What a day!

I'm home after a verrrry long day my friends. I feel like the energizer bunny that keeps going and going. Thank the Lord for redbull and coffee as I'm going on 3 hours of sleep! Last night I hosted a party at The Bank for the 4 year anneversary of BLUFF and the November cover I did with Christina Lindley. From the Real Deal show I went to Planet Hollywood to Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle's room and got ready for the party. We've been having a lot of fun while they've been in town and getting ready with the girls always leads to a good night.

Having to arrive at The Bank at Bellagio at 11:00 it was required that I stay till 2:30 in the morning... Shiza! The place was jam packed and filled with almost all my friends. It was fun minus a few haters/fake people I had to deal with, but none the less always good to see and hang out with good friends. I would like to give a special thanks to everyone that showed up and supported me at this party. I love you guys! Especially Liz Lieu who saved the day. You're the best! xoxo

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Getting home from the party at 3:30 I finally fell asleep around 4 only to wake up at 7:30. I had to get ready to head down to the Rio for the coverage of the final table of the WSOP main event. I think the biggest thing that kept me from not sleeping in was all the excitement. I would be doing color commentary (play by play analysis) for http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/ along with the bust out interviews. Getting back in the ol' saddle again from last year's coverage I did was a little off given the lack of sleep, but sitting next to Nick Geber and watching this final table play out was amazing. I did have to take a mini break from the table at 3 to head over to the Venetian as I still had my show to do at the Real Deal. It was also a fun show with Jennifer Harman and Todd Brunson and special guest Marco Traniello. We had an a female player from the audience go on to win the table and the $1500 bracelet which has great to see. From there I ran back to the Penn and Teller theater to get back to the action of the final table. Sadly David "Chino" Rheem (my pick to win) had busted along with Kelly Kim and Craig Marquis. (pic with Scott Montgomery the 5th place finisher who was eliminated by a one outer...ouch!)

I'll be writing a full post on this day on my PokerListings blog coming very soon. As for now I can barely keep my eyes open. Tomorrow I'll be at The Real Deal! with Todd Brunson and Eli Elezra for our 5pm show and then back at the Rio at 8pm to cover the heads up match between Peter Eastgate and Ivan Demidov. Two non americans (Danish and a Russian) and great poker players to boot that will play for a $9.1 million fist prize. I'll be making my updates along the way that you can follow on my Twitter page: www.twitter.com/laceyjones Until then sweet dreams and Gnight.

Bitter sweet

I voted last night and at the very last minute... no joke. I arrived with 12 minutes to spare and not one person in line! Since I didn't go to the exact polling place (20 minutes away) I had to vote on a provisional ballot. F*ckin lame! This only allowed me to vote for the president and congressional elect. Instead of using the new monitors to vote I had a tangible ballot where I had to complete an arrow to the right of the person I chose.
Looking like this: <-- --<

Now everyone knows I'm a die hard Republican, went to University of Arizona, I've worked on McCain's campaigns, and I had no clue who to vote for. Even last week I was still on the fence. Being a political science major in college, elections are very important to me. It is our civic duty as Americans to go out and exercise our right to vote. There are soldiers who fight and die for all of us to live in a democratic country. Yes voting for a president is almost obsolete with the electoral college, but voting for local and state politicians are so important and just a few votes have a huge impact on your community.

Opening the ballot to make my decision I had to pause for a moment. It was so hard to see someone that I have supported ever since I was 18 years old and know he was not going to get my vote. Marking the arrow next to Obama felt as though I was stabbing a friend in the back. Although I know I made the right decision (hopefully) I still couldn't believe McCain had changed so much. He is an amazing Senator and someone that I strongly believe has done more for our country than many of our past presidents being a Prisoner of War. I do love Senator McCain and have for over a decade, but after recent events in our country I don't believe he is right for change that is so desperately needed. Even with this knowledge, I couldn't help but feel guilty for voting for Obama. I've never voted Democrat in my entire voting life. Is it possible to be the only person with this hanging over my head? I am happy with the decsion, but still can't shake this feeling.

President Obama, congratulations on your victory. Please don't prove me wrong.

Laughing my ass off...

So today has been a little down for me and my best friend Galina knew exactly how to make me laugh. I planned on staying in my pajamas and doing nothing but watch Dexter and Californication that I missed from Sunday. On top of that I made the decsion not to go out and vote... until I saw this video Galina sent me:

In case you actually want to know who the poker pros are voting for (if they really do go out and vote) here they are:

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Looks like I'm headed to the polls and for once I'm voting for a Democrat. McCain I wish you were still the same Senator that I once loved. =(