First here’s a reply I received from Daniel regarding the Blogger Tournament.
—– Original Message —–
From: “Daniel Negreanu”
To: “Linda Geenen”
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:39 PM
Subject: RE: Linda – Bellagio dealer and the blogger tournament
>Hey Linda, it doesn’t look good for the 10th. I am shooting a poker show
> on exactly the 10th for CBS… tell em all I said hello, and maybe I can get
> a few things to you to give away as prizes if you are interested.
Of course I replied that I understood he was busy and yes, we’d love some prizes. And I removed his email address from the above email. I figure if he wants anyone else to have it, he’ll give it to them.
Secondly, the opportunity to play in the Special PokerWorks.Com $2000 free roll at Titan Poker on the 19th is rapidly approaching and time is running out. Get registered and meet me there.
And thirdly, the real world got in the way of everything on Friday. And not only that, those kids that live in the real world are grouchy as hell. Has anyone told them about the Poker World? Perhaps they need to get out and play poker now and then just to relax and ease up a little.
It started with me going to have a ‘tint’ put on the two side windows in the front of my truck…the back windows were done in at the factory. The guy that took my information, and had talked to me on the phone the day before, was a wee bit of a crab and snappy as hell until I told him I thought we were just missing each other in the conversation. He agreed and eased up. The bad news is that it was supposed to take around 45 minutes. I waited for an hour for them to get the truck into the garage and then it took 15 minutes. And yes I had an appointment. I’ve never figured out why everyone that works out of an office feels their time is so important but mine isn’t worth poop. It sucks.
Then it was off to Gaudin Ford to have a ‘code alarm’ installed in my truck. But not to worry, I got shifted around through four people, and sent to the wrong desk more than once, and none of them seemed overly friendly until I finally stated to the guy, that almost bit my head off for asking a question about my truck, that he was the fifth person I’d been sent to and everyone seemed a little bit out of sorts and grouchy. He got right off of it and became a real person, even escorted me to the right person that was going to take care of having the code alarm installed. Nice. But this touch with the real world was really worse than the first considering the number of people I had contact with before one of them mellowed out.
I left my truck for service and the parents of the sweet, baby boy, Riot, “ma – ma” and “da – da” picked me up for lunch. Riot really is a riot. And he’s at the age where everything he does is funny. He’s spitting out words like crazy. His “Oh No!” keeps me smiling. He waves to everyone and says, “bah – bah” and that’s just too funny all by itself. He’s a lunatic for a phone. He grabs it and almost chokes it to death while he makes sounds at it…and I do talk to him on the phone when I can’t spend time with him. Presenting his royal cuteness:
And now a step away from the Real World.
The WSOP Circuit Series kicked off at Ballys and I’m not sure I can stand the thought of another tournament right now. I may make it over there, I may not, and I know it sounds a little ridiculous that I haven’t been there already but listen to this news alert, I didn’t even go to the Rio during the WSOP. I get plenty of poker and tons of tournament news and we have three major tournaments a year at Bellagio and I deal the Aruba/Ultimate Bet Tournament and at Bellagio, we pick up all of the high limit when a tournament is in town. It’s hard to get all jacked up about going somewhere else to see more of what I spend 40 hours a week doing.
So…with all of that laid out behind me, I went to Monte Carlo tonight to meet five guys for dinner at Blackstone’s. One of them, Craig Singer, I’ve known for quite some time, and he’s the reason I was invited. Craig’s acquired the affectionate name of Sweater from his friend Doug. Long Story. Craig played in Bellagio’s 2004 Five Diamond World Poker Classic heads-up, $25,000 Buy-in Tourney.
And no…we aren’t an item, but we are good friends. Doug and Craig are the poker players out of the five. The meal was great; the company ‘over the top’, and they were going off to the Aladdin to have a few drinks and then possibly Craig and Doug were going to The Mirage to play poker.
If they’d been on their way to play poker, I would have tripped along and played too. The thought of drinking just didn’t grab me by the throat and make me want to be there…besides, it was Joe’s birthday and maybe they didn’t really want me tagging along. Hell they were in Vegas to have fun. I sort of shut down when it comes to screamer parties and lots of drinking. But poker? Shuffle up, baby!
Oh…and do I have my worlds mixed up? Which one is the real world?