February 2012
A Race to the End
You look on the cover of this month’s issue and you see BLUFF’s Player of the Year for 2011, Eugene Katchalov smiling back at you. He’s smiling because what you don’t see on the cover is the group of players that chased Katchalov all year long in the closest POY race ever and gave the [...]
No One Had A Better 2011 Than Eugene Katchalov
…And thats why he is Bluff’s Player of the Year You started 2011 with a very strong performance at the PCA (winning the Super High Roller, second in the $10,000 Six-Max). How much did it help your game to start the year off so well? It certainly helped a lot. My PCA trip in 2011 [...]
The Top 10 Stories of 2011
To some, the past year can be summed up in two words: Black Friday. Yes, the Department of Justice’s April assault on online poker dominated this year’s headlines, but there were plenty of other big stories from 2011 that remind us that the poker world has a way of persevering, even in the face of [...]
No Sticky Fingers
AUTHORITY FIGURES ARE NOT WELCOME … RING DINGS, OF COURSE, ARE I have always had problems with authority. It started early. Let me digress for a minute or two. From an early age I noticed that many grown-ups liked to appear intelligent even when they weren’t. Being smarter than others meant that I saw things [...]
A Recreational Trip
FINALLY, TILLY HAS A GOOD TIME ON THE ROAD Michael Phelps is going to be in Austin for his last American swim meet before the Olympics. Phil and the gang decide this is as good an excuse as any to visit their old buddy Hillbilly who happens to live there. When you think of the [...]
Rafa
THE MAKING OF A CHAMPION July 2008 Day 1 of the Bellagio WPT starts in two hours. I join my roommates in watching the Wimbledon Final. This old person’s game never appealed to me. Nevertheless, the players moving on my TV screen unveil sheer athleticism. Enchanted by their long rallies, electrifying shot making and mental [...]
Zombies, Hollywood, & Poker
The public’s fascination with zombies is rooted in an underlying irony. Hollywood recycles genres every decade or so, which explains the influx of zombie-themed films. During the 1950s and 1960s, movie houses across America featured a plethora of B-flicks, including classic zombie films by Edward Cahn. In the late 1970s, low-budget filmmakers cranked out another [...]
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