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Where to begin…well I just spent a week in the Bahamas for the World Poker Tour Bootcamp Battle for the Season Pass. They threw a tournament and the winner gets entry into 15 WPT events over the season. Pretty hot.The first two days were spent checking in and hanging out. I was staying with Clonie Gowen since she had invited me down there and we lived it up at the pool as well as the beach. We went jet skiing and played volleyball with a bunch of Antonio Esfandiari’s friends. (He, by the way, brought an entourage of 13 people down to the Bahamas! Crazy) Ton of pros were down there for the event… Clonie Gowen, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Antonio Esfandiari, TJ Cloutier, Gavin Smith, Chip and Karina Jett, Kathy Liebert, Mark Seif and WPT commentator Mike Sexton. The tournament went down during the day and there were cocktail parties every night. We all had a blast. Some memorable moments:

• Clonie meeting up with me at the blackjack table and pushing all my chips in…and losing
• Gavin running around the bar with his shirt off getting girls to sign his chest
• Morning Chinese poker session with Mike Sexton…no comment on who won
• Stupidly getting on the back of a jet ski with Gavin at the wheel
• Mark Seif and Clonie betting $5000 on whether a woman would win the World Series Main Event first or whether a woman would become president first. Mark took the latter
• Sweating Antonio for an hour and watching him dominate his table…he scored about $20,000 chips just from raising the blinds
• Sneaking onto the slides at the Atlantis with Clonie and Antonio’s boys…and getting caught

Antonio also told me a really funny story…he was hanging out by the blackjack tables and this guy approached him named Augie (ironically he was the one who ended up winning the tournament). Augie said there was this man who kept talking about Antonio and was his biggest fan. He said the man even had a magazine with Antonio on the cover that he was carrying around with him. Augie asked Antonio if he would come over and meet the man. Antonio agreed and as they walked over to where the man was standing Antonio looked up…it was his dad!!! We all got a big kick out of the story because Antonio’s dad is awesome and really is his biggest fan.

The week was a blast and I am finally back in LA after stopping in Atlanta for a night to party with my brother. May fly to Vegas on Thursday for the The Bellagio Five Diamond WPT Tournament…who knows!

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