5 years ago... early 2010 I was living with a fellow poker player, he was staking me as I was working for Jazz sports making pennies, I decide to quit one week I cashed $1200 or so in 2 or 3 MTT's, paid some debts and paid him, he said DONT PLAY CASH GAMES MOFO and if you play, play $0.25-$0.50 stakes... well we invited some chicks over and we are bragging about living of of poker and sure enough I start playing $2-$4 in front of an ex I wanted to impress... real soon I get QQ on the button and raise to $14... BB raises to $50 and I put it all in (villain stats were that of a maniac)... he had pocketrockets... I lose $800, girl not impressed, my roommate mad at me lol. Next day he says, I'm going to give you $500 so you play SNGs and MTTs ONLY, no cash games (I'm a degenerate when playing cash btw)... 2 days after I hit 5th place on 5k+ players MTT for $1500... pay him back and go to the local casino to play a satellite (2nd of 3) for the Poker Hispano tour in Panama ($10 - $50 - $200 where the buy ins of the satties)... I qualify. At this time, super hot girl moves in with us, old friend of my roomie... we hit it off, he hits it off with her friend so we decide to go to a relaxing trip to San Carlos hotel El Tucano (thermal waters and what not)... we buy lots of weed, some x and 6-7 acid hits and off we go to the jacuzzi on our 1st night. Acid hit so hard, employees were fucking scared of us, I was just walking around the hotel with my leather jacket no shirt, whiskey bottle on my hand tripping outta my mind. Stayed for 4 nights more or less, I had to leave before them to play the last satellite (package worth $2500, $1500 buy in, $500 hotel and $500 expenses)... I do, and win, call them and they can't believe it. I tell the girl, hey why don't you go with me to Panama, we'll have a blast (very bad idea).
We arrive 1st night is the welcome party at the Radisson hotel, rock show, dinner, we get wasted... next day tourney starts (we managed to get the girl a photography gig for the tourney sponsored by UB/AP) so she was taking pictures, fellow players hitting on her and what not, it was a bit of a distraction but I managed to close the day with 40k chips and qualify for day 2 (busted WSOP bracelet winner Brandon Cantu, KK vs AK)... day 2, my girl has an old girlfriend that lives in Panama City, she is our contact for drugs, she arrivers with her baby around noon, we hit the pool and I tell them, listen, I need and ounce of weed and 10grms of blow by 6pm (tournament break), weed for stress and blow in case I'm tired (and to celebrate if I qualify for day 3 which if you do, its the final table), I start the tourney at 2pm... girls tell me drugs will arrive at 4... ok cool... well its 6pm, break time, I'm super anxious, 120k chips (top 15) with 30 players left out of 150+ (18 players cashed)... I go to our room, place is trashed, lots of empty beers, evidence of blow used on the glass table, room smells like Jamaica. I am pissed as I'm thinking, these bitches went off with my $200 (coke was like $10 a gram, real cheap) and they are partying with the fucking dealer and my drugs. It was a distraction but I'm focused on qualifying, at 8pm following hand occurs... I get QQ on the button... asshole Venezuelan piece of shit talks smack on the BB and goes all in... I insta call, he had about 80k... he had KQ... 9 5 J - 10 - 5... I crumble, punch the table... and go on rage tilt mode... proceed to bluff out my chips to Severino (Panama champ) on a 8 3 3 board, I had AJ he had A3... I was in serial killer mode and as I enter the elevator guess who is there? Fucking chick wasted... door closes and she says "you lost didnt you?" FUCK YEAH I LOST... not a word until we hit the room. She gives me the drugs and I empty 5grms on the table and tell her, you better leave, you dont want to be here when I'm coked out and pissed at you, surely she bails... I go on crazy mode... full of hate... and say fuck it, I'm gonna suck out on someone playing cash games... played $1-$2 NLHE for 2 hours coked out of my mind... then I get A2 on the cutoff... min raise to $6, BB Panama loudmouth (who actually had the nerve to ask me about my girl, cause he wanted to hit that) raises to $30 with AK... A 2 8 ... we bet, K on the turn, 2 on the river, I stick it to him for $600... move to the Omaha PL $1-$3 table and hit another $800.. go back upstairs with a Colombian chick (hottest girl I have ever seen, prostitute)... Im fucking her blind and leave the door unlocked, other girl arrives and see us, I tell her "you lost didnt you?" and continue fucking the other chick, that was the end of that relationship lol.
I bubbled that tourney, out in 22nd place. But good story.