I'm actually going to Vegas tomorrow for the first time since, uh, 2006. Going to spend half my time at the Orleans playing at the Nationals for World Tavern Poker (I ran so well at playing online during the pandemic I won a national points championship with 3 free nights in LV)
Worst photo ever.
I wasn't really all that keen on a cross country trip earlier this year (thought about delaying until 2022) - but then when the WSOP moved its schedule to the fall and overlapped WTP's Nationals....
The only real goals I have for the trip - try to break even, play well, and enjoy myself.
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So, I figure I owe a moderate update on life since... uh, the early 2010s?
- Still have the same basic job, although the name on the check has bounced around from Verizon to AOL to Oath to Yahoo... But, that check still cashes, so I can be happy about that. Done a lot of volunteer work with the county health department at vaccine clinics since March, so I head to Vegas triple-vaxxed, masked and as relaxed as you can be travelling in 2021
- BabyGirlHeff is now a tween that just turned 12. Really in a lot of ways she's most important part of my life, and all I want to do is make sure she turns into a happy, wonderful adult.
- Looking back at those WSOP posts from 2006 (most of the old blog I turned private, but left those posts up for posterity/look how silly I was back then) - is fun yet bittersweet. Jenn and I had so much fun on that trip - and now we basically just co-parent our daughter and live our own lives for a number of reasons beyond the scope of this blog.
Life happens.
I am a much happier and better person now than I was when this URL went dark - and while I didn't love the path I had to take to get here - I appreciate who I am - and the people in my life - more than I ever have.
Poker stuff?
-Once the pandemic hit, I got back into online poker - mostly playing Ignition because the anonymous tables means I don't have to worry about datamining/tracking results, I just play as optimal as I can - and that's been very profitable over the last year.
-The live bar poker scene obviously dried up for a while, so I really took to playing their online platform over the winter of 2020/21, resulting in the Orleans trip.
-I've been playing some Pokerstars home games with SmBoatDrinks and that's gone really well too with some substantial wins in his seasonal series - love those non-holdem tourneys...
I may post, I may not over the next week. To be honest it's easier to see the old posts if I wake the blog back up for a while as a crazy time machine back into my past....
