I no longer have any association with the company or any associated businesses/products.

I will start with full tilt poker.  Their decision to allow e-check deposits for over a year without any way to verify or deduct funds, especially when these funds became over 50% of their liabilities is the stupidest business practice – EVER.  I’ve been told that the board did not know of this practice until after Black Friday.

I think the best hope for FTP to get repaid if the last remaining interested investment group: http://www.subjectpoker.com/2011/09/french-investors/.  If this deal falls through I think the chances of USA players getting repaid in full becomes nearly non-existent.

It is in the best interest of the DOJ, The AGCC, FTP ownership and all players with funds on FTP that this deal goes through.  As for the people considering investing, if I had a few hundred million lying around I certainly wouldn’t consider investing in FTP.

In an ideal world if the current investment deal falls through I believe that Ray the Full Tilt board should forfeit all their money and assets to pay back the players.  Due to gross mismanagement that do not deserve to keep $1 of profits they received from FTP.  In addition to this all other owners should return all payouts they’ve received over the past year (which are player funds because FTP hasn’t made any money in that time), and the 120 million that was deposited by players and never withdrawn via e-check should be collected from said players.  This would be sufficient to cover all player balances.

We don’t live in an ideal world but I think the US government should and will appoint a trustee/liquidator to collect this money to the best of their ability.

Full Tilt’s board members are not bad people.  I know that Chris Ferguson invested a large % of the money he was paid out (it’s my understanding the majority of the money), in charity projects in Africa.  Obviously, it does not excuse full tilt’s mismanagement but I thought it should be included.

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It is currently a significant risk to play on any site that accepts USA players IMO.  I know it is especially risky to play on Everleaf poker and Cake poker.  I know for a fact that neither one of these sites had funds segregated as of black Friday and if they fail for any reason they will not have the funds to pay players.  How do I know this:

When Victory moved from Everleaf network to the cake poker network Everleaf was only able to transfer 50% or so of the funds Victory Poker had in their accounts to the cake network.  Cake Poker agreed to cover the rest of the player funds until Everleaf was able to transfer them.  As of victory poker’s closure in mid-april Everleaf had not paid off all of those funds according to cake management.  If they had of these funds segregated – transferring them should of been no problem.

I have detailed knowledge of cake poker’s fincials from earlier this year.  They had 5 million dollars outstanding in funds owed to players and only 1 million dollars in cash.  They were looking for an investor to save them for going under and eventually reached a deal with http://www.pokerlistings.com/.  The terms of this deal I do not know.  Even after this deal they have been very slow making payouts.

Before moving to cake poker I had a meeting with management in person.  I asked if they had player funds segregated and one member of management told me yes;  they had all player funds segregated and available.  Other members of management were present when I was told this. I found out a few months later this was a lie. Their willingness to lie about this damning.

Quickly, I will say that I was opposed and very skeptical about Victory Poker’s decision to consider moving to the Cersus poker network.  I knew that sketchy people were still involved in Cersus and that if shit went down (poker got legalized in the USA) – I found it very likely they would take the money and run.   I told everyone involved with the moving decision as much. With that said with cake’s finical instability – I could understand why it was being considered – it looked like a safer home for the players in the short term.

I would only recommend playing on pokerstars (due to their impeccable record)  or publicly traded companies with transparent auditing (many euro sites).  Playing anywhere else is a risk.

Hope this helps USA players think about what to do while this shit-storm is ongoing.

Instead he made a public statement that dramatically hurt Full Tilt’s reputation and brand at a critical moment. Full Tilt has been searching for a bridge-loan/investment to cover all player funds and Phil Ivey’s statement has hurt their chances to do so. It is a lot harder to sale an investment in a poker site who’s most marketable player is making damning public statements against them.

Phil Ivey used this statement all to save his own ass and his own money. He has hurt the US players chances of being paid in a timely fashion under, the guise of helping them.

As Phil is one of my personal heroes I have to say I’m shocked by his actions.

There has been a lot of speculation on why Full Tilt hasn’t paid. The information I have suggests Full Tilt didn’t have their funds fully segregated as Pokerstars did so while the DOJ unfroze a large % of pokerstars assets as pokerstars could say these are player funds and we need them to pay the players – Full Tilt was unable to do so, as a result a much bigger % of Full Tilt’s assets remain frozen. On top of that they have many more owners who they paid out very aggressively (*cough* Phil Ivey *cough*), so they had much less of a cushion in case like something like this happened. In spite of all of this and Phil Ivey’s damaging statement I remain optimistic US players will be paid out.

Disclaimer: Most of the my statement is coming form limited information/sources and I could be wrong – and Phil Ivey could be in the right. But I believe strongly enough in what I’m saying to make a public statement.

Edit: I do not think that Phil Ivey did anything shady. I also believe he is correct/in the right in most of the statements he made. However, I do think what he did hurts the chances of US players being paid – which is bad for me and most of his fans,

It seems I turned the corner going on a recent tourney super heater.  I got 3rd in the NAPT high-roller for 310k and just finished 2nd in the WPT for 550k.

The final table was sick with over 25,000,000 in lifetime tournament cashes between the group (I was responsible for 1/50th of this).  Vannesa Russo started the final table with a commanding chip lead, but I doubled through her (Getting it in with Ad8d vs 99 on Td6d2c) and then stacked Kirk Morrision with a set to take the chip lead.  After that my heater continued and it was down to 3 handed with me having a commanding chip lead. It has always been my dream to get HU in a major tournament with one of my best friends with me (crushing them of course)… and with Antonio and I still in it with most of the chips 3 handed it looked like that was going to happen! Then Vannesa shoved 10BB from the SB with AQ and I snap called with AK from the big blind and it looked like my dream was going to come true.  I stood up (along with Antonio) to sweat a QT3 flop, and we were both slightly demoralized.  The turn was a king – and I thought it really must be density.  Antonio covered my eyes and I felt him buckle and knew that the river had come either a Q or a Jack.  It was a queen and it looked like there was a lot of poker to play.

Vannessa ended up getting a commanding chip lead – then lost it back so Antonio and I did indeed finish heads-up.  He ended up winning with a lot of mutual Friends of ours conflicted on who to root for (for those of you who went over to his side: your dead to me).  He played by far the best at the final table and deserved the win.  He was able to chip up without picking up any real hands (before it got heads up), and I was on a pretty big card rack.  So mad props to him.

Getting 2nd sucked.  But waking up and going and picking up 550k the next day didn’t suck.  I’m going to be taking some of the winnings and moving into a new condo – it’s pretty nice and I’ll put up pictures when I move in.

On Wednesday of this week i played on the newest season of High Stakes Poker.  High Stakes Poker is one of the only TV shows I watch – and by far my favorite poker tv show.  I’m not sure what I’m allowed to say about what happened but on my day there  were some MONSTER sick pots.  Should make for some real good TV.

Overall I feel very blessed about my recent hot-streak and going to take some time to smell the roses and spend some time with my amazing friends and family and appreciate all that I have been blessed with.

Since the episode both Tony G has blogged about it::http://www.partypoker.com/blog/tony-g/i-am-the-third-most-hated-man-in-poker.html&h=b16ba and Daniel N has talked about it on 2p2 (added below)

I consider Tony G a friend of mine.  He is quick-witted, charming, funny and extremely intelligent, and one of the most successful businessman in the poker industry.  Away from the cameras he is also a gentleman.  But when the cameras come up he Hams it up big time.  I don’t mind as it makes for some entertaining TV and most of the time it’s in good fun.

With that said he was totally out of line to call the clock on me in the hand vs Daniel.  If i remember correctly he called it in under a minute – and with the amount of money at stake I consider it totally out of line.

Can you imagine what would of happened if the situations were reserved and Tony G called the clock on Daniel after one minute?  Production and the floor would never let that fly.

I’m not sure if it affected my decision but I think players should have more than 30 seconds to think before having the pot called on them in big pots.

As far as Daniel claiming I took a long time to think on every decision – this is simply untrue.  Prior to the hand vs him and Tony G I did not take over 30 seconds to make any decision.  I personally feel Daniel has a personal vendetta against me and is trying to justify his attacks on me with half true fact and I feel I need to defend myself.

Daniel was one of my childhood hero’s.  I read every strategy article he ever wrote and found them humorous and insightful.  And when I first met him a few years ago I was amazed at how down to earth and humble he was – he was the real deal.

I saw him and talked to him recently at WSOP Europe – and he apologized for what he said on the big game and said  he wasn’t attacking me and it wasn’t personal.  Then he goes on 2p2 and basically attacks me (at least this is how I feel).

After the last few years since I met Daniel, I can no longer say I see him as humble and down to earth.  Which is ironic because during these years I feel that the game of poker has passed him by.The moment he sits down in a game online – at any stakes –  the game instantly fills with a 20 person waitlist.  More than that Pros (both online and live) constantly lick their chops when he is at their table in both tournaments and cash games (I hear the talk).

He has realized this and he has worked hard on his game over the past year – vastly improving it, and I applaud him for that.  But with that said  any 5/10NL online grinder would still run circles around him.  Which is fine, if I was as rich and famous as him (he is probably the most famous poker pro), I wouldn’t spend much time working on my poker game either.  But I also wouldn’t belittle and berate the people who have to “grind it out” for a living.  Remember your roots bro?

As for Daniel’s comments about me wasting productions time and money – I feel this needs to be addressed:

On the first season of the big game I was a backup alternate. This consisted of me being basically on call to play on any day they needed me.  I was thanked for doing this – told I looked great on TV and was promised I would get a slot (not as an alternate) on the next season of the show.  Two days before the show started I received a call from production saying that unfortunately they weren’t able to get me the starting slot they promised – but they would like it if i was available to be on call to be an alternate all week.

Side Note: In between the first and second season I beat Daniel for over 150k online at 100/200NL online..

This was not what I wanted – and I felt a little bit disappointed.  But I still wanted to play on the show and was happy to help out in anyway I could.  They offered me $160 in tournaments tokens a day to sit on sat and wait to play in case 2+ people busted.  I told them that I would lose a significant amount of money in opportunity cost if I missed playing online for a week to sit on the set, but I would still like to help and play on the show.  So they comped me a room at South Point (where the game is filmed), and I  happily waited around for a week to fill any vacant slot – which I got to do on this episode.  I rearranged my schedule at the last minute so that wouldn’t run out of players and was happy to do so.  But now suggesting I wasted productions time and money – come on.

As for not straddling – whenever Daniel gets stuck he goads everyone in game into straddling.  I personally feel that Daniel is a tilter and plays much worse when stuck.  I dispute his claims that straddling is “good for the game”.  It does create bigger pots – after all the stakes are doubled but it also halves effective stacks – making the game less strategically deep.  More than that it also makes certain players play tighter as the stakes are significantly higher and the money means more to them.  I think all of these things are not only bad for me – but bad for the game.

If he really thinks Straddling is great for the game why doesn’t he just make it mandatory?  This would be more fair to everyone that is playing as they would know before hand they were playing 400/800 instead of 200/400, and could get more money together accordingly.  If you watch other episodes and HSP – he only tries to get everyone to straddle when he’s stuck.

I think many players who are play on TV agree with me – but they are afraid to stand up to someone like Daniel who is a poker icon – and who has a lot of say about who gets on some shosw.  After all he flat out says if you don’t straddle you won’t be invited back.

As far as not not splashing around like it’s play money – like him and Tony do – I don’t apologize for that.  During hands I think deeply and analytically about my opponents hand ranges, their bet sizes, how’d they react to various bet sizes, psychology etc.  I know that many of the players on the show don’t do this – but I am playing my own money, and if I don’t win at poker I can’t pay my bills.  I feel that it’s my right when playing sky-high stakes to have ample time to try and make the correct decision.

I also agree with Daniel that it’s more fun to play against people like Tony G who have a VPIP of 80% and a 3bet of 40% or Daniel who has a VPIP of 50%.  And I’d certainly invite these players to a private game over players who play like me.  But simply because of the fact that they have the style of losing players.

With that said I understand Daniel not wanting me on the show, when he has to play against players who actually earn their living playing poker – not poker personalities – he is laughably outclassed – and ends up looking quite bad.

I think the production team on the Big Game has done a great job putting tog other an entertaining and action packed show and I thank for them for getting a chance to play.  But I think after this blog post – the chances of me playing again are quite slim.

So, Daniel, since it’s unlikely I’ll be able to earn money playing on the Big Game in the future, please start playing again online.  I need to line my pockets somehow.

I’ve been back in vegas for about 2 weeks ago, after a long stint in Europe.  I lived out of the mayfair hotel for 40 days and my average day was:

Wake up at noon.
Go to Subway for breakfast.
Play online for 6 hours or play a live MTT.
Work out.
Play online for another 4 hours.
Go drinking till 5am.
Repeat.

Needless, to say i was quite the degenerate.  It reminded me of the ship it holla balla days.

Overall my results were quite good.  I won 430k playing online (of which around 125k went to people I sold action to) and I got 3rd place in the EPT High-Roller for 300k.  Not a bad month at all.  The funny thing is the Internet at the mayfair was awful.l and I probaly lost 20-30k from disconnects, but it didn’t matter since the Internet was so lucky.

After that I went to Budapest for an e-gaming conference to help promote www.victorypoker.com.  At these conferences I am assigned (ok somewhat self-assigned) night-shift’, where it’s my ‘job’ to go drinking with people in the industry.  This results in me seeing very little of the conference and getting some wicked hangovers.

The locals in Budapest sure know how to party.  The last night there we went night-club hopping started at one club at midnight, went to a different one at 4am, then went to after hours at 7am.  I decided to call it a night at 8am to make my 3pm flight home the next day but some of my friends decided they would be the ‘last men standing’ in the club.  Around 2pm this club was apparently still packed – I mean so packed you couldn’t even move so my friend asked the host – “What time do you close?”  He responded, “We close Tuesday”.  It was Saturday afternoon.  Needless to say they were not the last men stadning.

I’m so happy to be back home in a normal routine.  I’ve been training everyday, going hiking, reading and playing poker.  Much more fulfilling than drinking and gambling!

Unfortunately the more balanced lifestyle has not helped my poker game as I’m down 300k online since coming home and another 40k live.  I played in the big mix game in Bobby’s Room for the first time with Doyle, Johnny Chan etc. and ended up losing 20k. For that game the loss was tiny, and I got quite unlucky in some big pots.  Hopefully I run good over the next few months so I can play that game consistently come WSOP time.

I’m going to take a break from poker for the next few days and try to shake off the downswing.  My mom comes to town today so I’m going to go hiking with her/take her to some shows, and maybe even to the club.  Hopefully come monday I’m mentally ready to play poker again.

Be sure to check me out of the pokerstar’s big game this week at: http://thebiggame.pokerstars.net/

I’ve been in London for slightly over two weeks now, I came to play the WPT, RaketheRake, WSOP and WSOP events that are taking place in London this month.  I decided to come when a friend of mind who was looking for a backer sent me a list of the tournaments he wanted to play in September, and I realized there were over $150,000 worth of No Limit events in London in September.  So instead of backing him, I decided to back myself and booked myself a ticket across the pond.

So far tournaments haven’t been that great as I failed to cash in the WPT High-Roller, WPT Main event and RaketheRake.com’s Englishpokeropen which comes out to around 25,000GBP down the drain.  Luckily, I won
about that much in cash games so I’m about even on my live play for the trip.  This tends to be the story of my life – if I never played any MTTs I’d probaly be around 500k richer!

I did slightly better in The World Poker Open – which is an invite only televised poker tournament.  The format of the tournament if a double shoot-out and I was fortunate enough to win my first table.  You can see my post-victory interveiw here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx2_x5klK9Qhe

I had a bad-cold and to function I had a few whiskies while playing -
which led me to talk a little bit of trash while running over my table.  Should make for some good TV

In the finals I went out relatively early-on when I got the sickest cooler of my life.  I had 99 on a QQ9 Flop and all the money ended up going end on the river on a final board of QQ959.  Quad 9s vs Quad
Queens!  The sick thing is that the same day someone hit the badbeat jackpot for $700,000 the same day with quad 9s vs quad queens on UB (Probaly one of the owners given how the site does business), and I didn’t get awarded anything for my troubles. To be honest I’d rather go out this way than losing a race – at least this way it will make for some entertaining TV!

While here I’ve also been playing quite a bit online and the results have gone much better than live, even though I’m running quite bad in all-in pots.  The PLO games have been good and I’ve been getting a lot of action.  Note though that during this same time frame I’m probably also down 20-30k in stud games, which Hold Em Manager doesn’t track.

Beside the massive amount of poker I’ve been playing I’ve also been doing some promotional events for victorypoker.net and partying with the crew.  To celebrate VictoryPoker.com move to the cake network and Dan Fleyshman’s birthday.  Phil Ivey, Holyfield, Craig Clemens and about 500 models all made an apperance.  Was wild to say the least. Video Below:

http://calvinayre.com/2010/09/03/poker/victory-poker-announces-their-move-to-cake-poker-video/

After the party a big group of us headed to a nightclub.  Upon leaving the taxi an un-named person bumped me, and my iphone feel into the sewer.

Than that same person *cough* Sara Underwood *cough* tackled me through unlocked glass doors into a empty cafe right in front of the nightclub.  This led the bouncers to unfairly believe that we were “trouble makers” and we were denied entry into the club.  Anyway… enough stories, I need to get to the gym.

But before I go I’ve recently signed a new deal with a new site my
friend started www.Sitngo.com.  This is a new poker sit & go site that
my friend is starting, it should have sit & go strategy  and tools
to help players win at online sit & go’s.  I started off playing
online poker playing Sit & Go’s (at $5) buy-ins and after playing
ten’s of thousands worked my way up to the $500 buy-in Sit & Go’s.
After 8 tabling these for a few months I had more than a significant
bankroll to start playing cash-games along with the poker
skills and discipline I needed to succeed at cash games (which are more
complex).  On this site I’m hoping to help novice players develop the
skills they need to build a bankroll and make a consistent winning
playing Sit & Gos.  Look for a lot of content going up from me there
over the next month or two!

To keep up with what I’ve been up to, be sure to follow me on twitter
@Andrew_Robl.  I update my twitter much more than I update my blog!

I always joke around with them and say that I will make a great wife and mother some day because of the experience I have gained from this job. Even after Alec’s car got impounded (as you all know) he called me and was in a panic and I remember him saying “aww Linds, your voice is so calming. I knew you would be able to help and I feel much better now”. When Alec comes in for the WSOP I go over there during the week, pack lunchboxes for them and set them by the door before I leave. I don’t go too far out of the area though, because I know there is about an 87% chance (open to bets on that too) that I will be getting a text soon saying “Linds we forgot our lunches, can you bring them to the Bellagio poker room please?” I kid around a lot because well that’s just my personality and life is too short to be serious all the time, but honestly I truly enjoy taking care of these boys, solving their problems and occasionally saving the day.

Since Andrew is a sponsored pro with Victory Poker, I work a lot of the Victory Poker events and parties. It has been so exciting to see this project come to life and be so successful. I think when something new is started everyone is anxious to see how well it will do and I think the success of Victory has far surpassed all of our expectations, and I am just happy to be a part of it. One of my favorite parts about being part of Victory is that I get to help organize the events, parties or casting calls. The castings are usually for models that will take part in some form of marketing for the site. Usually we hold these at one of the guy’s places and have an incredible chef and good friend named Alessandro will come in and prepare appetizers and a fine meal for us and all of our guests. We eat, we drink, we laugh… but we get a lot of work done too! I will never forget one particular casting call we held at Dan Blizerian’s home, I was busy greeting models and helping with paperwork when I heard one of the guys say “Linds, you’re gonna miss it! Get in here! Blitz is going to shoot Antonio!” My heart immediately began to race and I began thinking of an emergency escape route for poor Antonio. You see Dan has a beautiful home, but he is also like an alpha male, so you would not want to enter in the dark because you could quite possibly trip over an assault rifle on the way in the door. I came around the corner to find everyone gathered in the bedroom, Dan was standing there, gun in hand, and Antonio was standing a few feet away with a bullet proof vest on. I was hoping and praying Dan had good aim. Watch it for yourself on Victorypoker.net and sign up while you’re at it! When it comes to my job there is always something new, fun or interesting going on… I cannot wait to see what’s in store for me next, as long as I don’t ever have to borrow that bullet proof vest… I’m game for whatever!

I have lived in Las Vegas almost all my life. I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (so I am a diehard Vikings fan! They should have had it this year, damn so close!). I lived in a small town called Casa Grande, Arizona for a couple years before moving to dazzling Las Vegas at age 5. When we first moved here, it was for my dad’s job transfer, we didn’t have a house yet so his boss put us up at the Circus Circus for a couple months. I swear to God I was the happiest 5 year old on the planet. I played those midway games every day until I had the hotel room filled up to our knees with stuffed animals that I had won!

Since I graduated high school in 2001 I worked in real estate with my family as an agent, and as a marketing manager. Realizing that I liked the marketing aspect more than the sales aspect I then transitioned into working for a real estate magazine. That company then launched a hospitality magazine, and finally I was offered the Associate Publisher position at a national food and beverage magazine where I stayed for a couple years. Due to changes in the economy and in the company I was working for, I took a position at a popular nightclub as a VIP host. Although I liked my job and I like to believe I was very good at it, the late nights and lifestyle were really taking a toll on me, so I began looking elsewhere for something a little bit more normal again, well “normal” is not how you would describe my life or my job now.

My sister actually found the posting on craigstlist one day while I was attending my daily dysfunctional night club meeting. She called me and with a lot of enthusiasm she said “I found the perfect job for you!” and she kindly submitted my resume and picture for me. Surprisingly I got a call from a nice woman and she told me there were almost 450 applicants and that Andrew had selected 25-30 to actually interview and I was one of them! I was so excited, I always did well interviewing and talking to people in person but still I thought “wow 30 people… that’s a lot of competition!” So I was told to meet with Andrew the next day for a formal interview at a Starbucks nearby. Now, this might sound a little silly but you’re probably thinking because I am practically a Vegas native and have been a VIP host that I knew a little about poker… wrong! All I knew is that there was some kind of televised card tossing on TV that I have briefly experienced a glimpse of as I channel surfed. So I was expecting some old, hairy, crotchety old man who stunk like cigarette smoke and casino food. When I walked into Starbucks the next day I came upon 2 smiling younger gentleman who flagged me over to them, one was Andrew and one was his poker player friend Luke Kim. The interview was very comfortable, we all laughed and got along very well and they asked me a series of questions that I’ve never been asked in a job interview before… For example “How do you feel about packing up and leaving the country at the drop of a hat?” (my mind immediately raced, and I was thinking.. “ok, I am definitely not doing anything illegal!”). That question was followed by a more comforting question and something I was extremely skilled and familiar with, Andrew asked “How are you at picking out clothes and stuff for the interior of a home? I’ll need you to do a little shopping for me”. I smiled and said “No problem”. We talked about what some of my other job duties could possibly entail and before I knew it I shook their hand and Andrew said he’d be in touch.

The next day I got a call from him telling me that I got the job and asked if I could start right away. I was ecstatic! I am sure he probably hired me because of my marketing or writing experience or maybe because I had worked on web sites or computers before, but I like to think it was my sparkling personality and charm that got me the job. He asked me to come by his condo and get my set of keys because he was leaving town for 2 weeks. To me, this was odd… I just started a job with this guy and here he is running off for 2 weeks. I felt very unsure about the whole situation and hoped it wasn’t a scam. I pulled up to a beautiful high rise building with lush palms trees, a cute little valet man with a bow-tie and a glistening pool and spa in the distance. When I got upstairs it looked like Hurricane Katrina had touched down in his living room, I almost began looking for survivors. There were papers and objects of all sorts scattered everywhere. I thought “there’s gotta be like 5 people living here, holy cow”, nope, just Andrew. He handed me 3 sheets of paper, one of them was a list of all of his important information everything from his social security number, bank accounts and mother’s maiden name. The next was important phone numbers and addresses for people, like family members, his agent and last but not least the number for the maids, I immediately dialed it and explained the emergency situation. I guess when you are a professional poker player you don’t really have time to clean, and sweat the small stuff and that’s why he needed me. The third piece of paper was my “to do” list. Luckily I still have it (I keep everything), so here are a few of the tasks: “Get a Canadian cell phone, set up Rock Band bass guitar, install stripper pole, get a day-of-the-week vitamin holder, find resorts in Cancun, get new Louis Vuitton wallet”. The one I found the most amusing was, he wanted me to write a letter to all the other job candidates telling them that they didn’t get the job.

Since I began working for Andrew it has been a very interesting, fun and pleasant experience. I can honestly say that Andrew is a great guy and he treats me more like a friend than he does an assistant. Amongst all my crazy duties, I also handle a lot of extremely important things for him such as his taxes, some web site work, travel arrangements, transferring and transporting large amounts of money or chips, insurance, I also handle all of his bills, keep track of expenses, help at all Victory Poker events and parties, and sometimes travel with him to tournaments. Some of his requests can be extremely outlandish and funny, but it all makes for good stories. It seemed a little crazy, but for the most part it was all normal, for Vegas life I suppose… and then I met Alec.

To be continued…