I want to give a shout out to one of my best friends, Ben Mintz (The Destroyer-online screen name). Ben took down a WPO preliminary tourney yesterday at the Gold Strike in Tunica, MS for $21K. Along with the first place prize money he won a $5K main event seat and a gold bracelet.

Ben and I have been best friends since high school and I pretty much got him playing poker. He was a pit game kind of guy before I finally showed him the way during one of my many trips to visit him at the old Horseshoe poker room in Tunica. Underage of course!!! Ben’s online career pretty much started because of me, so I like to think. This was probably in 2004. I had $20 in my Party Poker account and Ben turned that $20 into over $1,500 in a very short time. Then not too much longer I got the sweetest call ever. He called me one morning while I was grinding my way at my desk at work and he said that things were about to change. I was like WTF happened. He told me that he beat out a field of over 2K to win the $40K GTD on Party Poker for $10K+. I can remember that day like it was yesterday. There have been many ups and downs while dealing with a best friend who lives the life of a professional poker player, but hey if it was easy everyone would do it.

I just want to take this time and web space to give a shout out to a great friend and even a better person.

One time dealer!!!!

Tater

Who cares right? Oh well.

Hey Guys. I guess you all thought that I died or just gave up since I haven’t posted a blog in over 3 months. Well I didn’t die, but I had to take a little break from poker for a while, so that I could regroup and get my brain in working order again.

The last time I blogged I was playing $100NL FR on Bodog with a big enough bankroll to withstand the variances, so I thought. Well after I lost about 10 BI’s in the span of 2 weeks I told myself that I needed a little break from poker. So I did just that. I completely stopped playing online, live, home games and even lol play money games. I didn’t miss it one bit.

Then football season started. I never really played that much during the week ever. I did the majority of my playing on the weekends, but when football season started something else was there to occupy my mind. So I put off my poker playing another month or so, but now I am getting the urge to start playing again.

I am back to playing micro stakes again after being able to pretty much beat Bodog at the beginning of the year for a modest amount every month I am going to have to bite the bullet and grind out a couple Benjamin’s a month at the micro cash game tables. I started playing regularly about a week ago and I have had 7 winning sessions in a row until last night where I got cooler’d by a perfect perfect back door straight when I had middle set on a K-T-x flop. He had KJ, FTW!!!! Good thing it was $25NL. I am up about 4 BI’s this week and I hope to grind out 8-10 more BI’s before the month is over and start rebuilding my almost defunct bankroll.

I have 70% of my bankroll sitting in Bodog hoping that they will have a payout method in the works that will allow me to get my money out faster than a 40 business day snail mail check. I would think that Bodog would find something new during football season, but it hasn’t happened yet. As soon as they do get a new withdrawl method I will be taking my money off of Bodog and either stuff it in my sock drawer for a live roll or ship it over to Absolute where I am playing now.



Later-

Tater