"It was great out there in Sarasota, especially after Monday's Police and Fire Olympic Games. 80 players started the tournament. I played very good poker and was able to reach the final table. It came down to three of us. We decided to chop the prize money, three-way even split, and then play out for the medals.

I was short stacked with 56k. with the blinds at 8k and 16k. with 3000 antes. I was on the button and the blinds were going up to 12k and 24k with 5000 antes. I go all in with deuces in the hole. Small blind folds, big blind calls with AJ. A on the turn, game over. But I was very happy with my game and the bronze medal.

There's was one more tournament for the Olympics on Thursday, made the final table again and finished 5th. The best play I had all day is when I laid down Joey's favorite hand, K's in the hole. Three all-ins before me. The third player, a real clown was playing nothing but rag A's all day. He looks at me and says "Don't even think about calling!" I've got 11,000 in chips and he has about 12,000. The other two have about 8,500 each. I sat there for about 5 minutes debating. I finally folded and told the dealer to hold them aside. The one has JJ, the other 99, and Mr. 12,000 turned over AA. The flop comes A,A, 3. He hit quad A's. The dealer showed my K's.

Mr. quad A's bought me two shots of Jack for laying down the K's. It was a lot of fun and Sarasota is beautiful. I'm thinking about moving out there when I retire in March."