If you are going to Vegas for the WSOP, and you’re super stoked, and you want some advice on what to do and not do, here’s mine: Check out Hoover Dam. And if that’s too ambitious, then drive out to Red Rock Canyon and walk around. As to food, my favorite restaurant in Vegas
“How could you forget your swimsuit?” said the big-bellied bald guy to his portly wife. The three of us, and a mob of others, were queued up to board Southwest Airlines flight 1691, bound for Las Vegas, Nevada, the true center of the known universe, despite what Neil Degrasse Tyson says. The husband’s question
Playing $5/10 NLHE in the Pavilion room at the WSOP, the player in seat one definitely had a glow about him, a confidence. So I wasn’t too surprised to hear the player in seat seven say this to the player in seat one: “Didn’t you just win a bracelet?” “Yeah,” seat one said. “You won
This morning at the 2012 World Series of Poker I had breakfast with a professional poker player. Before Black Friday, all of her income came from poker, and almost all of that came from playing online. After Black Friday, her income streams changed. During the last year, 80% of her income came from playing live
I want to tell you about a brief exchange I overheard while playing $5/10 no-limit hold’em at the World Series of Poker. The player on my right was chatting with the masseuse who had just finished massaging him. MASSEUSE: “How is your session going?” PROFESSIONAL PLAYER: Now, before I tell you what the player said
This is a photograph of the biggest room at the 2010 World Series of Poker, minus the people. You know how we’ve been trained to think of a “football field” as a standard unit of area? Like a hectare or acre, except that we actually know how big it is? I paced off this room.
