I am leaving in a couple hours to go on a 7 day cruise to the Western Caribbean. I will not be back in the office until Monday August 18th.
I will be porting in Belize, Honduras, Cozumel, and Grand Cayman. It’s my first real vacation since my honeymoon exactly a year ago so I am really excited.
Will post pictures and trip recap when I get back.
Today is the one year anniversary of my marriage to my beautiful wife. It’s really cool to think that 365 days
ago at this exact moment my fiance was walking down the isle to become my wife (its 11:00am as I am typing). If she only knew what she was getting herself into 
This first year has been truly amazing. We have had a lot of big things happen to both of us, and if this year is any indication of what is to come, then I am one lucky man.
A lot of people don’t know the story of how we got together, so I figured I would do a brief recap of our journey.
I meet Kris through a mutual friend when I was a junior in High School at the age of 16. She was a senior and 17 years of age. We immediately clicked, and began dating. Only a few months later she received a full ride scholarship to UAB for softball, and was going to move there in August of 02. This was very hard as we were young, and it was a long way away. I knew this was a girl I couldn’t let go, so I decided to get my grades up and planned on following her to UAB once I graduated.
We spent 4 amazing years together at UAB, and left more in love then ever. Once I landed my first real position with Stinkyfishpoker, I went to my jeweler and made the biggest purchase of my life. Soon after I proposed; if you can even call it that since I couldn’t get any words out other then “will you marry me” even though I had this long speech prepared.
We were married one year ago and officially began our lives together. On September 15th, it will officially be 8 years together. That’s 1/3rd of my life, spent with Kris. I am very lucky.
Since being married, we have added a member to our family. Our English bulldog puppy Dozer that you probably have heard about before.
As soon as we get back from a 7 day cruise next week, we will be moving into our new place. We are extremely excited for this.
I am not going to end this with a sappy romantic love message to my wife. Thats between us, and she will hear it later on
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Testing the new iPhone wordpress app. Seems pretty good.
Here is the course I am playing right now.
Alright so its almost been a year since I set out to have this blog created. Its time to get it going. As many of you know, my name is Brandon Berndt and I am the Poker Room Manager and Affiliate Program Director for ChanPoker.com. I love playing poker, and have a bit of a gambling problem.
Speaking of gambling, I often deposit $100 on Bodog just to kill some time at my game of choice Let it Ride. I do this as many times a week as I can before the wife catches on. Well lately I have killed their casino. Here are some screenshots.
For the first one, I only had $35 left so I was betting $5 (like I said its to kill time). Next hand I bet $10 and hit a flush, it was a good start. I ended up taking it to Blackjack and won another $200 beating $15-$75 a hand.
The second four of a kind was something special. I was down to my last $45 and was slightly tilted after losing 15 consecutive hands. Playing my self proclaimed can’t lose Berndt LIR strategy, I knew the odds were on my side for a winning hand. So I bet $15 and was dealt 2 2 2. Jackpot.
I ended up taking the $2400 to blackjack, roulette, a bit of poker, and some $5 slots. I promptly cashed out $4900.
Now yes I have a couple stories like this, but most of them go; deposit $100, hit big hand, lose $1000 betting $100 a hand while on tilt. I am sure I will share these with you soon.
Anyways, hope you enjoy the upcoming blog. Sorry Bodog.
This is my first blog, and am really looking forward to it. So stay tuned for some good fun!
