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• ‘I want to win Mid-Major Player of the Year,’ David Moses earns fifth WSOPC ring – 24 April 2025 – An offbeat engineer living the van life before AI takes all our money.
• Dealing with immeasurable loss – 23 April 2025 – How much can you lose of yourself?
• Poker is pain – 19 April 2025 – The time on the tables can be fleeting but the feelings stick
• The Raminator, Florida’s most feared amateur – 16 April 2025 – Rami Singh is one of poker’s winningest players while playing as a hobby
• Just a shit, shower and shave, two-star hotels have only what you need – 10 April 2025 – Two-star dives across the country help players save a buck here and there with a certain charm.
• John Holley – Destin’s wildest poker captain – 9 April 2025 – A professional life split between fishing and poker can be all work and no play.
• “Wild” Bill Phillips, the man behind Gulf Coast Poker – 8 April 2025 – A cross-country trip got derailed in New Orleans in the wake of 9/11
• A March through Selma – 8 April 2025 – The historic route struggles with its legacy in the 21st Century