Good to be home.

Hi everybody.

So I’m back from Vegas and glad to be home.

CES went well, and I hope to have a vlog for you soon, but I wanted to at least say hello.

HELLO!

This year in Vegas I was sure to play more cards than I did last year.

I did ok, though I was too busy with the show to really play as much as I would have liked, or as much as I SHOULD have in order to truly gauge how I was playing.

I played 3-6 Limit Holdem twice and 2-4 once.

The 2-4 game was at Binnions downtown.

Of the three sessions I was up two, and down one.

The down session was a net loss of one dollar so not too bad.

(if I hadn’t tipped the waitress that last time I could have broke even)

Anyway Binnions was awesome.

It was Sunday night and the place was DEAD.

It wasn’t NEARLY as glitzy as the casinos on the strip.

And the wall of champions had the pictures of Brunson, and Puggy Pearson, and Amarillo Slim… a lot of history there.

I only played for about an hour, but made a quick 42 bucks.

Overall it looks like I made about $28 and hour.

Nice, but not enough to quit my Job and hang out with Phil Ivey

(and I doubt very much that I could be consistent at even that level)

Posted Jan 10, 2006 by Doug | 10 comments | PermaLink
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One thing that all great poker players have is a nickname. I dare say that Amarillo Slim’s real name is Amarillo. I don’t even want to talk about Chris “Jesus” Ferguson”, or Greg “Fossil Man” Raymer. Was Chris Moneymaker really born with that name?

I mean even one of our own has a nickname! Ken “The Reaper” Jansing has dominated the two poker tournaments we’ve held.

I say we hold a nickname contest for you here at Doug Meade.com

My entries are as follows:

Shorty McShovinStuff

Buster Bluffsalot

Pockets D. Cowboys

With so many great names already taken this could be a tight competition.

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Kevin

Ah Vegas, I wish I could have gone.

Dont you have a nickname Doug? I was given one last time we played … and you dont even have one?

- Dave “The Anti-Check” Meade

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Dave

Well I have a couple card protectors I use from time to time. One of which is a lion.

Maybe I could be

“The Lion King”

or just

Doug “The Lion” Meade

I dunno…

or perhaps

Doug “NoNick” Meade.

Wink

Though I’d rather have something cool like

“The collector”

so when people ask what I collect I can say

“Chips”

and then they would get all scared and stuff.

Ok so the contest is officially open!!

Enter your ideas here.

Though I don’t think I am able to choose my own nickname perhaps one will stick.

NOTE: I will not accept the title Shorty Mc Anything.

If you know me or have played poker with me try to come up with something that actually applies to me.

Otherwise just make it sound cool.

Posted on January 10, 2006 by Doug

Hmmm… it appears that commenting on one’s own Blog kills it.

Come on… somebody find me a poker name!

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Doug

http://www.pokernickname.com/

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Jeroen

Kevin “the calculator” Hicks

Wow, am I like one of those TI-81’s or something?

I can calculate that I’ll be knocked out in the first 5 minutes.

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Kevin

Wow Great site Jeroen.

Very funny.

It called me

Doug “The Hustler” Meade

At least it wasn’t



Doug “Subscribes to Hustler” Meade.

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Doug

It must know me well:

Jeroen “Poker Face” Smit

See if you can get a read:

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Jeroen

wow a poker link that isn’t spam! Very Happy

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Dave

Nice image there Gene… I mean Jeroen.

I’d say…

Queen-Five Offsuit.

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Doug


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