I didn’t want you to miss this interview with Assassinato. 5 Questions for Poker Pro Alex Fitzgerald appeared in the Arts & Entertainment section of SeattleMet. Bylined by Laura Dannen, James Ross Gardner, Matthew Halverson, and Karen Quinn. Gotta love teamwork. - JDW…… ALEX FITZGERALD started his professional card career at age 18, [...] Read more »
Take A Step Back: Reflection/Mental Itinerary
I need a restraining order against my brain. That guy harasses me like no other.If you do not like how self-indulgent most blogs are you should really not read this one. I love me some me, and I’ve been thinking a lot about me for the last couple days, and [...] Read more »
The Wooden Bowl (An E-Mail From An Old, Old Friend)
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson.The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands andfailing sight made eating difficult.. Peas rolled off his spoon onto [...] Read more »
Bend Over & Pick It Up
Alex talks about the lesson he learned from Adam Corolla. (At end of this blog.- ed.)I learned the same lesson from Jim Caldwell. Caldwell was my store manager at the Publix On The Island in Venice, Florida. After just one day as a bagger, I was promoted to the stock [...] Read more »
Full Tilt Buyout?!?
I can’t really wrap my mind around it.If Pokerstars purchases Full Tilt, if that truly is in the works…I don’t know what I would do. My friend who works for another large poker site told me it was announced at his work place yesterday that the deal was real. I [...] Read more »
Human After All
I’m sitting here waiting for a student of mine to show up. He’s half an hour late. I was a little annoyed by this until I realized its been a good couple months since this happened. Most of my students are pretty cool. I’m really lucky now too, I seem [...] Read more »
Triple Crown
Jack Welch pointed out this morning that I’d won a triple crown last night when I won the iPoker 30r. I told him no, that all the prizepools had to be over 10k, or there had to be a 100 people, or for some reason I thought I didn’t qualify. [...] Read more »
All My Urges
Going to try to blog more regularly, just as a way to keep motivated. I get a lot of positive feedback on pretty much every blog I write, so getting the results out there along with some daily thoughts is nice. It makes me stay competitive too, reporting each score. [...] Read more »
Beach Drifting
Hope you guys will like the momentary Jonathan Little takeover we have going on at Pokerheadrush. You can read a ton of great entries from his new book for free on the site. I hope you guys find his writing as entertaining and informative as I found it. Anyways, on [...] Read more »
Jonathan Little TAKEOVER!
People send books to me. One of my favorites lately is Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker Volume 2: Stages of the Tournament by Jonathan Little. I was sufficiently impressed and JL was more than generous with his help, so behold the first takeover of PHR. JL has earned my respect [...] Read more »