Just final tabled the $5,000 Mixed Hold’em event (half limit, half no limit). It’s 3:30am and I need sleep, so I’m gonna keep this short. Pretty “star studded” final table including David Williams and myself representing Bodog. I know all other 8 players at the table which is never a good thing. I’m in good shape though, with 517,000 out of the 3.2 million chips in play. My parents are flying in and my brother is driving to give me some support. It’s gonna be televised on ESPN. MrSmokey1 won this event last year, so I am really hoping that I can bring the ...

Im listening to Wiretap Scars by Sparta. I forgot how good this album was. It’s sooo good. I’m going to compose this blog with seemingly random sentences. Don’t feel like writing in paragraph form. I moved to Vegas last week. Staying at Panorama towers (home to ~40 poker players including fellow Bodog pros DWilliams and Evelyn Ng. Also home to all the guys I lived with last summer) Ozzy87 will be living with me at least for a while. We’ve gone nuts buying stuff for the condo. Have all our furniture already. Spent $740 at the grocery store. Then spent $1400 at LinensNThings. ...

I am ecstatic to say that I am the newest Team Bodog member! I love the team. I think it’s safe to say that Bodog has by far the coolest team out there. It’s also a very select team with only four pros, all of whom fit perfectly with the Bodog image: David Williams, Evelyn Ng, Jean Robert Bellande, and Myself!!! This has been a dream of mine for years, so I couldn’t be happier right now. All that is left to do is to bring home a bracelet this year for the team.

So I played the WSOP $5,000 Circuit event at Caesar’s last week. It had about 340 players and I finished 5th for $96,000. Anyone that reads my blog will know that I was not happy with that finish. I’m not going to even get into why. One cool thing is now I have a WSOP, WSOP Circuit, EPT, and WPT final table, all under my belt. At only 22, I’m pretty sure I’m the youngest person to do all four of those. Are there even any 22 year olds with three of those? IDK. As for how the tournament went, Day 1 was ...

I wrote my last blog after a 35k cash game win. I actually tripled that profit over the next 4 days before having my first losing day of ~20k. I played a couple of hands poorly last night, but overall I’ve been playing well. I realized I haven’t been sick on months. Unfortunately the thing that made me realize that was getting sick last night. It started off as just a really bad runny nose with no other symptoms. Within a few hours it was so bad that I had to leave the cash games. I had to get up every two ...

Weeeeeeeee. Had a great winning session in the cash games tonight. All week I’ve been trying to grind at 200/400 mixed games, but the games have never been great, and I’ve been running terribly at Badougi. Tonight I made all my losses back and more at 25/50 NL. Won about $35,000 total. The hand of the night was against Huck Seed. I raised Q7hh to 200 from the button, and he called from the big blind. The flop came Q75 with two clubs. He checked, I bet 425, he checkraised to 1600, I reraised to 4200, and he moved all-in for 20k. I called and ...

Quick recap before I get to the good stuff: I’m at Bellagio. I’ve played 4 events so far. I finished 12th in the $3,000 tournament which was a cash, but it only paid $4200. Today was the 5k. I ran QQ into AA early on. It was the type of hand that is an easy fold against some players, and an easy call against others. I didn’t know my opponent at all, and basically had to guess. We started with 10k chips but I was down to 2k after that. As you all know, when I’m shortstacked and/or there is no money ...