I was down in Biloxi this weekend for the WPT event there. I drew a table with Carlos Mortensen, Nick Shulman and a kid named Chase Steely. There was another good young player that I don't know by name, too. Things went poorly as I busted as time expired in the second level. Level 1 went ok. I quickly slipped to like 27000 after I valuetowned myself in a pot against a guy with KQhh vs his AQ on QJJxx. I won a couple small pots to climb back to 30800 to finish the level above the starting stack. I came back from break and early in level 2 a guy opened to 550 from the button. I found AdKs in the SB and raised to 1800 and he called. Flop AcTd5c. I checked and he checked. Turn kind of ugly Qd. I decided to bet just 1400 and he quickcalled. River 5d. I block/value bet 3300 and was snapped and shown AQ for top two and down to about 22500. I lost another couple of pots including a pot I played poorly against Nick Shulman before the bustout hand came up as time expired and players were headed to break in level 2. A player who'd limped a ton did so for 200 and Nick raised behind him to 900. A guy called 900 cold and then I found AKo and had about 12500 left. I raised to 3500 knowing that Nick is gonna exploit this guy's limp very often. It was folded back to Nick and he instantly made it 8000. Other guy folded, and I don't have much of  a choice but to go with it. I'm gonna be shown something like two jacks just about everytime and be a 14:11 dog, but it is what it is. This time Nick had two black tens and I never came close on Q8659.

I watched the Saints game in my room and then Adam, Eric, Eric's girlfriend Mary and I headed over to the Hard Rock casino to drink/degen it up since both of them busted as well. We played some Pai Gow and prop bet the dealer's hand for several hours with the end result us all being stuck.

I talked Adam into riding up to Tuscaloosa with me to hang out for a couple days. Tonight we're gonna ride up to Birmingham to watch #25 UAB vs Tulsa basketball and then Adam flies out Wednesday afternoon. Not too much will be going on in my life for the next couple months, so blog entries will be infrequent.

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