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White Hot Pain/Numbness, Curacao and a Very Good Haircut. 22 Sep 2012 | 10:13 pm
This is going to seems like an awfully long story about getting a haircut, but stick with me, ok? There’s a payoff. Usually, my wife Heather does my hair; it’s not difficult, really. A shaver, Gary si...
Four cops, one sub and a change of career 12 Sep 2012 | 09:08 am
It had been three days since I had arrived in Curacao and I hadn’t seen a cop, so I wasn’t so much worried about the legality of driving the wrong way down a one-way street as I was for the lives of t...
Losses for Sonnen, Ortiz signal end of an era 19 Jul 2012 | 11:18 pm
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A nice gesture, but… 16 Aug 2011 | 04:01 am
Ever since I moved to Bradford, a town of 24,500 that’s thirty minutes removed from the northern tip of metropolitan Toronto, my clothing has sat in opened boxes, mired in disarray and live poker time...
It feels like yesterday was a pretty good day. 12 Aug 2011 | 02:25 am
I am both a Toronto Blue Jays fan and an ESPN loyalist, so when I saw the article by Amy K. Nelson and Peter Keating proclaiming my boys in blue to be cheaters without a) legitimate statistical eviden...
M:tG Hall of Fame Ballot 27 Jul 2011 | 05:28 am
I have the unique pleasure of being the only Hall of Fame voter for both the Poker and Magic: the Gathering. The former will come up later in the summer, and as such, I want the latter off my plate. T...
New ESPN feature on the $1,000,000 event 9 Jun 2011 | 03:33 am
Hey all, just a heads-up that Andrew Feldman and I went toe-to-toe on the validity of the recently announced $1,000,000 buy-in event to held at the 2012 WSOP. You can find both arguments here.
Appearance on the Keep Flopping Aces podcast 4 Jun 2011 | 01:28 pm
Lou Krieger and Shari Gellar were kind enough to have me on the Keep Flopping Aces podcast this week to talk about WSOP and Black Friday’s effect on it. The chats were good and the hosts know their st...
The ugliest WSOP? 3 Jun 2011 | 07:02 am
I am not in Las Vegas right now. In fact, barring a sudden change in direction, I won’t be for another six weeks. Given the choice of a longer stay with sporadic work or a short, intensive burst, I ch...
If you haven’t seen the Ivey complaint against TiltWare… 3 Jun 2011 | 03:26 am
…here it is.