Tuesday, November 18, 2008
You might remember that back in September I got invited to play in the inaugural PokerListings Run Good Challenge, a three-tournament series of freerolls hosted by the fine folks at PokerListings that culminated with a big Grand Final tournament among the highest-placed finishers. You might also remember that I narrowly missed the Grand Final, falling [...]
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Also tagged amy calistri, benjo, california jen, change100, christina lindley, craig cunningham, dan skolovy, david g. schwartz, doctor pauly, jason young, jennifer newell, kid dynamite, liz lieu, luckbox, matt showell, matt stout, michele lewis, Poker, poker shrink, pokerati, pokerlistings, pokerlistings run good challenge, shortstacked shamus, up for poker, wicked chops poker
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Busy Busy For a lazy man who works from home, I sure do get busy sometimes. Like right now, for instance; I feel like I haven’t stopped moving since last Friday. Chances are I’ll continue to feel that way for about another two weeks since I’m covering the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker for [...]
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Also tagged amy calistri, bellagio, breathing room, covering a poker tournament, dan skolovy, doctor pauly, jack mcclelland, kid dynamite, lacey jones, michele lewis, poker media, pokerati, pokerlistings, pokerlistings run good challenge, pokerstars, pokerstars blog, run good challenge, short-stacked shamus, The Business, WCOOP, world championship of online poker, Writing
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Email is, in almost every respect, my preferred method of communication. It’s not just the ease of use; it’s the content that’s a million times better than I get over the phone or in the old mailbox barely hanging on to its decrepit post out front by the road. Take, for instance, an email I [...]
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Also tagged change100, dan skolovy, doctor pauly, email, kid dynamite, lacey jones, matthew showell, michele lewis, poker shrink, pokerlistings, pokerlistings.com, run good challenge, shortstacked shamus, tim lavalli, wicked chops poker
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Despite plans to the contrary, I didn’t sleep my last night in Vegas. Instead I spent the hours from 9 p.m. onward in a haze with other off-duty members of the WSOP media corps. The best parts of the WSOP every year are the moments spent bonding over your mutual suffering with fellow scribes who [...]
One of the greatest parts of my job is that getting to know great writers is a by-product of the work. Just off the top of my head, here are a few. This piece by Gene Bromberg is one of the most succinct summaries of the state of America that I’ve read in recent memory, [...]
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Also tagged arthur crowson, barbecue, brad willis, chris hall, doctor pauly, ed sevillano, gene bromberg, jennifer newell, las vegas, martin derbyshire, matthew showell, owen laukkanen, poker blogs, rod stirzaker, Writing
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