San Diego and much of Southern California is in the national news, and not for anything good. Fires are spreading like crazy and doing a ton of damage to the outskirts of the city. Luckily we are located about the furthest point away from the fires as possible, so we aren't worried for ourselves, but lots of people we know like many of Courtney's new co-workers are being displaced 
So I fully realize I suck at blogging, but I have a very valid excuse, I just can't really tell you about it. It's frustrating actually, everyone probably thinks I'm the laziest person ever because I hardly play poker and don't seem to do anything, but the reality is we've been working our balls off on www.deucescracked.com for months, and starting to see some concrete fruits for our labor. We have our very own forum on 2+2! It's pretty neat considering how much time I spend on that infernal site anyway 
Other than that I can't really say more, other than to say we will continue working our balls off to grow and improve the site, and we have lots of ideas for doing that. I promise I'm not as lazy as my (lack of) writing makes me look
I have managed to play some poker this month, mostly HU on Full Tilt, but a little 6 max again, trying to remember how to play that
HU is going well though I swear the difference between the 8/16 games and the 10/20 games is startling. It's like every time I sit 10/20 I get a tough aggro opponent who runs as well (or better) than I do. I feel like I've been stuck 700 every 10/20 session and then either get even or lose a bit, but its smooth sailing at 8/16. I'll try to remember to toss up some stats / graph at the end of the month, I think I've played a whopping 7k hands.
Going to eventually run up to LA too to get some live poker in, seems the Bike has a mix game that's usually around 80/160 going every weekend, sounds right up my alley. And I'm tentatively planning a Seattle trip for a couple weeks from now to go hang out with Entity and do some in-person work rather than via AIM ad email.
Ok that's it for now.
Joe Tall and I drove out to Vegas last week to see some friends and do a radio interview for HoldemRadio.com and our friend and DeucesCracked member Cactus Jack about the site. Here is a direct link to the half hour show: http://www.holdemradio.com/media/bib100307.mp3
We had a fun time doing the show and talking about poker coaching, DeucesCracked, and what we see ourselves doing in the online poker world in the future. I know for me that means more focus on coaching as I really never have done much of it but every now and then someone inquires. I certainly like talking about random poker things for hours on end so if I channel that energy into a coaching role, I might be useful to some.
After the show, Joe, Cactus Jack, TT, and I went out to dinner at Enotecca (sp?) the more casual Mario Batali restaurant upstairs in the Venetian. We had a great meal filled with what TT calls "Italian junk food" and for dessert we were gifted a yummy treat – a bottle of Amaro (which I'd never heard of before), an Italian liqueur which I would describe as Amaretto on steroids. That got us in the proper mood to gambool so we started a nice 4 handed 4/8 game in the Venetian poker room and donked around some chips. A woman joined our game and I think wanted to either play bigger or convince us she could play bigger, talking a lot and playing fairly LAGgy – I got the feeling she probably runs over the 4/8 games she typically plays in but she had no shot here, playing 3 handed with Joe Tall and myself it will be pretty tough to outLAG us 3 handed at those stakes I think she dropped 600 or so, mostly going to Joe who was playing way better than me (90% vpip I'd guess).
The rest of the trip we pretty much relaxed at BigBabyDougie's house in Henderson where I schooled him at Gin rummy (new addiction) and watched baseball. It's interesting, I've gone on so many Vegas trips since turning 21 and never left the strip, spending a couple days being in Vegas not on the strip is like living in a different galaxy. Reminds me of being home in Tucson, which isn't surprising because take away the strip and downtown and Vegas and Tucson are the exact same city.
After that trip I think I'm finally staying home for awhile, but things tend to always creep up.