At the Bellagio you have to buy in with chips. If you don’t have them you can buy them but only at at a different window. And people wonder why I think most humans are morons. I understand that the Bellagio is just following rules for arcane tax reasons. But what about the originators of [...]

I have often been criticized for advocating the position that those in government need to be highly intelligent to do a good job. “Moderately smart people can rely on experts for technical details. It is their philosophy, values, outlook on life etc. that matters.” The health care debate shows that is nonsense. You can’t rely [...]

As long as Moon was aware of two simple concepts anyone who thought that he was less likely to win than Ivey simply can’t think straight. He need only go for blind steals when the players behind him are unwilling to make stands in marginal situations due to their desire to move up the laddder, [...]