It has been a pretty busy week for me. I have been spending a lot of time on the set of the new movie “Detention”. I have a couple very good friends involved and I have become a part of it in a few different ways, which I am pretty proud of. I have spent a good amount of effort in getting involved in the business, and I am very excited about the future. On a less serious note, on set one day in the snack room, I was able to watch the infamous battle rapper “Dumbfounded”(who is one of the lead actors in the movie) freestyle for about 30 minutes straight. Even though I’ve met him before, I had never heard him freestyle in person, so that was pretty cool. With this movie being set in high school already, along with freestyling on set, it almost actually feels like I’m back in high school, but everyone is nicer and cooler.

A few days after I busted out of the WPT, Anita and I headed to Vegas. A lot of “Vegas” icons cameo’d in a new Rascal Flatts music video “Why Wait”, which should win some sort of music video award. Wayne Newton, CarrotTop, and Miss Nevada were featured. I was put in a scene along with Penn and Teller, David Arquette, along with Rascal Flatts. It was quite the scene on the main floor of the Palms casino with hundreds of random people shooting pictures with their camera phones, big lights, and lots of paparazzi. It was chaotic, but a really good time!

Before I shot my scene, I played a little bit of cheap poker with Phill Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Michael Phelps, and a few of his friends. After my scene Phelps invited us out so we decided to hit up Club XS. Before we got in the club, I saw six or seven Miss USA/Miss Universe contestants as Miss Universe was being filmed that night in Vegas earlier. I decided to invite them to the table and we ended up hanging out for a few hours. After that, I was notified Rascal Flatts was having an after party in their villa penthouse, so we hit that up before bed for a bit. All of those guys are really cool and down to earth even with all of their enormous success. Even though I am not a fan of their specific genre of music, I had seen them perform last year at the American Music Awards live, and I was pretty impressed. I can appreciate really good music regardless of what genre it is. I respect people who work hard in their field and become one of the best at what they do.

Tom “durrrr” Dwan has begun his second challenge matchup against jungleman12. I am not as interested to sweat this match as I am when Patrick Antonius and Tom play, but I ended up watching for a couple hours last night. I have a decent amount of money on Tom to win the match. Nonetheless, you can definitely expect some bloodshed, and that’s always interesting. Two guys are definitely playing really big poker and are locked into a match. I expect to see a number of $1.5M swings, so it will be interesting to see who handles them better.

London is right around the corner, and my next blog should take place when WPT London High Roller is going on. It will be a busy September in London, as it is every year. I will, as always, try hard to pull out at least a deep run and maybe a win.