I think I win

It is amazing where the time goes. You pick up one little job for 10 hours a week and suddenly you have no time for ANYTHING. It is hard to believe I have been going non-stop for a week now, but it has been a good time to say the least. Dealing is going great! I had one of the instructors and some other students come play on Monday and had great feedback from them. I am really starting to settle into the box and picking up speed and personality in the box. The tips are really good, and I am averaging $40 an hour even just working part-time. So it is hard to complain at all about that. I went to dinner with 2 of the other dealers on Monday night and one of the players picked up the check for us... So that was pretty cool.

Last week at the Red rock I hit my first straight flush in a casino. Too bad it wasn't a bad beat or high hand house... it was still a really nice pot, snapped off Aces with it :) He seemed less pleased than I was for some reason.

One of my friends from class got a job dealing the WPT event at Mandaly Bay starting May 25th and talked me into auditioning. I called up Monday morning and talked to the manager who said I could come in for the last audition on Tuesday at 2:30 if I could get all my app done before then. I rushed around, filled out the app, rushed it through processing, did my drug test (who came up with this stupid hair sample drug test! It is a direct attack on the bald people of the world! We will NOT discuss where the hair sample came from EVER!)

I managed to get everything done, and got to the audition early. There were about 18 people auditioning and it had to be one of my worst auditions ever. It is true what they say, just jump right in and don't think about it. I was 6th up, so I had PLENTY of time to get nervous... and get nervous I did. My pitch was horrible, I was shaking, messed up the shuffle, everything I could do wrong just about. I was sure I had bombed it, I just knew I had... when they called me into the office to discuss my audition all she said was "You were a little nervous, but good job. Come in on Monday to do paperwork". Holy cow... 2 other guys from class came in as well and neither one got it. I guess I am pretty good at this after all, it was very encouraging to have a sub-par performance and get through anyways.

Playing wise it has been pretty good lately, running up a couple of grand to get back on the positive side of things. I have not played anywhere near as much as I wanted to so far only getting in 80 hours in over 2 weeks and only up 750 so far.. but that is a recovery from being down until just a week ago.

The station freeroll is in early June just after the WPT ends, first prize there is 60,000 dollars... so I will save all my good luck for that. Only 1800 other people to contend against, let's see how I can do in that one.