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The First Rule of Fight Club

Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 Live Tournament

You don’t talk about fight club Chris Moneymaker’s win was always a double-edged sword for the poker media. It began the Cinderella model of coverage with the requisite fairy tale ending — where the winner was not only the most skillful, but the most worthy of taking home the glass slipper. And the money that flowed from online poker [...]

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Backlogged - But That’s the Way I Roll

Date: Sat, Aug 16, 2008 Live Tournament

For some reason, I thought my days were going to be much easier once the WSOP ended, but I was obviously just in denial. I keep thinking of these great ubber posts I want to do, but there really isn’t going to be ubber time until the Matusow book is completed - which is still some [...]

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Spoiler-Free, WPT, and Sadly Sammy

Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Live Tournament

I won’t write about the Main Event until it starts to air on ESPN.  I had no idea how many people don’t want to know anything until they see it on TV until I went to my home game last week.  With my work day starting at 4:00 am during the WSOP and not ending [...]

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Mikey, Vanessa, Barry and the Real World

Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 Live Tournament

I cringe a little every time a WSOP bracelet is awarded; one more I didn’t get to see in person.  But I cringe more for some than for others.  I missed Mike Matusow’s bracelet in the Deuce to Seven Lowball.  And since this WSOP will be the final chapter in Mikey’s book, I would have loved watching  this [...]

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Mikey, Vanessa, Barry and the Real World

Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 Live Tournament

I cringe a little every time a WSOP bracelet is awarded; one more I didn’t get to see in person.  But I cringe more for some than for others.  I missed Mike Matusow’s bracelet in the Deuce to Seven Lowball.  And since this WSOP will be the final chapter in Mikey’s book, I would have loved watching  this [...]

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WSOP Vampires and the Man Behind the Hat

Date: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 Live Tournament

Since the WSOP began, I start each day with a bitch-slap by my cat Sammy, delivered at 3:30am.  Alarm clocks have nothing on Sammy.  Sammy has extra big paws replete with extra toes, and his swat is like no other.  Also, Sammy’s need-to-feed is timed more accurately than the CS2 atomic clock. As I stumble through the dark living room, [...]

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Being There

Date: Sun, Jun 1, 2008 Live Tournament

If I had my photos working, I’d post a picture of Peter Sellers walking on water.  On Friday afternoon, everyone in the office was quietly cranking away.  At 2:00 pm central time, I stood up at my desk and bellowed, “Shuffle up and deal.”  It’s been a number of years since I missed the WSOP first siren’s [...]

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Raising Rainbow and Voices in My Head

Date: Mon, May 26, 2008 Live Tournament

It was kind of a busy week, and I wasn’t sure I was going to get to play the home game.  But a busy week is the best time to play poker and unwind.  So Wednesday night, I passed on dinner and started smiling almost as soon as I pulled into the lot.  As far as [...]

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The Way We Were: Computers and Final Tables

Date: Sun, May 11, 2008 Live Tournament

Every time I say it’s a game, you tell me it’s a business.  Every time I say it’s a business, you tell me it’s a game - Nick Nolte’s character in North Dallas Forty If you can’t see the pictures on my blog, there’s something terribly wrong with your computer.  Well not really.  It seems that my old version [...]

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Victories, Contractions, and Stimuli

Date: Sun, Apr 27, 2008 Live Tournament

  Congratulations to David Chiu (pictured above), who put in a spectacular come-from-behind performance against Gus Hansen (pictured below) at the WPT Championship yesterday.  I was happy to see the WPT Championship draw a pretty healthy crowd; off only slightly from last year.  There were a lot of great names in contention down the stretch.  Today’s pics are of players that had [...]

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Too Little Too Late

Date: Sun, Apr 20, 2008 Live Tournament

  In today’s theme of “too little too late” I can’t help but start with Brandi Hawbaker.  For those not in the poker circle, Brandi was the author and subject of some of the most outrageous content on the poker forums.  Just the title “Brandi” on a thread was liable to get 1000 hits a day.  [...]

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In Search of Goldilocks

Date: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 Live Tournament

  There are a lot of changes going on in the poker blogisphere lately.  Change100 is flying solo on the apartment front.  Otis is flying the family to Toronto.  Al Can’t Hang is flying under the blog radar screen.  Dr. Chako happily and sadly flew home.  Joe Speaker is circling the airport, thinking about the changes on his domestic front.  [...]

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Strings, Slings, and Hearings

Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 Live Tournament

  All in all, it was a different sort of week for me; one that had me revisiting the past and trying to envision the future.  I promise the next few posts will be poker-related as so much is happening in that space.  Indulge me for now.  Staring into the ner tamid (the eternal lamp) at the Agudas Achim Synagogue (pictured [...]

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Carz, Cardz, and Marketz

Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 Live Tournament

  I’m about to part with the green monster and already bought a new (used) car yesterday.  I’d been shopping around on craigslist and doing some general research for the last few weeks.  I had honed in on a Honda Civic EX, because its practicality was overwhelming.  The first one I chose to “visit” was a strong contender; its only drawback was an automatic [...]

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