San Diego Rincon

Getting mentally psyched for this tournament. It starts in 7 hours. I had an awesome weekend chilling at the Commerce with Scotty, Bobby, and a few friends. Yesterday morning, Scott was doing a shoot for a poker DVD. He invited me to come down and watch, and I ended up sitting with him in front of the cameras for a couple hours and talking about poker. We gave up a bunch of crew "secrets"... we've had arguments before about how much of the systems we've developed we should share. I'm inclined to open the books on how we play. I don't think just knowing how to do something is enough... you have to be able to pull the system off, too. That's why it doesn't matter how many times you read Super System, you're still not going to be able to play like Doyle Brunson. Back to the point, we're all driving to San Diego in about a half hour...

Anyway, I figured out how to give live updates of my chip count using my phone... so I'm going to be trying to do that all day on the breaks. I'll also be calling every backer at the dinner break (assuming I get that far) and letting them know where I'm at. Cross your fingers and wish me luck... and if you're religious, maybe you could say a little prayer for me.