Florida Recap
Got back from Ft. Lauderdale yesteday early morning. It was a great trip. The people I went down to see were unanimously wonderful. Got to see what a guy named Ron and his partner Steve were cooking up with their project, WPTBootCamp.com. Decent chance I might end up doing some workshops for them.
As for the other group, they were wonderful as well. We were talking about a tv-related idea that they have. They're pretty closed lipped about it, so I can't give out too many details. But I'm definitely interested. All three business partners are married with kids, which is something Gianna definitely liked. We got a chance to throw some chips around, playing home-games like criss-cross and omaha/8 with a kicker... each game was a declare game which I'm not that used to. It reminded me of a few important things about playing poker.
Jeff, the main guy, is a boisterous ex-New Yorker with tons of energy and enthusiasm. He was pretty much the only poker player among them. Gary, the second guy, is about the nicest fellow I've ever met. And Phil was my favorite... everywhere I saw him, he was walking around with this positive air about him, like he just found twenty bucks in the parking lot. All three of them seemed super-friendly and very happy. But not the greatest card players.
What it reminded me of was that if you can get to the motivation behind why someone is playing, it can help you in your game. These guys were playing for fun and for networking... they weren't trying to make a living at it. If someone were to see Gary stay in a O8 pot with his two-card draw to a 45 low, it might be easy to look down on the play. But then you just have to remember... the guy's in it to buid relationships, and nobody likes a rock.
I also got a chance to check out the Indian casino close by... I think it was the Mikasukee casino. Something like that. We went into the cardroom and it was packed... but you couldn't play any higher than $2-$2 limit. Crazy. I guess they had tournaments, though, so it's not that big of a deal.
Anyway, I'll probably be going back down to Florida a few more times and I'll let you know how it goes.
As for the other group, they were wonderful as well. We were talking about a tv-related idea that they have. They're pretty closed lipped about it, so I can't give out too many details. But I'm definitely interested. All three business partners are married with kids, which is something Gianna definitely liked. We got a chance to throw some chips around, playing home-games like criss-cross and omaha/8 with a kicker... each game was a declare game which I'm not that used to. It reminded me of a few important things about playing poker.
Jeff, the main guy, is a boisterous ex-New Yorker with tons of energy and enthusiasm. He was pretty much the only poker player among them. Gary, the second guy, is about the nicest fellow I've ever met. And Phil was my favorite... everywhere I saw him, he was walking around with this positive air about him, like he just found twenty bucks in the parking lot. All three of them seemed super-friendly and very happy. But not the greatest card players.
What it reminded me of was that if you can get to the motivation behind why someone is playing, it can help you in your game. These guys were playing for fun and for networking... they weren't trying to make a living at it. If someone were to see Gary stay in a O8 pot with his two-card draw to a 45 low, it might be easy to look down on the play. But then you just have to remember... the guy's in it to buid relationships, and nobody likes a rock.
I also got a chance to check out the Indian casino close by... I think it was the Mikasukee casino. Something like that. We went into the cardroom and it was packed... but you couldn't play any higher than $2-$2 limit. Crazy. I guess they had tournaments, though, so it's not that big of a deal.
Anyway, I'll probably be going back down to Florida a few more times and I'll let you know how it goes.
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