Augest 1st

Long overdue update. I have really busy since my last post. I went to vegas for 4 days with some friends, which was a lot of fun. The original goal of this blog was to make 1k for this trip, which I did. So the trip was basically "free."

I got to play a whole lot of poker there, mostly 1/2 NL live which was interesting. I basically broke even gambling wise for the trip. Only having to pay my expenses. If not for some sick coolers I took one of the days over at Ceasers Palace I would have been up about $600 or so. One hand some guy slowplayed turned quads to my bigger rivered full house which cost me a buy-in or so. I also unfortunatly did not get to play any tournaments over there. There were some nice deep stack ones over at the Venetian and Ceaseres, but I decided I would rather not be tied down having to play for 8+hours at a time (which was a mistake). I would really like to get back out there and play some tournaments. Overall the trip was a whole lot of fun with my friends and we had a blast drinking and partying.

This last weekend the Heartland Poker Tour came out to Gary, IN which is only about an hour away from my house. I played one $400+40 Satellite and qualified for the $2000+400 main event. I then played a $100 STT and lost, so I spent about $500 getting into the main event. Out of about 410 people, I took 23rd place. Which was good for almost $5,000. First place was about $250,000. So although I made a lot for myself, I have been fairly dissapointed and depressed. There were a few hands that I think I may have misplaed towards the end, which cost me some valuable chips. One was when I had 99 and had to fold to a CRAI on an A22 flop. Another was when I cbet my missed KJo and had to fold again to a CRAI. And finally a semi questionable call for most of my stack with AJo. Im preddy sure this was the right call, but it still makes me mad. I would write up a tourney report, but its just not all that intresting. I will probably be in some pictures and may make the T.V. cut very breifly. Check out www.heartlandpokertour.com for more info.

Now on to my end of month results.

329 SNG's
+ $1,242

7429 NL cash hands
+ $368

MTT's
- $105

Overall
+ $1,505