Chilling at the Fishtank
Two cool things have happened. First, I signed a one-year lease in Vegas. I'm right off Las Vegas Blvd on the south side... and only about two minutes from Scotty. We're actually in the same subdivision. So now I'm officially a Nevadan. It's going to be pretty good out here for me I think. I've got Bobby staying with me and we've been hunkering down and playing tons of poker... I probably put in 60 hours last week. It's nowhere close to the time that Scotty puts in, though... I swear, he never leaves his livingroom. I asked him the other day what his goal is, and he kind of looked at me funny... like waking up, playing poker, ordering pizza, playing some more, and going to bed just to repeat it the next day wasn't somehow completely fulfilling. Like that's what life is supposed to be once you've made it.
"You want to go out to a club tonight, Scott? Meet some good looking Vegas girls and get a little buzz on?"
"No."
"What about a movie then? Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy just opened up... supposed to be funny."
"Can't do it, man... I'm in six tournaments and I'm just about to make the final table in two of them."
"Ok... well... when do you think you want to take a break from poker?"
"Dude... never. I never want to take a break. If I could skip sleep and just play 24-hours a day I would do that, but I can't... I'm cursed to have to continue eating and sleeping or I won't have the energy to click my mouse."
It's crazy... but I guess for Scotty that's what the dream was and now he's living it. ;)
Second cool thing that happened, though, is that Scotty opened up a new cardroom called TheFishtank. I've been playing on it a bit, these days, under "Kid_Dutch". They have some guarantee tournaments that are usually pretty good and they're giving away a few WSOP seats. I talked to Scott and he's hoping to get most of the crew playing on there and do some crew-invite tournaments... and do some things with a tournament leader board. He also wants to get the site spreading H.O.R.S.E. and also run some online lectures. I hope it becomes a pretty cool site instead of a ghost town like a lot of the other new ones. So far it has some pretty good action. Scotty swears there are some pretty big fish in the 50/100 limit game that tilt hardcore and give away thousands of chips. That is a little above my head these days, though.
Sign up and let me know what you think of it... still in the building stages so I can pass off a lot of your ideas over to Scotty and probably make them happen. If you do sign up, use affiliate code "Dutch1" so I can credit for sending you there... plus I think you get some sort of deposit bonus for using it. And if we ever get crew-invite tourneys and lectures and what not, you'll be invited. Come say hi... I'm playing under Kid_Dutch.
In a Fisthank $20 NL tournament right now with a $2k guarantee. Built my stack up to 7k but just lost with QQs against TTs all-in preflop. One thing that kills me about this site is that when you're all-in, it deals the cards out slowly one by one... all looked clear until "car jockey" hit his ten on the river.... slow and painful.
"You want to go out to a club tonight, Scott? Meet some good looking Vegas girls and get a little buzz on?"
"No."
"What about a movie then? Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy just opened up... supposed to be funny."
"Can't do it, man... I'm in six tournaments and I'm just about to make the final table in two of them."
"Ok... well... when do you think you want to take a break from poker?"
"Dude... never. I never want to take a break. If I could skip sleep and just play 24-hours a day I would do that, but I can't... I'm cursed to have to continue eating and sleeping or I won't have the energy to click my mouse."
It's crazy... but I guess for Scotty that's what the dream was and now he's living it. ;)
Second cool thing that happened, though, is that Scotty opened up a new cardroom called TheFishtank. I've been playing on it a bit, these days, under "Kid_Dutch". They have some guarantee tournaments that are usually pretty good and they're giving away a few WSOP seats. I talked to Scott and he's hoping to get most of the crew playing on there and do some crew-invite tournaments... and do some things with a tournament leader board. He also wants to get the site spreading H.O.R.S.E. and also run some online lectures. I hope it becomes a pretty cool site instead of a ghost town like a lot of the other new ones. So far it has some pretty good action. Scotty swears there are some pretty big fish in the 50/100 limit game that tilt hardcore and give away thousands of chips. That is a little above my head these days, though.
Sign up and let me know what you think of it... still in the building stages so I can pass off a lot of your ideas over to Scotty and probably make them happen. If you do sign up, use affiliate code "Dutch1" so I can credit for sending you there... plus I think you get some sort of deposit bonus for using it. And if we ever get crew-invite tourneys and lectures and what not, you'll be invited. Come say hi... I'm playing under Kid_Dutch.
In a Fisthank $20 NL tournament right now with a $2k guarantee. Built my stack up to 7k but just lost with QQs against TTs all-in preflop. One thing that kills me about this site is that when you're all-in, it deals the cards out slowly one by one... all looked clear until "car jockey" hit his ten on the river.... slow and painful.
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