Ok im sure everyone remembers the old New Orlean Saints. The Saints were the shittiest team in the NFL for years; And while this was very true, they never gave up. Now we have the Dallas Cowboys, and Tony Romo the team quarterback. As a matter of fact i will even throw in the St. Louis Rams when they were the "GREATEST SHOW ON TURF"!!!!! So what does this have to do with poker you may ask? Well it's not so much what it has to do with poker: But more of the fact of what it has to do with my game!

Well it's pretty simple and i will explain if you can bare with me. Not in any particular order as i can relate to every point given so far. I joined Pocketfives in 2007 about two years after i started to dabble around with poker; And honestly i was able to donk my way to a $11,000 cash after about a year of being a member here. And although i read plenty of articles about how guys would move up in stakes and fuck off their winnings; I never really thought or felt that i would be stupid enough to do it! Well guess what, "That's exactly what i did" LOL. And once a realized what had happended i had spewed off about $3,000 of my $4k bankroll.

For some reason i thought i could play in the $109's with BelowAb0Ve and Apestyles LOL. It's only poker right? I told myself!!!!!!!!! Well anyway and as usual i have always had to balance my job at the refinery with playing poker online. And if any of you guys know anything about working in the oil fields; The hours are very crazy and long as fuck! Right now i work about 60-70hrs a week although it's starting to get back to normal; While attempting to play wsop circuit events and play online as well as regular life. To keep it short it really sux and continues to affect the volume that i would like to put in for mtt's.

Honestly i envy a shitload of the players here, as i wish i was able to play 10-15 mtt's a day. Instead i have to make the best of my time and reship 89s to a button raise with 18bb's and hope for the best. Math and Music i love that saying and lately it has helped me grow some balls in mtt's! Anyway i decided to take a look at all of my scores from OPR to PocketFives.com; And i am really upset with all of the min cashes from Pokerstars pre-negro friday up to the present! Just looking at my itm%'s i noticed that i must have just been playing like a nit and blinding down until i had no fold equity. I never really had the balls to 3-bet ship and double up that 20bb stack in mtt's because i knew those AA's were coming soon LOL.

Nowadays i have a brand new attitude with poker in general especialy in Mtt poker! "IN ORDER TO LIVE YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO DIE"!!!!! I have even thought about using this for my signature. I feel like i have to get this fucking monkey off my back! NO MTT WINS!!!!!!! Sometime i feel like the only thing i will be famous for; Is the guy who always managed to get deep in Mtt's and KILLS HIMSELF when it really counts! I cannot tell you how many times i have played almost flawless poker; Only to be the first to bust on the final tables. This also happend to me at Harrahs New Orleans on day two of Event #6 6 max ring event when i finished in 12th place. I played a near perfect game day one, and then went into TONY ROMO mode on day two "BUSTO BITCH"!!!!

For some reason i thought i could reship my 13bb stack with A5o v.s the table chipleader's 250K stack and was dominated by AQs and praying for a Hell Mary lol. This occured one hand after i got cute with KJo on the button v.s the small blind who reshipped all-in and had about 25k less than what i did and who was also shortstacked as well. I insta snap fucking called without even putting him on a range or putting him on a range according to his image. This guy was tighter than a fucking old rustly screw from the Titantic; And of course i just knew my KJo was good here or flipping LOL!!!! "Yeah Right"!!!!!!

There are many days where i can remember playing like the New Orlean Saints. But over the years and as time has it they finally won a super bowl; And i was lucky enough to be here to witness it. In so many ways this is exactly how i feel about my game; And all the work that i am currently putting in to improve. As a matter of fact im at work now updating this blog as we speak so to say LOL. And being from E.St Louis and a St.Louis Rams fan as well a New Orleans; I know that sooner or later i will rise from the ashes like that bird on fire LOL!!! And all of this shit WILL PAY OFF!!!!! POSITIVE THINKING= POSITIVE RESULTS!!!!!!!!!

It's been a while since i have made an entry here at Pocketfives. I always did and still love to come here to get in the know of the poker world. Recently i just turned 40 years old so im officailly an old man i guess lol. Anyway it's been two and a half years since i have been blessed to see any family or friends back at home. As some of you know i am origianlly from E.St Louis Illinois; And came to New Orleans in 2005 for work after Katrina. Well lots of things have changed in these last 7 years or so; As plenty have died or just plain got locked up or killed in the hood that im from!

I always have and continue to thank God for the changes that i made in my life. But most of all i thank him for showing me the game of poker. Poker has and continues to this day to change my life for the best. I no longer drink only becuase i couldn't play optimal poker with alcohol in my system. I no longer run the streets all night putting myself in harms way ect. As far as poker goes i have gotten a lot better at playing 6 Max poker; something i have always to give a shot but never really took it seriously. Recently i was able to run deep in a w.s.o.p circuit event at Harrahs New Orleans for 12th place on May 15-16. I really wanted to final table that thing, as i have worked all of this year strictly on 6 max poker! http://www.wsop.com/players/playerpr...layerID=145422

Also if anyone interested i also keep an ongoing blog with videos, updates, interviews ect here: http://www.tournamentsessions.blogspot.com/ Recently i have really begun to take poker more seriously; As i used to only really just play as much as possible instead of putting in work away from the table. Also when i played in the wsop event at Harrahs i met quite a few players who actually play for a living. One guy explained that, "even though he plays as a pro live there is no way in hell he'd make it as a pro online". Basiclly since you get to play 1000's of hands online per day; The learning curve for the online player is far superior indeed. I told him after being at his table for about 3 hours or so, that i was going to give the entire circuit a spin for the 2013 season. It's really strange because i have $13,000 in mtt cashes live and $5000 in cash game winnings as well; even though this stretches over an 7 year period! $7k in Biloxi in 2008 at the Baue Rivage monthly 20,000 and others including the wsop cash live. Bottom line is i have decided to play the entire wsop circuit for 2012-2013 and my plan is to play one full ring and one 6 max event a each location. My supervisors at my work have pretty much agreed to work around my live poker schedule as well; Therefore if i so happen to run better than expectation i will be allowed some extra time and have my shifts covered.

Ok now as far a life in general goes, i think that it's time for me to start working out once again. The great food down here in the Big Easy is very hard to turn down. And also the job is still going strong; As well as the move to my new luxury 3 bedroom apartmentt in a gated community. I was also blessed enough to purchase a nice 1999 Ford Mustang GT with a Cobra kit for a very nice price. As far as the personal life goes it looks like i am going to be force to hang up my guns and get married. My girl is really putting on the pressure and besides she is one fine thing to look at except for in the mornings. Oh yeah i almost forgot to thank Austin Walton for taking time out of his schedule to coach me in the 6 max games! Obv i can go on and on about so much shit that has come to past since my last blog here lol!
Well now there is Las Vegas!!!!!!!! Somewhere i have never been but plan to be in July!!!! Well im sure most of you are planning to hit the wsop main this month? And my plan is to play Event #54 $1000 buy-in NL Holdem which is a 3 day event; And from what im hearing the fields in the 1k's are crazy during the series so this should be interesting. I also plan to play in the daily deepstacks as a backup plan if i don't play or run well in the 1k. I will however be spending 5 days in Vegas no matter what happends during the wsop. Well anyway this all goes back to something that i always have heard from my mother; Who is going to Vegas with me as well. FINISH WHAT YOU START!!!!! I have spent 8 years are so toying around with live and online poker; And im not getting any younger eithier LOL. I think it's time for me to get my shit together and start taking things a bit more seriously. Personally i have always been a slow starter, and very dedicated once my mind is set on accomplishing certain goals. Sometimes you can just feel the big run in life coming, and lately i have been feeling it as well as seeing it! For some reason it has taken a while to set in but now i know the secret!

To god be all the glory is something that i have to often remind myself. As a wise man once told me, you are only allowed to prosper as you do by the grace of god. No matter how good you are or how smart you are at this game; God allows you too do so through his blessings. Its been 8 long months since i have blogged here at Pocket Fives, and i must say ive missed it very much. I feel like 2012 will be a break out year for me for a lot of reasons; As i have made a ton of what i like to call business decisions.
I truly feel that this is the best time to work even harder on my game. My HU sng game has improved as well as my mtt knowlegde. I am very proud at how i have progressed with little or no help in the past. This just gets me to thinking about something my mother tells me all the time. "FINISH WHAT YOU START" and everything else will fall in place. Remember Victory Loves preporation if that's howits spelled. So this year i just told my number one fan, who happends to be my mother. That i would work hard and finish strong!!!!!!