Davidi Kitai completed poker's "Triple Crown" on Sunday with his win in the European Poker Tour Berlin Main Event this past weekend. His win prompted some discussion between ESPN's Andrew Feldman[https://twitter. com/#!/ESPN_Poker] and others as to whether his Triple Crown win is legit since his WPT victory was a WPT Invitational that is primarily charity based. I personally agree with Feldman that an invitational win should not seem to count, but there are numerous examples of events being given more weight than they should.

WPT Host and Hall of Famer Mike Sexton recently posted a blog entitled *Poker Pros - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!* If you haven't read it yet, quit reading this blog, read his, and come back and finish this one. I've been fortunate enough to play with Mike on a couple of occasions in Vegas and he quickly earned my respect for his professionalism. Mike's sentiments almost echo mine in regards to how poker players should act when they are playing the game and how they should act as professionals. Some of you are going to read his blog, and this one, and still say to yourself that "poker players are not that bad.

A couple of weeks back, I discovered that AsianSpa[https://twitter. com/#!/AsianSpa], a guy I've grown rather fond of following on twitter, had picked up a blog on that other poker related site who happens to deal in news. I checked out his blog expecting him to call out chumps and give his true opinions on things and found.

Earlier today, it was announced that Unibet purchased Bet24 for around €13. 5, making the company just another in a long line of acquisitions. This trend has been going on for a couple of years now and has been magnified by the events surrounding Black Friday. What has been interesting has been the reaction over certain acquisitions.

Now Hiring!! Work for Full Tilt Poker!! Duties Include: Convincing customers we will not screw them like last time Listening to American players whine about not getting paid Logging complaints about not getting paid by our former employers Ability to withstand being laughed at by other online companies Ability to pay for your bills in the event we run out of money by buying Full Tilt Poker Ability to delay a response for three days to a question that would take 15 seconds to answer. Ability to write cryptic press releases are a plus Monitoring *wink wink* for bots and other activity against our TOS. Willing to take a bullet for us while we run out the back door should we run out of money. Salary if we don't run out of money from the transactions Having your pulse on the poker world and being the main point of contact for the company Sick days, vacation days, days you will do nothing.

In an unexpected turn of events, it now appears that the Barton bill will not only come up for a vote, but may actually pass. Sources close to Capitol Hill reveal that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed and Rep. Joe Barton have been in negotiations with key leaders in Congress over the last two weeks and have even met briefly with President Obama on the bill. As sources have reported, recent jobless news has helped to change the minds of many Congressmen that were on the fence regarding the bills.

Earlier today, Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan "delayed" the plea bargain agreement of John Campos after outright calling out the federal prosecutors on the leniency of the agreements. Kaplan outright asked the prosecutors whether or not they were walking away from prosecuting Campos (and subsequently Elie as well) and they essentially replied that there were risks that Campos and Elie's claim that they received legal advice stating that online poker was legal would cause problems for a jury. *Cue records scratching noise* Wait, you mean that one of those last ditch effort motions actually was somewhat legit? Out of everything that was motioned from the UIGEA being illegal to poker's legal status, it was the supposed "legal opinions" that was the hangup? The prosecutors claim that they were mainly going after the online companies that duped US banks into processing illegal payments and that Campos came in at the tail end of the conspiracy. In layman's terms for those that don't speak legal gibberish, they basically said Campos was not really that big a deal to them and that they wanted the other guys.

I finally got around to watching the Daniel Negreanu Vlog this week after Kevmath's not so subtle hint. During the video I hear the middle school girls in my head going "Dude, seriously? That is so gross. " About a minute in I stole a line from Finding Nemo and just started singing "Just keep shilling, shilling, shilling. " I want to know if Daniel got any kickback for his infomercial.

Depending on how long you have been reading my blog, you may be aware of my dislike of many home games. Part of it stems from the fact that many home games are either blatantly crooked or they there is usually a lot of angling going on to favor a certain few players. I ran into an old buddy of mine yesterday who used to go to a local home game with me and I asked about his current playing habit. He happened to bring up a certain person in a nearby city that we used to frequent.

I just came back home from a short trip to Richmond. Before I came back today, I checked out a multi-vendor thrift store to see if I could find any items for cheap either to offer in my online store or to add to my collection. I went into this one vendor section that was clearly a collectibles and antiques section. This vendor didn't quite understand the concept of thrift store as he was easily the most expensive vendor in the shop.