My standard, canned answer is, “Life!” Continue reading “What’s going on?” →

And poker players – because poker players seem to find too many buffets and live the lifestyle of the fat and lazy, I can give you one word “WII”. Find the Nintendo WII and get into the action. While you’re dishing out all those great beats on your opponents around the world, take a break twice daily and do some boxing or baseball or golf or tennis. You can even bowl. You need very little room once you get the step and move motion down. Continue reading Couch Spuds of the World →

Marie, Gary, and I met for lunch at Marilyn’s (coffee shop) at the Tuscany, around 1 p.m. The free roll started at 2. Lunch was nice, although a bit of a headache because Marie and I arrived first, thinking it would be the two of us, we were seated in an area that is high traffic to and from the kitchen – at a small table with two chairs. Continue reading The Tuscany Free Roll →

It definitely wasn’t like the old Pan Game Plays Vegas days when we visited the Tuscany, but it was a lot of fun – not profitable for any of us, but fun. Continue reading Playing at the Tuscany →

I’m finally hitting the real world of poker in Vegas, going to meet Wayne and Marie for a bit of chowing down and then poker – with real dealers – in a real poker room – hopefully with other real players besides the three of us. We are going to the Tuscany, 2 p.m., if anyone wants to meet us there – that will be Wednesday. We haven’t met at the tables for a helluva long time and just hanging out will be fun. Continue reading Tomorrow’s a live poker day →

Woo Hoo! Not too long ago that had real meaning in my life. Now it’s just another day of the week that I put on my list of great days because I’m not in punching the time clock at Bellagio. I’m busier than a cat covering scratch though so that part of it hasn’t slowed down. Continue reading It’s Friday →

It’s just one long game, with a bunch of other games thrown in the mix, right? Games intertwined into other games, in a myriad of complexity that form our lives – or we allow to form our lives. We do have control, right? We aren’t mindless beings, incapable of making decisions without choice – are we? Continue reading Another year, another chance to beat the game →

and Vegas is locking down for tomorrow night’s celebration. I started this post from across town – on the iPhone – as I was hanging out in the smoke filled sleeze hall known as the Wild, Wild West, mega long haul truckers stopover. The cigarette smoke almost knocks your nose off your face as you enter, leaving is a wonderful gift to one’s sinuses and overall hair/clothing odor, but it’s where sis and beau stop when coming through town for a few hours break or for a night’s stopover; easy on freeway, easy off freeway, and lots of room for big frigging trucks. Continue reading sis is in town →

and I want my front tooth. One of the crowns, in my upper front teeth, conveniently just slid off as I was having coffee on Saturday, the 21st. Yippee! My dentist is long gone – until after the new year. Kee-rist! What a smile! I looked like one of the pirates on the Pirates of the Caribbean until I pulled out the handy dandy tube of Super Glue. I’ve mentioned that to a few people – the super glue thing – and they kind of curl up and look disgusted, like something weird’s going on with the combination of super glue and body. Absolutely not. It’s an amazing little bit of goop. Continue reading A few days after Christmas →

I receive notice of new comments on some of the blogs here on PokerWorks, Tony G. is one of them. The very last comment on this post speaks of some wrong doing that Tony did to Ralph Perry. What did he do? Beat him in the Moscow Millions tournament? Now if the comment was supposed to go on this first YouTube video on Intercontinental Poker, then the commenter may have some grounds for his stupid comment. But having dealt to Ralph Perry since he was a $20-40 H player, shooting glare daggers and throwing cards at my fingers when he missed a hand, I think Tony says what I would like to have said to Ralph a lot of times over the years. Continue reading ROFL →