Foxwoods Trip

Here is a recap of my trip to Foxwoods. I traveled with Todd and Doyle Brunson. We left Las Vegas at 10:00am on Saturday. We had a connection in Pheonix, Arizona that was delayed, which was not a good sign. The main event started at 10:00am on Sunday, but we did not arrive until 12:30pm. I was only able to get about 4-5 hours of sleep in the night before. Then I heard the "great" news; we would be playing a 15 hour day . I was very sluggish the entire day, and I didn't play many hands. I was finally able to go to sleep at 2:00am. I woke up at 12:00 and headed to the tables. My biggest hand that day was when I had 9's full which put me up to almost $300,000. From that point on, I was card dead and basically anted down to about $110,000. On my final hand the blinds were at $4,000-$8,000 with a $1,000 ante. I had AJ in middle position and pushed in my last $106,000. The man in the cutoff position called with QQ. I didn't improve and was out in 44th place.

Finished With Break

I'm sorry it's been so long since I have updated, but I have not been up to much lately. I have been taking a break for a while because of some relationship problems. I feel I'm ready to play again though. I will be at Foxwoods from November 11th through the 17th. Just thought I'd make a short update let everyone know what was going on.

A Little Tease

I'm willing to bet that most of you have read Daniel Negreanu's blog recently. We aren't really supposed to talk about the certain things until December... but I will leave you guys with this photo from a celebrity tournament at the Venetian last weekend:

Poker Trading Cards Are Out

The Razor Tradings cards, featuring yours truly on 3 of the 76 cards in the set, are now available for purchase at Wal-Mart, Target, Blockbuster, Kmart, and Amazon.com. I believe there are also some up for auction on Ebay.

There are 37 players in all featured in the deck, each hand autographed. There are also Player Memorabila cards that have little swatches of clothes that were worn in a poker tournament by various players.

Here is the list of the cards in order:

BASE CARDS
1 Daniel Negreanu 2 Josh Arieh 3 Hoyt Corkins 4 Juan Carlos Mortensen 5 Kathy Liebert 6 Phil Gordon 7 David Williams 8 Erick Lindgren 9 Erik Seidel 10 TJ Cloutier
11 Phil Hellmuth 12 John Juanda 13 Antonio Esfandiari
14 Phil Laak 15 Amir Vahedi 16 Layne Flack 17 Ted Forrest 18 Chip Jett 19 Jennifer Harman 20 Michael Gracz 21 Michael Mizrachi 22 Evelyn Ng
23 Isabelle Mercier 24 Cyndy Violette 25 Jerry Buss 26 Gavin Smith 27 Jennifer Tilly 28 Greg Raymer 29 Chris Moneymaker 30 Joe Hachem 31 Scotty Nguyen 32 Todd Brunson 33 Sean Sheikhan 34 Mike Matusow 35 Kenna James 36 Sammy Farha 37 Men Nguyen
LEGENDS
38 TJ Cloutier39 Men Nguyen 40 Scotty Nguyen 41 Ted Forrest 42 Phil Hellmuth
SUPER SHOWDOWN
43 Phil Hellmuth/Mike Matusow 44 Greg Raymer/David Williams 45 Layne Flack/Jerry Buss 46 Phil Gordon/Chris Moneymaker 47 Phil Hellmuth/TJ Cloutier 48 Daniel Negreanu/David Williams 49 Gavin Smith/Ted Forrest
50 Todd Brunson/Sean Sheikhan 51 Scotty Nguyen/Michael Mizrachi 52 Sammy Farha/Chris Moneymaker 53 Scotty Nguyen/Phil Hellmuth 54 Todd Brunson/Men Nguyen 55 Mike Matusow/Hoyt Corkins 56 John Juanda/Men Nguyen 57 Amir Vahedi/Chip Jett 58 Phil Hellmuth/Daniel Negreanu 59 Erik Seidel/Cyndy Violette 60 Greg Raymer/Mike Matusow
WSOP BRACELET WINNERS
61 Greg Raymer 62 Chris Moneymaker 63 Phil Hellmuth 64 TJ Cloutier 65 Erik Seidel 66 Layne Flack 67 Daniel Negreanu 68 Mike Matusow 70 Todd Brunson 71 Hoyt Corkins 72 Joe Hachem 73 Kathy Liebert74 Cyndy Violette 75 Ted Forrest 76 Checklist
AUTO MEMORABILIA CARDS
PP2 Phil Hellmuth PP3 Ted Forrest PP4 Phil Laak PP5 Antonio Esfandiari

ALL IN FOR THE CURE

I think Natalie is becoming a regular celebrity. LOL! She's featured in a comic created by the boys at Life's A Bluff. It is a portrayal of the WPT Ladies' Night final table and in addition to Natalie, there are caricatures of: yours truly, Jennifer Tilly, Melissa Ethridge, Sheryl Crow, Lance Armstrong, Sabina Gadeki, and other professional women poker players.

Natalie now owns the original, which was part of an auction lot benefiting the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Prints are available at Life's A Bluff's website for $20 each. There are only 100 available for purchase and 50% of the proceeds go to Susan G. Komen.

Please consider buying a print. Natalie is a big supporter of the Komen Foundation, and your support would mean a lot to her. I can't think of a prettier way to give to charity. There are a lot of beautiful women in this print.

Hoyt Takes Home 2nd Place, Helps Raise Over 100k For Cystic Fibrosis

The First Annual PWT Celebrity Shootout Raised More Than a $100,000 For the Boomer Esiason Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis

The top ten In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail pros in the Johnsonville Brats Angler of the Year race were joined by celebrities for a fun-fishing event held at Manitoba's Aiken Lake Wilderness Lodge.

The winners were pro Mark Christianson, full-time walleye pro and guide for 29 years and Robert Williamson III, World Series of Poker winner. In accepting the first place trophy, Williamson said, "This was a great week and to thank the Boomer Esiason Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis (B.E.C.F.F.), I will donate an additional $10,000 to help the cause." Christianson said, "He's the most positive guy I've ever met. He told me we'd win before heading out on day one, and he had never caught a walleye.

This was the first measure, photo and release event for the PWT. Pros were paired with celebrities and their top five fish were counted daily. The first place team measured a total of 240.75 inches. Second went to pro Bobby Crow and World Series of Poker winner, Hoyt Corkins with 239.50 inches.

Pro Ron Seelhoff and Discovery Channel's "Survivorman" Les Stroud tied for third with pro Sheldon Meidinger and actor Rick Schroder. Both had 238.25 inches. The other top PWT pro participants included Bill St. Peter, Jim Carroll, Mark Martin, Dave Van Oss, Daryl Christensen and Andy Kuffer. Their partners were Dale Jensen, Arizona Diamondback owner, Kris King and Mike Gartner, NHL Hall of Famers, Scott Flansberg, the human calculator, Dave Krieg, former Seattle Seahawks quarterback, and Don Lamont, Travel Manitoba.

Many special accolades went to the Aikens Lake Lodge staff. "The setting in Manitoba's wilderness, walleyes of all sizes, the fly-in experience and food fit for a king were enjoyed by the entire crew," said, Jim Kalkofen, PWT executive director.

Proceeds by major sponsors will benefit the B.E.C.F.F. PWT sponsors E-Cell and StowMaster donated an extra $5,000 to the Foundation. Nick Koker representing the Foundation said, "This was great for the first annual Celebrity Shootout."

The show will air on the Outdoor Channel as part of the PWT’s 13 episodes this fall. It will run once between October-December, and will run a 2nd time between January-April. I will update the site with a specific time as soon as we know.

Celebrity Fishing

Hey everyone--It's Natalie. I'm in Memphis, taking care of business. Soon, we will have some great news to tell everyone... but it is all confidential for now. Sorry. I'm still ironing out some details on all the contracts and such, but we'll let everyone know as soon as possible.



Hoyt is at Aikens Lake in Manitoba, Canada right now. He is one of 10 celebrities to be invited to the Inaugural PWT Celebrity Shootout to Benefit the Boomer Esiason Foundation for Cystic Fibrosis. Each of the 10 celebrities were matched up with the 10 best walleye fishermen in the world. Hoyt drew professional Bobby Crow and they are currently in 5th place. They still have tomorrow to compete, so if you would like to follow the tournament, go to In-Fisherman Magazine's website.