Vince Houston.
Vince mostly stuck to tournaments in the Midwest and was a member of the Lansing, Mich. club. He was last seen at a tournament in 1998 before he won a quarter-million in the lottery and subsequently disappeared.

Scrabble has taken a back seat to poker in my the life the last couple of weeks, as I've been involved in both playing and watching the game over the Internet during my free time.

That isn't how I wanted things to go, necessarily, especially with Michigan Madness coming up this weekend. But it all began when Poker Stars gave me $2 in free cash to play on their site. The $2 has proven to be a gateway drug, and playing mostly at .02-.04 cent limit hold'em, I was able to parlay that to over $15. ( Read more )

It's a small world after all

I had several games in Pittsburgh over the weekend that involved huge comebacks. Unfortunately, most of them were won by my opponents, and none more spectacularly than this one by Kevin McCarthy in round 8.

witness the tragedy

I hope to again get back to posting photos starting tomorrow.