Yeah, I'm still "alive." Still recovering from worst Vegas trip in over 2 decades to tune of $4K contributed to that local economy. Hope they don't go bankrupt before I return to claim what was mine. Hope I live that long. No October trip for sure. Looks like no December trip. Slight chance January? At least next summer? We shall see.
Back to the online and local live grinds ... with big congrats to fellow St. Louisan Dennis Phillips for making WSOP Main Event final table as chip leader. I don't envy what he'll have to go through between now and November. Doubt he'll be at Harrah's, Ameristar or Lumiere/President much in the meantime. He is really a nice guy, and if there's justice in the world he'd win the big magilla. But if I was a betting man I'd have to pick Scott Montgomery or David Rheem over Phillips.
Main reason for this post is a plug for Maximum Poker League, one of my favorite online poker leagues (link as always in list at right). It's planning an end-of-July freeroll at Reefer for bloggers who link to the MPL forum and back. Since I need Reefer always, I'll do anything for a shot at more! MPL has a good, tough group of players and poker knowledgeables -- and most of them nice to boot! In the recently finished WSOP Fantasy Poker League at Full Tilt, three MPLers finished between 101st and 150th ... just missing the exclusive freeroll for top 100 finishers, but still awesome considering how many took part in the five-week fun (20,000 at least, I'd guess -- seeing as how I was 15,000th-plus with NO points in the Main Event (dumb), the only non-scorer in my 5 leagues). Me, I was in the low 2,000's when all was said and done. Played 4 or 5 freerolls, but missed 10 because of the Vegas trip. Next year a laptop!
Online Forum Challenge this Saturday. At Reefer, which is another reason to build my funds at that site. Wish the Merge Network sites (poker.com, Carbon, Reefer, Iron Duke, Nordica, Oddsmaker, ...) allowed transfers from one place to the other! Back to the grind...
