Hard as it is to believe Hayden was born 21 years ago today. It was cold and it was rainy and it was Baton Rouge but I sure was happy to see that 8.6 pound boy get here. There isn’t anyone who knows me who doesn’t know how incredibly close Hayden and I were .. and are. I miss you Big H and I wish you were here .. never thought I’d have to do it without you. Love, Mom

I do a lot of self help and a lot of finding one’s purpose, enjoyed this when I ran across it and thought it was a good place to share it .. on the blog. Enjoy …http://www.mindpowercourse.com/Finding-Your-True-Passion.pdf

On the way to school this morning Sierra had her day long cheerleading form in hand to turn into the office. I said did you get the $30 and she said No. So I dug $30 out of my wallet and handed it to her. When I picked them up from school a few minutes ago she told me I needed to call the place where the camp was being held and register directly through them. I told her fine to give me the form and the $30 and I would get it done. Seems like after I dropped them off this morning and the school office told her it was too late to register at the elementary school office she and Lincoln went on a shopping spree at the school science fair. I told them to go into the house and get their money to replace what they spent as I had already given then all I was giving them for the fair. You would have thought I asked them to cut off their arm and hand it to me. A full war erupted. Lincoln wanted to know if he could give it to me in quarters, I told him I didn’t care as long as what they handed me totaled $30. It ended up funny as I handed her a $20 and a $10 this morning and what I got back is baggie full of ones and quaters and dimes …. but the lesson is there, right?

Went with high hopes and played my heart out. 662 and I was deep on Day 2 but couldn’t get there. My AK ran into A5 and I was out … what was I thinking she says tongue in cheek. In reality, six table changes always makes it hard to get any traction. Good play now back to work, going to be a great year on a lot of good business fronts so poker needs to take a back seat for now.

As I’m not going to be able to play much this year I wanted to play the Caesars Main Event. They were having some mega satellites but at $100 and 2k in starting chips that was going to be a shove fest with little talent which isn’t my style. So I set my goal to grind out the buy in at cash. Figured that would test me to “grind” some more. I went to Bellagio and started my day at the 2/5 game with $300 and cashed out at $900. Almost there I thought as the buy in was $1,600. The next day I sat down with $300 and was close to the remainder of what I needed when this hand came up … $20 raise by a guy who had already lost several bankrolls. My big blind and I have K 10 of hearts. Flop K of diamonds J and 9 of hearts. I check, orig. bets $40, one guy drops and the guy to my right calls. I make it $150 on top. Original guy goes all in for $197 and so does the guy to my right for right at $200. Turn is a 3 of dianmonds and they are both all in and the river is an ace of spades. The original bettor had K 4 off which is just about what I put him on and the guy to my right had the ace of hearts and a dry queen and makes his hand with the ace. Oh well .. then I had to go back to grinding some. The hand was only of interest to me as to whether I played it right and it seems like it was okay. You want people to call in that spot but I sure thought I was golden there … A K would have been better than what I had …

Which I happen to own and which is coming up for sale this weekend in California, will benefit the Hayden Scholarship Foundation … see link …http://www.americanbankingnews.com/2012/01/17/machine-gun-kellys-historic-shotgun-on-the-auction-block-at-california-auctioneers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AmericanBankingNews+%28American+Banking+News%29