Sitting at an Airport.....

So I am on my way to The Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Why you ask? Because it is time for the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure.


This is one of my favorite tournaments to work if only for the beauty of the place. The service sucks (they add a% tip to ALL bills so why bother with good service), the rooms are not much nicer than some Motel 6's that I have stayed and the extras are virtually non existent. Not at all what I expected from a 4 star resort, but It's all FREE for us and it IS very very beautiful.


I plan on keeping up the workout routine by running/walking my 3 miles on the beach and lifting in the Atlantis gym. I have lost 17 lbs since I started this whole "I am getting too fat thing" and it feels good to be a bit healthy and people are starting to notice the loss. I even had to go back to a size 34 jeans and in certain brands even they are too big!!!!


Tournament ends on the 11th and I fly home thru Vegas. Planned this on purpose for two reasons. 1) I didn't want to take the chance of getting stranded in a cold weather hub like Chicago and 2) if I "miss" my connection I may have to spend a couple of days in Vegas.


I will be jonsing to play poker by then since we are not allowed to gamble in ANY form while working this tournament because we have Bahama gaming licenses and it is illegal to gamble while holding a gaming license in the Bahamas. Not worth taking a chance and losing out on a free trip to Paradise every year.

Arrived in paradise and it freaking cold, windy, and overcast. Oh well, guess tomorrow is another day.

Not so fun......

So I flew to Vegas with my son's and a friend of theirs on Thursday for some poker. Landed at 10am, straight to Caesar's and 10 hours of play. Ended up stuck $85 (thanks Craig) for the night. Not bad considering I played in the $200 tournament which I busted out of before the $ when my AJd was beat by a drunk ass-tard who limped in with J8s, called my button 4x the bb raise and check raised me all in when the flop came 8J2. So much for a chance at 4k. I hate ass-tards who think any suited cards are worth calling and get paid off for it, reinforcing their ass-tard ways.

Friday after sleeping in a little bit, had my favorite meat ball sandwich in the world at Maggianos and played some $8/$16 limit at The Wynn. Got my ass handed to me by more ass-tards playing any two cards. AA cracked by J6os, QQ beat by 83s, etc, etc.

Now I know I want these ass-tards in the game throwing chips around with any two cards, and I also know they will get lucky on occasion, but for fucking christ sakes why in the hell do these fucking mother fucking ass-tards continually get rewarded for those plays? When I am a 80% favorite post flop and 92% or better after the turn I expect the math to work in my favor at least some of the time. I love/hate poker so fucking much. I was so tilted that I didn't even play on Saturday knowing that I would turn into an ass-tard myself and probably not get the breaks the other ass-tards did thus losing even MORE of my hard earned $.

On the plus side, I did get 2 meatball sandwiches even though I didn't eat the bread for the most part. I went to the UNLV football game with a friend on Saturday night. I saw some friends I hadn't seen in a long time and enjoyed walking around the strip people watching.

Didn't get a chance to hook up with Carmen, guess that will have to wait until the blogger gathering in December that I am saving up my miles for.

Girl Food?

There was a "International Potluck" within our group this week so I made this dish:

The idea was you brought or prepared something from your heritage. I have some Italian in me so Italian it was. A woman I worked with called it a "girl dish". I called it easy, representative, and presented quite well. It seemed to go over well, 2 plates were empty at the end of the lunch.

Nike in the Fall

It is full tilt Fall here in the Northwest. the trees are turning colors and the leaves are falling. In April I posted some pictures and thought it would be good to update them for the fall. This place really is a beautiful place to work. Now, if only I could get a full time gig instead of temporary.

I am also scheduled for two poker gigs in January. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure where I will deal, and do some floor work. This will be my 4th trip to the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island. The first time I dealt the WPT final table for The Travel Channel, the other two times it was more floor work than dealing. Maybe I'll score another TV appearance this time.

The other gig is a floor gig for the LadBrokes Poker Cruise. this will be the second time I have worked for this company. A 10 day cruise that leaves from New Jersey of all places and goes to the Caribbean. Of all the events I have worked, this is by far the most fun. All Europeans, all partying their asses off and time off when we get to the ports. The only tournament where we can not enforce the F bomb rule because these guys learn that word before daddy and every conversation is peppered with it.

In other poker news: I played in the PokerStars WCOOB event and after I learned what the prize pool was, I just wanted to get out. Had 30k at the break and ended up around 316 out of 1300. Could have gone deeper but I just didn't care about the prizes.

So here are the pictures with a new one of me thrown in and I will try to blog a little more regularly. My readership is falling off cause I have gotten lazy.

WBCOOP

I have registered for the World Blogger Championships of Online Poker.....

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 3338255

A good weekend

College football is in full swing. The U of O soundly beat Fresno State, The Beavers Killed Idaho State, PSU won their game, and the local pro Soccer team won as well. A good weekend for Oregon sports.

Name Game

Blonde had this on her blog and because she is hot, and challenged her readers, here is my version. She has the best Bond Girl name ever. I kinda like my soap orera name.

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1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Buster Trailblazer

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)
Blackberry Mint Brussles

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
Tyer

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
Green Lion

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Brent Hollywood

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Mitti

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The Blue Tequila

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Robert Douglas

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)Chrome Snickers

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names )
Irene Michael

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
I have no fricking idea what my 5th grade teachers name was.

12. SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Fall October

13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now + "ie" or "y")Peach Boxer Brief

14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Wheaties Oak

15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Golf Thunderstorm Tour