This blog post is long overdue! A couple of weeks ago, Eric played in the NBC Heads up Championship at Caesars Palace. He had an automatic bid into the tournament from winning Cardplayer Magazine Player of the Year.

The event started out with a party at Pure Nightclub the night before the tourney to pick who would play each other in the bracket. Eric was matched up with the winner of the Heads up Tournament at the World Series of Poker in 2009... so needless to say, his opponent knew heads up play pretty well.

Eric had to walk a red carpet for the party which was pretty funny to watch a "jeans & t-shirt" Wisconsin boy in front of video cameras and photographers! (unfortunately I didn't bring my camera to document this) I did however bring my camera to the actual tournament the next day!

This is Cardplayer Magazine's camera man getting some footage of NBC's promotional banner

This is Eric playing against the WSOP Heads Up champion! Unfortunately, Eric had two bad beats in a row and was eliminated in the 1st round...

Just a close-up of Eric checking out his cards.

This tournament was really fun to experience and I'm so proud of my boyfriend for everything he has accomplished in the last few years! If you'd like to see him playing in this tournament, tune into NBC on Sundays April 18th through May 23rd at noon ET/11Central (9am Pacific) You can find a schedule here.

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Eric played in the Southern Poker Championship in Biloxi, Mississippi about a week ago, and for some reason... I decided to go with. I know I've driven through Mississippi on a road trip with my Mom and Sister when I was little, but I didn't really remember anything about the place so I figured, 'Why not? This will be an adventure'!

We stayed in the Hotel/Casino that the Poker tournament was held in which was right on the Gulf Coast. Our cab driver took us 'the ocean route' from the airport and gave us a history about what has happened to the area since Hurricane Katrina. To the right of the road were the white sandy beaches of the Gulf Coast, and to the left was almost completely deserted land that was wiped out from the Hurricane. Our cab driver explained to us that before the Hurricane there were beautiful beach houses, bars, restaurants, and shops that lined this road but no one was able to rebuild because the Insurance companies found a loop-hole claiming the damage was caused first by the rising waters and since they had Hurricane Insurance, and not Flood Insurance, they weren't covered. It was pretty depressing to hear such a horrible thing happened to so many people who literally lost everything.

The area was absolutely beautiful and while Eric was playing poker one day, I went on a walk around the area and here is what I found:

Right next to our hotel were these remnants of a dock that I imagine was taken out by the Hurricane.