Entries Tagged 'Thoughts' ↓

Before Lady Gaga made it hip again to read poker faces, it wasn’t until 2003 when Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker tournament in a televised event that the game hypnotized a much younger demographic.

Since then, the online poker industry has exploded due to its flexibility, speed and global 24/7 access — and casinos had to reopen live poker rooms due to popular demand. Vegas tournaments like the World Series of Poker also created overnight superstars like Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Johnny Chan and Annie Duke.

If you’re like me and you’ve honed your mad poker skills online (or at private games with friends), you should consider taking a trip to the Las Vegas Strip to play live poker and experience the glitter and glamour firsthand.

Good thing a lot of hotels on the Strip offer coupons that include both airfare and hotel. You can also get fantastic Vegas packages using a Travelocity promotional code.

That’s exactly what my cousin Bouasy did recently when he won an online poker tournament. The lucky win gave him the confidence he needed to play live poker, so he was even luckier to find Vegas coupons to make the trip to the Strip easier on his wallet for him and his buddies.

Before you can truly utter “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas”, I suggest you share or tweet these coupons for fantastic airfare/hotel packages to all your friends…before they read your poker face!

Always a hold out, Little Rhody seems to be lagging behind the times with the likes of perpetual poor cousin Maine.

D.C. recently legalized same sex marriage, joining 5 states in the union that have already passed it: Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

See the map. RI is the tiny red square completely surrounded by the 4 larger states listed above.

Seriously? Iowa is more progressive than you are? Iowa?!?

So, let’s slurp some quahogs and have a little chat. If everyone around you, practically the entire New England area, is down with gays getting hitched, what’s your beef? You got something you wanna say to me?

If not, why not get off the fence and start passing laws already. Go ahead. Just do it!

Ok, wicked cool then.

This one floored me!

An increasing number of patients are not only asking for removal of the breast with cancer, but for the healthy breast as well.

I remember the 70s when radical mastectomy was the norm and women were fighting the medical establishment to halt the practice.

40 years later, and the roles are reversed, with a growing number of cancer patients pressuring their Doctors to, as one woman put it, “Just take them.”.

Many Physicians are worried that fear is leading women toward panic before knowing all the facts, but in the end conclude that they support a Woman’s right to choose what she does with her body.