The first episode of my new podcast is available now on Soundcloud and for download HERE!(The show should available for subscription on iTiunes within a couple days)The Str8 Story Podcast will be an interview based show, featuring a rotation of guests with no particular affiliation to each other, other than being fascinating individuals who are willing...

I rather enjoyed this interview with journalist Susannah Breslin (pictured below), who asked some good questions for her column on vice on Forbes.com.The reason most sitcom jokes about crack fail is because most sitcom writers have never tried crack and don't even bother researching what its actual effects are.Here, by contrast, Ms. Breslin gave me...

It's usually a complete bore to engage in any discussion about the socioeconomic climate that surrounds poker, but I'm going to make an exception and write about the latest twist on the topic of women's place in poker.Thankfully I can skip past the legitimate, but well covered, complaint that a lot of female poker players put forth, arising from an...

Today the Observer published a piece I wrote about the practical and mystical knowledge that I've gleaned through music:http://observer.com/2015/06/what-music-taught-me-about-loving-my-wife-and-my-life/

Allow me to diffuse any polarization that my last blog piece created: The thrust of the negative reaction I received read along the lines that "the data doesn't lie, Vegas is doing very well, and if the desires of a few get sacrificed while the the needs of many are met, then so be it--the bottom line is fine." More confusingly, I got accused of being...

"I've been gambling hereabouts for 10 good solid years. If I told you all that went down, it would burn off both your ears." - Robert Hunter, "Deal" by the Grateful Dead. By now I can sing those lines with accuracy, this being the eleventh summer I travel to Vegas to play WSOP tournaments. And really, if I were to tell you even half of what went down...