The big ass monitor you always wanted is now more affordable than ever.

Your poker machine could be giving you this much working space*:

If you jumped on this deal:

Dell UltraSharp 2001FP 20.1″ Digital LCD $487 at Dell Home

20.1″ Flat Panel, ± 88° H/V Viewing, Analog + DVI + S-Video + Composite
4-Port USB Hub, 400:1 Contrast, 250 cd/m2 Bright, 1600×1200 Native

This is about $20 cheaper than what I paid three weeks ago, but I think I more than made for the difference in price in multi-table profitability.

Related:
Dell 1600×1200 LCD Monitor for $507
Airborne works on President’s Day?

*The left half, by the way, is my notebook screen. Obviously if you’ve got a one monitor setup on your desktop, you won’t get the extra space on the side.

Blanked!

Somehow I missed adding fellow LA-based poker blogger fhwrdh.net to the blogroll. This despite a few nights of playing NLHE together in various LA locales. Oops me. Worse than that, when a blog’s not in the roll I’m usually not checking it frequently. I spend too much time reading these damn things anyway. But fhwrdh.net‘s one I should have kept tabs on.

My timing, however, is pretty remarkable. I wandered over just in time to get the latest news alert. Go on over yourself and congratulate fhwrdh on his latest news.

I love NASCAR

Not much to report in my corner of the Blogosphere. Still playing the $50 NL tables and finding myself up, down, up, down on a zigzag that thankfully trends upward. But even though I’m on the PSO rake rebate program, sometimes I get to feeling a little directionless in my play when I’m not clearing a bonus. I’ve been reading around about all these guys jumping on the Omaha 8, Razz, and Full Tilt bandwagons–you know who you are. So I guess I’ll sign myself up at Full Tilt and start going about clearing that gargantuan bonus. By my estimates, it’ll take me about 80 days to clear it all. Ew.

This Sunday you’ll find me at the Aladdin poker room clearing another kind of bonus: a poker room rate. In exchange for committing myself to 6 hours of poker (really? that’s all?), I get a room that’s more than half off the going NASCAR-March Madness rate, and I suppose that’s a good thing. The Vegas detour will come on the heels of spending a couple days in Death Valley with my mom. She’s taken up photography as a hobby and wants to snap some pictures of the crazy wildflower boom that’s resulted from all this rain we’ve been getting. Me, I haven’t been to Death Valley in years and years, so I figure the beginning of Spring Break is a good time to get out of the house, out of doors, and maybe catch some no limit action (and maybe show my mom that poker isn’t the nasty gambling habit she imagines it to be). Can’t wait. Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I’m guessing NASCAR fans will be about as good at cards as those cowboys from the first WPBT.