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Mexico- Hail Mary -The Statue Is The Saint

Date: Wed, Sep 1, 2010 Professional Live Tournament

Football Atheists A Pain in the English

It´s Tourist season in Mazatlan, The locals arefishing, waiting to catch the big one.Yet, most everyone has a hunting license-eating what they kill, living on the small ones.

Everybody is busy vending something, from Mexican gummy bears to lead-painted-made-in -china dry wall pet food-very entrepreneurial. Too bad they don´t sell NFL stuff....even the knock-offs.These Jesus' are the Derek Jeters Of Christianity--They are good at what they do, but they only believe in God and Soccer!

Still no one can quite compare to Bob Marley´s beloved Jamaica, those Ocho Rios In-your-face shake downcrews are the A-Rods of snake oil salesmen. They kick the entire black market weeler dealer vibe up a notch. They are the LeBron James of ¨What do you want. What do you need¨.
Here is the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción. I can´t help thinking of American football, and the USA version, the Church of Franco, er, I mean,Catedral de la Inmaculada Recepción- a Statue in Pittsburgh Airportdedicated to Franco Harris. He was the Burt Reynolds of defensive linemen, and had the mustache and male pattern madness bald spots to prove it.
His Immaculate reception is the nickname given to one of the most famous plays in the history of American football. It occurred in the AFC divisional playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Let It Be Mother Mary Comes To Me
Then there´sHail Flutie,a college football game that took place between the Boston College Eagles and the University of Miami Hurricanes in1984.It is one of the most memorable moments in sports.

Show Me The Movie @PV

So basically for $4 US Dollars I can see Eat Pray And Love at the Puerto Vallarta Mall. You know, the Hugh Heffner of Divoce Porn, Elizabeth Gilbert´s story of a milf´s yearlong 'search for everything' Or I could re-read Eat Pray and Reif , a year-long search to go everwhere,written by the Rosa Parks of DILFS, Ed Reif.

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Long Beach A&P

Date: Sun, Aug 29, 2010 Professional Live Tournament



After 5 months on the Atlantica, now a week at sea in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, California, with CCL.

I am docked right beside the Queen Mary. The last time I was on that ship, I was doing extra work on the TV Show, the X-Files, playing a Nazi Storm Trooper. Nothing really has changed. As Joesph Goebbels said, "the bigger the lie, the more believable"-so Yes The Mexican Riviera isn't just good, it is too good!

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Puerto Vallarta- A MexiCAN and an AmeriCAN´T

Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2010 Professional Live Tournament

Consumer Spending-Born Again
Puerto Vallarta is a working class heros adventure. If PV is a business, it is Wal-Mart — it is trying to be the lowest-priced product in the market. The Wal-Mart school of Tourism--- The less people pay, the more they enjoy it. In fact, they have one of the largest Wall Mart Super CentersI have ever seen in México; and Sams Club is right next door, monuments to the trend. The experience is experienced. There is a WalpMart on the tour!

The $5 Wal-Mart polo shirt…is a possible dream, so are the humble products for the Family Guy,where the Hombres perform women’s work without losing their authority, and in the trenches service workers can squeeze dignity and meaning fromthe lemon of their labors. The American Dream may be vaporized, but south of the border, the dream continues with emerging money.

The last time I was in the Amigo Country, was February. Cozumel is sooooo different.

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Santa Monica-Whip It Good

Date: Thu, Aug 19, 2010 Professional Live Tournament

The future is full of possibilities that I must constantly shoot in the head, because if you want something GR8, you must be able to limit yourself.
Normal people need three things to travel-Time, Money and Opportunity.

As an abnormal person doing abnormal things---It has never been about resources. You see, I am the Bobby Fisher of resourcefulness, the Cosmo Kramer of planning , the Curious George of predictable unpredictability. >note to self< Rock on man with the yellow hat, rock on.


No matter how low the budget bar gets, I always manage to limbo my way under it. If you think about it, I am the Wilt Chamberlain of shoe-string travel. I'm putting up numbers so unthinkable that normals will never, ever reach them.-300 ports in 365 days.

Why Be A Man When You Can Be A Success?
As the Morgan Freeman of travel writers , if you will. Everyone recognizes me but I never gain any due recognition., Hotel @nyware hasn't exactly been the Edgar Allen Poe of knock-outs, the Emily Dickinson of ground n pound, the Robert Frost of ass-kicking.

It's just me, born with a Ph.D. in throwing junk up against the wall, and seeing what will stick.Looking back, it's been the Colonel Kurtz of experiences. I've gone native and insane so many times, but in a Lance Armstrong Barbara Bush sort of way. Sometimes I am the census taker, sometimes, the cannibal psychiatrist. Roll Tape...

My Top Ten World Tour 2010 YouTube Videos
When a good time turns around, You must whip it , You will never live it down, Unless you whip it. No one gets their way, Until they whip it-Devo


#1 BUI: Embracing The Life Forced Upon Me--OMG! WTF? I have nothing in common with myself anymore


#2: Insulin Shock and Awe, eating the Celebrity Solstice


#3.Acropolis Now-Ed Reif and James Hopkins; making the world safe for Hypocracy..er ..I mean Democracy in the cradle of Western civilization---Athens, Greece


#4 Buddha Boy Ed Reif ---From Monk to Millionaire--- in Sint Maarteen--It ain't much if it ain't Dutch



Success is continued enthusiasm despite failure after failure
#5.The Importance Of Being Ernest (Hemingway) without having ever read him-Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

#6 You(th) are as young as your spine is flexible.

#7 What color is your Parachute Money?

#8 I am at one with the chainsaw. British Virgin islands

#9 Have A Cigar-And did we tell you the name of the game, boy We call it Riding the Gravy Train.

#10 Put That Coffee Down-Ed Reif, former NYU classmate of Alec, and Starter for Team Baldwin, votes for Starbucks today, where life changes instantly, as he drinks from a paper cup.


Honorable Mention
#1 Regular-- Kissing a stingray while being filmed in Grand Cayman Islands Extra Crispy- Going out old school Steve Irwin Style-Being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming inGB Reef

#2 Eminem has 8 Mile, Bob Marley, the small village of 9 mile... Bob,just sMILE.

#3 Container Cargo Cult Madness

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Santa Monica- Whip It Good!

Date: Wed, Aug 18, 2010 Professional Live Tournament

The future is full of possibilities that I must constantly shoot in the head, because if you want something GR8, you must be able to limit yourself.


My Top Ten World Tour 2010 YouTube Videos
When a good time turns around, You must whip it , You will never live it down, Unless you whip it. No one gets their way, Until they whip it-Devo


#1 BUI: Embracing The Life Forced Upon Me--OMG! WTF? I have nothing in common with myself anymore


#2: Insulin Shock and Awe, eating the Celebrity Solstice


#3.Acropolis Now-Ed Reif and James Hopkins; making the world safe for Hypocracy..er ..I mean Democracy in the cradle of Western civilization---Athens, Greece


#4 Buddha Boy Ed Reif ---From Monk to Millionaire--- in Sint Maarteen--It ain't much if it ain't Dutch



Success is continued enthusiasm despite failure after failure





#5.The Importance Of Being Ernest (Hemingway) without having ever read him-Never go on trips with anyone you do not love

#6 You(th) are as young as your spine is flexible.

#7 What color is your Parachute Money?

#8 I am at one with the chainsaw. British Virgin islands

#9 Have A Cigar-And did we tell you the name of the game, boy We call it Riding the Gravy Train.

#10 Put That Coffee Down-Ed Reif, former NYU classmate of Alec, and Starter for Team Baldwin, votes for Starbucks today, where life changes instantly, as he drinks from a paper cup.


Honorable Mention
#1 Regular-- Kissing a stingray while being filmed in Grand Cayman Islands Extra Crispy- Going out old school Steve Irwin Style-Being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming inGB Reef

#2 Eminem has 8 Mile, Bob Marley, the small village of 9 mile... Bob,just sMILE.

#3 Container Cargo Cult Madness

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Los Angeles-I Need My Space

Date: Sun, Aug 15, 2010 Professional Live Tournament

Space Travel Sure Is Fun


Just spent the weekend walking on the moon, at Top Gun School, where unlike Maverick, I wrote checks that my body could cash.
Tranquility Base, The Ego Has Landed

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Germany-Boats And The Men That Love (on) Them

Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 Professional Live Tournament

Loose Lips Sink Ships


Love is in the air...Well, not only in the air but also in the sea!

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship traveling to tropical or mysterious countries,spend their vacation aboard the "Love Boat" where Gopher, Dr.Adam, Isaac, Julie and Captain Stubing try their best to please them and sometimes help them fall in love.

Wish You Were Here

After a year at sea, on 4 cruise ships, and 300 ports of call, did I tell you the name of the game?

I think I´ll Have A Cigar.


I would like to thank Pedro Pablo Peña, from Old San Juan, who took a chance on an unknown Vegan/ Endurance athlete with off-the-chain VO2max scores, and sold him his first El Borinqueño cigar.

I accept the the Phillip Morris Throat Kazoo Newbie Award , in a COPD tobacco catagory in the name of all those who have given there time, money and lives to the industry!

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Oslo-On The Waterfront

Date: Thu, Aug 12, 2010 Professional Live Tournament



Mind and Matter
The Environmentally Friendly Euro Takes The Nordic Plunge

Don't Panic. We're Organic

Everything you want in a city and less---ocean kayaking, mountain biking, sailing The Fjords---I am on Autopilot, here in ECO-EURO friendly Oslo, going green, drinking fair trade coffee, and planning my trip back to la-la land, the city of Los Angry Cars, Los Angeles. Here is the Oslo Opera house greening the skyline with its low impact visual intrusion.

Sully Who? Welcome to A La Carte Air. A New Sky Guy Has Arrived
AA Pilot Chelsey-Miracles on the Hudson- Sulenberger is out and The Jet Blue-take this job and shove it- Guy Slater is in. If God wanted us to fly he would have given us tickets--Ships and the men who love them will be a future post but the friendly skies are calling.

Airplanes are like diets, I don't like to go on them! It's natures way of making you look like your passport photo. My 'once around without leaving the ground' mantra, is going arero-dynamic, flying without feathers, as I am headed for cOPENhagen bound for LAX on a Luftansa flight. I have decided to give avaition and airline food another chance.
We have clearance Clarence. Roger, Roger. What's our Vector Victor?

Location : Rådhusgata 32B, 0158 Oslo,

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Stavanger-I´m Not (all) There

Date: Wed, Aug 11, 2010 Professional Live Tournament

Jumping The Shark In Norway
Why Climb a mountain? because it is there.What I would really like to do is Bungee jump--- dive off the top of this cliff because I am not all there, This would be my version of Happy Days, when Fonzie jumped the shark. That defining moment when you know your favorite TV program has reached its peak.

If Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool, then Norway is solitude by the fjords.What\s onNorway? Ed TV...Time to change the channel.

Here are my top posts from this awesome place.

The Geirangerfjord-Mother Nature and Father Time Are Effing Special

Oslo-You Know Where It's @

Norway's Western Fjords-The Eloquent Sounds of Silence

As Allan Watts said, Everyday, you have to go out of your mind in order to come to your senses. A fool, afterall, who persists in his folly, becomes wise. I haven\t been everywhere, but it is on my list. After all, when you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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Flåm -Nothing Happens Next

Date: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 Professional Live Tournament



What happens in Norway stays in Norway. Just add water.

Chasing the cascading waterfalls. They are everywhere. This kind of leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness, a divine Viking mystery- H20 and gravity. Norway is blessed with these glaciated valleys and fjords. This is the place of a thousand waterfalls.

Location : 5743 Aurland,

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Geiranger-The Last Samurai Of Love

Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 Professional Live Tournament



Ask A Ninja Elephant

There is a certain comfort in the space of the fjords, neither past nor future. Somewhere between messy-mundane daily living and staged ephiphanies, comes God's only voice-silence.

If I try to English this, I don't feel the pain of loneliness, but the joy of solitude, and the glory of being alone.

The way of the warrior is the way of death. Sometimes you have to be seperated from people you love. And you realize that you cannot truely love someone you cannot live without.

Ninja love is invisable, a symptom of maturity.It is not the kind of devotion that says I love you because I need you. It is the other way around. I need you because I love you. Samurai coeurage, doing it with heart, is not the absence of fear but the understanding of it.

Authentic love comes from being able to walk away like a Samurai, without attachment. Loving from strength and independence is always allowing yourself the ability to go away, and die the death of your own love.
How do you love in that way? How do you eat an elephant? ONE BITE AT A TIME.
Location : 6216 Stranda,

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Denmark- Eat, Pray and Reif

Date: Sat, Aug 7, 2010 Professional Live Tournament



Mid Life Chrysler Travel by proxy

Let’s pretend, for purely rhetorical purposes, that I—an American male journalist—got a 200K book advance to find God, write a travel book about a quest for sensuality and spiritual growth. I would call it Eat, Pray and Reif, also known as Drink, Play, F@#k,One Mans search for Everything in France, Macau and Thailand. Wouldn't it just scream out, blatantly male “mid-life crisis narrative”.

I start by going to France, where I eat a lot of Quiche , drive around and take some power naps. I also study Franglaise with a cute, youngerFrench woman named Isabelle, and think to myself, how nice it would be if the American women in my life had had the awareness to treat men in all the French ways.
Then I take a red eye flight to Macau for three months of debauchery on the Hong Kong Express , Finally, over to Thailand, the land of smiles...before I get my Baht back to the United States of Unconsciousness.
You get the picture, right? It is the last 24 months of my life, documented here at this blog, Hotel @nyware!

Meow

But if I were named Edna instead of Ed, I could right EPL, Eat Pray, Love and got on the NYT bestseller, huh?because it seems honest and soulful when distilled through the sensibilities a woman.

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Russia, Press The Reset Button

Date: Wed, Aug 4, 2010 Professional Live Tournament



Googling Capitalism

I just realized-the Soviet Union no longer exists, that Europe has changed, and that new powers like China, Brazil and Mexico have emerged as important players in the Global Supermarket.

Here in the Baltics, Czarist St Petersburg and Commie Leningrad are not even on speaking terms. They have agreed to see other people-foreigners. In Fact, Modern Sankt Petersburg, verison 3.0is just another friendly Baltic port.

This invented city and capital of imperial Czarists Russia is a klepto architorture melange of Venice, Amsterdam and Paris. The nazi dropped over 6000 bombs on the city,so most of the place is a re-built cut and paste, R&D, (Ripoff and Duplication), DIY (Do It Yourself)Stew.

The cultural heart of Russia, it is the San Francisco of Moscow, where chicks like to wear high heels and flowers in their hair. Full of psychic over kill, and theNapolean short-mans complex, if the fountains of Versailles are elegant, then a field of water canons that span two aircraft carries must be better. Quantity is its own kind of quality. For instance, the food, could kill a Russian circus bear. My favorite meal--seconds!

I walk by a t shirt shop "Buy Me Things" says it all. The nail that stands up doesn't get hammered down-It drives a BMW and talks on a black market Iphone. Minted with human capital, St Pete should have no trouble being the Geekfathers of their own piece of Silicon Valley heaven. This place is wired.

Mother Russia. Six months of depression, followed by seven month of disappointment

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Tallinn Mappery-Deconstruct This!

Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 Professional Live Tournament

Adult Swim From Mouse To Mermaid

Welcome to Euro Disney, er I mean Estonia, Another Daytastic time in the childhood euphoria and Snow Whites Magic Kingdom, Staging Athenticity and Encounters. It takes a village, and I feel like a global villager on two legs, doing the backstroke in the waters of the Santa Claus Industry today as Big Brother looks on. Visiting countries is as easy as picking up the phone. I am a multinational soul.

These castles, and ppl dressed up in period costumes bring the colonization ofour beloved American theme parks to Tallinn.It is a kind of boot camp for Scandanavians and Baltic types, getting their wallets ready for The happiest places on earth-Anaheim and Orlando. Great marketing guys! Basically everyone has two homes, the place they grew up with and America. I get it. ONE MARKET UNDER GOD.

Taking a Summer ferry ride from Finland or Stockholm over here, is a new religion for urban elites. If you bring a willing suspension of disbelief, plus a willing suspension of reality itself, this is a well preserved tourist trap and UNESCO World Heritage top destinationoffering the sacrement of Faith...In fact, this place is full of it. Especially when traveling in a group. Want to get lost in the globalization maze, ride the empowerment roller coaster, or just sit down and relax, sipping a 4 Euro cup of coffee and enjoy the Spectacle. There's something for everyone as the experience is experienced.

New Ephiphany: America, a country of immigrants, exiles and new comers,is the ideal place for the privlidged homeless. I am taking prisoners!
I have said it all before...

The march of stupidity and the routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

In an excursion, when you are always sure of reaching your destination, where everything is so well arranged, souvenir shops sell made-in-China-junk,(adding drywall to the tainted pet food and lead-painted toys), taking a tour is a kind of self induced torture, like going on a wild stuffed animal safari, with stupid rules like Do not feed the animals and No flash photography applying. When you have taken enough of these tours, however,each additional one you may ever take again, is both unbearable and trifling.

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