[Wintermute]

I like reading Simmons' articles, but his take on poker has always been unintentionally funny, to steal one of his catch-phrases.

Remember that Vegas week-long trip report he wrote up a couple years back where he got to sin city a couple days before his friends and was trying to pack in the 7-card stud? He said something about his intentional table image like (this quote isn't exact but it's close) "When I sat down everyone looked at me like I was a wet-behind-the-ears ivy league hotshot who was timid and didn't know what he was doing. And believe me, that wasn't by accident." Then he goes on to explain how 6th street "killed him" all night, blah blah blah.

Anyhow, every time he brings up poker, I get a sense of mixed amusement and pity. However, I figure it can't hurt to have a popular sports writer sending out dumb sh1t to his readership.