Winding Down

We've reached one of the two quiet points of the tournament calendar. Very few tournaments are scheduled from mid-July to mid-August because everyone needs a break after the seven-week insanity of the WSOP. There's a similar gap from the second week of December to the second week of January as everyone enjoys the holidays and the end of another year. Once the New Year has been ushered in, things pick back up with the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the Aussie Millions.

This was scheduled down-time for me so while I have my eye on developments in the at-large poker industry, I'm not giving them a ton of my time. Instead I fill my days with as many articles as I can pen and of lots and lots of poker, a luxury I can't afford (and don't usually desire) when on the tournament trail. That means lots of time at the real tables on the Strip, and perhaps even a few online qualifiers for live tournament series like the Aussie Millions or the LAPC.

Between all of this time playing poker, and the large group of friends arriving in town in two days, the end of the year is off on the right foot.