$2000 Limit Holdem yesterday. My starting table was actually better than my $1500, that one in which I doubled up the first hour. The explicit theme of the table was "I'm gonna try to make runner-runner two pair." I mean this was like agreed to by everyone at the table. One guy after making two pair with 92o to run down aces said, and I am not ( Read more... )

$ place ents ( Read more... )

Big Slick no Good for Geary

Jim Geary raised from early position and was re-pooped Marco Traniello, http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates.asp?rr=5&grid=764&tid=10833&dayof=1378Read more... )

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and stop calling me Sheila.

I'm signed up for the $1k donkament. Slept all the way in to 5:30am today so it's only about 20 hours of awakefulness til the day is done. Assuming they get a 37,000-person tournament started on time. jorj said the $50k mix started a half hour late, and that had like 100 people or so.. The mode result for me in these tournaments has been out by ( Read more... )

Keith Richards on writing his autobiography:

" If they'd look up the court records," he says, "they'd have more facts than I do."

RS 1105, p44

Technically, Morphy was the best chess player never to be World Champion because quite simply he was the best chess player ever, and there wasn't an official championship declared until just after his death. But going backwards through thin data is much more speculative. Who would win between Greco and Philidor? I'll leave all that behind and ( Read more... )

"tonight there will be the usual vocal performances by each grade, FOLLOWED BY the debut performance of a musical I've been working on for some time"

"and now for their next part, the second grade will perform three different versions of Amazing Grace..."

"..and now before we bring on the next grade, five fourth graders will perform the theme from ( Read more... )

Colleen just barely failed to hit into an unassisted(!!!) triple play. That would've been soooo cool.

Aaron, "Bashir, could you come into my office for a minute ( Read more... )