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More on this later, but NY1 is reporting that a 55 year old man was shot and killed during a robbery at a “new” club last night. Anyone connected to the New York poker scene knows which one I mean. I’m sure there’s a thread about this on 2+2 brick and mortar so look there for more info.

A Mild Improvement

I’ve been a bit more focused in the last two tournaments I’ve played (Mookie, Riverchasers), so one element of my game has been found. Now I need to work on a few others — and thanks to the magic of slot online, I’m beginning to think I know what they are. We’ll see how next week’s crop of tournies go, but I’m hoping to alter a few aspects of my play. If my results don’t improve, maybe I’ll just chuck this effort all together. Why throw good money after bad?

Thus ends today’s poker content. One tangentially related item: I’ve booked my flight and hotel for Vegas. Bacon-Bikini and I will be staying at IP (they threw a good deal at me – $300 for 4 nights), the blogger favorite aptly described as “weird”, with a layout that is “mystifying”, “dark” and “scary”. And don’t forget the Dealertainers(tm)!

In other news, I thought the depths of Scrabble tilt were plumbed back in August by a match I played against Dawn Summers, but it reached a new low today when I bingoed twice in the same game on my way to racking up 423 points – and lost by 18. Jason, this is where you should go ahead and imagine me shaking my fist at you (right before I kill you with my shoe).

How’s my weekend shaping up? Like this: drinking, “sleeping”, “sleeping”, drinking, bowling, drinking, theater, drinking, “sleeping”, “sleeping”, getting rid of an old mattress that’s taking up space, football, drinking, drinking, football, drinking, puking.

Merry Christmas if you celebrate it. I have to say that I’m anxiously awaiting the Airing of the Grievances, so I can explain to CK in excruciating detail all the ways she has disappointed me this year. She, on the other hand, is anxiously awaiting the Feats of Strength, so she can kick my ass.

Home Again, Gone Again

Got home from Vegas about an hour ago. Unfortunately, I have to be back at the airport in 15 hours so that I can fly to Latvia and Lithuania for a quick two-day business trip, returning to New York on Friday. Not sure when I’ll be able to find some time to post some Vegas Moments, but we’ll see how it goes.

Those of you who won this weekend, you probably have me to thank. I was the ultimate cooler at everything I played, and if it weren’t for betting $100 a hand in solidarity with CK to turn my last session of pai gow into a winner, I would have gone 0 for the weekend in everything I played. I was, in the words of Joe Speaker, That Guy.

Evel Knievel defies death no more. He died Friday at age 69 from a lifetime of idiocy. One point to Team Clareified, and the usual tip of the hat to Bacon-Biki… wait, no. That’s not right. Tip of the hat to Joe Speaker, who beat Bacon-Bikini Mary by a solid 10 minutes with news of this demise.