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There is a painting in the Malba gallery by the Argentinian Miguel Covarrubias from 1928, called ‘George Gershwin, An American in Paris’. It’s one of those Modernist non-perspective cafe hubbub scenes. In the left foreground, shy, somewhat blank, unblinking, is the composer, suited and hatted, a foreigner more delighted than bored, but not quite either. [...]

The anticipation of playing in a big poker tournament is added to, or subtracted from, the joyful anxiety of visiting a city that I’ve never seen before, the prospect of solitary, self-determining travel. I fixed upon Buenos Aires as my spiritual home long before hearing tango, before I ever saw Maradona play–but I’d always cheered [...]

The second season of the Latin America Poker Tour reaches its Grand Final on the 16th of April at Mar del Plata. I’ll be there, having qualified on PokerStars. For nearly as long as I can remember, I’ve longed to go to Argentina. Without any knowledge of the place except through literature and music and [...]