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I managed to catch Poker After Dark yesterday. This weeks installment is a cash game and has its usual interesting cast of players like Phil Laak,Tom Dwan,Antonio Esfandiari, Kenny Tran, Bob Safai and Phil Hellmuth. I really like the cash game format as opposed to the usual 120,000 dollar winner take all this show usually has. There has been a lot of great interaction amongst the players and of course the usual lying about what they folded. A prime example yesterday Phil Laak who was actually on a straight flush draw and he made a huge bet around 70,000 dollars and Safai who had an open ended straight draw finally folded. Asked afterwords what he had Laak said a pair of Queens. Its so funny because they can do it with a straight face knowing that Safai will see what he had on TV. I also think Dwan was getting a little tipsy as he twice asked for another round of drinks. Anyways love the show and hope they do more cash games.

I was reading Vegas Rex's blog yesterday and I guess Las Vegas had a bikini parade down the strip yesterday. They got just under 300 ladies, gave them each a bikini and 100 bucks to parade down the strip and then the Las Vegas mayor declared summer had officially started. You gotta love Las Vegas. I also loved Rex's pictures of the event.

Yesterday I mentioned that in our recent provincial election we had only 53% of the eligible voters cast ballots. Well it appears my numbers were wrong. It was actually worse as only 48% exercised their vote. That is so pitiful.

Well the final 4 of the hockey playoffs are set and it will be Chicago against Detroit and Carolina against Pittsburgh. I would love to see a Chicago and Pittsburgh final but Detroit will be tough to beat.

I played a live game last night and once again really couldn't get anything going. Managed to steal a couple blinds and also took one guy out when he pushed with A,7 and my A,K magically held up. I lost a lot of chips chasing a flush and straight draw where the odds said I should but neither materialized so I was fairly short stacked when I got AQh in middle position. I pushed got 2 callers which surprised me and when the Q hit on the flop I figured I might triple up. They were checking it down until the river when a K hit and one lady bet , got a bit of a dirty look from the other lady and a realization from me that I was gone. She flipped over K9..A strange call but she hit her river card so who am I to question. I had the other lady beat or so she said when I showed what I had. So that's 6 games in a row were I haven't final tabled. Not the kind of streak I like!!!!