Seattle to Juneau

After a very pleasant week long cruise I eased back into the daily grind with a two day work week. Monday was rather uneventful as was today. Just the way I like it.

Today I did witness a young man turn a $200 buy-in into about $8,000. He started out in a $2-5 blind NL game and parlayed his way into a $5-10 blind NL game. It didn't matter what cards he played, and he played just about anything, the deck hit him in the face. Typically, he didn't stay on fire forever. He gave back $8,000 in two hands.

At least he will have a hell of a story to tell the boys back home...........

I plan to break the cruise into sections. On Sunday we sailed from Seattle.

We had the cards in the air as soon as legally possible. It's fun to watch people on vacation, with pockets full of money, jump into the fray. Of course on a cruise you have a captive audience AND there will be no "new" money entereing the games for a week. This fact plays itself out during the course of the week.

Classis Gaming Cruises always offers a free-roll tournament for cruisers who have booked with Classic Gaming in the past. Here's a picture taken during this free-roll.

This looks like a typical poker room with the exception of the windows visible to the right. The windows allow you to play poker while the majestic scenery glides effortlessly by.

At my normal job majestic scenery also strolls by---it's just enhanced with silicone.............

Speaking of a room with a view, how about this bathroom?

The picture is a little too dark, but you can see the urinals at the bottom of the picture.

Plenty of women heard about, and consequently visited, this men's room during the cruise. Aparently the women's room didn't have a view.

Two 2007 WSOP Main Event seats were given away during the cruise. The first seat was determined by a $150 buy in NL tournament. With only 39 players it was quite a good deal.

The second seat was by random drawing. Each pot during a live game contained a raffle ticket. At the end of the week a ticket was drawn and the winner got a $10,000 seat. Again, what a great deal.

If you have any desire to book a Classic Gaming Cruise, tell Ms. Maura that I sent you.

After a trip through the Inside Passage, our first port of call was Juneau. A few of us took the cable car 1,800 ft. up the side of the mountain. Here is the view from the top. The body of water is the Gastineau Channel.

Many people were suprised, as was I, that we were actually in a temperate rain forest. When I think of a rain forest, Alaska is not my first first thought. Never too old to learn something new I guess.

Next Stop Skagway............