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Posted by on Aug 8, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Talking Points, Video 1, World Series of Poker | 1 comment

My Interview with Tatjana Pasalic on Online Gambling (Calvin Ayre.com)

 

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Tatjana Pasalic and I have done quite a few interviews together.  I’m a big fan of her work, which is regularly posted at CalvinAyre.com.

Below this most recent interview, at the 2014 WSOP, see Part 1 of “How the West Was Won,” which is a nice overview of WSOP history.

 

READ:  More background on the history of the WSOP

TAG: “Indeed, the casino started to look filthy.  Everything inside smelled like smoke.  Televisions inside the hotel rooms were broken and stayed that way for months.  Some of the TVs still used old-fashioned rabbit ears.  Hotel rooms went for as cheap as $19 a night, and they still couldn’t book them.  Binion’s Horseshoe was an excruciating reminder that “old” Las Vegas was disappearing fast, soon to be extinct.  It was a dying dinosaur on its last legs.  Fewer tourists came downtown anymore and those who stayed there didn’t tend to gamble much.  The real casino action and entertainment were down on The Strip, which might as well have been not just in a different state, but on another planet.”

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Posted by on Aug 8, 2014 in Blog, Music and Concert Reviews | 3 comments

Scattershooting, while wondering whatever happened to….

 

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….great rock and blues legend, brilliant songwriter, and legendary pianist — Leon Russell.

Time for another rambling wreck of random thoughts and occasionally wacky ideas, about whatever comes to mind during this midnight hour on a hot August night here in Las Vegas.

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Posted by on Aug 7, 2014 in Blog, Book Reviews, General Poker, World Series of Poker | 1 comment

Book Review: The Moneymaker Effect (Author — Eric Raskin)

 

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Chris Moneymaker holds no particular fascination for me and I have no interest in writing about him or that period again.  He’s a backstabber.  But his impact on poker was incalculable.  Congratulations to Eric Raskin on writing the definitive story of his victory.

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Posted by on Aug 6, 2014 in Blog, Movie Reviews, Talking Points | 6 comments

A Profanity-Filled Video Rant About Awful Summer Movies

 

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I suspect that my intense interest in, and passion for, things like American politics, world history, international affairs, and my deep sense of civic responsibility stems largely from the important lessons I learned while still young. 

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Posted by on Aug 5, 2014 in Blog, General Poker, Personal | 1 comment

A PokerStars Conference Call: The Creation of the European Poker Tour (EPT)

 

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I worked for PokerStars.com for nearly three years.  I served as the company’s Director of Communications between 2004-2006.  Until now, I have written and said very little about my time spent with PokerStars.  This was largely out of respect for the confidentially of the company and those I worked with closely during those years.  However, the recent sale of the company by the Scheinberg Family allows me now to be more candid about what I did, and the activities I observed.  Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the following telephone conference call, which essentially created the European Poker Tour (EPT).

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