From S.W Erdnase's "Expert At The Card table" (1902):
"THE passion for play is probably as old, and will be as enduring, as the race of man. Some of us are too timid to risk a dollar, but the percentage of people in this feverish nation who would not enjoy winning one is very small. The passion culminates in the professional. He would rather play than eat. Winning is not his sole delight. Some one has remarked that there is but one pleasure in life greater than winning, that is, in making the hazard.
To be successful at play is as difficult as to succeed in any other pursuit. The laws of chance are as immutable as the laws of nature. Were all gamblers to depend on luck they would break about even in the end. The professional card player may enjoy the average luck, but it is difficult to find one who thinks he does, and it is indeed wonderful how mere chance will at times defeat the strongest combination of wit and skill. It is almost an axiom that a novice will win his first stake. A colored attendant of a "club-room." overhearing a discussion about running up two hands at poker, ventured the following interpolation: "Don't trouble 'bout no two hen's, Boss. Get yo' own hen'. De suckah, he'll get a han' all right, suah!" And many old players believe the same thing. However, the vagaries of luck, or chance, have impressed the professional card player with a certain knowledge that his more respected brother of the stock exchange possesses, viz.--manipulation is more profitable than speculation; so to make both ends meet, and incidentally a good living, he also performs his part with the shears when the lambs come to market.
Hazard at play carries sensations that once enjoyed are rarely forgotten. The winnings are known as "pretty money," and it is generally spent as freely as water. The average professional who is successful at his own game will, with the sublimest unconcern, stake his money on that of another's, though fully aware the odds are against him. He knows little of the real value of money, and as a rule is generous, careless and improvident. He loves the hazard rather than the stakes. As a matter of fact the principal difference between the professional gambler and the occasional gambler, is that the former is actuated by his love of the game and the latter by cupidity. A professional rarely "squeals" when he gets the worst of it; the man who has other means of livelihood is the hardest loser.
Advantages that are bound to ultimately give a percentage in favor of the professional are absolutely essential to his existence, and the means employed at the card table to obtain that result are thoroughly elucidated in this work. We have not been impelled to our task by the qualms of a guilty conscience, nor through the hope of reforming the world. Man cannot change his temperament, and few care to control it. While the passion for hazard exists it will find gratification. We have neither grievance against the fraternity nor sympathy for so called "victims." A varied experience has impressed us with the belief that all men who play for any considerable stakes are looking for the best of it. We give the facts and conditions of our subject as we find them, though we sorrowfully admit that our own early knowledge was acquired at the usual excessive cost to the uninitiated.
When we speak of professional card players we do not refer to the proprietors or managers of gaming houses. The percentage in their favor is a known quantity, or can be readily calculated, and their profits are much the same as any business enterprise. Where the civil authorities countenance these institutions they are generally conducted by men of well known standing in the community. The card tables pay a percentage or "rake off," and the management provides a "look out" for the protection of its patrons. Where the gaming rooms must be conducted in secret the probabilities of the player's apparent chances being lessened are much greater. However, our purpose is to account for the unknown percentage that must needs be in favor of the professional card player to enable him to live.
There is a vast difference between the methods employed by the card conjurer in mystifying or amusing his audience; and those practiced at the card table by the professional, as in this case the entire conduct must be in perfect harmony with the usual procedure of the game. The slightest action that appears irregular, the least effort to distract attention, or the first unnatural movement, will create suspicion; and mere suspicion will deplete the company, as no one but a simon-pure fool will knowingly play against more than ordinary chances. There is one way by which absolute protection against unknown advantages may be assured, that is by never playing for money. But a perfect understanding of the risks that are taken may aid greatly in lessening the casualties. An intimate acquaintance with the modus operandi of card table artifice does not necessarily enable one to detect the manipulation, but it certainly makes plain the chances to be guarded against, and with this cognition the mere suspicion of skill should at once induce symptoms of cold feet. This knowledge, or thorough comprehension of the possibilities of professional card playing, can be imparted only by practical illustration of the processes employed, and the reader desiring a complete understanding should take the deck in hand and work out for himself the action as it is described.
To discriminate and show clearly the two phases of card manipulation, the first part of this work is devoted to an exhaustive review of the many advantages that can be, have been, and are constantly taken at the card table, and to those particular methods of obtaining these advantages that are least liable to arouse suspicion. The exact manner in which each artifice is performed is fully described in minutia. Part second describes the sleights employed in conjuring and many very interesting card tricks."
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[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
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[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
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“He who learns but does not think is lost, and he who thinks but does not learn is in great danger”. - Confucius (Analects).
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"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war" - Miyamoto Musashi (Book Of Five Rings).
Warrior in a garden: A strong, prepared person who chooses to live a peaceful life. They have the power to protect themselves and others, but they do not look for a fight.
Gardener in a war: A peaceful, kind person who has no training or defense skills. When chaos or danger arrives, they are helpless and vulnerable.
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[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
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[1] Ace In The Hole: Financial Freedom For All
[2] Ace In The Hole: The Set-Up
[3] Ace In The Hole: The Correct Attitude
[4] Ace In The Hole: The Fediverse & The Fedi-Knight!
[5] Ace In The Hole: You Need A Website
[6] Ace In The Hole: In The Name Of Financial Sovereignty
[7] Ace In The Hole: Your Web3 Piggy-Bank
[8] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths
[9] Ace In The Hole: Wordsmiths II - Publishing Your Own Book
[10] Ace In The Hole: Unstoppable Businesses For Zeena
[11] Ace In The Hole: Advantage Play & The Psychology Of Vultures
[12] Ace In The Hole: Rectangle Of Possiblities
[13] Ace In The Hole: Lateral Victory
[14] Ace In The Hole: Unleash Thy Sexy Voice
[15] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Oona The Unvanquishable"
[16] Ace In The Hole: Case Study on "Jango Tyson Minifigs Stop Motion"
