Hard as it is to believe, my Jo Anne had a serious brush with the law. Yep, Jo Anne, who teaches civics and has never touched a cigarette of any kind, was in a heap of trouble with the gov’ment.
[My Day Starts at 5:30 AM]
When I heard the ringing – I thought it was coming from my dream – I woke up and checked my watch. 5:33 AM. It was the telephone on Jo Anne’s nightstand. Sleepily, she rolled over and looked at the caller ID. “I don’t recognize the number.”
I have a backlog of blogs to complete but you’ll have to excuse the interruption. I haven’t been on top of my game the last few days. It started with a dream and ended with a nightmare.
I’ve been really fighting to keep my head above water the last several days. Consequently, some of the Full Tilt news updates have been sitting on my computer, half-written for several days. In addition, I have another pair of blogs with some good things for online tournament players to think about, currently incomplete.
We wuz robbed.
FTOPS XI starts on Wednesday, February 4, with a $200 + $16 No-Limit Hold ‘Em event hosted by Howard Lederer. It concludes on Sunday, February 15, with the customary $500 + $35 Main Event.
Speaking of the Super Bowl, it is (A) the world’s biggest gambling event, (B) a gigantic big deal in Las Vegas, (C) a gambling-poker downer during the game itself. The entire poker world is watching game so there’s no one (but us) to win all the juicy Sunday tournament prizes.
Last Sunday, January 25, at 16:37, Full tilt went over the 100,000-player mark for the first time in its history. To confirm this, I contacted Uncle Tilty. I fear I may have touched off a minor riot in the Full Tilt Palace. “If we are over 100,000 players, it’s the first time. And this is how I find out? From YOU?”
I’m keeping November 7-10 open on my schedule … and June 22
Harrah’s announced the schedule today for the 40th running of the World Series of Poker. The Series will begin on May 27; there will be 57 events (two more than 2008); the Main Event will begin on July 3; the final table will be set on July 15; and the final table will play out on November 7-10.
Once I roused myself awake, I realized I was in the New Orleans Airport at 10 AM with nothing to do for 90 minutes. I was also hungry. So I walked the length of the terminal looking for what passed for food in the airport at this hour.
I called my hotel’s transportation department for a recommendation on a ride to the New Orleans Airport. I should have taken the giggling on the other end of the line as a bad sign. They first thing they recommended is that I play more in the pit if I expect one of their limos to ferry me to the airport.
