I guess I have kind of buried the lead here, kind of forgot to mention these things since I've written about it in so many other places.

but yeah I've had a fun year so far.

In a PLO tourney, I played with James Woods for a couple of hours. Won a huge pot off him when I had the NFD + 2 pair vs. his worse flush draw and worse 2 pair. He actually misread his hand and thought he had a straight! Later on, I knocked him out with AAxx unimproved vs. his combo draw.

And in the $340, I played with Anthony Rapp, who was on my direct left for several hours. He's an actor and Broadway star, but actually a quite serious poker player, with 11 cashes on his Hendon Mob page. I knocked him out too with KK > A2 aipf. We got along great and he invited me to his private game held in a bar off Broadway -- he and his friend play there after shows (he's in "If, Then" with Idina Menzel).

So I have a pretty good track record of KOing stars in tournaments: Woods, Rapp, Melanie Weisner and Ken Daneyko.