This week, we present to you another thrilling episode of "Tales of Rakeback Nits."  The last time we saw our hero, DoubleFly, he was in 22nd place after his vacation, and in 19th place four days before the end of the month.  But one day was gone because of G's birthday and a second day was gone because his mother stayed over.  Could he make up two places in just two days, when his competitors have four?  Could he do it?!?  First a word from our sponsor...

I'm not sooo old that I grew up in the days of the radio, but that's really all I remember from watching old TV shows - the dramatic intro and then a soap commercial.  Hoff Soap just makes me feel dirty.

I *just* made the cut-off for #17 in the rake race.  The $217 difference in rake is about 2K hands, and now that I think about it, if I had to play 1/2 rush instead of 2/4 rush, I may not have made it.  It's only 400 bucks, but when you set a goal for yourself, it always feels good to reach it. 

The next few months, it's not going to be that close.  That's because Rush makes it super-easy to play a lot of hands.  In fact, I may not move to Stars next year - I'm still thinking about it.

POKER

I've always been a proponent of playing games with your kids.  I had a post on it earlier in the year, but I'm too lazy to dig it up.  I'm also big on letting my kids play video games - because there's only so much you can do with cards, a board and dice.  The other day, G was in a pool on a floating lounge chair and he started paddling with a long water gun.  I had never taken him canoeing (because I was waiting for him to learn to swim), but he knew how to paddle.  So I asked him how he learned to paddle, and he says "Wii Resorts."  It's all about exposing kids to new things.  For all those people who say video games is a waste of time, suck on that!!!

I found this article interesting on how some college is requiring students to play video games in an art class.  TBH, I haven't played a lot of video games lately (other than online poker LDO), but I suppose they do put a lot into designing video games.  If movie appreciation can be a class, why not video games?

More on video games in a later post.