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!