I’m in the limo right now on the way to Miami to go party it up for Day 1 of my Bachelor Party. We have reservations at Café Martorano. I hear from two individual sources that this place is straight up OFF THE CHAIN! Supposedly a lot of hip hop artists such as 50 cent, Jay-Z, and others go there as well as professional Miami Heat players. It’s supposedly ½ Night Club - ½ Restaurant. The food, the music from the DJ, and the atmosphere is all top notch. I’m excited to go there and see what it’s like. It should be lots of fun. Afterwards, Stu Paterson, my friend Alex from L.A., my friend Randy from Indiana, one of Anita’s friends, Anita, and myself are going to Solid Gold / Pure Platinum which as always, should be a blast. I’m in real good with the head bouncer there and he always gives us V.I.P. treatment with high class.

The night before last, my Mercedes got a smash and grab done on it in front of the house I was staying at. I was playing in a 10/25/50 - unlimited straddling (sometimes for as much as $1400) game in Tampa and decided to come home immediately after the game. I parked my car at 12:30 a.m. and by 6 a.m. the theft had already happened. I have over $10,000 worth of audio and video equipment in my car so it wasn’t a very good time, along with them stealing my laptop that I had left in my front seat. My passenger window was completely broken and my rear seats were cut so they could get into the trunk. It was in a very nice neighborhood where the average house is roughly $350,000, so I was quite surprised to say the least.

My dad started teaching me how to play golf when I was 7 years old. I would cry on the course a lot when I would shoot bad because I always wanted to play really well. My dad always worked with me and helped me with my game. He’s a very consistent golfer almost always breaking 100, even though he’s in his mid 60’s now. He has been playing the game recreationally for many, many years. On Friday of last week, I FINALLY beat him on the 9 holes we played. I beat him by 4 strokes. I made par on three out of the nine holes we played which was my personal best. He didn’t play bad either but I didn’t chuck one shot. I could’ve cut off three or four strokes on putting, but I was playing with the new PING putter I bought in Las Vegas during the WSOP for the very first time.

As some of you avid internet readers know, the High Stakes TwoPlusTwo community is hosting a $5,000 buy-in Heads Up Tournament with a 32-player bracket. You play three Heads Up tables against your opponent, with each starting with 300xbbs. Whoever wins two out of three tables, moves onto the next round. I played iRockHoes the first round and beat him 2-1 after a six hour match. I played my second round match last night. I played HEK aka HoldEmKillah and beat him 2-0 within the first two hours. HEK played better than I thought he would, but going into the match I was quite confident so I bet about $2,500 with various betters. I laid 1.3-1 on myself, so I was putting up $3,250 to win $2,500 in total for you novice odds betters =) . I don’t know who I will play in the next round, but if I win that I will be in the semi-finals and in the money for a $20,000 cash. The winner of the match comes out with about $80,000 which would not be a shabby pay day.

I’ve been on quite a roll lately, consistently rolling in money. I’ll be hanging out with friends in town over the next few days through the weekend of my wedding, so I probably won’t have time to put in anymore hours playing poker for the rest of the week with so much other things I need to take care of and stuff on my mind.

Day 2 of Bachelor Party and Results of Day 1 of Bachelor Party to come soon.