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Mutually Assured Madness (Republican Armageddon Last Night in Cleveland)

Posted by on Aug 7, 2015 in Blog, Politics | 4 comments

 

Republican presidential candidates from left, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and John Kasich take the stage for the first Republican presidential debate at the Quicken Loans Arena, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

 

At times fascinating as an overflowing toilet, at other times utterly cringe-worthy, and often intimately revealing as to the true character of each of the candidates.

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Bringing It All Back Home: Reflections of BARGE 2015

Posted by on Aug 4, 2015 in Blog, General Poker | 7 comments

 

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Jennifer Shahade, a two-time United States Women’s Chess Champion, and now the winner of BARGE XXV

 

This past week, I attended BARGE 2015, held in Las Vegas.

B.A.R.G.E. is actually an acronym meaning “Big August Recreational Gambling Excursion,” a name sounding a bit pompous and pretty like a weekend gambling junket, which I’m told is precisely what it once was when it first began 25 years ago.  

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An Amazing Learning Experience at TAM 2015 (“The Amazing Meeting”)

Posted by on Jul 27, 2015 in Blog, Las Vegas, Personal, Politics | 1 comment

 

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James Randi, a.k.a. “The Amazing Randi” (left) onstage with activist, lecturer, and magician Jamy Ian Swiss (right)

 

Last weekend, I attendedThe Amazing Meeting,” also known as TAM 2015.

It was amazing!

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An Appointment with a Bottle of Champagne — Nine Years Later

Posted by on Jul 25, 2015 in Blog, General Poker, Personal | 1 comment

 

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Following PART 1 and PART 2, here’s the story of my favorite dinner of the 2015 World Series of Poker, in other words — my top choice out of 51 such engagements.  There’s also a brief interlude of thanks to some friends who presented me with various gift bottles of wine and assorted liquors, which sufficiently swayed me enough to write positive things about them here. 

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My Favorite Dinners (2015 World Series of Poker)

Posted by on Jul 17, 2015 in Blog, Personal | 3 comments

 

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Oh, What a Night! An amazing cast of poker characters — including Tony Hachem, Shane Warne, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Brian Rast, Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari, and his Dad, me on the bottom left, and lots of other cool people, too. At the SECOND BEST dinner I attended at the 2015 WSOP What was the best? Read on.

 

Between May 26 and July 15, I worked 51 consecutive days and nights at the 2015 World Series of Poker.  These moments were the best of those days and nights.

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