To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. – Peter Nivio Zarlenga

When I redesigned CaryDarling.Com, I didn’t know in which direction I would take it, let alone the direction my life was heading. I now seem to have [...]

It was another bright sunny day in Las Vegas as I headed down to the Rio with a group of friends on yet another swag hunt, but as I entered the doors to the main hallway that leads to the Amazon room a feeling came over me that I couldn’t quite put my finger on.  [...]

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It was Saturday the 23rd, and I had a couple of friends playing in event #33, the $1,500 Seven Card Razz event.  Rail birding duties called, so I ventured down to the Rio once again.
I found Jan at table #58, she had a decent sized stack, looked to be around 3,000 in [...]

Sunday I decided to head down to the Rio and sweat the ladies event.  I think poker is the only activity I know of that you can say you are “sweating” anything involving ladies and not end up on the opposite end of a restraining order, but then again if I try real hard I [...]

Okay I’m a cheap rail birding bum, I don’t even have a buy in for a $2/$4 limit game so what’s the next best thing to do?
SWAG HUNT!!!!
So, I made my way down to the Rio today on two missions.
Mission #1 To photograph a friend Billie Walter in the stud event.  I failed this mission [...]

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I started my site carydarling.com almost two years ago with the intention of filling it up with my attempts at humorous insight into the life of a low limit poker player living in Las Vegas. I titled it A High Limit Life At A Low Limit Table. This [...]

When I walk into a poker room no one stops and stares, no one whispers “look it’s so and so.” Which I guess is a good thing because we all know it’s better to live a quiet deliberate poker life at the $1/$3 spread limit tables at Excalibur than to be buggered by autograph seekers [...]