Ben Affleck has won the California State Poker Championship, held at Commerce Casino. This is a major poker tournament, not a little local event, with a $10,000 buyin and a field that includes some of the best pros in the world. He's been playing serious poker for several years now, and has been tutored by the likes of Annie Duke and Antonio Esfandiari, so this is not a fluke. I think it's safe to say that he's the only person in the world to have both an academy award and a major poker championship. Perhaps that will change when Phil Hellmuth makes his film debut in Crybaby 2: Return of the Whiner.
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Well how do you like that, there are poker bloggers! And I just had to discover them 2 days too late to participate in the the Grublog Poker Classic, an online tournament for poker bloggers. Oh well, better late than never, right?
Daniel Negreanu has a video blog on his website, and if you go to the entry for 7/26/06 you'll hear his take on the lawsuit against the World Poker Tour from 7 top players.
The poker world is in a state of shock this morning after the unexpected death of Andy Glazer from complications with a blood clot. Andy is widely considered the best poker writer in the world.
I like poker and I like quantum computing and lo and behold here is a paper with both: