If I didn't black cat myself!

Yes indeed...I black cat myself. If its one valuble lesson I have learned over the years of playing poker, is never get ahead of yourself. What I mean by that is, You really can't go to a game, in your mind, "knowing" you are the best player there. Gotta stay humble, or you will find your self making the most dumbest plays ever.

Its a couple games that I have been frequently playing at lately, just because the play there is so bad...I have been going off and on the past 6 months maybe, hitting one of the 3 games at least once every 2 weeks...logging in a win...then I started making it out more frequently...with more wins being logged, and worse case scenario, I break dead even, and make a run for it...just to keep my record clean at these games.

Friday night's game didn't run last night, so I get a text from @onafolddraw "what's your back up plan?" My reply, "I'm going to Wolf's game tonight, you want to go and run it like we did in Atlantic City?"

So the plan has been set, we are off to Wolfs...So Travis stops by my place, its a little early...so he has the bright idea and wants to tell me he has an ego boost. So of course, I had to brag a little bit and tell him that I have never lost at these games. I swear, 15 seconds after I said that, I knew it was a wrap for that game. All I kept thinking about was the Ted Effect.

Ted Effect (Adj.) 1. To brag about ones self of superiority to another, then ship it at the game as punishment for bragging. 2. Black catting ones self. 3. Simply put: You Jinxed Yourself Dummy!

What's really put the icing on the cake, Knowing I jinxed myself, I still made a comment on Twitter, that I really didn't want too, but did anyway... Ehonda500MobReally, the fish are getting frustrated...hate to sound so up on myself, but these dudes are so outclassed

After that tweet, it was a wrap...The frustration set in early...couldn't shake it tilting for nothing...But like I heard someone say to someone...How can you be tilting when you are already playing bad.

I should've gotten up even to keep my record clean...Just couldn't get myself to give up...All that "swallow up your pride" to withhold an image is out the door again...

So to end my night, I decided to do a bonehead play and give @fivefingerz a +400 pot. He makes it $30 PF, I cold call with A5s. Flop: AdXsXs Top pair, Nut Flush Draw, Ricky bets out $35, I just mush for over $200...He tanks, and thinking I had the As ready to show, I turn my card over and see its the 5s...It's already too late to play it off, so whatever happens, happens...He ends up calling with AJ, which after I show the 5, he doesn't put his house note in the pot, I have no clue...But he ends up calling and I get up cause the Spade doesn't fall...Bonehead I swear...I swear...I meant to show the As to induce action. Eh...Live and Learn...Lesson...Just never show the fucking card...it never works out...How about when I get QQ the other night at Tanyas and Ivans game and Donk to my right flopped Bottom pair (He is holding 64o) to a raise of $35 pf. He checks on a 9 high board so I put him all in for for nomore that $100 and I show him 1 Q...he says, I am probably beat so he sticks his money in...oh look at the turn card, he peeled his 2 outer...6 on the turn..Ding!

Fuck Showing Cards, That amateur play is out my play book from now on!

2009 Borgata Poker Open

Eh, If you did not know already, I didn't go to the last O8 event at the Borgata couple months ago. I didn't want to go solo up there, and being I had to leave to AC immediately after Monday Night's game, there was no way I was going up solo.

Well, I got another shot again!

The Borgata has the 2009 WPT Borgata Poker Open coming up September 9 - September 24, 2009. I'm going to take my shot at the Omaha H/L event. $400 bucks for a 2 day event.

I guess since I'm up there, if I don't survive, I can take a shot at a sattelite event to get into the Main Event.

I suck at keeping up my blog...I can text my ass off though...so follow me on Twitter @ehonda500Mob

I always say this, but I'll try to keep this up.

Borgata Summer Open '09

Looking forward to the Omaha H/L 8 tournament on Tuesday.

Hope all goes well and I will be able to make it out there...just gotta take care of a couple things and I'll be good to go. It's only a 1 day tournament so only plan to stay up there to play the tournament, then head back to MD.

Good luck to the MD-Poker Circuit out Vegas in the WSOP $1500 HORSE tournament!

Hope 1 of you fucks brings a bracelet home!

The S.H.O.P Closes its doors.

Whats up everyone? Let me sweep the dust out of here...its been a while...just got nothing to talk about. Same ole, same ole, dealing here and there, playing here and there, shipping it here and there...notice I didn't say win money over there and over there...cause its not like that. I've been shipping it since I got back from Atlantic City on my birthday.

So I'm chilling, taking a small hiatus playing for a little while...just trying to stack bread to ship back to the poker community soon...I'll make sure to let everyone know so you all can add it to your calendar and expect a bonus check that week.

Work has slowed down, expenses keep rising, can't afford to ship it as much as I like too.

Pop's last game was this past Saturday, I'm sad I couldn't play....I did deal the tournament, which the winners did take care of me...just sad I couldn't get in the cash game that day.

Thanks Pops for the 3 years of great games!

No sleep, Spanish Chicks, Daddy Yankee and Whores!

After that awful bus ride up to AC, I just wanted to get off the bus, I wanted to get off so bad, I said fuck the $20 bucks cash you get back if we just stayed on the bus till we got to the Tropicana. Figured, getting dropped off at the Trop, and catching a cab back to the Showboat, still would've had some extra cash back making the trip up cheaper.

So we get off Resorts and walk across the street to the Taj Mahal. We just make it in time to see the TOC tournament winding down. We stop by the Tah's Poker room to see the ATLARGE crew and say whats up to the rest of the MDP gang.

Check in for ATLARGE and head to our room over the Showboat. Finally check in the Showboat, whole time Amir is just buggin the shit out of me and Kenny trying to find where our room is at, calling every 5 minutes 2 hours before his arrival to AC...he finally makes it and meets us in our room. I mentioned I wasn't playing any poker and wanted to go out and drink and party tonight...Amir is always down with a party that has something to do with hooking up with bitches.

After being up the whole time the night before, drunk out my ass might I add, Sleep was needed...I got a full 2 hours sleep before Amir called and said, that Daddy Yankee was at the Taj that night and said it would be a ton of broads there...Kenny, Amir, Ricky and I ended up going to party...Click the link, I saw a bunch of people recording it with their phones, so I looked it up and saw that some were posted on youtube. I was hoping it was the chick next to me cause then you could've seen the bitch I was tryin to holla at...wow, Dominican chick, was so sexy, sexy accent...good lawd...I aint get none though...sucked....had a good time at the show though...I never even heard of this guy till we went...not my type of music, but good lawd, the women in there...I swear, I want to marry me a spanish chick!

After the show, we headed to the Tropicanna for the afterparty at the Cuba Libre Wow so many women down there, struck out for the regular women, but as drunk as I was, I couldn't tell the AC Whores from the club chicks.

So after going back over to the Taj, extra drunk, just decided every single chick walkng around was a whore and decided to call it a night and go to bed...had the ATLARGE No limit tournament in the morning to play, so I would attempt to get some sleep...nice hit, its 4am and the tourney starts at 11am...oh yeah will I be ready for that!

Last Night's Game

I've been reading this book that Travis let me borrow. Your Worst Poker Enemy by Alan N. Schoonmaker. Its not a book on poker strategy/theory or anything like that. More like helping you to identify and stop psychologically based mistakes, Using Intuition vs. Logic, Evaluating Yourself and the Opposition, Understanding Unconscious and Emotional Factors, Adjusting to Changes and Handling stress.

This book is great so far, Yes its kinda hard for me to understand, so I re-read it and re-read it...It has helped out alot this year so far, I'm still reading it, for some reason it takes me forever to get through a book...I guess cause if I don't understand a section, I'll go back and re-read it again. Like some people, they are good just reading it...some learn easier with a teacher...I need both. I need to go home and read it, then go to class and the teacher talk about the chapters in my face.

I wish I had an outside source that can be very honest with me with my play and what not. Being that I play with alot of the people in our circuit. It's hard for me to distinguish someone critizing me for the better or to use it for later on down the road to felt me. Seriuosly, when someone says I have been playing good, I can't tell if its genuine or if its a ploy to keep me playing the same way. Even when playing around, we call each other fish, and I believe half the time they really mean it cause I know I do!

I made a mistake going to the game with only 1 bullet. I normally have a stop/loss at $500 and call it quits, when you beat, you beat, right? I just can't see getting into a $1-$2 NL game for more than that. I've seen it done, and yes, I'm guilty of it, but I know what it feels like, and its not cool.

The night was pretty much cut and dry. I went into the night saying to myself, I am more of an intuuition player than logical player, but this year, I have been putting alot of logic to my thinking so I can help correct my mistakes. In turn, I am not making my decisions so instantly.

Last night I learned a good lesson. I will not post it on here, because alot of people I play with actually might read this blog. But here is a hand history that actually felted me last night which helped me on my self evaluation. Also, I have a theory I want to test out on one of the players I think I figured out last night, the whole night, I tried to predict his actions, and most of the night I was correct, which is why I should've went with my gut instinct last night. I guess from that, you'll know exactly who I'm talking about. Mind you, so many people have different opinions on this guy. Even though he might be an asshole to most of everyone when playing poker, I actually think he knows the game very well. I actually think he is a good player. Most might disagree, which is why the poker economy will never go dry. No one will ever think or play this game the exact same way!

I'm starting this hand with around $335'ish and I started out the night with $200. I'm on the button and its limped around to me, and I make it my normal $7 to go preflop...I catch 3 players to tag along...

Pot: $30
Flop: Jc3s7s

Ted Checks, Harold checks, JayH makes it $10, I raises it to $35, Ted makes it $135, Harold Folds, Jay folds, E re-raises to $185, Ted moves all in, I call. Ted has me way covered.

Turn and river I don't remember, I know the flush got there on the river, but Ted turns over a flopped set of 7s and I flopped bottom set and lose.

I call it a night.

(Its hard to believe me, but Honestly, I actually go in the tank and first thing that came to my mind was he hit a set of Js again. I wanted to muck so bad but then this exact thought came to my head..."I don't care, I'll stack off with a set all the time" Those that know me know I have been saying that for years, and after that thought, "raise" came out my mouth...I decided that I needed to see for myself, and even if Ted was fucking around with AJs, He'll lay it down, but since my mouth acted faster than my brain and I decided not to go with my first instinct and give the hand up after only committing $42 total dollars, I raise enough to commit me to get my money in the middle.)

Bus Ride to AC

After a night of partying and trying to sober up at a $1-$2 NL game, it was time to pack and get on the bus to AC. The bus departs at New Carrollton Station at 9:15am...Makes a 10 minute stop at Downtown Baltimore, Travel plaza in Baltimore, then the AC Bus Depot, then the misc casinos.

Kenny and I have caught the bus up before and the bust was empty so I was anticipating being able to sleep and snore my ass off...nope, fail...Packed Bus...PACKED!!!! So I sit by a 50 somethin' lady and her friends were sitting in the row in front. OK...Now I have to stay awake just to respect her space and me knowing my snoring is off the hook.

FAIL!

Not even 15 minutes down B/W Parkway, I catch myself drifting into sleep and caught myself just as I'm about to snore my ass off....At the same time, the ladies in front of me decided to comment, in a fashion that the whole bus can hear...about how she has to sit by a snoring man...wow...they was going, oh it wasn't one comment and lots of laughing!

We finally reach the Travel Plaza so I get out hoping the cold air and me stretching my legs will wake me up a little bit, so as I'm walking off the bus, I'm looking for Kenny, I didn't see him, oh well, he might of stepped off the bus...

So I'm standing outside the bus and look up and see kenny's face pressed up against the glass...I don't know if he was laughing or trying to say Help! How come I didn't see him whenI left, oh yeah, the lady he is sitting by is the biggest lady in the world, and on the bus. LOL I thought I had it bad with the joning ladies...But Kenny can't breath up there! I wanted to take a picture, but I don't have a Blackberry with a camera.

When we got to AC, we got off the bus, as tired as I was trying to fight sleep, I didn't want to wait to get to the Trop just to get the $20 cash back. If you go any other casino, they give you a voucher, Trop is the only one that gives actuall cash back. I just wanted to get to the showboat and get in the room and take a nap.

We finally get to AC, stop by the Taj Mahal Poker room and check in on everyone else that was playing the TOC tournament. Travis took 1st for a nice hit!

Walk over to Showboat so I can put my shit in the room, get something to eat, then go to sleep...No sleep, I got a 1 1/2 hour nap, then it was time to go out and party some more!

Amir met us up there and we couldn't figure out where to go drinking and partying, he said Daddy Yankee was up at the Taj, and it was gonna be a ton of women...Um, I never heard of this bama, but Fuck It, lets go party!

AC Weekend (3/13/09 - 3/16/09)

Guess I should write up that weekend in Atlantic City for my Birthday...Guess we should start it out that Thursday since I consider that whole weekend one whole day with couple naps here and there...

So get up with my folks, Ryan, Keon, Chris and get twisted and go see Junkyard down Dat Bama's spot, Marygold's. Met some other random folks there, seen alot of oldschool faces that was always at the JY show. I Know JY gonna rock regardless cause its Buggs birthday also. Its also Moe Shorter's Birthday also, he was Junk's manager back in the day...and back in the day, wow, it was a party!!!!

Kenny was supposed to meet us up there, but of course, the degenerate that he is, said he was gonna play some poker before heading up to the spot...he never showed, he must be stuck...but what a bright idea we had...drunk out our minds, we say, lets go play some cards after leaving the show...Drunk as fuck, we head down to Doy's $1-$2 NL game...Oh I remember the reason now...we were hungry and Doy can make a mean Filipino dinner! Being that it was 4am when we got there, there wasn't much food left, but luckily everyone that was playing, got hungry...Doy made some bangin ass Adobo for breakfast...bangin indeed! I finally get to sit down after about 1 1/2 hours of waiting cause the table was full, I got to sober up a lil bit and sat down to play, only played till 7am cause I had to be home in time to catch the Greyhound bus to AC. The original plan was to ride up to AC for ATLARGE and make the smokers dinner Thursday night, But I chose to see JY and party with my folks down here before heading up to AC...It also gave Kenny a chance to make some money so he can head to AC...we ended up talking him into going up anyway...so I make what I spent at the club, Kenny made a killing, we dip, and we head home so I can finish packing for the weekend...

Next...The Bus Ride Up...

33rd Birthday

Today is my 33rd Birthday...Gettin old, gettin old!

Got nice Nuggets and waked and baked...nothing new...

Going to see Junkyard Band tonight.

Then Atlantic City first thing in the morning for ATLARGE.

I would like to go right after seeing Junkyard tonight, but I'll be too drunk, high, lets just say fucked up to do any driving to Jersey! I put in for a rental car anyway so I'll just Greyhound it up and meet up with Ricky and the rest of the MD Poker circuit up there!

Through the Snow We Go

Going back to the Tuesday game the chicks run cep't we are going early. I didn't really feel like going out there in the first place, and the weather Tuesday night didn't make it any easier to make me want to go...but then I thought about it again. I'm sitting at home playing COD:WaW with Kenny and say, aight, lets go, we are leaving at 11PM cause the roads are gonna be brutal coming home freezing over night.

Yeah right, I beat that game up again. I would've stayed longer, but they did some gay ass shit.

2 friends check down the hand after I bail out on the turn, already having money in the pot, after a failed steal attempt with 66 on a Jack high board, guy hit the set bet out, i fold, then his boy says, lets check it down. I say wow out loud and the dealer says they have to play it out, they can't do that. Guy still calls, they still check it down with the guy rivering quads softplaying his boy. I know it wasn't intentianal, but its still gay. I say, I got 1 more orbit, ended up taking a nice size $400 pot before its time for me to cashout when I turn a gutshot with 58h, I owe Travis $1, when that beutiful 6 gives the guy 2 pair and straightens me out and he took a one way trip to value town, and that ticket cost him a nice $125 paid at da ticket booth at the river.

Very Superstistious: The Idiot's Guide to the Herd's Superstitions

We all are poker players and we all have our own superstitions. Some know I am very superstitious about alot of things and I'm so serious about it, that I will cash out or at least threaten and throw a tantrum fit if someone violates it.

Thought I would make a list of the Herd's superstitions just in case you run into one of us, you won't think we are crazy.

I'm not sure of everyone's, but feel free to comment if you want to share it, I'll share the ones I already know.

Here are my personal ones, then I'll list some general ones that the Herd shares at times.

E's Superstitions

- Don't ask to make Change out my stack
- Don't stack my chips higher than the normal 20 chip stack
- Don't stack a 2nd or higher tower.
- If at Pops house must make towers 60 chips high.
- Don't playing while having chips racked up.
- Please if you are my table neighbor, please don't take it upon yourself to change my SB/BB.
- I hate playing with any chips higher than a $5 chip in a $1-$2 NL game, If you are dealing,
get ready to work!

General Superstitions (I'll add more as I remember or be reminded)

- Complimenting someone's chip stack is a No, No.

STT anyone?

It's ok to play poker and have some fun once in a while. I still have alot of last years play left in my system that doesn't fit the "09" formula plus Big Chris has been having a hard time getting a game together for us to play, so I decided it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a fun game at the apartment.

$50+$10 got you T$8,000 in chips. The 10 bucks went towards getting us a dealer cause it really sucks to have to deal your own hands in a tournament....it sucks to deal yourself in any poker game honestly...anyway, blinds were fairly long at 25 minutes and almost the same blind schedule as the Borgata WPO tournaments. I thought it was a good idea just so we could play for a couple hours into Sunday night, but not too late and still have fun playing poker. I guess it worked out, I had fun, seemed like everyone else did. Thats cool!

Big Fella Will took it down, and Kenny took runner up money, it was a good show to watch, the shit talking was priceless, and the the hand of the night, man I don't know exactly how the hand went, but Kenny and BFW had trip 8s, Kenny's K kicker dominated BFW's 7 kicker when all the money went in...that river brought a sweet 7 to fill BFW up to cripple Kenny to the point Kenny just took the 2nd place money.

It would be cool to do something like this once a month to play, shit talk, and shoot the shit w/o losing a million dollars! Wow I played bad tonight!

I learned how to play pitch, its pretty tight, would want to play with more people and play for money of course, but its fun, but then I saw Kenny wanting to play Gin for $1/point. First game I scooped, 3 hands to get 100 to 0...Kenny ships me $100, 2nd game, we ran back, 100-36, Ship me $64, Gets the 3rd game 100-50, I ship him the $50 back, for a $114 profit! I Quit, lets go home.

Kenny said there was fish!

Kenny found us a new circuit of players! How? Well, Guy that used to round at a game I used to deal at couple years ago asked me to deal his game last Monday, but I was getting ready to go to AC for the Borgata WPO tournaments so I declined and said I knew a dealer for him, Kenny, so Kenny went over there and met some girls that run a game close by also!

Today I ran a whole bunch of errands, not only that, only got to sleep a couple hours the night before, so I was dead tired, I was ready to pop my feet on the table and watch some TV and then play some Call of Duty:World at War, when Kenny decides to call me and see if I wanted to go to this game. I almost declined but decided it was a good time to do some Monday recruiting.

I walked in to see the most weakest table ever...Its crazy, when I sat at the table at the Borgata tournament, I felt like the biggest fish in the world, when I sat down tonight, I felt like I knew everything there is about poker...Needless to say, when I sat down, the're mouths watered...and the loudest one of the game, was the quietest one close to the ending of the game, specially I had to send him out to the ATM when he tried to push on me, his feelings were hurt when I pushed all in over top of his ass with a measley pocket 7 that held...

There was an older gentleman there that was bitter towards me...All I did was win 3 hands off him, the pots were not even huge, and only went to showdown once...he took a big hand off me when the wheel gets there on the river and all of a sudden goes all in...I had air and fired bullets till the river, I couldn't get him off his hand...he mumbled after I mucked, why he didn't check...he really thought I was a cold blooded idiot...he said he owed me 1 more after that hand LOL well he said it to his neighbor and I over heard it...

I don't wanna knock anyone's games, but It just amazes me that all these games I have seen, don't offer as much as certain games I know and Pull LESS than these other games, and yet can run everyday of the week....baffles me...

Guess I'll finally talk about the tournament

If you haven't figured it out, I didn't make the money in Event 1 in the Borgata's WPO this year. It sucks not to make the money and make it so deep in the tournament. Not even that, get through day 1, drive back to MD, then have to drive back up in 2 days to play day 2 since day 1 was split up into 2 different days.

I'm a terrible Tournament player. I just don't have enough experience in these big multi-day tournaments...

I thought I was doing ok, sitting through out day one above chip average. I think I played too tight just trying to make it to day 2. I think I played way too tight through out the whole tournament. I hated myself for not making the money, but what should I expect being it only the 2nd big multi-day tournament I have played in. I think I need to re-read some books again on tournament poker, look back how I played this tournament and find my mistakes, I realize I am still in school when it comes to tournament poker, oh don't get me wrong...I'm still in school when it comes to cash games, at least I have a little more confidence when it comes to cash games then tournaments.

But I do believe I have some potential to become a better tournament player when I understand how to go about it better. I'm just glad it happened now. I'm so motivated right now to turn myself around and become more serious about this shit. I mean I'm about to really try to learn this game inside and out...Bamas tapped that tank the past couple years and its time I got my shit together cause I aint gonna be that guy at the poker table nomore.

WTF man, I WAS the biggest fish at table 9 on day 1a of event 1....fucked up foreal...

Travis should like this hand

Playing the Borgata's Winter Poker Open

Antes and Blinds are at 300/1500/3000 and I'm on in the cut off.

folded around to a guy that just moved to our table maybe 2 rounds ago...he throws out 2 grey chips and makes it $10,000 to go folds around to me and I call...He is sitting with around $70K and I have close to 100K

Pot: T$27,200
Flop: 2d5h6d

He insta mushes and I tank for about 2 minutes trying to figure out what the hell...then I thought about Travis and said, you know what, fuck it, im a fish, call and flip my 3h3d over. Dude said "what, you call?" dealer said yes he did and pointed to my cards flipped over...he shot me a dirty ass look and turned over his cards...8h4h wow

turn was a Qc and the river is a Ks

SHIP IT!

Table captain giggled and said, nice call kid, i pointed to my 3 of diamonds and said, i got a 3 high flush draw, plus a gutshot...made the table laugh a lil bit as sweat poured down my head cause all of a sudden it got all extra hot lol

Welp, Made it to day 2

First off, This shit is all new to me so I'm jive excited about the whole thing. I am really not a tournament player at all...I'd rather grind it out at the cash game tables. But I thought it would be cool and fun to play in a big tournament rather than the normal daily tournaments up in AC.

It wasn't what I expected at all...It's long as shit, I'm pretty sure we started with 770 players and they said they are expecting and going to cap day 1B at 900 players, making the prize pool jive hefty!

I don't think I was all the way prepared for this. Its a long ass grind man, it'll ware you out foreal, after all that, I didn't even feel like playing poker anymore...went straight to my room and wanted to throw craps or just go to sleep.

I told you all I wasn't going to be fucking around anymore playing, and that's how I played last night, I had to have mucked my deuce-four hand plenty of times, I didn't get cute, played as solid as I could. All I know is, I need alot of schooling when it comes to tournament poker...I'm just glad and more surprised that I actually made it this far!

Honestly, there are not alot of hands that stand out, I didn't have to go to showdown alot, and if I did, I was good, I don't remember getting into any hands that lost at showdown to be truthfull...

Welp, I'm just rolling in the house from AC to work a game tonight then I'm headed back up to AC to play day 2...Lets just hope I can get some chips early cause I'm going to have to do some work when I start the day out going into day 2 with $T77,700 in chips and level 15 will be (ante/SB/BB)500/3000/6000 leaving me with not that much room to sit around and leak...Hopefully I'll have to spend the night Thursday to play the Final Table on Friday...If that happens, I'll be up there the rest of the weekend to play a satellite to get into the main event that has a 2 Million Guaranteefd prize pool!

First Break

Day 1 started with around 650 players...expecting 1000+

Currently sitting with 23K in chips...mostly card dead..

Its tough to update cause no phones on the table...Ill try to update as often as i can.

Just got here

Arrived about an hour ago so to kill time I played some craps...broke dead even!

Registered for event 1 already...bout to get some rest for the tourney.

On the road

More like a test to see if I can update my blog from my phone...

Right now im shooting up I-95N to my favorite playground!

Borgata Winter Open

Looks like its carved in stone now. Keon and I are heading up to the Borgata Winter Open to play in the 1st event. Its a 3 day deep stack tournament with 45 minute blinds....starting with T$25,000 in chips...Should be a good tournament.

Hoping to make day 2, so the plan is to play the 1st day, come home and deal Wednesday's game, then head back up to the 'Gata for day 2 hoping to have to spend the night, if I don't come home Thursday night, I made it to the final table on Friday!

Guess I'll go from there, lets just hope I can get some sort of luckyness going and cashing in the event and being able to play more events...Would be nice to satellite in or win enough to get in the main even that has $2 Million guaranteed!

See those of yall that'll be up there up there on Tuesday!

$1-$2 NL last night

Supposed to deal this game, but I had the itch to play, Travis wanted to deal last night, so he took my shift and I waited for a seat to be available since it was already a full game.

12:04 am this morning I get a text from Keon:

"SBJ sittin wit a dime. (Just cracked 2 players). Seat open (1). Let me know if yous till want it or I'll take it."

I replied:

"Eh, I'm high and don't feel like drivin' nomore."

Left it alone, got into some Call of Duty: World at War, and got another text from Travis.

1:36am

"SBJ has over $1.4K in front of him - and Keon is his ride home - I tried to call kenny and tell him - phone no good"

Oh, Chris is playing on COD with me, I tell him to tell kenny, (mind you kenny is sleep already) that SBJ has over $1400, do you wanna go?

We left right away...

I ran my stack up to $800, Kenny made a lil bit, its time to go home...

Another Friend Makin Moves!

Yall know Ricky Bobby....Yall know he is at the PCA this week playing the PCA Main Event that could change his life! Well, Dr. Pauly wrote a great article/interview with RB on the Poker Stars Blog.

Here is the Direct Link to the article

PCA 2009 Profiles - Ricky "Fivefingerz" Bobby

Go Gettem' Ricky! GL Sir, Play real Goooot!

Wipe the Dust off for 2009

Well, Its been a while...I been writing in this blog for a couple years now. Might as well not stop now, even though I've slowed down writing. You know why I stopped? It just reminds me how bad I play poker. It was a time I didn't even record my win/loss sessions last year.

2008 had alot of memories. Lots of good as well as the bad. We did lose a good friend that was part of our little poker community...Big Jay...He'll be missed. I'm thankful to God that we made it through another year. I'm grateful that I have a healthy daughter and my family is still close to me and have the friends and associates that I see on the regular.

But 2009 will be a new year, start fresh with some new goals to accomplish. I'm raising the bar for myself just so I can stop fucking around and play good. Its not a game anymore. Its time to make some moves and stop nickel and dimin' my way through the year...Its time to step my game up. Its time to make some real money, Its time to stop fucking around.

This is how 2009 gonna go this year...Betta Than the Last Time