Poker Party in Niagara Falls; Mansionpoker.net backs a new poker reality series

First things first, it is Monday and I am definitely hurting after a long, long weekend. The crew got together on a little trip to Niagara Falls on Saturday and as per usual it turned into an all day all night giver affair. We set up shop at the poker tables and at the roulette tables for the majority of the night. We consumed enough beers on Saturday that should suffice me for the week. We pounded beers for close to thirteen hours. I didn’t feel it too bad on Sunday but today I am one tired puppies. The Niagara casino was pretty rammed and there was a pretty large sized wait to get in on any of the Poker Party action when we first arrived there. So, in the meantime we sat at the bar and watched my Duke Blue Devils annihilate the number two team in the country: The Texas Longhorns. It was an absolute drubbing. A couple of my buddies got called into action at the poker tables and as they headed in to the poker room I chilled at the bar and continued to pound back some beers and catch up on the sports action.

Through our wanderings through the casino we ran into a couple of cool chiefs at the tables. We met up with this one dude from Dallas and we had a great time chillin with this good ol boy. We were at the roulette tables where he and the cobster were runnin the show. Both cats were hitting there numbers and making some serious cake. We were having some fun at this table as the dealers were lovin’ the members of the crew. It was time for the Leafs game and the Raptors game so we proceeded to close up shop at the tables, and head to the bar to watch the games.

All in all, Niagara Falls was a pretty solid gong show, we started chants in the bars, chatted up some mysterious folks, chilled with a big time burnout from Port Perry in Denny's, and had a nice intellectual conversation with our cab driver home from Denny's. By the way, if you are ever starving at 3 or 3:30 in the morning and there is a Denny's around, you have to order the LumberJack Slam. Seriously it might be the biggest breakfast around and pretty close to impossible to finish. It was time to catch up on some much needed rest so we headed back to the hotel to call it a night. I was real gunned when my head hit the pillow. Sorry boys if the kid's drunken snoring kept you up!

~~

So the Indianapolis Colts are still going strong in their battle to equal the undefeated season of the 1972 Dolphins. I don’t know about you but these guys look absolutely unstoppable especially now with the defense that these guys have assembled. It should be interesting too see what the colts do now for the remainder of the season. Do you rest some of your big guns for the playoffs? Or do you play them to keep the undefeated record in tact? It should be a pretty good story line to watch unfold.

~~

Poker on television just keeps on introducing new programs and ideas to continue to further increase its popularity. The latest show to hit the airwaves is Mansionpoker.net Pokerdome series which will air on Fox Sports Net. The idea behind this show is the players on the show will be encased in one-way, mirrored glass with microphones located all over the place so that the fans seated around the dome can hear and see everything without being seen or heard. Another interesting feature to this show will be that all the cards will have computer chips on them so the fans will know what cards were discarded. Also the show will contain speed poker which gives the players fifteen seconds to act or they will automatically lose. This should be an interesting show to check out and it will begin airing in May of 2006. There is going to be a big brand awareness show airing on July 12th at an Australian Casino where six players will put up $10 million dollars apiece and the winner take all. I had to take a second look at this when I first saw it. Ten Million dollars a player and they already have three of the six players committed. They are not naming names but be prepared for some of the biggest names to be front and center when this show comes around.

~~

On a side note the kidinthehizy was you got it gettinbizzy at the tables on Friday night. It was a quick poker party but I was able to get the mojo back and I finished in third and first respectively in a couple of Sit n Go’s on party poker. Keep a look out for the kidinthehizy!

For all those that hate Monday’s keep your head up high and just think only four more days till next weekend. Again thanks for checking out the Kid’s blog (and this blog was brought to you by the bonus code 20BR on Party Poker) and hopefully this is the start of a good week for all of us a sign of good things to come.