“Just move quietly into the office and no one will get hurt,” from one of the four security guards that surrounded me as I entered the poker room. I found out later they had my picture on file and watched me enter the casino from the employee’s entrance, tracked my progress through the crowds milling around “O”, and the sea of slot machines that surround the poker room. I was numb. What had I done? (more…)

“Is that that loud mouth guy?” came from someone behind me as I stood outside the ropes watching Tony G. play the 7 Card Stud event. “Yeah, that one over there!” Another voice agreed, “Yeah, that’s the loud mouth guy.” (more…)

On comments: Even though I have stressed repeatedly that my posts are not about tipping, that’s the general thread in comments received. If Sam’s lady sweater hadn’t opted to try to remind the two of them to tip, I would have simply left it as, This was a working deadspread for me. If the majority of you don’t know what a working deadspread was before that post, you must know it now. (more…)

For the first time in close to two weeks, I drew table 17 as my start in the line-up. SWEET! That means I was going to deal mainly $30-60 and lower limit holdem, one $20-40 stud game, $10-20NLH and lower…thepart of the poker playing publicthat comprises most of the poker world and the most fun people to deal to - with the least ATTITUDE! (more…)

“I’m going to have to punch you…or get punched…it could happen that way,” by Sam Farha as he’s facing a $18,000 raise in PLO from Brian Townsend. It appeared that Sam was going to raise to defend his $3000 live blind - he called instead. (more…)

Card Player has made a big move in resolving the issues that I wrote about yesterday. You can catch Tony G.’s blog for an update. It’s refreshing to find there are still ethics in the business world. (more…)

I came home from work this a.m. to be faced with an absolute that I find to be quite vexing. I’ve read Tony G.’s blog post and you should too. A year ago I attended my first WSOP sessions with a media pass. It was pretty sweet to be able to move around and through the roped off areas and view the tournaments up close instead of standing behind the ropes and craning to try and see the action. (more…)