No cheating. If you haven’t read PART ONE, you can’t read PART TWO. Some of my fellow Canadians have said to me “Virgil” they said “Aren’t you worried about going south of the border during this fraught and fractious time?”   I hesitate to get political in these pages but… the short answer is no.…

I listen to podcasts. I walk to and from work every day. That’s how I keep my girlish figure, don’t you know! It’s 4.3 kilometers (about 3 miles) as the crow flies, but… you know… not a crow so… takes me a little less than an hour each way. And just like the mailman, neither…

The epilogue. Or should I say epi-LONG. OK, let’s dispense with the poker because there’s not much to tell. I played in the $600 tournament on Sunday. It’s a silly tournament really because it’s a one-day tournament and it started at 4 PM so it’s basically a super turbo. It’s kamikaze poker. I won’t say…

Awww. I lost. I came in exactly 100th place out of 1450 entrants and cashed for exactly $4000.00 Canadian dollars. As usual, good result, but not as good as it could have been. Did I mention that this was a 2.2 million dollar prize pool and first place was worth 350K? That’s the prize I…

Awww. I lost. I came in exactly 100th place out of 1450 entrants and cashed for exactly $4000.00 Canadian dollars. As usual, good result, but not as good as it could have been. Did I mention that this was a 2.2 million dollar prize pool and first place was worth 350K? That’s the prize I…

Wow. Where do I begin. I can’t believe I’m writing this blog right now. I so should be sleeping. I played poker for 15 and a half straight hours yesterday. I got home at 3:45 AM. And I’ve got to play day 2 at 11:00 AM today. And I’ve slept literally two hours. But first…

Wow. Where do I begin. I can’t believe I’m writing this blog right now. I so should be sleeping. I played poker for 15 and a half straight hours yesterday. I got home at 3:45 AM. And I’ve got to play day 2 at 11:00 AM today. And I’ve slept literally two hours. But first…

There’s a guy on Instagram who says he can teach me to play 100 songs on the piano in less than an hour. And that’s what wrong with the world today. Why would anyone think they could learn to play the piano in an hour? C’mon. The piano is a difficult instrument. It takes commitment.…

I finished 25th. As always in these situations it’ll take me a few days to fully appreciate that finishing 25th out of 855 entrants is pretty good. And two thousand American dollars is OK, too. But right now, who gives a shit about “perspective”. As my kids would say… perspective is for losers. Perspective is…

We bagged chips! In layman’s terms that means we made it to day 2 of the $500 tournament at MGM. And for a change, I’m not going into Day 2 with a piddly stack. Out of a total of 860 entrants, 103 have made it to Day 2. We start at noon tomorrow, and go…