Question for WPBT'ers about Hollywood Casino

If and when Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races decides to add tournament play to their new "poker room", would there be any interest in having a WPBT event there?  I know you can't go casino hopping like you do in Vegas, but they do have a nice facility. Besides Poker, they offer horse racing, Pai Gow, other table games, as well as over 5000 slots. (Yes there are several strip bars within driving/cab/limo distance so those of you who need that kind of entertainment can indulge.)

Let me know if there is any interest.

Enjoy the Pokery Goodness!

Not in Vegas, Baby!

As a courtesy to the WPBT members either currently in or headed to the annual WPBT Winter Classic in Vegas (details here, here and here), I will attempt to give my non-trip reports.  This will, I think, provide a good contrast to the goings-on in that shiny city in the west.

Thursday the 9th:  I am not getting on an airplane to Las Vegas.  I do not have reservations to any of the mega-hotel/resort/casinos there.  I picked up my daughter from 4th grade Math Field Day practice and brought both of the "little" _ones home for snacks and homework before meeting Mrs. _one for the Christmas Band Concert at the school where she teaches. We thoroughly enjoyed the music then made our way home for dinner and finishing up homework.

You will not find me at the Geisha Bar at IP with the poker bloggers who made it in early today.  Well at least there is no chance of any of them calling for a dial-a-shot, as none of them know my number.  Safe again.

Sometimes I miss the days in 2004 before the first WPBT Winter Classic.  The poker blogger community was a lot smaller, and a lot more unified in some ways.  But as time went on, the community fractured and stratified.  I am one of those that was left behind.  I did not post often enough, with enough content, or with enough editing for some people's taste.  That is OK by me.  I never wanted to be recognized as a good writer.  I just wanted to be a part of the community.  It was just fun reading and commenting.

Ehhhh!  What the hell was that?

Enjoy the Pokery Goodness (in Vegas or where ever you are)!

PS:  If you must dial-a-shot, and everyone else in the poker universe is unavailable, call me and I will fulfill my duty.

WPBT Winter Classic Coming Soon!

The WPBT Winter Classic is less than a month a way.  Bloggers from all over will descend on Las Vegas with all the hammers they can find.  Lots of booze and fun to be had.  What will I be doing?  The same thing I do every year Pinky,  I will be at home (and all the bloggers breathe a sigh of relief knowing they won't have to put up with hearing "Enjoy the Pokery Goodness" every 10 minutes).  Just make sure you post a trip report of whatever you can remember.

Seriously, if you can make it, it will be and awesomely amazing time.

Go read here for details.

Enjoy the... wait I already said that.

WPBT Winter Classic 2010

Yes, it is that time of year again.  Unfortunately, my current job status does not allow me to attend.  Someday, I will have a job... and one that pays enough for me to afford this trip.  Either that or we organize a WPBT event at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races.

For information on the Winter Classic, go read here.

In the past, this has been THE event.  I have so much enjoyed reading the trip reports.  If half of them are true, it is amazing that everyone has survived.

Enjoy the Pokery Goodness!

PS:  I am available for dial-a-shots if you get desperate.  :-)

Yes it has been Four Years.

Yes this blog has been around for 4 years. And considering the content, it is kind of a dubious distinction. There are many poker blogs which have fallen by the wayside in that time. Blogs which were better written. Blogs which had more content. Blogs which posting was done on a more regular basis. Yet here I am.

If you had asked me four years ago where I would be in my poker journey, I would have told you I would be at the WSOP and cashing big. I would have said I had plans to attend most of the WPBT get-togethers. Those things and a lot more should have happened.

What did happen?

Work - and lots of it. I had a very good, well paying tech job, but the commute and the price of gas forced me to leave it. I now make less than half that in a retail environment. (Any jobs out there?)

UIGEA - Those bastards in Congress ruined the Party!! Forcing Neteller, Party Poker, and others to drop US players out of fear of lawsuits and more.

The fine voters of Jefferson County, West Virginia - These people did not see the merit in table gaming at the local race track. Although the voters in the counties of the other 3 racetracks in West Virginia voted for table gaming. Jefferson County Schools, who would have been the benificiary of the Table Gaming revenue, missed out on an estimate 2.5 million dollars the first year and an estimated 4.5 million dollars in each subsequent year. Hopefully they will vote FOR table gaming the next time it comes up. It would be nice to have a poker room twenty minutes from home!

Online poker - I have been playing play money since UIGEA. I know I could play real money at some sites, but it is the principle. Until Congress gets off their butts and acts...

So what little poker skills I have will languish. What little sense of poker blogging community I once felt will stand idle. I will wait. I have patience. Eventually circumstances will change, they always do. And I will pursue my poker journey with renewed vigor. Until then I will be playing for play chips, reading poker blogs, and wishing there were more poker players in Congress.

Enjoy the Pokery Goodness!

Updates

Greetings my friends. Since Party Poker does not allow me to play for real, maybe some of my European readers would like to check out Party Poker Germany. You will find the link over on the right hand side. I'm sure there are still quite a few fish swimming around. There always were when I played there.

I got a bit of interesting mail today. Actually it was addressed to my wife, the lovely Mrs. _one. I will post more on it once I have checked it out. Hopefully I will have time in the next few days.

To any of the Bloggers attending the upcoming WPBT in Vegas: If you are in need of a dial-a-shot contact me, and work permitting, I will throw one back with you. (Note to self - make sure there is SoCo on hand.)

Play for me has not been easy the last couple of weeks. Right now I am playing mostly play-money Sit and Go's over at FTP. I can usually make the final table if I am patient. But I have not been "In the Play Money" for a while. I will have to study my play and figure it out. My first inclination is that I have not been playing aggressively enough.

Time to put the little _ones to bed.

Enjoy the Pokery Goodness!

WPBT in Action

Well, it looks like I will miss out on the drunken fun again. At least the drunken fun in Vegas. It seems that it "that" time of the year again. The WPBT is having their Decemberly invasion of Vegas to throw hammers and a few back while blogging all about it.

At least that is the theory. I have poked around at a few blogs and have found very little evidence of it happening this year. Of course it is probably that I am so far out of the poker blogging loop that I have not a clue of who is organizing the event this year.

If you find out, let me know!

Enjoy the Pokery Goodness!