Poker Review

I have to admit to being surprised at the numbers that have turned out for the WSOP main event, but really I shouldn’t be.

Two weeks ago the weather in Las Vegas was a balmy 84 degrees. Yesterday the thermometer tipped 108 and rising. You could fry an egg in Las Vegas, and plenty of peoples bankrolls.

Tilt-A-Whirl

It was really some kind of party. Every dealer, floor person, and half of the staff of the casino spilled across the lobby of the Hotel Kampinski Bratislava at 4am.

Then nothing else tastes as sweet.

Whatever it is that prompted 555 souls to come to Vienna and create the largest WPT field in the history of Europe, every single one of them are glad they came.

Yo Adrian!!

“I chuckled to myself and thought, ‘I’m playing Johnny Chan heads up. It’s like Rounders isn’t it?’… And then I stacked him.”

We all know the questions. Why am I here? What should I do? And what is the purpose of life? Thankfully, most of us put those questions in a box and worry instead about paying the rent.

I was standing at the bar in the Holland Casino in Amsterdam and my legs were wobbling. This is about fifteen years ago, but the memory is solidly etched in my mind. Surinder Sunar was telling me the words he lives by.