Diary time

Weeks go by...no posts on this blog...and i start getting that nagging, guilty feeling that i'm neglecting this blog. It's got nothing to do with the fact that people read this, really, I don't think that too many people seek this site out to get their daily fix of poker writing or anything else I might have to say. I'm sure the world would continue to turn and lives be led even if this entire blog were pitched into the delete bin or abandoned completely.

No, the guilt is more akin to the feeling a parent has when they realize they're neglecting their kids. This blog is after all one of my babies. From 2005, i've been doing everything in my power to keep it fed and growing.

Now, for a few observations from this week:

1. I played poker for 4 of the last 7 days, Thursday in Cebu at the Rajah game (win) - Friday at the Metro (win) - Tuesday Metro - (win) - Thursday Metro (stuck) - Friday Metro (stuck). The losses outweighed the wins, btw.

I love the metro card club - not just because I have a financial interest in it, but because it embodies so many things I believe live poker ought to be. Fair, convenient, competently managed, and no-nonsense. Kudos to Bryan, Mida, Charles, and now Vanessa and Kennedy for running a great floor. Props to Dirty Ice Cream for simply being a cool mofo and caring passionately about his card room. And Paolo, we wouldn't have our great staff if it weren't for you. Oh, and thanks for the dealers, floors, receptionists, bar guys, waiters, security, and utilities folks (all 50 of you!)for making the place what it is. I see nothing but smiles and hear a lot of good things from the players. We now have well in excess of 1000 members, and I believe that by and large, people are comfortable playing there.

I know these are very biased thing for me to say, but do feel free to comment and criticize anything I say. And feel free to approach any of the card room bosses with your thoughts, suggestions, etc.

2. My baby sister, Rizzie, on an extended vacation from Vancouver, won the P500 satellite to the Metro Main Event being held December 8-9, 2007. Good job, Riz! Oh, and she got heads up with checkpoint louie aka the wolf aka "conyo i can't believe my 7-4 suited missed"! Two of my favorite people at the final table...cool.

3. We've got a very cool technology coming in - can't say what exactly, but just hang tough for a week or so :)

4. Genghis won this week's metro 75 - great guy, got game...

Peace...

2 Days, Deep Stack, 3 MILLION Guaranteed...

Ok, back to announcements. The Metro Card Club is pleased to present the Metro Main Event, December 8 and 9, 2007. It'll be a deepstack tourney with a very skill-conscious structure. I'll publish it as soon as Bryan turns it over to me, but if you've played the Metro 75, you'll get the idea - just pushed out to 2 days.

110 players max...

so small field, deep stack...

and we're GUARANTEEING 3 million. Yes, no fine print. If 2 of you show up to play, you can chop 3 million in level 1.

Satellites start Thursday check the details out at the metro card club website

Or go to the metro tonight and play the 75.

Peace

Thanks for shipping the video, wally...

Daddy's got a new project and needs help

Folks, completely un-poker related.

I'm looking for a chevy V8 (preferably a small block) to drop into my new baby, a 72 chevelle. Can anybody help me. Looking for motors available in the RP, so i don't have to ship anything over.

Help me make this thing go vroom. Thanks!

Cheese

Yet another apology for the dearth of posts on this blog. I've all of a sudden found myself managing an actual business with employees and taxes and everything, which means i haven't been playing much at all, and haven't been getting around much outside of the metro. Hence the only things i could legitimately add to this blog would be announcements and other blah blah items, and i decided to spare you from all that.

Now I have something to write about. I want to define a word (some of you may remember i had a thing on this blog a year or more back where i had a poker glossary). Here's my latest entry.

cheese

–noun
1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
2. a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
3. something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pomace in cider-making.
4. Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
5. cheeses, any of several mallows, esp. Malva neglecta, a sprawling,weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.

Street definition: Money, cash, as in, "that guy owes me a lot of cheese"

In the context of this post, "cowardly, dishonorable, hidden behavior", as in "that was a real cheesy move"

Some of you may know that the metro has been open for almost two months now, and we're all pleased to say we can't complain about its performance. It's proven to be a great place, able to supply the games and stakes folks want, at a fair price. Because of this, it seems we've been targeted by some who don't wish us to succeed. I won't go into specifics or name names, but here are a few things we've had to deal with:

1. Complaints that our rake is too low and that we're cutting prices in the industry, and that we should be uniform with others. What?!?!?!? We are turning a profit (though not becoming millionaires) on collection policies we believe are fair to the community. We won't run jackpots (which demands an extra drop)unless we have to for competitive reasons, but we believe most poker players are smarter than that. At the end of the day (or year, for that matter) the winning player's biggest opponent is the rake. We don't wanna be the reason a good player winds up negative. It's that simple. If anything, everybody else's rake policy is too high.

2. Complaints that we are poaching employees trained by others. Huh? everybody who works for us is free and clear of employment and non-competition contracts. We make certain of that. We do not poach or pirate, because that would be cheesy. And if anybody does that to us, more power to them.

3. Here's the kicker - came in this weekend: an unidentified texter sent a rat-note into the regulator's office saying that one of the partners at the metro got into a fistfight at the metro. LOL. The next day, the story ballooned to that person having popped off a few rounds from a gun. All this from an "anonymous" texter. Message for you, whoever you are: don't be so fucking cheesy. The accused has the right to face his accuser, kindly let us know who you are.

The three points above? Cheese.



Sorry for ranting here - but it's my blog.

Peace