Nothing important

It's been a while since I've posted anything here. With work and preparations for the holidays and a few other personal things I've played very little poker of late. As I've mentioned here many times, I moved to Orlando during the summer and have been living in a hotel for the last six months.

Well, I've come to the end of the line with Extended Stay. Last week I leased a house a few doors down from my brother's place. Four bedrooms, two baths, two car garage and a screened in pool and lanai. And yesterday I got cable with REAL high speed internet. I'm hoping this is the end of my poker playing connection problems. I did a couple downloads last night and got speeds that were ten times faster than what I usually saw in the hotel.

On Friday I'm taking off for Aurora to spend Christmas week with the family. There is a casino in town so I may get a chance at playing a bit of live poker. Otherwise I'm probably done with poker til next year when the WWdNot resumes.

To everyone who reads this, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and Happy New Year. Have fun and be safe.

Slowing down

I don't know if it's the strain of 87 blogger tournaments a week or if I'm just burning out on poker in general, but I didn't play much poker over the weekend and didn't play at all last night. I'm thinking maybe the confluence of tournament stress with the holidays is a natural sign that I should take a break.

I heard nary a word about the plans to put the WWdNot on hiatus, so it is... on hiatus. If anybody cares I'll start scheduling them again in January.

It seems my reminder of last night's tournaments fell on deaf ears. An amazing three players showed up for CC's Thursday Bash. Surprisingly, the WWdNot almost doubled that number, drawing an impressive five participants. I monied in both, though only because everybody monied in CC's. I took third place in both tournaments. Congrats to Nomad1539 for taking home the WWdNot and to NewinNov for besting DrPauly and me in CC's Thursday Bash.

I don't know if it's blogger tournament overload or just the time of year, but participation has been way down the last few weeks. I think the WWdNot will be going on hiatus until January. Unless I hear lots of screams of protest, the next WWdNot will be held on 4 January 2007.

There was some suggestion last night that the new time of 22:00 EST has screwed some people up. I personally prefer the earlier start time and I'm pretty sure most of the other east coast players do as well. This tournament was originally set up to be more convenient for the west coast players, but participation over the last few months has been dominated by east coasters, so I made the time change to accomodate the majority. I'm open to persuasion on this topic. Leave a comment if you have feelings one way or the other about the start time.