Read MoreHere’s a fun story from my days working for PokerStars.com, where I served as Director of Communications between 2004-2006. After Hurricane Katrina, we seriously considered making a bid for the NFL’s New Orleans Saints.
Read MoreLooking at the upcoming season’s NFL futures bets that I’ve already put in, I ask myself a simple question.
How can these bets possibly lose money?
Read MoreI browsed the magazine rack and was astonished to see a stunning number of gun, rifle, shotgun, and ammunition-related publications. No, this display isn’t at a gun show in Alabama. This was a bookstore in Summerlin, an upscale community in west Las Vegas.
Read MoreLittle boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.— Peter Seeger (“Little Boxes” — 1962)
I promised readers a passionate video montage, taking the opposite side of the current censorship debate about whether or not politics has any place at the poker table.
I say “yes.”
Israeli poker writer Robbie Straznski says “no.”
READ HIS PERSUASIVE VIEWPOINT HERE
Here’s the raw footage of my 38-minute reply to PokerStars’ misguided decision to ban all political expression in their tournaments. In this clip, my response is unrehearsed and often comes across as disjointed. Rambling. Less than stellar. Certainly not my best video. I would have junked it if I didn’t promise delivery. Borrowing an album title from Van Morrison, here’s my “Inarticulate Speech of the Heart.”
But I did agree to post one final summation of my viewpoint in front of the camera, and so here it is.
Run time — approximately 38 minutes. Apologies for butchering Robbie’s name in the opening segment. I also get interrupted a few times by overhead aircraft noise and my 13-year-old tabby, Alex, who makes a reluctant appearance on camera.
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Read MoreSenator Harry Reid admits he was wong.
At least, that’s what he says. Now. Well, kinda’.
Read MoreWritten and directed by Richard Linklater, the film shows the intimate lives of a struggling American family over a 12-year span, primarily through the eyes of Mason Evans, Jr.
With noted sports handicapper Teddy Sevransky, a.k.a. “Teddy Covers”
Read MoreHere are a few highlights from those who were on the various panels at this year’s NFL wagering seminar.
Read MoreI believe poker rooms and tournaments and their organizers should not place themselves in the problematic position of censoring players or silencing their political beliefs.
Read MoreWhat made the great State of Texas go politically bat shit crazy?
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