Two Fridays ago, I headed up to Reno after work( ... this is reeeeeeally long, even by my standards )

1. Last week on vpFREE, someone posted a link to this post on Russ's tax blog from 2010 entitled "Unearned Income Tax in New Healthcare Bill Will Impact Gambling."

There has been some discussion of the uncertainties, and Jean Scott writes

Marissa [Chien], my co-author of Tax Help for Gamblers and an enrolled agent, says that the above explanation ( Read more... )

After reading yet another idiotic message that essentially espouses the "EV doesn't matter if it's a short session" mantra on vpFREE, I have a slogan idea: "EV is addi(c)tive"

Credit me if you put this on a t-shirt or something.

... when my mom emails me to ask about it.

This is probably not a news item for you, but I read in the paper yesterday about online poker being a Ponzi scheme (involving Ferguson?), and they are being investigated. Is the poker you play in the casino a form of internet online poker? What is your game called? When I returned from the trip, my ( Read more... )

I'm playing VP at a bar (shocking, I know). Guy walks up and *room charges* a Miller Lite. This seems like both an EV and an alcoholic catastrophe.

Latest Bob Dancer column:

On Tuesday, February 15, (Happy Birthday to me!), at 1 p.m., I'll begin another 10-week semester of free video poker classes at South Point. This is my eighth semester at this casino, and perhaps my 50th semester since I began teaching classes in 1997.

Should the phrase "10-week semester" exist?

OK, who had 5:34 PM in the pool? (The unders take a beating, I suspect.)

I saw the subject of this entry from stardateorg in my friends feed and thought it was going to be something about the South Point promo going on this month until I noticed the feed name.

Besides missing an opportunity earlier this evening, I now realize that this entry really ought to have been titled "Bloody hell ( Read more... )

I had the last pour out of the previous bottle of Lagavulin (the one directly above the letter 'a' in the 'vodka' sign). captainparanoid helped with the current one. Still doesn't quite match up to the time I visited Murray in Vancouver and we killed 3/4 of a bottle in a night.


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