This last week has been a little tough. I had a bit of a cold this week. Lots of coughing up disgusting stuff and feeling generally like crap. Things hit the peak on Friday night. My new project, Thailand Friends, had a team in the Asian/European Pool Championships. I went down to lend my support which meant the best thing I could do to help our team win was not play.
Even though I stuck to water the entire evening I hit a wall around 10pm and felt like I was going to collapse. I went home and slept the rest of the night and well into the next day. I was hoping to feel at least a little bit better because the plan for Saturday was to attend a dual birthday party being held for two Thailand Friends members at Bed Supperclub.
Yeah, I know, my job with Thailand Friends necessitates that I attend and throw parties and networking events. It’s a tough job but someone has to do it.
Fortunately, I felt much better and Sunday even a little better still. Monday was good and I’m almost feeling like I’ve kicked it and other than feeling a little foggy from the medication I’ve been taking things seem to be right back on track.
I’m not sure if Rob punching me in the face had anything to do with my recovery.
Here’s the dork patrol. Everybody checking their mobile phones for messages and emails :-)
A few weeks back I mentioned that I had recently discovered that one of my friends, May, is a poker player. She’s the one in the white dress. I’ve been bugging her about writing some guest posts here and she hasn’t laughed in my face so if you guys are lucky she might grace us with some articles about her experiences playing poker.
If you want to see her post here, give a shout out in the comments so I can apply some peer pressure to her. :-)
Follow up
I really don’t enjoy embarrassing affiliate managers . . . okay, just joking. I love it. Seriously though, I do think that it makes the better ones stand out. I’ve received several emails from affiliate managers recently who have read my posts on the topic and they’ve all sent very personal and well directed emails to me. Hopefully they’re also being careful with other affiliates as well. This is a small industry and it doesn’t pay to burn your reputation by sending out spammy messages. This is especially true when many of those same sites specify in their T&C’s that they don’t approve of affiliates spamming players! If anything I’ve written has been a wakeup call for anyone, I’m glad.
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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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The one in the white? Mark me down for a vote for her guest posting!
Bill, hope you’re feeling better. Sucks being sick. Tell May she has another vote from me.
Yes, let’s see some posts from May! Unless you’re going to put on a white dress when you blog. hahaha
Just for the record, Greg gave his vote but in the wrong post:
http://www.billrini.com/2010/01/24/scathing-review-senator-jon-kyl/#comments
:-)
She Thai, right? Her English is good? If she can write well in English I would love to see her guest posts. Count me as a vote for.
+1 That’s a vote from me.
Too late for me to vote? Yes!
Is she any good? Could be interesting. Give her my vote.
Yes, yes, and another yes. I cast my ballot.
I’m a sucker for pretty women. I want to read her poker posts.
HAHAHAA Thanks guys! I’ll see what I can do, as for now, I’ve been really busy with my “full time” job. I’ll discuss about this with Bill again. It’s so nice to hear such good responses like this ^^
Dave Burrows* Yes I am Thai and my English is excellent. I could also read some German and Danish ;-)