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Posted by on May 17, 2014 in Blog, Las Vegas, Music and Concert Reviews | 9 comments

Opening Up My New Las Vegas Nightclub

 

Britney Spears Hosts the Grand Opening of LAX Nightclub Las Vegas

 

I don’t get nightclubs.  I don’t understand them at all.  The ass baggers who will pay $750 for something called “bottle service,” which basically consists of a fifty-five dollar bottle of Grey Goose stuffed into an ice bucket with four glasses, wheeled out by a 90-pound waitress who’s now expecting a 25 percent tip.  Bottle service — VIP rooms — velvet ropes….it all adds up to a pricey parade of pricks.

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Posted by on May 16, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Personal, World Series of Poker | 7 comments

The Best Seat in the House: A Short History of Poker Tournament Reporting

 

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1990 world champion Mansour Matloubi, watched closely by the poker press corps

 

If winning a major poker tournament represents the game’s greatest glory, reporting on such events can sometimes be its worst drudgery.

In this column, I look back at poker writing and tournament reporting over the years and gives thanks to those who blazed the trail to the present day.

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