This happened in March of 2010. I was playing in a tourney and my table was mixed with half soft players and half aggressive players. The female player to my left was very new to the game and never raised unless she had a high pocket pair.
The night before this tourney I was watching a re-run of the WSOP where the episode of "The Nuts" talked about pulling off bluffs. While I was playing I was thinking about that and Chris Ferguson saying that the one thing needed to pull off a great bluff is a very bad hand.
While thinking about this I looked down at 7 2 while in the SB, I got over 11 to 1 to call the BB to see the flop and I knew that the chance of the lady to my left raising was basicly zero.
The flop came out K K 9. I checked and it was checked around with 7 players in the hand. The turn was another K and I decided to test the waters and bet out 1,000 into a 1,200 pot. Everyone folded to the player on the button. He tanked for about 2-3 minutes and said out loud that he thought I slow played a high pocket pair preflop. He looked at his hand and I peaked at it, he held 8 9 o/s for a Full House, he then folded and I flipped over my hand!
I was so happy that I actually pulled off a bluff with the worst hand in Poker and not only that but I made a player lay down a Full House! I will never forget it!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
July 24th
The night of July 24th, 2008 was the night that I decided to quit smoking pot. I had 'issues' with harder drugs in my teenage years and in my 20s.
A few weeks prior to this decision I had witnessed my boyfriend at the time go throgh withdraws from prescribed narcotics, including not sleeping for 5 days, the shakes, a monsterous migraine, and several other withdraw symptoms. He was on various narcotics for pain management after being hit by a drunk driver and almost being paralyzed. He has a 360 degree steal cage in his back and lived in pain every day. To the best of my recollection some of the narcotics he was prescribed were 750 mg Vicodin and Oxycodone with Morphine.
The evening that I decided to quit smoking pot I had ran out of smoke and did not have the money to buy a bag. I would had to of dipped into bill money or my poker bankroll in order to buy one, and both of those were not options for me. I had smoked every day for 18+ years, excluding my pregnancy. After seeing what he went through I knew that quitting smoking marijuana after having quit doing other drugs in my past, well, the whole process would not be that hard.
I had 3 minor relapses including the following Christmas Eve, then March and May of 2010. I wanted to be drug free for several reasons, including to set a good example for my daughter. I also wanted to be drug free before I moved to Las Vegas since Nevada has zero tolerance for drug offenders. Being that I want to get a job dealing Poker in casino and they test your hair for drugs, that was even more incentive to quit.
I feel so much better about myself and my future since I have been drug free and I will never go back to it. I know that many people have battled drug and/or alcohol abuse, it's a hard road to travel in life.
Do you think it is ironic that I arrived in Las Vegas on July 24th, 2010 ~ 2 years to the day that I originally quit drugs? It was not planned that way and I didn't even realize it til I was out here for a few weeks.
To stop smoking marijuana was something that I knew had to be done for myself. It was the start of my road to Vegas to pursue my dream.
A few weeks prior to this decision I had witnessed my boyfriend at the time go throgh withdraws from prescribed narcotics, including not sleeping for 5 days, the shakes, a monsterous migraine, and several other withdraw symptoms. He was on various narcotics for pain management after being hit by a drunk driver and almost being paralyzed. He has a 360 degree steal cage in his back and lived in pain every day. To the best of my recollection some of the narcotics he was prescribed were 750 mg Vicodin and Oxycodone with Morphine.
The evening that I decided to quit smoking pot I had ran out of smoke and did not have the money to buy a bag. I would had to of dipped into bill money or my poker bankroll in order to buy one, and both of those were not options for me. I had smoked every day for 18+ years, excluding my pregnancy. After seeing what he went through I knew that quitting smoking marijuana after having quit doing other drugs in my past, well, the whole process would not be that hard.
I had 3 minor relapses including the following Christmas Eve, then March and May of 2010. I wanted to be drug free for several reasons, including to set a good example for my daughter. I also wanted to be drug free before I moved to Las Vegas since Nevada has zero tolerance for drug offenders. Being that I want to get a job dealing Poker in casino and they test your hair for drugs, that was even more incentive to quit.
I feel so much better about myself and my future since I have been drug free and I will never go back to it. I know that many people have battled drug and/or alcohol abuse, it's a hard road to travel in life.
Do you think it is ironic that I arrived in Las Vegas on July 24th, 2010 ~ 2 years to the day that I originally quit drugs? It was not planned that way and I didn't even realize it til I was out here for a few weeks.
To stop smoking marijuana was something that I knew had to be done for myself. It was the start of my road to Vegas to pursue my dream.
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