Phenomenal Month

Hello all. Thursday night I had my second largest cash online, over $20k - second place in the UBOC #10, PL Holdem. This is the first PL holdem event I ever played. It was awesome. Jon and I were at Borgata this past week for the Winter Open. I played the deep stack event #1 very well. Made it to Day 2 with 9 bbs. Was down to 7.5 bbs 30 min into it, and shoved AK....right into AA...for the second time straight to bust out of live tourney.

What is frustrating for me is that in the last 4-6 live tournies I have played, I have either been the official bubble, or invested over 12 hours into tourney without cash. This includes the $1500 at Foxwoods in Nov, the $560 WSOP event at Harrah's in Dec, Sat Foxwoods $560 ((10th pl, with 9 paying) in mid Dec, the 1 in 20 sat at borgata (22nd with 16 paying) and the deep stack this week at borgata. Believe me I am not complaining. It is super gratifying that even with putting in sixty hours live without a cash, 7.5 hrs of one online tourney more than compensated for my live dry run the other night.

Here are some funny tidbits. You know I like to write down interesting, quirky things people say at the poker table,, either relevant to poker or not. The first one, this small hispanic guy was sitting across from me in the deepstack. He was blatantly hitting on me for the first hour. I was polite but nonchalant, trying my best to discourage him without being rude. During his ongoing comments, he said, "What do you do honey?" I replied that I am an attorney. He goes, "I was supposed to be a lawyer, instead I am a ticket scalper." I excused myself, went outside the room, and burst out laughing. I could barely hold it in. It was by far one of the most ridiculous comments anyone has ever said to me.

The following day, while I was playing the "survivor tourney" at Borgata, this older gentleman sits down, two to my right. He and another player start discussing cashes and tournament poker. He said he had a really large cash last year. The other player asked for details. The old man stated the following: " I was playing at a local bar. It was a $50 tourney. I played and busted. Then I lost $200 in the cash game. I saw the exit sign and got ready to leeave. It was the rear exit and I had come in thru the front. I walked outside and it was a porch. I stepped off the porch to walk down the stairs. There were no stairs, I fell right to the ground and woke up in the hospital. Ended up settling case against the bar for $175k." And then he began to tell details of his injuries which included graphic medical terminology....at which point I raised the volume on my IPOD touch and ignored. It was pretty funny.

Ok guys, I will let you know what happens, i am playing my first 100$ r tonight, maybe I will run good there too. Would be nice. Talk to you soon!

Good money and peace,

Lucky C and Ace.