Woke up with a special note from a new friend …

People like you who shine & smile~ make life so worthwhile~ touching Hearts along the way, A special Angel, to brighten the day~ Take Care my Friend, if you need anything just ask-

Nancy Todd www.NancyTodd.com www.TheHaydenScholarship.com www.PokerQueenofDiamonds.com www.PokerGives.org www.IAPC.org

Well I guess my posting I’ve been busy isn’t much of a post but lots of exciting things going on and much that interests me. Haven’t played too much but trying to get freed up to have some time later in the week. The loss of Austin has really hit me hard and just continues to weigh on me, what a terrible, terrible tragedy for yet another young life. God bless those he left behind.

I’m not easily rattled and that is probably an understatement. In the early 1980’s I shuttled between Baton Rouge, LA and Tallahassee, Fl, a straight 8 hour drive and campaign consulting offices in both places. My partner in Fl hired a young woman, Suzi Suarez, right out of FSU. She and I became fast friends. Hayden’s dad and I married first, the next year she and Pat married. We went through each others pregnancies together. Katy, born 18 months before Hayden was born in 1991 and Austin, 18 months after. When I divorced Hayden’s dad Hayden and I moved to a condo in Naples, We spent almost every weekend in Sarasota with the Shea’s. Pat took the boys to do climbing, biking and camping and the three girls went to chick flicks. Every single hurricane which hit south Florida Hayden and I packed up and headed to the Shea’s house to use their generator, pop popcorn and ride it out. The deal has been, in writing, with both of my husbands, that Suzi would raise my children should anything happen to us.

Monday, I learn, Austin, apparently, had had two small seizures, out of the blue, recently, the third one on Monday killed him. Reason unknown. I am just beyond grief at the senselessness of this and the disbelief that three children virtually raised together that two could be gone.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”

– T. E. Lawrence

Here’s an inciteful article which mirrors what I think is happening in this industry, it simply isn’t on the radar screen of many of the people who need to be focused on it right now. http://news.bluffmagazine.com/the-fight-uigea-anniversary-bad-news-from-harry-reid-24890/

Had a crazy day at the tables, raise with QQ, two callers, small blind, a crazy player in her own right, shoves when the flop is 10 4 2 rainbow, I’m sure my QQ was good but for all my stack and only 2500 in the pot, I fold. So what if she had a small piece and catches another, I’ve seen that before. A ridiculous play. Then flop a boat with QQ on a JQJ board, four on the turn and get it all in and of course, his AJ gets a fourth J on the river. Could have been an ace, but I was running bad. Glad I was in cheap and glad to take the break.