MAHOLLA For Your Kokua

 

It’s been about a week since I last updated my blog. As such I will take this time to give you (the general  public) a quick up-date of what I have been doing.

I decided to only play a couple of days last week. Obviously I played Thursday 4/17 when I won the $11 1r1a, I also played a couple of tourneys in the mornings on  4/19, 4/20 4/21, 4/23 with no real success.

 

Moving on to life outside of poker.. 

As some of you may know, I have a beautiful and stunning girlfriend of 2.5 years, whom I’ve lived with for the past 2+ years, all  of which has been an amazingly great time filled with fun, love, and excitement…

 

 She Gives Me Presents, With Her Presence Alone.

 

My girlfriend is a water woman, she loves the ocean and all sea life with an undying passion for knowledge and protection.

Every morning she loves to go on walks on Waikiki beach, past the zoo, but just before the aquarium (at the gay beach) there is a pier where a plethora of fish congregate to feed on bread crumbs being tossed in by older tourists trying to catch a glimpse of the colorful native fish such as the humuhumunuknuku’apua’a.  This past week was no different, each morning we took out hour long walk, greeted our fish friends then we started our day. This past weekend was filled with AWESOME, fun, and event-filled days outside of poker.

 

Saturday after our ritualistic walk we were mutually  pleased to discover that there was a high surf advisory in effect for all south facing shores in Hawaii (Waikiki is a south facing shore) with waves reaching on average of 8 feet but up to 12. SICK. We quickly got our body boards and flippers and headed out for some sick wave riding.

 

If It Swells, Ride It!

 

We spent upwards of 3 hours at Kuhio beach in Waikiki paddling out several hundred yards only to be speedily returned to shore by giant, glistening, transparent blue  waves that would engulf my board and body only to spit me back out at heart-pounding speeds only to get to shore to restart the paddling cycle. WHAT A RUSH.

 

Saturday night we walked over to Kapiolani park to catch the sounds of Dave Matthews and Jack Johnson who were performing at the Waikiki Shell.

 

Sunday, 4/20, Earth Day. I awoke to play some satellites to the Sunday Million as well as the $11 $100k aka the Pokerstars lottery, which boasted a field sise of 22.5k entrants and a prize pool of 225k. I won 1 seat to the SM out of 6 attempts (yes I lost money on that endeavour) however all was not lost as I cruised through 22.4k people to take 100th in the $100k for $225, soooo disappointing as this is the second time I’ve outlasted 20k+ people in this tournament to take top 100 and both times I was the best player remaining in the field hands down. Ah well I played great, I’ll get em next time.

 

Fast Forward to Sunday Afternoon.

 

The Jack Johnson and Dave Matthews Concert (Kokua Festival) had been sold out since 2 hours after the tickets went on sale 4 months ago. Being the self-indulgent person that I am, more importanlty being that I’m MADLY in love with my girlfriend and knowing how happy it would make her to go. I got on Craigslist and found someone selling a pair of general admission tickets for double face value. FUCK IT I’ll take em I said. I quickly scooped up the 2 tickets for $150 and headed to the shell to check out a sick show. God damn was it ever a sick show. To anyone who missed it, man did you miss out. A sellout Hawaiian crowd rocking out to Local boy and hero Jack Johnson with music icon Dave Matthews. It was special to say the least, well worth the $150.

 

When You Rise Again, I Will Have Become The Sun.

 

MAHOLLA