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…

Because my friend Domenic is such a high roller, he gets me a comped room here in Vegas. The first night I stayed at PARIS and the last night and tonight, I’m back at my home at THE WYNN. Here are my Tripadvisor reviews. PARIS is nice and it’s clean. It’s not The Bellagio, or…

So, I’m at the Canadian Screen Awards last night sitting with my amazing client Mayko Nguyen and her very cool partner Mike, and on the other side of me is this decent looking fellow with facial hair, maybe late 40’s named Blank. (his name isn’t really “Blank”, idiots, I think it should be pretty obvious…

Best job I ever had? Oh, that’s easy… The awesomest job I ever had – and I’m including the one I have currently held for the last 37 years – was as a car jockey at the Hotel Plaza II on Bloor just East of Yonge. I was 19 and never was a particular young…

I realize I kinda left you hangin’ a bit there, huh? Sorry I’m just getting back to you now. But I’m sure you know that if I had done anything spectacular in Day 2 of that tournament on Friday, you’d have heard from me long before this! So, yeah, no. My Day 2 experience was…

I knew it! I just knew it! I knew if I wrote (in the eloquent words of one of my favorite readers) a “pathetic and self-loathing” blog post, I would break the schneid. And it worked like a charm! The good news is I made it to day two of “The Year of the Dragon…

I’m in a slump. I guess it started in Vegas in December. It began innocently enough. Every good poker player loses. We lose a lot in fact. Way more than we win. Just as the best hitters in baseball only hit safely 30% of the time, top poker players, more often than not, are sent…

Remember at the end of my last blog when I said something along the lines of “tomorrow’s another day” or some such nonsense, implying the possibility of good fortune on the horizon. Well, sometimes tomorrow is not really so much another day. Sometimes the next day is the same as the day before… but worse!…