I am happy to announce that I have become a client of a new poker agency, Poker Players International (PPI).
East Coast tournament pros have received less publicity and fewer sponsorship opportunities than our Vegas-based counterparts, and PPI’s aim is to fill that void. I was instantly interested in joining PPI’s ranks when Gene Castro, the company’s founder, approached me in December [...]
Washout!
All tolled, my Gulf Coast adventure was a flop. I whiffed on all the tournaments I played but I did manage to scratch out a decent profit in the sit ‘n go’s down there. I made some craptacularly stupid plays in the $1,000 event–it was as if I was temporarily possessed by an evil moron–which sent me into a short [...]
I’m typing this message from a hotel room in Biloxi, Mississippi, located in the center of a strip of land called the Gulf Coast. Until yesterday, this part of the globe had somehow escaped my lifelong preternatural obsession with geography. I’ve always been fairly fascinated by maps. I can pore over the pages in McNally’s Atlas for thirty minutes without growing bored. But somehow [...]