The Party was on at our house

Since the WSOP is over for those of us who busted out, Natalie decided to have a few of our friends over to blow off some steam last night. Nani Dollison and her husband, Tom Dye; Allie Prescott and his girfriend Jamie; and the whole PokerHost crew came over. Natalie fixed enough food to feed any army. People started coming over about 7pm and no one left until after 1am. I think everyone had lost of fun.

I was running a little sluggish today at the Plaza's $2500 event and ended up making a misplay against Eric Lindgren. Once I busted out, we went to dinner with the Lunsfords. They are really great people and brought us some embroidered kitchen towels that Mrs. Lunsford made herself. Natalie really loves them. I signed a few autographs and took some pictures with them. I hope that had a good time with us, as tired as we were.

Tomorrow I'm playing in the $3000 event and Saturday both Natalie and I are playing in the $500 event. I'm also contemplating getting my buy-in back for Saturday so that I can sweat Natalie in her first co-ed event. Maybe I'll make the final table of the 3K and she won't have to be so worried about me sitting at her table and busting her out.

Monday I'm hosting two episodes of the Ultimate Poker Challenge at the Plaza, so that will be exciting. I'm a bit nervous about doing it. I wish Natalie could do it for me. She seems to not be as nervous in front of the cameras. Either way, I'm hoping that they will let her sit next to me at the filming for support.

When all is said and done, we'll try and give everyone a prompt update.

What A Day!!

Hey guys! It's Natalie here...typing for myself instead of Hoyt. I just wanted to tell everyone about some of the exciting things that have happened today. On a completely "poker unrelated" note, the workers finished fixing the damage from the tub accident we had. In case you don't know, our Jaccuzzi malfunctioned and flooded the den below. We had a HUGE hole in the ceiling, damage to the walls, and a watery mess everywhere. With all the tournaments going on, it has been a 3 week affair getting it fixed. Finally, today I have a new den ceiling, and since the kitchen shares a wall with the den, they ended up painting both rooms. Everything looks as good as new and clean. I'm really pleased...and blessed that homeowner's insurance covered it all.

Now back to poker. I arranged for Hoyt to appear at the Poker Lifestyle show today at the Rio. We camped out at the PokerHost booth and signed autographs for everyone. I also got him several interviews. One is with Live at the Bike. You can go to the Bicycle Casino's website and register for the live feed. Hoyt's interview might be somewhere in the archives by now, but you can still watch it anytime you want. He also did an interview with Bluff Magazine's radio show on Sirius radio. Lastly, I got him an interview with Player's Network, directly from the PokerHost booth.

Well, I think I worked him hard enough for a little while. I'm going to let him lay low until the main event. He's scheduled to start Saturday, so you can check out the standings on Cardplayer, Pokerwire, or PokerPages. Wish him luck and good luck to all of his fans who are playing in the main event too!

Natalie