So I just booked my room for the National Chess Open in June, and guess what?? Harrahs in Vegas is giving me a free room too! Maybe all these free offers have something to do with the recession, but I like to think it’s because I’m such a baller degenerate gambler… Maybe if I keep on dropping all this $$ at the craps tables they’ll start flying me in on private planes and give me huge suites.

 So I booked my free room at the Rio, which is where the World Series of Poker is held.. I’m gonna be playing some of the smaller events with buy-ins under $3,000 before the National Open. Should be a lot of fun.. Also this year I’m gonna put some effort into winning a seat on Pokerstars for the $10,000 main event. Too many of my friends play this every year, it’s time I join them.

The other day I had this strange desire to look up Scientology on Wikipedia.. I just wanted to see what it was all about, but even after reading about it for an hour it wasn’t so clear.. I read all this strange science fiction stuff about aliens becoming humans and descending onto Earth, it all seemed pretty whack.. I also like how in Scientology, you can’t learn certain things about the religion unless you attain a “certain level”, which requires you to spend a lot of money.. Seems like a big scam to me…

From what I’ve gathered though, a lot of the beliefs in Scientology will help the average person lead a better, more productive life.. I believe that’s really the most important thing about a religion.. For some people, just having a set of guidelines to live by will make them a better and more productive person.. Take the classic case of a gang banger finding religion. Obviously living by the rules in the religion is better than living by the rules of being in a gang.

I myself am agonstic (borderline atheist). It’s interesting how the higher a person’s education/IQ, the less likely they are to believe in organized religion/God. I believe part of the reason is simply because people who are smart like to think for themselves and don’t like to follow a set of rules/guidelines. But for dumb people, I think religion can be a good thing.

So lately I’ve just been having a BLAST emailing girls on match.com with crazy approaches.. I’ve got some hate mail doing this, which is probably even better/more funny than real responses.. Reminds me of the good ole spam days where I’d get 10,000 hate emails a day, it really brings me back.. “DIE SPAMMER DIE!” “FUCK YOU SPAMMER!” God I miss those days! Anyways I really don’t care about the outcome of what happens when I email a girl anymore, and this makes the whole process a lot of fun.

So check out this latest email I just sent out to a bunch of girls on Match.com.. The subject title is “RE: Will you please go out with me”.. The email is as follows:

I think it’s pretty cool that you didn’t think I’d find you desperate for begging to date me in your first email… I’m just not sure if we’d be a good match for each other… But you know I feel like being a nice guy today, so maybe I’ll give you a chance. But FIRST I need to know, on a scale from 1-10, how well can you cook? Like 1 being you are an expert at working a microwave to 10 being you once appeared on the TV show “Iron Chef”?

Pretty funny stuff huh? I really can’t wait for either the responses or the hate mail to just roll in.. My profile really helps with the hate mail part, especially with girls who feel like I’m out of their league.

I recently read a news article about a study that found a correlation between success among Day Traders and the length of their ring finger compared to their index finger. Apparently having a long ring finger is a sign of high testosterone in the womb during fetal development. In the study, they found having a long ring finger was equal to 2-3 years of experience/education among traders…

That’s a pretty huge finding, and I wonder if there is some correlation between long ring fingers and high chess ratings.. It makes sense that the higher the testosterone, the more competitive a person will be.. Perhaps this is one of the reasons women aren’t very good at chess, simply because they don’t have that competitive drive. I would think this would be applicable to poker players too, but maybe not as much.. Simply because high testosterone could definitely back fire in poker because being competitive is not as important as being level headed and honest with yourself.

So of course the first thing I did when I read this study was to take a look at my hand and see if I “Have the Goods”. It seems that my ring finger is slightly longer than my index finger, maybe that’s why I’m good at chess and poker!?!?

The last few days have made me decide that I need more balance in my life… I’ve been playing poker literally all day. Not that this is a bad thing (it is my job), but it seems like I’m either not playing at all or I’m just playing all day.. I think it would be more healthy if I played a little bit (maybe 5-6 hours or s0) each day. For instance, yesterday I literally woke up to the sound of my Supernova Freeroll tournament opening on my laptop at 2pm, and started playing half awake from bed. Ideally I feel like my day should be setup where I do:

A) Sleep 9 hours
B) Poker 6 hours
C) Lesiure 6 hours
C) Excercise 1 hour
D) Random stuff (cleaning/eating/showering) 2 hours

 On another note, I’m really excited because Foxwoods is giving me 2 FREE room nights a week in Februrary-March. This is probably due to my last trip down there in December with my buddy Eugene Yanayt.. We played a bunch of blackjack and he introduced me to craps (which is the most fun/addictive casino game EVER).. I guess I lost enough money for them to start comping me :). I even get to stay at the Grand Pequot Tower which is the nicest of the 3 hotels.. Actually I can also stay at the new MGM Grand at Foxwoods, but the poker room isn’t in that building so it’s kind of a hassle.. Maybe I’ll stay there 1 week just to see what it’s like.

So I’ll probably be down at Foxwoods every week Wednesday-Friday.. If any of you guys out there wanna gamble/play poker, you are welcome to stay with me since I’ll have an extra bed in the room.. Just use the contact form on my page (or IM me on AIM).