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Friday April 15th, changed my life - and the lives on many of my close friends in many ways.  The department of justice effectively ended online poker in America by seizing assets and inditing the CEOs of Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, resulting in them withdrawing from the US market.

My life lately has been fairly uneventful. I recently moved (or my assistant did while I sipped drinks on a beach with my girlfriend)into a new condominium on the strip. The building I moved into is quite nice - and I’ve put a halt to any traveling to enjoy it. 

My life recently has been relatively simple - polar opposite of the Ship It Holla Balla days.  I spend time doing three things - Playing poker - Training MMA and spending quality time with my girl.

If there is one area in my poker career that I feel I had underachieved in coming into this year it would be in Big Live tournaments.  I had around $500,000 in winnings this year which is impressive until you consider I had at least $700,000 in buy-ins if not more. 

It seems I turned the corner going on a recent tourney super heater.  I got 3rd in the EPT London High Roller for 310k and just finished 2nd in the WPT for 550k.

I recently played on the PokerStars Big Game. For those of you who haven't seen the episode, I was constantly and consistently abused by both Tony G and Daniel Negreanu from the moment I sat down. At the time I did not mind at all to be honest - I was just happy to be in a game with Daniel and Tony G.

Being Andrew's assistant, sometimes his poker player friends will call on me to help them with things too. Andrew has a very good friend whom he has known for about 6 years now and his name is Alec Torelli. He is also a very successful poker player. When Alec comes to town he generally stays with Andrew for the whole time he is in Vegas. I see Alec the most during the summer for the World Series of Poker, or sometimes Andrew will go out to California to play at Commerce Casino and if needed I'll tag along to help them both out while we're there.

Hello, my name is Lindsey Cusey and I am the assistant of professional poker player Andrew Robl. I have worked for Andrew for about a year and a half now. The first thing people ask when I tell them what I do is “How did you get that job?” or “Where did you find a job like that?” I think I’ve told the story a million times. Gosh, is it not a common profession to work for a professional gambler? To tell you the truth it was a listing on craigslist believe it or not.

Back to the online grind in August. Running good so far. No time for blogging as too many fish playing ATM. Further update very soon.

On the 4th of July I was at a raging party at Tom Dwan’s penthouse condo. In the midst of the raging party I noticed that 40 of the best poker players in the world were there - shitfaced drunk and surely wouldn’t be playing Day 1A. So with this information in mind I drove over to the Rio (I wasn’t drinking) and registered for Day 1A.

The following is a true story:

A young pro is revealing himself in the restroom of the Rio during a break of one of the preliminary WSOP tournaments. While he's taking care of business Eskimo Clark wanders in and says, "Hi," to Sam Grizzle who is washing his hands.

Sam replies, "Hey Eskimo, You still in the tournament?"

Eskimo responds: "Yea, I'm doing well have 28,000 in chips."

Sam replies: "Cool, I have 30,000, want to swap 10%?"

Eskimo quickly says, "Yea,  book it."

Sorry for the lack of recent updates - I've been in the middle of the WSOP grind!