Lee Jones

I try not to let my profession creep into this blog much. I spend plenty of time thinking and talking about poker as it is. I’d much rather focus on picking, family, trout fishing, the Blue Ridge mountains, and travel. But my profession has bumped me into a public discussion with a writer at the [...]

I don’t do well at cleaning out bookshelves. It’s not so much that I mind getting rid of books – I find it liberating to remove a “thing” from my life, and, if I’m not reading the book, then put it back in circulation where somebody else might. An unread book, like an unplayed musical [...]

People often get envious that I’m spending two weeks in Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker. That’s because they’ve never spent two weeks in Las Vegas during July. I am away from home and Lisa and that is no fun at all. Sure, I get to play poker, but hell, I could play [...]