I never thought I’d have a real job again. It had occurred to me that perhaps something more legitimate would find a use for me, but I had always assumed I’d probably decline due to my obsession with poker…

I awoke after perhaps the best nights sleep I’d had throughout the main event. I was in no rush, and took my time showering and getting dressed. I pulled open my laptop as I settled into the kitchen counter with a boal of oatmeal, and discovered that I and Jean-Robert Bellande had been seated on [...]

I’m not sure precisely at what moment I became conscious, but somewhere in the 5:30am vicinity I was awoke by the sound of my roommates yelling in the house. Nobody was saying anything of any particular relevance, just a lot of “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEA!!” from Chewy, “WOOOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP” from Dan, and a great deal of clatter and laughter surrounding it.

WSOP 2010 Main Event Day 5 I woke up early on day five. I’d had trouble sleeping again, and once I was awake, even for a second, I was fully up. I needed to have morning correspondence with Matt about the potential of wearing a site’s patch. He told me that none of them had [...]

WSOP 2010 Main Event Day 4 I was awoke by the sound of someone crashing through the door to my pool house about 6am. No matter how delicately you enter the room there is a loud beep that sounds twice, but there was plenty of noise following the usual that early morning. The entire household [...]

WSOP 2010 Main Event Day 3 A car load of three of us returned to the Rio for day 3 of play. Though our house had what I believe was 10 players enter the event, only Dan, Starky, and I had made it to this point. Both of them were going in much shorter than [...]