Wow! I Was Shocked!

Hello all,

As part of my daily ritual of checking out what is happening in the poker world, I like to read over what different bloggers and professionals have to say. By far one of the more entertaining (and frequently updated) blogs out there is by poker pro Daniel Negreanu.

Daniel's blog has great information regarding poker but, more often than not, he steps outside of the poker world and commentates on other things in his life. His post today (February 22nd) was particularly interesting on both subjects.

He started off with a tale of his poker travails of a few years ago, when he was still an up and coming poker player and not the recognized pro that he is now. While this was interesting, I was more surprised by (as he put it) his current feelings about playing and the entirety of the poker scheme, so to speak. Daniel states this on his blog, "I'm getting pretty sick of all things related to poker, that don't involve actually playing poker. This blog, the columns, the book writing, the internet forums, it's all getting really old, really fast."

Wow...this struck me pretty hard.

During these days of seemingly endless bad news, the writing CAN be a bit depressing. It seems every day brings another room leaving the U. S., people discussing their inability to get money out of poker accounts, and various new but untested methods of being able to partake in online poker. Not everyone lives within a short drive of a casino, thus the online game is enjoyable. If someone as high up on the poker food chain as Daniel can get down about it, it really makes you think.

Mind you, I'm not quitting writing about the sport of poker. I just have to find the way to continue to enjoy the writing and all. I guess Daniel did have one point right...there is a tremendous amount of joy in playing the game of poker. I'll just have to continue to pull that same joy when I write about things.

OK, enough bellyaching LOL!

The final table at the WSOP-C event at Harrah's Rincon is this afternoon, so I am going to be checking out the action. Gavin Smith, Gavin Grifin and Davidson Matthew will have quite a task in catching Peter Feldman (who won last year in New Orleans on the WSOP-C). But it will be interesting to see what happens.

Until later,

EB