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Reflection on the Road to Merida

It’s been one month since I put all of my belongings, including my dog, on a plane to Mexico. It’s been an up and down few weeks since getting here.
I spent the first few days in Playa del Carmen exploring the area and going through the requirements needed to once again access the game [...]

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Settled in Playa

I got to Playa del Carmen yesterday around noon.
I spent most of the afternoon in the waiting room of an cargo company in Cancun that I hired to process the importation of my dog, Scout, who rode in the undercarriage on the same flight as myself. Once the dog was put on the plane, [...]

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Moving to Mexico

In a bit of huge personal news, I have decided to move to Playa del Carmen, Mexico to pursue my semi-professional poker career.

After Black Friday, the day on which the U.S. Department of Justice effectively shut down online poker, I told WSJ reporter Alexandra Berzon that I would not relocate to another country for the [...]

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Coolered in L.A.

Sometimes there are days where, in hindsight, you realize you should have never gotten out of bed. Today has been one of those days.
I’m in Los Angeles for the World Poker Tour event at the Bicycle Casino, a $3,500+$200 buy-in that lured something like ~700 entrants. Having not played a live tournament since busting [...]

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