I’m going to jump right into things and start off right where I left off in my last blog. After I landed in Connecticut I took a limo to Foxwoods/MGM with fellow Deepstacks Pros Roothlus and “Fish”. A friend hooked me up and got me a room comped in the sold out MGM Grand on the top floor. Quite Contrary to what ever has told me about Foxwoods, the MGM Grand there is really nice. Although, I have never stayed at main Foxwoods hotel. It was the first time I’d ever been to Foxwoods and it felt very Native Americanish looking out the window and being in the clouds at night time…very serene, heh. I played Foxwoods WPT and got knocked out the last 15 minutes of Day 1. I had dinner with Mike Baxter at Alta Strada in the MGM Grand. It was pretty delicious.

The next day I went and stayed with my Aunt and Uncle at their house about an hour and a half away. We had a nice dinner with my grandmother and then went to a Charity event. There was a live band and lots of older people exhibiting some funky dance moves I’ve never seen before with absolutely no shame! It was quite entertaining to say the least. They had a 50/50 raffle going on (50% of the money goes to the charity, and 50% to the “prizepool”). I decided to make it a true 50/50 and bought up the same amount of tickets they had already sold, then I would have a 50% chance of winning! lol. As I was handed hundreds of red raffle tickets, I gave a row to each of the girls that were working the stand and wished them luck. Sure enough, one of them ended up winning the raffle, and was kind enough to not keep all of it and give some
back to the charity.

The next day I flew back to Los Angeles in time for Halloween. I went to the West Hollywood block party with my wife and her friends. The streets were packed! It was complete and utter chaos. There was some good music playing as DJ booths lined the street. There were many unique costumes. My personal favorite was an Aunt Jemima look-alike costume hahaha! After walking the block party, we got a table to the grand opening of Supperclub/Pandora. The inside of the club was sick. It was specially built for international headlining DJs. It was completely insane with crazy cool lights and great music. It was the perfect atmosphere for Halloween with everyone in their costumes too, it definitely “fit”.

My friend David Kang casted for the Kei$ha Music Video and took me on set on the roof of a skyscraper in downtown L.A. at night. I met the director, Hype Williams. Between takes, he would get the set crunked up by DJ’ing some music. It was pretty cool. I’ve always been really into music and watched music videos religiously as a kid growing up, Hype and Joseph Kahn were always my two favorites by a landslide.

With only a few days rest, it was time to drive to Vegas to film Poker After Dark $100,000 buy-in cash game at Aria. First of all, let me tell you that Aria’s poker people run that room and any other poker stuff going on in the casino RIGHT! They are really top notch there. They treat all the players extremely well and definitely promote action in various ways. I’ve always really enjoyed my stay in the hotel as well. Top clubs, top restaurants, top poker, I love staying there! Anyways, I can’t tell you what happened on the show, but it’s going to be a good one. At my table was Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Hellmuth, Andy Bloch, Annette Obrestad, and Huckleberry Seed. It is always nice to be at a table where you are friendly with everyone. After filming, I was invited to Steve Aoki’s table connected to the DJ booth at Club Surrender at Encore by Dan Fleyshman. The club was massive! Aoki did his set right next to us and definitely did his thing really well, as I wouldn’t expect anything less! Afterward, we all walked over to the Wynn and played some friendly 10/20 NL poker.

The next day I ate at my favorite Thai spot, Lotus of Siam and then booked it back to LA. I went to see Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle sing at The Mint. They were pretty good. Afterwards we went to celebrate a mutual friends Birthday (Brandon) at Club Colony. It was my first time here and it was jam-packed!

I just got finished playing NAPT Day 1A at The Bike. It was my most solid Day 1 of tournament poker this year. I never went below the 30k starting stack and stayed in the range of 30 to 50k the entire day. Today I’m heading over to David Kang’s massive birthday party to watch the Manny Pacquiao and Margarito fight! I’ve played a lot of poker with Manny and he is very funny and overall a great good-hearted person. I always root for the good guys, not guys who cheat in a fight in a way that could do serious damage to someone and then make fun of somebody’s trainer with a disease! GOOOOOO MANNY!!!