Ya I know I suck at blogging consistently...what can I say? So last time I was here to check in I was headed to bay101. Well that tourney went awesome! I busted during the 150-300 50a level on day 1, but it really went awesome. I had a semi difficult table, but nothing to complicated and there were 2 or 3 soft spots to attack. Eli was our shooting star which was awesome because his chips are always in play. Last year my shooting star on day 1 was David Williams, and it was the same situation...but my 1st year at the tournament our shooting star was The Bear and as we all know his chips are so hard to get. 

So I busted on day 1...so how could this have possibly have been an awesome trip? Well I felt at the time like I was playing great, and I really was and ended up showing it by pretty much running my table. I felt like I was always in control of any situation I put myself in at the table which is always a good sign. I got up to around 35k when the following hand happened. Blinds were 100-200 25a, and chronic limper/soft spot limps to my right. I make it 800 with K10o to try and isolate the limper but Eli calls on the button, SB called and limper called. Well the flop rolled off a beautiful Kx10d7d...pretty much gin for a "lagtard" like me. So I bet 1/2 pot 1800 and Eli raised to 5k with like 14k behind him. The others folded and I could taste that 5k bounty...I took my time and eventually moved all-in knowing Eli wouldn't fold AK given the bounty situation. Well he called with AdKd for top top and a flush draw...there was a slight pause for the announcement of a bounty being all-in, then he promptly got there twice on me hitting the diamond flush on the turn and ace on the river for good measure...SHRUG.

I never recovered after that and headed back home the next day. I've pretty much been on the grind online poker since. Going into April it was looking like it could be a sick sick month. Possible big fortunes with the Scoop tourneys on poker stars and the 25k WPT championship but also the sick possibility of getting buried in make up a month before the WSOP. Well good news and bad news. I had a couple nice cashes the last few weeks including 7th in the scoop M turbo 1 rebuy for 17k and yesterday taking 3rd in the full tilt 150 rebuy for 30k. I also managed to satellite my way into the 10k poker tournament yesterday for a total of $825 so even if I brick the 25k WPT championship I'll end up close to even on the month. For all the buy-ins for april thats really not too bad.

So I was supposed to head to Vegas today and play the 5k pre-lims tomorrow and Thursday. But I woke up today and just felt drained. I need a few days off to just sit around and bum it out. So tomorrow night I'll head to Mom's for dinner, which will be nice since my family was probably not too happy that I decided to take easter off this year, and then I'll head to Vegas on Wednesday to play the 5k Thursday and 25k main this weekend. 

Last Sunday we had a fun little birthday party for my youngest nephew Kyle who turned 4. I had asked him what he wanted for his birthday and he gave me one response...vitamin water! Hahaha pretty funny coming from a 4 year old, but when he opened up his gifts he genuinely seemed most excited about that Vitamin Water.

Go Cubs!! Such a sick game last night...Reed johnson made one the sickest catches I've ever seen given the game situation and we were facing our 2nd biggest rivals in the Brewers. Mad props to Prince Fielder for tipping his cap to Johnson for making the catch...very classy. Sweet start for us, 5-2 and Lilly looked sick today taking a no-hitter into the 7th. We also won today w/o Ramirez, Bradley, or Soto in the lineup which is pretty cool. 

Aight..back to veggin out on the couch. Hopefully there will be good things to report from Bellagio later this month...I have been known to run pretty good there.

BeL0W