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In this week’s Player Spotlight: Meet jozepy24! Howdy all! Some of you know me here at HollywoodPoker.com. I’ve been around for a while making some donations and taking some too! Either way it’s always pleasure to play. Poker has been a favorite pastime of mine for over 30+ years and online poker has been a passion for about 2yrs now. Since I have had the good fortune to meet a lot of wonderful people here at HollywoodPoker.com, it makes my online time some of the best and most enjoyable in regards to poker. I'm 41 and retired due to a disability so I have plenty of time to practice playing. I also live in Myrtle Beach so I try to get sand in my flip flops as much as possible. We have a few casino boats here that go out into international waters and I'm hoping to take a shot at the new tournaments they have started. Good luck to everyone and I’ll see ya`ll at the tables! -jozepy24
This week’s topic: Last week’s winner: Kgant1963! Kgant1963's winning submission: It’s July and I’m taking my first trip to Las Vegas for a 7 day and 6 night stay at the Station’s Casino. I have tucked away $3000.00 for food, drinks and whatever else I might want. My father and mother in-law, as well as my wife and our 4 year old daughter are also joining me. That’s right - a family vacation. We get off the plane and head to the hotel. It’s around 3:00pm when we arrive at the hotel and we unpack quickly then head down stairs. My father in-law and I head straight for the craps tables while the girls go sight seeing. I pulled $100.00 out of my pocket, passed it on the table and got my chips. Within 5 seconds I’m pulling another $100.00 out. Needless to say I don’t last at the craps table very long, so I walk around the casino for awhile looking at all the games. Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat and, oh - lets not forget the slots. I also find the BOOK and if you’ve never been in a Vegas casino, the BOOK is the most alive place you can bet on anything. So, being the newbie, I get sucked in. My first bet is on a horse race. I put $10 on this horse to show and hit for $15.80. Not bad. In no time I make a $50.00 win. Four hours passes and my father in-law is standing over me saying something about dinner and how we should go. Is this man crazy? I’m winning ! I tell him to go on without me and I’ll catch up. He does. It’s now 1:30 am and my father in-law is back again, - but this time he’s got this look in his eye, so I say “what?”. He tells me to come with him – he has something to show me. He leads me to a room I missed while walking around. The sign over the door says “POKER ROOM”. “It’s heaven”, he says to me. We go in and what happens next is the stuff family history is made of. He sits down at a table by the door and I stand by the rope to watch (I had never played the game before). It is TEXAS HOLD’EM! That’s right - my introduction to Hold’em was in Las Vegas watching people who play all the time (some for a living) and by 2:15 I’m sitting at the table next to the old man getting my butt handed to me by 3 guys and 2 old ladies. Still, I’m having the time of my life. As the night goes on and people leave, it gets down to one table. I’m sitting 2 chairs away from my father in-law playing a card game I had just learned 4 hours earlier and I’m holding my own. Now, lets get down to the meat and potato’s of my story: There are 7 of us at the table and it’s $15-$30. The dealer button is sitting right in front of me my father in-law has the big blind. I’m dealt A,J spades. The bet comes around to me and I raise, my father in-law raises back and I call. There are 3 other players in the hand. Flop comes Ks, 8d, Qs. My father in-law bets $100.00 there are 2 folds and a call. I call. Third street comes: 3d check, check and I check. Here comes the river ....... 10s! I feel all warm inside and the room starts to spin but I get myself together and I hear all-in from across the table. I look up to see who it is and - you guessed it – it’s my father in-law. All I can think is: What could he have to call all-in? The other guy folds. In that long 10 seconds I think: Do I want to spend the next 6 days with a pissed off father in-law? Do I want to take everything he’s got? I call. He has trip K’s and when I lay down my ROYAL, he looks over at me and smiles. He says, “Good hand. I would have played it differently”. ~Kgant1963
My father used to host poker games two or three times a week. When I was 9, I showed so much potential that he asked me to join him for the first time. It all started there. Now, I’m not in the same games as my family anymore. I’ve outgrown them. Every week I play pretty competitively with people like Ben Affleck and Toby McGuire. I’m never competitive when I was playing with my father though. He’s my dad, so I don’t look at him in the same way I’d look at another competitor. My father taught me how to not be taken advantage of and how to spot potential threats – guys trying to take a shot at you. It’s important to learn these lessons early on and I was lucky to have my father there to start me off in the right direction. When you cast your vote, you are automatically entered in a random draw to win HP gear. Join the ranks of HollywoodPoker.com players who are wowing world wide audiences in their stylish HP garb and vote today! This week's poll: Who's your favorite pro poker player?
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HollywoodPoker.com: Stealing the WSOP scene! 
Player Spotlight: jozepy24!
Vince Van Patten's Corner: From a Strong Suit.
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