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.