PokerStars Tourney – ‘private’ – February 28th, 22:30ET, PokerWorks Family.  The tournament ID is 247601352, the password is ‘donkeys’ (don’t we all know it?) the buy-in is $5 + .50, the object is to be the last donkey seated!  So-o-o-o-o-o, you in – or you out?

It’s been a solid sheet of rain for hours now, even if there are ducks swimming by the window when I wake up tomorrow, as long as the air internet works, I’m playing the PokerWorks Family HORSE thingy…wouldn’t miss it.  I played RUSH poker tonight on Full Tilt, small stakes limit holdem.  It was crazy.  No waiting Ma!  Zing, ring, ding, next hand – and I won!  The problem is that now I don’t know if I can stand to go back to waiting for the next hand in the games that are like molasses on a day the temperature dives below zero.  That RUSH really is a rush.  I had the SB 3 hands in a row, but overall never seemed to get tagged with it much.  I ran into the same player 2 hands back to back but I think they were playing two tables because the chip stack was a different size…being limit they couldn’t have lost that much in one hand.  Wonder how long it will be before another site jumps on the throttle and creates something similar.

I thought this was interesting, not that Nolan doesn’t know his stuff, but Hamid never disappeared.  I dealt to him at Bellagio many times before I left there in 2007.  He may have dropped out of the WSOP limelight but he was alive and well in other poker arenas.  Another one that is perhaps not as interesting but in a twisted sort of way, maybe more interesting – Mansour Matloubi is a friend of Russ Hamilton and I believe he was part of Ultimate Bet with Russ Hamilton.  I have my own reasons for believing that because of a deal I was working on with someone out of New York way back when…it had to do with online poker, when there were 5 poker sites up and running on the internet.  I did see Mansour at some of the Aruba events I dealt, more than once, and Russ Hamilton was in attendance in those days since he was the major part of Ultimate Bet.  They do look like pals, eh?

I am in contempt of court in Nye County.  I received a jury summons, responded with the written reply that was required, asking to not be called (I have my own reasons), and then promptly put the summons in a stack of things that got buried as I scurried to compile all of my paperwork for the tax appointment.  I found that summons yesterday – I was supposed to call in on the eve of the 24th/or appear on the morning of the 24th.  Kee-Rist!  What next?  I don’t want to be a juror.

The Riot has strep throat.  Poor me, I was so looking forward to having him out over the weekend.  No one to play Super Mario with me on the Wii…so I played by myself, but still, he is missed.

See yas tomorrow at the PokerWorks Family HORSE tourney.