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Travel Report: WPT Alpha8 Florida, Day 1 -- Lights, Camera, Action 27 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
Was a long one yesterday, starting well before noon and not ending until around 2:30 a.m. as the first day of the two-day, $100,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Alpha8 Florida event played out at the Semin...
Travel Report: WPT Alpha8 Seminole Hard Rock, Arrival -- High Rolling 26 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
A travel day yesterday as I flew down to Ft. Lauderdale for a quick trip to help cover the inaugural Alpha8 event at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood that starts today. As you’ve probably heard, t...
Two Thousand Maniacs! 23 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
A half-century ago, a former English professor turned movie maker named Herschell Gordon Lewis collaborated with a carnival worker named David Friedman to make what at the time were some of the most p...
Cards and Communism 23 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
My ongoing Nixon studies have led me to spend time lately reading about the “red scare” days of the late 1940s and 1950s, that period during which Tricky Dick launched his political career. Like many ...
Making and Breaking Rules 22 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
The great crime fiction writer Elmore Leonard passed away yesterday at age 87. I’m acquainted with a few Leonard titles, although wasn’t as huge a devotee as some. I remember reading several of his b...
Poker All Over As Tours Start Back 21 Aug 2013 | 02:08 am
Taking note these days of the various tours all starting to crank back up now that the 2013 World Series of Poker is now just a speck in the rear view mirror. The 2013-14 World Series of Poker Circui...
Links on the Links (Poker and Golf) 19 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
Not too long ago I was writing about golf and how unlike poker it was a sport that readily appealed to spectators who weren’t necessarily players. I wrote mainly from experience -- or should I say, fr...
The Hard-Boiled Poker Radio Show, Episode 21: Lucille Ball 16 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Years later, my podcast has returned! Episode 21 of The Hard-Boiled Poker Radio Show has now been posted. If you click over to the show’s blog you can see the entry with my “show notes.” You can downl...
Hellmuth and the Hoi Polloi 16 Aug 2013 | 03:30 am
Haven’t really been watching the WSOP broadcasts on ESPN that closely this summer. The Main Event coverage has been on for the last couple of weeks. I know this is becoming kind of an annual refrain f...
Bags of Dreams 15 Aug 2013 | 02:29 am
You might have heard something over the last few days about this strange eBay auction in which a seller has been attempting to find someone willing to purchase “FINAL TABLE 2008 World Series of Poker ...