weird things that happen and gambling swings

I am on my way back from Vegas today. I went for a couple of reasons. First, the world series of poker is coming up in a couple of weeks and I thought it would be a good idea to get out and play a little before it starts.I have been spending most of my time with hoops selections and kids stuff.it is amazing how hard it is to leave my family these days when I don't absolutely have to. The belliago has its wpt 5 star poker series going thru the weekend so it was a good appetizer to get me going before next month. Next, we are 15-3 in the nba playoffs and as you can imagine I wanted to continue to capitalize on the great run. I am getting things set for the fall and am excited about what is going to be a huge season. For you poker players ,as you can imagine , most of the talk in Vegas was about the state of online poker. Everybody is pretty upset about the d o j deciding to shut down full tilt , pokerstars etc. Although I don't play online poker , I do think it is funny how the department of justice decided this was the most pressing crime out there. Yes there are millions of dollars being wagered but the world trade organization and basically every other group governing free trade and commerce around the world says it isn't illegal to play poker online. If the united states wants the tax money from this sport then they need to stop fighting it and start taxing it like they do every other pastime where money is made. It obviously has nothing to do with gambling. America offers more types of gambling then almost any other country in the world. They are home to the "capital of gambling" and almost every state in the union has at least a lottery and gaming. Amazing to me how hypocritical we can sometimes be. Gambling is less addictive then drinking, smoking and many other things that are legal and again , Gambling and addiction have nothing to do with the department of justices decision.
Just ask the millions of Americans that play the horses, bingo , lotto, the stock market and many other forms of gambling in America to mention.
The swings of a gambler are honestly the deciding factor between winning players, losing players and those that don't bet anymore. I am amazed at how many times a year I hear " yeah, I use to bet on the games but I gave it up ". What that means is , when I was winning it was great but when I started losing , I didn't have the will power or safe guards to stop the losing. Most of these that say that have good jobs and apply structure to the rest of their lives but when it comes to gambling , they don't or can't. As my clients and I are in the middle of a 15-3 hoops run over the last 3 weeks , it reminds me that anyone can be a good winner. Decisions you make on the hot streaks are easy. Grade yourself as a gambler on how well you react when things aren't going so well. It doesn't happen much for me but I will tell you , my overall success during any given year has very little to do with my decisions during runs like this and a lot to do with those bad runs and things aren't easy.
On my flight out here I was sitting on the isle and the 90 year old woman sitting in the window seat handed me her McDonalds bag, her magazine and 2 cups and said" will you hold this until that woman runs by so I can put my tray table up?". I was raised well and know that there isn't much you don't say yes to when a 90 year old woman asks so I spent much of the flight holding some womans trash! We just got on the plane to go back and a pretty drunk guy just sat next to me. After asking if the flight attendant for a drink before we take off and getting angry when he was told no , he sees the pilot and says " hey I will be damn we have a f**** woman flying this plane. " I replyed "yep, and we have a black president too. How much longer til you think you are gonna pass out? ". Might be a long flight.

Have a good weekend and let me know if you are going to Vegas and/or planning on playing the games in the fall. Prices will never be less. You can also get the rest of the nba playoffs for only 129.00!!!! Let me know.
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Heading home and feeling better.... Hope it holds!

Well, I'm back on a plane heading home from Florida. I have found I have had the urge to do blog entries when I'm flying. I think it is the combo of nothing to do but think about things and the lack of quality movies available on netflix. I have all of the equipment to keep me busy , my cell phone, an ipad etc but I have watched every season of the office about a thousand times and I am down to "pure country" as the only even half way good movie I haven't seen. I watched " the switch" on the way out to Florida. It was a c+ at the very best. Hard to see how someone would leave their donor semen just lying around at a party.
I am feeling better about things then when I left. First, I haven't had a losing selection in 10 days! That is a nice run! Also, a week with my wife was great. We really don't do that enough. No kids, no little league no problem! I am missing the kids a little but we had a great time. Movies, sun fest and good food. Sunfest is a 5 day music festival in west palm beach. Espn 760 got us tickets and we had a lot of fun. The guys at 760 are great and really get it. They are some of the first to show their appreciation for my business and it isn't a coincidence that they are thriving in this economy. I am on in over 20 markets and they are one of the best. Sunfest was fun but Caryn and I have decided we might be getting a little old. The combination of Caryn quiting drinking and me not being able to pick up drunk chicks has really put a damper on a music festival. Jason maraz and celo were 2 of the main acts when we went but problem was , all of the drunks also knew they were the 2 main acts so all of them wanted to cram around the same stage we were at. Being with your sober wife , shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of sweaty drunks is like being a priest at a porn convention. Not comfortable! My wife starting getting pissy at a couple of really drunk love birds that were trying to have sex without anyone noticing and she seemed to feel like they were going to interfere with her ability to hear celo sing f-you. After a couple of no so subtle comments to the drunk lovers and celo singing 3 songs that nobody cared about we decided to get a corn dog and go back to the boat. Oh well, maybe next time.

We were 3-0 before I left for Florida and won every day last week! We are really really hot. It is amazing how fast the profit grows when we get on one of these runs. We normally hit 1 of these every 5 or 6 weeks but this was a strange year. Lots of break even weeks and more losing ones than we were use to. A lot of the clients getting these winners are paying 100.00 for the month or less so everyone is deep into profit over the last 6 weeks or so! We are going to continue this run thru the playoffs and pick back up in the fall!! Don't miss out on the best prices of the entire year. Prices go up this week so don't wait. All of the selections are less than 50.00 per week for seasonal and yearly packages. Have a great week!
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