Shamanalix Says

If you're looking for me, this is the old home, now a rental to make me tax write-offs.

You can find me now on blogspot avenue. Remember, the new address (good for Goggling) is Shamanalix Sayz -- with a z. So original. Such an unreformed armadillo...

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 4952390

Enough poker for the weekend! Today was not a day to write home about. But it could have been a lot worse. I'm satisfied with my play, if not the result.

In brief, I tried four tournaments today: two at Full Tilt, one at Jungle and one at Bodog. Best outcome was a final table and points-bubble-ninth showing in the Poker Analysis Buy-In League game at Jungle. That's not going to win me the league October title; got to do a lot better in the next one Friday at Absolute Poker, if I'm around for it. Today's capper was a $3K-guarantee $10+$1 R/AO at 'dog that drew 135 players; I finished a semi-decent 47th, but never got the run of good cards I'd been enjoying recently. I also need an ace-detector; running into pocket rockets is a fast but no-fun way to have one's stacks castrated, and it happened to me three times today. Pooh.

Today's oh-fer snapped a streak of seven straight cashes/satellite seats this week, including 2-for-2 Saturday. Got 3rd place and $10 in the weekly Aces Cracked TLB-IV game at PokerStars; earlier in the day I won the Maximum Poker League TPFC qualifier at new Wingows (which I finally got around to downloading and joining Saturday, via MPL). The TPFC final will be back at new Wingows in two weeks, and hopefully that'll give me my first real dough on the site. Beats depositing!

If only I hadn't felt so sure of Wisconsin's football team against Illinois; that was expensive. Thought it was the Lock of the Year. Who know the Illini are for real. Wish I'd had that kinda confidence in my alma mater Mizzou against Nebraska...

Lots of work Monday and Tuesday, so poker's on the back burner until Wednesday. Still trying to figure out how to do this blog thingie. AC jefe Paul says I can put links by typing the url in my posts. What's a url? He also says customizing the sidebar with links like at Al's blog, Irongirl's blog, Falstaff's blog, etc., is something he can't find a way for me to do. Argh!!! Hate being computer illiterate...

Forgot what I was talking about. Oh well. Onward we all shall grind...

One tournament, one win. Every day should be so successful! (Yeah, right, dreamer.)

Played the Poker Analysis Buy-In league's first event of the month Thursday, a $5.50 buy at PokerStars. Played a little quieter and more by-the-book than normal (for me). But I really think the secret to winning was talking backwards (sdrawkcab gniklat) at the start until spoilsport league commish Celine (love ya gorgeous!) put a stop to the fun with "No foreign languages!". (sigh...) Oh, yeah, getting good cards and playing them properly helped a wee bit, too. And a pinch of luck, like the last ace on the river that beat tough CaffeineHigh and ended our heads-up. Sorry about that.

Anyways, I won't every refuse the $22 top prize ($16.50 profit!) and the 100 league points. Can we end the league month right now please?? Unfortuately, a lot of October to go ... and I won't be able to make every league game, so the odds of my first B-I monthly title are still not good. Every game: !!!doog yalp attoG

Now if only I can get some expert online/blogger help on how to change the times of these posts (I am NOT in France, stop confusing me, clock!), how to post links to other poker bloggers and forums, etc. etc. etc. At least, when you're a writer (like unfortunately moi), once you start you just can't stop! Thank you, words and my second-nature true self!

More soon. Keep them cards and letters coming in. Probably no games tonight, gonna help a friend going through job and woman troubles to find some distractions. See you in Vegas Dec. 2-11!

Yeah I've been sick. Put the poker world on the back burner from August 1. Tried this and that and the other. Caught up with the real world (it's still there -- brrrr!!!). Played just enough poker to pad the bankroll a little and keep the cobwebs off the game.

Now I'm back. Again. Really. Gotta figure out how to establish links to other poker bloggers. Gotta get ready for the Winter Convention in Vegas. Gotta transfer the Vegas blogs/mails from Aces-Cracked.net to here. Gitta try to remember what the password to my blog page is ... and where I left the links. Thank heavens for AC's home page.

More soon. You're going to regret this, world. The shamalamadingdongdonkdork is on the prowl...