I played all day yesterday in the Party Poker World Open VI at the Palm Beach Casino in central London. We had to get to the casino at 10AM to get our makeup put on and microphones connected then some pre-show interviews and what not. The format for the Party Poker World Open is . . . → Read More: Party Poker World Open and London update

London! I love it. One of my favorite (if not the favorite) places to visit in the whole world. I can’t really explain why. It’s not the cleanest city in around. The cars literally go by at like 70mph+ while you are walking down the sidewalk 3 feet away (and pedestrians do not have . . . → Read More: I Love London

Ok so I have not put out a blog in a few days, I’ve been behind the eight ball. We (Piper, Chris, David and myself) are on a Virgin Atlantic 747 just now clearing the western coast of Ireland. Everytime I fly over Ireland it makes me kind of sad because it’s the only . . . → Read More: Grading Bad Beats

I am currently flying above the northern border of Arizona and New Mexico writing my blog and surfing the web courtesy (for $12.95 that is) of Delta airlines gogo inflight internet which is by far the best thing about Delta. Anyway, I have to head back to Memphis for a couple of days to . . . → Read More: Flying to Memphis

I don’t think I stand a chance at being as prolific a writer as Monkey but I am doing my best to contribute at least one blog per week and hopefully my pace will improve over time. Piper, Dave and I made it to LA late Tuesday night and I played about 8 levels . . . → Read More: Reflections from Cali

Overall I played really bad poker last week during the Tunica events and am kind of disappointed about it. Reflecting on how I played gave me a good opportunity to examine how emotional distractions away from the poker table can impact your game negatively, even relatively minor ones. I’ve heard the stories of people . . . → Read More: The three Laws of BEING THERE for Poker tourneys

Sitting in my hotel room at Disneyland while my kids nap so I’m gonna blog. Apparently there is controversy already a brewing about the “REAL” WSOP Player of the Year and I thought I would sound off. Gavin Smith, Michael Mizrachi and I were talking about this the other night playing Day 4 of . . . → Read More: The player of the year is who?

Ok, here goes my first BKG blog. Currently trying to get somewhat squared away on all of the regular work things that got pushed to the side over the last month and a half like always happens every summer during the WSOP. In addition to the normal catching up I am also reworking my . . . → Read More: Thank you WSOP