Quick Update

I've played a lot of PLO in the last six months but rarely found myself a 62.5% favorite over a set when I have nothing and there's one card to come.

Todd won the Sunday tourney at his new home base casino in Tucson, AZ. He tipped "a dollar for each dealer involved." This would be a good time to mention that Carolina John's mom, when she won the 2 pm tournament at Planet Hollywood, tipped $500 out of an $800 prize. This was a casino record. Probably not coincidence that Larry, one of the poker room managers, offered to drive her to the airport.

I have never played Halo and don't play video games anymore, but this commercial came on a couple nights ago and it was the best use of Chopin in a vid game commercial I've ever seen.

I'm off to the office.

On a Heater

Can't lose this month. Made more in my first 10 hours at the tables than I did all of last month, when my earn rate looked like I worked at Del Taco. But now I am winning every session. Live action no limit, online pot limit omaha hi/lo--doesn't matter, just ship it.

Of course I was due for a rush after Carolina John and Todd left town. Hopefully we can get more blog updates from Todd, or as he now has proclaimed himself, the "Pied Piper of Cool." Because as for myself I haven't been posting a lot lately and that will continue as I have started a new writing project.

The Starbucks Sidebet

Thoughts of leaving Las Vegas. Don't want another Summer here. Get out of your car to pump gas and get back in sticking to your clothes. A climate for scorpions and the expansion of various yeasts. An ex-girlfriend's sister the only one I know besides myself with a bookshelf full of books.

Not sure where I'll go. Suggestions?

Returned to PH today for poker action. MTV VMA awards and Wisconsin/UNLV football game this weekend, so a busy time. The Duke sometimes calls me up to tell me about certain conventions coming into town, and how it'll make for great action at the tables. Like the rodeo is in town so let's play with crazy cowboys. But sometimes his suggestions don't make a lot of objective sense. Like the technology convention is in town so let's go play with the intelligent, patient(Duke:over-analytical, trying to unwind) players, or there's a poker bootcamp at MGM Grand (seriously, he said this) so let's go play with the guys who just got lessons from Lederer and Esfandiari (Duke: overly-tight and conventional) players.

Before I leave Vegas I want the Duke to follow through on the sidebet I challenged him to take. The Starbucks outside the poker room at PH is, according to casino employees, one of the busiest Starbucks locations in the world. The busiest time is the morning around 8 am. The line is like 40-deep. I want him to go there with a clipboard and hardhat, go to front of line, say, "Okay, folks! I'm gonna need everybody to take TWO STEPS BACK (making authoritative hand motions)!" Then get in front of line and order. Complaints? Bark back: "Hey, you got a problem? You can talk to Chalmers in 302!"