Posted by Editor | Filed under 2010 WSOP, Al Barbieri, Allen Kessler, Books, Daniel Negreanu, Jack Effel, Victoria Coren
Just seventeen hands into Event #31, tournament director Jack Effel had an insurrection on his hands. That he hadn’t seen it coming testifies to the number of things the WSOP TD has on his mind, because it was predictable, even inevitable. It was definitely a situation in which Jack had forgotten, at this peril, the nature of his customers.
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Posted by Editor | Filed under Books, Poker history
I met Des Wilson, who was destined to become a dear friend, at the 2005 World Series of Poker. He attended a lunch during the Main Event with Anthony Holden (who I also had recently met and who was also destined to become a close friend) and Joe Saumarez Smith (a boyish Wharton grad who became one of the UK’s leading online gaming journalists and businessmen over the last decade).
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I had not expected to write about the importance of understanding taxes and getting good tax advice today, just 4 days before 2007 income tax returns are due. On the one hand, this information would be more useful if you got it earlier. On the other hand, I’m just now starting to think about estimating my 2007 taxes for the purpose of getting an extension. So it’s either too early or too late, right?
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