Road Trip: Return To Commerce
In June, I wrote about playing at the Commerce Casino outside of Los Angeles. A couple of friends read it, heard me say that every poker player should try it at least once, and said they’d like to go with me sometime, so we made the trip this weekend. Commerce...
Road Trip: #VegasStrong
Some friends were surprised to hear that I went to Las Vegas this weekend, only a week after the massacre at Mandalay Bay. They asked if I was worried and had considered cancelling the trip, but I told them no, there was no reason to do so. That would be like refusing...
Road Trip: Yellowstone
My wife and I just spent a week in Wyoming, visiting Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and Jackson Hole. During the Yellowstone portion, I set a new personal record for use of the word "WOW!" Words -- and even two-dimensional photos -- fail to describe the beauty of...
Heavy Lyft-ing
I have been on the road quite a bit this year -- New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas -- but for the first time in years, I haven't rented a car in any of the cities I've visited. Instead, I've used the ride-sharing app Lyft. I've not only avoided the cost of the...
My Poker Night In America
If you watch "Poker Night In America" on CBS Sports Network, you might have caught a glimpse of me on Monday night when they aired a show that was recorded during Thanksgiving weekend 2015 at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. My wife and I happened to be...
The Poker Track
In the last 15 years, horse and dog tracks have added poker and other games because the race business is dying. This is not the 1920s, when horse racing was prevalent enough to have a song about it open up the Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls." Now the cards (and in...
Caesars Made Good
In February, I wrote about a horrible stay I had at the Flamingo in Las Vegas. It had been a decent hotel, but years of neglect have turned it into a dump. After I said so -- in an open letter on this site to Mark Frissora, CEO of parent company Caesars...
They Gave What To Who?
Like many people, I was surprised the Nobel Prize For Literature went to Bob Dylan -- not because his lyrics don't qualify as literature (they do, as much as any other poetry that's not set to music), but because I didn't know the Nobel committee gave out lifetime...