Has it really been a couple of days? More like four, I believe but I can’t remember. My whole sleep schedule has turned around and I’ve got to be gearing up for going back to work soon…painful. Changing my sleep schedule around is painful. It’s 11:30 PM and I’m dead tired…oh drear…this will never do. How can I convince my brain to stay up until 4 or 5 AM? *Slap, smack – no whining* Continue reading Saturday, January 14, 2006 →

This is a shorty. I move myself into the coach today and head across town by Boulder Station to an RV park…length of stay there unknown right now. I will be offline for approximately two days as I settle into new surroundings and figure out how I fit into my new lifestyle. Back soon!

This is really a useless bit of trivia, just a going nowhere kind of thread, but it seemed important to me at the moment. When I first kicked off the diary, I wrote only about events that happened when I dealt a game. Even then, it would be hard to say that I wrote about poker. I wrote and still write about people. People are what flip my switch. And people are what make up the game of poker. Poker would be so damn boring if it was only about hand histories and beats/wins. On BlogShares.Com, my blog has been voted for the following categories: Poker, Life, Journal, Personal, and Card Games. I am pleased as I feel it fits well into all of those categories. Do I understand the BlogShares concept? Nope. But it’s fun to go check it out and peek in at other people’s blogs too. Continue reading Friday, January 6, 2006 →

I lost a day. That’s not unusual because too many times I fail to remember what day of the month it is. The downside was that it was my younger brother Kenny’s birthday. I called him as I made the drive into work, just to wish him health and many happy days – only to find out that today was the 5th and his birthday was yesterday. Pshaw! He was happy I called and didn’t care about it being one day late. We jawed about life in general and my new life changes coming up. I can always go park on his land when I’m mobile, as long as I can crank up the Internet, I can hang out with him until it gets c-c-c-old. Cold is my stipulation, not his. He even has a blade to slap on his truck so he can plow out the road when it snows…that will open up the escape hatch to the county road. I could never spend my winters like that, or my birthdays for that matter. That kid’s got heart. Continue reading Thursday, January 5, 2006 →

Little Miss Chatter Box is drinking Baileys on ice. Drinking always leads to some kind of ramble. There’s no rhyme or reason to it…just a ramble. Some people have to explain everything. I have to explain nothing. People either accept me for my straightforward, live the moment, sarcastic sense of humor, or they walk away with their nose bent. I never ‘put on the dog’ or pretend to be something I’m not, I won’t even back peddle if it will improve my position in life, I just go with the flow and when I can’t stand the flow, I swim against the current to find another shore that makes me feel that I am living my life as I wish to live it. Continue reading Wednesday, January 4, 2005 →

An update on the NLH limits Bellagio is spreading. We now have a $5-10 Blind with a minimum of $400, maximum of $1,000 buy-in. Stop in and check it out. It was running when I hit the room on Monday night but not in my line up so I have no idea on how/what it’s playing out like. Of course it’s new to the room and a lot of people don’t know about it yet so time will tell. But we still have the $2-5 NLH with a min/max $200 buy-in, yet some of our dealers still have no clue as to what is going on with the limit on buy-ins; when a new face sat down in the $2-5 I was dealing, he brought $300 to the table. I told him the max was $200. Another player exclaimed, “I brought $500 when I sat down a few hours ago and the dealer never said anything!” Gee…why doesn’t that surprise me? Continue reading Tuesday, January 3, 2006 →

Monday, January 2, 2006

Holy Schmolie! I just typed ‘2006’ – that means my brain has officially registered the fact that another year has passed. What my brain is having a hard time digesting is the fact that the weather is just as ugly right now as it was when 2005 blew off into the past. It’s windy, spitting something between rain and sleet, and C-C-C-O-L-D outside. And I have to go to work tonight. Damn! I want to stay tucked away from the rest of the world – mainly the weather – and not move for a few days. Continue reading January 2, 2006 →

It’s the end of another year, calendar year that is. No fireworks and partying for this kid. But just so you know Vegas hasn’t shut down – there are over 300,000 people in town to celebrate the New Year. Friday night at work, one of the dealers – Larry – asked me if I wanted to make an extra $100. I asked what I had to do. “Work for me tomorrow night.” *picking myself up off of the floor laughing* I told him a $1,000 wouldn’t get me to work New Year’s Eve again. Continue reading Saturday, December 31, 2005 →

A lot of things are going on in the poker room…you know…all that crazy gambling stuff that people seem to get into over the holidays. It’s always true that one of the busiest times for poker is during the week of December 25th to January 1st and this year is no exception. The room is crammed, jammed, slammed, and even though it is a holiday time, people are not always at their best. Nope…no grouchy crankies have been in my path or created a problem for me, but some of the stress seems apparent in the whole atmosphere of the room. And we never seem to have enough employees in some areas. Cocktail service is not optimal and our chip runners are too busy running food so the stress in that area alone makes it almost unbearable. People want a drink…AND DAMNIT!!!…They should have one. I feel the same way when I play (don’t forget I like to drink when I play because it takes the edge off of 9-4 off suit for hours at a time). But getting past that, a glimpse of time at the tables. Continue reading Wednesday, December 28, 2005 →

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

So…no one wants to give me the lowdown on who these people are? I know they are bloggers or they are stowaways and managed to sneak themselves into the registry at the tournament. Someone? Send a name and a URL please. Continue reading Tuesday, December 27, 2005 →