Playing My Ass Off

I have been playing a lot lately, both at the WSOP and the Palms. I've been playing phenomenal, fearless poker but have little to show for it. In the last two WSOP tournaments I played I was able to more than double my stack both times by winning lots of small pots. In both tournaments I had the "most" chips at my table after a few hours...because I had accumulated a ton of green 25 and black 100 chips but very few pink 500s so in reality I never had that big of a stack.

At the Palms yesterday I was probably the chip leader with 15 left but went out in 11th for a miniscule payday. I got outplayed in one huge pot which left me short enough that I had to risk my whole tournament with pocket eights and I ran into aces. I've been eliminated by AA at least six different times including four at the WSOP.

Only two more chances at the WSOP before the championship. I still believe a breakthrough will come soon.

Comments on the comments others have posted on the blog:

1. Spencetron: Kwicky is right, no one has tamed CU. I actually believe Derg Chan the Master (my brother) currently has the course record.

2. Spencetron: I agreed wholeheartedly with your Safin comment after watching some of that Phillipousis destruction...until the Lopez debacle of course.

3. Uncle Jim: I am looking forward to reading the Camp Lemmon blog.

4. Spencetron: Billups is from Denver, and he is not a buffoon.

5. Smartmomma: Who are you? Mommy?

6. Kwicky, Wolf, Jeremy, and Lazypoo: I really appreciate the words of encouragement. Honestly encouragement and positive thinking is more important than anything else right now.