tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60603110314630094832026-09-16T03:19:10.270-07:00Poker Columnist and Poker Room Supervisor full of poker puns. Married to a Poker Professional too. Former WSOP world travelers to brick and mortar family life in Las Vegas. At this point, I suppose we're pot committed.Jennifer Gayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448403708791934020noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060311031463009483.post-27841631830780785622020-07-31T12:49:00.001-07:002020-07-31T12:49:50.210-07:00

I hate when I find posts on the internet where a stranger asks an interesting question, receives excellent advice and then we NEVER GET CLOSURE. The question can be "last night a large lump grew on my left foot, what do I do?!" and if I run across this thread seven years later I will invest significant energy into looking up the original poster's user history or even googling their screen name so

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A beautiful utopia of dehydration and overdoses. I took this weekend off work to potentially drive for Uber because EDC is in town. Electric Daisy Carnival is basically an outdoor electronic music event where roughly 400,000 young people will converge upon the desert to dance "underneath the electric sky" for three days. Its one big freakin rave. Only, it costs a small mint to attend with

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Until this morning, I had never heard of Jaclynn Moskow.* This isn't that unusual for me lately. I haven't been as focused on "who's who in poker" since becoming a Mom and getting off the circuit. I asked my husband. He has (and continues to), floor some of the biggest cash games in the country. He said the name didn't ring a bell. I showed him a picture of the all-female line-up from a taping of

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I was going to write this blog post last week. Then I caught Ebola and lost 6 days of my life. I seriously don't remember them. I had a doctor's appointment on Day 1 of the hellacious virus that nearly claimed my sanity, purely by accident (I'd made the appointment two months earlier) and the Doc said "Oh its just a little virus, rest and fluids and you'll be fine." My ass. I vaguely remember

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In case you're late to the party, I'm writing a series about a relatively unknown poker player on his path from Poker Industry Professional to World Champion. Or at least, somewhere in between. If you need to catch up you can read the full explanation here, and part two here. Go ahead, I'll wait. Okay, excellent. Now that we're all on the same page, Steven (our horse

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As I alluded in the last post, Steven is joining the coveted ranks this year as one of Monkey's Minions and will be playing the 2016 Main Event. For a few of you, this will be greek. So let me explain. The World Series of Poker is a big deal. It is a necessary evil. I say evil because CET and the WSOP are not without major flaws. For industry professionals, literally any company in the

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IT HAS RISEN! Just kidding. Well, kind of. I sort of lost my way with the blog a few years ago. I went from eating, sleeping and breathing poker and the lifestyle to meeting the man that would become my husband, becoming a mom to our awesome son Carter and settling into a domestic bliss. Or at least, domestic contented-ness.   Bliss. This is what it looks like. I have a reason for

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Dear Tony, I'm sure the last few days have been a blur. To sum up..in the early hours of Halloween morning, you had an accident. I like to think you were speeding through the desert after a night of debauchery, with a beautiful woman on the back of your motorcycle. I'm probably not far off the mark. It didn't end well this time, buddy. On All Saints Day, it was decided that we'd lost you for

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Early this morning, Amanda Desnoyers called me. I missed the call while I heated a bottle up for Carter. Her voicemail told me everything without saying more than "call me back". She said, between sobs, when I called her back: "You know the poker people. Would you help get the word out so I can stop making phone calls?"  She sounded exactly like you'd expect a woman who'd just lost her

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Today is the first day of 2014.   Countdown to 1: #100 Like everyone else, I have a few resolutions. First though, I owe a bit of an explanation about my absence over the last year. I am in a wonderful relationship with a great man. We have a beautiful kid together. I'm happy with my home and job. Things are good. When Steven and I first started dating, I slowly began to collect and

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I realize I've been a failure of a blogger in 2013.  It's been a really hectic year. Cliff notes: Still not smoking. Mom to a beautiful boy, Carter. Living in Gulfport, MS. Incandescently happy. But this long overdue post isn't about me.. Its about a little girl. I'll copy and paste from my Facebook post: "Warning! I'm about to solicit some Christmas help! I went on a quest this holiday

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Tonight is Gender-Eve in our household.  Which is the precise night before we find out the gender of our currently ambiguous baby, making his or her appearance mid-fall. Yes, boys and girls, I'm pregnant.  I don't really need to explain HOW this happened (Do I?), or WHEN this happened. I will say that Steven and I are very happy. A bit surprised, but happy to wander into the unknown and

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Last night I sat at the bar with a cigarette laying in front of me, wondering for a full thirty minutes if I was going to smoke it.  It's always hardest when drinking, but there was a test of wills at stake as well.  Steven and I were a few shots deep, the people we were hanging out with had already left.. No one would know.  We could slip, for just a second, and really no harm

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I currently have a no-contact order against a blue tailed skink. One has taken up residence on my front porch.  This is unfortunate, as this is my favorite place of refuge multiple times throughout the day.  He seems as distraught by my presence as I am his, though, so hopefully we're able to come to a mutual division of assets and maintain a comfortable civil arrangement. My

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I have 7 saved drafts, but no new blog post to speak of.  I start this one, not knowing if it'll actually turn into a post or not. I always have the best intentions though. :) I'm leaving tomorrow, to drive down to Port Canaveral to catch the Ante Up Poker Cruise.  I'm taking my Mom as my date. Ordinarily, I would be looking forward to it.. but we're in the middle of tropical storm

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I mentioned Casey briefly in my last post, but in light of recent decisions regarding his prognosis I feel like this warrants it's own post. I've never solicited donations for anything through my blog or column, but every once in awhile an actual worthy cause comes along. If donations aren't something within your ability, you will be doing me a personal favor by re-posting this in your own blogs/

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Where to begin, where to begin. My friend and DC (Dealer Coordinator) -slash- Oregon Mom says.. "Write from the heart!". So I suppose that's what I'll do.  Remember that ridiculous game where you're given a few phrases and you have to guess which ONE is a lie, amongst 5 truths?  We'll start there. In the last four months I have: Hit a royal flush in video poker.

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I have been a terrible blogger lately. I can't help it, I've been busy trying to find a balance between this Dealer life and my other life. I refer to the two as if they're separate entities: Casino World and Real World. In Casino World, it's a non-stop poker vortex of work, sleep, go out, repeat. In Real World, I'm either somewhere beautiful taking in the view or home with family.. and I don't

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We're at the halfway point of the Biloxi event.  I've had such a great time here.. I could stay in Biloxi, easily, if there were full-time house jobs just laying around.  But there aren't, so I'm off to the next one at the end of the month. I've had so many of you come up and tell  me you read, and it's been overwhelming. Bloggers.. all bloggers, love nothing more than to hear who

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So I didn't get out a blog-post-a-day after all. I got pretty damn close though.. I was 2 short. I can live with 2 short. I am going to make a greater effort to update while on the road this year. I found it all to be so overwhelming last fall that unfortunately, the blog fell to the back burner. Today's entry will be mostly in pictures.  Either to sum up my travels, or share something I

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This blog post is brought to you courtesy of procrastination. I SHOULD be packing my car and hitting the road, as I am definitely leaving this morning (early afternoon).  However, I pulled a late night last night and I'm not moving as fast as I used to be. This is face of exhausted, hung-over & "just can't hang like I used to". Blog-A-Day Countdown to 2012: #3Procrastination &

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I wanted to do a quick update to the Ben Breedlove story I wrote a couple days ago.  The blog post, overnight, received more "hits" than anything I've ever written. Easily over 20,000 in just 24 hours. This is a well traveled blog, but that's a pretty extreme jump.  It seems people everywhere were just as fascinated by this young man's videos, his message and sadly.. his passing.

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I'm going to be hard pressed to actually get out a blog post a day, and finish the remainder of my countdown before 2012.  I'm going to do my best though. Blog-A-Day Countdown to 2012: #5Poker Players Go Bowling, Prop Bets, Steven "Cupcake" Terry My time here at the farm is winding down.. I've thoroughly enjoyed myself, though I haven't done anything fancy and I've been on a pretty strict

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I was absolutely done for the night, shutting down the computer, cleaning up the kitchen.. and came to check my Facebook to make sure the last blog post posted.  A link to a video with the post "Do you believe in God?" caught my eye. The kid was kinda good-looking, in that shiny sort of way.. so I clicked the link. (A followup to this post has been added, link at the bottom). And here we

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Blog-A-Day Countdown to 2012: #7Depression is a Creeper, Ready for Work I have 100,000 things I COULD write about.. but I'm just feeling rather run-down.  Back to work next week, and I'm ready for it.  Granted, I could stay here at the farm for ages more and not get tired of it.. but I'm just ready to be doing something with my time. I didn't go to Florida.  Last minute issues..

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