Hold 'em Honey!

It was the best dream I've had in a long time. We were back at the WSOP, but instead of watching, I was playing! This was one cool dream... I was sitting at one of the outer tables and it was a few days into the main event. Playing at the same table were two professional poker players, four who'd qualified over the internet and were playing pretty damn good, my hero--Annie Duke, myself, and three others who I can't remember. I'm not sure if the best part of the dream was actually playing at the same table as Annie, or if it was because in the dream, Jennifer Harmon (the absolute best!) was my coach. I woke up thinking of strategy before the tournament was over... right now I wish I was at a table with a stack of chips in front of me.

It's 80 degrees and November 15th. Tomorrow morning it's supposed to be 25 degrees! That right there tells me I should be sitting on a beach somewhere in the carribean sipping a peach daquari with a slice of lime, getting ready to play in a big tourney! (Most days I don't need an excuse to do any of those three things...)

We found out about a week and a half ago that the WPT tourney north of here that I'd planned on playing in is being run really cruddy. The information on the official web site says that there will be 200 seats. It also says you can qualify for a seat by being one of the 175 top points players at this particular casino between now and the tourney. (you get one point per hour of regular play). It also says that there will be 25 names drawn randomly out of the remaining regular players. Then it says you can pay 250.00 entrance fee and play. So... although I do play in the poker room at this particular casino, hunting season starts saturday and with Ms.SoonToBeBlue leaving two weeks before the tourney, there is no way I have time right now to go play every single night and be one of their top points players. To get 100 or more points, I would have to sit down there 100 or more hours, win or lose. I'm tempted. But hell, I have two full time jobs, my volunteer work, a husband and three teenagers before you even get to anything else I want to do, if I gave up sleep entirely for the next 8 weeks and went down there every night for 6 hours, then I could draw a seat as one of the top points players, but unfortunately I like my sleep too much. I actually got into an argument with a lady who works at the casino. I argued that if they're supposed to allow someone a $250.00 buy in if they want it, I can walk in, pay my $250.00 and play. The casino's stand on this issue is no, they want to send one of their players who come in every day to the WPT. I got in her face and said, well what if I want to pay $250.00 and BEAT the guy who comes in there to play ever day. So far, it's all contradictory and I may just drive up to tunica and play up there. It's a cheaper buy in and less policital crap.

Sec was only 25 minutes late this morning but I heard a rumor she's taking the whole afternoon off...