Short-Stacked Shamus is an old-school poker blogger best known for his “existentialist musings” on the long-running “Hard-Boiled Poker” blog. Shamus has over two decades’ worth of experience writing and reporting on poker as well as other types of legal gambling. Once an online regular on the pre-Black Friday micro-stakes mean streets, these days he enjoys check-raising friends in a regular home game and occasionally trying to collect Sweeps Coins at the social and sweepstakes sites.