Ante Up in Sundance
Sunday, January 25, 2009 - Annie Duke
On Friday I headed to Sundance to play in an event there for Ante Up for Africa (www.anteupforafrica.org). We started planning the event back a few months ago and I decided at that time I would go to Sundance and come back on Tuesday to really make a trip out of it. My boyfriend, Joe, really loves Sundance. We went there a few years ago and he just is like a kid in a candy store when he is there. So I was really excited that we had such a good excuse to go this year. We were going to see a bunch of movies, raise money for charity, get some free stuff at the gifting suites, go to some cool parties and just, in general, have a an awesome good time.
Then the inevitable happened. Two days before we were supposed to leave Joe booked a job on In Plain Sight. Now I need you to understand that this has happened the last FIVE trips we are supposed to take. Well not a job on In Plain Sight specifically, obviously. But he has book a job on something. When we went to Italy he couldn’t show up till the middle of it last Christmas. When we went to Boston for spring break he left in the middle. When we went to Hawaii for ten days this summer he couldn’t even come at all…and that was after we had planned the trip with my brother for a year! I am not kidding. We had this trip planned for a year.
Okay…so I am super cranky that he could not come. I changed my trip to leave Friday and come back first think Monday morning. I made my friend, Glen, come with me. And off I went without Joe…
So the event Friday night was great. Don Cheadle, my cofounder of AUFA found out he could come at the last minute. He thought he couldn’t get there but then had to be there for a movie premier anyway. I got to sit next to him the whole night and it was nice catching up with him and his wife, Bridgid. I think the event raised a bunch of money though I won’t know who much till mid week.
But after that, when I woke up Saturday, I just wasn’t feeling great and, frankly, wasn’t having so much fun without Joe there. I mostly just missed him. Now, I met a bunch of really great people there including our hosts for the weekend Darrell and Erin. But I started coming down with something and found myself wanting to be home so I came back to LA Sunday morning, played the UBOC championship, and then did the Rounders Radio Show with P0ker H0.
Obviously it was worth it to go up there for the AUFA event but next vacation Joe better be coming the whole time!
Tags: Annie Duke, Ante Up For Africa, AUFA, don cheadle, P0ker H0, rounders radio, Sundance Film Festival, UBOC, www.anteupforafrica.org
