New Member

We would like to say Welcome to Jerry Mosely. He will be the new teammate at redhollywood.net. He will be joining Cade and I on Nov. 16 for the super stack tournament at the Beau. He also hit a royal flush the other night so congratulations to him. Keep checking back for more holdem action.

Card dead freezout

On thursday I went to my favorite card place, card sharks to play a $60 freezeout. I have two words for you. CARD DEAD!!!! They should have thrown me in a shoe box and buried me out back. Seriously I would have done better, but as they say,"Thats poker!" I really wanted to win this one because Rob,the owner of cardsharks, started a Player of the Month contest. Now a POM contest consist of earning points over playing different tourneys. If there are 10 players then whatever position you bust out in is how many points you get i.e. bust out in 10th you get 1 point, win it and you get 10 points. Now at the end of the month whoever has the most points gets $500. Not to shabby. So I started off getting 2 points. Not a great start, but what are you going to do when all the hands you get are around the 8 2 offsuit area. When I did get a better starting hand in the paint area I would raise only to see rags on the flop with someone holding a raggedy ass hand. Add all this up and you get a 9th place finish. The only thing to do is wait for the deck to warm up and start hitting me. It is bound to happen soon. The longest Ive gone being cold decked is a month. Please God not again. In other news Cardsharks is shutting down for a bit, which sucks. Someone supposedly filed a complaint and Rob wants to investigate so he is stopping the game for a while to protect the players. Go Rob! Kudos to you for not making it about the money but making it about the players. Now if we could only get some casinos to see it this way. Hopefully next time you will get to read about a cash or a victory or at least some good hands, until then hope you do better than me.

The Team

The redhollywood.net poker team is now officailly being organized. Right now the team consist of me, jt, and my good friend cade. We have a couple of other prospects that we are looking at but we want to test the waters first and see how we do. Unfortunaly I am not going to be able to play in the Ip poker classic due to scheduling difficulties at work. You will find the redhollywood.net poker team however on the 18th at the Beau Rivage playing in the $15,000 guarenteed tournament. It will be our first event as a team and we will be decked out in redhollywood.net poker clothing. You really should check out our store it has some really great products that I think you will like even if you are not a serious poker player.

My Site!!

Thanks to my friend Jt I also now have a website...you can check it out at www.redhollywood.net It is brand new so it isn't fully finished yet but it will be real nice. There is also a store with redhollywood poker products. So support a brother and check it out!!!

Big News!!!!

So I have some really big news that Im excited about. My friend from college JT has offered to be my financial backer in tournaments. So the first tournament I will be playing in is the Nov.6 $230 buy in No limit hold em event at the ip poker classic. Im not really sure what to expect as far as how big the tournament field will be but i know it probably will be at most 500 but more likely around the 200 area. Now this is good for me as I have fielded that many competitors before...so I will keep you posted on this tournament play.

Rough Start

So the first few days have ended and it has been a rough start. I put $100 on my online account, which takes an act of God to get on there, so I could play a $90 + 5 buy-in tournament. I was chip leader for a while but then got coldecked like crazy. Oh well, its poker and it happens. So then i was down to a measly $10. What to do? I started playing $2 sit-n-gos and winning like crazy. They only pay $9 for first but I worked the bankroll back up to $50. Im not bragging but thats winning 4 out of 5 tournaments and coming in second in the fifth. Now my tournament game is pretty strong but my cash game has been suffering as of late cause I decided to get cheeky and play in the .50/$1 pot limit omaha game. Now I usually win at least $300 in this game but I kept getting my hand in with the best of it only to be sucked out on the river. Once again...Thats Poker! In other news I am joining a poker crew at my local card place called the Bad Beats Crew...look for us. Coming up is some news that excites me and might just keep you reading this blog...so until then Go Hollywood on em!

Beginnings

Welcome to my new blog! It will be focusing on my journey from amatuer poker player to , hopefully, professional level play. I will update everytime I play a tournament, cash game, or home game. My updates will include stats pertaining to tournament victories and bankroll swings. For those of you who don't know me my name is Greg Padilla. I have a wonderful wife, Emily Padilla, and a month and a half old son, Aiden Padilla. I mostly play online under the alias Redhollywood but can also be found in home games around mobile and my favorite place to play Cardsharks. I hope you enjoy my trip through the poker world and I also hope it turns out to be one wild ride. The journey begins October 23, 2007