Read More….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.
Read MoreChris 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.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreI 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).
Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his final on-screen appearances, A Most Wanted Man, based on the book by John le Carre
In the real world of clandestine intelligence-gathering operations, otherwise known as “spying,” no bullet ever gets fired. The good guys don’t swing on trapeze wires between skyscrapers over breathtaking city skylines. The villains aren’t giggly chrome-domed psychopaths holding hissing white Persian cats. The real spy game is subtle, and at times — messy.
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