Poker is fun

Its a funny thing about poker.... One day you can feel like your the best and on top of the world, and the next day it can make you feel clueless. Thats how i feel sometimes anyways. Things were going quite well for the short time ive played into the new year before they came to a screaching hault over the past 3 days. I was up a little over 4k (2k from live play/2k from online)and on my way to a nice little 12k month to start the year off until the poker gods decided to slap me back down. I was trying to find a clip of when Hellmuth went nuts saying "if there werent luck in poker id win em' all" but somehow one of the greatest quotes EVER spoken to this day is not on youtube. You might not like Hellmuth but truer (not sure if thats even a word) words have never been spoken and pretty much sum up my past 3 days. Ive been playing great this year and should easily be up about 8k or so on the year but have just ran stupid awful the past 3 days. But i guess thats poker and no one likes to hear bitchy bad beat stories so ill just stop now before i go on some long rant and throw my computer out the window.... haha jk.

Here are some hands from the new year. Keep in mind that after my couple bad sessions i just logged off pokerstars before saving a bunch of hands i wouldve liked to have shown here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3706857
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690448
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690426
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690418
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690401
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690409

Outside of poker i havent really been doing a whole lot since the new year. For my birthday i did in fact end up taking the "laying low" approach by just hanging with the gf and not doing the usual "get as rediculously drunk as possible" thing. We started off by her taking me to dinner at Ruth Chris's steakhouse http://www.ruthschris.com/ which was amazing and im going to go out on a limb here and say it mightve been one of the best steaks ive EVER had. Thats a pretty bold statement to make since ive ate at a lot of the "fancy/expensive" restaurants here in Vegas. Its really not that bad on the wallet either. I think our bill including appetizers,cocktails, and dinner was under 200 which is pretty good. Even better since i wasnt the one paying haha. Afterwards we went over to this martini type bar inside of Paris called Napoleans. They had this awesome dueling pianos show which was a lot of fun. It was definitely a nice change up from all the clubs like pure,lax. etc.. The guys put on an awesome show and they knew every song you could throw at them ranging from obscure metallica songs to billy joel. Highly recommend checking it out if you like fun.

New Years was a blast as well. Shawn had got us Fergie tickets at the Palazzo so after some dinner/a little predrinking that was our first stop. I actually like Fergie so it was a pretty fun time and she put on a great show. The concert ended around 11p.m. so we were in panic/rush mode to get down to fremont street to meet up with some friends and most importantly be down there before midnight. We both were pretty drunk at this point so we cabbed it downtown and luckily got there around 1130. I was on the main strip last year and Fremont new years blew it out of the water. The light show leading up to the countdown was really cool and it just had a lot better party feel/atmosphere compared to the main strip. After midnight we met up with a few friends for some drinks/drunken blackjack before shawn and i finally cabbed it home and capping off a great new years eve.

This is getting way too long and i have stuff to do so im going to wrap this up. Dont think i forgot about my europe trip summary. My computers with most of my pictures is still getting looked at so once i get that back i will put it up. Im either going to play live somewhere or online tonight im still undecided so check back for that later and im out.

Oh also my buddy and i went to the PORN convention this last saturday so ill tell you all about that and put up some pics of me and ron jeremy lol in the next post. later.


(his win at bellagio cup last year)

P.S.- Congrats to my buddy kevin aka "belowabove" on his 8th place finish in the pca at bahamas for 250k. Im sure hes pretty pissed he didnt go on to take down first but either way congrats on being a sick human being.


-Nechita-