Happy (Belated) Birthday, Tao!

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Shame on me. On August 5, I was wishing the best to my good friends at PartyPoker, who turned 7 years old last week. But I forgot about Pauly — a presumably better friend and fellow blogger and my personal podcast partner and guy whom I speak with regularly and read sometimes as much — whose poker blog, Tao of Poker, celebrated its 5th birthday on that very same day.

(~~Yeow~~ Yao, sorry dude, I\’m not too good with birthdays unless MySpace reminders are involved.) But yo, happy B-day, man … and thanks for all the ~~weed~~ inspiration, ass-kickings, and entertainment you\’ve provided all these years.

While I don\’t think any of the poker-blogging \”old dogs\” ever thought when they started that they\’d still be around after five — we gotta still be in single digits for the electronic scribes in this niche who have reached that milestone — I\’m sure now his fear is that he will still be around when Tao turns 15.

UPDATE: Also happy birthdays to Jennicide (Aug. 10) $\"\"$ and Marco Traniello (Aug. 14) $\"\"$ .