2008 - More Snippets

Chuck says, if you want to be a weener, you have to eat a wiener, and so he had a hot dog before starting day 1. He regretted having eggs and the fruit cup only, for breakfast on day two. He feels he should have added a sausage.

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When I sat down at my table and realized that you only start with 3,000 chips in this tournament, instead of the usual 10,000, I told the old-timer next to me that I thought this was going to be a "deep stack" tournament. He replied "Son, the buy in is only $1,000. This is the 'cheap stack' tournament."

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There were two ladies at my table to start day one, which is a little unusual. I told them the BabyFace Baxter story. One of them explained that they could not have kept Nick out of the tournament anyway. They say that it is discrimination and illegal.

The other lady, who turned out to be quite French and spoke with a heavy accent, went on to explain that in the 'Ladies' tournaments that she has been buying into are almost half men, most dressed in drag. She says the spaghetti straps over the hairy chests are what bug her the most.

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There are many poker shirts here, and then just some pretty good shirts in general. We have all seen the signs, 'Will work for food' held by panhandlers. On the beach in Hawaii I have seen "Will surf for food" or "locals go home" on a t-shirt. Here one of the retirees had a shirt that said "Will not work for anything" which I rather coveted. In the Bellagio daily tournament there was one young gunslinger from the internet who's shirt was clearly purchased at the student body store at the campus Student Union, which read "You can retake a class, but you can never re-live a party."

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There was a guy who had no hands that sat at the table in a wheel chair and played the cards and the chips with his feet. I did not see this, so I cannot report to what degree his contortionist skills succeeded in this task (could people see his cards?). Anyway, upon hearing this at breakfast, Neil muttered "Right. I can barely WALK on my feet."

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Neil and Rich were comparing the quality of the 'movies' that they were watching last night and complaining, of course. The names of the features were pretty entertaining, although I cannot recall them at this time. I did grab the Keno brochure however, for inspiration, and asked them if they had seen "The 5 Spot Dinner Special" or the "Progressive 8 Spot" which I thought were pretty remarkable cinematic achievements.

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We apologized for Chuck, who is a professional sports handicapper, for calling him last year, after several beers, and asking him who we should bet on in the Professional Bass Fishing Tournament that was going to be on TV after the Laker game. Should we go with Billy Bob or Joey Bob. Tough pick, since they are very close, and Billy Bob was only favored by half a bass.

Chuck said, with quite a straight face, that Competitive Bass Fishing has now gone intercollegiate, and that Louisiana Tech has the best team right now. Neil mentioned that he gave Scott the classic career advice to "just pick something you are good at" and then commented that he might have to start making some pre-emptive exclusions to that policy.

Rich commented that his brother is now ranked 8th in the country in ESPN on-line fantasy baseball. Apparently he is not ranked, currently, in on-line fantasy Bass Fishing.

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