Scott Diamond

I hope all of you had a great Holiday weekend and are now on a diet as I am! I played Friday Night at the HO-HO Holdem $345.00 NL event with 260 other entrants. I have nothing exciting to tell you other then I am the Master of the Short stack and if I am ever going to be able to accumulate some chips and keep from constantly being card dead, I am going to give some people fits. I played all the way to level 7 Friday night before getting beat with my J6 to a J3 when the flop was Js-8c-5h. I had to go all in I only had 1500 in chips left after only being able to get up to about 3100 at my peak, a 3 hit the river to give my opponent two pair, as he was also in need of some chips. We started with 2k and I tried to stay out of big pots early as half of the field was gone by level 3. I busted with about 60 people left as I could not muster up any rushes.No bad beats to talk about, However I did see some people playing cards such as 10-5 diamonds and 6-4 hearts out of position late in level 6 to try and get some chips. Both of them hit their flushes, so this is how I know they were playing those cards. My luck lately is if I have diamonds or hearts in my hand clubs or spades flop. So even though I have been mixing up my game lately, I have not been able to get over the hump. However I do feel it coming, I am very happy with my game lately.

I wanted to play some satellites over the weekend but as some of you might have heard the city of Malibu had yet another devastating fire erupt and eight of my peers and I had to go to Malibu and assist. I basically drove around with my partner and made sure there were no looters and we had to make sure homeowners stayed out of the danger zone.

It was an incredibly HOT fire. Homes were burnt to ashes. You couldn't even tell where the refrigerator or any appliances were it was so hot.

One thing that amazed me was the media was giving homeowners "Media Passes" to place in the windows of their vehicles so they could get back to their homes and be filmed by the media outlet crying or grieving over their loss. Anything to get the best story by taking advantage of peoples losses such a shame our society is coming to that. The media always goes to the worse spot in any disaster and shows it live with the reporter and as they try to make the situations bigger than they are people lives are affected.

I wish the Law would change about letting media into disaster areas. They reported so many untrue facts regarding this fire the District Attorney should file a case against them for causing hysteria!!!

Anyway back to Poker. The Five Diamond Classic starts today in Las Vegas at the Bellagio. I have two friends going to the Bellagio to play in the events this week. Jim Pittman, who by the way just made Bluff Magazine for his appearance a few years ago with Phil Hellmuth....Phil told him he couldn't even spell Poker, after taking a beat from Jim. Trust me Jim not only knows hoe to spell Poker he can Play also. He made the final table at this years WSOP shootout event.Also Jorge Pineda, winner of TWO Holiday Bonus Events at Commerce this past month. Good Luck fellas at the Bellagio.

I will be heading up there next Wednesday as I am playing Golf with my partner and Shawn Sheikhan. It was cancelled last time because of a situation my partner had to deal with at work. So we are both looking forward to the trip and we are staying at the Bellagio Wednesday Night the 5th of December. If anyone is in town,please stop by and say hello.

I am trying to post a picture of my girls here for all of you to see, but I cannot get it to post. I talk about them so much I thought it would be nice for everyone to see them.

Well I must go put up some Christmas decorations. The wife did an outstanding job on the outside of the house this weekend and cars are stopping and taking pictures. Now I have to do the inside the same way and keep up with her.

I am working on three interviews with some people in Poker and hope to have them written by the end of the year. There are still some issues going on in their lives so we are waiting for them to finish before posting the article.

Take Care all. PLEASE be safe..