What's Up

Hey Everyone,

Sorry for the long delay between posts. It's been a fun, tough summer. My little company has been busy and everyone has (is) on vacation so there have been some long days.

The highlight, pokerwise, was my trip to the WSOP. I played in the $1500 NL Prelim Event 37 and finished 156th out of 2800 or so. It felt fantastic to cash and make it to Day 2, but when you bust you still feel like kicking someone. LOL.

I then won a $500 "2nd Chance" tournament that night. It's very cool to win a live tournament (payout was $16,000) -- winning live is a lot different than winning online. It was great to meet so many PokerXFactor members, UB buddies, and PocketFivers at the WSOP. Unfortunately, with their scary faces stuck in my head it's going to be harder to play against them. ;-)

And, of course, it was thrilling to follow Rizen's deep run into the Main Event that ended today. Simply brilliant.

Otherwise, everything has been focused on PokerXFactor which continues to grow and do well. In the Fall we'll be releasing our next big upgrade to the Hand History Analyzer and there are daily videos to produce.

In online poker I've been running very good in SNGs (winning several $100 ones and 10 tecs in the last week) and in satellites (over 1000 tournament dollars), but haven't been doing much in MTTs with some bad beats and bad play. PokerStars has been a tough nut lately in particular.

I took my first shot at UB's Aruba tournament last night finishing 18th out of 104 or so. Top 3 paid. I was about 13th out of 18 when I was late coming back from the break. I get to my chair and see the clock is going as I have AK diamonds in the big blind. A stack slightly smaller than me (around $5500) had gone all-in late position, then a big stack flat called. This looked pretty hopeful to me. I figured the small stack could have almost any two cards -- probably an average ace or middle pair and the big stack coul have the exact same. I needed to chip up that that was the spot. I pushed allin and small stack flips QJ hearts and big stack calls with a middle pair. Flop has a beautiful King of hearts ... but then heart, heart and I have to settle for the smallish side pot. That was the spot where I needed to hit to make the run. Next hand it folds to my SB and I go all-in for the rest of my few chips with ace rag and BB calls with KK. Ace. Woot. Next hand it folds to me on the button with AQ. I push and SB (who I just busted his KK) insta calls with 99 and I miss and am out.

I have a lot of tournament dollars to give it a go but not much time left.

Good luck all!

Ne