Trials of a Poker Apprentice: Damn you, Danny!

I know some of you have been waiting, as I have, for the release of Daniel Negreanu's PS2 "Stacked" video game. Well, it looks like we're going to have to wait even longer.

I remember when they said it was going to be released before this past Christmas, and I thought that might be a nice little something to slip into my stocking. But then the release date got moved to Feb. 28, then got moved to the first week of March. All though March, I kept looking for it, to no avail.

Finally, today I couldn't stand it anymore and got online to see when it is coming out. The release date is now May 2. Geez, this reminds me of waiting for "Fable" to be released. But that's just the way it is with video games.

I wish I had a job where someone would ask me for something and I would tell them it will be ready in two weeks, then, when they came back two weeks later, I could tell them to check back again in six months.

Oh wait, I guess I did have one of those jobs at one time. It was called "web design."

Speaking of Daniel Negreanu, the boy seemingly dispelled those nasty rumors about his sexual preference when he got married last year. But then he went and wrote this in his blog last week:

"Lori and I decided to watch a movie and we played our little game. She picks five movies she wants to watch and I do the same. Then we take turns crossing out movies that we don't want to see from each other's list.

"It came down to The Chronicles of Narnia or Brokeback Mountain. I won the coin toss, so we ended up with Brokeback Mountain."

It doesn't help matters much that the title of this particular post was "A Tough One to Swallow."

I'm just giving Kid Poker a hard time. He does put together a fine blog. His posts give you a good mixture of how he interprets his play in tournaments and an inside look at the life of one of poker's most well-known pros. Definitely worth a read.

On a completely different subject, the NCAA wrapped up last night and now it's time for me to say four words I've been holding back for some time: "Big East, my ass."

And, with that, I lead directly into today's poker news: