Long story short, 0 for the last 2 as well, but there was a third break and a legitimate bad beat or two in there so things were, theoretically, moving forward.

...until Bond busted at a WSOP FT in the way that he did and sent me into more tilt than I would have been in had I simply bubbled some random donkament. How do you make it to the final 8 at the WSOP, bust on a 4:1 bad beat and still owe 50K in makeup afterwards? That's actually almost the grossest thing I've ever heard of.

Another gross fact: We have six people playing the WSOP in this house. Three of them have final tabled an event. Two of those people still owe 50K in makeup each (that'd be more than I have, and I'm now 0 for 10 with no particular rungood in sight) and the third will probably keep about 70K for finishing second. Why do I play donkaments again? [Trick question: I actually put in a bunch of hands of PLO and razz recently. I might even be a winning player at low to midstakes PLO now. Whee!]

But nobody particularly cares about random poker hands, so here's an update that may actually be interesting to people: 60 Minutes did drop by and film a whopping 15 minutes of me playing poker, in advance of interviewing me (I guess that's this August now, which means the story should be September-ish) in addition to people who aren't nearly as cool, like Greg Raymer and Annie Duke. If UB and/or AP get their shit together by then and manage to somehow convince everyone involved that they're now a legitimate operation, the story should wind up being very good for poker. Alternatively, they can keep on doing what they're doing now, which will not result in anything nearly as nice. I'll update more if I hear anything from the grapevine that's printable, as, unfortunately, the number of things I've heard that I can't talk about now would fill a very long binder.

Taking tomorrow off because there's nothing going on/back on the grind Thursday or so.

PS: I don't care if you guys don't wanna read this. Comedy bustout hand from today:

I lose a flip, leaving me with ~2000 chips at 100/200, and immediately get moved to another table, where I'm on Joe Tehan's left. "This ought to be fun for an hour or so until I bust - at least Joe's a good guy", I think.

The dealer tosses out the cards, and with one limper, I look down at QQ in MP2. Instead of shoving, I make it 700 and listen to the table laugh about the internet kid raising light. Naturally, the 70-something SB, who's laughing the loudest, calls for 1/3 of our effective stacks, as does the limper.

Flop J72r. Old guy checks, limper bets 800 into my 1200 stack ("I have the nuts"), I shove, old guy...instacalls ("I no longer have the nuts"), limper overcalls. Well, there's a chance they both have jacks, right? Turn A, old guy bets ("no, not really"), limper folds, 77 is very good.

"Nice seeing you again for one hand, Joe". Poker is funny.

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