Things to Come

I don’t have the time to do a full fledged blog post yet, so I just wanted to give you a quick preview of what will be coming here in the days and weeks ahead.

I am now back from my latest trip to Vegas.  While there, I was only able to write one blog post, and it was a controversial one at that (see here).  Yes, it was controversial.  Apparently it revealed that I am very bad, very experienced poker player, at least judging by some of the comments I received.  But that’s ok.  When I started this blog, it was more to tell silly stories that I witnessed—some of which occurred at the poker table—than it was to give in depth poker analysis.  Somehow, when I wasn’t looking, a poker blog broke out, but I make no claim to being a great poker player.

Anyway, I think that’s the least amount of blogging I’ve done from Vegas since I started the blog (but I’m too lazy to check that to confirm it).  It seems between work and playing poker (badly, apparently—the poker, not the work), I just couldn’t find the time to do more than that one post.

What that means is I have a ton of stories to tell, and they will be take a good long while to get them all out there.  But boy do I have stories to tell!  Just bear with me.  Yeah there’s plenty of poker to talk about.  Despite how impossible it will be for some people to believe, I actually had a successful trip poker wise.  I was up the entire time, and even though I had one really rough day at the tables, I left town with a bigger poker bankroll than I came with.  And I actually feel like I’m making real progress as a player.  A lot of that money was won not just by dumb luck, but by making smart moves and reacting well to table conditions.

As for that bad day, you can bet that the dreaded pocket Kings were involved.  Multiple times.  In fact, when I finally get to it, you will read about how I found a whole new way to lose with pocket Kings.  Can’t wait to tell that story, but I have to (wait, that is).

Another poker story will involve a crazy Aussie, a delightful British bird and a new definition of “min cash” in a tournament (how does $13 above the buy in sound?).

But there will be more than just poker.  I have new stories about numerous characters I’ve previously written about.  Of course, I had quite a few poker sessions with Prudence.  And remember Ginger and her pal Isabel?  They will be re-appearing too.

And surely you all remember crazy Natalee, the star of a two-part post (starting here)? Yeah, she returned to the BSC poker room during my visit and was up to her ol’ tricks again.   This time she was trying to compete with Prudence for most gratuitous “vagina mentioning” at a poker table.  She also had a rather provocative method for giving herself good luck.

And then there’s the beautiful Denise (see here). Not only did she announce to everyone at the table that I have a blog, thereby confirming that she does indeed know I’m the guy who was so ungentlemanly in discussing her physical attributes, but much later, she actually called me a “gentleman”, thus making my day.  It was especially amazing considering what I did to her—and I mean at the poker table, not on the blog.

And that’s all I can remember off the top of my head.  For this trip, I did mostly voice notes, rather than handwritten notes.  Hopefully, this will mean better detail and more accuracy.  Another thing I was diligent about, especially during the second half of the trip, was taking notes on hands right at the table, as I realized I was remembering way too few hands the next day without that.  So that means that instead of the short, barely there blog posts I’ve done in the past, I can finally start doing some in-depth, full length posts for a change.

Oddly though, using the voice method means it will take longer to compose a post, as I will probably have turn my voice notes into word notes before I can organize them for a post.

And unfortunately, those future blog posts may be slow in rolling out.  The deadline for my next Ante Up column is this Friday, so I will have to take time off from blogging to write that.

And then….there’s my taxes, which I haven’t even started on.  Gulp.

So it may take some time for me to get to all of it.  Patience, my friends, patience.

Alright, that’s enough tease for now.  Just to put a little bit of meat into this post, I will leave you with one quick little story.  I played a tournament at Planet Hollywood, which gave me the opportunity to check out the ladies who deal table games in their “Pleasure Pit.”  These are attractive ladies who deal games wearing lingerie.  As you can imagine some, but not all, of the ladies dealing are on the well-endowed side (no doubt some through plastic surgery), and the outfits are designed to display significant cleavage, as if anyone would be interested in that. 

One of the games they deal is called “No-Bust Blackjack”—or something like that.  It might be “none-bust blackjack” or “non-bust blackjack”, not sure.  I tried to look it up on the Planet Hollywood website, but no mention of it is made.

Anyway, the pretty lady dealing this game when I walked by had by far the largest breasts of any of the Party Pit ladies I saw there (and that’s saying something).  The only reason I even noticed her breasts was because it was quite incongruous to see such a large-busted woman standing right under a sign that said “No bust.”  She was so the opposite of “no-bust."

Was it a coincidence that this particular woman was dealing this particular game?

I think not.