With the WSOP Seniors tournament behind me, I set my sights on the Seniors tournament over at The Venetian. $1000 entry fee with a one million dollar guaranteed prize pool. What’s not to like? Plus, I needed to get my 15,000 steps in anyway. I headed over there on foot.    Vegas during the…

Hey Virgil Blog, it’s been a while. Like two and a half years give or take a pandemic.   Anyway, great to see you again.  Las Vegas, Nevada. World Series of Poker Seniors Tournament, 2022. That’s what we’re here for, right?  $1000.00 entry fee.  Orange section, table 532, seat 3 (my least favorite seat, but whatever…) …

I’ve got all my life to live I’ve got all my love to give – I WILL SURVIVE! Monday night I was driving down to Commerce from the little house Ruth and I have rented for the month. Our house is in Silver Lake and we love it. Our car is a sweet little two-seater…

I played poker with Bill Klein! And he told this great joke. Well, let’s say he told a joke, great.  I didn’t tell Ruth the joke (she’ll read it in this blog at the same time you do). I wouldn’t tell it to Laura De Carteret either who will also read it here. I think…

I’m not even sure I can bring myself to write about this one.  But I will. Ruth and I took a little trip to Montreal this weekend to see our son, Joey, and for me to play in a poker tournament. It was The WPT $1500 Deepstack. And for whatever reason, GOD-if-GOD-exists decided I was…

I love The Aria! Remember two years ago when I chopped a $25,000 prize five ways in their nightly tournament, and walked back to my room at The Encore at 7 AM in broad daylight? And remember last year when I went on a 30-minute heater at the blackjack table here and won $1200? And…

Bad beat stories.  Every poker player has a million of ‘em, and one is more boring than the next. Nobody wants to hear them. Apparently two enterprising young women once opened a booth at The Rio and charged five dollars to players leaving the tournament to listen to their bad beat stories. (If a player…

I hate The Rio Hotel. For the first time in three years I will not be cashing in The WSOP Seniors tournament. But that’s not why I hate the Rio. Of course, I will be happy to tell you about the three hands that brought me down… But that still won’t be why I hate…

Warning: there will be no mention of poker in this particular blog. So. You’re sitting at a blackjack table at The D Hotel in downtown Las Vegas and the guy beside you orders four Rum and Cokes in the span of an hour. Do you cut the guy off? Do you say “Hey Buddy, maybe…

As you may remember, last year at this exact time I was finishing 2nd in the Seminole Hard Rock Casino Lucky Hearts $1100 tournament netting me $20,000 (US), my best result ever in a live tournament (up to now anyway). So why wouldn’t I return to the scene of the crime a year later? After…