Man...where do I start? So I went out to L.A. and played the 5k and the 10k. Neither went well tho I was happy with the 10k from one aspect...I played very patient and picked great spots, got a butt load of chips going into the last level on day 2. At that point I did something completely unneccessary and blew the fuck up. I don't want to rehash the hand but the bottom line is I went with my read and was 1/2 right, but it was completely uncalled for by me.

So I hopped on a plane and headed back to Chicago frustrated with my blow-up. I've played a few days online poker since I got back but nothing good had come of it. That brings us to Sunday. I layed in bed from like 2 A.M till probably 5:30 till I finally fell asleep, then woke up @ 11:30 to start my Sunday Funday. Well I played the warm-up and 3 more tournies @ 1P.M., took a few frustrating beats, ran bad in the 100 rebuy and decided to just call it a day and head back to bed. Probably not the smartest move given all the great tournies on Sunday but I was still tired and was having a hard time focusing so I just said screw it and layed down. If I'm not gonna be able to focus why just spew the buy-ins?

About 3 hours later I rolled out of bed feeling a little more refreshed then earlier. I pulled up to my computer just in time to make late registration for the pokerstars 2nd chance tourney around 5:30 P.M. I decided to play a full schedule of tournaments this evening, cashing in the Stars Sunday HORSE, FTP turbo 100 rebuy, and final tabling the second chance and stars 200 rebuy. Around 8:15 I was the chip leader of the second chance with 250 people left, and I decided to change my facebook status.

 Kevin is going to win the stars 2nd chance today... 1/249 ATM. 8:18pm

I was completely focused on not making any really awful plays as I can be prone too, and playing the best poker I had to offer. Ya I got lucky in a few spots, but only one was for the majority of chips when I cold 4bet AQcc playing 6-handed vs Bakes who was the 3-better. He ended up having AK but I hit all the queens and vaulted myself to a huge chip lead with 2 tables left. So a little over 5 hours after making my preediction I shipped the tourney for like 55k...not a bad day =)

Oh....and I was still grinding along in the 200 rebuy. I ended up making the final table 6th in chips with 9 left but busted out 8th losing a flip with TT vs AK. Of course I would have liked to have won them both, but I'll take 1 win and about 60k in cashes on the day. This was actually my first major victory online. It feels good, even though it was one of the smaller ones online it's still a major. Next up for me live will be bay101, and I fully expect some redemption for this recent LAPC blow-up. I'm also doing the bluff challenge with devo on lock poker news so that should be fun too.

Saturday night I went to the Bulls game vs the Rockets. WOW...what a game! we kept it somewhat close most of the game then the Rockets started to pull away late in the 3rd quarter and into the 4th. With 6 minutes left we were down 17 when something us Bulls fans haven't been able to see the last few games happened. Derrick Rose told his teammates to hop on his back and he carried them back in an amazing comeback win to win the game by 3 points. Why haven't we been seeing this recently???? Because Vinny Del Negro is a fucking idiot and has been keeping our best player on the bench for the 4th quarter of games recently. Seriously...he needs to be fired. Hopefully this is just a sign of things to come for the Bulls. They obviously can't compete with the heavyweights of the NBA this year but hopefully they will in the very near future.