I’m heartened to know that Nick Denton took my advice and hired Boy Genius to write for that comment-less blogroll-less Oddjack site.

Where’s my finder’s fee anyway, mother-scratchers? The very least you bastards could do is buy a freaking blog-ad.

I keep forgetting to get this posted. I hope it’s not too late for my deadbeat readers:

WPBT “Charlie” Tournament
When: Sunday, July 17th, 5PM CST
Where: PokerStars – Listed under the Private tab
Cost: $20 – Every penny goes to charity

The tournament is wide open for bloggers and readers, so chop chop. For the story of Charlie Tuttle, and why I’m asking you to play, check out the Fox Sports story by (who else?) the Good Doctor.

I don’t care if you’re sick of poker talk. Mucho congratulations to Pauly for his fine work:

Yep, don’t forget that it’s a three man operation here for us… the Poker Prof from Lasvegasvegas.com is back in his bunker in an undisclosed location in the desert where he’s writing code and Flipchip is fighting through the crowd snapping photos and I’m in the trenches in media row making prop bets, uploading photos, writing freelance bits (for Fox Sports & Poker Player Newspaper), moderating my comments section and of course… live blogging. I would love to have a team of workers flodding the floor like Poker Wire, CP, Gutshot, and other organizations… but it’s just me, Flipchip, and Poker Prof. And from the feedback I’m getting, it seems like we’ve done just as well if not better than the big boys. So all the problems we’ve encountered makes it all worth while.

Amen, my brother. Pauly is the only place I’ve checked with any kind of regularity. Why bother with anything else? I’ve got chip counts, table assignments, the hooker bar, the Redneck Riviera. No question that they’ve outdone the competition. Great work, McGrupp, and same for the Joes…a superb team*, no question.

* Can they hold it together for 2006, or will egos get in the way? heh heh

From the good doctor:

1. Aaron Kanter $10.7M
2. Tex Barch $9.33M
3. Andrew Black $8.14M
4. Mike Matusow $7.41M
5. Steve Dannenmann $5.46M
6. Joseph Hachem $5.42M
7. Daniel Bergsdorf $5.27M
8. Scott Lazar $3.37M
9. Brad Kondracki $1.18M

The final table was set at 3:04am this morning. That’s pretty much twelve straight hours of intense pokering. When I sometimes daydream about being a professional poker player, all I have to do to get right back to earth is think of that kind of day. I can’t sit for twelve hours, much less think. Much less think hard and make enough good decisions to be in line for a million-dollar payday.

So, this Tex Barch dude is from McKinney, TX? I wonder if he picked up the moniker this weekend. I wonder if I ever sat next to him. I don’t get to that many live games in town, so it’s unlikely. It would be nice if native Texan poker blogger & journalist DanM would get on the job. He says he is, but, um, well, DanM has a habit of getting distracted.

Regardless, I know who I’m pulling for. Cards in the air at 4pm today at the Horsehoe…still time to get out there…wanna go bad…but I’m a responsible adult…dammitt.