I am THE James

This year looked as if I would miss the WSOP Circuit in Tunica for the second straight year.  That was until last week when PokerNews called me up and asked if I wanted to help cover the Main Event.  Considering that my main client has recently cut his budget and my other client has me on hold, I jumped at the chance.   I’m going to head down on Friday and may even play in an event on Saturday, but I don’t know.   I may just stick to some cash games and see what I can do.  The event will be fun to a degree as I should see a few people I know down there.  I wish I could play a little more than I am, but I have other things going on.

My weight loss is still going well.  I am down 12 lbs officially.  My workouts are going well also.  My stamina has increased to the point where my trainer wants to make my circuits longer.  That’s fine by me.  The wierd thing is that I am developing muscles that I don’t remember having before.  Of course, that’s a good thing.

I have developed a deeper appreciation for a certain friend this past week.  For several years now, I have always been the one that made her stop and think about things regarding life, etc.  Lately, she has turned the tables on me and challenged me as to my motivation behind my weight loss, etc.  She was concerned that I was doing over a particular girl.  I had to go over the reasons that I am doing this, which are primarily for my health and not for any “potential future.”  She also gave me her opinion…in full detail about certain things.  Yes, I am being a little vague, but the details are private.  Suffice it to say that I am glad that she said what she did, if for no other reason than to show that she cares about me more than I thought.  She also made me think about several things too.

Anyway, I have begun to really start to follow the show House M.D. with a great deal of seriousness lately.  I don’t normally get into hospital or doctor dramas, but this one is different.  I actually identify quite a bit with House and Wilson actually reminds me a lot of my friend I was speaking about above.  I’ve went back to start watching Season 1 and will start working my way through the show until I have all the eps watched.  Maybe this will be my new CSI.

Btw, I think that Grissom’s last episode is how they should have ended CSI as a series.  I will probably watch the show…but it will never be the same.

The last few days my sleep patterns have been reversed.  For those of you looking at me confused, that means I am sleeping like a NORMAL PERSON.  What the hell?  The good thing is that I have picked up two more clients.  I don’t know how the volume will pan out, but I have been paid for the work done so far.  Seems like whatever I try and pursue, I wind up successful in some fashion or another.

Schedules have come out for events this month and next in Oklahoma and Tunica and both have a good mix of games.  If it weren’t for the expense of getting to Oklahoma, I would go out there and play the events.  I’m still toying with Tunica.  I may choose that over Atlantic City.  I haven’t had the best of luck in AC tourneys other than daily’s.  Plus, the Tunica events are cheaper.  The one downside is that the trip is twice as long as the AC trip.  I may just go up to AC and play cash games.  Yes, I’ve probably already said that, but I’m still toying with the idea.  I saw the schedule for the Bike’s Big Poker Ocktober.  I am not impressed.  One Omaha Hi-Lo and one Stud Hi-Lo event, and the rest crapshoot.   I am waiting to see what the Commerce puts out.   Yes, I am contemplating a trip out west.  When?  Who knows.  How am I getting the money?  Who knows.

I wrote an article today on Omaha Hi-Lo.  I thought I would have a hard time coming up with an 1,000 word article introducing the game and providing basic strategy.  I fooled myself.  There is so much involved just educating a player how to play the game properly that I didn’t really get much into starting hand values etc.  I wound up making the article an introduction to Omaha and will have to write a second article on beginner strategy.    Other games, I didnt have to do this as I didn’t have certain aspect of the game to explain.  Works for me tho, more money from the articles.

For those of you asking, no, I haven’t heard anymore from PokerNews about future work.  Others are getting gigs and I am not even getting replies to messages.  Oh well.  It’s always best to go out and find your own clients anyway folks.   I would love to have enough writing and blogging gigs to where I don’t need another job.  I’m working on it.

I truly think that  I am done with the data business for good.  I just don’t have the desire to work it anymore.  The money was good while it lasted but the landscape of the business model changed too much to make my way of doing things profitable anymore.  Change occurs inevitably.  I cannot complain however.  My house is paid for, as well as my car.  Many people twice my age cannot boast that.

I was asked last night if I had been playing any lately.  I wish I could say I felt like it, but I don’t.  Online poker just doesn’t do it for me.  If I am going to play, I want to play live.  Even then, I can only play so much before I am bored with it.  A certain person keeps trying to get me to come play a game locally and at their home game. I just am not interested.  I’ll read about it, write about it, even watch it on TV.  Play?  Nah, don’t feel like it.