Card Player column now up

The Card Player magazine column that centers on one of my previous blog posts (see http://pokergrump.blogspot.com/2008/02/im-in-card-player-magazine-again.html) is now available online. See:

http://www.cardplayer.com/magazine/article/17324

I'm in Card Player magazine again

No, that's not me on the cover.

About three months ago, I did a post about two situations of rule violations by other players where it wasn't completely clear to me whether I had handled things correctly. (See http://pokergrump.blogspot.com/2007/11/should-one-speak-up-when-not-involved.html.)

I knew that Card Player columnist Mike O'Malley writes a lot about rules, ethics, and etiquette of player conduct, so I emailed him a link to the post. I told him that if the situations I described caught his interest, I'd be happy to have him respond with his thoughts in the comments section of the blog, or on his own blog (http://rzitup.blogspot.com/), or even use it as the jumping-off point for a column.

With my permission, he used the two stories basically as his entire column for this month, on pp. 102-104, in the issue pictured above (volume 21c, number 3c, dated February 13, 2008), just out in the casinos today. I'll post a link to the column when it's available online at Card Player's web site (which usually seems to be a month or so after the print issue hits).

The column is a bit confusing, because Mike sometimes uses my first-person account without quotation marks, which sounds like he's describing his own experiences, and sometimes uses my name and the accompanying third-person pronouns. A little editing glitch, I suspect. Ah well. The last paragraph is his comments on the two events.

For those wondering about the "again" in the title of this post, this has happened before. See http://pokergrump.blogspot.com/2007/07/article-in-card-player-magazine-non.html.