I'm Taking a Vacation

Well things haven't been going to well lately. I've been "running badly" for the past month. I get my money in as a favorite but the outcomes of the hands have been in my opponent's favor.

Example...

I was the chip leader 2 weeks ago and in good shape to win with 6 players left. I had about 60 in chips and blinds were at 1 and 2. I was on the button and the whole table had limped in to me. I looked down at and decided to try and take the pot down right there. I raised 10 and everyone folded to the short stack at the table. This was a new guy to the game so we'll call him Jimmy. Jimmy put the rest of his money in the pot with . I found this to be an odd hand to put all you money in with since he had been very "Mousey" all night. As soon as I saw his cards I thought "I lose." That's not a very good mentality to have in a card game. This mentality is the main reason I am taking a month off.

So I'm a %60 favorite going in. The flop came . So now I'm %80 to win from here, but the turn brought the good ole so I took it in the rear again from a poor player and I was on tilt from here on out. BLAH!

I started calling everyone's all-in bets with mediocre hands and just giving it away. I busted out 4th....AGAIN.

On a different note, a few friends and I went to Tunica on the weekend of the Jack Binion World Poker Open. We stayed for 1 night at Sam's Town but spent most of our time at the Gold Strike. We got to see many of the "Big Boys". We walked into the Gold Strike and headed up the escalator. About half way up I look over to my left and coming down the other side was Barry Greenstein. It just got better from there.

We walked into the room where they were holding the Main Event and saw many other pros...

- Men "The Master" Nguyen
- Sam Farha
- Chow Chiang
- Andy Block
- Scotty Nguyen
- Andrew Black
- Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi
- Todd Brunson


and others. We got a few pictures of the pros and one of the guys with me got his picture made with Scotty.

We left Tunica pretty much broke and very tired. This was a fun experience for us all and something I'll remeber forever.