The Legends of Poker tournament is underway at the beautiful Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California. Several preliminary events ranging from $335 to $5,000 buy-ins will lead up to the World Poker Tour No Limit Hold Em' main event that starts on Saturday August 25.

Until the cameras roll for the big event and Mike with Vince drop by for commentary, several players will earn the right to call themselves a Legends of Poker champion and take home several of bricks of cash.

One such player will be logging his time between the casino and a newborn while providing texting updates of his progress is Ryan Kallberg of the Absinthetics blog. After taking down an event at the LA Poker Classic last year, Ryan is back to play in several events this with hopefully better results then his first few forays from the nursery back to the cardroom. Follow his progress via Twitter.com or his personal blog.

... As for myself, I lost about a third of my chips missing flops. Not for lack of cards, really, but mostly baby pairs that missed multiway. I flopped a weak flush draw once but didn't want to call a pot-size bet out of position with nobody else in, especially since my investment to date was one T25 chip. Called a raise on the button with JJ, folded on an AKx flop. Got into a 5-way raised pot with TT in late position, K-high flop, there's action, I fold, TPTK gets paid by TPNSGK. So there was a lot of action early, everyone was willing to call raises with junk so long as one player opened the floodgates, etc.

Which is why what happened to me happened to me.

I'm on the button with 1325 behind (2000 to start), four limpers, I look down and see KK.

I don't raise. Damn straight I don't raise. Guy on my left is an early-peeker and has a habit of getting impatient with his raising chips, and he's reaching. I know at least one of the limpers will call any reasonable raise and then I can re-pop. So I just limp, he pops it to 225, all four limpers call, I shove. He thinks for a moment and then sighs and pushes the rest of his chips in. Everyone instafolds. Two folding players expose their cards: one has AQo, one has A2s. Guy on my left also has AQo. Sweet! Two dead aces, one dead queen. Things are looking up: our stacks look pretty even and there's a cornucopia of dead money in the pot, 900 in chips...

... The mathematical picture after the QQ5 flop is, regrettably, much dimmer. Flop was all black but two spades instead of two clubs, so I didn't even have the backdoor donkflush draw to help me out. No miracle card for me, guy on my left has me covered by one T25 chip, IGHN in level one for the second day in a row.