<——–Never Forget - The Greatest NFL Team Ever! Well, here I sit at 11:15 in the morning on Superbowl Sunday. Many of my friends have been anxiously awaiting this day for the last few months. As most of you know, today is the day I will go under the clippers and lose my hair do to a prop bet went wrong. (Note to self - Don’t bet on the Chicago Bears next year). The execution of this has been tentatively scheduled at 3:30 CST this afternoon.

Although I can honestly say I am NOT looking forward to being bald, I am going to have fun and make the best out of it. My life revolves around having fun and new life experiences……this will certainly be one of them. At the end of the day, I am still a Certified Baller.

Superbowl Sunday is always one of my favorite days of the year though. Today my buddies and I will be starting the festivities in a few hours by going to our favorite local brewery and getting some growlers filled with the best beer in town. After that I will be coming home and beginning “Superbowl Sunday Operation Turkey Fry”.

Sometime during the afternoon, I imagine I will login to my Bodog account and drain it on stupid prop bets. Hopefully I can make up this money during the afternoon on squares and other various gambling that will inevitably take place.

I was also reading a stat this morning that Superbowl Sunday is the biggest day in the U.S. for domestic violence. My guess is this number is inflated due to all the MEN getting their asses kicked at the end of the night by their wives.

Anyhow, make it a great day, and if you are venturing out be safe and don’t do anything stupid. I’ll post the video link of my head getting shaved on youtube and some pics in the blog later tonight. Go Giants!

Ah yes, the best day of the week has finally arrived. This is one of the only days of the week that I actually look forward to waking up early before the rest of the house. Nothing is better than than a watching a little ESPN, drinking my coffee, and putting together my lineup for fantasy. Not too mention a few buddies and I go in each week on an 8 game parlay bet. <———Dead Money.

Here’s the starting lineup for the week.

The proposition bets have not all been placed yet, but really there’s no point in posting as we are a 99% chance to each lose $20 anyways.

If you can remember way back to the opening paragraph of this blog post, that has all ended. As I write this, a cartoon is now on my plasma, and the kids have me running around like a waiter. I typically like to let my wife sleep in on Sundays however for the simple reason that it’s a 50/50 chance I will do something stupid today. This could include but is not limited to getting drunk, spending the day at the neighbors watching football, or getting into an online poker tournament that will limit me from helping put the kids down tonight.

Although speaking of which, my debit card has always worked at FullTilt. Normally I do the degenerate thing and keep some money in my account. Unfortunately I cashed most of it out this month with my last affiliate payment. And the money I left in there somehow disappeared at a 2-4 NL table the other night. Anyways, this morning I decided I might play in the $1,000,000 guarantee while watching the afternoon games, and I was greeted by this bitch. So then I decide I’ll just play in the $2,000,000 GTD at Stars.

Well, I go there and all of the sudden their instant check service is unavailable. I suppose I could always load my paytru card, but this sounds like too much work. Apparently the poker gods have informed me that today is not my day. I would play at Absolute or UB but I here online poker is rigged.

But here is the highlight of my last 24 hours. It is starting to get cold in the midwest and I need to seriously go do some shopping for some winter clothes. My wife is giving me a hard time because all I wear in the winter is jeans and fleeces. I think I have a fleece from about every online poker site on the net. So AM’s reading this, send me a fleece and I’ll give you a banner on the blog. Well anyhow I pulled a play out of my buddy Bryan Micon’s book and ordered a sweat suedo.

I will get some pictures when it comes in, but when I think of a 5′9″ white guy in a baby blue velour sweat suedo, the only word that comes to mind is PLAYA. I’m sure my wife will like this more than the poker fleeces.

In business news, this week should be a much better week. Last week got messed up with the Turkish hackers. I am conferencing with our developer tomorrow morning in regards to the sub-affiliate program. I expect to fully roll this out during the week. Even just in beta since Wednesday we have already seen 15 new affiliates come through referral codes.

Also this week I intend to finish up the Ebook for the subs to promote to their potential prospects. Speaking of Ebooks I may be partnering up with a friend and large internet marketer to do a whole series of Ebooks focused towards the poker affiliate market niche. This is still in negotiations though.

Nothing else too exciting except I got an email from Damon the PokerNews CEO this morning regarding my dividends in the company. We had a solid couple months. I think I am going to take a portion of these and treat my family to a vacation this December in the St. Petersburg / Clearwater area. If anyone has anyone suggesstions on resorts in that area that are good for kids, please post in the comments or shoot me an email.

Have a great Sunday, eat alot, drink alot, and be merry. It’s back to the grind tomorrow morning.

Well, here I sit in my chair on Tuesday night after a long productive day. Before I get into the rest of the post, I just watched a segment on “Second Life” a few minutes ago. All I can say is that anyone who thinks online poker players are degenerates or addicted to the computer needs to read about these crazy fucks. If you live your life vicariously through an avatar, you have issues.

Anyhow, let’s get right into the WSOC. On Sunday my good friends and neighbors celebrated the first annual labor day World Series of Croquet. My wife was thrilled when she found out I mowed a croquet course in our well maintained front yard….. Apparently she doesn’t realize the importance of “The Rough” when playing in a world class croquet tournament. Camouflage shorts were not mandatory, but highly recommended as you can see.

The field was a tough one that consisted of myself, “Neighbor John”, “Neighbor Jay”, and our special guest “Dave”. No doubt this was probably one of the toughest groups of croquet players ever to come together in Illinois. Not too mention the course was amongst one of the top in the country. We’re talking rough, bent grass, driveways, sidewalks, mulch, and streets. Here are the competitors posing for the fans before the match.

The first match proved to be the most difficult. There were several lead changes and the entire field struggled on wicket #5 on the front nine. I actually took a full back swing and clobbered Dave’s son in the leg with a croquet ball on #5. So if you see a new member named Dave at Poker Affiliate World, there is a good chance I got sued and he now owns my equity. The winner of the first inaugural match and more importantly, the winner of the coveted Beer Growler was none other than Neighbor Jay. Let me be the first to say Congratulations.

The following two matches were dominated by Neighbor John. These wins however are still under review pending an investigation on illegal enhancement drugs that may have been used prior to the tournament. At the time of this writing John is still refusing to piss in a cup. He offered to piss in a shoe………we really don’t know what to make out of this. Perhaps it was because his maid was sitting in the box seats spectating.

When it was all said and done the Results were written on the driveway as can be seen. Yes I was skunked in croquet, but I do feel there was a bit collusion and shenanigans going on throughout the evening. Nonetheless, it was a great tournament and a fabulous way to cap off a Labor Day weekend.

As many of you know I had a shitty week last week for multiple reasons. Well, the good news is I have shaken all that off and I am very excited about the next three days of this week. There are so many exciting things going on in my business and personal life right now that I am not going to let one bad week or bad event ruin my mojo.

Not only is today a new week, we are starting a new month. I have never been more excited about a month than I am Sepetember 2007. I expect some very big things to happen this month. In fact tomorrow I am going to write a business post about one of the things that have guided my success throughout the years. That thing is “expectancy”. If you do not expect great things to happen in your business or personal endeavors, they never will.

There is a big difference in “hoping” something will be successful and “expecting” it to be a success. I hate when people throw a new business idea, and say “Dude this could be huge”…..I hate could be’s

Oh one last thing, I funded the first studio recording for an up and coming band. If they go big I’ll be pimping around the country on a tour bus with groupies…… (I hope my wife doesn’t read this post)