updated 4/8/99

Pojo,


I just played in a touranment!  I didn't do to bad but I lost in the
fourth round.  I played all kids from my school so this might have
affected how well I did.  This is how it went.  In my first round I
played a kid that had a deck centered around fire and plant.  I almost
lost to him because he had two charizards in his deck.  My polywhirl used
double slap each time and got two heads so he ended up losing, and I was
the one expected to lose.  After this it gave me a little more
confidence.  This next deck I played was centered around psyscic and
fire.  I was expected to lose this battle too.  The cards that really
threatened me were Haunter, Kadabra, and Alkazam.  He didn't have a
charizard in his deck like I thought he would.  The next deck I played
against was around was fighting and water.  He had two dugtrio's.  Thank
heven for venasaur!  On my fourth round I played a deck made of fire and
fighting.  My hand that I first drew was really bad!  I only had one
pokemon and that was bulbasaur and I had no plant energy in my hand. 
Great I thought as I saw him flip over a magmar.  On my first draw I got
a plant energy.  I thought I might pull this off after all.  Too bad, he
whipped out  a double colorless.  I went down without a fight.  My next
card was a starmie.  That was the game I was supposed to win too.  I
couldn't believe it.  Now that you know how I did this is what my deck
consists of:


10 water energy
2 polywag's 
1 polywhirl (double slap can take out a charizard....if you're lucky)
1 seel (weak attacks but lots of hp's)
1 dewgong (high damage attacks for a pretty low cost)
2 staru's (slap does forty damage against a fire pokemon)
1 starmie (could have a few more attacks and recover is pretty good)
1 squirtle
1 wartortle (bite is pretty good)
1 blastoise (hydropump is really good and it's pokemon power is pretty
useful too)


10 plant energy
1 koffing ( it either poison's them or they are confused)
2 nidoran's ( horn hazard can do a lot of damage)
1 nidorino (horn drill is one of my favorite attacks)
1 bulbasaur (leech seed keeps him healthy)
1 ivysaur ( poisonpowder does twenty damage and the pokemon is poisoned)
1 venasaur ( AWESOME pokemon power and pretty powerful attack)


2 rattata's  (bite does twenty damage with just one card)
1 raticate (super fang drains half their energy and when they get down to
twenty use bite)
1 pidgey ( move their pokemon out that don't have any or enough energy on
them and also does ten damage too)


1 pokedex ( good for a the beginning of your turn if you don't get a lot
of energy)
1 gust of wind (if you don't have your pidgey out yet)
2 bills (the more cards you draw the better the chance of you getting the
cards you want)
2 pokemon trader's (to get your evolution cards after you use your bills
and pokedex)
4 energy removals (these work well at the beginning of the game because
your opponent cant get their energy down and can also be annoying)
1 switch ( to get your damaged pokemon to the bench if he has no energy
cards on him)
4 potion's (super potions you have to discard energy and two potions = a
super potion)
1 pokemon center ( to heal all your pokemon after subbing them in and out
of battle)
2 super potion's (when your potion's just won't cut it)


If you have any suggestions for my deck please feel free to E-Mail me at
JVKIRWAN@juno.com  Thanks!