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ZZZ Game

Date: Tue, Sep 14, 2010 Professional

Today I would like to share an email I received from my friend Gary Christy. Gary wrote: After work last night. Exhausted. Sleepy. Decided to give my poker itch the most minimal scratch—an $11 turbo sit-n-go. Folded twenty or so hands… and fell asleep in my chair, head slumping. My speakers were off, so I wasn’t awakened [...]

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Rorschach Fire

Date: Mon, Sep 6, 2010 Professional

Kay and I went camping. Our friend Wendelin came by for a visit. She was sitting by the fire. It was time for a log, a chosen log, for her viewing pleasure. I placed a log in the fire and walked away. A few minutes later, Wendelin said, “Come here, [...]

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The Save

Date: Wed, Aug 25, 2010 Professional

Dear Readership: I wrote this around 1992. THE SAVE Darryl sees the table that his leg is about to bump into but his leg bumps into the table anyway. Crash. Woops. Sorry. He’s thinking damn, what are they doing with those stupid skinny wine glasses in here in the first place? Used [...]

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Medding

Date: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 Professional

“Medding” is a word I made up while working on my new book. I needed it to fill a vacancy in my vocabulary. I was missing a catch-all term that included every imaginable awareness-type activity. I’ve been using the term medding for a while now, and test-driving it on other medders, who [...]

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My First Golf Shot in Seven Years

Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 Professional

I went to a golf course yesterday. Been a while. I got a bucket of balls to hit at the driving range. But first, to my favorite place: the practice green. I love putting around on a putting green, but what I love even more is pitching and chipping. I sat down [...]

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Gee Thanks, Mom

Date: Wed, Jul 14, 2010 Professional

I just had a salt shaker explode. All over the counter, and the floor. Damnable contraption. It’s not really even a salt shaker. It’s a rock salt and peppercorn twisting smasher with two secret Rubixic supply compartments designed to keep Indiana Jones out. I can imagine the conversation between the engineers and [...]

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Me at the WSOP

Date: Sat, Jul 3, 2010 Professional

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Dealer Mystery Solved at the 2010 WSOP

Date: Wed, Jun 16, 2010 Professional

This is a photograph of the biggest room at the 2010 World Series of Poker, minus the people. You know how we’ve been trained to think of a “football field” as a standard unit of area? Like a hectare or acre, except that we actually know how big it is? I [...]

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The Loudest Leaf

Date: Sat, Jun 5, 2010 Professional

The air pushed on the leaf, and the leaf pushed equally on the air, yet they both moved without resistance. But none of that even occurred to me until afterward. I was walking where I walk, and the strangest thing happened. A leaf fell from a tree. Nothing strange there. I saw it fall. [...]

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Apple Turnover

Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 Professional

Dear Steve Jobs, Because I am a selfless man — a man with no interest in the fame and aggrandizement that would come with coining a brilliant and useful phrase that in itself would drive millions more to worship at the Church of Apple — and because I am a generous man — willing to [...]

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In Other Local News

Date: Thu, May 13, 2010 Professional

There’s a lot going on today out there in the world. Just now I was walking toward a one-square-block park that is mostly a grass field. From half a block away, I could see a guy out in the middle of the field doing Tai Chi, which is typically what people do when [...]

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An Airport Story

Date: Tue, May 4, 2010 Professional

You would not believe the sheer amount of shit that comes out of my suitcase. The TSA guy at the airport didn’t believe it either. (TSA = Transportation Security Administration) I’m not talking about obvious travelware such as clothes, a meditation bench, a yoga mat, and a library. I’m talking about the bottom layer [...]

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Breathing Room

Date: Wed, Apr 28, 2010 Professional

I was listening to a client talk and here’s what he said… “I’ve been running great lately. My bankroll is at an all-time high. It’s nice to have a little breathing room.” And I thought to myself… Yes it’s nice to have a little breathing room. Everybody should have one.

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Me and Eddie Up Yosemite Falls

Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 Professional

My cousin Eddie and I went to Yosemite Valley. One day we were walking up the trail that goes to the top of Yosemite Falls and Eddie said something very funny. Yosemite Falls is the tallest in North America. It has an upper and a lower. Here’s a picture of the back of [...]

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