Big Sunday and San Manuel Steps up Big Time!
This morning we all woke up early to go participate in Big Sunday! http://www.bigsunday.org/ It is an awesome citywide volunteer day where you plant trees, weed, paint over graffiti and pick up trash. So me and the kids (Joe obviously stayed home) went down to the Holly wood Schoolhouse and met up to volunteer in the morning. Mike Syre, my running partner, was their with his son, Zach, as well. All the kids went directly for the tree planting and graffiti painting and no one wanted to pick up trash so Mike and I took on the job.
Um….ew! We cleaned up a lot of trash in the neirghborhood but the highlights were: 4 airline sized bottles of liquor, 4 needles, many codoms, some lube and the topper of them all….a used tampon! UGH!
Anyway, after we were done, Mike and I came back to my house to run but it ended up being a walk because my injury is STILL not better. After half a mile I just quit and said I have to see a sport medicine specialist which I am going to do as soon as I ge back from DC and the Bad Beat on Cancer event there. I met the Medical Supervisor for the Boston Marathon at the Children’s Hospital of Boston event last week and I am going to write him because he said he could make some recomendations for me. I am super bummed out because I feel like I am failing…my body is failing and I am failing 
The good news from the day is that the kids had an awesome time doing Big Sunday and they felt realy good about pitching in to make the neighborhood around their school cleaner and graffiti free! They were so excited about it really. And I am really proud of them.
************************************
On May 8th San Manuel is stepping up to the plate in a big way for Ante Up for Africa. They are hosting a freeroll event there and they and the Mission Tribe of Indians have pledged $75K to AUFA! Pretty amazing. Last year we only had the one event at the WSOP. Now we have this one coming up and another event in Aruba in October now that Ultimatebet.com has come on as a presenting sponsor. I think will definitely break the $1 million mark this year which is our goal 
Also, the week after at San Manuel I am doing a one day WSOP style boot camp. The two day camps cost $2K but the one at San Manuel only costs $500 so it is a really good deal. I am going to cover pre flop NL Hold’em, tournaments, cash games, pot odds and money management. It will be a kick ass seminar and you can find out about the details here: http://www.sanmanuel.com/page.htm?pageId=10269
