I’m on the Porter flight to Beantown. Plane’s a little small for my tastes. I’m in the 10th row. I kept my head down when I got on the plane. Then I kept my head down as I walked down the center aisle to my seat so I wouldn’t have to see the length of…

What the fuck am I doing? The whole idea of winning seats in major tournaments was so that I could travel the world seeing interesting venues under unique circumstances. Of course there was the underlying notion that I might actually win some scratch along the way, but mostly it was about the sightseeing. And for…

So what do you do in Vegas when you’ve been cruelly and undeservedly exiled from the big tournament? Oh, I dunno, it’s Vegas, I guess I can find something to do. And my buddies Domenic and Derek are here too, which is kind of cool because I’ve never been that guy who goes to Vegas…

OK I’m out. I finished in about 350th spot. I nursed my 22,000 chip stack right into the third hour of day two. And still I couldn’t catch ONE DECENT HAND! But a little smoke and mirrors, a steal here, a steal there, and somehow even with the huge blinds and antes (600-1200 when I…

Didn’t sleep well, even with sleeping pills. I never sleep well in Vegas. Some say it’s the rarefied air, the pure oxygen they pump into the casinos to keep people at the tables. I think the pillows are too thick. I have to start to be the kind of guy who calls down to housekeeping…

Well, let’s call it a questionable milestone. I’ve made it to the second day, although I practically had to back my way in. I’ve got 22,000 chips going into day two. Sound impressive? Not really, given that we started with 30,000 and the average chipstack as we speak is about 55,000. 872 people started the…

Well we’re into it now. Second break and I guess I’m holding my own with slightly over the average. I got a little lucky once and a little unlucky once but they seem to have offset each other. Nothing else notable has happened other than I saw a guy with no nose, just a 2″…

Life (like poker), when it comes right down to it, is really just a series of bad decisions, isn’t it? The ones you make, and more importantly the ones you don’t make, inform the quality of your life. And we all make bad decisions from time to time. Remember that cute drunk girl at your…

OK, so it’s been about a year since my last blog. So what!? Sometimes the days just slip away from you. Who among us hasn’t been guilty of that from time to time? Fess up. Who doesn’t have a best-friend-from-high school, ex-spouse, blind uncle, or Guatemalan Foster Child that you just keep meaning to drop…