Lobster hunting recap and heading north to go home. Football is almost here!!

Just left duck key where we had a good time lobster hunting. It started a bit slow the first day and I was threatening to ban lobster season and ask for my 20 bucks back for the license. I was going to open unicorn season in my back yard and charge 20 bucks to make my money back from a few hopeful souls but on day 2 we got into some lobsters. We caught about 20 but only 4 were big enough to keep. We would have had 2 more but after being stopped in my dingy by the keys wildlife officers and given a warning for keeping undersized lobsters ,we threw them back. I swear the officer that wrote my warning was the same guy that fined me 45k when I accidentally ran my boat into the john pennicamp national park near key largo a few years ago but he said he would have remembered that. Still all in all a great week.

Its about time to go back to oklaoma and get ready for a huge month. Football starts in a few weeks and I am ready. My clients made a lot ,and I mean a lot of money last season and this season feels a lot like last one did at this time. I am ready to go.

We have a poker tournament in clinton next week. The fat jacks dog days of summer poker classic is always a big favorite and I am expecting a huge turnout.

Get signed up before the weekend and take advantage of the early bird prices for the fall. Prices go up this weekend.

Have a great day!!
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Lobster hunting and getting ready for some football!!

I am currently 10 miles east of boca raton,florida heading south for the keys. lobster mini season starts tuesday and we are meeting my wives aunt there for a few days. I have had a great summer that started with a 16-4 finish in the nba playoffs and is ending with a building excitement for football season. I wrote an article for a preseason southeastern conference football magazine that talked about future odds to win the national championship and another article about a playoff system. I will post both of those this week to the "in the news" part of the website. That will give those of you that are wanting to bet on the 2010 bcs championship my info on the subject. I have been spending more and more time working on the football season and I will tell you, I think it is going to be a great season for my clients and I. Some seasons are easier to get ready for than others and with some key trades in the nfl and other factors in ncaa football,I expect a huge season. Not to mention that I will also be coaching my sons 5th grade football team. I don't think it was a coincidence we had a huge year and I was spending a little of my time teaching tomorrows players. Not to mention,I had a great time.

There is a storm up ahead and I am not positive what I need to do to get around it so I will cut this entry short and talk to you soon.

For those of you waiting to sign up for the fall, prices go up after 8-1 so sign up today because the early bird gets the worm.
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Fw: Wsop update

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-----Original Message-----
From: info@thefatjack.com

Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:23:24
To: <info5770.thefatjack@blogger.com>
Subject: Wsop update


I am currently at the bellagio casino playing 50-100 no limit holdem. Things are good..today. Yesterday was a different story. After winning or splitting 5 single table 1k sit n gos, I felt ready for the main event. I slept well,had a good meal and had a feeling it was going to be a magical day. What I failed to factor in to my optimism was 1 complete jackass that ,as luck would have it, was put at my table to begin the tournament. In the man event ,you start with 30k in chips and the one thing most can agree on is it takes a little luck to win the most prestigious tournament on the planet. Anyone that wins a satellite tournament or simply has 10k can play in the event so it is a hard event to win. Now,back to my experience in the tournament. I sat down and after lots of pomp and circumstance that included the national anthem and doyle brunson saying "shuffle up and deal"we were under way. I didn't win a hand for the first 3 hours,only playing a handful of pots but was only down to 24k at the dinner break. I was tired of not getting any cards and sick of the idiots I had spent the last 3 hours of my life with but still felt pretty good about my chances. When we started back,I got hot! I quickly ran my chips up to 40k and was running over my group of idiots,I mean opponents. Then the following happened..

I had a-j of spades this hillbilly in the 1 seat that looked like the fat,no talent,inbred,half sized brother of blake griffin had k of hearts and 4 of diamonds.
Strong!

I bet 1k before the flop,he calls.
The flop comes

K-s 8-s q-d

I bet 5k,he calls.

The turn was a 3-c

I bet 9k, inbred blake ,for some reason calls!!!

Now some of you that are either new or bad at poker might say "he does have the best hand" and technically you would be correct but as you get better at poker you will find that the game is as much about what the other players might have as it is about what you have. Ask yourself,what could I have had that king 4 could beat? The answer...nothing!!! If I have anything worth betting 14 of my 45k,he is way behind going into the river.
The river is a 3 of hearts. Now at this point I can either check and give away 25k of my chips to a guy that seems to be on a draw or bet and hope he is on a draw or figures out what game he is actually playing. All he had to do is ask himself,"self,what hand could fat jack have that I can beat!!!" Answer...nothing!!

I bet 10k more and he calls showing king -4 off suit.
F@+#*+

Then

6 hands later,I had a-a and the same idiot had a-k and rivered a straight for the rest of my stack.
So if you see a half sized,inbred hillbilly blake griffin at the final table of the world series of poker you will know he got there with my chips!!

On a more positive note ,I am running really good overall in poker and won my last baseball selection. Heading to florida tomorrow for 3 meetings about the football season and going to meet my family there. I am beginning to really miss them.
Have a great week.
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