Ebook Progress

I'm making great progress on my Ebook, "Trouble in Atlantic City". Got a rough draft of 49K words. Am winding the story down to it's conclusion. Than the hard part starts proofing and re-writing. Don't know how long it will take from this point but hope to have it on Amazon and Barnes & Noble within 3 months. For now enjoy this chapter. Tony


Welcome to Atlantic City, faded seaside resort city and east coast Vegas, want to be. Playground to every jet setter, high roller, high stakes Poker playing smuck, sleazebag and little old grey haired lady trying to get a piece of the gamblers dream to make that one big score. This is my territory; my name is Frank Vagola, Atlantic City P.I. I’m an ex-cop from the New York suburbs of Ridgefield Park New Jersey. After putting in my 20 years of service to qualify for a full pension I retired from the police force. Things were getting too corrupt for my liking anyway. Also New Jersey Policies were starting to get to me. Over time we public servants have lost respect from the public we are paid to serve. Being there have been many scandals involving crooked cops I see why this is. These days I spend my time in private practice as a private investigator, have an office above my garage in a small house I rent in Absecon New Jersey. It’s not glamorous but it pays the bills and keeps me out/in trouble on a daily basis. Mostly spend my times following cheating spouses around to motels alone the major highways of New Jersey. Speaking of which I have lived in my whole life and intend on dying here too.

Tao of Poker

Say it isn't so!  Dr. Pauly is going to hang up his Poker Blogging skills at the Tao of Poker?  His BLOG got me interested in Blogging 6 years ago.   His elegant words will surely be missed.  Please Pauly reconsider.  Thanks for reading.  Tony

Great Poker BLOG

I have been reading a great BLOG for over 5 years, "Hard Boiled Poker".  Shamus wrote a detective novel, also available via E-book for the Kindle and Nook.   I recommend both his BLOG and his book.(He has a link on his BLOG to purchase it, otherwise all the major Online Sites sell it too.) Click the link below and check out his BLOG yourself.  Thanks for reading and good luck at the table.  Tony 

HardBoiledPoker

Phone Post

I love my Samsung Andriod phone. Made this post from it. Tgif. Tony

Ebook

I'm making great progress on my Ebook, "Trouble in Atlantic City". Got a rough draft of 48K words. Am winding the story down to it's conclusion. Than the hard part starts proofing and re-writing. Don't know how long it will take from this point but hope to have it on Amazon and Barnes & Noble within 3 months. For now enjoy this chapter. Tony


Welcome to Atlantic City, faded seaside resort city and east coast Vegas, want to be. Playground to every jet setter, high roller, high stakes Poker playing smuck, sleazebag and little old grey haired lady trying to get a piece of the gamblers dream to make that one big score. This is my territory; my name is Frank Vagola, Atlantic City P.I. I’m an ex-cop from the New York suburbs of Ridgefield Park New Jersey. After putting in my 20 years of service to qualify for a full pension I retired from the police force. Things were getting too corrupt for my liking anyway. Also New Jersey Policies were starting to get to me. Over time we public servants have lost respect from the public we are paid to serve. Being there have been many scandals involving crooked cops I see why this is. These days I spend my time in private practice as a private investigator, have an office above my garage in a small house I rent in Absecon New Jersey. It’s not glamorous but it pays the bills and keeps me out/in trouble on a daily basis. Mostly spend my times following cheating spouses around to motels alone the major highways of New Jersey. Speaking of which I have lived in my whole life and intend on dying here too.

Regular Blogging

With the exception of Shamus, over at Hard Boiled Poker, most Bloggers are doing it daily anymore. I long for the days of 5 times a week uber-posts being type up. Is all the other social media outlets really taking our attention away? That and Black Friday's major monkey wrench have limited the are of Blogging big time. I am trying to post at least twice a week but even that is down from my old 5 or more times a week. Sad but true! Been playing a lot on Carbon Poker. The swings at low limit short-handed limit are great, saying it mildly. My meager roll is on a roller coaster ride, what can you do. At least I still have a few places to play a little Online. Will try to post more often on this BLOG. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony

Great BLOG and Book

I have been reading a great BLOG for over 5 years, "Hard Boiled Poker". Shamus wrote a detective novel, also available via E-book for the Kindle and Nook. I am half way thru it and love it! I recommend both his BLOG and his book.(He has a link on his BLOG to purchase it, otherwise all the major Online Sites sell it too.) Click the link below and check out his BLOG yourself. Thanks for reading and good luck at the table. Tony

HardBoiledPoker

The Will to BLOG

I have noticed that many of the BLOGs I used to read daily are getting updated less and less often. Is this because of Black Friday? Somewhat IMHO. Other forms of social media? Again somewhat. I think many of us just got bored with it and moved onto something else. What do you my readers think? Please comment. Tony

Book Progress

I cranked out another 1000 words in my book, "Trouble in Atlantic City". Up to over 46K words but it's a really rough draft. I just want to get over 50K words written down and than will have to under go the task of proofing it. I'm sure I will have to do a lot of re-writing of it. The whole project had been going on for almost a year for me. This is my first book and I want to do a great job on it. Maybe this week I will post another chapter from it. Hope to have it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble three months from now but there's no rush. On the Poker front I played some live $3-6 Limit holdem yesterday at the Borgata. Ran well and played well. After five hours of play I walked away with an over 30 big bet profit. That is after tipping the dealers and waitresses. Had a few interesting hands that I will post about this week. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony