Well, it looks as though I might have overshot the 2010 Mastodon Weekend by about, oh, 675 miles or something. While others degen it up in G-ville, I am spending the weekend in West Palm Beach with Vera Valmore, attending with her a dressage competition. Will be, I imagine, a marginally less intense time these next couple of days here in southern Florida, although I have to say I’m very glad to be able to get away with Vera like this

A new issue of Bluff Magazine arrived in my mailbox this week (March 2010), containing an article by Mike Caro in which he shares what he calls “My Least Popular Poker Opinions.” As we all know, Caro has had a lot of opinions over the years regarding not just poker strategy, but the rules and functioning of the game, too. And being the iconoclast he is, his ideas generally tend to illustrate genuine attempts at rethinking traditional approaches — one reason why I always find Caro one of the more interesting poker writers.

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NAPT official sponsor, PokerStars.net and Mohegan Sun have unveiled the schedule and events for the third leg of the first annual North American Poker Tour set to run between March and April at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. The NAPT Mohegan Sun will offer players 38 poker events running from March 27th to April 13th, 2010. Some of the highlights in the tournament’s schedule includes a $5,000 buy-in Main Event and a $10,000 buy-in Bounty Shootout event, both of which will be produced for future broadcast on ESPN2

Omni Casino ’s latest newsletter has people taking notice, since the theme is to “Listen Up” and requires players to respond to the content of the mail to receive cash prizes. The “Listen Up” promotion is running from now until February 21st and players are required to wager a minimum of $500, after responding to the online casino’s email