Let me know when you put it on eBay, and I might secretly bid up the price to improve my self esteem.

Tom – where were the bracelets during the party? Was Julie wearing both of them? And are you at the beach right now?

BJ – Will you make us the cute little schedule books again for next year? I’m thinking of selling mine on ebay.

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In one of the episodes from around Seasons 9-12 (past the peak years, but with occasional brilliance), Bart and Lisa discover an old film canister with an alternate ending to the classic film, “Casablanca.”

Lisa: “Bart, this is priceless!”

Bart: “Priceless like a mother’s love, or the good kind of priceless?”
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Sorry, Dan, but that ringtone is in a third category, which means, “I’m glad I got to hear it, and it’s really funny/poignant/whatever, but I wouldn’t pay a dime for it.”

So I shouldn’t try to sell it for 99 cents a pop?

Dan, I really liked this post. It might be a week late (Has it already been a week? Has it *only* been a week?), but for me, the timing was perfect. Especially since I didn’t get to see any of this because I was one of the few reporters allowed to sit at the final table and cover it live. Looking at your photos and reading your descriptions, I actually think I got the less-interesting assignment. (Pokerati should have sprung the bucks for ESPN’s live broadcast over the web, however.)

And how the hell did I make it through the entire World Series of Poker without ever meeting Angele Marshall? (I’m assuming Dan spelled her name right.) I’m now officially pissed at every single media person at the WSOP for not introducing me to her.

Angele and I had a few remote dealings (over the radio) while working the Bluff final tables, but I never got a chance to meet her in person. Mean Gene told me one of the lowlights of his WSOP was when he was working in the Bluff control room as the PokerNews reporter, and Angele walked up to meet him, saying something like, “Are you BJ Nemeth? I’m so excited to meet you …”

Maybe next year?

As to Howard David … hmmm … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_David. Thanks for pointing out the mistake. Will correct accordingly.

Dude, that’s 5th place finisher (and from all reports very cool dude) Jon ‘Skalie’ Kalmar. I thought you said you watched the final table! Or maybe you just watched the people who watched the final table. I think we should have your credentials pulled.

Then ESPN’s Howard David (left) would invite Tom to sit in with Robert Williamson providing color commentary on the Bluff Radio broadcast of the final table.

I can’t remember Howard ever working for ESPN. He did, however, broadcast a good portion of the 17 final tables on the WSOP Live package that I produced this year, in addition to every final table I produced on Sirius Satellite Radio at the 2006 WSOP. The lady next to him in the photo is his wife, Phyllis, who’s one of the nicest people I’ve ever encountered at the WSOP.

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Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.

(im guessing the overlap of Swift readers and pokerati readers is pretty small)