Just made plane and hotel reservations for the WPBT in June. I’m out of here after work on the 1st and get into Sin City around 8:30pm. Staying at the beautiful Plaza Hotel and Casino where it seems I’ll be in good company. Taking off the 5th (Sunday) only because I have some meetings in Long Beach the following week. I’m considering a return trip during the WSOP events so stay tuned.
Unrelated News:
I was up in Portland this week on business and Wed. night I was hanging out with a buddy from work at the Porto Terra (the Hilton’s bar/restaurant – Hi Leslie and Justin) when I look up and on the television over the bar they have ESPN’s Tilt playing with the sound turned off. Next I look around and I see a guy sitting at one of the tables with his laptop playing Turbo Texas Hold ‘Em. Is there anywhere the poker craze hasn’t hit?
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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Hi,
Would you be interested is swapping links? I have a Poker Blog and the URL is listed above.
I’d prefer not to leave my email address due to SPAM issues (the comments from other posters show their addresses) but if you’re interested then please leave a comment on my blog
Thanks,
Jon,
I run 2 hotels and the #1 request we get now is for internet. On my motorcycle I have my screen name for FT (was there long before I was on FT) A guest came in and said that was the 2nd time he had seen the name someplace. He told me the night before he was playing poker online against a guy with that name. Thank god I did not bust him, he is one of our better guest. :)
Also, Great Blog…….
Poker has DEFINITELY hit Portland, and in fact, had hit us even BEFORE Annie Duke moved in.
We’ve got informal tournaments going on most every day of the week, ranging from $20 with no re-buys to $30 and $40 with 1/2 re-buys.
That and a series of FREE tournaments for prizes that are doing the rounds of the bars on Tues/Wed/Thursday (portlandpokerseries.com) and it’s just hopping with games to play.
For action in Portland, check meetup.org when you’re in town.
Charlie L
Portland, Oregon
CLL2001@GMail.com