I figure that is more interesting than what I've been up to. I decided not to do PCA or Australia this year (really want to get around to doing it, but I am just renting too many places to justify flying all over the place and paying infinite for hotel rooms... I'm usually not that nitty but w/e). So, I'm spending another week watching basketball (at all levels), playing video games, and working out. I messed my back up last week deadlfting when I was tired-- but that is all I'll bore you with, listening to 175 weakling talk about weightlifting is not exciting imo.

I can't remember if I ever wrote any PCA stories in my blog, so I thought I'd share a few (I'm sure I did at some point) briefly.

My first PCA was when I was 19 I think my freshman year of college (unbelievable that it was 6 years ago). My buddy won a seat by sucking out with AK to AA preflop (I think) against legend Jason Strasser in a double shootout and invited me to come. I played cash all week-- I mean ALL week. I bet I played 100 hours of 2-4 (yes, the stakes were 2-4, not 2-5, don't ask me why). I brought ~$2k, probably a quarter of what I had to my name at the time. I won some, and then lost almost all of it, and was down to my last buy in (oh yea, account balance on the table). Our games were located next to the 50-100 games featuring a bunch of legends (the lineup was hilarious, now that I think about it, and included that one South American dude who plays super nitty, he might still be around), including Mike Matusow. Mike asked (loudly) if anyone wanted to make a quick hundred bucks, and since I wasn't doing so hot at the time (and I'm not shy), I accepted. I ran and got him a burger or a chicken sandwich or something, and then later the table wanted another round-- all told I made ~$225 in tips I think. I ran my money up to like ~$3500 the remainder of the week. BOOM.

I went back a few years later to Atlantis for a non-PCA thing that was for Paradise poker. I got staked to play in a $5k by a good friend of mine (who I actually met at PCA) but didn't win anything. I played in a $1k side event on my own dollar and bubbled (I think ~12 paid and I got 13th or something) with QQ vs AT. First was a bunch of money, probably would have tripled my net worth at the time. After the tournament, I went out by the Atlantis pools in the evening when no one was out there. I remember laying on a chair thinking that I'd never do anything in poker, I just ran too bad. To this day I think that is the most numb I've felt from poker, despite the stakes I've played for.

Can't think of a good third story, but I have had countless good times there, would have been sweet to have won it once!