Thank God Matusow is a good two tables away from me in this tournament. I can now listen to my ipod in peace and I'm not having to constantly de-bud so that mike can spew his gibberish about his meds working or not working. I swear he delevoped short term turrets syndrome the other day.

I've also decided that I am going to rename this tourament in honor of the musical selection on my "pod". Welcome to the first M.E.T.A.L. ( I wish I had a good anigram for METAL but thinking about stud and scott fischman's 5 minute lesson has put my brain capacity at full) at tournament at the world series of poker. I plan on bleeding from the ears as I navigate the boring, yet intriguing, limit game of METAL. Here are my musical selections for the first 5 levels. Hold'em: Gojira - to mars Witch - hand of glory Mastadon - circle of cysquatch Boris - electric Tomahawk -sheng tu (saint)

I had my first non video poker quads of the series in the stud round when I rivered my 4th duece against who I believe is Arold Spee. I only had 1 duece up with two fives and a four. I was first to act and I checked raised him after his bet. To his credit he folded and as I open my quads I did a cartwheel.

Snap!