Nothing new has really been going on in the life of Rick "chexraisen" Allen the last few weeks. Been getting killed in the hyper turbos on pokerstars, its sick how bad you can run in them; however it is my own fault alot of the tournies i try to hyper turbo into it would be alot cheaper to just by into them on a daily basis. So I am taking a break from online poker till probably the 17th of May then I will be on a business trip in Maine. I come back from that trip and then its time to head off to vegas for the WSOP, kinda pumped for it this year, after a disappointment last year, it just seems both the past two years my cash game play has been outstanding leading up to the series but my tourny play has been lackluster. I did FT a 10 doller rebuy like 50 person tourny last week however it was a donkoment and I had no intention on playing just dicked around till the cash game started and sold 40 percent of my action and turned it into a free roll for me, and i played well and 810 off called my all in 5 handed i had 44 and they hit quad 10s lol so sick but oh well its what you get when you play with a bunch of idiots that shouldnt be at the final table to begin with . I am for sure playing the 1k stimulious event even tho that is going to be a huge donkoment i do believe alot of people are going to be playing abnormaly tight because they are getting a chance to play a wsop for cheap. So that means I will be playing hyper aggressive and trying to accumulate alot of chips early in day one then i will settle down, or i will bust early because again it is only a 1k event. I just found out i am goign on another business trip june 8th - 13th so that eliminates the 3k horse another 1500 nl event i wanted to play. so basically my wsop is going to based on when i have time to get to vegas or just play the one event.

The NBA playoffs have been awesome thus far, if you look back to my only blog post before this i say the NBA hasnt been this good since the Jordan Era and I think the actions of the bulls/celts in round 1 is enought to justify that statement. I am a NJ Nets fan but i just love sports in general, and as a basketball fan I would love to see Kobe vs Lebron in the finals, but i wouldnt be sad to see JJ redick and the Magic to alright as well.

I met this girl from up in tucson, and im seeing where it goes, nothing serious has come of it tho, but were taking things one day at a time, I hope it goes well its nice having a steady girl back in my life, she has almost became my mediun to balance out poker and my life. She is in finals right now at u of a so i dont get to see her much this past week but she is going to vegas withi me for the wsop 1k simulious so who knows maybe she will bring me some luck against all the donks that will be playing that event.

Also I am thinking in july/August to take a vacation somewhere I have plans and flights to fly back to jersey in August but I mean a real vacation some where tropical, no casinos just some booze an island maybe some water sports and alot of relaxing.

chex