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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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You’d think I might be writing this post just to wish everyone a Happy Passover. Think again. For better or worse, I’m not that Jew. And this is not that blog. Besides, Passover is one of my least favorite of all the atonement holidays. The story has so many holes, and the plotlines are rife…
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So, yes, this is a TOURNAMENT poker blog. But it’s also called VIRGIL GOES TO EUROPE (see blog number one to remember why). And Virgil… is actually IN EUROPE! Ruth and I made the prescient decision NOT to go to LA this winter and instead we’re working from Portugal for the month of January. A…
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So, I guess I’m back. My poker world has righted itself. At the very least, I won something. I’ll get to that in a sec. *** First… What is it with me and broken-down cars and poker?! When I rent a car in foreign cities, I always rent through TURO. If you’ve never heard of…
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Go figure. Turns out that wearing a black Adidas Tiro 24 Competition sweatsuit to a poker tournament is every bit as benign and unintimidating as it is on a airplane. I mean, seriously, would you call an all-in stone-cold bluff on the river to THIS guy? I certainly wouldn’t. But you’d be surprised at how…
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