I May Not Win the Race ...

... But I will look good in the pack. I always wear a hat when in poker competition. Most folks think it is my "signature" look. Okay, I'll go with that. Many know that they can skim over a crowd of poker players, find a feminine, good looking hat, and I will be under it. The way it actually happened brings my vanity into play. It was a few decades ago, when I first arrived in Las Vegas to live, rather than to visit; I would get all dolled up to go out and play poker. I would primp, get the makeup perfect, and fix the hair all pretty, step outside and the desert wind would completely destroy the hairdo. So I took to wearing a cute hat and not worrying about how the hair looked. That is where it all began. This year I changed my look. Most of my hats are in the cowboy type style, but with poker decor. I decided to make a change at the 2009 World Series of Poker. This happened because I got in on an "After Derby Day" hat sale that I could not resist. I bought some high-class, big brimmed, prance around-and-be-seen hats. However, in the poker world, they simply did not fit - that is until my dear friend, Doralee "Lady Pink" Rae got hold of them and Pokerized them. My two new poker hats were the talk of the poker arena. I felt like a movie star as the photographers could not get enough. A public thank you to Lady Pink. Her talent at "fancying up" stuff is amazing. She took a six-pack of Milwaukee Light (sans the beer) and made a pocketbook so fancy that the Queen would have been proud to use it. I tried something crafty like that one time and glued my fingers together. It sure is nice to have crafty friends!