Happy Halloween

I got back into KC last night around 8:00 after a short lay-over in Nashville and made the 2 hour drive back to Lincoln. I've pretty much spent all of today working on things that I need to get done for Europe. I was dumb enough to book my flight out of Chicago rather than Omaha, so I decided to just book another flight to Chicago so I don't have to drive the whole way. I also booked my tickets for Thanksgiving from Munich to Athens. My Aunt and Uncle celebrate a "American/British/Greco" style thanksgiving with a couple other families that they know there, so I decided to join them for that. One of my friends Änna is studying in Regensburg Germany this semester, so her and one of her friends are going to tag along in Athens. After I got those tickets booked and I also ordered my Eurail Pass as well. I got a "Selecti-pass" which means I can travel for 15 non-consecutive days during a two months period in any of the 5 following countries: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and Denmark. I'm actually getting very excited about the trip. I have a lot of people to visit and there is so much more to see :)

Poker wise I four tabled some 10/20 for a while today, only put in 1,000 hands but ran fairly well and booked a $800 profit. I probably need to put in some work over the next few months but doubt I will do a lot while I am traveling. I'm planning on taking my laptop and an extra monitor with me so that I can grind some while staying in Bonn but that will probably be the only place I put in any significant hours. Not much else to report, Happy Halloween

Poker, Peppers, and Thiefs

None of us lasted very long in the $1k main event that they had yesterday. It was pretty uneventful for me, I had QQ first hand raised 7x the BB and got 4 callers. That's the kind of day it was.

After we busted out Jon, Tim, myself and Tim's two buddies Mike and Nick all took off for New Orleans to check out this VooDoo Music Festival. I hadn't ever been to a big outdoor concert type of venue before, so it was all new to me. The place was gigantic and filled entirely, there must have been over 100,000 people there. They had 6 or 7 stages where different bands performed and there were tons of tents that sold all sorts of things. We got to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform on the main stage and although we couldn't get really close it was still awesome. They put on an amazing show and it's easy to see why they have been the best at what they do for so long.

After the concert finished we started the 20 minute walk back to our cars and when we finally got there we realized that either Jon or Me had left the interior light on in the car. Bad beat, then as we got closer we realized that our stuff was all open and thrown around the car. We all suddenly realized that someone had broken into our car and stolen everything. I was immediately heart broken.... I had my laptop and $4,500 cash in there among other things. We looked through our clothes bags and it seemed like they only stole our Ipods from inside the car. Oddly enough both of our digital cameras were taken out of our bags but left in the car. We then popped the trunk, to see if they took our laptops and saw that my entire laptop case had been dumped out but they left my computer!!! I then reach into the pouch of my computer case to check and see if they somehow missed all my cash, low and behold all $4,500 was there. It was the best beat ever. They literally looked EVERYWHERE in the entire car, glove compartment, ash trays, console, even the sunglasses holder. I think the only possible place I had put the money was the one place they passeed up. Unfortunately Jon's laptop wasn't in the trunk and we thought it had been stolen as well. Then a few minutes later we found it inside the car with everything dumped out of it, but still there. So, all in all, the thieves passed up two $400 digital cameras, two $2,000 laptops, $4,500 in cash, but they did steal both of our $200 Ipods. They say Mississippi is the most uneducated state in the union.... Louisiana must not be far behind :)

We are gonna go walk around Bourbon Street and check out the French Quarter today, then go see My Chemical Romance at the Festival later this afternoon. Needless to say we will be leaving all of our valuables in the hotel.

That didn't take long

I'll run through my 3 hands that I played after the dinner break:

Hand 1: The very first hand it folds to me in the SB and I complete for 400 more with J4, the big blind raps the table and we take a flop. FLOP: 886 rainbow, this looks like a good flop for me and I decide that since the BB is a fairly aggressive player I will check raise him on the flop to take the pot. I check, he bets 1,200 which looks very week, I make it 3,200 straight and he instantly announces all-in. I muck.

Hand 2: I'm in 2nd position and two very tight players are in the blinds, so I decide that I am going to raise with any two hoping the rest of the table gives me credit for a hand when raising from 2nd position. I squeeze J 10 off and make it 2,100 a 1,300 chip raise. It folds to the tightest player at the table in the BB and he calls..... great... FLOP: 662 two diamonds. He checks, I ponder and bet 3k, he folds... back up to 14k in chips.

Hand 3: Very next hand I squeeze AQdd UTG and make is 2,100 again. Again it folds to the BB who is a rather young decent player and he makes the call. The flop comes AKJ, KJ of hearts, I'm not very thrilled about this flop but he checks it to me and I again bet 3k the exact same way that I did the hand before. He immediately announces All-In and slams in a stack of pink chips that has me covered.... yea, gross... I think for a minute like I normally do, running through the possible holdings I can put him on before studying his body language and deciding what I think he has. I decide that Q 10 is slight possibility, AJ is more likely and AK is unlikely since he would have re-raised pre almost certainly. I rule out AA and KK and finally decide that he has one of the following hands... AQ, AJ, JJ, KQ (least likely) or a heart flush draw. I am in bad shape against all of these hands except the flush draw and AQ / KQ so unless he looks like he's really making a move I have to fold.... I look at him and immediately see his heart and pulse is RACING.... I almost instantly say call and almost yell, "NO HEART"..... then he flips his hand.... AQ..... of hearts.... so gross, he nails the free-roll on me and I bust from the tournament right on the bubble... dang

Tomorrow I think we are playing the $1,000 buy-in "main event" for this series. The winner gets a seat in the 25k buy-in WPT Championship along with 1st place prize money.... I'd take that.

Dinner Break $500 NL

I have about 17k in chips at the dinner break of the $500 NL tournament, this puts me in a fairly good position with around 25 people left. I should be slightly above average and have been accumulating very nicely without putting many chips at risk. 1st pays around 26k so that will be nice :)

$4,400

I got 2nd in the second chance $200 NL tourney tonight for 4.4k, I am not ecstatic that I lost but I'm not terribly upset either. I feel like I was a better player than my heads-up opponent, but I started off down 4-1 in chips and lost a 150k pot with A 10 vs. K6 that would have given me a 2-1 chip lead.... so all in all it just didn't go my way. I did bad beat a bunch of people earlier in the tournament to build up a big stack. I'm pretty convinced that you usually need to dish out at least 1 or 2 bad beats in order to final table a large multi of this structure. The guy that beat me was a real nice guy and I think he was appreciative of the fact that we were 2 of the only 3 people at the final table who didn't jump around and complain after taking bad beats. It makes in a lot easier when you lose to a nice guy.

I donked off in the $300 NL earlier today and didn't do anything, we ate at the Brazilian place again and it was delicious again. I'm not sure what are plans are for Saturday but I know that we are going to play the $500 NL tournament tomorrow and are planning on going to New Orleans on Saturday for the VooDoo Music Festival.

Shipping Pots

Limit Omaha is an easyyyy game. I got 6th in the tournament last night in a field of 38 :) The game is such a crap shoot, even late in the tournament in was not uncommon to go 7 or 8 handed into the flop, the guys just love to limp. I was the only one at the final table under the age of 60, so I felt like I had a distinct endurance advantage, but it didn't work out. I actually went bust when I got all in pre-flop blind, then realised that the dealer had given me 5 cards after she dealt the flop and my hand was declared dead :( bad beat. I still banked a whopping $452 for the $200 buy in, I think I'll use the profit for a down payment on a Bentley.

Today is the $300 NL, which we will obviously crush. I'll tell you how much we win later tonight.....

Mississippi

We got in late last night to the airport in New Orleans. It was a quick flight from Houston, where I met Kristopf, and the limo was pulled up right as we were getting our bags. It was kind of cool getting to see the area at night, it was like an hour ride to the casino so we got to see a lot of the coast line. I met up with Jon and we had a late dinner around 1:00 and then went to bed so we could get up for the event this morning at 11:00.

The event was a $200 NL tourney and everyone was pretty awful... they are the type of players who really think they are good because they have an intermediate understanding of the game, know all the terms, all the plays, but they don't know how to use them or use them properly at least. There's so many times at the table when someone will say something and I'll just silently think to myself "man, your an idiot", but when I look around the table everyone else is nodding in approval. It's kind of funny actually.

The structure of the tournament is very shallow, we started with 1,500 in chips and blinds of 25/50 with 30 min levels. You really have to accumulate early or else blind down. I won one pot pretty early when a young girl made an incredibly obvious lead-bluff on the river after missing her flush draw. A lot of intermediate players do this after their opponent has taken control of the hand the entire way. It's a wild bluff that never works but they continue to try it. A few minutes later I doubled up a guy with AQ vs. KK and found myself with only 800 chips. I then doubled with AK vs. A 10 and and was back up to about 2k. about 15 minutes after that 3 people limped for 150 and one guy (aforementioned type of novice) pushes for 1,300 trying to steal all the limps, I over push with AQ and he says "man, I was trying to steal"...... no kidding? He flips 57 off and nails me on a flop of 63A.... 9.....4 I then gave my remaining 800 away with 89 off suit. I wasn't unhappy with how I played, it just didn't go my way and a little luck is crucial in these shallow MTT's.

We got all sorts of comps so we are eating at this really nice Brazilian restaurant. I'm looking forward to it because I've never had Brazilian food and Jon says it's great. We also have a Tim Krank sighting, which is always a pleasure. He's another circuit traveler that we have met in Barcelona this spring.

Tonight is $200 LIMIT Omaha bay bay.... easy win

10th sucks

soooooooo bad..... man, it really hurts. I played very very well, I felt the whole tournament.... damn

rough beat

took a round beat with 18 left for 3 mill in chips QQ vs. QQ

10 left, last in chips but fighting

Sunday mill

final 4 tables of the sunday mill if anyone wants to watch 1.9 million in chips... first is $180,000

name: runencold

Poker Stars

Eurotrip

I had been planning on going back to Europe for a while, since this summer at least, but the date has kept getting pushed back due to a number of different things. First, I wanted to go to Oktoberfest but ended up having to delay it when I started to re-think going back to school. Now that I am signed up and all registered for my classes next semester I am pretty much free and clear till January. So, the other day I was messing around on Orbitz and looked up ticket prices, I found a really cheap ticket from Chicago to Dusseldorf Germany and decided to book it. I'm a little to spontaneous sometimes. I have a lot of friends to visit over there and my Aunt and Uncle in Greece so I decided to go for about seven weeks. I'll leave on November 4th and come back on December 20th, just in time for Christmas. I'll be spending a lot of the time in Bonn Germany, where one of my good college friends plays pro basketball, but I will also be going to Regensberg, Munich, Zermatt Switzerland, Athens and the Greek Islands, and Gothenburg Sweden. I'll probably end up going a few other places as well, I kind of enjoy not knowing exactly where I'll be and what I'll be doing. Just trusting myself with a map and no itinerary is my idea of fun traveling. I'll probably be playing quite a bit of poker on-line while I am in Bonn, but other than there I will probably just be traveling. A couple of my friends here in the States have shown some interest in coming over and meeting me for part of the trip. Since I have spent some time over there I feel like I could be a competent, yet novice tour guide and I'm sure we will have a good time. If anyone else is interested in joining me for a little while, just let me know.

Sunday majors today so I'll play a little poker.

Pokerless Life

I haven't been playing at all for about the last two weeks. I just really have no desire to play right now, and usually when I am feeling like that and still play, I do very poorly. I never posted my numbers for September, but I had a very good month, for me, being up over 15k. This makes me wonder why I still have no motivation to play any poker since that is one of my better months this year. I think that the reason for this lack of motivation is a number of things, one of them being that the money no longer motivates me. Actually, This is a very good thing for me because a poker player needs to detach himself from the day-to-day, month-to-month swings of the game. The fact that the money makes no difference says that I am doing a pretty good job of detaching my emotions. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder what would happen if I had a losing month. That has never happened to me in my career, but I know that it inevitably must happen at some point. Would the money, or significance of losing the money, make me feel different emotions? I think that it probably would because I remember that I still get frustrated when I have losing days. I am not sure if it would motivate me to play though, if I had a losing month. I'm afraid that it would do the opposite and I would be less likely to play..... wow, I am just rambling nonsense that nobody, or very few people, would even be interested in. I should keep a diary of stuff like this for myself and leave my blog for stuff that is actually interesting to the 100 or so of you who consistently check it. hmmmm, let me find a funny picture to make it up to you.

The Departed

I went to finally see "The Departed" last night with my friend Nick after hearing great things about it from a lot of different people. With a cast as powerful as it had and a director the caliber of Scorsese the movie definitely had a lot it live up to. It didn't disappoint. If you haven't seen it I definitely recommend that you do, it's rare recently to have a film that is as gripping and well-developed as this one. Alright, enough plugs.


After the movie we met some of Nate and some other guys at a bar and played darts for a couple hours, good times.


I have a lot of stuff to get done (i.e. dishes, laundry, cleaning stuff) so I had better get on that. I'm anxious to head out to Mississippi on Tuesday and see my friends Kristoph and Jon Little. I am trying to talk Nate into coming along for some small buy-in multi's but it looks like it will be a hard sell.

Also, the magazine "Entertainment Weekly" featured Borat on it's cover, Check it out:

Home

I just arrived back home after an uneventful flight back. Phoenix was a blast, the city is so alive and growing, it reminds me a lot of Vegas in the respect. We didn't get to go to the game last night, but if you watched it you know we wish we would have. We did watch it at a sports bar with a bunch of Bears fans, oddly enough, which was pretty intense. I'll writed more later after I get everything unpacked.

AZ

I got into Phoenix last night around 7:30 after a short lay-over in Denver. My friend Preston was there to pick me up and we headed straight for the ASU campus to hit up a bar a grill that was allegedly one of the "Top 10 college bars in the US" according to VH1 or something. It was pretty cool there but kind of dead for a Thursday night so we hopped around from bar to bar and checked everything out. The highlight of the night had to be when we got to a bar called The Tavern. We were sitting out on the patio doing some people watching when a couple of underage kids tried to get into the bar with a fake ID. Not usually a big deal but I guess this bar had been having trouble with minors and was really working hard to check the ID's very carefully. They actually made the girl in front of us show three forms of ID before letting her in. Anyways, so usually if a kid shows up with a fake they will just turn him away, or, at the worst confiscate the ID.... well, not here. I guess they detained one of the kids and called the police, in a couple of minutes two bike cops show up and start to put one of the guys in cuffs. All of the sudden his friend just jumps the cop, puts him in a head lock, and tries to slam him on the ground! The other cop jumps up and tackles the first kid who is in cuffs as he tries to run away and calls for back up on his radio. A couple of the bouncers from the club run over and subdue the one who had the cop down and both the kids fight till their death to resist this arrest. At one point they had to mace AND tase them. We tried to figure out what would drive the two retards to make the decision to jump up from a minor misdemeanor to a full blown felony. We finally decided that they either had to have some sort of arrest warrents on them already, or else they had some sort of drugs on them. Either way they are both retards and will deserve the jail time that they should inevitably get.

In other news, A really nice guy I met in Lake Tahoe called me yesterday and offered to fly me down to the World Poker Open in Biloxi to play in some events. Apparently his good friend runs the Imperial Palace, where the tournament is held, and is really going to take care of us. It should be a fun time and a good opportunity to get some more live tournaments under the belt.

Joke

My good friend Shannon Shorr who is #2 in the Card Player "Player of the Year" race was recently excluded from the new Professional Poker League draft. This league is supposedly compirsed of the 64 strongest professionals in poker and definatly includes a lot of elite players, but also a TON of awful players. I'm very disappointed the Shannon wasn't include and was passed over in favor of the following "professionals":

19) Martin deKnijff - one of the more legit on this list, but really what has this guy done? Grade: F



27) Nick Schulman - A very good player and one I'd compare to Shannon, just not as acomplished: B-



28) Jack Fox - Seriously, did someone draft this guy as a joke?: D-



29) Josh Arieh - Terrible: F



32) Linda Johnson - Although a nice lady just not a player AT ALL: F



34) Esther Rossi -2 final tables and OVER $60,000 in winnings over the last 8 years!: F



35) Mimi Tran - If she says "I do it for Joshua" on TV I'll give her a D, but... : F



39) Jennifer Tilly - I'll take the doll in a 5k heads up match: F



40) Chip Jett - at least he isn't the creepiest guy in the world: F



41) Tony Guoga - I'm not sure if I'd play If I was Tony knowing Esther got drafted before me: F



42) Liz Lieu - Gets an F for Poker, but grand prize in the Sweet Hats Contest: F



43) Evelyn Ng - I'll give you TWO good reasons she's in: F



45) Mike Caro - They say those that can't play, teach... never more true: F

46) Phil Gordon - Rich former .com millionaire, and member of the much rspected "Tilt Boys": F-

47) David Williams - Has as much game as he does confidence in his sexuality: F

48) Amir Vahedi - I thought I saw this guy selling T-shirts "3 for $10" outside the Nugget this summer: F+, for the comback

Co Captain: T.J Cloutier - If this guy played cards as well as he Threw Dice he'd have 75 bracelets: F

Other players who got the shaft include:

Greg Raymer

Joe Hachem

Nam Lee

Phil Helmuth: F

Dan Harrington

Alex Jacob

J.C. Tran

Allen Cunnigham, obv didn't want to play: A+

Cliff "Johnny Bax" Josephy

Eril Sagstorm

Thank God they didn't include Shean Shiekan or Jamie Gold, that outstanding move may be enough to get me to watch a couple episodes now.

They obviously had to include some of the women because I think they had a "At least 1 women per team" rule. Which is really lame, and offensive to the women who actually would have made the cut.

A little poker

I really haven't played a lot of poker in the last week, I did play the sunday majors and but finished just out of the money in all of them. It was really disappointing because I ahd built up really big stacks (like top 10 in chips) and then just gave them all away it seemed like. I have played a little cash games but haven't really had the desire to do much.

Tomorrow I get to go in and meet with one of the Dean of Education to discuss what classes I need to finish up and how exactly I will get my degree. I'm anxious to see just how long it is going to take to get done. On thursday I am flying to Phoenix to visit one of my good friends and roomates from college. We are probably going to catch a Phoenix Coyotes hockey game and maybe the Cardnials game on MNF.

That's all for now, I have to go wake up Nate so we can go to the post office to get his passport application.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

For anyone who has ever seen a "Tuff Fish" video you must follow the link at the bottom of the page for one of the funniest things I may have ever heard. If you are someone who reads my blog but doesn't understand poker very well, or hasn't seen the legendary Tuff Fish in action... then a lot of the humor will be missed.

If you are a poker player and by some miracle, haven't ever seen a Tuff Fish video, follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StsG95-zdjg&mode=related&search=

If you know Tuff Fish and don't believe that it is possible to die from laughter, follow this link


http://tuffish.ytmnd.com/

*make sure the volume is on*

Still No Poker

So since I haven't been playing any and don't have much to report, I thought I'd plug the movie that looks like it may be the funniest cinematic experience in 10 years.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

If any one has seen "The Ali G Show" staring British comedian Sasha Baron Cohen, then they may have seen some clips of his altar ego "Borat". This is one of the most ingenious and funniest ideas for a character, and a movie, ever. Here's a review from Scott Weinberg or efilmcritic.com

"Those familiar with Cohen's Da Ali G Show are no doubt already crazy about Khazak news reporter Borat. As I stated in my review of Ali's Volume 2 DVD, "So convincing is Cohen's portrayal of the character that he often gets his interview subjects to lower their guard, and when that happens ... hilariously embarrassing things are bound to happen. (Watch how easy it is for Borat to get a bar full of Arizonians to sing along with "Throw the Jew Down the Well!")"So going into the feature-length Borat adventure, I already knew I was in for (at least) a few chuckles. I was underestimating the flick by about 65 laughs.Lensed in a slyly effective low-budget documentary style, Borat focuses on Khazakstan's favorite (fictional) son as he hits New York City, falls immediately in love with Pamela Anderson, and begins an impromptu trek across the country. Along the way he meets with politicians, socialites, prostitutes, frat boys, cowboys, and homosexuals -- all of whom manage to give Borat an extra-special taste of what "America" is all about.Fair warning, though: This is not some puffy little road movie full of enlightenment and warmth. What the Borat character does is so slickly smart (and smoothly amusing) ... I'm beginning to suspect that Sacha Baron Cohen might be a satirist on par with Swift, Bruce, Kaufman and anyone else who makes the deflation of societal ugliness his main target in life.Some might take offense to some of the material found in Borat, as it's rife with jokes about nasty old Jewish stereotypes and the "inequality" of woman and the like. Me, I choose to look at it a different way (and with a name like Weinberg, I'm obviously Jewish) -- Borat's absurdity and ignorance serves a reflection of our own, only Cohen take great pleasure in pointing out how moronic racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism truly are. Plus his "backwoods foreigner" routine really does bring out the latent ugliness in a lot of people. (Watch how Cohen subtly extracts some horrifically unkind gay-bashing from a "normal Joe" cowboy dude.)But it's not all socio-political satire and alarmingly sly commentary; Borat is packed with every flavor of humor under the sun: satire, spoof, slapstick, and scatalogical schtick are thrown onto the screen at every opportunity. Plus the flick has THE funniest battle between two naked men that you'll ever see. Or want to see.
Frankly I laughed more often during "Borat" than I have at all of 2006's multiplex comedies combined. It's so shockingly, brazenly funny that I'm stunned to see a studio like Fox embrace the flick. Here's hoping they don't trim one second of its 82 minutes before its theatrical release."

To see a trailer, follow this link: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/borat/trailers.php

I can't wait

No Poker

I haven't played much poker in the last couple days, I did make a FT in a $20 tourney the other night, but got 9th which is basically worthless. Yesterday I went to Seward and met with someone in the admissions office to talk about going back to school. They really didn't seem to know what to do and just sent me to Financial Aid to see about any scholarships I got get, and then sent me to my old advisor to see how many classes I'd need. So at least the ball is rolling on the whole process. After I got done there I went and sat in on the basketball practice and got to see a few of my old teammates that I hadn't seen for a while. The team's personnel is different than in past years so they are running a different kind of offense. It was really interesting to see Coach Schmidt, who has always been known for his methodical grind them down offense, switch to a run-and-gun type of approach. After than I went to dinner with a few of my friends and we caught the Concordia vs. Doane volleyball game. All in all a pretty good day.

U.S. Legislation

Several days ago Congress past a bill that will essentially make on-line poker illegal in the U.S. I won't go into details about the legislation but you can find more information on it by following this link: http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/news_story/1424?class=PokerNews

This will basically change the face of on-line poker forever. None of the on-line sites will shut down, but several of the major ones (Party, Stars, Pacific) have indicated that they will shut down the accounts of all U.S. citizens. This will dry up A LOT of the action from most of the losing players in the games, as most of the biggest fish are Americans. It will essentially dilute the pool of players so that the ratio of winning players to losing players will be much higher. This means that even if an on-line professional were to move outside of the U.S. to play they would still have a much harder time making a successful living.

I don't believe in coincidences, and I think that I am meant to view this as a sign in my life. The life of a professional poker player is not as glamorous as I imagined. It has been great to travel and meet all the exceptionally interesting people that I have in the past three years. The money is better than any other occupation and the freedom it allows me is second to none. Still I seem to wake up every morning feeling empty and un-fulfilled. I feel like my life right now has little bearing on anything not directly related to me. I don't feel like I am helping anyone besides myself and consequently I feel selfish and immature.

I have had a nagging feeling over the last several weeks that I need to change the direction of my life. I scares me to think that I may wake up one day 10 years from now and realize that I wasted all the talents I have on myself. There are only a few things in my life that I am truly passionate about, and becoming a teacher is by far the biggest. Becoming a great teacher and coach is something that I have wanted for a long time, and I think it's about time that I stopped shoving it to the back of my mind.

Basically, I think I am going to go back to school for another semester and get my teaching degree. I need to meet with an advisor and see just exactly what classes I need to finish up in order to get my teaching certificate. I was fairly close to graduating with a degree in education, so I would be very surprised if I needed to take more than one semester's worth of classes.

I'm not sure what will come to pass for the future of Poker in the weeks and months to come, but I plan on continuing to play if some of the sites stay up. I have basically gotten all my student loans paid off in the last month, and it would be nice to be able to pay off my last semester's worth before I start at school in January.

WCOOP ME

The WCOOP Main Event just got underway, I'm not playing it but most of my friends are so hopefully one of them will take down the MASSIVE 1.15 Million dollar first prize. I'm playing most of the other tournaments, so hopefully I can win a small 100k from one of them.

Iowa was fun, we didn't get tickets to the game but went to a bar and watched it with 300 screaming, drunk Iowa fans. Time of my life.

I also have to give a special notice of the latest memeber of my family who has caught the poker bug. My older sister Rhonda just won her 2nd tournament today. A $6 5-table SNG on Party for a nice return of $75. She also won a $6 multi on party several weeks ago for $1,000. I got to watch her run over the final table today and she's actually got some pretty good game.