Michael Craig's Journal

I truly wish I could stay home longer but with a deadline 10 days away and almost no information on post-flop no-limit hold ‘em, Omaha hi-lo, or seven card stud, I need to return to Las Vegas for some interviews. Or at least one interview.

I have this feeling that I haven’t had since my law school days. It’s that feeling that I would get before exams, after hardly ever going to class and never reading the book. I’m lugging around a partial manuscript so big that it took an hour to print. I had to coil bind it in two sections is was so large. Yet it’s nowhere near done.

On the other hand, I am about to enter the Land of Mike Matusow, which always promises to be an adventure. Mike has been cleaning up online lately, so his call on Thursday afternoon had none of the self-loathing or bitterness that he sometimes falls into. In fact, the reason for the call was that he was going to Florida for some rest and wanted to hit the ground running on his return: a book about tournament poker (which, by contract, I cannot assist him on), his autobiography (which I am wrestling with deciding whether the opportunity to collaborate with Mike on his story is a blessing or a curse), a DVD, and some other stuff.

This allowed me to hit him up for what I wanted: his contribution to the Full Tilt book in the form of the Omaha Hi-Lo chapter. We had already done one interview, though it was after a long, long online session and Mike fell asleep at one point during an especially insightful question. Believe it or not, the material from the other parts of the interview was brilliant.

So if Mike wants me involved in his projects, he has to help me on mine. To make sure I get my bit first - and because my deadline is, seemingly, just minutes away - I’m rushing to Vegas before he leaves to have him help me craft 5,000-10,000 words on Omaha Hi-Lo.

I promise to write with tales of the trip, plus get back to all the things I wanted to fill you in about when I wrote an agenda here a week or two ago. True, I have no time to keep this blog updated and, in fact, expect to blame my obligation to you as the reason for blowing my book deadline, but I can’t NOT do it.

P.S. - Jennifer Harman is a no-go for the book. It’s probably just as well. Her contribution, I’m sure, would have been very good, but I could tell she was going to make me earn it. Jennifer can definitely be worth the effort but, not doubt, there IS effort involved.

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