So I’m in the spa this morning after waking up stupid early (can’t sleep in Vegas, ever) and after a great workout, I get in the whirlpool and there’s three guys there, (let’s call them Black Guy, White Guy and Old Guy) and we start to talkin’ and bondin’ as only naked heterosexual men in…

OK let’s get the tournament update out of the way. I made it to Day 2. By the skin of my teeth. I have 43,000 chips. The average is probably 100K. At one point when the blinds were 1000/2000 I was down to about 18000 chips. So I consider myself very lucky to still be…

I have no time to write this. On dinner break. five minutes to go. Wolfing down a (lovely) southwestern chicken salad in my one-bedroom Prestige Suite. I have no real poker stories to tell other than (as usual) I’m barely alive at the dinner break. (I’m getting a little tired of that to be honest).…

I’ve come to the conclusion that Tripadvisor and similar websites should revise their format. Hotels should be rated on one thing only: The thickness of the robes in the spa. If said hotel has no spa, well that speaks volumes in and of itself, and that property needs no further review. On that basis alone…

So , the meetings in LA are finito! I had 7 meetings scheduled in one day. Done! Rat-a-tat-tat! Well I guess to be more precise, there were seven of them so technically it was rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat. But then one of them cancelled. So in all honesty it was rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat. Whatever, I met a lot of rats…

The plane home seems like good time to reassess. This was such a good trip. So much so, that even when I did something stupid, it turned out good. After my debacle of a tournament on Saturday, the best wife ever suggested that I try again on Sunday in the Bellagio. I implore you to…

Done. I have to say that is categorically the least fun I’ve ever had at a poker tournament. It was over after the 2nd hand. Not literally, but you’ll have to be a poker player to know what I’m talking about here. 2nd hand I look down at KT off-suit in middle position. The goof…

Big tourney today. Well, not big at all, but it’s a tourney and we’ll treat it like any other. It’s a $200 re-buy tournament here at The Wynn. The re-buy aspect means that for the first three hours you can re-buy (for $200) and get a fresh stack of chips. So the whole ordeal could…

I’m on a plane. To Las Vegas. Jackie Mason is on the plane and the Rapper “50 Cent”. They’re sitting together and playing some weird game that involves playing cards and thumb-wrestling. I can’t stop watching them, trying to figure out what the rules are to this game. I get up to go to the…

I’m writing this from home. That’s not good. Well, it’s good… it’s a nice enough house I guess… mind you, the bathrooms upstairs could use a little updating… but you know what I mean. All things considered I’d rather be in Verona. But it was not meant to be. Again. I hung in for awhile,…