Notes From Las Vegas

Or, how I marketed the Very Serious podcast at a poker table

Dear readers,

A weird thing about poker is that it’s mostly a passive activity. A blackjack or roulette or craps table is constant action, and you’re not even allowed to look at your phone at the table — if you do, a dealer will politely instruct you to step away while you do that. But at poker, you sit out most of the hands. If you start with, say, a ki…