Posted by Johnnymac 9:18 AM
I have received a few emails inquiring about the next one-day tournament, and even a few emails asking about next years WSOP series. Well, I have thought about these subjects and Fro and I have talked a couple of times and... that's about it. A lot of thought, a little talk, and no action.

Given that my bathroom project just won't end and has occupied all of my time, I frankly had forgotten about it until about two weeks ago when I was unpacking pre-hurricane evacuation boxes and came across all of my poker paraphernalia and realized that "holy shit, we are supposed to have a tournament next month!" Not to mention the fact that my boss was let go at work back in September which ultimately led to me getting a promotion and heading over to the West desk to trade power, and I thus I have been preoccupied with life lately. Similarly, Fro lives in *Dallas* and is now some sort of jet-setting soon-to-be-partner at his firm, so his plate is pretty full, too. (I read in US Weekly that he and Jane were invited to Ashton and Demi's wedding but had to bail at the last minute because he still was busy vetting Harriet Miers and then got a code red request from Alan Greenspan to audit a chicken farm in Hong Kong for bird flu and they just couldn't squeeze it in over the layover @ LAX. Seriously.)

Anyway, the point of this is that at this very moment, there are no IAG sanctioned tournaments scheduled. We might be able to throw something together at the end of December, but unfortunatey the calendar is still uncooperative (like it was last year) with no weekend in between the 2 big holidays.

Furthermore, there isn't anywhere to even play a tournament right now, because even though I now own a nice big house with plenty of room and HVAC capacity, Mrs Johnnymac is barely warmed up to the idea of letting just 10 guys play cards inside the house when she's out of town. I'm not even going to bother risking marital discord by trying to throw a 50 person tournamenent together some weekend when she's going to be around. Ask me in about 4 years and the story might be different, but not this year.

Here is a request: if anyone has an adequate space to host a 50 person tournament (about 1000 sq ft of free floor space + a television, refrigertor, and adequate HVAC) and you are willing to donate it out of the goodness of your heart, we would be most appreciative. You would only be responsible for providing a place to play, we would take care of everything else: tables, chairs, food, money, organization, etc etc. Email me (see below) if you might want to help. Naturally, you would get a free entry into the tournament for your trouble. The only stipulation for this offer of course being that we kinda oughta sorta need to know you so we can vouch for your character and flake factor.

As far as the WSOP series goes, we have all been kicking around a lot of good ideas, but nothing has been set. For instance, we will would like to tie the big tournament to the series - perhaps give the top 1 or 2 guys a "free" entry to the final table, plus we are looking at ways to have multiple super-super-satellites or perhaps sanction or license the use of the name to guys playing at home who want to "sponsor" a winner, so to say. But right now those are all ideas.

So here is the deal: by December 31, maybe before Christmas or even sooner, we will have the details ready for the 2006 WSOP series and at least a tentative calendar for all of the dates. If you have any ideas that you want to suggest, please send them to me ASAP. Fro and I have let the email addresses with the @IAG domain names expire, so if you want to contact me send email to my old yahoo account: johnmackeygreene@yahoo.com. Many of you may already have my "real" address and you can use that instead and bypass Yahoo, I just don't want to publish it here, is all. Hopefully I will also have more about the one-day tourney, too - if we can't squeeze it in this Fall/Winter it will definitely take place sometime in early 2006.

So that's it. The short summary is that none of us have forgotten about any of this and there will be announcements shortly.

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