John Turner

I cashed again in a tournament at Full Tilt. In the last 6 weeks, I’m up almost $2000. Not too bad at all. By “cashed,” I mean “more than $200″. I don’t count the little tournaments or satellites. For this latest, I used 50 FTPs to get into a satellite. I won that, which got me into another satellite where the buy-in was 2500 FTPs. I won that, which got me into the weekly $750K guarantee. Out of 3,974 people playing in that tournament, I ended up 82nd. I wish I could have made it into the top ten…that’s where the serious money was. I think first prize was $134K. Tenth was something like $9K, I think.

On the down side, I went to Motor City the other day to play live in their daily tournament and didn’t cash (last time I played there I cashed for $400). So, playing live I’m 1-1 (.500). If I was a professional baseball player and that was my batting average, I’d be making $15 million a year.

Yet another hypocritical politician goes down the tubes, as NY governor Spitzer resigns from office. Now, if we could only get Kilpatrick to follow suit, we’d be getting somewhere.

Probably the funniest thing about the Spitzer deal (other than laughing in amazement at how stupid some people can be) are the last two Letterman Top Tens a la Spitzer. Here’s Monday’s, and here’s last night’s. I have to say that Monday’s is better, though, especially #5 and #1. Absolutely hilarious. I don’t understand people who like Leno over Letterman. I think it must be like the difference between cat owners and dog owners.

The Detroit News is reporting that the La Shish chain of restaurants is closing for good. While it is bad news to the hundreds of workers that worked in the restaurants and commissary (especially in this economy), I am very happy that this chain is gone.

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