Michele Lewis

Eric Morris, publisher of Bluff Magazine, has been asking to be a Stud of Poker since the column started. In fact, Matt Parvis, Editor-in-Chief, suggested they mud wrestle for stud title. Uh yeah, and Phil Ivey will wear a dress and play a WSOP Ladies Event. Anyway, I finally agreed after we negotiated my family’s use of the Bluff Magazine private jet and nine-bedroom villa in the South of France. Poor guy, looks like I made out like a bandit on the negotiations since he was already on my list to interview.

Nonetheless, considering the evolution of Bluff Media in the past three years he obviously has skills. What started in 2006 with a SIRIUS Satellite Radio broadcast enabled Bluff to score the official digital media partner title with the World Series of Poker. Skills or not, Morris modestly explains the developments are not just a result of the experience of the past few years but also Bluff Media’s production and broadcasting talent has continued to grow and improve as well.

After Morris took a trip to the trailer washroom, we sat down in the poker kitchen to discuss his fight with a clown, prison poker, selling Bluff Magazine and Doyle’s Room offering him $8,500,000 to play in the 2008 WSOP Main Event in their name.

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