The Amazon room felt biiiiiiig. The average age was high. Coffee per capita was high. But this was before the iPhone, back when you were mostly just stuck with whomever you were sitting with, and the tools for poker escapism were just iPods and daydreams. [4/N]
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I always liked chatting with the PokerNews folks. They knew a lot about the game, they worked hard, they were there out of love, and they approached things with great humor. And it was a nice change of pace to deal with people who were actually *working*. [15/N]
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But. Anyway. Back to Daniel Negreanu doing Lil' Jon. The space could never be now what it was then, so empty and still. Negreanu could never burst into song without thinking about whether it'd end up on Twitter immediately. [16/N]
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And the very idea of "Snap Yo' Fingers" being a "summer song" or "song of the summer" or whatever feels way more 1999 or 2006 than 2021. Someone of my skill level being able to be a solid favorite day after day in the WSOP prelims--that's gone too. [17/N]
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It is totally, completely unrecoverable. Gone, entirely, forever. And that's OK (and even if it weren't OK, that's how life works). But that's where my head was when I made that little vulgar joke on the show. [18/N]
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To everyone who ever wandered those long empty Rio hallways with me in the separate-psychic-universe era of the WSOP, or who ever listened to me talk about those hallways or anything else about poker, thanks for the memories. [19/19]
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