Nice run lately

After quite a long hiatus from both my local home game and online pay of any significance, due to being busy, I decided to play a bit while on a business trip. I was stuck in a hotel room for several nights, and first decdied to play a few $5 Heads-Up SnG's. I won several of them, and used the winnings to sign up for the UB $30+$3 $12.5k guaranteed tourney. I placed 17th and won ~ $175. Pretty cool. The next night I went out for some great sushi (best of my life actually - Sushi Yasuda, Midtown right by Grand Central Station). Afterwards, I got back just in time to sign up again for the same tourney. Lo and behold, at around 2:30am I found myself the winner, with just under $3k in winnings. It took a bit of luck (one egregious suckout on the river with A-10 in the small blind against Q-Q on the button against a notorious blind stealer. He cussed me for about 15 good minutes, then made me a side bet of $100 that I wouldn't make the final table. Funny, he didn't pay up after I won...

I'd post the screen shot, but I'm not that savvy with html.

That makes my combined winnings over the last 60 days ~ $4k, counting a win at a local poker club, and a couple of home game tourney wins. Not too bad.

OK, it's been a while

I'm going to try and rekindle this blog, at least for nothing else than chronicling the home game.

For now, a couple of quick posts:

First, Johnny Law has stepped up their local enforcement activities lately. I have been playing semi-regularly at a local semi-official poker room. From them this week:

Hi Folks!!

The Wake County community is stirring with lots of news, gossip, speculation, and fear about the events that took place yesterday at “The Cabin”. There are many stories circulating about what took place and what is on the agenda of Wake County District Atty. Mr. C. Willoughby.

My lawyers and I are in the process of trying to uncover all the facts and projections, but here is some information that I think is reasonably accurate:

Sometime yesterday afternoon (June 19) a group of law enforcement officers entered “The Cabin” which is a popular local poker room that is located inside Wake County. The officers issued citations to several people and confiscated cash from the individuals as well as equipment and other articles from the building. There are reports that the officers even searched the vehicles that were parked outside and that they took money from these vehicles in addition to the money they took from the people inside the building. So far, the information is sketchy and not very reliable, but there is no information that anyone was actually taken into custody. I haven’t been able to find any newspaper report of the incident. I have received telephone calls from other poker room operators in the area who have shared information with me and have asked my opinion.

I am not the least bit concerned for myself or for my property, but in order to gain additional information and to avoid any inconvenience to others, I have decided to take a short vacation.