I’m charging Liz Lieu’s iPod with my computer. Cool, huh? It’d probably be more cool if she’d actually been the one to bring it over, but she’s probably a bit shy and all. In other news of galactic self-delusion, I’m thinking more and more about maybe playing a World Series event. I know, Je suis…
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I think I should point out that I’ve been posting WSOP stuff over at the UltimateBetBlog too. Including something I wrote today about the most important discovery I’ve made about poker so far at the World Series.

I was actually pretty wired and hungry after I left the Amazon Room at 5AM on Friday so I grabbed a burger and a beer and played video poker for all of fifteen minutes when this happened: I’m not quite in Richard Brodie territory, but still. I won’t be able to attend the Blogger festivities…
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I worked the 5PM tournament at the WSOP yesterday, $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo. Ugh. Split-pot games are a challenge. You watch a hand, a big pot builds…and then it’s chopped up. And a chopped pot, with very few exceptions (there was one at the final table filmed yesterday) is not dramatic. By the end of the…
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When I’m home, that’s where I work–from home. The dining room is my office, the kitchen my cafeteria. There are times when I get a touch of cabin fever and I go to the library to write, but for the most part I like working from my apartment. It’s a cozy little place that suits…
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I got home from the Rio around 2:30 in the morning, my ass dragging a bit. But not too bad, I’ve stocked up on sleep the last few days and I felt pretty good. Until I walked through the front door. It was hot. Not warm. Hot. The air conditioning in our condo crapped out….
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The first day of the World Series was about as I expected–nuts. People, everywhere. Standing in line, standing in the aisles, standing around. I sat at a table just outside the poker area and furiously wrote hand updates and chip counts as our floor reporters brought them in. At times it was a bit crazy,…
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Yes, the World Series of Poker starts today, and yes, I’m nervous. Keyed up. Want to get started, want to do the kick-ass job this event deserves. I’d like to think that I know what I’m about to get mixed up in…but in truth I probably have no idea. I’ll just have to experience it…
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