The Beginning

This is my first post to my Blogg. Don't know if anyone will actually find this site, but looked fun to start. I am a avid poker player and play 2 or 3 times a week. I have a job, so I do not get to play as much as I would like. My name will remain seattlejohn for right now and I am 35. If anyone wants to talk to me I can be found at Seattlejohn@gmail.com. I usually play 10/20 locally in Seattle and take trips out of town to play higher. I will start to keep my results up here so you and I can follow along. I also am good freinds with a high limit player named Aaron and get lots of interesting stories from the High limit world and will put those up as well. I just got back from Vegas and played in the Mirage $1000 buy in no-limit event. 280 or so players, and my fist table had Barry Greenstein, Dewey Tomko, Toby Maguire, and us no names. I was playing well but had not accumulated a ton of chips. Just kept sticking around. I managed to bust Dewey which was cool. I had pocket KK's to his 99's and KK held up. I lasted long enough for them to break my 1st table, and was moved to a table with David Plastik, nothing eventful happend there. Then they broke that table and I was moved to a table with 4 women, two of which were Cindy Violette, and Katy Leibert. There was only about 110 people left and I was doing just fine. I had a decent amount of chips and just wanted to keep playing solid. The I picked up Pocket AA utg, perfect. We were playing 100/200 blinds with a $50 ante and I had about 11,000 in chips. Not great but not bad. I made a small raise to 600 and got cold called by two others before the button, Kathy, who had a pile of ships maybe $50,000 re-reaised over the top for like 8,000. I moved in with my 11,000 the other two got out of the way and Kathy called. I was thinking perfect time to double up. She rolled over KK to my AA, and we took the flop. DEATH, K,J,10 flop. Well outs to the A and Q, J on turn took away the 10 and the other two people told me they mucked an A. Done and out. O well, what can you do, that's poker. Had a great time, made money in the 30/60 and 60/120 games to pay for my trip. I will play tonight and will post next week to let you know how I do. If anyone actually see this let me know what you think. Just getting started.......SJ