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The SXSW Invasion Countdown

Date: Sun, Mar 7, 2010 Live Tournament

I moved to Austin in March of 1993, just a couple of weeks before the SXSW Music festival. I bought myself a wristband for $35 and spent three days hiking the streets of downtown, listening to hundreds of mostly unsigned bands from around the world. The weather was warm. The margaritas were cold. And the music was [...]

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Crossing Over

Date: Sun, Feb 21, 2010 Live Tournament

On Thursday, the big flat panel in the hallway of our office wasn’t tuned to CNBC. Instead it was blaring the local news, covering the story about a plane that hit a building about a mile from our office. I was more preoccupied following a different story online. My neighbor’s house, just a couple of blocks away from my own, was [...]

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Wiped, Recovered and Carli’s 50th

Date: Sat, Jan 30, 2010 Live Tournament

Since Biloxi, I’ve been fighting viruses — a cold and a computer virus.  The cold was also picked up by the Shrink and rggator. We don’t necessarily blame Idouru, who had one while we were all in Biloxi. (cough, cough). I can’t quite pinpoint the source of the computer virus, howver, although I suspect it was a fake Facebook email.  [...]

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Sadly Vahedi and Biloxi is My New Tunica

Date: Sun, Jan 10, 2010 Live Tournament

Before Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP, propelling the game into a Cinderella fantasy, I got to know many professional players during my trips to Tunica, Mississippi. There were no fans. There was no television. Jack Binion’s World Poker Open was a refuge for hardcore players, looking for a chance to do what they did best. And I knew when I [...]

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A Tale of Two Amy Calistris

Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 Live Tournament

A couple of nights ago, the Poker Shrink forwarded an email from Dan Michalski. It said “46 searches for ‘amy calistri scam’ have brought people to Pokerati this month. Did she write about a scam or is she in one?” I also got emails from Oliver Tse saying he has been seeing an ad with my picture [...]

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The Pollack Legacy: The Good, The Bad and The Silly

Date: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 Live Tournament

The dealer barely put down the deck on the 2009 WSOP when it was announced that Jeffrey Pollack, the World Series of Poker Commissioner, had resigned. In 2005, Harrah’s hired Pollack on as the Vice President of Marketing. In January 2006 he got bumped to the new position of WSOP Commish. Pollack excelled on a number of [...]

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Hans “Tuna” Lund Musings

Date: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 Live Tournament

“You’ve got to have the heart of a lion — play fearless, don’t be afraid and, when you roar, they better back up.” - Hans “Tuna” Lund. It was probably arrogance. But by early 2007, I figured I had met most all of the “old school” players who still had game. A lot of them never left [...]

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Wil’s Big Bang and Pauly’s Finger

Date: Sat, Oct 24, 2009 Live Tournament

“Game over, Moonpie.” If you missed The Big Bang Theory this week, you missed this line getting deliciously delivered by Wil Wheaton.  Wil plays his “delightfully evil” alter ego while tilting Sheldon in a card game called the Mystic Wizards of Ka’a.  Up until this week, I had only ever seen Wil play poker.  It was just a couple of weeks before I [...]

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Embracing Uncertainty: Civil War Generals and Poker

Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 Live Tournament

This 2005 PokerPages article was inspired by a chat at a cocktail party. Poker was all the rage and people were curious about the way in which I made my living. While much has been written about the similarities between war and poker (as in David Apostolico’s Tournament Poker And The Art Of War), a Civil War buff at the [...]

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Poker and Nudity: Show Me Something New

Date: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 Live Tournament

Using a Swimsuit Edition-esque model, ESPN Magazine has released its Body Issue, featuring athletes in various stages of undress. Poker gets its due, with this picture of Scotty Nguyen, Jennifer Harman, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu.  I have no beef with the magazine’s selection. I feel our fearless foursome pretty much represent the field of poker. And I’m glad the magazine didn’t cherry [...]

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Protecting Your Assets

Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 Live Tournament

Note: I wrote this article for PokerPages in 2005. It started from a pitch I made to Capital Sports and Entertainment (the company that represents Lance Armstrong). I wanted to see if they would start a business unit dedicated to representing professional poker players. As part of my pitch, I wrote three commercials: Phil Hellmuth for Preparation H, Phil Ivey for Nike, and the [...]

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Bye Bye Birdie and PokerPages

Date: Sat, Oct 10, 2009 Live Tournament

I sat on the steps of my back deck, talking on the phone to Michael Casselli in the UK. He was part of the effort to start up a new poker magazine. It was 2004 and the post-Moneymaker poker boom was in full swing. They were looking for a “gossip” column — sigh.  Lou Krieger had [...]

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The Omaha Tell: Andy Beal Kicked the Oracle’s Ass

Date: Sun, Oct 4, 2009 Live Tournament

It’s an age-old adage in the investment world: Buy low and sell high. Everyone rolls their eyes when they hear it — as if it were that easy. This latest Forbes 400 has been published, listing America’s top 400 richest people. It was no surprise that the sub-headline was “Almost all of America’s richest citizens are poorer this year.” [...]

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I Think Bob Stupak is Dead

Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 Live Tournament

The news used to be a public service; now it’s mostly a thinly veiled ratings grab where octamoms and brainless starlets get more air time than messy issues like war and unemployment.  Empty soundbites, rehashed talking points and emails from uninformed listeners rule.  There’s more hard news in a half hour of The Daily Show than [...]

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