I’m back in Vegas for the biggest day on the tounament poker calendar.  Time to play the Main Event.
This will be my fourth time in “the big one,” and many of my wide-eyed observations from my 2005 debut remain the same three years later.  My flight out here was once again filled with hopeful rounders.  Much of [...]

I am back home.  And by home I mean a spacious Brooklyn apartment, which I shared with Janeen for the first time last night.  After a month away, I had forgotten what a major life improvement laid in store for me back home. 
I decided to cut my WSOP trip a little short, which [...]

That book I mentioned a couple of blog entries ago, the one written by Mlodinow, discusses a curious human tendency.  The brain is designed to detect patterns.  Present a person with a random string of fifty numerals, and that person will automatically attempt to decipher a pattern in the string.
The book also mentions that in any long [...]