Michael Craig's Journal

I have reaped many rewards as the author of The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King. The greatest - and I am completely serious about this - are the things that people I respect tell me about the book.

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I eventually settled on a solution to my problem of two tournaments - the Full Tilt Ironman Freeroll and the Blogger Tournament - taking place at the same time. Freeroll? No thanks, I’ll pay.

I decided to play the Blogger Tournament, doing everything in my power to assure that I would not get busted holding A-A for a third time. I entrusted my friend Ted Corse with the job of playing the Freeroll for me online.

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USA Today reported last week, “Consumers flocking to health food stores for the latest elixir of life — the red wine ingredient resveratrol — might want to wait a year or two, experts say.”

Nonsense, say the poker bloggers. A year or two for a “wine pill” to prolong their lives? What about people - well, the bloggers themselves to start - who don’t have a year or two?

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It’s 6:45 PM MST in my office in Scottsdale. I’m a couple days overdue in my writing. In my defense, I’ve been too busy LIVING my life to write about it. But even that’s not fair; meeting twice-extended deadlines at BLUFF and trying to re-integrate my home life have taken a toll. I’ve also slept a few hours - very few.

I’m picking up Valerie at dance at 8 PM, then playing the evening tournaments on Full Tilt. While I do that, I will be writing up my adventures of the weekend, including the following:

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I have lots of material to catch up on, so at least I’ll tell you why I’m NOT going to catch up today.

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This Blogger’s Convention has been great fun, but it’s HARD. I got back to my room at about 4:30 AM Saturday morning. I was one of the first to leave the MGM Grand. I was up at 8:30 for my meeting with Mike the Mouth. At the 1:30 PM Blogger Tournament, I think I had more sleep than at least 75% of the players.

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[I am posting this Friday evening but it was written just after I woke up on Friday.]

It’s eleven minutes to ten in the morning. I am looking at myself in the bathroom mirror. It is not a pretty sight. I am freezing cold from half a shower. Soapy water runs from my head in rivulets down my body. My eyes are so red they look like they’ve been bleeding.

Shocked out of just four hours of sleep, it takes me a moment to remember the three culprits of my condition:

Paris, Richard Brodie, and The Poker Bloggers.

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I have a 21st century problem, and I hope someone can bail me out. The Blogger Tournament at Caesars Palace starts at 1:30 PM Saturday. I qualified for a $15,000 freeroll tournament on Full Tilt that starts at 1:15 PM Saturday.

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In just three days, I’ll be with 50-100 poker bloggers in Las Vegas. It’s my third convention with this group and the prospect fills me with equal parts excitement and dread.

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I finally sent off my four pictures to Full Tilt so they can make me an avatar.

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