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 [...]

I love playing poker and would not trade my life for anyone else’s, but playing these tournaments can be dejecting when you’re in a cold spell.  My experience and wisdom on the tournament trail does not immunize me from the despair of repeated failure, and that’s how I feel right now. 
The WSOP is a great opportunity for me and other pros because there is [...]