I'm part-way through writing another post (well, I'm part-way through many other posts) but this one interrupts all of them as it's timely.

A particularly interesting tournament has been taking place at the World Series of Poker for the last two days, and it's due to reach a conclusion today. Forty-eight players started the Big One for One Drop, ( Read more... )

The bulk of this year's World Series of Poker, hereafter the WSoP, recently concluded in Las Vegas. I think history will judge this to have been one of the better ones; grade it a B+ at the very least. The corporate overlords at casino behemoth Harrah's, who own the WSoP brand, will doubtless be pleased that so far it has passed without major ( Read more... )

It's been quite a while since I posted last, so I'll ease myself back in to posting with a nice, easy one. Things are doing all right here, thank you, and I shall try to post some more soon ( Read more... )

The title doesn't refer to the Konami wrestling video game at which a then-11-year-old friend of mine kicked a 16-year-old bully's bottom in front of a crowd of his friends, or Chris Tarrant's third (or so) best game show. It refers to the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, the $10,000 No Limit Texas Hold'Em event, now well under way.

( Poker chat, including links through which to follow the action. )