EPHEMERA

Longtime Review readers may remember our erstwhile British correspondent, Des Wilson. Des has moved on to other things, mainly poker, about which he writes extensively (including two books) and testing out the topic in real time. We have tried to discourage this trend, but what can you do when he offers stuff like this from yesterday's online poker diary:

Des Wilson - There is a saying in poker: you are never out while you have a chip and a chair. Today I proved it. With two tables left I was down to one chip. One chip. From there I came back to the final table and eventually to fifth place and another $650. . .

The final table took an eternity and we were on 6 players (paying 5) for some time before a pleasant man from Chicago was knocked out and I had cashed.

From then my cards died on me and despite two all-ins that were unchallenged I found myself all-in with QQ and this time it was me who was hit with a straight on the river. But it was a comeback that Bill Clinton would have been proud of.