[Slim Pickens]

This is what happens when you spend consecutive weekends hanging around the Rio, essentially getting paid to watch poker for eight straight hours...

David Sklansky went to great lengths to make sure everybody at his ME Day 1 table (61 I think when I saw him) knew he was reading the paper and talking on his cell phone, I'm assuming so everyone could notice he's just that awesome.

Jim Meehan really is as obnoxious as his reputation indicates. Ellix Powers is as well. Marcel Luske is not.

Howard Lederer is back to being "Bubba" again.

Old women love Daniel Negreanu. I was halfway expecting one of them to bake him a cake with a jumper in it. (You have to watch some BBC to get that)

I've never seen a "straight man" mince around the way Phil Hellmuth does.

The best quote came during an exchange between John Juanda and Negreanu. Juanda was playing an Omaha event and made some crack about not getting any playable hands. Negreanu replies in mock horror "You get four cards! You can play every hand!"