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She’s Baaaack

Well – within the next couple of days. In the mean time I’m pretty heartbroken about the loss of two years worth of my blog. And if there was a villian in all this, it was Bill Frist. But I’ll explain it all later. Over the next few days I’ll be working to build back […]

Backlogged…But That’s the Way I Roll

For some reason, I thought my days were going to be much easier once the WSOP ended, but I was obviously just in denial. I keep thinking of these great ubber posts I want to do, but there really isn’t going to be ubber time until the Matusow book is completed – which is still […]

Spoiler-Free, WPT, and Sadly Sammy

I won’t write about the Main Event until it starts to air on ESPN. I had no idea how many people don’t want to know anything until they see it on TV until I went to my home game last week. With my work day starting at 4:00 am during the WSOP and not ending […]

(Cas)set(te) Me Back in Time

One of the things I wanted to do once I tiled the floor was to replace my old entertainment center. It’s a teak veneer deal that was all the rage back in the 80’s when I bought it. One of the smoked glass doors has a big crack in it – the crack is more […]

Math: Sebok vs. Haxton and Poker’s Rose

The chaos that seems to prevail in the labor markets conceals a pattern of order which can be explained and which sheds light on the influences that determine the inter-industry wage structure in the community – Sumner Slichter Hang with me now; this eventually has something to do with poker. In 1950, an economist named […]

Bust and Global Warning Solved

What does it mean when all your friends are being arrested? I may have to spend a little more time with that question now that they nabbed my buddy Vinnie Procopio (pictured above at the 2007 LAPC). That makes four people I know arrested in the last few weeks on gambling charges. I think Wicked […]

Father’s Day

My father has been dead for many years now, but I think of him often. He was second generation Armenian. His parents came to this country to escape the 1915 Armenian genocide. If I inherited my gambling genes, he was undoubtedly the source. I don’t remember him playing poker, but he loved craps, gin, bridge […]