Twitter, Smartcars, and Dream Team Poker!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - HollywoodDave
OK, so after going back and forth to Philly a time or two, I’m back in LA and packing for Vegas! Tomorrow is my good friend Erica Schoenberg’s birthday (she’s younger than me but has always been like a big sister to me) so we are gonna go do dinner & par-tay a little bit… can’t wait! This week has been especially shitty for me online (I had my first winning session in a week tonite and it was for a whole dollar!) so I’m lookin’ forward to a little R&R.
Then on Friday the Dream Team Poker tourney jumps off at Caesar’s, where once again I’ll be reppin’ Team Diablo with Erica & her dad! Last time around her dad actually made it to the final table so this weekend Erica and I will have to pull our weight! Should be a fun event & its def been getting some good press so hopefully this turns into a semi-annual event. Nice to go battle with other teams of talented players for cash & bragging rights!
So in order to get ready for my trip this week, I brought my BMW in for service and they were out of other BMW loaner cars, so they gave me choice between driving a PT Cruiser, Camry, or a Smartcar for a few days — needless to say I picked the lil tiny Smartcar and man did I have a blast! These cars are so frickin’ tiny but are actually pretty zippy, and on top of getting like 50 mpg also can squeeze into the most ridiculously small parking spaces! lol Plus it reminded me of one of my favorite places on Earth — Nice, France. I hung out there for a week once in a room with a balcony overlooking a crowded little intersection full of people, shops, and tons of tiny little Smartcars. It was awesome — 3 blocks from the Mediterranean Sea and perfect for writing my next novel! (And hey, if you don’t have my first one — ‘Hollywood Blackjack’ — what the fuck is wrong with you?? Stop by Amazon and pick one up already!!)
Thanks to Annie Duke’s persuasion, I’ve finally succumbed to the Twitter bug. In fact I think most of us UB pros are on there now. Stop by and add me for some fun updates: www.twitter.com/Hollywood_Dave
Speaking of Duke, the battle over our 10-Step prop bet is gettin’ fierce! For those of you who don’t know, she challenged me to a race to a WSOP 12k main event prize package on UB’s new Steps satellites — the catch being, we’re only allowed to buy in at Step One for 10 cents!! Awhile ago I blogged that I had amassed a handful of Step 4 tickets but they’ve long since bombed away, the farthest level I could get to being Step 5. So for the past few days I’ve played a few dozen Step Ones an have so far built up about 10 more Step 1 tix and 20 or so Step 2’s. I’ve spent a total of 7 bucks so far on this prop bet and will get that up to 10 bucks even before taking all my accumulated Step 1 & 2 tix and try to make the run all the way up to Step 10!!
OK rock stars, time for sleep and then off to Vegas in the morning. Holla later –
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