I should know, from several stupid experiences, that you don’t ask someone how they’re doing when they are walking quickly away from the tournament area in an empty hallway. I hereby apologize for my insensitivity to Jim McManus, Richard Brodie, Andy Bloch, and John Juanda.
It’s funny that I just read this because I ran into Andy Bloch right after he busted in a WSOP event. I was completely unaware of what had just happened so I went up to him, smiled, and said “Hey Andy, how’s it going?” I could see in that instant as he was reaching out to shake hands that I didn’t catch him at a particularly good moment and he just said “Uh, I just busted out,” and he kept on going.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
