Archive for February, 2007

I had just finished sending an email to a professor yesterday that said I would be in Austin for the foreseeable future. Ten minutes later, I bookeda flight to LA. I leave tomorrow. (more…)

Yesterday, remembering it was the first day of Chinese New Years, I bathed but didn’t wash my hair. Washing your hair on New Years could wash your luck away. I also put on my pair of red Jockey bikini underwear (bought on sale of course). Red is supposed to insure a bright future for the new year. I’mhoping that the year of the boar will live up toits straightforward and honest hype.Theonly loyalty last year’s “dog” brought us was Frist’sto Leach, selling us out with the UIGEAinhis failed attempt at a presidential bid.
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A lot of my motivation for going to Vegas was to play in the Women’s UPC event at Binions. Butthe state of my gameand the strength of the fieldhad me debating that decision up until the last minutes of registration. The longer I waited, the more WSOP bracelet winners took the field. But in the end, it was the quality of the field that drew me in. When was I ever going to get a chance to go up against the caliber of these players again? So in a totally “WTF” gesture, I threw my money down.
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Somewhere in the middle of my second day in Vegas, I find myself walking under the constructed ivory metal sky of the Fremont Experience. I like the honesty of Downtown in the light of day. On the strip, with its polished marble and posh themed casinos, the illusion of Vegas is too easily preserved. Butas the Walmart shoppersshuffle past the now dated downtown facades, you know that this town was built on people risking money they can little afford to lose on a temporary non-lifealtering dream.Anequally sad and optimisticDido melodyhangs in the air; a song that clutches ontothe silverlining of an otherwise joyless life. And yetin this moment, I love dowtown for all that it is and isn’t.
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I think this is my eighth trip to Vegas in the past year- or maybeit’s my ninth. And other than a slightly delayed flight out of Austin, Day One in Vegas was everything I hoped for.
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I first met the award winning traveleditor Jen Leo soon after she threw caution to the wind and moved to Las Vegas. Grownrestless from her travel writing niche, her CA lifestyle, and a love life in denial, Jen decided to throw her lot in with poker - and the poker world has never been the same.
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Aswe strolled the university hallway last week, my professortold me thathis family was going to spend a fewmonths in China, leaving himbehind to teach in Austin. He said, “I think I may need to develop a vice.” I immediately responded, “I’m the right woman for the job.”
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