A Star is Born (???)

Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

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Go Devils!!

Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

The people that are close to me know how much I love my Arizona State Sun Devils. Although my mom is more of a freak, and I do mean that literally....she has a seperate room devoted to her Sun Devil Memoribilia (sp?)...crazy, I used to be a season ticket holder along with my sister PJ, Mom & Dad but had to give them up when I moved to Kingman.

WHOOOO HOOO...8-0 Baby! Although we have a bye this weekend and the next 4 games are going to be HARD as hell (UCLA, USC, CAL....etc)I'm feeling pretty good. We went from not being ranked, to 3 weeks later being #25, to being #18 the next week, to being #14 the next week, to being #8 this week. We're doing pretty damn good. Could it be because we have a new coach this year?? Hmmmm.

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I've been posting a lot lately on 2 + 2, I know a lot of people that know me from RGP know that I used to always talk bad about that forum, but I figured since I'm used to posting on moderated forums other than RGP, why not?? Turns out there's a LOT more people on that forum then RGP. They have definatly surpassed RGP in people, material, wisdom, etc etc. Doesn't mean I'll ever agree with the owners viewpoints or business practices, but it's a good place to meet new people and even talk with people that I already know from other forums.

I think being new hasn't been as hard on me as it is for others as a lot of people already know me and have vouched for me, so I'm not being harrassed or slammed like most new people are...that's pretty cool!

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Still not playing poker or gambling, haven't even had the desire to do so. I've been reading a lot and since I'm all out of books, I'm finally going to go to the public library tomorrow in order to get some more reading material! The only problem is that I'm running out of authors. : ( I read too fast and reading 1-2 books a day, I'm running out of material here!!! Sigh.

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Nothing much more going on, I'm trying to write every couple of days just to update, will (of course!) write as soon as anything interesting happens, if it does, but because I'm taming myself right now, I can't see anyone else living vicariously through me right now, LOL.

Peace out!

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Where to Begin.......

Date: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

Well, as you all know it's been an awful LONG time since I've last posted. I think I just lost interest in a lot of things, poker being one and blogging being another. I think I'll just throw out some random paragraphs to get me back into the swing of my blog.

Cherissa's Quinceanera was this past weekend. It was totally awesome! Photos can be seen at http://pecksweb.com/photos/cherissa/03/ Once I convert the video tape, I'll be posting some key moments on YouTube.com. These parties are very traditional and we had an opening waltz, the presentation of the shoes, giving and receiving of the traditional gifts and she sang a solo song as well. I am so proud of her and how she's turned out, I was crying several times during the party, I'm such a softie, LOL.

I went to Atlantic City for the Annual ITH Convention last month and didn't even do a trip report on it, but I had an absolute blast! The weird part, at least for me, was that I didn't even do any gambling (Well, about $40 on nickel slots and $200 on table games, but that was it and for me, that's NOTHING!!) I just hung out at this one bar every day, almost all day long and met people every day, all day long. This was when I wasn't playing in the ITH tournaments, of course. Good times.

I'm back to being single. Jordan moved back to Canada. We felt it would be for the best as we couldn't get him a green card or visa to work in the states, so he went back in order to get a job and start saving up his bankroll again and then make his attempt at playing poker for a living. Still very good friends of course, and we'll still date when we see each other but we also know that by us being so far away from each other, we'll be free to still meet and date other people as well. This also allows us our own space and individuality which is what I crave and love at this time.

My mom got married a few weekends ago. I went down to Prescott for the wedding, it was very simple but elegant and nice and I wish nothing but the best for her and Dane. Congrats guys!

My sister Lorrie had the lap band procedure a few months back, not sure on exact date but here's her blog: http://www.dramamamainqc.blogspot.com/ I saw her this weekend and DAMN she's looking good!!! I'm very proud of her and her husband was quoted as saying that he feels like he's cheating on her with her. LOL.

My other sister Patti (PJ to us!!) also had the lap band, but only a few weeks ago. She's doing great with no complications like Lorrie had, so I wish her well and can't wait to see the pounds melt off of her as it will with these procedures.

I've gained so much weight back since my gastric bypass, I feel horrible!! My self esteem is still AOK, that's not a problem and I still get the guys, but I hate the fact that I out ate my surgery and will be doing either a revision or moving to a different procedure such as the lap band. I figure I'll be able to get it done by Feb or March, just have to save up the money for it since I have no health insurance. Should cost about 10-12K depending on what I do, but I AM doing it. This way I'll be looking HOT again for the WSOP!!

Like I said above, I've lost interest in poker but mostly online poker. I hardly play at all and haven't made a deposit in many months. I've been playing $1 SNG's only when I'm bored and haven't even been too interested (for the most part) in playing the big tourneys. I still love playing live though, but I try not to travel too much anymore since I have a teenage daughter that is getting prettier and prettier which means I'm getting more and more scared. LOL

I've been reading TONS though. I love nothing more then to do my work during the day, have dinner with Cherissa, then while she's doing homework or talking with her friends I chill in my bed reading a book, it's absolutely fantastic. I'm in a really, really big reading kick right now. The only problem is that I've read so many books (sometimes 2 a day, I'm a speed reader) that I'm running out of books! I've read all of my favorite authors books and have been trying to find new authors but that can be difficult sometimes. I started reading V.C. Andrews and so I went to the used book store, bought out every single one of hers, she has a LOT, but by the 7th book of hers I realized they were all the same story line. (Kind of like Danielle Steele, can't stand her, LOL) VC writes about incest and rich family/poor family in every book and it just gets old. She must have one sick mind or have been through it herself to write about it so much. Yuck. Turned me off and so now I have no more books. I have to get to the library one day this week.

The business is going good, nothing new or different there, just the same old same old every day. One of my employees is about to have a baby though, so that will be great to be around one without having to have one to get the baby urges out of the system, LOL.

I started playing the local bar free poker tournament league and it's good for nothing but being able to get out of the house and have a few drinks. They all suck and a lot of them hate me because they know that I play (for real, real) and I think I set them off a few times when I try to play by the rules. I know now that I just have to go with the flow and I don't even bother arguing or calling the floor because it's pointless, noone there (even the floor) knows the proper rules. So I just go to drink and play drunken poker.

Well, I think that's it for now. I'm going to go make dinner now and now that I've gotten this blog off, I'll feel better about posting more now. I'll try to do a little something every day or every other day, so that at least the blog is back to being more consistant.

Peace Out!!

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Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby

Date: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

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MissT74 - 2007-10-03

Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

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MissT74 - 2007-08-28

Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

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WSOP/BCP TR #2

Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

Which you should have gotten a few days ago, but I wanted to make sure I typed something up for you all before I leave again today, back to Vegas. It's always hectic and crazy when I come home in between trips, getting caught up on work, getting ready to leave again, etc. etc.

I'm not going to go into too many details about last weekend but will instead talk about the "one" that got away from me.

On Saturday I played the $550 Venetian, 485 entrants, only 40 got paid. This in itself I don't understand as most tournaments pay out the top 10% of the entrants, so I believe 48-49 should have been paid, but from what I've heard the Venetian is very top heavy. I don't mind that, IF I were to get to the top. And man, was I on my way. I played solid, good, sometimes drunken (I got drunk while playing the first 4-5 hours then sobered up the final 4 hours. I played for 10 hours total, busting out right around 10pm on THIS hand:

Antes are 1K, blinds are 2K/4K. I have 120K in front of me after paying my antes, I'm UTG and look down to AcKc. There were only 7 players at the table, 44 players left in the event.

Everyone folds to the SB, which is typical, there all pretty much playing bubble style, as I was.....although I wasn't getting any hands, so that helped me but in each orbit I'm losing 13K, so I have to do something at some point or I'll just ante/blind myself past the bubble, and I don't want to pass the bubble (Well, I DO but I DON'T, ya know??).

Anywho, the SB looks at me (cute guy, in his laste 20's or early 30's, had already shared his spring rolls with me) and says, "You know what? This is the stupidest call I am ever going to make in my life, but I like you and I'm tired and if anyone is going to get my chips, I want it to be you".

Flips over 4c5c.

You know the rest of the story. Flop comes 3, 3, 5 Turn J River 10 and IGHN. SIGH.

I LOVED the call, when I saw it, just hated the flop, when I saw it.

Never found out how much 1st paid but that would have given me 260K in chips, well within chipleader range and from what I've figured out/heard, 1st place was probably anywhere from 25-30K. CRINGE.

Gawd, Sometimes I hate poker so much. : )

However, I digress and I'm off to Vegas. This weekend has RAZZ at Binions, so hopefully I can do good there since I love that game and today is $200 NLHE at Binions.

Have a great weekend, and I will write again on Monday when I return home. Ciao!!

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Ohhhhh BTW......

Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

I met Trishelle this past weekend in The American Grill at RIO. For those that are in the know, she's the gorgeous blonde from Real World - Las Vegas, which is currently airing on MTV, at least the Reunion show is. She was very nice and after she told me that her boyfriend made it to Day 2 in a WSOP event, I pretty much ignored her and just talked poker with him. Of course, I was buzzed/drunk? at the time, but I think it was pretty cool.

AND

What the FUCK is wrong with the court system to let Paris Hilton out of jail after 24 hours???? Oh sure they SAY she was in fro 3 days, but she didn't turn herself in until midnight, so they gave her credit for the whole day and then she left last night at midnight, giving her credit for today. There is NO way in HELL you or myself would EVER get that treatment. A fucking ankle bracelet for home arrest due to a medical condition, give me a fucking break.

(But then again on the other hand, if I was rich and famous, I would want that treatment too. ; )

OK, off to Vegas! Next trip report coming on Sunday or Monday. Have a great weekend!!

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WSOP/BPC Trip Report #1

Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

Left Friday after taking Cherissa to her orthodontist appointment, got her on the plane to Aunt PJ in Phoenix and then headed off to RIO after first dropping off 2 guys I had met at the airport at Harrah's. The taxi line at the airport was about a 1 1/2 hour wait and I felt it would bring me good karma to do a good deed for the day.

WOW. RIO was/is one MAJOR clusterfuck. Good lord, I can't understand how they (Harrah's) could have this golden egg on their plate (WSOP) and fuck it up every year. EVERYTHING was different, where to play single table satellites, where to play cash games, how the registration lines worked, it was horrid to see all the people standing in line for literally 4-5 hours just to register for an event. I moseyed around for a little bit, ran into a few old friends (Hi Foldem!) and met my friend GoPhish from PS for the first time. I commiserated with him while he stood in line. Tried to sneak him into the Diamond line (the ONLY thing I will like about the WSOP IF I play anything there) but to no avail.

So I left and headed over to Binions. Ran into some friends there, don't recall if I played anything...certainly no tournaments, but did end up going over to Polly Esthers, the dance club at Stratosphere I enjoy, for about an hour before heading home to the RIO and crashing, after a scrumptious shrimp cocktail at the All American Grill. (LOVE them, I eat 1 of those every day)

Saturday had me heading to Binions and arriving in time to play in the normal 10am event. Didn't do anything worth mentioning, but the goal is to have it finish by 1:30pm, so it's a turbo style with no rebuys. Played a little Video Poker, ran into some friends, just got reacquaited with Vegas basically before the 4pm BPC event. I didn't last much longer then an hour in that event, so I hung around until the 8pm normal event which I ended up chopping 5 (or was it 6?) ways, with all of them getting 2300 and my getting 4K. I was MAJOR chip leader and DRUNK off my ass, as normal, so they were wise to ask me what I wanted just so that I wouldn't knock them out, since I had knocked out everyone else so far at the final table at that point with horrid cards but LUCK was on my side as it usually is. Not a bad start to my first weekend in Vegas!! I also won the seat into the TOC event being held on 7/1, but gave the Tshirt to a tourist from England.

Sunday AM had me back at Binions and playing some more video poker where I hit my first 4 Aces of the weekend, no kicker, but still good for $800. Played in the 10 am and the 4pm BPC with no positive results. My Dad was in town with his new girlfriend, so I got to hang out with them for about an hour and had a few drinks before the 10am started. It was great seeing him again and he seems very happy with his new love. After the tournaments, I ran into some ITH'rs (Pauli, Nside, and KrazyTxn!!) so we decided to play the 8pm at Golden Nugget, where I ended up winning the last longer, but still couldn't make it to the final table. We headed off for a meal at the cafe there, which I adore, and then I played some Crazy 4 Card Poker before calling it a night.

Monday AM had me back at Binions and playing some more video poker where I hit another 4 Aces, then quads 3 times and so I cashed out with my $1200 profit and played the 10am normal tourney, then the 2pm BPC, where I ran into Felicia and Glenn. They stayed with us at the RIO that night, but Felicia forgot her seat cushion and was in so much pain, they decided to call it a trip and left for home on Tuesday, although they'll be back, especially for Stud which Felicia ROCKS at. This was my last day/night in Vegas, so although I started off slow, I ended up getting toasted again and found myself running around Vegas at 1am trying to find my damn spaghetti and meatballs. Finally found it at the 3rd casino I stopped at, Caesars, and after my yummy meal, went to bed and crashed. I was supposed to meet Dad and Colleen for dinner, but we couldn't set up a proper time so I ended up just playing Crazy 4 Card Poker before my 4th meal (which in reality was my 2nd meal as I always seem to forget to eat in vegas, or would rather be playing instead of eating, or drinking instead of eating, etc etc etc). I bought in for $200 and left with $2400. Another good session!

Of course, as a gambler and with the amount of tourneys I played in, I gave a lot back and I couldn't have won a lot that I won if I hadn't been gambling, but after arriving in Vegas with only $500 and leaving with $4400, I was very pleased and hope to win at least one tourney or good gambling session a trip.

I leave again on Friday and will only be there until Sunday night, when I pick up Cherissa from the airport around 8pm and head on home for another week of work, then leave again. This month will be a constant going back and forth traveling road trip for me, but I look forward to it. Boy, do I ever. : )

I know I probably leave a lot out, and I can't always remember everything, especially when I go for 3+ days and they all start blending in together, but I will try my best to give sordid details and post funny anectdotes when I can. I'm starting to think this might just be another boring blog entry, so I will have to work on my debauchery so you all can live vicariously through me. LOL

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It's TIME!

Date: Thu, May 31, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

I leave for Vegas tomorrow PM, after first taking Cherissa to her orthodontist. Then I take her to the airport, she's flying to Phoenix to hang out with Aunt PJ and cousin Nick for 10 days, then I'll be headed to the RIO to check in and check out the beginning of the WSOP.

Saturday, Sunday, and Monday I will be playing at Binions Poker Classic then back home on Tuesday AM to get caught up with my work and blog, then back to Vegas the following Friday.

I promise to blog about each individual trip because if I don't, the details get fuzzy and lost. : )

If you're coming out to Vegas at any point during the WSOP, make sure to email me and we can exchange cell phone numbers and meet, perhaps over a cocktail?? : )

Have a great weekend to all you non-attending-WSOP-suckers. ; )

T

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It's About Damn Time

Date: Mon, May 28, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

I am SOOOO sorry I haven't posted since my last post, I seem to have a little problem with Google, we're not getting along too well and I just didn't persue it as further as I should have.

I've been a little depressed/bummed out lately and just didn't care is another reason. : )

Soooo, where did I leave off. Oh yeah, The ATLARGE trip report.

OK, let's start from there.

(ATLARGE was the first part of March and man, that was a long time ago. I'm pretty sure that was my last trip for the book, to do my research, but I've also gone on another cruise since then...but not for vacation, for work.)

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WPS, which I've spoken about before, offered me a position as tournament registration and cashier. I took the job not knowing what I was getting into and 7 days after leaving harbor, got back home miserable and not really caring to go into details at this time. I'm sad to say that I no longer feel as if I can endorse WPS and as many friends as I have made with WPS, unless they come to other poker events, I probably won't see them ever again and that makes me sad. That was one thing that I loved about WPS...the people. They always accepted me for who I was, no questions asked. Sigh.

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Another sigh is that we had to close the store. I think the biggest mistake we made was "location, location, location". We had NO cross traffic so the only traffic we got were people coming specifically to our store. Retail works better when it's not that way and people buy impulsively. I got tired of putting my other business' money into the store, and made the decision to close it at 6 months vs. continuing on and possibly hurting myself more financially then I already had. I'm happy with the decision now, sorry that it failed, but not sorry for trying. Maybe another day, another location.

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As many know, I had started dating Fellknight (RGP) and he had moved down to Kingman to open the business with me, upon the closing of the business we decided that it would be best if he moved back to Canada so that he could get a job, as he has no working visa in the US and it's damn near impossible to get one. Before going back however, he is attending a dealer school in Vegas, learning poker dealing, blackjack, and craps. He worked the WPS and did a fine job dealing, so now when he goes back to Canada, he'll try for a job in a casino until he can get a US working visa. UNLESS, of course, he does well at the WSOP and wins lots of money, then he'll move to Vegas and become a professional poker player like he's wanted to do for a couple of years now.

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Speaking of the WSOP, I will be in Vegas for most of June and the first part of July, but due to increasing financial difficulties won't be playing at the actual WSOP, but rather at Binions Poker Classic. They run the exact same events as the WSOP, but at 1/10 of the cost and so I can go and play...since I already booked 24 nights at the RIO for FREE during June. (I'm a Harrah's girl, am I not??) I've had offers to be backed and have accepted and thus will be able to play a LOT more events at Binions then I could have if not backed. I sent an email out to certain friends with my offer, but don't feel comfortable posting it on RGP or here on my blog. A lot of people always construe it as asking/begging for money and I don't like that connotation, and so only felt comfortable sending it to people that I felt wouldn't feel that way about me or my email.

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Cherissa is thriving! Getting into typical teenager trouble and I'm getting more and more worried as each month goes by because she is one gorgeous girl and the boys have noticed. She graduates from 8th grade tomorrow night and I'm sure I'll shed a few tears....OMG, my baby is entering high school in 2 months!! YIKES!!

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Went into Laughlin the other day for the first time in a LONG time and actually chopped the Riverside tourney with 2 others and I was the short stack! Even chop, so I said, um OK. LOL

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Billing service is going good, got another client back in April, hired another girl last week, it's starting to pick up and due to this and the fact that work is coming in for Bill again, I'll be OK financially again in another month or so, but boy has it been a rough past 6 months. I really need to learn money management, I think I got so de-sensitized about money with poker/gambling and the fact that I was making way more money than I ever had, that I forgot about the bad months. However, things are going well and I'll be back on my feet soon. I'm a survivor, that's for sure and I've always prepared myself for the worse.

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That's about it for now, again, I apologize for not posting more reguarly. I do have a laptop that I know how to use now (lol) and will take with me to Vegas to post my WSOP/BPC trip reports so keep watching!! BTW, I hope I didn't lose to many readers, but I'll spread the word around again that the blog is back up and maybe win a few readers back.

For now, take care of each other and yourself. - Jerry Springer : )

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OMG....FINALLY!!!!

Date: Fri, May 11, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

After SIX weeks of being hacked and not having access to my blog, I FINALLY got help from Google and was able to reset my password, allowing me access to my blog.

I bet you all have missed me, eh?

I will post the POST of the lifetime, TWO months of accumulated news and post again before the weekend is over.

I sure hope I didn't lose you all.

: )

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ATLARGE Trip Report

Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

Took off for Atlantic City via Philadelphia on 3/1 but got stuck in Chicago overnight. Not too big of a deal as we found a nice hotel that had a lovely bar and restaurant. However, this did mean that I would miss the Smoker's Dinner and that was disappointing to me.

Got an early flight to Philly Friday AM and after picking up the rental car, finally made it into AC around 3pm. That day's tourney had already started so we missed that one, so we hung out at Showboat for a little bit playing 2/4 LHE and just basically hanging out. Finally got registered for ATLARGE and found out there was a banquet that night, so we headed over there. Food was great, the guest speaker was Nolan Dalla...absolutely loved him, but he was struggling up there. Good thing everyone had a great sense of humour and he got heckled quite a bit, from me included.

This is where I ran into Eric from the 8-2 MD club, we went out for a smoke and while we were gone, Nolan finished his speech and everyone had headed downstairs to play the pink chip game. We started making our way down to the poker room ourselves, but then got stopped at a bar. Eric stated "There is no way we can walk right by this bar without getting a drink!" I concurred. We got our drank, finished it, and started heading towards the poker room again where we came upon a dance club. "There is no way we can walk right by this dance floor without dancing!" is what I claimed and so we sat. Ended up staying there for several hours, well into the night. Eric drinking beside me, me dancing with others out on the floor and I will state that although he only drank beer (2 to my 1 martini) Eric can absolutely HANG!! Loved him, had a great time. Headed to bed around 2am.

Saturday found me lazy and not really wanting to get up and hurry to get showered and dressed to get to the tourney for the day, so I lounged in bed until about 2pm then went downstairs to sweat Omaholic in his 2nd final table for ATLARGE. He had finished 4th place in the Friday HOE tourney and then ended up out in 7th (I believe) in the NLHE Saturday event. Finally ran into Elg (Eric) on this day and after the tourney, we went and had a drink. Then Fellknight, Omaholic and myself went to dinner at the Chinese restaurant that The Taj has where Eric met up with us, then we went over to the pink chip game where I lost my buy in. Then we all headed upstairs and played some private poker games in Omaholic's room. Go Slomaha!!

Sunday I had to do my room reviews so 3 of us headed over to The Borgata. LOVED it! This is my 2nd favorite room so far. It was absolutely gorgeous, and the Bellagio of AC. Fellknight found a very juicey 10/20 Stud/Omaha game and ended up winning an insane amount of money. Omaholic and I went over to the Tropicana so I could do that room review, then we went right back to the Borgata where he then jumped into the game with Fellknight and I found myself playing 10/20 LHE. I don't know WHAT I was thinking playing that level, but I won! (Sidenote: the games are absolutely juicy on the weekends, during the week...very dry just a note for you all)

Monday we headed out to Foxwoods. Ran into snow in New York but I also got to see the Empire State Building in the skyline and I was tickled by that. I have never been out on the east coast, so it was all very new and exciting to me. That Empire State Building sure is tall, LOL, it was pretty cool seeing it against the other buildings in the skyline. Got to Foxwoods about 7pm, IIRC, and it was already dark so of course, I got lost. LOL. Missed the entrance to the hotel room, we stayed in the one that is seperate from the casino. Took the shuttle over and then I went to work and tried to do my poker room interview. I said "try" as this was the 2nd casino that refused an interview in regards to rake/structures, etc. Said I would have to contact their PR department. Sigh. I don't get it, this information is public knowledge, why make me jump through hoops to get it???

Met another RGP'r, dougmanct, had a drink or two with him, taught him how to play Crazy 4 Card Poker then went and sweated him and Fellknight in a single table sattelite. Once that was over, I figured it was time for 4th meal and had some delicious spaghetti and meatballs, then crashed into bed around 2am.

Tuesday we headed back to AC as we decided that we really much rather preferred Borgata over Foxwoods. We were supposed to stay there until Wednesday before heading home, but got a free room at Borgata so figured why not go back to the poker room we liked? Didn't do too well there that night though, but still a lovely casino and the rooms are absolutely gorgeous.

Wednesday I woke up to about 3 inches of snow blanketing the area....who woulda thunk? The sun was out and shining the day before!!! Got to the airport and after no mishaps at the airport(s) got into Vegas around midnight, stayed over because I was absolutely exhausted and then headed home back to work on Thursday.

It's Friday now and I'm just getting caught up on work, my clients, and home life. It's been a pretty stressful and hectic time the last few months with all my traveling and some situations at home. However, I am a firm believer in positive thinking and found out Oprah is too when she recommended "The Secret". This is a concept I TOTALLY believed in, just didn't know what it was called as I never heard or read about it, just knew that that is how I try to live my life. I recommend everyone get this book, and with an open mind, you'd be surprised at what you can positively attract.

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San Francisco/Bay Area Trip Report

Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 Women Internet Live Tournament

"Finally", you're saying to yourself, "Finally she's updating her damn blog"

San Francisco was a very, very nice weekend. Landed in San Jose on Friday 2 hours late but then checked into the hotel and my sister, Corrie, picked us up and we went down to Pier 29 (I'm pretty sure that's the pier, the famous one??) Anywho, enjoyed a nice dinner with my sister, did a little shopping, was surprised and happy to see a Michael Goddard gallary on the pier, an original is only 40-50K but ONE day I WILL own one (or two : )

Saturday saw us going to Lucky Chances casino to do my review on the room. You'll have to wait for the book to get all the juicy details, but let me just say that this is, by far, my favorite casino/card room that I've reviewed so far. The dealers knew what they were doing, the floor knew what they were doing.....there for about 6 hours and only heard 1 dealer call for floor once during the whole day/evening.

I did get spanked in the 1/2 NL game though, but it really wasn't all my fault. I kept getting awesome hands, but the opponent always had better. Flush? No good! Full house? No good! So I moved down to 3/6 LHE and had much better luck/time there.

Sunday we headed to the wine country and spent the afternoon/evening with Dr. Gary Furness from RGP, had a lovely time meeting him and his wife and his 2 adorable children. We really enjoyed ourselves this day and low and behold I FINALLY found a wine that I liked. Of course, I couldn't tell you the name or even the vineyard but I LOVED it! Turns out it was a dessert wine and that's why I liked it due to it's sweetness, had a pear like taste to it and so I bought a bottle.

Monday found us at Bay 101, which I absolutely HATED. I don't really want to go into to many details but the floor was very condescending and rude to me, IMO, and also refused to give an interview for the book. This was the first time I had run across this and it kind of shocked me. The information that I'm looking for is not a secret, they actually had print outs with the information I needed, but they just simply refused to talk to me. That set me off to begin with, but then it got worse when the floor cut me off after a few shots and then the floor manager looked me right in the eye and stated "Oh please, you were drunk when you got here, you absolutely reeked!!" This stunned me as I had had only 2 drinks before getting to Bay 101 and that was at least 2 hours prior to getting there!!

Those 2 drinks were had over dinner with Porsche Dan from RGP, always nice to meet a fellow RGP'r and this was no exception. He made the reservations for a lovely restaurant not too far from Bay 101 and after a good meal and great conversation was when we headed to the card room.

Traveled home on Tuesday and got ready to head to Atlantic City with ATLARGE.

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