The Business Trip
I had an interesting conversation recently. A man and I were talking about our jobs and other interests. The man said that he frequently makes business trips. He goes out of town for two or three days, sometimes longer. That's certainly not unusual. Every day, millions of business travelers jet around the country. What makes this man different from most frequent flyers is that when he's out of town, he enjoys playing poker in his free time. His interest was fueled, he said, by poker "road trips" that I've written about and posted on the Internet. The man complimented my reports and said they gave him the idea that -- when forced to be away from home -- playing ufa (where legal) was preferable to other alternatives. For example, if the man visits Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Chicago, New Orleans, or Seattle, he has plenty of poker rooms from which to chose. Of course, the primary purpose of his travel is business. So, the man ...