So I haven't had time to slow down and write a PocketFives blog due to poker, work, and life over the past few weeks. I actually never got a chance to say that my team won the YBL Championship with an exciting 3-run comeback in the top of the last inning. Unfortunately, my arm was not strong enough to go and it only made my decision to retire that much easier. It feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can get to planning those "poker vacations" for the next few years (before I have kids of course).

Needless to say I'm feeling great about my poker playing right now. Although the results haven't been spectacular, I'm getting it in as a favorite in almost every situation and I've had some deep runs halted by suckouts and losing flips. One time it'll come through though....

I was playing well in last night's $3r on Stars and lost 3/4 of my stack on T7cc shoving to my raise with AQo. Hit the T on the turn. Happens. I was also playing great in the mFTOPS ME until my QQ<AQ AIPF. A on the flop. Pretty gross but I got it in good.

I'm trying to focus on writing this while I have a lot of good things going on at work. This is the first job I feel super-secure in, I like my boss and my colleagues, and I'm having fun (which is huge considering my boss at my first job for 2 years was, in choice words, terrible and my second job at a small business I was always afraid we'd go out of business).

I am looking forward to a $150 deep-stack event on Saturday (25K starting stacks, 40 min. blinds) which I will hopefully do well in. My last live event was the Foxwoods $200 event a few weeks back, and I fell losing a QQ<AK flip in the middle of the pack so hopefully we'll run good and ship this time.

Well, that's it for now! Good luck at the tables and I'll see you there.