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September 30, 2007

It seems Portland is back into it's lengthy rainy season, which is okay to me since I spend most of my time at the computer anyway. I went to my son's soccer game today, his second this weekend. They play indoors at a nice indoor field/hockey rink type setup which is fun. They won today 14-2 and yesterday 10-1. I then watched some of the Portsmouth vs. Reading match in the Premiership. It was the highest scoring soccer game in 15 years. These are exactly the types of games that American fans say they would prefer if they were to watch soccer. They say that soccer is too boring and needs more scorring, but honestly I think all these games had too much scoring. What it does is devalue the importance of any one score or scoring at all. I agree that 3-2 is more exciting than 0-0 draw but there is a limit.

I"m railing Stinger in the WCOOP main event. He is off to a fast start as the table leader, with only mig.com as a notable opponent to contend with for now. One of the big issues this year has been the great structure but terribly long and grueling tournaments. They are saying the main event could be 36 hours long. That is incredibly arduous to maintain your concentration or alertness for that long. It could be argued that is against human fairness to have to be awake and competing for that long in a game. In no other sport or competition that I know of do they require something like this. Ultra marathons might be the only exception, but I'm not very familiar with those. I suppose they might argue that not everyone is in the tournament that long, but it doesn't mitigate the challenge to those who are fortunate to go deep. I think they need to implement a schedule whereby they play 12-16 hours then take a 12 hour break and resume again for another 12-16 hours. When I was watching CR member Nutedawg at the final table of event #20, there was one player who was sitting out at the final table because he fell asleep. The pokerstars Danish manager had called the guy at his house after a while to stir him and get him playing again. Very unreasonable after 20 hours of playing, in my opinion. Then it is not a matter of skill and luck, but who has the stamina and can handle the sleep deprivation.

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