2021 WSOP Schedule Released The big news of the past two weeks is, of course, the announcement of the 2021 World Series of Poker Schedule last Monday. I had my room reservation at the Rio and flights scheduled by 11am … Continue reading
Six Months to 60 When I started this blog, I’d just turned 49. I’d been playing live Hold’em for a little over two years. Tomorrow, I’ll be six months away from turning 60. So there’s that. Five years ago, I … Continue reading
Not a joke https://twitter.com/wsop/status/1377637706021265410?s=21 The Leaderboard I tell ya, poker isolation has been a bitch. My home game crowd—despite including a number of techies—never got it together to do the Zoom game thing using PokerStars Home Games or anything else, … Continue reading
The first post on this blog was December 10, 2010! I’d been playing poker in a home game for a couple of years by then. I’d played a bit online on Cake Poker, PokerStars, and Full Tilt. I’d written a program … Continue reading
I had already written part of this post when I got the news about the passing of Calvin Nithikhun Sr., known by a lot of us in the Portland poker community as Twitch. If you can, head over to read … Continue reading
Everybody’s always asking Why do what I do I don’t gamble ’cuz I want to win, boys I gamble ’cuz I need to lose This was the year I didn’t go to Vegas. I announced last fall that I was retiring from … Continue reading
I was informed today by @poker_media that my status as a member of the poker media is in question. Looks like I’m gonna need to work something pretty soon here. Anyone got any jobs? @RGPokerSeries @WSOP @PokerNews pic.twitter.com/zGqGJF7Atr — Samuel … Continue reading
I’m afraid that I didn’t follow up on my post about Molly Anne Mossey‘s deep run on Day 3 at the EPT Barcelona Main Event, but she busted in 50th place (from 1,988 entries) just short of the end of day. The … Continue reading
https://twitter.com/MollyAnneMossey/status/1164346969608769537 I worked briefly with Molly Anne Mossey during my stint as a poker reporter at the Word Series of Poker back in 2016, and following her career arc—mostly via Twitter, but every now and then in a news article with Jacki … Continue reading
After 1,336 players turned up for Day 1A, there are strong indications that the 2019 #WSOP Main Event could be largest ever. Check our WSOP coverage hub for latest news, chip counts, images and features. https://t.co/bnB810RHuR pic.twitter.com/AwdY3jKLZx — PokerStars Blog … Continue reading