Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[Laxie]

He can win a tourney but can't work a phone.  Sigh.

[kinboshi]

..and he tiltingly calls bit.ly links BitLinks.

[tikay]

..and he tiltingly calls bit.ly links BitLinks.

Oh dear. I'm really really sorry it tilts you.

[kinboshi]

..and he tiltingly calls bit.ly links BitLinks.

Oh dear. I'm really really sorry it tilts you.

Doesn't really.  I was just getting down wid da kidz innit.

[tikay]

I see Wormy is on thread - I bumped into an old pal of yours yesterday!

He asked after you, da de da, & he asked after you know who.

[KarmaDope]

Tony, I was just flicking through Day 1B's pics - the "cuticle" lady to Dan Brown's left, surely that is none other than Jennifer Tilly?

[tikay]

Tony, I was just flicking through Day 1B's pics - the "cuticle" lady to Dan Brown's left, surely that is none other than Jennifer Tilly?

Several people mentioned that, & I'm sure you/they are correct.

Miss Tilly holds no interest for me, so I'm not sure I'd recognize her, so thanks for the steer.

[wormster]

I see Wormy is on thread - I bumped into an old pal of yours yesterday!

He asked after you, da de da, & he asked after you know who.

Hi Tony, hope all is well in Vegas. Dave Gutfreund was knocked out in level 4 (I think). He got it all-in pre with Aces against Queens & a pesky queen came on the turn.

Lots of peeps over here are asking about "YKW" and no one seems to know the answer

[tikay]

I spent some time today showing Maria how to use these modern phones.

[Laxie]

The phone looks like the HTC Desire.  Have one myself and love it.  So easy to use!

[Claw75]

So easy to use!

lol - nice rub

[Herbie H]

She looks enthralled.

[Chili]

She looks enthralled.

Indeed, he was showing me how many buttons he could press by mistake!

[tikay]

Well, my annual Vegas trip nears it's end, though I still have no idea when we will fly home - 3 of our 6 players remain in the Main Event. One has a playable stack (118k with Blinds at 1k-2k), the other two are in shove mode, with 30k & 18k.

We have worked very long days, but I've not had any stamina or energy problems. I developed a pretty bad chest on Saturday, air-con inflicted I think, & it's only half-cleared, but not enough to slow me down.

Not played much poker, 3 or 4 little one dayers in total, which set me back about $600, but I binked one 2nd place for $4,700, so that's worked out pretty good.

My Annual Vegas stakes in other players did not fare so good. One made a minimal profit on about £500, God bless Chompers, the other two, totalling $1,600, both sunk without trace, so that's a bad loss.

Money seems to go round in circles out here.  I loaned a few bob to one or two friends who had run short, only about $2k in total, of which $1,300 has been repaid already. I have also changed nearly $2,000 into £ Sterling for various peeps, which is handy enough. Maria uses me as an ATM, changing £ into $ regularly in little tranches, which suits me fine.

She's gone on a Vegas Tour this afternoon, showing Vegas virgin Jake Cody the Vegas sights. He's a great lad, imo. He & Jack Ellwood both impressed me greatly.

[tikay]

As well as following our Team of players (we began with 6), we've been interviewing various poker faces, & have racked up over 70 interviews so far.

These have achieved quite decent clicks, which we're delighted about.

As to my own clicks, it's gone pretty well, too. At one stage, I peaked at a ten-fold increase on my previous record "clicks per day", though it's fallen back to about 4 times the previous Level now.

I really struggle with how this internet stuff works, but AndrewT gave me a cute tip on Tweets, adding "#wsop" to the front of all my Tweets, & this seems to have helped.

I began with 0 "followers" on Twitter 2 months back, & I've gradually increased that to 249. Not good, not by any means, but it's a base to build on. My FB so called "Friends" are just over 900 now. Oddly, I get more clicks from Twitter (with sub 250 followers) than FB, where I have 900.

The blonde-sourced clicks have really surprised me, & I'm not sure I should admit it, but the blonde-sourced clicks equal my Twitter & FB ones combined.  Extraordinary.

I agreed a new Contract with SP a month or more back, & once again, whilst tying my "rights" up as tight as drum, they gave exemption for blondepoker, whom I'm free to promote "within reason". So that was the starting point for me to do some cross-promotion, which, so far, has worked very much in SP's favour. So now I can, with a clear mind, do a bit more blonde promotion.

This wearing several hats lark is very awkward at times.