Last Months Meanderings

It's been a month since I posted my last blog, and I apologize to those faithful readers who make the effort to tell me how much they enjoy it.  I love to write, but as a perfectionist, it takes a lot of time to quantify and lay out my thoughts on a page that serves a greater purpose then dumping the meanderings of my daily life.  That said, here are some of my meanderings in the past month.

Fast Eddie Felson, a mentor of mine, who is better known publicly as "Fast Eddie," Felson, has agreed to make a rare public appearance in speaking at my first Live Poker and Life Seminar at The Silverton Casino in Las Vegas in July.  The subject will be on how to become a professional.  The material which I've been in developing with Eddie is awesome, and I am looking forward to really making an impact on those players who really want to learn and understand what it takes, and how to do it.  It's not the kind of material you will find in any book, I can assure you.  Eddie's main purpose in teaching is help people operate and manage better, and I'm confident you will find his presentation compelling.

With only two weeks before the World Series,  I'm still looking for a sponsor for the series.   The one I had lined up backed out, so after training hard the last 3 months both physically and mentally, I may now have to play a different schedule of events then I had hoped.  Years ago I would have been crushed, but after 12 years, you learn to roll with the ups and downs of the business.

Heading to Vegas this weekend to support the Saphire Foundation for Prostate Cancer.  There's a poker tournament Sunday night at the Saphire Gentlemen's Club in Las Vegas, which I will be running and giving poker lessons.  Then a golf tournament on Monday which should be a hoot with the girls of Saphire acting as caddies.  The club has bought out the whole golf course, so it should be a lot of fun!

I was in the second row of the debut of the Glendale Pops Orchestra last night.  Kenny Loggins and David Benoit were the featured artists and they were awesome!  I also got to meet and go back stage with David Cassidy in another concert earlier this month.

On a rather personal note, this last month saw the death of my uncle George.  He was a great man, and a true cowboy.  Then there was the death of online poker which was a significant blow professionally. But I've learned that even though their are big swells, and low troughs in the games of poker and life, you don't have to rise and fall emotionally through the journey.  You just need to learn how to navigate and manage well.  I'm doing the best I can, and I hope you are too.

Enjoy the Journey,

Kenna James