Perhaps it was the rebirth of Pocket Fives on a new platform which has inspired this blog, maybe it was a burning desire on my part to entertain and enlighten...but more probably it was a reprehensible yet alluring desire on my part to stir up strife and discontent among the unwashed masses.

At any rate, I seemed to have reached a crossroads with the game of poker. I withdrew most all the money out of my accounts as June neared. I left enough to be able to rebuild and continue, but alas, that turned out to be delusion.

So now I don't have a penny on any poker site and can't find a lot of motivation and desire to call up Customer Service and see how many hoops I'd have to jump through to deposit money. I played micro buy-in tourneys for seven years. I only won About $40k in that time, but I don't think that's a horribad total considering that was all won in $5 and $10 mtt's with 600-800 player fields for the most part.

I talked to a player about backing me the other day. Just some random guy at my table at UB who liked my game and asked if I'd ever considered playing higher buy-ins. I told him hell yeah, but never could catch a break the few times I could afford to play a little higher.

Anyways we discussed a possible stake deal, but he backed out because he didn't feel comfortable trusting a player with the name of 2Slick4u. Imangine that, LOL!

So that kind of fizzled before it ever got going, but it did get me to thinking about it and whether or not anybody ever offers me a stake situation, I think I'm done with pee-wee league poker. If I don't have enough game to compete in the $50-$100 buy-in tournaments by now, then it's time for me to GTFO and do something else.

Regardless of what happens with that, I'll remain a loyal participant in OT. It's like a drug. You might think you can quit logging on and reading and posting, but you can't. It's got your ass and there's no way out.

That's enough for now. Maybe next blog I'll talk about you instead of me. But you would like that even less if you knew the kinds of things I would probably say about you. Might be safer to just keep on doing what I do best, hinting around about how great I am without coming right out and saying, "Hey, I'm really great! Got that?!"

Til next time, may all your pots be monsters and all your womenz be cheap, easy and good at cooking breakfast.