Mark Newhouse

just slept through the beginning of the 1500 no limit, but whatever, the small ones are crapshoots anyway, i already bought in, but by the time i get to the rio it will be like 1/2 anyway and ill be at like 2500 chips, just like the playboy tournament, not worth my time i dont think, got room service on the way anyway

lost like 10k last night playing micro-limits, its almost more brutal to lose 10k at 30 and 50 than it is to lose like 50 at 2/4, its just demoralizing to run bad at the easiest games in the world, trying to do things right and not play 1/2 or 2/4 with 10k in my account like i usually would, i hate playing small though, im not a grinder, gonna get some more online and try to run it up again today i guess

brandi sat down at my table and started talking to me yesterday, like were supposed to be friends or something, lol, guess that means she is going to pay me something, i hope so anyway

i think my rental car was due back like a week or so ago, i should probably call them and extend it again

played the 2k no limit today, it was pretty boring, lasted like 3 hours or so, should have had a lot of chips but lost a 3 way all in with AQ vs AJ and A8, but whatever, thats usually how tournaments go anyway

also cant walk through the rio for like 2 minutes without being hit up by someone either for a loan or to take a piece of them, i said no to 2 people today, pretty proud of myself, lol

anyway, gonna try to get some money online and grind small for a bit and try to run it up, theres nothing i hate more than live 1/2 or online 30 or 50, but ive managed to bloodbath myself again, so gonna try to pump it up the right way, havent really played at all in like a week, just been goin out and stuff, need to start grinding, im sure the big games at bellagio should be starting some time soon, so need to be ready when the 1k/2k comes around, although it seems like all the animals from last year are hurting this year, so dont know if were going to be able to get the same holdem action

i wont be shipping out any money to anyone who dosent have cash upfront this time, getting tired of dealing with trying to collect from busted animals

no tournament for me today, been sleeping all day, went to the rhino last night and spent way too much on nothing as usual, im supposed to call a stripper, but not really motivated to, just 1/2 at bellagio, gotta get up at 12 tomorrow, so probly not going to do much today, might play for a bit, maybe ill call the girl in a few

just got a call from my friend that someone who owes me is playing 3/6 mix downstairs, got like 2800 from him, nothing, gonna go back and check on him in like an hour or so, other than that, not really too much going on to write about, hopefully i can come up with something a little more interesting for tomorrow

oh yeah, by the way, ted forrest told me last night if you get a message on myspace form him its not him, some scammer, figured thats worth letting everyone know

i lost a bet with gary so i have to do this every day for a month, hopefully ill be able to keep up with it, but is kind of a bloodbath anyway

been a decent world series so far, cashed in the rebuy for like nothing, went ahead and bought into like everything im going to play so i dont bloodbath all my money before the events, im going to play a bunch of them this year, last year i mainly played cash games

my main focus this world series is going to be collecing debt, its fairly safe to assume that if someone is broke and plays poker they owe me money, im going to try not to name too many names here but a few of them are pretty publicly known anyway

i went on a nice little run right before the series started, im finally playing good again, went home for the first time since january and ran 10k up to like 300 in 2 weeks online, obviously i sent most of it out to people who cant pay me back though

i was really close to clearing my biggest figure at the moment when i played joe cassidy heads up for like 20 hours, everyone already knows this so ill say the name, neverwin had half of me and we switched off and sweated eachother, we were winning close to 200k, had joe in a frenzy for a while and i think we were playing him very well through most of it, but we ended up getting tired and lost 60k overall, whatever, joes a very good player, but i dont regret playing him and definately will agian some time, this time i dont feel like im going to go into a 2 month frenzy like i did after the iwanturmoney bloodbath, the last 20 i was on my own, and that was kind of unecessary as i was pretty tired and not focused by that point, really id be easily just as happy as dustin would to clear his debt with me, we are good friends and it sucks having money get in the middle of things

it seems like a few of the people who owe me have pretty much no intention of paying anything, they probably do, but they are so burried its hard to get anything from them anyway, one person has made it fairly public that she has absolutely no intention of paying what she owes, and that is brandi hawbaker, this thing is supposed to be fairly short so if you dont already know the whole story check out 2+2, the last few days ive been on and off the phone with sklansky, hes hopefully going to aid me a little bit in this, but hes mostly just been asking me to post stuff for him

anyway, i gotta do this every day, so hopefully ill be able to think of something for tomorrow