Mission WSOP

I was too busy screwing up personally to be able to devote much time to increasing my bankroll but I was able to put in a quick 30 minutes at the end of the night tonight.  In just 30 minutes I took my bankroll from $223.48 to $234.43… a $10.95 increase.  Still 5 days ahead of schedule, it was nice to have an easy night of it and would be great if I could duplicate tonight’s session over and over again.  It was the perfect storm of tight passive players in a short handed stud game. 

So, I was getting caught up with all of the news coming from the Poker world I so desperately want to be a full-time part of and I see the winner of the big online tournament on Bodog on Sunday was "pearljammer".   Then I see a picture of Jon "pearljammer" Turner.  Flashback to a few years ago at the Borgata when a younger me was confusing the heck out of some players at a $1/$2 NL game at the Borgata.  One of those players thoroughly confused was Mr. Turner.  I remember Turner because of the look of utter despair when I felted him a second time in the night when I made a huge overbet with the nuts and he called me thinking there was no way I had his hand beat. 

At the time, I had no idea who Jon Turner was and neither did anyone but maybe Momma Turner and his homegame friends.  I remember seeing Turner two years ago also.  It was in the halls of the Rio near the Amazon Room and I remember thinking "this guy is playing in the World Series?"  Now, I see he’s a perrenial tournament casher with over $361k in live tournament winnings and the 229th ranked player in 2007.  I’m sure he’s much improved since our encounter but it just makes me think of what kind of success I could possibly have if I was able to devote my energy to this hobby full time.  I dunno… maybe I’ll get my opportunity some day.

While we are on the subject of jealousy.  I was just perusing the Bodog Beat on my Newsgator RSS Feeds and came across this story about Eva Mendes.  It appears that Mendes likes her body and enjoys bathing with other nude women.  What a revelation!  Now, you’d think I’d be jealous of the bath or the other women or the reporter who got to interview Mendes.  The real jealousy comes from the fact that if you are a beautiful woman in this country, you have a free pass to allow yourself to use as few brain cells as possible.

Case in point… flashback to a few weeks ago when Paris Hilton, in her first interview after prison, revealed to Larry King that the thing she most didn’t like about herself was that when she got nervous or shy her voice gets very high.  Or last week on Conan when Jessica Biel revealed that she really didn’t like her fat fingers.

OK… so I’m jealous.