The greatest place in all the land would probably at first thought have to be the Playboy Mansion. At the last minute I decided it was an obvious choice to play in their annual charity tournament which was held on Saturday. With my buy-in I got to take one guest so I took my friend Greg from high school. Lucky fucker.
The night started at the registration location in Century City, which was actually just an underground parking lot filled with thousands of people, including just about every professional poker player I've ever met. It was about 500 degrees down there. I never exaggerate. From there we took the mandatory shuttle up to the mansion; what a baller do you have to be that people can only take shuttles to your house. And that you have peacocks running around your front yard. And that your parties consist of high profile Los Angelinos and naked chicks with clothes painted on their bodies walking around happily posing for pictures.
I slowly got more and more trashed as I prepared for the most prestigious tournament in online poker history... Trishelle was around and we hung out along with Phil Laak who I have to say I have a man-crush on because the guy is hilarious. His word of the day was "pandemonium". The atmosphere and set-up of the party and tournament was far better then last year... everything was in the open instead of covered and there was a silent auction going on which I always enjoy. I ended up making a bid on a signed Kobe Bryant jersey which I believe I won, but I still gotta hear back on dat one.
The tournament started well, I took out like 3 people right off the bat, building my stack to about 5 big blinds lol. Naturally, this tournament had the fastest structure of any tourney I've ever played, but this makes it more fun at times and leads to more shenanigans. I ended up getting fairly deep and was halfway wasted by the time I busted. Congrats on Theo for making the final table, truly an incredible, incredible showing. Me and Greg Mueller tried to sneak into the mansion, that didn't really work. Regrettably I didn't swim in the grotto like I did last year. Jamie Gold was the tourney MC and he got me to rap a little bit. Seems to be a trend. All in all it was good times and got to see a bunch of peeps I haven't seen much.
Next thing I knew I awoke in my bed wondering how I got there.
Oh snap and I just got back from Greg's place. I offered him a pointless freeroll bet... If he could beat me three games in a row in NBA 2K8 for XBOX I would give him the Kobe jersey. Just give it to him. I'm dumb. The first game I lost with the Lakers vs. Celtics. Second game he took the Lakers and I was the Celtics and he beat me. Shit, why do I make these props? Third game I decided to go with LeBron and the Cavs and he was the Lakers at home. It was close till the fourth quarter and then I went all Lebrizzle on his ass. Game over. Phew. On that note, looks like the Lakers are playing the Spurs in the conference finals.. would've liked to see the Hornets but whatevvvv.
Haven't wrote a blog in a while so I think I'll just write another one immediately after I finish this one. HOLLERATchURBOY
