• My MAC Tech color for TV appearances (knock on wood) is NW30.
• Relatedly, I now understand why my credit card bills from Nordstrom's were so high when I was married.
• Just because Borders promises a Harry Potter celebration on their website doesn't mean they'll have one, even if you bring a dozen people to their store. (The group escaped back to Books-A-Million, which did have face-painting.)
• Unit 1207 in my building, which the sellers purchased the same time I did for about the same price, sold for a profit of over 50% and 5% more than 707 did two and a half months earlier, so the real estate bubble hasn't quite burst yet.
• That great album always playing in my car CD player that I've been telling everyone is by the Long Winters is actually by Snow Patrol.

The thunder's getting close, and I have a lot of Harry Potter left to read, so I'm signing off.

The AP answers my earlier question yes in this article: Williamson is a Davis Polk attorney working in London. And Williamson won her trip to Las Vegas at Gutshot, where Eric, Kevin, and I played in London. Barry Martin is also featured in the article, though not his charming accent. As the article indicates, she's had some luck, spiking an ace when she foolishly went all in with a million-chip-preflop raise of AQ and ran into KK.

Down to the final three tables, blinds are 20k/40k with a 5k ante, and Fossilman's still in it, in fourth place with 3 million chips, which gives him about a 1-in-19 chance of winning the whole thing if the remaining players are evenly matched. 10th through 27th pays between $300k and $600k; final table players are guaranteed $1M each, and first place is $7.5 million. And ESPN has to be salivating at the fact that the chip leader is Mike Matusow, whose confrontation with Raymer last year made for great television and left Matusow in tears. Best web source for news appears to be Pokerwire.

Anyone know if the Tiffany Williamson of London who's the last woman left in the tournament is the same one who's at Davis Polk's London office now and graduated Columbia Law in 1999?

Defending champion Greg Raymer has amazingly clinched a six-digit payday; he even started today in first place, but lost half of his stack on a couple of bad hands, and is now faced with an slightly-above-average-sized stack at the end of Day 4 with eighty-odd players left, about 750,000 in chips, down from a million at the beginning of the day, and 1.5 million mid-day. Of course, after winning last year, he doesn't need investors any more, so this time he'll get to keep his entire after-tax winnings.

Hey, my very own webpage.