After a long trip, back to reality

Wow. It's about all I can say after the last 10 days. I love that town, but Vegas really takes its toll on you. And I was there for 10 days. Some memorable moments went down, and even on here I will refuse to write about them. If you ask me in person, I might tell you. But seriously, wow.

The whole WSOP experience was crazy, if I were to describe it in one word. There are so many fans of poker nowadays... it's crazy that such a game could become so popular that icons are created out of those previously playing for their living, and now they're celebrities (to others, to me they're just good poker players). I mean, what if they had put chess matches on TV and it caught on fire? Not quite a fair comparison, but it's not unfair either. I don't know. It's just crazy to me.

This is going to be a tough adjustment going back to work, but after such a trip, I'm almost glad to be back in a sane routine. I'm going to try to get everything around my house in order before I get back to the poker grind again, so I don't jump directly into the deep end and drown myself. This week I plan on giving my house a thorough cleaning (I think stuff is re-growing and dying inbetween microwave uses), managing my finances, and analyzing my poker statistics to a degree I've never attempted... and by this I mean looking at my best games, my best time of day to play, the optimum buy-ins for my pot-limit games, number of games, frequency of play, tendencies after good and bad rushes, in-the-money percentages for tournaments, blah blah blah. I won't go on about that boring stuff, but I think it might be a key for myself to get to the next level.

Oh yeah, and I need to get back into a workout routine after only having a few days with any sort of real physical activity over the trip. I've somehow managed to gain 11 pounds, and I have a horrible gut. JUST KIDDING. Ha, I'd never let that happen.

Okay okay, here's a peek of the Vegas experience I had, it's a picture of my roommate and... well let's just say my roommate is really, really happy in the picture :)