Surely we have all bustoed someone's account in our online career...but what happens when the person starts saying he/she will kill themselves? I had that happen to me tonight and was rather unsettled.

The guy in particular I knew was bad from playing higher stakes with him earlier in the week. We were heads up. Anyway, he made an AWFUL bluff basically trying to rep quads and me having the nut full house. It was a snap call scenarior despite being over 200bbs deep each. After the particular hand, he started tilting badly and asking me how I could call etc and if I was cheating or used a program. Then he said that if I was going to quit I could.

At this point, I'm literally salivating since he's still about 175bb deep. I assured him I wasn't going to quit and he kept open shoving 175+ bb into me. The particular hand came up where it was a single raised pot pre and I flopped top pair and shitty kicker and he open shipped on me as usual. I snapped with my top pair and he had 2nd pair with a naked flush draw. Luckily, I managed to hold.

He goes nuts and I ask nicely for him to reload. He says I busted his account (I think it was over 1k that I took from him) and then, he says he's going to kill himself and to look for him in the papers tomorrow. He even told me the location. He then says he has a gambling problem. He never once asked for his money back actually. He later on said he was kidding....but I was feeling really badly for awhile. I talked to some of my friends and they said if he didn't lose money to me he would have lost it to someone else and I won the money fair and square. I mean I still feel like crap actually. I guess the live pros have it worse...imagine if someone was flipping out right in front of you. I dunno...I guess I shouldn't even have talked in chat.

In other news, Dodgy and I are trying to plan another month long roadtrip. Maybe it'll become an annual thing. Hopefully things will work out! My dreams lately have been about Louisiana...the bayou and beautiful New Orleans, especially the Garden District. I used to live on Bordeaux Street, two blocks from Saint Charles right in the heart of the Garden District. I loved walking around the area at night right before Katrina. There are still days I daydream about moving back. I have a slight idea why New Orleans is such a special place to me...but, I can say there is no where else on earth that resembles NOLA.

My favorite plantation in the entire South is Oak Alley so here are some pics! Sigh, I don't think there's any place on earth more Southern, romantic, mystical and as gorgeous or filled with history either as Oak Alley. (Sorry for the blog derail!)