Monday with Annie Duke
Monday, February 9, 2009 - Annie Duke
Okay…here is something that sucks. My friends Rafe and Laura are getting married on March down in Mexico. I have had this on my schedule for months and months now because they are really dear friends. I mean if I had to list the people that I would want to make sure I went to their wedding they are pretty near the top of the list. So they looked through the poker schedule since, after all, so many of Rafe Furst’s friends are poker players. And they saw that there was a hole right at the beginning of March and they let us all know to save the date, which Joe and I did immediately.
Oh shit, the beginning of March? Don’t you worry about that, we all find out a few weeks ago that that is when the NBC Heads Up Challenge is. That, of course, affects not just me but my brother, Howard Lederer, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson and a few others. I mean how much does that suck because of any tournament in the world that is one we cannot miss. I have to play in it. I would miss a WPT (as long as it wasn’t the $25K Championship). I might even miss a few of the preliminary WSOP events. But I can’t miss the NBC event. It is just too important to be there and it would be irresponsible of me to miss it.
So now I am really sad…not just for me since I am going to miss the wedding…but more so for Rafe and Laura because so many of their close friends can’t make the wedding now and that just sucks. I miss a cool Mexican vacation but they miss their friends being there on one of the most important days of their lives.
When poker is your job it sometimes gets in the way of the other stuff in you life and that is just the way it is. Sigh.
Tags: $25K Championship, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, NBC Heads up Challenge, WPT
