Ever lost your luggage, or more to the point had it lost for you? It’s not that you feel violated , it’s more like you feel…. What’s the word I’m looking for here? Ummmm… FUCKED. That’s the one! You feel fucked. For me anyway the response is far more visceral than emotional. I really don’t…

I feel good. I’m at Pearson airport in the shlepper’s lounge ready to get on my schlepper-class flight, but I feel good. I’ve got my brand new sleek little 12″ screen Hewlett Packard laptop, and my brand new Samsung MP3 player which is beyond cool. My IT man Brian hooked up my computer for me…

Coach Class. Have two words in the English language ever been more cruelly juxtaposed ? So I booked my ticket for Monte Carlo. I fly into Nice, France. Aeroplan couldn’t guarantee me first class even if I paid them my last 80,000 points, so what’s a guy to do? I booked it in (gasp)… I…

OK, first of all I write this from the plane, executive class – you know it! – although THIS executive class is even COOLER than the outgoing flight because it’s this modular futuristic one-seater number, everything’s lit up by little blue lights and I’m stretched out with my feet up like I’m George Jetson and…

Well you know if I’m up in my room writing this only an hour or so after my last one it cannot be good news. Every hard luck card player who ever lost a tourney has a bad beat story. Why, there’s more bad beat stories out there than there are ways to order coffee…

Ohhhhh, we’re movin’ in the wrong direction kids. This is not good. The good news – the ONLY good news is that we’re breathing. Barely, but we’re breathing. Basically for the last two hours I’ve folde 93 (or some variation thereof). The odd time I looked at something nominal like TK which by this time…

Well I figured if I’m going to do this blog I’d at least have to make it to the first break. From that point of view: Mission Accomplished, although not much else has been accomplished I can tell you that for free. As I often tell Ruth, a monkey can get through the early rounds…

Listen, for the most part I promise to keep this blog more or less about poker as much as possible, but I’ve just got to say this one thing and then I’ll let you go, I promise. My attitude coming here was to just have fun, play well, and be happy with the result come…

OK. I know a FEW things now that I didn’t know a week ago. Like I know this: “Day 1” of the tournament is broken into two divisions with 230 people starting on “day 1A” on Tuesday Feb. 19 and the other 230 starting on “day 1B” on Wednesday Feb. 20. I know I’ve been…

A few months ago I didn’t even know what a “blog” was, and up until the moment I’d created this one, I’m not sure that I’d ever actually seen a “blog”. (Well, I suppose when I was younger I lived in an apartment where the shower drain was constantly getting “blogged” with hair but I…