A few more stories from my most recent trip to Las Vegas… For years, there has been a flat-panel truck driving up and down The Strip, day and night, advertising “Hot Babes Direct To You — Girls That Want To Meet You,” with pictures of scantily-clad young women giving their best Hello, Big Boy look. […]
For a long time, the Vegas Strip has been nearly impassable via car. Particularly on a weekend night, the volume of traffic makes everyone crawl at a snail’s pace. Back in the days when I rented a car each time I was there, I knew the side streets and back entrances of the places I […]
Do you notice anything wrong with this image from the “For The Record” page of the current issue of Time magazine? Yes, the chips used were other colors besides just red and white, but look at the cards. The game played in the Main Event of the World Series Of Poker is Texas Hold’Em, in […]
I’m happy whenever there’s table talk at a poker table, unless it’s about politics or religion, which devolve too quickly into heated disagreements and an ugly tone. Otherwise, the topics can vary widely, from a sporting event on a nearby TV to a recent road trip to the hand that won the bad beat jackpot […]
Some observations from a week at the 2018 World Series Of Poker in Las Vegas: It’s nice to hear so many languages and accents from so many countries. At various times, I sat at tables with players from Norway, Hungary, South Korea, Jamaica, Brazil, Egypt, England, and the Czech Republic. There was a guy from […]
It took exactly 20 minutes to realize I’d made a mistake. I had bought into the Double Stack tournament, one of dozens of events going on at the 2018 World Series Of Poker. I hadn’t played many tournaments in the last few years, cashing in exactly zero of them, but thought I should give at […]