I’ve been working with remarkable people on an amazing venture. But it’s just starting operations so I’ve had to remain silent about the work. Finally, they’ve announced my involvement. I’m going to be the Editor-in-Chief for the website for Federated’s new poker league. I’m thrilled to be working with Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack, and through them I’ve met the remarkable group that Federated has assembled.
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I write for a living and tend to purchase pens and paper with the conviction – which could be interpreted as naivete, hubris, self-delusion – that what I write has value and treating the process of writing as valuable (down to my instruments) will enhance the value of the final product. I don’t know if this is a justification or a rationalization, but I love few material things more than pens and paper.
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As many of you know, my wife Jo Anne and my mother Myrna are cancer survivors. Jo Anne and I have become involved in the Scottsdale Relay For Life, the local version of the grass-roots international charity event for the American Cancer Society. Jo Anne has twice been Event Chair for the Scottsdale Relay and my Mom and I have both served on committees, as well as participating in the Relays themselves. Full Tilt Poker has been nice enough to support our efforts by allowing me to host online charity tournaments, and here is the information for the upcoming tournament:
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Erik & Ruah Seidel with former President Jimmy Carter
I was present at the first NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2005 at the Golden Nugget. No particular media affiliation – just passing around pre-publication copies of The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King and absorbing the atmosphere. In 2006, I was again present in a semi-unofficial capacity, passing around pre-publication copies of my 20,000-word Bluff article on Andrew Beal’s recently completed heads-up matches against four players in the field: Todd Brunson, Jennifer Harman, Ted Forrest, and Phil Ivey. From 2007 through 2010, I was present for The Full Tilt Poker Blog, producing some of my favorite work out of the million-odd words I posted in that space.
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In my final post to The Full Tilt Poker Blog, one of the things for which I thanked Full Tilt was the opportunity to use the Blog as a canvas on which I was able to create some work of which I am very proud. For at least the tenth time, I undertook to make a list of my favorite posts. The task is nearly impossible. (No, not because I am so enamored of my writing that I think every post is a favorite. If anything, many that I once considered favorites have been swallowed up by flaws I have subsequently perceived.) I don’t like reading my old writing and I don’t like focusing on the past.
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It’s my first day on MichaelCraig.com and I already feel like I’m getting behind. There are a lot of touches I want to add to this site, and a “best of” list I want to put together from my blog at Full Tilt Poker. But I spent today at the hospital, so I had to put those plans aside.
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Welcome to MichaelCraig.com. This site will be under construction for the next several days … or years. But if you are looking for information about Michael Craig, author, writer, poker player, and former lawyer, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve left The Full Tilt Poker Blog and have relocated the base of my writing operations HERE.
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