Wise Hand Poker

I was going to talk about my vacation with my family in Laughlin this past week and my two tournament beats,but after logging on and reading Ryan's blog today there is noreason to tell you another bad beat story or the story of my vacation when their is so many other more important issues going on in the world.

I have never met Ryan and I commend him for being a great son to hs Father. I have written stories before about "Perspective" in life and we all sometimes forget the wonderful gift we have of being here with friends and loved ones.

Ryan if there is anything I can do for you and your family,please do not hesitate to ask.

I will let all 5 of my readers know about my vacation later next week, in the meantime please say a special prayer for the Schmelzer family.

Take care...Be safe....

Roughly 10 days before the start of the WSOP this summer, Gary and I were talking and he asked me if I would be interested working with PokerNews to do chip updates for them. It’s something that I really wanted to do and I knew I would enjoy the time I’d be working. It also would have given me the opportunity to make some connections in the industry incase I decide to dabble in it after I graduate.

I got in contact with Garry Gates, who did some work for this site in the past, and we discussed how everything would work. It was short notice, but things could have worked out with just a little planning (living arrangements, transportation to and from the Rio, etc.).

One thing made me think declining the offer might be the best thing though. If you follow my blog (sadly my entries have been scarce lately), you might remember that last summer my dad was diagnosed with brain cancer. His tumor started growing again this spring and was successfully operated on again. The fact that I never knew what would happen and when led me to decide it was best that I don’t move across the country for a month and a half.

This ended up being the right choice. On what I think was day two of the Series, we found out that my dad’s tumor once again had started growing and had moved into a new location. To make matters worse, the area it moved to is inoperable.

He just started a new study program on Tuesday. He has to get an IV every Tuesday and take a pill everyday. Like everything involving brain cancer, this is in the experimental stage and has no guarantees. All we can do is pray and hope this is the answer.

I hadn’t been playing much poker this summer till a week or two ago. Things were going just OK. However, I recently picked up limit Omaha hi/lo and it has been going well for me. I have always liked the game a lot, but I always felt I had a better edge in NL hold’em. I have only had one losing session in Omaha in roughly 5 sessions. My loss was kind of sick. I had tripled my buy-in and ended up a loser. I wasn’t too happy with that. I played earlier today and lost my first buy-in and ended up fighting back and ended up a buy-in.

All I have for now. If any of you played in any WSOP events, I hope they went well. If you are playing tomorrow in the Main Event, best of luck to you!

I played in one event last Friday at the Bike. It was a 335.00 NL event with a 143 entries. I played some great Poker after getting beat with a set of Queens to a flush. runner runner hearts by the way.

I was down to 2000 after we started with 6000 chips. I built my way back up to 7400 when a big stack young gun came to the table. He raised his blind every time and really picked on some of the shorter stacks. He saw me have KK twice and he really didn't come after me when I made a raise.

I limped with 300 chips with KJ hearts in his BB and he raised me to 1500 chips. I thought for a bit and decided to make a move on him so I went all in. A short stack called me and this gave him some odds to call and he did with AQ. The short stack had 10-9 and hit a 9 on the flop and the board didn't hit me and his Ace high knocked me out.

I still was going to have 10 time the BB if I had folded but I wanted to take a chance here and if the short stack doesn't call he folds and I pick up a few chips.

Anyway I have been watching some of the events on ESPN 360 and have enjoyed them. Poker News also has done a terrific job this year reporting and again, I would like to thank them.

I didn't get an offer to play the 1500 today so I have the boat already to go and the wife is finishing up some last minute washing and we should be on our way to Laughlin later tonite or first thing in the morning. I will have my lap top with me so I will be able to check any messages from any of you. We then head to Vegas on Saturday the 5th to watch some of the Main Event and I am going to try and play in a 200.00 buy in at the Orleans Hotel on Saturday. I won my first tournament at the Orleans and I enjoy playing there.

There is a TON of Poker Tournaments coming up in the next few months so I look forward to seeing some of you soon...Take Care...Be Safe...