Where to begin? Why not the beginning? Wednesday night. I decide I’m not going to take drugs. I’m not going to take a sleeping pill (which I usually do the night before a tournament) . Big mistake number one. Normally I sleep from about 2 until 730. But I figure I need a really good…

When I was on staff at Camp Wahanowin, there were a lot of Montrealers there. So here’s what I know about Montreal. The women are all good-looking and the guys are all dweebs. That’s not an opinion, or even a generalization. That’s a fact. Or at least it was in 1979. So if I were…

Done. Four hands in. I did what I had to do which was shove my A-9 from the cut-off. Unfortunately I shoved it right into Aces. Flop came TJQ which actually gave me plenty of outs for either a win or a chop, but alas it wasn’t in the cards. Get it? Wasn’t in the…

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…