The short-list for the 2018 Poker Hall of Fame nominees is out. There are two new faces, eight old ones, and Lee Davy uses a high tech AI inspired algorithm to choose Mike Matusow and Huck Seed as his picks. 

When I’m on point, I wake up moments before my alarm kicks in; I’m talking seconds.

My phone is my alarm. I leave it by the side of my bed. Airplane Mode, of course. I don’t want to catch Wi-Fi brain cancer. And when I’m blunt, it goes off, and reaches out to me, slowly, lava-like, the burn pulling me out of another dimension.

Sometimes, I am still in a hypnogogic trance.