May Challenge, Day 2

Total Profits
Carolina John, $114
Highwaytime, -$53
Re-Bet, -$106

Biggest Stack
Carolina John: $1,125

Opponent Knockouts:
Carolina John, 11
Highwaytime, 4
Re-Bet, 4

Just to show how bad I was running for most of this session, I made a $5 bet with dealer Chico that he couldn't shut up for his entire down except to speak to facilitate the flow of the game in his capacity as dealer, and I lost the bet. I was down about $600 at one point but managed to keep it respectable by session's end, which was about eight in the morning.

Carolina John had a swingy session but as you can see from his KO and stack size numbers the hat is back and in full effect. When he was at one of his low points, Kevin, after catching a two-outer against John on the turn, challenged him to a heads-up session. I was walking by their table when this happened and I couldn't believe he was seriously calling John out like that. I later asked John about it, and it turns out Kevin was indeed serious.

Todd was on his way to another spewy, disastrous performance before he turned it around big time, so congrats to him. The high point was his self-described "courtesy check" on the flop with trip tens against John's AA. It's unclear how courteous it really was since he checkraised to $300, but the Gambling Duke would understand.

My friend Roland, who is almost exclusively an internet player, came out to eat with us and afterwards he decided to sit down in the game. We got a rotation PLO/NLHE game, which was good since we have both been playing a lot of PLO lately. He had a rough session but hopefully we will see him come out again and book a good win.

As a final note, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, along with his brother Robert, Mark Gregorich, and some other high stakes players have been playing $100/point Chinese poker the past couple days in the back of the Planet Hollywood poker room. It is rumored that The Grinder will be an official sponsor of the room.