The trip into Vegas was…that’s about it.  The day was just plain hot, the Dr. visit was enlightening but not any fun — nothing serious, just not fun. Riot went home to momparental for a week and the house is unusually quiet.

The wind was trying to blow down a Chinese Elm I planted last fall but I prevailed and put up another anchor to keep it from breaking down my tree.  I sometimes recall that ditzy tale I read in grade school about the contest the sun and wind had, with the wind trying to prove it was stronger than the sun. The tale was a challenge where the wind tried to blow a man’s coat off of him and after repeated attempts, the man just drew it closer around him.  Then the sun had it’s turn and turned up the heat, the man removed his coat.  Winner? Sun! I think that wind has a very good shot at prevailing here in the desert…just sayin…

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Phil Ivey and his accomplice in the Borgata edge-sorting lawsuit have filed a Reply Brief.  The news on that is up here. As stated in a previous blog post here on Tango, I really do not care for Ivey’s attitude. He’s facing issues with two major casinos over edge-sorting to the tune of millions of dollars and if he’s OK with taking a shot at a casino, what else is he doing that isn’t common knowledge or in the media? Plus he’s now posting bail for players that were arrested in an illegal World Cup betting raid. Just because he’s the world’s greatest poker player doesn’t mean he can be forgiven for taking shots at cheating.  That’s my personal opinion on the edge-sorting.

There are numerous reports up over the years of players that fail to make good on loans from other players (Chino Rheem always comes to mind) and players that add chips to a tournament (stolen from another tournament — or counterfeited them) but the worst nightmares from my POV are those of the big name players that dabble in the criminal element.  I don’t believe that anyone that plays poker owes anything to “poker” as a general rule but it sticks in my throat that Ivey has made millions playing the game and he’s the #1 Fan Favorite in the world and blatantly blows off his edge-sorting debacle like it’s OK for the world to cheat the establishment.

Enough on Ivey.

Enough of me…g’nite. Send me the SandWoman…t…i…r…e…d!