No, I didn’t get lost! Yes, the Montana Days are still in the works. What really happened is that I started leafing the two photo albums of players from the Montana Days and decided that I should do pictures along with poker tales. The damn pictures take a bit of messing with. Continue reading It’s the picture thang
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The Sahara is going down
Maybe not down, as in down, like the Stardust and all the other casinos that have literally went d-o-w-n, but it is closing. No emotion on my part, although I do have history with the place, IMHO at this time it’s just another seamy dive. Continue reading The Sahara is going down
Montana – some Desert Don
I pulled out my two photo albums and leafed through them, stunned to find that I had a picture of Cap Walters, Desert Don, and a few others hiding in the pages that have been packed for such a long time. And I mentioned in a post about Red Gilman that he always wore a stetson…I lied…I found a picture of him wearing a baseball cap. I guess the mind is one of the first things to go, but where the hell does it go? I remember Red in a stetson – but then I also found him in a black one. Continue reading Montana – some Desert Don
The Raven’s Nest
I’ve been out to the desert twice daily ever since Scout came to live with me. And recently finding a Raven’s nest in the top of a mesquite tree, with a big-assed Raven sitting in it until we get too close and stay too long. But how does one get too close to something that’s practically unreachable, and after seeing them drag off pieces of red meat and other things for their meal, who would want to get that close? Continue reading The Raven’s Nest
Finally…
I keep meaning to get here but it seems to be the last place I land in a week’s time. Sometimes I don’t have any noises I want to write about but I know if I was still the ‘Winehead’ or dealing poker I’d probably be here every day. Whatever the case may be, I seem to run out of time and energy about the time my head is leading me to my pillow. Continue reading Finally…
Great Poker Promotions – and life
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Spike is back!
I minced around cutting my hair in the post before last – it wasn’t something that just hit my thoughts, it’s been ongoing for quite some time. Long hair is beautiful (obviously when it’s healthy and mine was) and always in the way if you wear it down or you have to continually tie it up, pull it up, or wear it as I did the last 3 to 4 years which was pulled up in a knot on top of my head with a bandanna – to keep the short hair that is always growing in – off of my nose and out of my eyes. I seldom ever wore it down over the last few years – it almost gave me a headache with it flying around the sides of my face and blocking my vision. Continue reading Spike is back!
Cashing out at Full Tilt Poker
NOT! I’ve only put small amounts of money into online poker over the years, and the only site that I cashed from numerous times was Party Poker back in the good old days. I have one big flaw in my poker play that keeps me from cashing out. It doesn’t take a lengthy explanation – it’s my game choice. I like to play tournaments. I’ve never felt committed to grinding, like playing multiple low buy-in SNGs all day long, normally opting for the gigantic donkey filled fields that mean you have to fight your way down through thousands of runners to even score a mere pittance over your buy-in. Continue reading Cashing out at Full Tilt Poker
Cleaning out the old
boxes filled with old letters and pictures and notes of this and that – the things you save for sentimental reasons or because someday down the road you hope your kids will find some of your life interesting as they look back over an old tattered envelope that your dad threw from a train as it was going through the town your mom (and you – obviously) lived in while he was in the service but the train wasn’t stopping there and someone found the envelope with the note in it and gave said envelope to your mom and now it has carried a lock of your baby hair in it for 60 some years; along with other bits and pieces of your life that aren’t important to anyone but you. Continue reading Cleaning out the old
Get your feed bags off…
Get to the starting gate for hell’s sake…the Daily Dollar is about to begin – that’s how I felt about four hours ago. It’s Friday night and only 15,459 runners donkeys showed up. Don’t get your feet tangled or throw a shoe because you’re sure to be trampled in the mad race if you do. And watch out for those that throw a shoe – be ready to duck and dodge all the insanity that makes the race what it is….A FRIGGING DONK FEST! But that’s why they are so much fun, they cost a buck, you can get lucky enough to outrun some of them, and occasionally draw out, although it’s hard to draw out when you start with a real hand vs. their feed bag leftovers. I’m still in at two tables.