Stay Tuned

My Irongirl blog was originally created in 2005 to chronicle by poker hijinx both live and online. Since Black Friday 4/15/11, I haven't been able to play online poker so I haven't had much to write about. I left the meaty reporting on the demise of Full Tilt to my friends employed in the poker industry. Besides, I was and still am having too much fun with Phish and Furthur reuniting and touring once again. Once a hippie always a hippie

I had a health scare in 2011 after just turning 50: Over the course of two colonoscopies I had 14 colon polyps removed and pieces of a nasty rectal one taken out. The later showed the earliest signs of cancer and was surgically excised from my Rectum on Halloween 2011. (My friends can commence back door jokes now). I've been changing my diet working on going organic taking vitamin D and baby aspirin and working on taking off the weight I put on going thru the Change. Baby Steps. For the Record, they got it all and my first 3 month check up showed no signs of recurrence and I have healed nicely. Next month is Colo-Rectal Cancer Awareness month so expect some PSA's. Id like to personally thank one of the Wicked Chops Entities if he hadn't kept getting screened firmly planted in my mind I may have put it off well past my 50th birthday (the time your first supposed to get screened) and be looking at a bowel resection or worse.

Since I cant push stacks of poker chips around online I picked up a new hobby: Birding and I also have been volunteering at my local animal shelter. We have a cat annex at our local shopping mall. Sunday mornings I am over there cleaning kitty cages, feeding them and exercising/socializing with them. I even adopted another kitty and he has become great friends with Bailey.

I will be doing a Capital-District Community Garden plot this year using organic gardening practices. I also hope to participate in the next share of the only Community Supported Bakery or CSB in the area: ALL GOOD BAKERS which is an organic farm to table bakery. Ive really been trying to put a lot more thought into food choices as well as recycling, re-purposing, and composting. Remember to Love your Mother Earth.

I plan to either put this blog to bed or on dry dock until we can legally play poker online again. So, I will probably start a all new gardening/birding/life style blog. I use life style very loosely!!

In the meantime, I'm currently fascinated by the TIMES UNION series on a Multi-Level Marketing (MML)/Ponzi scheme of a life-coaching CULT that has its nucleus right in my own community and whose leaders live in my own development and which include the Bronfman Sisters: Clare and Sara. I encourage my local 518'ers to check out the SARATOGA IN DECLINE BLOG which has covered the NXIVM cult for quite some time

US Online Poker Ban - Some Link Dumps

From the NY Times: Foreign Money Fueled Failed Bid to Push Online Poker

From the New York Post: Payment Processor Pleads Not Guilty...

Bill Rini's Poker Blog : The Fallout From The Full Tilt / PokerStars Pullout

For some interesting insight into the legal aspects of the case read the last few days of blog posts on my friend CK's blog CK is an attorney although currently not practicing law.

From Change100's blog read: The End of the (poker) World as we know it. Change is not only a well-established member or the poker Media but she also shipped the Ladies PCA event this year at Atlantis. A good chunk of her savings and payment for work she has done is tied up online.

Quad Jacks.com has been having a marathon session of guests on a U-Stream feed ever since news broke. Guests as diverse as Scott Matusow (Mike's brother) to CK (above) to Shane Schleger (PokerSTars TeamOnline) to Todd Terry to BJ Nemeth have all been offering insight or what little they have and their perspectives on what has been going down.

First if I were in backer with deep pockets (which I'm not) I would set up poker hostels (I prefer that name to a poker boiler room, although I image thats what it would look like) overseas say in Vancouver, Costa Rica, Toronto, London etc. Basically, anywhere online poker is regulated free of the US Govt. Offer a room, and an internet cafe/station where residents could grind out their living and a concierge to assist our grinders in the local culture. Make the players take breaks. limit their stays to no more then two months at a time. They have to leave and can come back or visit another location. Force them to see the world. Offer classes in Bank Roll Management, ie wealth management. Offer onsite massage, a life coach whatever, offer day trips to the local attractions/museums. Better yet call it a poker spa. Treat it like Poker's version of Semester at Sea.


With the above "hostels" established US Online Grinders could ex-patriate themselves for stretches of time & continue to grind out a living online. If I were a young pro who wanted to continue playing online I would move out of the country, but have a plan. Example: Make this much money and then retire or go to college. Part of that plan would also be to transition to live play if I currently didn't play live. I'd also get outside and see the freaking world while I was overseas. The structure of my poker spa would encourage a well balanced education.

As for the accusations against the Big 3, the charges of money laundering are severe. Breaking the law is breaking the law and that appears to be the biggest problem the three major sites are facing. As a friend of mine who is a NY State policeman once said to another friend who got a speeding ticket when she passed another vehicle. "If you exceeded the speeding limit, even while passing its still speeding".


I'll post more interesting links as I find them.

The apocalypse of Online Poker in the US

I have no idea what is going on as I just opened up my twitter feed to see that the United States DOJ has indicted 11 of the owners of Full Tilt, PokerStars and Cereus (Absolute Poker & Ultimate Bet) for fraud and money laundering and illegal gambling aka your basic racketeering charges. I would assume bank officials who allowed the payments to be processed are also going to be herded up soon.

Sucks for my friends grinding out a living online.

Here are links to a few of the articles I rounded up but didnt read yet:

Wall Street Journal
Eleven Charged in Federal Crackdown on Online-Poker Companies

Business Insider Meet The Boy Genius Who Just Took Down The Online Poker Industry

CNN Money Online poker companies indicted for fraud

Also Check out Pokerati for breaking news. Pauly is currently in Lima Peru covering a LAPT event for Pokerstars but he did have time to scrape this together on Tao of Poker

I just saw 2+2 moderator and former Pokerati contributor, Kevin Mathers tweet that the 2+2 forum had its highest number of people on the forum at one time a little while ago looking for information.

As of a few minutes ago i could still log onto Pokerstars but i didnt actually attempt to try to play anything. Edit**** US Residents are banned from playing any cash games or tournaments

Retirement to Costa Rica is looking good.

Trey Anastasio - Acoustic/Electric Videos

I shot a ton of video of Trey Anastasio's Acoustic & Electric performances at the Palace Theater on Saturday Night. Saratoga Springs musician Tony Markellis has been a long time member of Trey's touring band aka TAB Classic.

Check out the videos on You Tube under Irongirl99. Be sure you see the re synced version of TAB performing the Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood". The previous night Trey covered Outkast's Hey Yeah.

I just noticed my prior post count was 420. These days I'm 420 friendly but haven't smoked in years. I joke that my retirement job will be moving back to Colorado to become a grower. I got a mean green thumb.

And big congrats to fellow poker blogger/pro Shane Schleger (and fellow New Yorker) who recently was named to Pokerstars Team Online. I've never met Shane but we have some mutual friends/acquaintances. I've followed his career thru the ups and downs for years and glad to see his hard work pay off.

GUNG HAY FAT CHOY

Happy Chinese New Year - The Year of the Rabbit.

This poster is actually hanging in my house. I'm pretty sure I purchased it at the old Psychedelic Solution located in NYC's Greenwich Village. It's by artists VEGETABLE & ERICKA and was done in 1987 to commemorate the Grateful Dead Shows held at San Franciso Civic Center January 28-30th 1987.

GUNG HAY FAT CHOY - Live long and prosper.

Dr Pauly and the 2011 WSOP Schedule

Dr Pauly best known for his Tao of Poker, Tao of Pauly, Tao of Fear and Coventry Music Blogs as well as a contributor to Bluff Magazine and author of Lost Vegas Book just did a guest post for the Poker From the Rail Blog:

Please check out his fine contribution here:

Dr Pauly and the 2011 WSOP Schedule

Full Tilt Poker will once again be offering satellites to win your way into the 2011 WSOP you can download Full Tilt Poker by clicking on the link to the right.

And if you haven't read Lost Vegas Book yet it is now available on Kindle, Nook, and from Amazon.com and Lulu.com

New England Forecast 2/1/11

This is pretty funny, I'm an outlier on this map about 45 minutes west of Pittsfield just north of Albany. Think we already have about 6" on the ground from this storm in Southern Saratoga County, with another 12" expected tomorrow. This is on top of the snow already on the ground.

Thank goodness I telecommute.

PokerStars WBCOOP - 2011

I'm a little late in finding out about the 2011 WBCOOP. For some reason didn't get an email about Events at Pokerstars on this.

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: XXXXXX 377993

2011 - IG's Odyssey

During 2010 I posted vary little on this blog. My Irongirl Blog started back in 2005 chronicling my low limit grinding as a poker forum rat playing freerolls and low limit MTT tourneys. I played very little poker in 2010. I think I can count 4 times I played live last year. Last new years day and over 4th of july at the APL, last April during the NAPT over at Mohegan Sun where I ran deep but missed a cash by a few spots in the ladies event. And during October of this year I played a charity tourney for the Mockingbird Foundation which is a Phish related Charity. There were a few years where I played poker every day. I banged out lots of hands, read lots of books, forum threads, poker strategy articles etc. I lived and breathed poker. I played online, joined a league, frequented underground card rooms and although i didnt burn out, poker eventually lost its grip on me.

I had expected to play more poker in 2010 largely because i would be turning the big 50 and would be eligible for seniors events. But a bunch of my favorite bands returned to touring and Furthur, Phish, Max Creek and my new favorite band the McLovins found me attending a ton of concerts and music festivals and my head behind a video camera instead of a pile of poker chips. I also resumed exercising in 2010 and although i didnt run, I did take (and still am taking) a cardio dance/hip hop class 2-3 times a week which saw me lose a few pounds over the year.

I saw Phish 10 times in 2010 in three States, Furthur (former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh) 5 times in two states, the McLovins about 5 times in two states and Max Creek about 5 times in three states and I also saw 7 Walkers and the Rhythm Devils (the other two original surviving grateful dead members offshoot bands). I even tried to go see a Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm's studio but got shut out when My Morning Jacket was announced as opening act.

I started a Facebook page up largely at the urging of my friend Carol who is the Manager of the McLovins and the mom of Jake the drummer. We happen to be co-workers but in different offices. So Facebook was a way for us to keep in touch because we arent supposed to use company email/instant messaging for personal business. Because of Facebook, I rekindled tons of old friendships in 2011 and made a whole bunch of new ones and in this day of social media its easier to keep in touch with people. It was also kind of cool when I got introduced as Irongirl people would know me from my music videos or posts on Coventry Music rather then my online poker handle.

I rang in the new year with Change100, Dr Pauly and Benjo in New York City. Pauly is like a kid brother to me so that makes, Change my sister-in-law. Even though I am closer in age to her parents then she is to me we still have an awesome time together. Shared loves of music, Broadway shows, shopping, cooking etc easily bridges generation gaps. One of my favorite memories will be looking at Change and both of us doing Jazz hands to end certain Phish songs. We were doing the Jazz hands well before we knew Phish would be performing their song MeatStick and turning it into a Broadway show complete with chorus line and dancers. I always get asked why I didn't write about my adventures on Phish tour with Pauly and its largely because I value the private time I get to spend with him and Change so I just keep it off limits. And thats all I will say about that.

Now I just need to get over the mild Wook flu I have which is a hazard of tour and which I think all of us came down with post YEMSG. Im not sure the Wookies started it because some non-Phisheads also got sick with similiar symptoms at the same time.

I reckon and hope, I will play more poker in 2011 then i did in 2010 and i reckon I will see more shows.

Merry Christmas

The fat man wishes you a very Jerry Merry Christmas to you and yours. May there be Phish and Furthur tickets in your stockings. May the day be filled with joyous noise however you choose to celebrate it.

Ive met a ton of people and made lots of new friends this year on the Phish and Mclovins scenes and rekindled old friendships from my Grateful Dead and Max Creek days including some very special people I had lost touch with. Some of you cross over into both worlds. Some of you no longer are able to get out there. For those of you that can't Im glad I can keep you in the loop via my videos, blog posts, phone calls, emails and texts.

I'll be ringing in the New Years in New York City with some of the Coventry Music crew. And cant wait to see a lot of the phish twibe in the Big Apple.

I apologize for the lack of regular blog posts. I had a busy run of concerts during the month of October. I came back from Phish's Atlantic City run over Halloween to find my cat Rags, had gone blind. He was the neighborhood stray/tom cat that someone either abandoned or abused who showed up in my neigborhood sometime in early 2008. Not knowing his real story and if he belonged to anyone. I didnt begin feeding him till Xmas of 2008 when I found him hanging around a neighbors porch and huddled under a chair with a tarp on it. It took me a couple of months before I could even pet him. I had had him neutered in October of 2009. By November 2009 he would finally stay behind a closed door. It took me a good 10 months to redomesticate him and get him to trust people and it took a lot of love, food and kindness

After a trip to the emergency clinic, after driving home 5.5 hours from Atlantic City with a stop in Riverdale, NY and a follow-up visit to my vet, He was diagnosed with diabetes, regained some of his vision and was doing good with his twice daily insulin injections. At the end of November he began to lose the use of three of his legs and by the first weekend in December he wasnt really eating like he used to and try as me might he couldnt make the three steps to his litter tray from his bed. Although I didnt run the tests, the vet and I were pretty sure he had cancer of some sort that was effecting his central nervous system, as he had lost a ton of muscle tone over the last month. I made the humane decision to put him down as his prognosis was bleak. He was my good Karma kitty as I put a lot of time into making him loved his last year with me.


Here's to a wonderful happy healthy 2011

Namaste.

Happy Birthday Jerry Garcia

Just back from Gathering of the Vibes. Saw two of the 4 days of music. Went into the trip completely exhausted and bailed early yesterday about 6 PM. I went back to my hotel room and slept for 10 hours. Kim & Connor left after our diner breakfast Saturday morning so I attended Saturday solo. We connected with Mom and Dad of drumlovin, on Friday afternoon as well as Jake (drumlovin) and Jason (basslovin). I caught their awesome set yesterday and marched with a few other McLovin fans with a TOKYO TEA sign getting people over to the Green Vibes Stage. They opened with Dancing in the streets and closed with Men at Work's "Down Under". Sandwiched in between were a bunch of songs from their new CD Good Catch. I caught the first few songs of their set, ran over to catch a few of Max Creeks over on the main stage, then back to McLovins for the end of their set and back to Max Creek for their finale. Why they booked the two bands overlapping is beyond me.

Zach Deputy led it all off Saturday on the main stage with his one man show of funk and blues and knocked me out of my shoes. I was chipper then but midway thru Assembly of Dust I was ready to sit down. I actually took a cat nap under a tree in the shade during Galactic. I wanted to get down to some good Nawlins funk featuring Cyrus Neville on vocals but was too tired. I decided to call it a day, went home showered got some good mexican food and crashed.

Im A ok after the sleep. I was stressed out worrying about a neighbors cat who was shut inside a condo with no air conditioning on some very hot days. Workmen from our property manager had to enter the condo because of a leak and asked me to go in because I am on the board. The downstairs condo had water coming into it from what was feared to be a busted hot water heater. It turned out it was the air conditioning leaking. So the guys turned it off. I knew they had a cat but we found the cat with barely any water and only dog food. The teenage girl who lives their with her mother took off with the two dogs at least a week prior leaving the cat behind. The cat box had not been changed in what looked to be two weeks and the mother was away on vacation. The story gets more involved then that and will be continued after I have a little chat with the mom of the teenager. The kitty itself was in good shape and i had to tell the guys not to call animal control on the tenant. They tagged the door about the unauthorized entry and maintenance emergency and I planned on calling Animal control if no one returned to the condo by Sunday when I got back. My eyes at the condo who was cat sitting for me texted me that people returned Saturday and the board President had a chat with the teen but not the mom.

WSOP Fantasy - Event #57 - The Main Event (10K NLH) World Championship

The grand finale is upon us. 4 Day 1's followed by two day 2's and harmonic convergence on Day 3. I have two friends currently slugging it out in the satellite room trying to earn their seats. Snake5970 aka Ray failed to qualify online for only the second time in 6 years. The first two years (2005-2006) Ray qualified on PokerStars in the double or triple shootouts, then Ultimate Bet in 2007 (for like $33 bucks in December in some promo UB was running back then) then a missed year in 2008 and last year on Full Tilt in the final mega-seat giveaway. He failed to qualify again this year. Rich aka Silo (Ray's brother) has never played the Main Event. I received a text from Ray last night to the effect of "Cooler after Fing Cooler, Christ". Heck when you have Greg Raymer committing all his chips on Top Pair and a flush draw in the early levels of the Main Event to chip up, what do you expect in satellite play when people are antsy to qualify.

Which brings me to my horses for the Main Event, My Stable of 15. I included Greg Raymer as historically he has done pretty well making at least Day 2. Not this year. My stable is now at 14.

A Player Eugene Katchalov - playing Day 1C - thru to day 2A - thru to day 3 with $59300 - busted after dinner break on day 3.

A PlayerDan Kelly played day 1B - safely made it thru to day 2B - busted day 2B

A PlayerPhil Ivey - playing day 1D - made it thru do day 2 w/29k just below starting stack. Busted day 2B 1st level

A PlayerDavid "Bakes" Baker - played day 1B made it thru to day 2 w/below starting stack of 30K - busted day 2B

A Player Scotty Nguyen - playing day 1C made it thru to day 2A with just above starting stack - thru to day 3 with $67800 - thru to day 4 - thru to day 5 with $632,000 - busted one of last hands of day 5 $48,847

B PlayerPhil Hellmuth - Playing day 1C after his grand entrance in MMA attire - Busted day 1C

B PlayerCarlos Mortensen - playing day 1C - thru to day 2A with only 25k- busted day 2A

B Player David Williams - playing Day 1C - thru to day 2A easily - thru to day 3 with $65700 busted day 3

B Player John Juanda - played day 1D - busted day 1D

B Player Daniel Negreanu - playing Day 1C - thru to day 2A - made day 3 shortstacked $27900 - busted day 3

C PlayerMike Matusow - played day 1A - busted day 1A - never reported on by PokerNews as to how he busted.

C Player Jason Mercier -playing day 1D - made it thru to day 2B - Thru to day 3 - thru to day 4 - thru to day 5 w/$398,000 - busted day 5 finished 463rd for $27519

C PlayerGreg Raymer busted out day 1A

C Player Vitaly Lunkin - played 1A safely thru to day 2A on Friday - thru to day 3 with $134,400 - thru to day 4 - thru to day 5 $130,000 - busted day 5 $41967

C Player Prahlad Friedman - playing day 1D - made it thru to day 2B - thru to day 3 after a crazy/controversial hand - busted day 3

Wsop Fantasy - Event #55 ($10,000) Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

Event #55 ($10,000) Pot-Limit Omaha Championship (3 day)

A Player Vitaly Lunkin - is playing - made day 2
A Player Robert Mizrachi - is playing
A Player Josh Arieh - is playing
A Player Jason Mercier - is playing - made day 2
A Player Phil Ivey - is playing
B Player Michael Mizrachi - is playing
B Player Richard Ashby - is playing
B Player David Williams - is playing - busted day 1
B Player Phil "omgclayaiken" Galfond - is playing
B Player Phil Hellmuth - is playing - made day 2
C Player Nenad Medic - is playing - made day 2
C Player Erick Lindgren - is playing - made day 2 - busted day 2
C Player Eric Liu - dns per wsop entrants list
C Player Robert Williamson III - is playing - made day 2
C Player Justin "Boosted J" Smith - is playing - made day 2 - busted day 2

WSOP Fantasy - Event #53 -$1,500) Limit Hold'em Shootout

Event #53 ($1,500) Limit Hold'em Shootout (3 day)


A Player Tom Schneider - is playing
A Player Ylon Schwartz - is playing
A Player Terrence "not Johnny" Chan - is playing - made final table
A Player Nikolay Evdakov
A Player Chris Ferguson - did not start - playing 25k 6-max nl
B Player Jeff Shulman
B Player Andy Black -did not start - playing 25k 6-max nl
B Player William Chen - is playing
B Player Michael Craig
B Player Phil Gordon
C Player Annand (Victor) Ramdin - is playing
C Player Eli Elezra
C Player Eric Froehlich - is playing
C Player Kirill Gerasimov
C Player Svetlana Gromenkova - is playing

Wsop Fantasy - Event #52 -$25k No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed

Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed


A Player Phil Hellmuth - dns per wsop entrants list
A Player John Juanda - is playing - made day 2 -busted on money bubble day 2
A Player Justin Bonomo - is playing - made day 2 - made day 3 busted 18th $58699
A Player Phil Ivey - is playing - made day 2 - busted day 2-KK cracked by AK of Bryn Kenney
A Player Mike Matusow - dns per wsop entrants list
B Player Isaac Haxton - is playing - made day 2 - made day 3- busted in 9th for $104,651
B Player Barry Greenstein - is playing - made day 2 - busted day 2
B Player Eugene Katchalov - is playing - made day 2 - made day 3
B Player Michael Mizrachi - is playing per entrants list busted day 1
B Player Daniel Negreanu - is playing - made day 2 - made day 3-finished 11th ($77,569)
C Player Vanessa Rousso - is playing - made day 2
C Player Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier - is playing
C Player Sorel Mizzi - is playing - made day 2 - busted day 2
C Player Scotty Nguyen - dns per wsop entrants list
C Player Erik Seidel - is playing - made day 2


Only The Grinder(Michael Mizrachi) busted on day 1 of all my horses who actually took to the felt. Sorrel Mizzi first to bust on day 2.

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WSOP Fantasy - Event #44 -$2,500 Mixed Hold'em

A Player Ylon Schwartz - is playing
A Player Phil Ivey - is playing
A Player Daniel Negreanu - did not start
A Player Greg "FBT" Mueller - is playing - busted day 1
A Player David (Chino) Rheem - did not start
B Player Andy Bloch- is playing
B Player Jeff Madsen - did not start
B Player Terrence "not Johnny" Chan - is playing - busted day 1
B Player Phil Gordon - is playing - busted day 1
B Player Erick Lindgren - is playing
C Player Eric Froehlich - is playing
C Player Matthew Matros - is playing
C Player Barry Greenstein - did not start
C Player Matt Hawrilenko - is playing - busted day 1
C Player Rob Hollink - is playing

WSOP Fantasy - Events #36-#43

Event #36 ($1,000) No-Limit Hold'em (4 day)

A Player Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger $0
A Player Jason Mercier $0
A Player Phil Hellmuth $0
A Player Paul Wasicka $0
A Player David "Bakes" Baker $0
B Player Annie Duke $0
B Player Huckleberry Seed $0
B Player Vitaly Lunkin $0
B Player Justin "Boosted J" Smith $0
B Player Neil Channing $5806
C Player Vanessa Rousso $0
C Player Chris Ferguson $0
C Player Eugene Katchalov $0
C Player Alec Torelli $0
C Player James Akenhead $0

Event #37 ($3,000) H.O.R.S.E. (3 day)
A Player Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger $0
A Player Jason Mercier $0
A Player Phil Hellmuth $0
A Player Paul Wasicka $0
A Player David "Bakes" Baker $0
B Player Annie Duke $0
B Player Huckleberry Seed $0
B Player Vitaly Lunkin $0
B Player Justin "Boosted J" Smith $0
B Player Neil Channing $0
C Player Vanessa Rousso $0
C Player Chris Ferguson $0
C Player Eugene Katchalov $0
C Player Alec Torelli $0
C Player James Akenhead $0


Event #38 ($10,000) Pot-Limit Hold'em Championship (3 day)

A Player Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger $0
A Player Jason Mercier $0
A Player Phil Hellmuth $0
A Player Paul Wasicka $0
A Player David "Bakes" Baker $0
B Player Annie Duke $0
B Player Huckleberry Seed $0
B Player Vitaly Lunkin $0
B Player Justin "Boosted J" Smith $0
B Player Neil Channing $0
C Player Vanessa Rousso $0
C Player Chris Ferguson $0
C Player Eugene Katchalov $0
C Player Alec Torelli $0
C Player James Akenhead $0


Event #39 ($1,500) No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (2,000 player max) (3 day)

A Player Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger $0
A Player Jason Mercier $0
A Player Phil Hellmuth $0
A Player Paul Wasicka $0
A Player David "Bakes" Baker $0
B Player Annie Duke $0
B Player Huckleberry Seed $0
B Player Vitaly Lunkin $0
B Player Justin "Boosted J" Smith $0
B Player Neil Channing $0
C Player Vanessa Rousso $0
C Player Chris Ferguson $0
C Player Eugene Katchalov $0
C Player Alec Torelli $0
C Player James Akenhead $0


Event #40 ($2,500) Seven Card Razz (3 day)

A Player Nikolay Evdakov $0
A Player John Juanda $0
A Player Daniel Negreanu $5423
A Player Phil Ivey $0
A Player Tom Schneider $0
B Player Jeffery Lisandro $0
B Player Matt Hawrilenko $0
B Player Chris Ferguson $0
B Player Eugene Katchalov $0
B Player Chris Klodnicki $0
C Player David Chiu $6464
C Player John Cernuto $0
C Player Dario Minieri $6464
C Player Eli Elezra $0
C Player Barry Greenstein

Event #41 ($1,500) Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better (3 day)

A Player Josh Arieh $0
A Player Phil Hellmuth $0
A Player Phil Ivey $0
A Player Robert Mizrachi
A Player Max Pescatori
B Player Robert Williamson III $0
B Player Andy Black $0
B Player Sigi Stockinger $0
B Player Marco Traniello
B Player Lee Watkinson
C Player Annie Duke
C Player Nikolay Evdakov
C Player Brett Jungblut
C Player Sorel Mizzi $0
C Player Scotty Nguyen

Event #42 ($1,500) No-Limit Hold'em (3 day)

A Player James Akenhead
A Player John D'Agostino
A Player Antonio Esfandiari
A Player Nenad Medic $0
A Player Adam Levy $0
B Player Praz Bansi $0
B Player Neil Channing $0
B Player Shaun Deeb $0
B Player Lex Veldhuis $0
B Player Jeff Madsen $0
C Player Joe Cada $0
C Player Jennifer Tilly $0
C Player Kevin MacPhee $0
C Player Hevad Khan $0
C Player Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy

Event #43 ($10,000) H.O.R.S.E. Championship (3 day)

A Player Phil Ivey - is playing -busted day 1
A Player John Juanda - is playing - made day 2 and busted
A Player Michael Mizrachi - is playing
A Player David "Bakes" Baker - is playing - made day 2 and busted
A Player Scotty Nguyen - is playing
B Player Justin Bonomo - is playing
B Player Jennifer Harman - is playing (but playing razz final table)- made day 2 and busted
B Player Daniel Negreanu - is playing
B Player Eugene Katchalov - is playing
B Player Jason Mercier - is playing - made day 2 and busted
C Player Jeffery Lisandro - is playing - made day 2 and busted
C Player Nick Schulman - is playing
C Player Andy Bloch - is playing - busted day 1
C Player Erik Seidel - is playing
C Player Justin "Boosted J" Smith - is playing

Staycation All I Ever Wanted

I was at two Phish concerts over the weekend with Tao of Poker/Coventry Music's Dr. Pauly . Therefore, I didn't update or change any of my fantasy horses and let them ride for the weekend tourneys. Not a smart move but i wanted to go off the grid and chill for a few days with my "lil bro" who took a short trip back east to catch the shows with me and escape the madness that is the WSOP. I filled him up with NYC comfort food like: black and white cookies, and a chocolate Russian coffee cake plus cupcakes from Coccadots. We hit up PJ's BBQ and a Poster Art show that Pete "PhanArt" Mason held up in Glens Falls. Somehow we never made it to the potato knishes.

Full Tilt has had some minor issues with the fantasy game this year and on one such day I couldn't change my picks for the 8PM tourney. I've pretty much written off having a good finish in this thing. I haven't been able to play most of the freerolls I've qualified for either. But I have won another hat, which I wont receive as I never got the two from last year. P.S. Full tilt I have one so really don't need it.

However, I did catch my 4th and 5th Phish shows and I took some video's which are uploaded to You Tube under my Irongirl99 user name. I've also crossed posted one so far to Coventry Music Blog.

And short of only checking a few emails over the weekend from family and Snake5970, I was successful in going off the grid. I avoided Facebook, twitter, PokerNews and any other blogs I gravitate to every day. I bought my Sunday papers but haven't read them yet and the TV was only turned on to the Yankees/Mets game and the World Cup.

I had a great time this weekend met some cool people like TWOL's: Mountain Laura, Steve aka Unolker and Emile, aka Soozy Greenburg, plus two kewl young Southern Hippies: Chase and Tony who we were seated with for the Saturday night show. Now on to Furthur in Brooklyn next weekend.

For those readers too young to remember the title of this post is a play on the song Vacation by the GoGo's.

PEACE & Music

Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up NL Hold'em Championship

Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship
A Players
Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger - lost first round to Jason Sommerville
X Jason Mercier - is playing
X Phil Hellmuth
X Paul Wasicka - is playing
David "Bakes" Baker- lost first round to Ashton Griffin
B Players
X Annie Duke
X Huckleberry Seed
X Vitaly Lunkin
X Justin "Boosted J" Smith - Won Round 1 defeating Travis Klein
X Neil Channing
C Players
Vanessa Rousso - Won Round 1 - defeating Johannes Strassmann $92,580
X Chris Ferguson - is playing
X Eugene Katchalov - is playing
X Alec Torelli
X James Akenhead