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Bringing It All Back Home: Reflections of BARGE 2015

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”)

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 attended “The Amazing Meeting,” also known as TAM 2015.

It was amazing!

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An Appointment with a Bottle of Champagne — Nine Years Later

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)

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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Thoughts on Oklahoma Johnny Hale’s Pledge of Allegiance Controversy at the WSOP

Thoughts on Oklahoma Johnny Hale’s Pledge of Allegiance Controversy at the WSOP

Posted by on Jun 20, 2015 in Blog, Personal, Politics, Rants and Raves, World Series of Poker | 19 comments

 

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The views expressed are strictly my own and do not reflect the opinions nor the positions of the World Series of Poker, Caesars Interactive Entertainment, or the Rio Las Vegas.

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