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I dont know where the time has gone. I didn’t play any tournaments this last Sunday as I went to my friend’s place and spent Saturday night. Marlyn was in Philadelphia for her work so the timing was perfect.


I did receive a rather scary phone call Sunday around noon from Poker Stars. Adil and I were headed to lunch and I saw an international number on my phone and when I answered the guy said it was an urgent matter. Heh, he got my attention pretty quick.


Actually what happened was that they were short one player from Virginia to play for Team USA in the World Cup of Poker. Apparently I was high on the TLB leader board for 2007 and, since I live in Virginia I qualified. Granted, I’m sure I was a last resort that came up on some filter somewhere (especially since in 2007 I lived in Illinois) but it was still pretty exciting to have Stars actively come search for me.


So I did play a tournament that day, it was a 17 man tournament with one player from each of the 17 east coast states. There were 4 different tournaments with 4 different players from each state (1 in each tournament) and the group of 4 that collectively did the best moves on to play another tournament. Well, I didn’t help my team at all as I busted 14th; however I got coolered AK into AA real early and I did survive a good 30 minutes on a shortstack.


Otherwise I had a fun weekend and the time has flown by. Thanksgiving is coming!