I'm in Vegas, where I've been for about the last 30 hours. Before that, I was in Boston. You can kinda guess how that went. Game 3 was particularly bad. Fans were abusive and obnoxious throughout the game. I expect a lot of heckling and I actually love the fun abuse, but a great deal of Boston fans were over the line. There was a lot of shoving ( Read more... )

This post comes to you from Las Vegas, where I finished Day 1 of the $5000 NL hold'em (with not nearly as many chips as I'd like). As I announced on this week's 2+2 Pokercast, I was approved for a visa into the United States and will be attending the 2011 World Series of Poker (but most of it after the Canucks win the Stanley Cup, of course ( Read more... )

My impressions of Madrid, having been here for five days now, are very positive. Madrid seems like a very underrated city. It never really seems to get mentioned as a top-tier European city, but I think I like it better than the other Western European cities I have visited for more than a couple days (which admittedly, is a very short list: London ( Read more... )

Made it through to Day 2 with 86,800 and was feeling good about it. I should have been sent home shortly after dinner with my last 12k in the middle and AQ against KK, but I spiked. From there I went on a pretty good heater, flopping a set and getting my man to fire multiple barrels at me, and just generally betting and taking it down for the ( Read more... )

I'm here in San Remo, Italy. As I write this, it's noon, the scheduled start time for Day 1, but due to registration issues, bureaucracy and so forth it looks like 1:30 PM is the new start time ( Read more... )

It's past 1am in Phuket, and I'm settled into my small bungalow here across the street from Tiger Muay Thai and MMA, where I'll be training for the next week. The bungalow will seem a bargain by first-world standards at about US$230, but I'll be training alongside people who have paid less than one-third of that price to train at the same location ( Read more... )

Great trip down memory lane into my old grinder past. I'm almost certain I'm missing a few trips here, but I've done my best.

Circus Circus (1999): My first trip to Vegas, taken when I was 18, with my dad and my cousin. My goal was to go and count cards at as many casinos with good rules and low stakes as possible. It was successful, and I only ( Read more... )

As too often happens when I come home from a poker trip all excited to get in a training routine, I've gotten injured again. I was doing jiujitsu and on top in a nice, high mounted position when the big 210 lb guy I was rolling with bridged and came awkwardly on top of me. Unlike when I hurt my elbow, this was not an instance of a big guy being ( Read more... )

I'm in Melbourne, having completed the last leg of my four continents in six days journey. I'm here for the Aussie Millions, which might seem somewhat surprising since I've said here as recently as September that I planned to eschew poker travel in favour of training. However, I was asked to come here a while ago as part of Team Hero Poker. Yes ( Read more... )

Before I'd booked the Brazil trip, I knew I'd be going to Melbourne to play the Aussie Millions. You might think, why not just book a Vancouver-Rio-Melbourne open-jaw, but no, I had to make life difficult. Instead of one very long trip, I settled broke it up into three merely long trips. So after going Rio-Sao Paulo-Toronto-Vancouver yesterday, ( Read more... )