Clubhouse: The Shearing Pen

[ugulu]

First take care of home, then work. TBoAA comes third.

Well, you can debate 2nd or 3rd I suppose...

I just figured (hoped) folks are running on summer hours and enjoying the break.

My time off is August 1 - 10, so that should help stagger the timing of who disappears. I'm off to Vegas again for what my wife is calling a "poker convention" (not that far off really: http://www.barge.org). First time I've been and I'm curious to see how many "named" folks make an appearance. First one I know of - Wil Wheaton is a past attendee and may show up again. Cool in a many-layered RPG/Trek/Poker sense.

 

[Gansk]

I will also be in Vegas, starting August 11th, so I'll miss ugulu and Wil by a day.

I'll be driving from Vegas to SF on August 18th, and I'll be back home in LA by the 22nd.

 

[Infiniti2000]

I hope y'all enjoy your vacations!

ugulu, I'll keep my eyes peeled for you on the TV. You'll be the one with the hat and sunglasses, right?

 

[ugulu]

Heh - only TV I'll get on TV at this thing is if there is something on the local news about "...sunburned mob arrested for drunkenness"

 

[Greybar]

Sorry still mobbed with work.

On a related note, here's part of why

 

[PJSlavner]

Greybar, are you trying to fix the why?

 

[Greybar]

Whew. BLOG was us. It was a crazy day. I've only been with the company a bit over a year, but I have a feeling that some of the long-term employees just made a nice chunk of change, at least on paper.

Today is filled with meetings, but I'm hoping to sneak in some ENWorld tomorrow.


Ugulu: I'm envious - that looks like a huge amount of fun. Good luck at the tables and in the events between.

 

[ugulu]

GB - you a closet 'rounder'?

For anyone who cares: so far for the final tourney the names I recognize are:
Gavin Smith (Canadian, won a couple of World Poker Tour events; also the guest speaker at the banquet)
Andy Bloch (came 2nd in the $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. tourney in 2006)
Bill Chen (seen on the last season of High Stakes Poker)
Rafe Furst (one of the Tiltboys, part of Phil Gordon's home-game crew)

So I'm gonna have to roll quite a few 20's at this particular table to have a chance...

 

[Gansk]

Greybar, your IPO made the financial news on TV. They said something about your competition was swallowed up by Hewlett Packard or a company like that.

ugulu, how many people are you competing against?

 

[ugulu]

The biggest tourney at the end has 206 people right now. The other ones are a 7-Card Stud tourney (about 80 people) and a mixed-game tourney with about 150.

In watching the listserv traffic around this I'm getting the distinct impression that poker is only a thinly veiled excuse to get the party started...