As most of you know, Liz has been a friend of PoolDawg for years, helping us out with copy writing, lending a hand in our trade show booth from time to time and of course imparting her wisdom to all of our customers via her Dawg Training monthly column.

She’ll be joining a number of other pro players who own APA franchises including fellow WPBA player Ewa Laurance and trick shot champion Andy Segal.  We all wish her the best of luck with her new business and hope she still has some time to keep up with her monthly column!

Anyone in the Vermont area can head to http://gm.apaleagues.com to learn more about joining an APA league in Liz’s area.

Now before you say that we’re promoting smoking, keep in mind that matchbooks are excellent for a number of uses.  They light candles, they are more efficient than rubbing sticks together when making a campfire and of course, they make bathrooms less stinky.

So, if you’re going to be at nationals next month, stop by and pick up a book of matches.  For anyone flying, don’t worry, they’re now TSA compliant assuming of course you only bring one book of matches with you in your carry-on.

Keven’s been hard at work packing what I affectionately call “the sarcophagus” with as much product as he can possibly fit in there.  If you’ve seen our booth, you know how much stuff we bring out with us.  As you might guess, I was more than happy to supervise and take pictures while Keven showed off his Tetris skills, expertly filling every last square inch of the giant box.

Once again, PoolDawg will be the official table spot sponsor of this event, which means if you’re playing, you’ll be seeing our happy little logo on all those beautiful Valley tables.

Everyone in the PoolDawg office (including yours truly) will be spending some time in the booth this year, so if you’re headed out to the desert, be sure to stop by and put some faces to the names.  You’ll be shocked to see how close our South Park characters look to the real us.

The place was pretty damn swanky… much nicer than I expected.  The last time I’d been to an Indian Casino was when I was in college driving through Palm Springs so I wasn’t expecting much.  This place was like a mini-vegas hotel though.  Anyway, I got checked in and somehow managed to pull a room with a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean.

After getting settled in I headed over to the APA room to check out the scene.  Didn’t take too long to find her though… I just looked for the tallest girl in the room and like a beacon of light, there she was playing in some of the mini-tournaments the APA was running with drink in hand.

All I can say is that if you ever have the opportunity to attend a WPBA event, you will not be disappointed.  Melissa Morris, Sarah Rousey and Debbie were even able to get me out on the dance floor which is something that hasn’t happened since my Bar Mitzvah.  I also had the extreme pleasure of hanging out with the infamous OMGWTF who is just as funny in person as she is on her blog.

We’ll be helping Frank get his pictures up on Frank’s Blog in the next couple days, so be sure to stay tuned for that.

Want to see yourself up on the PoolDawg blog?  Just fire over a picture of yourself or your team wearing your PoolDawg gear and we’ll put it up like we did for Phil.