One of the things that made it easy to take the knock-out was how content, even happy, Amir was. He played his A game, jumped two-mill. in prize money, and just didn’t catch cards. The next day at brunch (seen here), he even told us he couldn’t sleep at all because he was still so excited.

French-Canadians, in green, in stocking mask and horse head. I have no idea why. McLaughin’s fans were as loud and rowdy as Riess’s army of a-holes, yet they weren’t annoying, in part because they were very creative in both costume and cheers, in part because they weren’t, well, boring and full of hate.