Here I am…
Sunday, June 21, 2009 - Annie Duke
Up at the bright and early hour of noon o’clock. Yes. You read that right. Noon o’clock. Anyone who knows me well knows that my usual waking hour is about 7 am. I am generally in my Bikram class by 9 am having fed my kids breakfast and gotten them off to school. But the World Series of Poker creates this sort of alternate universe. A universe where it seems normal to be up until well past 3am on a daily basis. Where is seems normal to not wake up till noon o’clock. So every year at the beginning of June I get warped to this alternate universe so here I am. I just woke up.
The hours seem to be working out for me money wise so far. I have played 7 events, cashed in one and made a final table already. Not surprisingly, both were in Omaha 8 or better. Luckily, the final table was in the $10K Championship. I was short stacked the whole third day in that tournament so I was super happy to come in 8th there. I would win my all-in hand, once hitting two outs on the river to do so, but then I wouldn’t win the second hand after that. So I nursed that short stack to hell! That might be the first time I was not disappointed with an 8th place ever. I was ecstatic actually.
One thing that is not working for me anymore is Indian food. There is a very yummy restaurant in the Rio called Gaylord’s. They are fast and the food is excellent. But on the 10th night in a row that you are eating it, well I wouldn’t say that I relish the opportunity anymore. This is true every year. I eat almost no Indian food outside of the WSOP because I end up eating it every single freaking night during the WSOP. I can only take so much chicken tikka, okay? The problem is there aren’t a lot of other options that get you in and out in less than an hour. The noon tournaments have an hour and a half dinner break but I am always playing the 5pm tournaments. And those only give you an hour. So now I am a walking piece of pappadum. Crispy and yummy pappadum but seriously, I am just a think little wafer…now bugger off.
(for those or are Monty Python challenge…yes, that last line was a Python reference from The Meaning of Life. I just don’t want anyone to think I have actually lost my mind.)
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June 24th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Think you were great on celebrity apprentice
You were the clear winner
Love to watch you play poker and hope you do well at wsop