I'm back bitches! I was kinda jammed after the epic failure of my Phillies. How do the Pirates lose to a San Fransisco team full of re-treads and stiffs? Yeah, I get Marilyn Manson and his stupid arm, but Cain and whoever else they threw up there?
You're telling me the highest paid player in baseball who puts up Babe Ruth numbers every season can't push a run across the base throughout the whole series? Gotta hit the ball to score runs, and that showed throughout the series. Better skill next season. BAH!
PARX Casino opened their poker room yesterday and from what I hear it was a good experience. That may be due solely from the fact that the players I spoke to were excited that they didn't have to drive 2 hours and spend $10 bucks in tolls and $30 in gas.
They are charging for drinks, and they are raking a bit more than AC does but it seems to have been a good experience. I have plans to hit up Parx this weekend and I will do a mini trip report on Monday.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
I would follow you into the Mists of Avalon
Yeah October! Whatever... Playing poker has been completely absent from my life as I adjust to new surroundings.
I sometimes jump on for a quick sng but usually fall asleep or waffle-ize a gutter ball with 150 bb's into a 2 bb pot. That always makes me laugh and gives me more entertainment than watching a "domestic" lion eat the face off it's loving trainer/ master/ "father". Swear to god, I laugh at that every time.
Things are very busy with the business, the kids and the planning of moving forward. I dig the texts and emails I get from those of you that send. I want a break soon and think December will be it. I have scheduled meetings already and look towards a productive weekend. WORK WORK WORK! play!
PA poker is getting a little bit slower. Parx is getting ready to open their poker room. I know they have big plans and I will write about their opening as well as the first few weeks. It will be fun to see how that place implements their strategy of becoming the premier poker room on the east coast. That's what they said. It's a rather lofty goal with the Borgata and Foxwoods looming. We'll see.
Anyone have any plans on some blogger tourney's on line coming up?
I sometimes jump on for a quick sng but usually fall asleep or waffle-ize a gutter ball with 150 bb's into a 2 bb pot. That always makes me laugh and gives me more entertainment than watching a "domestic" lion eat the face off it's loving trainer/ master/ "father". Swear to god, I laugh at that every time.
Things are very busy with the business, the kids and the planning of moving forward. I dig the texts and emails I get from those of you that send. I want a break soon and think December will be it. I have scheduled meetings already and look towards a productive weekend. WORK WORK WORK! play!
PA poker is getting a little bit slower. Parx is getting ready to open their poker room. I know they have big plans and I will write about their opening as well as the first few weeks. It will be fun to see how that place implements their strategy of becoming the premier poker room on the east coast. That's what they said. It's a rather lofty goal with the Borgata and Foxwoods looming. We'll see.
Anyone have any plans on some blogger tourney's on line coming up?
Sunday, September 12, 2010
It was Sloane Kettering and Johnny Hopkins... and they used to blaze that shit up all day long
To say things have been hectic lately is an understatement. My life has been turned on its head and things aren't exactly all peaches.
I continue to push forward however and know that all will be better and for the best in the end. For the best.... what a horsehit cliche' that is. All that implies is that you'll settle for what will most likely be the outcome because, regardless of how shitty it is, so fuck that... Things will end exactly how I want them and will be nothing short of pure glory.
Don't have time to explain everything and I don't know that I ever will in print. It just seems pointless to me because I have my group of close friends that support me with what I need and love all of you for it.
Poker is humming around here with the business, PA opening card rooms and the Borgata in the middle of their Poker Open. The rest of the year is looking pretty cool with the poker line up and I look forward to the rest of it.
Football starts today and I couldn't be more excited. So excited that I will most likely miss all of it while working and getting things lined up for the business. I'm not complaining at all because week 1 is usually so boring.
Enjoy your Sunday!
I continue to push forward however and know that all will be better and for the best in the end. For the best.... what a horsehit cliche' that is. All that implies is that you'll settle for what will most likely be the outcome because, regardless of how shitty it is, so fuck that... Things will end exactly how I want them and will be nothing short of pure glory.
Don't have time to explain everything and I don't know that I ever will in print. It just seems pointless to me because I have my group of close friends that support me with what I need and love all of you for it.
Poker is humming around here with the business, PA opening card rooms and the Borgata in the middle of their Poker Open. The rest of the year is looking pretty cool with the poker line up and I look forward to the rest of it.
Football starts today and I couldn't be more excited. So excited that I will most likely miss all of it while working and getting things lined up for the business. I'm not complaining at all because week 1 is usually so boring.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Doc? bammer? thoughts?
AP
FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2010 file photo released by Antarctic Heritage Trust on Feb. 8, 2010, one of crates of Scotch whisky and brandy is pictured after they have been recovered by a team restoring an Antarctic hut used more than 100 years ago by famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. One of the crates of the Scotch whisky that was trapped in Antarctic ice for a century was finally opened Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 but the heritage dram won't be tasted by whisky lovers because it's being preserved for its historic significance. (AP Photo/Antarctic Heritage Trust) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, EDITORIAL USE ONLY **
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
It shoots through schools
I wonder if that line from the movie, Johnny Dangerously, would fly in today's world without some misguided mothers group getting their panties all in a bunch.
Anywho, we buried my aunt yesterday. It was an awesome ceremony. Family from all sides showed up and everyone celebrated hard in her honor.
Aunt Sue was a big part of my poker playing upbringing. We spent most holidays at their house growing up and always played some sort of card games on Friday and Saturday nights. I remember being 10 and getting yelled at for chasing a straight in stud from one of my uncles or much older cousins. Fuckin' panzies! HA! The memories~!
I kept a good face throughout the day. You have to realize that my aunt and uncle could never have kids so we (my brothers and sister) were like their kids. My aunt was a mother to me as much as my own.
My older brother did the eulogy and he was all torn up so I supported him by being the wise ass brother he'd always been to me. It worked. He got through it and appreciated the sentiments.
My aunt decided to be cremated, but still buried in the plot next to her husband. The urn was placed in a wreath of flowers beside the grave site and the priest offered everyone the opportunity to walk up and touch the urn at the end of the ceremony to say a last good bye.
My 4 year old (bad ass) son, all dressed up in his little suit, hanging out with his 7 year old cousin had been pestering me to get to Wawa the whole ceremony. He was anxious to leave. When we lined up to say that one last good bye, he walked beside me.
When it was his turn, he walked up to the urn, gave it a fist pump saying, ""'sup aunt Sue" and walked away. Everyone started laughing and the priest held out his hand and the kid high fived him saying again, "sup cuz". My mom looked mortified but everyone else was in tears.
Aaaah, that's the good stuff!
Poker seems to be going well in PA. There's rumblings that Harrah's in Chester may be adding an additional 20 tables at the end of September. I'm guessing that's going to be determined after Parx opens their room on September 1st.
Parx resides 30 minutes away, north of Philadelphia, and Harrah's is south of Philadelphia adding to the high competition factor. I know Harrah's thinks they will win outright because they own the WSOP brand, and after all, invented poker. (swear to god, I've been told that by several Harrah's management. It's their culture).
We'll see how they do going up against an 85 table room 30 minutes away with much better structures and pay outs.
I'll be hitting some of them up in the next coming weeks and will give you a detailed report on all rooms, the conversations I have with the insiders, and what particularly the strategies are shaping up to be as it relates to player retention. Which at this point, seems to have been overlooked. It pretty much has been open the doors and they will come, but any poker room manager will tell you, without a retention program, you aren't going to prosper, or even survive.
Anywho, we buried my aunt yesterday. It was an awesome ceremony. Family from all sides showed up and everyone celebrated hard in her honor.
Aunt Sue was a big part of my poker playing upbringing. We spent most holidays at their house growing up and always played some sort of card games on Friday and Saturday nights. I remember being 10 and getting yelled at for chasing a straight in stud from one of my uncles or much older cousins. Fuckin' panzies! HA! The memories~!
I kept a good face throughout the day. You have to realize that my aunt and uncle could never have kids so we (my brothers and sister) were like their kids. My aunt was a mother to me as much as my own.
My older brother did the eulogy and he was all torn up so I supported him by being the wise ass brother he'd always been to me. It worked. He got through it and appreciated the sentiments.
My aunt decided to be cremated, but still buried in the plot next to her husband. The urn was placed in a wreath of flowers beside the grave site and the priest offered everyone the opportunity to walk up and touch the urn at the end of the ceremony to say a last good bye.
My 4 year old (bad ass) son, all dressed up in his little suit, hanging out with his 7 year old cousin had been pestering me to get to Wawa the whole ceremony. He was anxious to leave. When we lined up to say that one last good bye, he walked beside me.
When it was his turn, he walked up to the urn, gave it a fist pump saying, ""'sup aunt Sue" and walked away. Everyone started laughing and the priest held out his hand and the kid high fived him saying again, "sup cuz". My mom looked mortified but everyone else was in tears.
Aaaah, that's the good stuff!
Poker seems to be going well in PA. There's rumblings that Harrah's in Chester may be adding an additional 20 tables at the end of September. I'm guessing that's going to be determined after Parx opens their room on September 1st.
Parx resides 30 minutes away, north of Philadelphia, and Harrah's is south of Philadelphia adding to the high competition factor. I know Harrah's thinks they will win outright because they own the WSOP brand, and after all, invented poker. (swear to god, I've been told that by several Harrah's management. It's their culture).
We'll see how they do going up against an 85 table room 30 minutes away with much better structures and pay outs.
I'll be hitting some of them up in the next coming weeks and will give you a detailed report on all rooms, the conversations I have with the insiders, and what particularly the strategies are shaping up to be as it relates to player retention. Which at this point, seems to have been overlooked. It pretty much has been open the doors and they will come, but any poker room manager will tell you, without a retention program, you aren't going to prosper, or even survive.
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