Last night my wife and I went to the opening of 21, the movie based on Ben Mezrich’s book “Bringing Down the House”.   We were looking forward to the movie.   My wife had written a very positive review of “Bringing Down the House”, a book that she and I both enjoyed a lot.   She had done a great interview of Ben Mezrich, which showed how funny a guy he is.   And the trailer of 21 made it look like it would be a fun movie.

We were disappointed!  21 isn’t terrible.  It’s definitely watchable.  But it is nowhere near as good as the book, and in important ways it strays from the book.  Below are five reasons why I didn’t like the movie.

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The poker post I wrote about Nick Schulman made it on Glamorati. Glamorati is a site where YOU find interesting stories about famous people (i.e. the glamorati) and then create funny/clever headlines that would go with them. Think Fark for celebrities. It’s a little different than Fark, because it focuses only famous people and like the website WeSmirch it has links to stories that are related to the story that gets submitted. The site is still in Beta, but should be launched sometime this upcoming week. How did a PokerMoments story get approved if Glamorati is in Beta? Full Disclosure: I co-own Glamorati and I made the submission.

I know that there are a lot of funny people out there who would make great contributions to Glamorati. So if you know of an interesting story about some poker player or some famous person in any walk of life, please submit it. If the site takes off, then it would be a great way to get traffic to your site.

A friend just sent me a link to this site called PurePlay.  You can win money playing poker, but you don’t have to deposit any of your own money, which means that it is legal to do.  How is this possible?  I haven’t downloaded the application, but I suspect that the format is similar to freerolls that are offered in online poker rooms.  I used to play in these freerolls, and I think that they are good for beginners, because you get some real experience playing with players who have some skills and take the game seriously.  You can’t win much if you place in the money, and the odds of doing this aren’t particularly good.   I never won any money.   It is definitely better to play in freerolls than to play for play money, but not by much.  So give it a try, but expect to be bored in short time.