Last update before Vegas

I haven't gotten a chance to play much since my 3rd place finish on Sunday. On Monday I finished 16th in a $20 rebuy 6-max NL MTT on FTP for $134 and 13th in a $10 NL MTT on FTP for $43. Tonight I played in a $13 turbo double shootout satty on ps and a $16 rebuy turbo on ps, one for a $530 seat to the Sunday Million and the other for a $530 seat in one of the WCOOP events. It doesn't matter to me which one because I would probably just take the tourney credits. Anyways I won my first table in the shootout and we got 3-handed at the final table. I was big stack and another guy was close and there was a shorty. 2nd stack made standard raise on button and I called from the sb with QJos. Flop J high and we get the money in...(keep in mind its a turbo so its get all the money in or fold at this point)... he has KJ and I'm crippled and never catch up. In the other one I was about avg with 2 tables to go with 3 people getting the $530 seat, and I lost a flip for all my money that would've put me about 2nd or 3rd in chips. I feel like I'm playing the best tournament poker I've ever played right now. Hopefully its just a matter of time until I hit a big one. I have a decent enough roll to play bigger tourneys now, so thats good. I also played 4 $33 sngs yesterday and went a nice 1 0 2 1 for a pretty good profit.

Well Stephanie and I leave for Las Vegas Saturday morning. Her 21st birthday is on Sunday and we'll be coming back next Wednesday. I'll probably only play poker once or twice, and for a short time, because we're going for her birthday, not for my poker lol. Also I've just now signed up at PocketFives.com. I like their ranking system there and there isn't a whole lot of competition in Alabama there, as I'm already ranked 48th out of pocketfives Alabama players after just a couple cashes... I'd like to work my way up the Alabama leaderboard though, that's one of my goals.

Well thats it for now... I'll update after my trip!

- Brandon