today was day 1 of the 5,000 dollar buy in shorthanded no limit hold em event at the WSOP, and I was woken up at 11am by Rob after his cruddy online session so that he'd have someone to go down to the event with. I was planning on sweating all the 2p2ers today and playing some side games at the Rio anyways, so I obliged right when I woke up and we headed down to the series.
Robs table wasn't anything special, but it featured Men "the master" Nguyen running over everyone. No one at the table ever folded to a 3-bet preflop, so it was really a waste for Rob and he couldn't get anything moving. At 100/200 blinds with just about 4.3k, Men opened to 600 and Rob shoved the small blind for a sizy reraise. Men literally beat him into the pot with the Js9s, and with a Jack in the door and a Ten, on no improvement, AdTd for Rob was no good. Great call Men, now I know why they call you "the master"....I also often put in 20% of my stack before the flop with no betting left with jack high. *clap clap*. I guess he did something right, because with about 90 players left tonight he was among the top 2 or 3 players in chips.
Anyways, I was walking around sweating all of our beloved trout, and eventually decided to sit some 2/5nl. I sat with the max of 500 (obv) and on the 1st hand took down a pot pf for a quick +150 when someone raised over a limper to 30, and an aggressive, young foreign player whom I had played with a few days previous 3 bet to 100 straight on the button. I looked down at the AK of diamonds and decided to jam for 500, not wanting to play this pot out of position against an aggressive player, and getting my chance to see all five cards if called. A while later, another foreign idiot sat down with a 200 stack and open to 30 UTG. I looked down at two red aces and make it 95 to go. It folded back around to him and he called, leaving himself just about 110 behind. The flop came KcTc4 and villain check/called all in. The turn and river brought sixes on both streets, and he turns over two sixes in his hand for running quads. Nice hand. Two hands later, I am in a pot with a middle aged guy that I apparently played a few underground cash games with at home in Maryland. On a flop of A9Q, I potted it with A9hh and got called. When the flush draw filled on the turn we both checked and a river put out a 4th spade and I ended up check/folding after getting runner runnered yet again. Weeeeeeeee. I didn't really want to get up from the table so sitting just under even again (still about 500), the runner runner quad fish limped UTG+1 and I made it 30 to go with the Jd9d. The F.I (Foreign idiot) calls and we take a flop of KdQXd, giving me a gutshot straight draw and a flush draw. F.I checks, I check behind. The turn bricks and we both again checked. The river brought the Ad and F.I led 55 into me. I raised to 210 and he pushed for just about 400 total. I called and he showed the Td8d for a nice deserving cooler. shipit fish. Between that and picking up some small pots i finished the session up about 400 after a few hours when the table become a cooler and/or nit fest, so I decided to get up and continue sweating some 6 man NLH.
I went over to the feared Zeejustin's table to sweat/get a chip count to send to the shipitholla ballas, when I started chatting with his parents who were also on the rail (Justin is from the D.C area as well). Eventually on Justin's break I finally got a chance to meet him and have a nice chat with him and a couple of other 2p2ers that I met up with throughout the day in the series including Slim Pickens, Noodleman, Irieguy, JSH06, and so on. Though Justin has a lot of stigma around him given the famous online scandal from a while back, he seems to be a really nice guy and certainly a solid tournament professional. He also seems to attract a lot of scuffle, because Phil Hellmuth was insulting him to his face at his previous table and he ended up calling the floor on him. Later, at the table I was sweating, another all in player ended up throwing his cards at Justin because the guy was a sore loser and thought the dealer made a mistake in chip counts. Justin's dad and this guy almost got into it with each other, but luckily ZJ's dad didn't feel much like brawling. After a while of sweating Justin, Phil (Jman) and Travis (TravestyFund), we decided to head back home. All three are in the money, Justin and Phil with some chips to work with. All of them have a shot and I'd love to see all of them final table this awesome event. Best of luck to all of them, and tommorow should be another day of similar action. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
More side games at the Rio, and a 2+2 gathering
Yesterday we finally got out of the house after some late nighting and what not, and headed to the Rio to sweat the 50k HORSE event. After watching Zeejustin pwn for a while (he ended up in 18th, just out of the money, good game Justin), I sat some 2/5nl. I was getting cards, but no action. I was continuing to open wide just so I could play some pots against a seemingly soft table, but no one was paying me with anything. Finally, I had to three barrel bluff a guy just to take down a reasonably sized pot. A relatively weak/tight player (seemed sane at least) limp/called my raise from the hijack when I held two black sixes. The flop came Ace high with two spades and he check/called my flop bet. At this point, I was putting him on some type of reasonable draw or a mediocre Ace. The turn bricked, and I fired near pot. He very quickly called my turn bet and I narrowed his range to a big flush draw or top pair with not too much of a kicker. I decided at this point that if the draw bricked on the river, it was a good spot to go with a three barrel bluff. The river did brick the draws, the EP player checked and i bet 330 and he quickly mucked his cards saying "you must have me outkicked". Shipit. Other than that and picking up some small pots, nothing too interesting happened. +175 that session.
When we left the Rio we headed over to the Venetian for a scheduled 2+2 dinner at the Grand Lux Cafe. Even though the uber-rigged restaraunt wouldnt hold our reservation and we ended up splitting tables, the 2+2ers featured: our house minus futuredoc and bobbofitos, DF_Newb, Daleroxxu, JSH06, and most of the shipithollaballa mansion (usher, inyaface, good2cu, travestyfund, bigt, apathy, a couple of their friends), as well as Irieguy and his girl.
Dinner was a good time, and we decided to hit Tau, the club in the Venetian. As we went to the bouncer to get into the club, he quickly turned me away for having shorts on, and for having a fake ID. so rigged. He took my ID and I ended up having to pay him off to get it back. -70. sosososo rigged. We ended up going back home to change clothes, and myself, Devin and Jared (JSH) met up with good2cu, Dale, Apathy, inyaface, and two of their friends. We got a VIP booth at studio54 (club inside the MGM grand) and basically partied it up there. It was a really fun time and all of those guys are really stand up guys. I'm glad we all had a chance to chill/party together and I certainly don't think it will be the last time it happens while I'm out here.
Other than that, the 5,000 buy in shorthanded NLH WSOP event starts tommorow at noon. In addition, the final table of the 50k HORSE is being played down, so between those two events with all of the 2p2ers in the 5k event, and myself playing side games at the rio, it should be a solid day tommorow. Wish all of the 2p2ers luck in the event, we have a huge edge in this field with the strong representation of entrees, and we really need a frickin bracelet already! THE WSOP IS RIGGED AGAINST TROUT! Gl all, and thanks for reading.
-Alex
When we left the Rio we headed over to the Venetian for a scheduled 2+2 dinner at the Grand Lux Cafe. Even though the uber-rigged restaraunt wouldnt hold our reservation and we ended up splitting tables, the 2+2ers featured: our house minus futuredoc and bobbofitos, DF_Newb, Daleroxxu, JSH06, and most of the shipithollaballa mansion (usher, inyaface, good2cu, travestyfund, bigt, apathy, a couple of their friends), as well as Irieguy and his girl.
Dinner was a good time, and we decided to hit Tau, the club in the Venetian. As we went to the bouncer to get into the club, he quickly turned me away for having shorts on, and for having a fake ID. so rigged. He took my ID and I ended up having to pay him off to get it back. -70. sosososo rigged. We ended up going back home to change clothes, and myself, Devin and Jared (JSH) met up with good2cu, Dale, Apathy, inyaface, and two of their friends. We got a VIP booth at studio54 (club inside the MGM grand) and basically partied it up there. It was a really fun time and all of those guys are really stand up guys. I'm glad we all had a chance to chill/party together and I certainly don't think it will be the last time it happens while I'm out here.
Other than that, the 5,000 buy in shorthanded NLH WSOP event starts tommorow at noon. In addition, the final table of the 50k HORSE is being played down, so between those two events with all of the 2p2ers in the 5k event, and myself playing side games at the rio, it should be a solid day tommorow. Wish all of the 2p2ers luck in the event, we have a huge edge in this field with the strong representation of entrees, and we really need a frickin bracelet already! THE WSOP IS RIGGED AGAINST TROUT! Gl all, and thanks for reading.
-Alex
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The Rio.....and the Rhino
So I didnt update yesterday; heres a capturing of the shenanigans.
So 2 nights ago we headed to the Rio to watch days 1 of the 50k HORSE event. The field was obviously stacked with 148 of the toughest mixed game tourney pros that come out to Vegas/play here full time. We sweated Zeejustin sitting next to Doyle Brunson for a while, before taking a lap around the tournament and sitting to play some side games.
As usual, side games were decent/good at the Rio. I played 2/5....nothing too interesting, finished +120 and the only pot I even saw a showdown on was when a queen-latifah like chick to my left called my flop bet in raised pot on a AQxss flop. We both checked a deuce turn and I checked the river when the flush card filled (obviously planning on calling a bet with my AK) when she checked behind and mucked. She kept calling for deuces in her hands just to be dumb, and when I told her that the deuce didn't stop me from betting she replied with "oh i know, i know what stopped you from betting"...obviously implying that the flush card did. Well, missy, you are dumb and wrong....if she was right, she should've bet the river (and she would have been power owned when I snap called). But anyways, the game was weak and when we finally got short handed (to only my excitement) the game broke.
I then went to the 10/25nl uncapped game in the "big side game" section where Rob (Bobbo) was sitting with over 5k. Unfortunately, the hand I sweated was his bust out hand: Everyone had him covered in this hand and UTG+1 (big stack with over 10k) raised to 75. The button called and Rob repopped the SB to 300. Both players called and Rob led the flop dark for 625. The flop came K62hh and the big stack was basically going nuts over the dark bet, trying to figure out what the hell he was doing, and finally calls the 625. The button tanks and folds. The turn is an offsuit 3 and Rob leads 1150. The big stack again tanks and calls. The river is a Q (puke), and Rob checks. The big stack sets him in for his last 2k or so, giving him juuust over 3:1 on the pot, and Rob called with AK and lost to the 3-outed KQ. GG.
Rob was incredibly distraught (and understandably so) over the loss, so what else is there to do after losing a pot like that but to hit the spearmint Rhino aka the hottest strip club in Sin City? We did just that.
We got to the rhino around 5am and sat in their main room with girls pole dancing and tons of strippers coming in and out of the table sections dancing on guys, trying to pull them into the private show room ($$$) and what not. Unfortunately, yours truly was victimized. I was pulled into the back by a hot black chick and got my share of what goes on in the backroom at the Rhino. When I was pulled into the 2nd back room, however, I knew I was spending no less than 1,000 that night and decided to cut my losses at a whopping 500 when I overtipped the stripper in an awkward spot to save myself 500-1k more. Ouch. I was pretty pissed at myself and the situation for the night, but no one really to blame except me and the big guy down there. Such is life.
We proceeded to sit around and drink for a couple hours when we finally gathered up futuredoc from stripperaments and headed home. We got home at about 730am, and hung out and proceeded to crash for the day. Yesterday, we basically did nothing except play online. Ben, Travis, Nathan, Rob and Matt played a 109 mtt and had a 100 dollar last longer bet. Ben, being the luckbox that he is, didn't tell anyone he was going to win the damn thing. It's pretty tough to lose a last longer when you win the tournament, so thats just what he did for a cool 9.1k. We were all sitting around in uber pwnage fashion as he just couldn't lose an all in or showdown.
We then played a 5.50+r fixed limit omaha8 tourney online, and that was rigged too, so in one last hurrah we had a 5 dollar last longer on a 10 cent mtt on stars between me, Travis, Rob, Brett and Nathan. The catch is, you had to be all in every hand. I shipped it, going out the same hand that Nathan did but with more chips, and I won the last longer. Wooooo
Thats about it for now, today there will likely be 50k HORSE sweatage, playing, and a big 2+2 dinner gathering. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
So 2 nights ago we headed to the Rio to watch days 1 of the 50k HORSE event. The field was obviously stacked with 148 of the toughest mixed game tourney pros that come out to Vegas/play here full time. We sweated Zeejustin sitting next to Doyle Brunson for a while, before taking a lap around the tournament and sitting to play some side games.
As usual, side games were decent/good at the Rio. I played 2/5....nothing too interesting, finished +120 and the only pot I even saw a showdown on was when a queen-latifah like chick to my left called my flop bet in raised pot on a AQxss flop. We both checked a deuce turn and I checked the river when the flush card filled (obviously planning on calling a bet with my AK) when she checked behind and mucked. She kept calling for deuces in her hands just to be dumb, and when I told her that the deuce didn't stop me from betting she replied with "oh i know, i know what stopped you from betting"...obviously implying that the flush card did. Well, missy, you are dumb and wrong....if she was right, she should've bet the river (and she would have been power owned when I snap called). But anyways, the game was weak and when we finally got short handed (to only my excitement) the game broke.
I then went to the 10/25nl uncapped game in the "big side game" section where Rob (Bobbo) was sitting with over 5k. Unfortunately, the hand I sweated was his bust out hand: Everyone had him covered in this hand and UTG+1 (big stack with over 10k) raised to 75. The button called and Rob repopped the SB to 300. Both players called and Rob led the flop dark for 625. The flop came K62hh and the big stack was basically going nuts over the dark bet, trying to figure out what the hell he was doing, and finally calls the 625. The button tanks and folds. The turn is an offsuit 3 and Rob leads 1150. The big stack again tanks and calls. The river is a Q (puke), and Rob checks. The big stack sets him in for his last 2k or so, giving him juuust over 3:1 on the pot, and Rob called with AK and lost to the 3-outed KQ. GG.
Rob was incredibly distraught (and understandably so) over the loss, so what else is there to do after losing a pot like that but to hit the spearmint Rhino aka the hottest strip club in Sin City? We did just that.
We got to the rhino around 5am and sat in their main room with girls pole dancing and tons of strippers coming in and out of the table sections dancing on guys, trying to pull them into the private show room ($$$) and what not. Unfortunately, yours truly was victimized. I was pulled into the back by a hot black chick and got my share of what goes on in the backroom at the Rhino. When I was pulled into the 2nd back room, however, I knew I was spending no less than 1,000 that night and decided to cut my losses at a whopping 500 when I overtipped the stripper in an awkward spot to save myself 500-1k more. Ouch. I was pretty pissed at myself and the situation for the night, but no one really to blame except me and the big guy down there. Such is life.
We proceeded to sit around and drink for a couple hours when we finally gathered up futuredoc from stripperaments and headed home. We got home at about 730am, and hung out and proceeded to crash for the day. Yesterday, we basically did nothing except play online. Ben, Travis, Nathan, Rob and Matt played a 109 mtt and had a 100 dollar last longer bet. Ben, being the luckbox that he is, didn't tell anyone he was going to win the damn thing. It's pretty tough to lose a last longer when you win the tournament, so thats just what he did for a cool 9.1k. We were all sitting around in uber pwnage fashion as he just couldn't lose an all in or showdown.
We then played a 5.50+r fixed limit omaha8 tourney online, and that was rigged too, so in one last hurrah we had a 5 dollar last longer on a 10 cent mtt on stars between me, Travis, Rob, Brett and Nathan. The catch is, you had to be all in every hand. I shipped it, going out the same hand that Nathan did but with more chips, and I won the last longer. Wooooo
Thats about it for now, today there will likely be 50k HORSE sweatage, playing, and a big 2+2 dinner gathering. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Grinding it out at the Rio
We got to the Rio today around 11:30am for Devin to play the 1500nl event. They weren't letting in spectators for a few hours so Brett, Travis and I left to explore the wonderful world of the Wynn's uncapped NL games. Unfortunately, upon getting there we see that the wait list was hours long, so after taking a lap through the casino and checking out the scene we dropped Brett off at MGM to play SNGs/cash while Travis and I headed back to the Rio for sweatage and pwnage.
After we watched TravestyFund bust deep from the 2k PLHE event and Devin busting the 1500 event, I sat 2/5nl at the rio. The game was kind of nitty at first, but the entire session it went from nitty to random TONS of action for a few orbits, back to nitness, etc...
I went from 500-->650---> 250 after i turned a set vs. a big fish's turned straight (he didnt have a full buy in either). I rebought to 500 and ground my way back up to even (800) when, yet again, I doubled up a short stack, this time a semi nitty lady to my right who had less than 200 to start the hand. We got it all in in a limped pot with 97hh to her K9cc on a Q99ss flop. That all sucked but I continued to grind my way up when a few big hands came up.
First, I'm sitting about 850ish and mississippi straddle the button to 10. The small blind (who is the most weak/tight player in the history of poker) calls, and DevinLake UTG dark raises 15 more. I call blind on the button (obviously!) and the small blind again calls. We take a flop 3 way and its T72 all diamonds. The small blind leads, Devin folds and I finally look at my cards: TT. shipit. I make raise 20-80, he makes it 200 and I end up shoving the flop with his 300ish behind. He tanks and ends up folding A MADE FLUSH. I didn't see his cards but I did see him fold bottom set on the flop vs Devin and the big stack, so I'm pretty sure he wasn't lying.
After this, Z32fanatic came to the cash rail on the 1500nl event break (he ended up getting ITM last i checked, shipit) and during this time I ended playing a 550 bb pot for stacks. Weak/tight guy opens utg to 15, tight solidish young kid maks it 60 in mp (he wasnt 3 betting particularly light at all) and I cold call the button with two black aces. The flop came Js6s2. PF 3 bettor led 75 into me, i made it 250, he tanks FOREVER and shoves. At this point I'm putting him ONLY on two kings, and sure enough he turns over two aces...at least I'm freerolling and made like 10 or 15 bucks on the hand.
After this the only other big pot I played was when I opened to 20 with two red Kings. Guy two behind me calls. We take a flop of Q98hh. I lead for 35 he calls. The turn is an offsuit 7, and I was going to lead but in the spur of the moment decided to check. Once I checked, I thought I had made a mistake by not betting but I also realized at this point I needed to shove him in. He ended up betting 75, I shoved over and he quickly called with AQo. The river was a deuce and I stacked the donk. yaaaay.
After the 6 hour session, Rob called and said he was headed down to the rio to meet up with MikeCH and JShuttlseworth. Brett and I joined them for dinner at the rio and then we all headed to the Wynn (except for MikeCH who stayed to play 10/25nl at the rio). By the time we got there I was exhausted and the wait list was pretty long , so we rounded up matt (hippo) who was already playing there, brett, devin and myself and we headed back home while Rob and Owen (Jshuttle) stayed to put in a long session at the Wynn. I am absolutely exhausted now, but even though today was a huge grind I enjoyed the session and thought I played reasonably well. Hopefully the pwnage won't be as swingy, but will continue.
Today: 6 hours of 2/5 deep stacked at the WSOP, cashed out 1100. Not my finest session, but if I can maintain 60/hour the rest of the trip I'll be pretty happy. Anyways, it is definitely time for bed...thanks for reading.
-Alex
edit: also at my 2/5 table was this idiot young blonde kid who looked like he was 10, decked out in dodgers apparel with his fat ring and chain. The kid berated me from opening the CO and button every time...the 3rd or 4th time i did this with AKo. he called from the bb. Flop Came A98hh. he check/called my flop bet. the turn came an offsuit 7 and we both checked. The river completed a 4 straight with an offsuit 6 and the bb led just about pot or overpot slightly. I tanked and after checking the turn behind thought he was value betting AT/AJ/AQ or, being the cocky talking constant idiot that he was, was just as likely on a pure bluff. I'm a fish calling station so i looked him up and he turned over AQs. gg. he then requested a table change and got up.
After we watched TravestyFund bust deep from the 2k PLHE event and Devin busting the 1500 event, I sat 2/5nl at the rio. The game was kind of nitty at first, but the entire session it went from nitty to random TONS of action for a few orbits, back to nitness, etc...
I went from 500-->650---> 250 after i turned a set vs. a big fish's turned straight (he didnt have a full buy in either). I rebought to 500 and ground my way back up to even (800) when, yet again, I doubled up a short stack, this time a semi nitty lady to my right who had less than 200 to start the hand. We got it all in in a limped pot with 97hh to her K9cc on a Q99ss flop. That all sucked but I continued to grind my way up when a few big hands came up.
First, I'm sitting about 850ish and mississippi straddle the button to 10. The small blind (who is the most weak/tight player in the history of poker) calls, and DevinLake UTG dark raises 15 more. I call blind on the button (obviously!) and the small blind again calls. We take a flop 3 way and its T72 all diamonds. The small blind leads, Devin folds and I finally look at my cards: TT. shipit. I make raise 20-80, he makes it 200 and I end up shoving the flop with his 300ish behind. He tanks and ends up folding A MADE FLUSH. I didn't see his cards but I did see him fold bottom set on the flop vs Devin and the big stack, so I'm pretty sure he wasn't lying.
After this, Z32fanatic came to the cash rail on the 1500nl event break (he ended up getting ITM last i checked, shipit) and during this time I ended playing a 550 bb pot for stacks. Weak/tight guy opens utg to 15, tight solidish young kid maks it 60 in mp (he wasnt 3 betting particularly light at all) and I cold call the button with two black aces. The flop came Js6s2. PF 3 bettor led 75 into me, i made it 250, he tanks FOREVER and shoves. At this point I'm putting him ONLY on two kings, and sure enough he turns over two aces...at least I'm freerolling and made like 10 or 15 bucks on the hand.
After this the only other big pot I played was when I opened to 20 with two red Kings. Guy two behind me calls. We take a flop of Q98hh. I lead for 35 he calls. The turn is an offsuit 7, and I was going to lead but in the spur of the moment decided to check. Once I checked, I thought I had made a mistake by not betting but I also realized at this point I needed to shove him in. He ended up betting 75, I shoved over and he quickly called with AQo. The river was a deuce and I stacked the donk. yaaaay.
After the 6 hour session, Rob called and said he was headed down to the rio to meet up with MikeCH and JShuttlseworth. Brett and I joined them for dinner at the rio and then we all headed to the Wynn (except for MikeCH who stayed to play 10/25nl at the rio). By the time we got there I was exhausted and the wait list was pretty long , so we rounded up matt (hippo) who was already playing there, brett, devin and myself and we headed back home while Rob and Owen (Jshuttle) stayed to put in a long session at the Wynn. I am absolutely exhausted now, but even though today was a huge grind I enjoyed the session and thought I played reasonably well. Hopefully the pwnage won't be as swingy, but will continue.
Today: 6 hours of 2/5 deep stacked at the WSOP, cashed out 1100. Not my finest session, but if I can maintain 60/hour the rest of the trip I'll be pretty happy. Anyways, it is definitely time for bed...thanks for reading.
-Alex
edit: also at my 2/5 table was this idiot young blonde kid who looked like he was 10, decked out in dodgers apparel with his fat ring and chain. The kid berated me from opening the CO and button every time...the 3rd or 4th time i did this with AKo. he called from the bb. Flop Came A98hh. he check/called my flop bet. the turn came an offsuit 7 and we both checked. The river completed a 4 straight with an offsuit 6 and the bb led just about pot or overpot slightly. I tanked and after checking the turn behind thought he was value betting AT/AJ/AQ or, being the cocky talking constant idiot that he was, was just as likely on a pure bluff. I'm a fish calling station so i looked him up and he turned over AQs. gg. he then requested a table change and got up.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Day 2
Basically we sat around the house today until around dinner when we finally settled the rental car situation and decided to head out to the Rio to check out the action. We got there just in time to see Vanessa (fslexcduck) take on rekrul (high stakes NL player, very solid). The match was over pretty fast, and Vanessa was out in 4th for just over 100k. A nice score, but unfortunate when she ran top pair into a turn flush for the tournament not 15 minutes after it started. Still though, she took down some amazing players HU in the tournament including Peter (Apathy) and Doyle Brunson, just to name a couple. She'll certainly have continued success to come.
After the rio we headed over to the bellagio where Rob (BobboFitos) sat 10/20, devin (DevinLake) and Matt (the hippo from hell) sat 2/5 and I headed to Caesars with Brett (Blackize) and Travis (Costanza). I sat 1/3nl 500 max. I didnt do a whole lot here but the only big pot I played involved me stacking the mid stack BB when I flopped top set on a JT8ss flop when I led the flop and he insta-shoved.
I was up about 140 in this game when the game started nitting up slightly, and two seats opened to my left. As I was looking around to see who would fill the seats, ben (bengiec) and Nathan (futuredoc) come and take the seats. wow, what a seat change for me. The table basically sucked for me from this point on, and although they were kind enough not to constantly 3 bet me, I didn't have position on any good player at the table and the bad players weren't sitting deep enough to make a long session there worth while.
Brett and I then headed to Monte Carlo where we sat some 1/2nl. DevinLake met up with us after a rough bellagio session and sat to my right. Basically, he power owned the shit out of me. The only real pot we played together was when the laggiest player at the table straddled (standard for him) to 4, Devin called in the SB and I repopped to 16 (I should have made it 20, for the record) with the AKcc. Both players called. On a QTXr flop, I was trying to check/raise bluff the lag player thinking his betting range when checked to was going to be enormously wide. Of course, I was not so fortunate and the flop checked through. On a low diamond turn (putting out a flush draw), Devin check/called a bet of a bit under pot (35 into a 43 or something similar). The river filled the flush and Devin checked again. I couldn't really figure out what I could get him to fold on the river after whiffing my gutshot and his turn call, so I checked behind and he angrily turned over a flush. Wow I am so good at poker. Basically, I'm really not so good because I was dealt J3 more times at this table than in my poker career thus far. I got nothing going and just let the shit show continue. Only having lost about 100, we called it quits a few hours later and after meeting back up with Matt, headed back here. I finished the day +29 over just about 5 hours, shipit.
Tommorow, I expect a better day and a longer session, so we'll see how that goes. It's now 5am, 8am body time still, so I think I'm going to wind down and hit the hay soon. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
After the rio we headed over to the bellagio where Rob (BobboFitos) sat 10/20, devin (DevinLake) and Matt (the hippo from hell) sat 2/5 and I headed to Caesars with Brett (Blackize) and Travis (Costanza). I sat 1/3nl 500 max. I didnt do a whole lot here but the only big pot I played involved me stacking the mid stack BB when I flopped top set on a JT8ss flop when I led the flop and he insta-shoved.
I was up about 140 in this game when the game started nitting up slightly, and two seats opened to my left. As I was looking around to see who would fill the seats, ben (bengiec) and Nathan (futuredoc) come and take the seats. wow, what a seat change for me. The table basically sucked for me from this point on, and although they were kind enough not to constantly 3 bet me, I didn't have position on any good player at the table and the bad players weren't sitting deep enough to make a long session there worth while.
Brett and I then headed to Monte Carlo where we sat some 1/2nl. DevinLake met up with us after a rough bellagio session and sat to my right. Basically, he power owned the shit out of me. The only real pot we played together was when the laggiest player at the table straddled (standard for him) to 4, Devin called in the SB and I repopped to 16 (I should have made it 20, for the record) with the AKcc. Both players called. On a QTXr flop, I was trying to check/raise bluff the lag player thinking his betting range when checked to was going to be enormously wide. Of course, I was not so fortunate and the flop checked through. On a low diamond turn (putting out a flush draw), Devin check/called a bet of a bit under pot (35 into a 43 or something similar). The river filled the flush and Devin checked again. I couldn't really figure out what I could get him to fold on the river after whiffing my gutshot and his turn call, so I checked behind and he angrily turned over a flush. Wow I am so good at poker. Basically, I'm really not so good because I was dealt J3 more times at this table than in my poker career thus far. I got nothing going and just let the shit show continue. Only having lost about 100, we called it quits a few hours later and after meeting back up with Matt, headed back here. I finished the day +29 over just about 5 hours, shipit.
Tommorow, I expect a better day and a longer session, so we'll see how that goes. It's now 5am, 8am body time still, so I think I'm going to wind down and hit the hay soon. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Monday, June 18, 2007
ZOMG VEGAS!
ITS COMING! T-36 hours till I leave! I have run a couple errands and seen friends, but really I have done nothing for the trip. I still have loads in the way of logistics of travel once im there, meeting up with 2p2ers out there, side bets, etc... And that'll basically all have to happen tommorow, with packing. whoopee :)
In other news, since I did nothing applicably productive today, I did come out with a low buy in strategy post in the single table tournament forum on 2+2 with some insight on how to play AQ in the early levels of a sit and go. It didnt turn out quite to be the masterpiece i had envisioned, but its decent in terms of strategy posts that i've seen on the forum recently, and hey, its all I could think of. Heres a link for anyone interested in reading:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=10838377&page=0&vc=1#Post10838377
Tonight I'll probably be seeing friends before I leave, followed by a day of running around crazy tommorow. Oh Vegas, how I await thee. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
In other news, since I did nothing applicably productive today, I did come out with a low buy in strategy post in the single table tournament forum on 2+2 with some insight on how to play AQ in the early levels of a sit and go. It didnt turn out quite to be the masterpiece i had envisioned, but its decent in terms of strategy posts that i've seen on the forum recently, and hey, its all I could think of. Heres a link for anyone interested in reading:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=10838377&page=0&vc=1#Post10838377
Tonight I'll probably be seeing friends before I leave, followed by a day of running around crazy tommorow. Oh Vegas, how I await thee. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Stupid Sunday!
Honestly this is just a complete whine because its my blog and i'll whine if I want to. My brother has to take my car for tonight/tommorow so that makes things a bit complicated/annoying for tommorow. In other news I played some DS satellites for the sunday million because I felt like the 6 man DS's were a joke. I was right, I won a seat, I played, I saw, I bustoed. Since then I've done nothing today. This is why I never considered playing MTTs full time :P
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1163255 (If anyone wants to know why I played the hand the way that I did just IM me, I'm too burnt to relive analysis at the moment).
In reality neither of these things are that big of a deal, but it made for a mundane and not overly pleasant sunday. Thats about it.
-Alex
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1163255 (If anyone wants to know why I played the hand the way that I did just IM me, I'm too burnt to relive analysis at the moment).
In reality neither of these things are that big of a deal, but it made for a mundane and not overly pleasant sunday. Thats about it.
-Alex
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Pleasant Saturday
Though waking up at 8am for no reason certainly was not a highlight of the day, the rest of today seemed to fall into place. I sat around the apartment and did some laundry/watched some t.v through the morning, and then went home to hang out with the family. After that I proceeded to come back to my apartment and write the introduction to my strategy post that will be coming out in the STT forum on 2p2 pretty soon. It is certainly not a comprehensive post and will be geared primarily toward lower buy in games/players, but with the quality of the forum's posts nowadays, any strategy post seems worthy. Stay tuned for that.
In other news, I had a nice profitable 300 dollar hour of playing sit and gos today after I wrote my post introduction (karma?) and soon after found out that Max (Inyaface) and Travis (TravestyFund) were deep in the 5k pot limit hold em WSOP event. Max bubbled the final table but Travis is currently around 4th in chips with 10 players left in what is a very tough looking final table featuring Lisandro, Cunningham and Brenes, just to name a few. Hope he can pull it out as this would be a great start to STTF's reign on the WSOP in 2007. Thats it for now, thanks for reading.
-Alex
In other news, I had a nice profitable 300 dollar hour of playing sit and gos today after I wrote my post introduction (karma?) and soon after found out that Max (Inyaface) and Travis (TravestyFund) were deep in the 5k pot limit hold em WSOP event. Max bubbled the final table but Travis is currently around 4th in chips with 10 players left in what is a very tough looking final table featuring Lisandro, Cunningham and Brenes, just to name a few. Hope he can pull it out as this would be a great start to STTF's reign on the WSOP in 2007. Thats it for now, thanks for reading.
-Alex
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Bahh
Minor Downswing and major lack of volume in playing poker recently. More frustrating is that I was sleeping on and off all morning yesterday as I've been a bit sick. I finally woke up at 2:30pm to spend 2 hours on the phone with my bank for charges put onto my debit account without my knowledge of it. Turns out I was semi-scammed into signing up for some "promotional" program that conveniently doesn't tell you when they start charging you for a service (that I didn't even knowingly sign up for in the first place). After a long drawn out conversation, that situation was resolved but incredibly annoying.
Beyond that I've tried to get in some time playing sit and gos online. Ive had some ridiculously frustrating small sessions, and between that and people flooding in and out of here, I just haven't played like I'd hoped I would be, but its still nice to see everyone and if nothing else I'll get my volume in in Vegas.
I also ran into my TA from the class that I missed an "A" in by 1/10th of a point and she said I may be able to swing a grade review for a shot at that small bump into an "A". This would take a lot of pressure off and would also be awesome, so I'm pulling for this. Being sick and not doing much doesn't make for too interesting of a blog entry. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
Beyond that I've tried to get in some time playing sit and gos online. Ive had some ridiculously frustrating small sessions, and between that and people flooding in and out of here, I just haven't played like I'd hoped I would be, but its still nice to see everyone and if nothing else I'll get my volume in in Vegas.
I also ran into my TA from the class that I missed an "A" in by 1/10th of a point and she said I may be able to swing a grade review for a shot at that small bump into an "A". This would take a lot of pressure off and would also be awesome, so I'm pulling for this. Being sick and not doing much doesn't make for too interesting of a blog entry. Thanks for reading.
-Alex
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