General Gambling

2010 San Diego Padres

At least once a year, I seem to find a way to talk myself into betting an irresponsibly large amount of money on something that I think has really good value. Past examples of this include the 2007 New York Giants (nice catch, Tyree), the 2008 Oakland Athletics (oops), the 2008 Presidential election (mega oops), [...]

General Gambling, Sports

Scramble into the Main Event

This entry originally appeared in my WSOP blog on PokerTips.org.
I’ve had a crazy last 36 hours during which I went from being almost entirely certain I wasn’t playing the Main Event to bagging up chips for day two.
4:00 pm Wednesday
I put $100 on a 7-team baseball parlay to win $10,500. I was already up a [...]

General Gambling, Sports, Vegas, WSOP

Celebrity Photo Dump

This entry originally appeared on my WSOP blog at PokerTips.org.
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog. I haven’t played any poker since busting out of Event 49 in 150th nearly a week ago. A week off has been so nice. My girlfriend was in town the whole time and we had a really [...]

General Gambling, Photo Blog, Poker Commentary, Poker Community, Psychology, Sports, Vegas, WSOP

Found: Holy Grail of Roulette

Note: this entry originally appeared on my WSOP blog at PokerTips.org.
I guess it’s been a couple of days since I’ve written anything here. On some evenings or mornings when I’m contemplating whether or not to write a blog entry, it is not uncommon that I take a pass on account of not really having done [...]

General Gambling, Photo Blog, Sports, Vegas, WSOP