Just finished playing a little basketball with Sarah, managed to work her over at 21, heh.  Heading out to dinner shortly, but thought I would toss a few lines in first. 

Everyone in the house gamed online yesterday.  “Improved”, “TheNorfman”, “TheRookieQQ9″, “YoungSupremacy”,”CMoney”, “scossett”, and  “Stevol”  who managed to take down the
Brawl. That was pretty sweet and put everybody in a good mood.  I literally bubbled the Brawl FT in 10th place.  Got all my chips in against this  Clownshoe who had AK when I had AQ.  He
raised my BB  5x 4 times in a row from the cutoff and manages to show up with AK the 5th time. That was fun.  But I  made an  FT and came 6th in the 300k at Party Poker which paid 13kish.  So at least I was up on the day. I haven’t been able to get too much going on the live front.  I did make a run in the 2k and took 35th there for 11.5k.   AA didn’t hold up late, and then ran T8s into QQ when I was short, so gg me.  Pretty funny scenario at the end of day 1.   Helmuth was too my immediate right. He was barking about young internet players and how they are too aggressive and he traps them all day, etc etc.   We exchanged a few words, but nothing too serious.  A few of the guys from the house were railing me as the day was coming to an end.  Last hand of the day, Helmuth limped UTG, I limped in
the 2 hole with pocket 2s, SB completed and BB checked.  We saw a flop of 246.  Check, Check, Helmuth led for 3k, I popped it to 11k, the blinds folded, and Helmuth pushed.  I obviously had to call, he rolled over 46o and I held to win.  One of my buddies started laying into Phil, giving him a
hard time about him limping with 46o and losing to an “internet donk”. It was a cooler, but he doesn’t care much for Helmuth and thought it was a great time to get under his skin…mission accomplished!! Helmuth went off and called security over.  My buddy was asked to leave as the croud and tensions grew.  But luckily the day was over and the situation didn’t get too carried away.

So that cash for 11.5k has covered all my live buyins so far and hopefully I can get something going this week.  I’m playing in a PLO H/L tomorrow that I won entry to  by taking down a Mansion side events package.  Have never played the game before, but wasn’t able to get it changed so gl me.  Assuming I don’t make day 2, I’m going to roll my dice in the 1k rebuy as it will be a fun tourney
that will play deep and have a sweet prize pool.  I will drop another line at the end of the week,  hopefully it will be about my first WSOP FINAL TABLE!

till later, R