The room sits like a discardedmistress that once preenedunder her lover’s gaze and opened her lips and arms awaiting a passionate embrace. Yet hidden beneath the blanket of quiet and overtones of abandonment, there were two full $100-200 LH games running, two $10-20 NLH games, a $60-120 Mixed, and a variety of $30-60, 15-30, 4-8 LH, and the usual $2-5 and $5-10 NLH games.

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I’ve had a variety of pictures that I wanted to put up - some involving the WPBT held on the 8th of July, Caesar’s Palace, in Vegas - and others of the WSOP - and possibly a few just because I want to put them up. Also, I never even actually finished telling the tale of the final night with bloggers. So let me start with just the high spots. (more…)

First, let me welcome a new blogger to PokerWorks, Tony G. has joined the fold and will only add to the other great blogging tales that are going on here. The bloggers at PokerWorks are a diverse crew and will fill the table with everything from appetizers to the main course to desert, make sure you stay tuned.Â

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I made it. A full eight hour shift. Except for the last half hour, I was pushing Ilia and he would have the bust-out. What’s a bust-out? The final half hour of a shift is a break. He was going on 32B and when Mary pushed me out of 31, he asked her if she wanted the bust-out (he would trade tables with her). She didn’t accept, I said I would, if he would (deal the same game for the last half hour of the down), he said he would, I left. Yippee!! (more…)

HELL NO! But that’s where I’ll be one week from today, climbing back into the world after having been peacefully sleeping through an Upper GI. I hate being put under…but then who doesn’t? I’m actually hoping they find something…like the hiatal hernia is HUGE…or something that can be remedied because I’ve had one helluva run with digestive tract problems for a long time. Yes…all kinds of tests, my main menu is nexium, and a few other things going on, but please find a solution to the problem/pain. I want to be well. (more…)

While most of the talk around poker rooms and online poker sites and poker blogs is about the game of poker, there are so many other games being played - all the time - that it’s sometimes difficult to catch a reality thread out of the whole picture. Hey…I’m not even drinking. But watching the action/interaction that’s going on, and the faces of players at my table and other tables in the room, one finds a new meaning to the word ‘game’. (more…)

It’s been about two months since the last Project City Center update. These kids are working 24 hours a day. The dozers are dozing, the guys are doing whatever guys do on a construction site, the hammering noise of construction is neverending. See the previous update here. The newest update is here. (more…)