Driving to N. Alabama on Saturday with my wife Squirrel, we hit a wall of traffic, the result of an overturned oil tanker, that closed a 5-mile stretch of I-65. We would sit on that highway for 3 hours and 45 minutes.

15 minutes into that wait…my phone rang. It was Steve Frezer calling . . . → Read More: THE BAN ON MONKEY is TOAST!!!!

Lying at the bottom of that cloud is a previously healthy chipstack. My chipstack. Yes…it has now been obliterated!!!! Kaboooom! My plane landed Tuesday at 11:05am…amid much enthusiasm and optimism on my part. It was a sunny day. The temperature was a perfect 68 degrees. Delta didn’t ruin my new luggage.   Since . . . → Read More: Monkey does Vegas….sort of!

You heard me. I’m done! Finished! Kaput! Stick a fork in me! Yeah….whatcha think about that? Shocked? Amazed? Sad? Delighted?

I have spent the better part of a year trying desperately to jump through all the right hoops to please the ‘Poker Mafia’ as I try to circum-navigate my way back . . . → Read More: Ya heard it here first…The Monkey QUITS!!!

Nonetheless, I have decided to throw you all some fresh content. And by fresh, I mean that I didn’t cut/paste from my ‘parent’ site at www.gulfcoastpoker.net. Nope…I have been blogging my butt off over there, some of it pertaining to poker. Some of it not. Had a very interesting 4-day weekend up in Tunica . . . → Read More: Hi! Miss me? Didn’t think so….

Monday, October 25, 2010

Here We Go Again….. I don’t even have time to sit down and write today. Because it’s 11:07 and the BIG ONE starts in just 53 minutes. Nobody ‘stepped up’ and offered to ‘stake a Monkey’ for a 55% interest, so with the blessing of my backer, I did as . . . → Read More: Monkey’s Final Table recap…and another ‘Shot’ starts today!

Main Event….Day 1 Survival. Before I go any further….this just has to be watched.

Ladies and gentleman…how proud are YOU to be an American? This was taken from the news in Huntsville, Alabama…and oh yeah, I should let you know, it is the NUMBER ONE Halloween costume right now…..called: BEDROOM INTRUDER……CLICK HERE!

And then . . . → Read More: MONKEY makes it to DAY 2. Franky Boy crashes and Burns.

Friday…Day 6 in Chicago…Main Event time.

Hi people. It’s Friday morning. I intended to blog last night, but was really tired. Kai has been snoring all night off and on, and I’ve gotten about 3 hours of sleep. That and I need a Prilosec really bad because of some out of control heartburn that . . . → Read More: A MONKEY UPDATE…Chicago WSOP

For those of you curious to know how my Main Event ended up at Borgata…I know, I kind of left you hanging..sorry bout that, but I figured if you were somewhat interested and at all industrious or possessing common sense, you would find your way to www.pokermonkeytalk.blogspot.com to find out what happened to me. For . . . → Read More: A Monkey Update…..

Not sure why it takes them so damn long to get this posted, but it does. I tossed and turned all night. Anxiety I guess. Turns out there aren’t 175 left…but 165…which only drives up the average stack even more! Oh then realized I misreported by stack. Isn’t 88,500 but 84,500…so I don’t have . . . → Read More: Day 3 chipcounts and Seat assignments

End of Day 2 Recap…. Okay…lets do this, before I fall asleep from exhaustion. One thing is for sure about these Main Events…by the time you get to the end of the day, you are incredibly exhausted, mentally. More so than in regular noon tourneys.

[and my kneecap is still throbbing from slamming it . . . → Read More: On to Day 3 at Borgata, minus a large chunk of my ass!