I'm back on the tournament circuit, but in a different capacity. World Poker Tour, once lauded by the poker media community as a friendly free-for-all as far as media access went, has now entered into an exclusive agreement with Card Player that makes the KGB's grip on Soviet Russia look effete and pathetic. In response, pokerwire will be let out to pasture with other tired poker media websites, and I'll be taking on a new project for Full Tilt Poker. I don't know how much I'm allowed to say, so I'll just say that I'm looking forward to the change in responsibilities. A guy can only hear "How's your table draw?" so many times before wanting to retire to a Zen monastery in Japan.

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