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71,987 Miles
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71,987 miles. That's the balance on the frequent flier account I opened 11 months ago with American Airlines. And I still have two trans-continental trips and a bunch of bonuses still left to post. That's a lot of time on an airplane. And I'm about to get on another. Crossing...
WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack Ankles Harrah's
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Jeffrey Pollack introduces the 2008 November NinePauly crawled into bed around six this morning and nudged me awake. Ever since Joe Cada wrapped the Main Event bracelet around his wrist early Tuesday morning, there had been rumors that a big story was about to break in the poker world...
Heads-Up, At Last
28 days ago by
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"Baby/ I go crazy/ There's fever in the funk house now" -The Rolling StonesThe line to get in stretches for more than a hundred yards. People have been here since morning, waiting for their chance to witness history. They played cards, read best-sellers, and thumbed through...
WSOP November Nine Fashion Report
29 days ago by
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At the start of yesterday's 17.5-hour odyssey that left us with our final two players in the WSOP Main Event (Joe Cada, the young luckbox and Darvin Moon, the old luckbox), I penned this fashion report for the Tao of Poker. I'm a fan of group costumes, so I was tickled to see...
Offstage at the November Nine
November 07, 2009 by
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One year ago I sat less than ten feet from the final table as Peter Eastgate took down the 2008 WSOP Main Event. This year I'm a hundred feet in the air, hunkered down in the press "skybox" with a PokerNews badge around my neck but without a specific assignment. Sure...
The Waiting Room
September 30, 2009 by
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There were 24 people inside the waiting room of a clinic in a moderately sketchy section of the city where the southern fringes of Hollywood meet the northern border of Koreatown. I sat among them for three hours this afternoon and in between chapters of The Omnivore's Dilemma...
This Month at PokerNews
September 29, 2009 by
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It's been a crazy month at Casa Change. In addition to my daily duties at PokerNews, I covered the WCOOP for PokerStars Blog and didn't see the sun for many many days. Which was mostly OK with me, because the basin has been quite the inferno these past few weeks. That, and...
The New Gig
August 30, 2009 by
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So, I alluded to something a few weeks back here on the blog , but never exactly cleared up the whole mystery of my new writing gig. There's no mystery about it at all, actually and I've already been at it for about two weeks. As many of you know, Matt Parvis (formerly of Bluff...
Cook with Change: Shrimp & Orzo
August 14, 2009 by
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Good God. After two weeks on the road eating a combination of lot food, fast food and greasy spoon diner food, I was so utterly psyched to pick up some fresh ingredients and make myself a proper dinner. The result was so damned tasty I'm sharing it with you immediately. This dish...
Embedded With Hippies
July 30, 2009 by
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I woke up from a mid-flight nap just as we were about to touch down in Denver. After two straight years of heavy international travel, I forgot how easy a two-hour flight could be. Wake up in L.A. at 6:30, touch down in another time zone by noon. When it came to boozing it up and partying...
Suze Orman Meets Dead Money Joe
July 06, 2009 by
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Suze Orman: OK, next caller. Welcome to "Can I Afford It?" What would you like to buy?Dead Money Joe: Hi, Suze. I'm Joe from Rockville, MD and I'd like to play the Main Event at the World Series of Poker.Suze Orman: And what does that cost?Dead Money Joe: Ten thousand...
Base Camp Two
June 18, 2009 by
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While I'm on the road and awake in the middle of the night, I tend to watch some really strange television while trying to fall asleep in the dawn hours. Ice Road Truckers. I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant. Documentaries on the financial crisis. And those Discovery Channel specials...
Tao All-Stars: The WSOP Fashion Report, Week 1
June 05, 2009 by
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I'm honored to be one of the Tao All-Stars at this summer's WSOP and just contributed my first of several Fashion Reports. Check it out.***I'm back working for PokerNews at the WSOP and so far, the experience has been more similar to the fresh hell of 2007 than the far...
The Run-Good Challenge: WSOP Edition
May 16, 2009 by
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I've done abnormally well in the PokerListings Run-Good Challenge. I won the first Grand Final and was runner-up to Kid Dynamite in the second one. I actually think Matt Showell secretly named the challenge for me because that was exactly what I had to do to finish in those spots...
Change's Turkey Chili
April 30, 2009 by
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Several in the Twitterverse were curious about my turkey chili recipe. This is one of the few dishes I make that is both healthy and Pauly-friendly, though he complains about the size of the dice on my celery every time without fail.For the curious and the rest of you, here's my...
In Memory of Justin Shronk (1981-2009)
April 22, 2009 by
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"When Patrik Antonius folds his cards, they turn into doves and fly away."That's only one of the many "Shronkisms" that left me in stitches during the all-too-brief time I knew Justin Shronk. Without fail, every time I saw the guy, he'd make me laugh, make...
Music Festival Style Guide
April 13, 2009 by
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I'm off to Argentina this morning for another LAPT event (and this time I get to go with Pauly!). So while I'm fending off crying infants on a crowded airplane, take a look at this piece I wrote for Coventry over the weekend-- Part I of Change100's Guide to Music Festival...
In Transit
March 23, 2009 by
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"You've probably flown more in the last eight or nine months than I have in my entire life" said my father as we careened down the wide part of La Cienega Boulevard that takes one out of Baldwin Hills and deposits them in the L.A. basin at 55 MPH (depending on traffic...
Phish: Reunited
March 07, 2009 by
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Liftoff inside the MothershipThe intertubes in our hotel aren't quite what they were yesterday, as every hung-over Phan in the building is currently downloading last night's epic Phish reunion show, which is available for FREE on livephish.com right now, Pauly included.Pauly...
American Idol Wednesdays: A Blind Guy, a Puerto Rican and a Gay Meat Loaf Fan Walk Into a Bar...
March 04, 2009 by
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Your final 12 victims took the stage last nightThis week we’re treated to a triple cocktail of Idol—last night’s performances by the Top 36’s final group of 12, tonight’s results show, and Thursday’s one-hour wild card show, where the judges will bring back their favorite...
Pink Uniforms
March 02, 2009 by
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In this photo:* One is a Harvard Ph.D* One went to rehab* One is a Catholic school teacher* One speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese* One is a high school principal* One is an attorney* One worked for NASA* One is an ex-D-Girl now scratching out a living as a writerConsider it my first...
Hollyweed & Vine: Your Wednesday Morning Linkage
February 25, 2009 by
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Since we have to wait another day to feast on the remains of the second set of 12 American Idol semi-finalists, how about some more linkage? Here's some of the highlights of my morning news-noshing:The CW Greenlights 'Melrose Place' Pilot. I'm a closet fan of the new...
Taxing Weed, the Death of Defamer, and Oscar Night Blind Items
February 24, 2009 by
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* Seriously, God bless my home state. A state assemblyman out of San Francisco is arguing that in these trying financial times-- oh, let's face it, the state is BROKE-- California should move toward legal, regulated production of its largest cash crop. And you know what that is...
Pot Committed's 2009 Academy Awards Live Blog
February 22, 2009 by
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Last year, at Academy Awards time, Pauly and I were holed up in a hotel room in Copenhagen, Denmark on a misty Scandinavian night. The Oscars were supposed to come on around 1 a.m. our time, but for some reason, Danish television wasn't carrying it live, so we had to settle for...
American Idol Wednesdays: Grace and Gokey Lead Top 36 Opening Session
February 18, 2009 by
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The first 12 lambs of the 36 remaining in the American Idol Season 8 flock were led to the slaughter in front of 25 million or so viewers last night with a two-hour performance show. While I went for a bowl of pork and white bean soup, Pauly elected to injest an entire double-strength...
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