I”ve basically decided that winning the Card Player PoY race is no longer something I”m willing to dedicate an entire year to. Don”t get me wrong, I still plan on finishing highly on it, at least top 20 barring a complete blowup, but I can”t take the non-stop traveling. I love life in LA too much. I skipped Reno, Monte Carlo, and Foxwoods, and I”ll be 100% focused and ready for the Bellagio series including the $25,000 World Poker Tour main event which is a BIG deal.

Maybe I’m still on tilt from the 600 points I had cheated from me in the Bahamas. A couple of people have referred to that as a second chance event, but it wasn”t one. Second chance events are generally the same day and the same buyin. In the Bahamas, there were a series of tournaments. The only one that got submitted to any major poker site was the main event. I have emailed PokerStars about getting this event submitted, but to no avail. There isn”t even a record of the tournament happening. Oddly enough, the other tournament missing from my CardPlayer page is my EPT Deauville Final table in France – also a PokerStars tournament. Coincidence? You decide.

Oh well, the truth is I’m too lazy to put up a fight to compete with guys like Nam Le, The Grinder, and JC Tran (who is on a sick sick run btw) who are willing to put forth a full effort. Even if I did put up a 100% effort, I would obviously be an underdog against all of those guys.

Things are going great for me though! There was talk of a reality TV show featuring the life of poker players, and I did a casting call in Vegas for it yesterday morning. They rented out this hypnotists house (some guy that was doing a show at the Paris that night). His house was SICK! They interviewed me for an hour by the pool, and when it was over, everyone said that I was made for TV, and I have a perfect candid personality for a show like this.

I don”t know if the show will actually ever happen. They still have to pitch it to networks and everything, but I really hope it does. It would be an amazing opportunity. After the interview, Tom Dwan (Durrrr) and David Benefield (Raptor) showed up, and we shot some group pictures by the guys collection of Ferraris. I think Tom and Dave are basically seen as the guys with the lifestyle they really want to depict, and are basically the inspiration for the show in the first place. There are a million different routes they could go with the show (ranging from something like Real World to something like True Life… and yes, MTV is one of the networks they will pitch the show to), but I think it would be a success almost any way they did it. The guys running the project are pretty confident that this will be a project that actually sees completion… We’ll see!

I read something in Bluff that I found pretty funny. I played with Jennifer Tilly in the Bahamas PCA main event, and she played horribly. Normally I wouldn’t call a player out like this, but she wrote an entire article basically explaining how even the pros sometimes just play terrible poker, and she used this tournament as her example. She basically wrote that even though everyone at the table never believed she could possibly ever have a real hand, she just kept bluffing into everyone, and no one ever folded

Anyway – she wrote this about me which I found pretty funny. “The young guy to my right with the spiky hair reluctantly calls my idiotic bluffs to the river, and when I finally check, shows me the nuts without betting.” She had position to me, so I would just check to her whenever I had a hand, and let her do all the betting, and it worked perfectly. I find the use of the word “reluctantly” pretty funny too. Obviously I tried to make it seem like I was contemplating a fold before I called her flop turn bets to try to induce even more barrels.

I also find it funny because Phil Laak also wrote an article mentioning me with a similar nameless description. It”s fun when you are playing against people that have no clue who you are when you know a lot of helpful information about how they play.

Anyway, that’s it for now. Time to take care of some really boring stuff like taxes so I can be 100% focused for the Bellagio Tournament.