1 week til the move
thewh00sel, May 20 2008
Getting pretty stoked as the date draws nearer. See you guys out in Vegas by Tuesday the 2nd. w00t w00t.
My place in Vegas
thewh00sel, Apr 26 2008
As I said in a previous post, I'm moving out to Las Vegas at the end of May, and I figured I'd post some pictures of the house we'll be staying at. We'll be signing a 1 year lease on it and then deciding what to do after that, but it's a pretty nice pad over near Summerlin so a decent neighborhood and 15min from the strip. Anyways on to the pics!



Stone counters




Oh shit a yard!

Not exactly a baller mansion, but it'll do for the first year. Will post more pics when we get all of our stuff moved in. Also, the house we currently own in Virginia I think we're just gonna rent out cheap until the market rebounds and we can get some real cash for it.
Sik Life
thewh00sel, Apr 20 2008

That is all.
I run Soooooo good.
thewh00sel, Apr 18 2008
Pictures
thewh00sel, Apr 16 2008
Me and my wife Bobbie and our dog Hoover X-mas 07

Honeymoon in Hawaii, Sep 07

Watching TV with a sleeping dog

The Whip

The Cosmo Grin????

Mm, Poker updates, life updates
thewh00sel, Apr 16 2008
My last blog entry was from mid-07 when I was on some sort of challenge bit or w/e and it didnt quite import correctly, but regardless I've decided to do an update of me and my life and my poker career.
I decided to play poker professionally in January of 2007 when I grinded a fair amount of 1/2 and had some success in smaller tournaments for a couple thousand dollars. January was my first 10k month and it was great. Over the month I played every day and only had 2 losing days. Was pretty sick. February was pretty mediocre in comparison since I hardly played at all but I still managed to make $2500. In march I didn't play much online, I was still only 20 but I played more at local home games than I did online. I played at 1/2 home games 3-4 times a week and made about 4k and then I luckboxed the $10 rebuy for 13.5k on the last day of the month. Owning up the last day of the month would become a trend for me as I would get owned and hardly play and then play a ton of tourneys the last week of the month and crush something.
April was swingy and ended up break even, and May was pretty depressing. I strung a couple of 1k+ days back to back and had a 6k day in the first week of the month, and then I proceeded to dump my profits for the month taking shots at 2/4 and playing too many high-buy in tournaments. But, obviously since I run good I managed to hit on ultimate bet on the last sunday of the month for 11k in their sunday 200k guaranteed and turned my May into a +11k month.
June and July were mild, I made 2500 in June even though I lost like 4k up at Turning Stone for an event they were having. In July I made about 4k, and then came the sickness...August I didn't play a lot but when I did it went horribly. I was playing over my bankroll in MTTs and dropped 5k in august, lost 1k in september (and I also got married in september, wee congrats me), and I lost another 5k in October. So what was shaping up to be a dominating year had turned into a +35k 10 months. I was already at 40k by the end of may so I pretty much had a really lame 5 month break even stretch due to a lack of playing and playing higher limits than I was used to.
At the beginning of November though I told myself I was going to buckle down and put in some hands at 1/2. I 12-tabled 1/2 6-max for that month and netted $7,500 and I really felt like I was on the right track. December rolled through and I made 3k in the first 3 days of the month in cash games, as well has winning a tournament for 6k on the 3rd. Pokerstars also announced that they were doing a promotion for the top 100 on the TLB, so I decided that I would go for that. I played a lot of tournaments, and it really helped to start off with a win. One day in the middle of the month 2 final tables and a final table bubble put me ahead 5k more and put me in good position to bubble the top 100 TLB, lol. And with no real scores for the rest of the month I managed to have a good run in the $1k sunday million (on the last sunday of the month again) and finished 20th or 19th for like 8k and that solidified my spot in the top 100. The top 100 then played for a pokerstars passport to travel to 8 big tourneys across the world, but I busted pretty early in that thing.
For November and December I managed to rake in about 30k and brought my yearly winnings up to 65k which is an amount I could actually say that I was proud of; But I'm definitely not planning on having a year less than 100k anymore .
January I absolutely crushed, I managed to outright win the $50rebuy on stars twice (once on the last day of the month obv) and made ~33k for the month. In early february I won a seat to EPT San Remo for April, but other than that 10k score it was about a break even month. March was lame, i couldn't catch a break in tournaments and dropped about 6k. But wow what a month April is becoming. San Remo was great, I finished 26th/700 for about 20k American, but I also became friends with (and got 2% of) Jason Mercier who went on to win the event for a cool 1.3 million. Plus I got 3rd in another tourney on stars which puts my April at a whopping $52,000 with two weeks to go. Which is why I obv ordered new license plates for the EVO that say "SIK LIFE" So hopefully my car doesnt get the shit keyed out of it to "put me in my place" for having that license plate.
In other news, I'm moving to vegas either at the end of May or June 1 just in time for the WSOP and I still need to win a main event seat, but I'm guessing I'll have ample opportunity to win a seat to it while I'm there. If you read the whole thing, congratulations, If you didn't....
Cliff notes: I turned pro in Jan 07, made only 65k with high expectations, now currently crushing up ~75k and moving to Vegas soon.
Hopefully I can keep this updated, GG GL LP
Alright, bloggytime
thewh00sel, May 03 2007
Okay, so I never really figured out how to import my blog when i was doing some sort of money challenge or whatever, so i'll just give you guys a general update of my poker life here.
April was break even. I had an 8k downswing in the middle of the month and spent the rest of the month recovering, finished down about $100 total. I think i'd like to become an MTT donk. I definitely like playing them 10x more than cash games and you can have those big scores which are obviously hella nice. The downside is, you have to deal with shit like this in last night's 100 rebuy at the final table:
Submitted by : thewh00sel
PokerStars Game #9723833140: Tournament #48888121, $100+$9 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVII (4000/8000) - 2007/05/03 - 00:27:10 (ET)
Table '48888121 2' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: rcrane082985 (88940 in chips)
Seat 2: bigegypt (266028 in chips)
Seat 3: NE1_Call (92784 in chips)
Seat 4: legrouzin (139850 in chips)
Seat 5: stacksanchez (97609 in chips)
Seat 6: roielmaliah (251700 in chips)
Seat 7: alkemizt (72598 in chips)
Seat 8: thewh00sel (85268 in chips)
Seat 9: psyduck101 (185723 in chips)
rcrane082985: posts the ante 400
bigegypt: posts the ante 400
NE1_Call: posts the ante 400
legrouzin: posts the ante 400
stacksanchez: posts the ante 400
roielmaliah: posts the ante 400
alkemizt: posts the ante 400
thewh00sel : posts the ante 400
psyduck101: posts the ante 400
NE1_Call: posts small blind 4000
legrouzin: posts big blind 8000
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to thewh00sel 
stacksanchez: folds
roielmaliah: folds
alkemizt: raises 64198 to 72198 and is all-in
thewh00sel : raises 12670 to 84868 and is all-in
psyduck101: folds
rcrane082985: raises 3672 to 88540 and is all-in
bigegypt: folds
NE1_Call: folds
legrouzin: folds
Flop(Odds) (Pot : $257,606.00)
 
Turn(Odds) (Pot : $257,606.00)
  
River (Pot : $257,606.00)
   
Showdown thewh00sel : shows  (two pair, Kings and Tens)
rcrane082985: shows  (a full house, Queens full of Tens)
thewh00sel said, "dlkfj"
rcrane082985 collected 25340 from side pot
alkemizt: shows  (a pair of Tens)
rcrane082985 collected 232194 from main pot
rcrane082985 said, "looks like i cant complain about stars anymore"
Summary Total pot 257534 Main pot 232194. Side pot 25340. | Rake 0
Board     
Seat 1: rcrane082985 showed  and won (257534) with a full house, Queens full of Tens
Seat 2: bigegypt (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: NE1_Call (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: legrouzin (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: stacksanchez folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: roielmaliah folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: alkemizt showed  and lost with a pair of Tens
Seat 8: thewh00sel showed  and lost with two pair, Kings and Tens
Seat 9: psyduck101 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Bleh, annoying as shit. this hand would put me in 1st place with a good chance at a top3 finish. First place was like 24k. Instead I end up with a 2k prize and a sad face. Well whatever, I really like this tournament though and I think i'll play it on a regular basis. It's a tough field but I think it's beatable for a solid ROI. Anyways, this is my blog, I'll try to update more often than once a month...
Day 26/27---Month 1 Complete!
thewh00sel, Jan 02 2007
lost $12 today, but today signifies the end of month one! excellent. I'll lump Day 1 of Month 2 in here as well because I only made $73. so the running total is:
Today: +$61
To Date: $4,722
To go: $30,278
I need to play a lot I've been slacking off and I'm afraid I'll fall behind. Been doing a lot of other stuff instead of working on this goal. I'll play all day today(Tuesday) and then go to the live game tonight at 7. Hopefully I can get myself over the 5k mark to start the new year and the second month of the challenge.
Interesting facts about month one:
Money made Online: $2,632
Money made Live: $2,025
whatever Im missing is spare change from tournaments and inaccuracies in my calculations, but it's all close enough. Oh yeah, I spent about 600 bucks today out of my live bankroll on some important stuff that I couldn't avoid so the new bankroll figures look like this:
Online: $6,320
Live: $2,960
Guess I need to grind up on the live game front some more.
Oh, and in other news rapping up the month. I am proud to say that I dug myself out of the 3k hole i was in for the beginning of the month and actually made about $1,500 this month. Not great, but definitely great for having lost so much so early. Looks like it's time for month 2, GL me.
Day 28
thewh00sel, Jan 03 2007
Played the 1/2 live game tonight for several hours. Made a decent amount, one hand that was controversial was the following:
Villain limps for $5 (We were doing one $5 blind short handed) => I raise to $20 with [6c 3c] => villain reraises to $50, we both have about 400 so I call.
Pot: 105 Flop: [Ac 2c 3d] Villain bets $50 after thinking a bit, I re-raise him all in for his last $205, He calls and flips up [Ad 2s] for 2 pair giving me a 40% chance to take the hand.
I obviously hit and he got pissed, which is why i'm posting this up, but I really dont think it's bad on my part. The only hands that are crushing me are AAA, 333, 222, A3...and 45 which I couldnt put him on because of the limp reraise (I obviously didnt put him on A2 either...) He bet so weakly that I put him on a high pocket and thought I could easily represent the AK/AQ or whatever but he called and I scooped it with the flush. It just seems like he obviously shouldnt have that hand, but if he has AK with no club im still a marginal favorite to win the hand. I figured that with his range I certainly had fold equity and just wanted to post this to get it out of my system.
Today: +$360
Total: $5,082
To go: $29,918
Yes, over the 5k mark, awesome. Bankroll is up over 10k now it looks like. Good Night.
Day 29
thewh00sel, Jan 04 2007
Today: +$185
To date: $5,267
To go: $29, 733
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