We would have been happy to have either Billy or Jim (Davenport) represent us as the Team PokerRoom.com captain. Billy's a classy guy and a heck of a player.

He went out so quickly we wanted to offer him a consolation prize and get him into the Web sites' biggest weekly tournament. This way we were able to keep him in the room and have him communicate with our community. It served a two-fold purpose and it seemed to make him happy.

Both of us had the same response when we heard about this, ... It was kind of like, 'Been there, don't want to do that again.' Our whole lives, we both have lived with the potential of our father's death.

But Al brought us back,

Kennedy knows how to use traditional poetic forms to give us both joyful and truthful observations about the human condition. His sketches of people and experiences combine playful irreverence with language full of sound and rhythm, and refreshing bites of irony.

This move was a natural for us. The product synergies created by combining our companies allows us to more fully leverage our capabilities and offer our clients a broader range of services.