Random Blog...

I apologize for the delay, but I haven't had much to talk about lately. The Dead Money tournament went off without a hitch last weekend. It was good to see Martin and Ed again, and the rest of the folks seemed really nice also. I want to congratulate "Philly Tom" on the win, and it is even more exciting that he will be blogging on www.gulfcoastpoker.net with his exploits starting last Saturday with the win through him actually playing in the tournament. It will be cool getting blog updates from one of the players from our tournament. I hope we can do it again next year, and we will be looking for some more tables if anyone out there is interested in being a table captain. If you are interested, please drop Bill or I an e-mail. I don't have any cool party stories as I did not hit the bars/casinos with those guys.

I played in a tournament last Thursday, and will again play tonight. There were 42 people in a $50.00 freeze-out with the blinds going up every 15 min. Of course the drunk guy sitting to my left has been playing completely erratic...and has chips. They are paying 5 places and I make it to the final table with 8 people left. I am down to 12 big blinds when I look down at A-Jo. I ship it in, and the drunk guy with 21 BB's (not that he would know what that meant) calls. Everyone else pitches to the muck. He rolls K-Qo. Great...60-40 favorite. Flop hits the board 10s-9h-3c...Ok...I now jump to a 70-30 favorite...turn peals off the Jd...78-22 favorite...Ks on the river.

Last night I am playing online and I seldom get involved with the chat program...calling people donkfish etc. Last night, after a few frosty cold ones...I did. I am in a ST-SNG on stars and we are down to 7 people when I raise nice pre-flop from the button with Jh-Js. I bet enoght that there is no way I can get away from the hand. The only caller I get is one of a few player that had me covered...the Big Blind. Flop comes out Jd10h7h. I ship the rest of my chips in the middle and the villian calls. He tables 8h-4d. Turn is the 4s and the river is the 9d...and all the chat room eropts with ... "vgh"..."Nice" ...etc. I couldn't help myself. You know what he wrote back to me in the chat box? "I was getting tired and my back hurts...I wanted to go to bed"...Thanks buddy...I needed that. You were trying to end your tournament and give me your chips, but you couldn't even do that right. ;-).

The highlight of my last few online session was getting to mix it up with Lilholdem954. Thats right, seems Chad "lilholdem954" Batista was at my table, and the chat room exploded with lurkers asking questions...compliments etc. The strange thing was that I was playing in a NL turbo with a 45 max...in a $3.25????? Stars run these in the SNG/Multi-Table/Micro section. They jump off every 30 seconds. The minute one jumps off...there are instantly 15-20 people already in the next one. Guess he needs some practice

Thats it folks...I will try to get in more action soon...

"Look, Ed, you put **anybody** on television sixteen hours a day, and sooner or later they're going to fall off a table and land on a cat" Adam Goldberg's character John in "EdTV"