Joe Cada is lucky (there's no draft).

I returned, yesterday, from a trip to Toronto where I had a lot of fun representing Full Tilt at the Canadian poker Expo. Basically played a bunch of Sit n Go’s and met a lot of very nice people. I love Canada.

I just watched the first episode of the final table, it really made poker look like a game of luck, eh. I was a little unhappy with the way ESPN edited the hand where Saout and Buchman got something like 90 million in pre-flop with AK vs AQ and all they showed was the very end of the action with no indication how the betting went.

I plan on putting some serious time in online for the next week or so playing the FTOP’s events on Full Tilt. I went pretty deep in Sunday’s event that had a $250,000 first place and that has really whet my appetite.

With tomorrow being Veterans Day I have been doing some thinking about the lives being sacrificed by men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well actually it might be more due to the exceptional media coverage being given to the soldiers who lost there lives at Fort Hood. What has been bothering me is, “How much coverage would there deaths have gotten had they made it on the plane and been killed over there?”

I guess the answer is, life in general is cheaper over there. I mean obviously the indigenous peoples lives are cheaper, but it comes as kind of a shock to realize that even our own soldiers lives seem to lose some of there value once they are deployed. Ofcourse this is wrong. I think there should be a television channel dedicated to nothing else but honoring fallen serviceman for the duration of these missions, lest we forget the human price of all this.

I think President Obama is doing the right thing in looking for all options to this no win dilemma. I mean I sure can’t see a good solution. The last administration left a terrible mess. We can’t now try to occupy every country that has terrorists, there’s a bunch and they can move around.