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  • Blog One Hundred and Thirty – Get Out of My Car, Get Into My Life – Sunday December 28, 2025 – Hollywood, Florida.

    I almost got there. I almost made the money in three tournaments in a row. Almost got the poker trifecta… almost got the Hughie, Dewie, and Louie of poker tournaments… almost completed the elusive poker triangle… almost got the poker menage a trois. I went too far there, didn’t I? Anyway, I fell just short…

    December 29, 2025

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  • Blog 129 – Social Media – Sunday December 28, 2025 – Hollywood, Florida

    I have no time to write this blog. It’s 7:00 AM and I’m working on less than five hours sleep, and i have another busy day today. Here’s quickly how yesterday went. -woke up at 7:30 AM and was out by 8 for a ninety minute contemplative walk on the beach. And yes, I realize…

    December 28, 2025

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  • Blog 128 – The Original OG – Friday December 26, 2025 – Hollywood, Florida

    I played in a $400 two-day tournament today at The Hard Rock Casino beside a guy that was so old… Go ahead ask. Just do it. Ask. Or, tell you what, ask Chat GPT for “He’s so old…” jokes and fill in your own. This guy was so old… that his name was Ira, and…

    December 27, 2025

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  • Blog Number 127 – The out-Law – December 25, 2025 – Toronto, Canada

    Christmas morning, 2025. I’m in The Maple Leaf Airport Lounge waiting for my scheduled 8:30 AM flight which now leaves at 10:30 AM so clearly for the folks at Air Canada, Christmas Day is a just day like every other. Luckily my Platinum American Express Card (with the exorbitant yearly fee) entitles me to all…

    December 25, 2025

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  • Blog Number 126 – Let’s Go Blue Jays – Sunday Nov. 2, 2025 – Hollywood, Florida

    It’s a little difficult really to think about anything but baseball right now. I think there’ll come a time when people have long forgotten about trendy stuff like Labubu’s and Global Warming, but they will still be talking about the World Series of 2025. I’ve nothing new to add to the conversation other than to…

    November 5, 2025

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  • Blog Number 125 – The Mouth That Bored – Wednesday July 2, 2025 – Las Vegas-Toronto

    So, I met him. I met The Man Who Won’t Shut Up. I met The Man Who Won’t Shut Up at a $400 tournament at The MGM on Sunday. For short I’ll call him TMWWSU which rolls right off the tongue and I think is kinder alternative to calling him CLTIVD (Chronic long-term incurable verbal…

    July 4, 2025

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  • Blog number 124 – A long overdue apology to David Black – Sunday June 29, 2025 – Las Vegas

    Well, I cashed in my first tourney of the trip. It was the $300 WSOP Gladiator tournament. My heat of the tournament attracted over 9600 entrants of which 1482 got paid. I finished 1103rd for the minimum cash of $600. I made $300 in 12 hours. And yes, I realize that I could’ve made more…

    June 29, 2025

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  • Blog number 123 – Penny – Friday June 27, 2025 – Toronto, Canada

    I haven’t written in a bit. I learned a new word this winter. The word is GLIOBLASTOMA which Wikipedia will tell you is “the most aggressive type of cancer that originates in the brain and has a very poor prognosis for survival.” I learned that word because my business partner of 37 years had it.…

    June 27, 2025

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  • Blog number 122 – What Would Jesus Do? – Sunday April 20, 2025 – Toronto, Canada.

    I’m calling for the forcible extinction of ducks and penguins. Who’s with me?! They’re not cute and they are definitely not lucky. *** Since we last spoke, I played in the main event on Friday. Good Friday, they call it? Not so much for one biblical Jewish carpenter, and not so much for this particular…

    April 20, 2025

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  • Blog Number 121 – Unlucky Ducks – Thursday April 17, 2025 – Toronto, Canada

    When Ruth and I were in Portugal this past winter, we went shopping one day and I made an impulse purchase. A package of three new pairs of underpants. I know, right! It was irresponsible and spontaneous. I didn’t need them. I have plenty. But these just caught my eye, and I went a little…

    April 17, 2025

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