Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - Vincent
There is nothing cooler in the world than poker and studying the career you like the most. During the last few days I have been playing a lot and making a bunch of extra bucks from several tourneys I have been playing on some of the Casinos located in San Jose, due to this and since right now there is nothing I wish more than finishing my career, then I sign up some Courses and managed to order some credits since there is a limit on the ones you are allowed to take and I needed to order my schedule so it does not collide with my work’s schedule as a VIP Host.
Thus, after doing all this and processing some documentation and other routine procedures, I was able to get on the first career that I wanted. I said first, since the second one is Digital Animation but I will be taking it most probably the next semester since I still need to see if I keep it steady with only one career and work. I know I will be fine, so next semester I will be doing two careers at once.
So.. Yeah! Last week I was back at College and my classes started so I was really cheerful and excited. Most of the classes where only like the typical prelude where the teachers explained how the objectives of the course are and some other “blah, blah” but it was awesome. And right now I am on my best game since I study a lot in advance in order to be always ahead on what we are supposed to do and practice at classes. Hence, I know I will be the best on anything I will be doing in my future and I will be, no matter what and you guys may see some of my works on the next years. As Mary Lou Retton said:
“As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.”
And this applies to everything in life, even poker, why? Because everything is a constant learning process that must be developed and exploited. If you want to be good at poker you need experience, studies, talent, practice and many more factors that will let you become the best player ever. Actually, I am very glad that I got back to College since most of my class buddies play lots of poker as well. Consequently, the following weekends will be charged with several frat tourneys after classes and some parties, so I will be enjoying lots while making some easy bucks at the same time.
Take care everyone and hope you enjoy everything to its fullest! You only live once, so you better make the best of it while you can!
Tags: Casino, College, Digital Animation, VIP
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - Vincent
During the last few days I have been visiting several Casinos from around here; I lost on one of them due to incredibly horrible bad beats, but I do not complain that is how poker is and afterwards I just stayed cool and then recovered on other ones, so I made a really nice amount of money among most of them. I then started thinking what to do with all this easy earned money, it crossed my mind the idea of getting a new Computer (maybe one of those Quad Core’s ones), or an X-Box 360 Elite, more games for my PS3; however, those things are only stuff that you enjoy at home, so I called a couple of friends and some of them have contacts with people from that work at hotels in Jaco, which is a really cool place to stay at, party and surf, so I decided to go on a trip there on my days off.
After I ended my shift on Tuesday at 10 p.m., I was like all jumpy and excited because it has been a long time since the last time I went to the beach, and of course, I needed a tan! (lol) Anyways, I finished doing some pending stuff at work and after I finished, I called a cap since I needed to get at home like really fast, call my buddies to do all the arrangements about accommodations and traveling arrangements, so when I got home I started packing my stuff really fast, I put on my bags, like shampoo, clothes, shows, and several other stuff that you will never use at the beach, I was like so excited to go there that I forgot to bring my swim trunks, my sandals, my sun blocker and all the important stuff that you must bring to the beach.. And yeah.. It’s been a really long time since the last time I went to beach.. Hehe.. That is why I forgot all that, but in the end I bought them at the beach.
When we arrived I was like, “GOD! How did all these people manage to live here?” the Sun was strong and the heat was intense, so I went to a place and changed my clothes, since I was wearing jeans and a hoodie due to that in San Jose the climate was cold in the morning when I took the bus to Jaco, so by the time I arrived at the beach wearing all that I was like suffocating really bad so the change of clothes sweet me well.
First off, we arrived at Playa Hermosa, took some waves at the Beach and then we traveled to “Esterillos” or something like that, I don’t remember the correct name right now, but it was an awesome beach, my friend and I met this really beautiful, Californian girls that were traveling with their family, they were like 18 and 19, so too young for me, nonetheless, since my friend was 19, he definitely made his move on one of them and I helped him as his wingman and disarmed his father by speaking with him a lot of politics and distracting him while my friend was making out with his “princess” behind a palm tree while he was cooking some really nice steaks on a gas BBQ.. We ate a lot that night!
Later on that night, when I was travelling on the microbus from the Hotel to another one, I remembered that Jaco is the location of a really cool and awesome Casino called “CasinoJazz” and there were some open poker tables in there, so I told the driver to turn around and that we wanted to go there, so after an hour of traveling, we finally arrived there and it was nice! When I entered I was like, slot machines, game tables, etc.. So I ran to the “Cashier” lady and asked them were the poker tables were located. Unfortunately, I lost $100 on those tables since I made quads on the turn and this guy paid with flush draw and on the river he hit a straight flush, so I was like: “OMG! Come on!” So I asked the dealer if they had like a Bad Beat Jackpot or something and he laughed.. Anyways, it was a fun night and some hours after, I recovered back those $100 from the same guy, plus another $75, so I “hit and then ran” (hehe).
When I got home, I realized that poker is something so big, that no matter where you are, you can always take advantage of it and have lots of fun with it, anytime and anywhere.
Have an awesome week everyone and remember always have fun while you play no matter what, good karma while playing attracts luck and success! And it is scientifically proven! :]]
Tags: beach, Casino, Playa Hermosa, Poker Poker Poker, Rai$e VIP Team, VIP
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - Miss C
Hey Everyone,
So, who likes to play tournament? On a personal level I am a tournament player, not a live game player. I am one of the lucky ones who have been involved in from the very concept to a super successful tournament nearly a decade on.
The planning leading up to these events would blow your mind, we are talking from branding placements to the logo on the felts. Then heaven for bid you are adding additional tables into an established casino…to gain more poker tables we had to lose other gaming tables. In a casino there are so many departments that need to be involved and in the end everyone has to be on the same page.
The property I was involved with had hotels, food and beverage, equipment, entertainment, PR, VIP service, gaming and marketing. Our weekly meetings kept us all on the same page and being the ring leader was an experience. Every year the importance and growth of the tournament made up start our preparations earlier and earlier. All this did was increase the momentum and your year would fly by faster than normal.
Then the day would arrive and the players would start wondering in. The familiar faces you come by, just at tournament times and the Pros who exude their presence and the new kids on the block standing in awe contimplating asking for an autograph. The room would be in a state of excitement and edginess. The big games start appearing on the interest lists and the railbirds curse the fact we put the big games at the back of the room with no rail in sight.
It ends up being an amazing fortnight and it goes by in a blink. It is such an amazing feeling when your body kicks into automatic pilot and you run on pure adrenaline. There are parties, amazing final tables, bad beats galore, lots of dinners and drinks, but everyone is having a ball. Having an event that brings people from all over the world…old friends, new friends all here for the same thing.
Tournaments are the best time of the year for me when it all comes to an end…I curl up in a ball and sleep for 2 weeks and try to drink coffee again without getting heart palpitations. I say, “Bring on the next 1″ I love it.
Cheers,
Miss c
Tags: Casino, Entertainment, Final Tables, Live Games, Marketing, Poker Poker Poker, pros, Tables, tournaments
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