You’ve heard of Antonio Esfandiari? No? He’s the leading money winner in the history of poker. They call him “The Magician” a little because of his sleight-of-hand skills and mostly because of his poker skills. Nice to see him sit down at your table with a huge stack of chips, eh? Long story short, none…

To borrow a phrase from “The A-Team” (and date myself in the process) I LOVE it when a plan comes together. I’m writing from the parking lot. The top is down and I’m catchin’ some rays. The drive in was beautiful this morning. My complimentary breakfast at the hotel was beautiful. As the song goes…

I’m writing to you from Cornwall, Ontario. That is a sentence I would never have imagined typing. In my life. It’s a stopover. I drove this time, if for no other reason than to complete the triumvirate of  “Planes, Trains and Auto-mobiles”. I actually feel so much better about this trip to Montreal than the…

First of all let me say that trains are good. You can do work on trains. You can write your blog. If you were a normal person, you could probably sleep (especially when you’ve been so horribly sleep-deprived for the better part of three days, but for some reason that doesn’t hold true for yours…

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).…