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First 24 hours at World Series of Poker

The new Amazon room is awesome. Harrah's transformed a warehouse room of tables into a landscape that tips its hat to WSOP champions past and present. The room is decorated with giant screens of past World Series winners as if it were the crown molding of the room. In the cash game area there is a walled off section of tables for high limit play. Yesterday I saw Men the Master playing what looked like a variant of Chinese Poker.The wall is waist high giving the players room and some privacy but still allowing the public to see who's in there.

I ran into Gavin straight off and he looked great. He's lost some weight, has a new girlfriend and is in top spirits. I haven't seen him in a long time but he wished me happy birthday and said barbaques are on the front burner. I can't wait to meet his girl, and am so happy for him.

Yesterday there was a fair commotion about a new deck of cards being used at the series.

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Here's Daniel talking about it on Poker News. The good news is that Harrah's acted quickly and swapped them out before the dinner break. You can see Daniel's video blog on RawVegas.tv.

Get your tournament coverage at WorldSeriesofPoker.com.

More to tell...talk soon.

CURRENT: LAS VEGAS RIO
NEXT: up the street for a body wrap

Birthday Boot Camp! Birthday poker!

Well, word is getting out about birthday poker tomorrow night. I got a request today that one of my #1 fans wants to read about the party, so somebody make sure I follow through. Or blog about it so I don't have to. We're having drinks and apps at Isla, the shmancy Tequila bar at TI then chasing it with a poker tourney, $60 + $5. I was in over the weekend a couple of times (bubbled dammit!) and let them know I was bringing in about 10 players. Michelle, the boss who won't be there tomorrow night was still excited about it. She gave me a hat. Look out. Between that and some WPT cop-style sunglasses, I'll look like a bad-ass.

But the two best presents I could ask for came today. First, Andrew gave me the day off blogging. Woohoo! Then my trainer called and said that I could choose the work out tomorrow and then have everyone else do them but me. What?! No way. I haven't been to Boot Camp since before the Bay to Breakers so I chose for us to do beach volleyball again. But I'm also going to ask for ab crunches, boxing moves, some planks, and the reach for your ankles from a horizontal position one. Good for the inches.

Even though I still have to work on other freelance assignments, it's going to be a great day. I mean, come on, there's no way I could have as bad of a day as Miss USA had yesterday. Ooops!

Anyway, come on out to Vegas. Surprise me tomorrow. Just show up at the TI poker room at 6:50pm. Come on...what else do you have to do? Bring it!

CURRENT: LAS VEGAS
NEXT: Somewhere....seats around California are only $39 each way on SWA in June and July

Oh, the bet's still on - yes it is!

A few of you have been asking me how we fared in our $1000 Bet. Well, it's still on with little progress from each of us. My wonderfully sweet new friend Cassie from the coffee shop asked me the other day if I'd lost weight and insisted that I have. She is too kind.

Having John gone for a month is added incentive. It gives me the sense that I can get a bunch done in that department without him around. When we're together we eat out A LOT. I stocked the fridge with some healthy food, but not too much. I want to make sure there are only a few options so I'm forced to eat a turkey wrap on  Lavash instead of Kraft Mac & Cheese. Fresh salad instead of canned soup. Oh yeah, I'm a real gourmand.

And now for the KICKER. It's called Prize and Punishment. I've done a deal with myself this week. No going to poker on Thursday unless I've worked out three mornings between Monday and Thursday. (and thats saying there's going to be poker, I don't know for sure yet. If they make it Wed, I'll have to do it all by Wed). I also bought some little girly 3lb dumbells and some ankle and wrist weights and added that to my core strengthening bouncy ball. I did a half an hour of make up stuff that I sort of remember from the DVD and the trainer I once had and do it in reps till it kinda hurts stuff. And I'll follow that up with a brisk walk or short job later this afternoon. I've got a lot of work to do this week. Lots. So, off to it.

Structure, structure, structure! But it gets lonely out here in the 'Dena so somebody come over for dinner. I've got falafel and middle eastern thingies from the shop up the street. And more beer and wine than you can shake a stick at. Get over here.

CURRENT: Pasadena, CA
NEXT: Las Vegas this weekend?

2007 Predictions

In anticipation of Art Bell's New Year's prediction shows, I started a Google hunt to see what other 2007 predictions were out there. From the downfall of blogs, the upswing of RSS, J-Lo getting preggers, and Pittsburgh winning the Super Bowl - 2007 is shaping up to be a year of ups and downs.

Nikki-Psychic to the Stars: A ton of predictions from a psychic with proven accuracy. Wow.(Updated from original post)
New York Post: Psychic Celeb News from Cindy Adams!
Fireflies in the Clouds: Matt Dinniman gives readers a laugh, afterall he was a telephone psychic—once.
Messaging...Technolgy...Life: Blogging has to slow at some point. Josh thinks it's going to be this coming year.
Kuro5hin: Country by country, Sports, Gossip
Silicon Valley Sleuth: HP makes money, Google does not (on videos)
Spirals of Change: Politics, health care, divorce...