Another year-end article this time covering five things Lee Davy learned about poker in 2018, including education, rogues, social media, competition and sponsored pros.

We will never read all our books. Songs that produce salty sentences will never breach our lugs. Only a small percentage of the 7.5 billion will provide us with a smile.

And as I watch the pigeons pecking at the last of the McDonald’s fries that strewn the streets like sawed-off fingers, I sense the fight with time. There was a time I would have burned my passport to keep my home game warm. No longer. I don’t have the time.

I don’t play. I read. I watch. I interview. I learn.