Perhaps one should never go back and start sifting through old documents, letters, emails, or any snippets of history that can wrap the ‘need to know’ somewhere in the base of your skull and send it throughout your entire nervous system. Continue reading Flashback to 2005 – deck of cards of World Champions
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New day, same agony
I still can’t think of one time during the last Grand Prix at the Golden Nugget in 1987 that felt good, upbeat, happy, warm, or comfortable in the three weeks I dealt through it. I know a big part of the problem was me. If I had been comfortable dealing those games it would have been much easier, as it was, I hacked myself to pieces in rewind every chance I got because I felt horribly inadequate for the job. Continue reading New day, same agony
Andy Beal’s Sweater, Devilfish, Greg Raymer, Johnny Chan, Eskimo, Et Al
Friday night at the zoo! That statement says it all most of the time but not this time. It wasn’t a zoo. There were no cages and orderly paved walkways. It was a jungle. I swear there were people crawling up the walls and ceilings and swinging on the drapes to get into the middle of the room and sign up for games. The lists were 50 long…that’s not an exaggeration. Continue reading Andy Beal’s Sweater, Devilfish, Greg Raymer, Johnny Chan, Eskimo, Et Al
Ben Affleck and the Stars Came out to Shine
The room started out fairly quiet and then went bat shit along about midnight. I was never even close to dealing high limit…yippeee…but the whole room was abuzz and insane over it and the players. Continue reading Ben Affleck and the Stars Came out to Shine