Tri State Poker Championship

Here is an e-mail I sent to my list of interested investors.  This offer is not just available to them.  Anyone who is interested is welcome to come along for the ride.  Just leave a comment, call, or e-mail me.

I hope that 2012 has been good to everyone thus far.

The Tri State Poker Championship at Hollywood Casino kicks off March 15 with their $345 Deep Stack event.  This year's Deep Stack event is guaranteed to have a $300k prize pool.  

Last year was a pretty tough year for me tournament wise.  I didn't have any major cashes, only a few sub $500 prizes in nightly and local tournaments.  I am definitely due for another deep run.

I typically offer around 60/40 split in favor of my investors.  This year I want to get more people involved and make my run more rewarding to those that want a piece of my action.  This year I am offering a whopping 80% cut to my investors.

Each share will cost $1 with a minimum investment of $20.  The amount of money I am able to raise will determine the events I play.  Event #1 will for sure be on the schedule.  Depending on the bankroll, I may also play in satellite tournaments and cash games. 

Some events award a seat to the Main Event.  If I win a seat into the Main Event, all winnings from that will be included into the final bankroll.  I will be covering all of my own expenses such as gasoline, hotel, and food.  If the bankroll is up $3,000 or more, I reserve the right to take 5% up to a max of $300 to cover expenses.  If I win $5,000 or more in any one event, you will have the option of paying taxes on the winnings yourself or have me withhold and pay the taxes for you.

I have over $20,000 in live tournament cashes.   $13,000 of it is shown here  http://www.bluffmagazine.com/players/Bruce-Dye/62996/tournament-results.asp .  Unfortunately, it doesn't show my chop for $6,000 in 2009 at the Indiana State Poker championship.

I have set up a twitter account so that my investors can follow my progress.  I like to update my backers every couple of hours with info like how much I have in my stack and interesting hands.   I used to do this via text but Twitter will be a lot better.  Sign up to follow me.  My Twitter account is twitter.com/dyehard5.  You can follow my progress via the Twitter site or have tweets sent to your cell phone.  Also, I think my twitter account got reset, so if you were receiving updates via your mobile phone, you will need to set that up again. 

I think that I have covered everything.  If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail or leave a comment.  Also, please share this with anyone that you think may be interested.  The more backers I can get, the bigger tournaments I can play.

Finally, let me know if you want to be removed from this list or if you have an alternate e-mail address you would like for me to use.  The tournament is in 2 weeks, so let me know asap if and how many shares you want, and how you want to deliver the funds.

 

Thanks again for looking,

January Review

January 2012 Goals


1. Exercise M-F after I get the kids on the bus. - I met this goal up until I had my surgery.
2. Play <$10 MTT's in January regardless of BR (online). - Prior to my surgery, I met this goal.  After a week off for the surgery, I started playing again.  I played one or two $12 tournaments.  I had a sufficient bankroll but just forgot about the $10 restriction I placed on myself. 
3. Limit cash games to 10% of BR (online).- I met this goal.
4. Save $100 for vacation.- Fail.  Too many expenses combined with time off prevented me from reaching this goal.

Due to my surgery last month, some of my goals had to be put on hold.

I've been picking up the volume of late.  I played two sessions shortly after my surgery and on pain killers.  I played pretty well and built some nice stacks.  Unfortunately, the pain killers started making me drowsy.  An hour or two into my sessions all I wanted to do was close my eyes.  I made some really big plays and busted out to book a losing session.  I decided at that time to wean myself of the percocets and take some time off of poker until I was mentally able to play a minimum 4 hour session.

When I returned to the virtual felt, I made a very nice run to put my month back in the black.  I've been dominating the smaller stakes games and am looking forward to playing $10+ games.

On February 2, I finished 2nd in the $6 rebuy for $260.37.   Three days later, I finished second in the same event.  This time I collected $306.18.  With my bankroll near $700, I am now ready to play some bigger games.

Going Under the Knife

Well, January has come and gone.  Hopefully everyone has got 2012 off to a good start and haven't abandoned their resolutions yet.  For me, I have to admit January was kind of a wash.

Last summer, I started feeling a slight pain in my right shoulder.  It only hurt when I laid on my right side with my arm over my head, or if I tried to lift an object laterally.  Throwing a baseball or football created the most severe pain.  I noticed the pain a couple of weeks after playing in the pool with my kids.  Over the course of two weekends, I probably threw them 200 times from the deck, as high as I could into the air, and into the pool.  Like most people, I figured I strained a muscle and expected it to get better in a couple of days, or couple of weeks at worse.  Meanwhile, I was still able to golf and do most other activities as I waited for my shoulder to heal.  Well, days turned to weeks, and weeks turned to months.  My shoulder never improved.  In fact, I felt like it was getting worse by late fall.

At this point I knew I needed to get my pain checked out.  Turns out I had a pretty big tear in my Labrum.  Dr. Thomas Kovack said I could try therapy and cortisone shots, although, injuries like this typically heal on their own within a couple of months.  If it hasn't healed on its own by then, then it probably won't without surgery.  He informed me that he would perform arthroscopic surgery followed by two months in a sling and up to three months of physical therapy.  Doc said it would be about 6 months before I was 100%.  Not wanting to put this off any longer, I elected to go under the knife.

My surgery was scheduled for the following Wednesday, January 11th.  The day before, I told everyone at my office that I would be out the rest of the week and probably return on Monday.

Wednesday morning, the nurses were going through my pre op procedure.  They inquired about my medical history.  I told them I have never had surgery, not even to remove my tonsils.  My nurse said, "you picked a great one to be your first."  She continues to tell me that shoulder surgery is the second most painful to have done.  After she tells me how much pain, and how long typical shoulder patients take to recover, she them basically tells me it is in my best interest to accept a secondary anesthetic when offered by the Anesthesiologist.  The nurse behind her nodded her head in profound agreement.

Skip to post surgery.  Recovery room.

A nurse tells me and Erin that when they tried to wake me, I became "violent."  She also mentioned that I pack a pretty powerful punch, and that she thought I was going to hop off the table.  So, like Thor in the hospital scene, she says they had to get 6 people to hold me down while they sedated me.  LMAO!






Dr. Kovack said he couldn't believe that the damage I did to my shoulder was the result of playing with my kids.  He said 90% of my labrum was torn, all but one inch of it.  Also he had to reattach my bicep.

The nurses were right.  Even though I had a boat load of pain killers, I was still feeling it.  I couldn't move my right arm at all.  I spent the first 3 days and nights in my recliner.  On the third day, I was instructed to remove my dressing and was permitted to take a shower.  For those that haven't seen, here is what I saw after unwrapping myself for the first time.

Each day I feel I am getting better.  A little stronger.  A little more range of motion.  A lot less pain.  I started physical therapy this past Tuesday.  I swear I was was on the verge of tears.  I thought they were going to rip my arm out of my shoulder socket.

It's been three weeks since my surgery.  I have slept in my bed twice, both times I had to get up in the middle of the night and retreat to my Lazy Boy due to discomfort.  I'm getting cabin fever and going stir crazy.  Remember when I told my co-workers I'd be back the Monday after my surgery?  Yeah that was 24 days ago and I haven't been back yet.