The Road Trip is Over

So after a quick stop in Las Vegas, I'm now back in Fresno. Feels good to be off the road and back home. No more sleeping in the passenger seat, no more straining the eyes to stay awake. No more missing Gianna or my warm bed or my Tivo.

A few cool things happened. First, back in Missouri, my mother sent me off with a tape of every single WSOP from ESPN this year. She got them all and put them in a great big box. So now I can clear my Tivo. Second, during our stop in Las Vegas, Bobby and I stopped at the Palms to play a little. I got into a 2-5 NL game and took it down for about $300. Doesn't sound like that much, but it helps... I'm working on a pretty thin bankroll these days. While I was sitting down at the Palms, the floorman came over and handed out a few copies of Lederer's new DVD called "Howard Lederer 'Tells' All". I didn't snag a copy, but the guy I was sitting next to, an old-school dealer turned player named Ross the Boss, gave me his copy. Thanks Ross.

I'm going to check it out later today and I'll give you all my impression of it. But first I have a few housekeeping things to do at the office... like install a virus scan program. My computer is pretty sluggish, I'm thinking something has to be wrong with it. Everytime I tell it to do something, it thinks about it for about fifteen seconds... blah.

Nothing else really to say. Congrats and condolences go out to Scott, who got pretty far in the Party tournament last Saturday and Josh (aka Sdouble) who took down 13th in the $215 yesterday on Stars. So close, yet so far away... I feel your pain guys.

If there is one thing I've learned about tournaments, it's this... you can't win them until you get it headsup. So if you ever find yourself chip leader in the $10k main event at the WSOP and there are 18 players left, slow down... focus on getting to the final table first. Then focus on getting headsup. Then take it down.

Peace.