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So I arrived 2 weeks ago to Dallas, Tx. to visit my sister and meet my 9month nephew. The city is cool but it's boring as hell to be in the car when you want to go to some place because of the size of the city.

I spend most of the morning and afternoon at home, because my sister and her husband works at that time and my mom and I don't want to go out too much, just around the area, We don't feel like taking a cab and go to the downtown on our own, etc...

I've been playing here quite a lot because of the "freetime" I have during the day. Things didn't go so well and went in a 10buying downswing at NL25 in the last days... I was feeling really shitty, but I FT'ed a $20+2 freezeout that helped with the swing. Ended in 7th place.

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5646/ft202lf1.jpg

On another note, I reached Goldstar status this month at Pokerstars, although I'm n gonna be able to play the Weekly and Monthly VIP Freerolls because I'll be visiting Houston and prob San Antonio for the weekend.


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Back into my ventures of 30/60 razz, I was able to pick up a big win earlier today against a huge fish, which was good cuz he was smack talkin so i smack talked back, it was fun. 1k win in all. I was down to 600(you start with 1200), barred down and finished at 2200 at the end of it all. Pretty happy, and hopefully he'll wanna play me again. He was fkin terrible. I wanted to post a whole bunch of hands to showcase my heroic battle, but ill just post one really big pot, and one really big suckout.

Big Win: http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/239547

Big Suck:http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/239553

End Result:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x174/KrappyKonnect/Pwned.jpg


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fucking teh 25nlftpfish upppppppppp lolol going 50nl next week,yay!


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My day was going pretty good, was about running about even money. I noticed that my pocket pairs have been running lame on hitting their sets. So I look to my pocket ducks for vindication at last...
False hopes

Submitted by : night_front

Full Tilt Poker Game #3075422653: Table Hazen (6 max) - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 20:03:55 ET - 2007/07/27
Seat 1: ostrym ($24.30)
Seat 2: DoTheRightThing ($39.60)
Seat 3: bigdaddyblinn ($3.20)
Seat 4: jhughes590 ($26.20)
Seat 5: Santocubs ($35.75)
Seat 6: Hero ($27.95)
Santocubs posts the small blind of $0.10
Hero posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #4

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
ostrym raises to $0.85
DoTheRightThing folds
bigdaddyblinn folds
jhughes590 folds
Santocubs folds
Hero calls $0.60

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1.80)

   
Hero has 15 seconds left to act
Hero checks
ostrym bets $1.80
Hero raises to $5
ostrym has 15 seconds left to act
ostrym calls $3.20

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $11.80)

   
Hero bets $11
ostrym raises to $18.45, and is all in
Hero calls $7.45
ostrym shows
Hero shows
Hero : w0w

River (Pot : $48.70)

   
ostrym shows three of a kind, Sixes
Hero shows three of a kind, Twos
Hero : are you
ostrym wins the pot ($46.30) with three of a kind, Sixes
Hero : freakin
Hero adds $20
Hero : joking?

Summary
Total pot $48.70 | Rake $2.40
Board:  
Seat 1: ostrym showed and won ($46.30) with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 2: DoTheRightThing didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: bigdaddyblinn didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: jhughes590 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: Santocubs (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 6: Hero (big blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Twos

I realize I'm not that good at poker.. but when I fuck up + get cooler after cooler, this happens


http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/7574/sucksgy8.jpg

About 2/5 200nl, 2/5 100nl, 1/5 50nl..

I'll probably be needing a stake pretty soon after I get some coaching.. This is ridiculous. I still have a bankroll but it keeps getting lower and lower by the day.


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Well this summer didn't go as I expected. I thought I could jump right back into poker but it didn't work out like that. I lost interest very quickly so up until a few days ago I really haven't been playing much. Now I finally feel motivated and i'm trying to put in 3k+ hands a day before I have to go back to school. This poker week was somewhat brutal. Started at 2500 (50NL), went up to 2700. Few days ago I dropped ~$400 in a session...absolutely brutal. So many bad beats. Luckily I got back onto the horse and yesterday I put in the time and won it all back. Today's session was pretty random. Up $80, down $300, up $30 (standard UB bad beats). Ended the day up $130. BR is now over $2800. My goal is to hit 4k before august 20th. We'll see how that goes. Cheers.


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So yea after my last stupid bad beat post I've been playing some NL50 and PLO50 untill I get my rakeback and I'm up like 15 bi or something on that. I was up much more but I've been having a really bad day (trapped with AJ vs 22 on a JJ8-board and got coolered by a 2 on the turn, got it in with nutstraigt + 2ndnfd and a pair vs top2 in omaha and lost when he filled up and such). Overall I'm doing bad calls, bad folds and my betting is pretty off too, hard to play NL50 after playing NL200 and NL400. Anyway, I pretty much hate this so I can't wait untill I get to NL100 at least. Like 10 days before I get my rakeback after which I'll be rolled.

Over and out.




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So, things have been going pretty good last weeks

Making very decent money at NL100/NL200 (I started 15~20 tabling full ring+6max and its done wonders to my rakeback and play - seems like 8~10 tabling I was getting bored and impatient so I started doing stupid things - , 1k rakeback this week, insane).

So I cashed out 1.4k or so leaving me with roughly ~9k, to make a little trip (actually the trip will just be like, 300 TOPS, will use the rest at casinos and other shit I guess).

I plan on going with 4 more friends + girlfriend to my dads hometown, this Incredible place called Huaraz here in Peru.

http://www.geocities.com/nilger25/huaraz.jpg

Background looks like a paint doesnt it? its just so awesome I used to stare at it thinking "wow someone must have drawn this, seems so fake".

First day we gonna go to this lake called Llanganuco Lake

https://www.andestrip.com/images/Huaraz%201.jpg

and the next day we go to Pastoruri and my friends will see snow for the first time in their lives (Ive been here before like 20 times ~~).


http://www.ecoaventuravida.com/imagen2/alta_montana/ishinca_huaraz_gde.jpg

Dunno if we will visit the ruins

http://www.cepes.org.pe/apc-aa/archiv...5f494917f66a3412f81289b/chavin2_2.jpg

Hope not, I mean its cool the first and 2nd time, but I dont wanna go again XD.

http://www.enjoyperu.com/multimediagallery/photos/img/4-67.jpg

Anyway I just hope that I get some pictures so I can post here.

I also plan a trip to Europe or maybe Egypt, Im still unsure. and Hope things keep going like this!.

Thats it for now, Behave~!

PD : Call I tell some people I meet that Im a pro poker player? Or do pros have sponsors and shit and im just a grinder? I just dunno what to tell people where I do get my money from hehe anyway c yas.


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Its pretty sick, I was playing some 30/60 razz on pokerstars, and its amazing how some people can play this game, without any grasp of how it works.

Take a hand that played out earlier, against two players yesterday. The point of razz is to get the worst lo hand. The first player was showing 4 cards to a 9lo something like xx9853x, and the other guy was showing something like xx62AAx. The guy with the 6 lo hand kept betting at it trying to stab at the pot, and on the river he bets it again. Now with a hand like 9853 it is almost certain that the guy is calling 100% of the time because he almost always never bricked 2 cards in his hole, and at worst he has a weak 98 hand. He is calling everytime, there is no point of betting as a bluff. But the player with a 62A draw bet at it again and he bricked a 6 with hole card. All he had was a Q643A lo, but the other guy called, and had Q9 lo, because he double paired. Just a really ugly hand, I couldnt believe that Q6 took it down, it was like playing 50c/1. I wish I had the hand history because my analysis is terrible, and most of you dont play razz but oh well its my blog, f u. Another hand was where a guy had a better lo showing on his board, and the guy with the worst board kept betting at it, and the guy just only called, even though his hand was made, and he had the best hand the whole time. Something like:

Player A : (37)T8AK
Player B : (32)KQ86

Player A was check calling and player B was just betting at it. Why the hell wouldnt player A raise. Its pretty sick how bad the play was at 30/60, and ill try and spend more time there. I think playing against some good regulars along with fish, help me find holes in my game. Fisheye25, who plays razz with me often is an amazing player and I only truly realized that yesterday. He made some pretty outstanding folds, and I am gonna have to mix up my play against him, and sort of realize that razz isnt just about betting when you are ahead, and checking when you are behind, there is a lot of metagame going on, and you have to realize that you sometimes have to respect your opponents hands and make some folds, even when pot odds dictate you call. Making those big folds is what seperates the best players from the ok ones. I would like to consider myself one of the best players at this game, so Im definitely folding when im way behind.

The two sessions I had at 30/60 were filled with fish, and the first session I could not hit a hand when it counted, and lost 700, but made 600 back when I came back later, and the game was smaller(Razz is more profitable when the game is short handed rather then long handed, because 4 players to 4th street is just a crapshoot really, and I was faring terribly in them, lee would just not hook me up. I came so close to winning my first 1k pot, I almost threw up.


anyways cliffnotes are, learn razz there is so much dead money in this game, and its a fun game if you are sick of grinding cash games or nlhe tournaments. Its also the easiest game to pick up(other than triple draw but triple draw will make you want to cut your wrists).


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since my sick streak which kicked me from nl100 down to nl25 im not playing much.

but the great thing is when i play it seems like i cant even beat nl25 anymore.


i used to run at 9+ptbb/100 over ~75k hands.

well now ervything is different. i tried different approaches. nitting it up , now im back to my old aggro standarts.

evry session is the same:

i lose 2-3 buyins in the first 500-750 hands to some nice KK vs AA , set < draw or w/e and after that play till i have my losses back(usually around 2-2,5k hands). now im sick and bored cause i again playd 3 hrs for nothing and i quit for the day.

this results in a amazing 2bb/100 winrate over the last 20k hands at FREAKIN NL25!


maybe im just too bad now. maybe all those scrubs outplay me hardcore. maybe this is just ANOTHER joke of the poker god to fuck me over. i dont know.


im pretty much sick of it. i know im multiple times better then 99,5% of the nl25 players. i rarely lose money against the decent players. after evry session my PT shows the 40/5/0,5 idiots as the ones i lost the most against.


imo my stats are ok,my reads are decent most of the time, i get my money in when ahead , steal pots left and right abusing the nits with light 3bets and trap the wannabe rambos.

just dunno what to do anymore. its so frustrating. guess i just have grind and grind and grind till maybe one day the poker god lets me win again.



massive whine post again weeee





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Somehow, i need to lower my variance on the razz tables. Razz can be a high variance game in general for those of you that don't play it. I went into last night up 145 bucks.... after about an hour and a half was down 20. 3 hours after that i had battled back to up 65 and i quit for the evening. This morning i was down 160 in 40 minutes, then up 20 .... 10 MINUTES LATER! Crazy swings.

Sorry so short on this one folks, but i'm taking my little sister (15) to see the Simpsons' Movie. I used to be a big simpsons fan but haven't actually watched an episode of the show in about a year. My avatar on pokerstars is homer simpson but my brother put that on there for me. I'm waiting until my baby is born to put his/her picture on there.

Everybody have a good one!


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So finally i've decided to buy a watch, and i want you guys to help me find a baller one.

The one who comes up with a clock i like the most gets shipped $50 asap. Max price is $5k.

EZ GO HOLLA


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dOnT yOu JuSt HaTe PeOpLe WhO TyPe LiKe ThiS!?!?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!
WeLL I DO

OK whatever.


here are my new results. Playing 50NL now, and yes, its going decently good.
I also played the sunday WARMUP last sunday, and managed to win 474$. I won an entry to it before, so i basically doubled up my money.

Cashed out 550$ also, but now im focusing on building that big bankroll that i always longed for!

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1482/newoq9.jpg


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Over the past two days I have been working my real job, so I haven't really had time to play much but I was still able to accumulate a thousand hands or so.

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/5248/statseo4.png

I think I'm playing pretty well though my biggest leak at the moment has been not being able to let a hand go where I miss a loose draw. Instead of giving up on the pot I fire out a bluff 90% of the time and get called down by a decent hand.

This session that didn't seem to be a big problem and for the majority of it I ran well.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238960
Earlier in this session this player played fairly the exact same way with Top Pair firing three barrels so I was happy to let him hang himself here.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238961
Also earlier in this session I was able to outdraw this player while semi bluffing all in on the flop and hit my open ended, and after he berated me for doing it vs his tptk, I hoped he would be enticed again to call me.

Now my only question is...


http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/what-i-do-now.jpg


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Lately i've noticed more and more people acting like jerks at the table. This indicates a couple of things about those individuals in my opinion. One, they have very little self-discipline/maturity. Two, they probably have very little intention of ever becoming a GREAT poker player of any well known stature. The reason I say this is that you wouldn't want to be known as someone who bad mouths others. It's just not profitable for a big name player to do that (sponsorships, etc.) Do I believe I will ever be a "big name player", not a chance. Have I ever berated a player at the table. More than I'd like to admit. Was I a jerk when doing so....? Yes I was. I am going to do my best to change this about myself as I hope any of you that take part in this, will make the same attempt. I've actually noticed that it has helped my game when I keep my thoughts to myself.

I just had a player (i'll leave his name off of this) come to my table, not play a hand, then have this conversation with me.

Other Player (OP): hey finkle, i like your blog on liquid poker. it's very insightful.

Me: ty

OP: just joking

Me: ok

OP: your a nit.

Then he leaves. I was then unable to find him at any other table. This means that he logged onto pokerstars for the express purpose of coming to my table and saying that. What is the purpose? His comments do not bother me as much as they are a microcosm of what i see in the poker community on a daily basis. To those of you that do not like my blog or what i have to say in it. My blog is in fact, NOT, the only website on the internet! You don't have to read it. If you go back and read my second entry, you'll find that I am not writing it for you. I am writing it for the friends that I have made in the short time that I have been posting on here. I am writing it for myself. Good luck to you all and good luck to OP, you know who you are as I am sure you will continue to read my blog despite my lack of insightfullness. :-)


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Today was one hell of a day, doesn't matter how strong my hand was i seem to be losing every pot, even though in some situations it was 20/80 or 10/90, the odds are still not good enough I can show you guys a few hands that i played today..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238827 - sad thing was i put him on AJ, thats why i went all so i seem like i;m drawing and idiot falls into the trap, but the trap no work

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238765 - too bad KKBigDawwg69 calls because i really though he called from BB with KK or AA for sure, if he wasn't in the pot this would of been an easy call cause that other player is just a idiot maniac.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238759 - i had a read on him, if i didn't have a read on him this is an easy pitch, only reason why i called, and i was still ahead 60/40 but wouldn't hold.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238701 - and another monster from the poker gods, just so they could destroy it. Funny how badly these players play when i have hands. This hand doesn't take a genius to play, easy all the way, just wouldn't hold 80/20.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/238919 - who needs AA when you got 44.

Stats are below what i should of won today...


http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/5944/july26csd6.jpg

Cant be too results oriented i guess, just wanted to show you guys cause i've been getting msg's that i run good, so this is just to prove some of you guys wrong. I'm not complaining, just bad luck. Oh well, life goes on, i'm just happy i got to play 3,000 hands in 1 day so there's a positive side to everything


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So during my stay in Vegas I mostly played cash games exclusively at the Wynn, starting out at $2-$5 then quickly moving to the $5-$10. The Wynn has the best players club rewards, the cleanest poker room, and the best overall service of any poker room in Vegas by far. You'd be retarded to play anywhere else (except for maybe the Bellagio because their games are just sick juicy). The Wynn also runs a daily $300+30 from tuesday through thursday and a $500+40 every friday. During my stay, I decided to play in a few of these tournaments. Needless to say, they were very good investments.

Link: http://www.wynnpoker.com/winners.cfm

Wynn Tournament #1 - June 20th
Pavel and I have a room at the Wynn so all I have to do is walk downstairs and register for the $300 tournament in the morning. So I do that and the event starts at noon. The tournament structure is just excellent and provides a ridiculous amount of play:

Starting Stack: 5,000
Blinds (Increase every 45 minutes):
25/50
50/100
75/150
100/200
100/200 ante 25
150/300 ante 25
200/400 ante 50
300/600 ante 50
400/800 ante 75
600/1200 ante 100
800/1600 ante 100
1000/2000 ante 200
1500/3000 ante 300
2000/4000 ante 400
3000/6000 ante 600

So I start out this tournament and pick up AQ fairly early on the button and raise a limper. Flop comes A-K-6, I check behind. Turn comes K, he bets out and I call. River comes A so the board is now A-K-6-K-A. Pot is like 800ish. He bets all-in for 4000+. I'm like "We are probably chopping" and call. He looks stunned when I show him an ace, and is like "nice hand" and mucks. Sweet gift, double up 20 mins into the tournament, I'm going to make the final table! I quickly realize no one at my table has a clue as to how to play decent tournament poker, as half of them are being total absurd nits and folding every hand except for QQ+ and the other half is shoving 100bb's when they flop 2nd pair. So I build my stack up to 12,000 as blinds reach 75/150. On the last hand of 75/150 just before our 15 min break, the old guy who is 2nd in chips at my table with 10,000 raises to 600 under the gun. It gets folded around to me in the big blind, I look and see KK, I make it 1800. He almost insta makes it 6000. I feel kinda gross for some reason, but it's KK... and I dont fold KK in tournaments to anyone. So all-in it went and he called and showed AA. Board bricks out and I get decked in a 20k pot when no one else at my table other than us two had more than a 7k stack. Sick life... So I go on break and come back and count my chips and see that I have 2,000 left at 100/200 blinds. Second hand after break I pick up AA and think to myself "Sweet, I'm going to make the final table again." WRONG! I raise to 1,000, get two callers, flop comes Q-5-3, I shove in my last 1,000 and get felted by a total moron who flopped a set of 3's. Sweet.

Wynn Tournament #2 - June 28th
So after a week of cash games, I decided to take another shot at the Wynn tournament. Kris Fox (foxfox1) and I woke up and took a cab over to the Wynn (since we were at our condo at this point) to register for the daily $300. We decided to swap 10%. The tournament starts and I get put at a table where, again, everyone is clueless on how to play poker. The fat guy to my right was decked out in WSOP gear (wsop hat, wsop sweatshirt w/ a wsop t-shirt under it, and ofcourse the sunglasses). Fat guy proceeded to take it personally when he limped in the small blind and I raised. He would limp-call my raise and donk lead any flop hoping I missed. Well I did miss most of the time... so I raised and he just folded. Moron. So at 25/50 I raise to 200 w/ QQ utg, and get 3 callers. Then the super loose/passive fish (who was limping every hand and seeing every flop) makes it 500 total from the button. He obviously has Aces. So I call to set mine, and get 2 callers behind me. Flop comes Q-8-4 rainbow. Gin. I check, and it gets check to the loose/passive reraiser who bets 1000. I call, and the two players behind me fold. Turn comes a 7. I check, he bets 1000 again. I shove and he insta calls and I stack his... Aces, duh. I proceeded to get moved to Kris Fox's table, where he was riding a semi-short stack at around 3,000 w/ 75/150 blinds. 10 minutes later, there is a raise to 450 by this loose/aggro monkey (who had a huge stack) and I flat on the button with AQs. Kris in the big blind reraises to 1700 leaving himself around 1500 behind. The loose/aggro monkey calls, and I fold. Flop comes Q-T-4 all hearts. Kris shoves, loose aggro monkey calls. Kris has KK with the K of hearts while the other guy has KJo. Turn is a black Ace, river is a brick and Kris is out.

So after the break I ride a string of cold cards, staying alive by picking up blinds with a tight image vs tight players. I hovered around 9k at 100/200 when two hands in a row I get dealt AK, I raise and get caller(s), then when I miss and c-bet dry flops I got shoved on twice. Oh well, that put me down to around 5,000 as blinds increased to 150/300. I felt comfortable at my table, since it was clear no one was really that good at all. The big stack at my table was totally cardracking every new player to come (he kept picking up JJ+ every other hand, it was pretty sick). So after stacking 2 players, two hands in a row, the cut-off raised to 900 and this big stack that I'm talking about reraises on the button to 2400. I look and find KK in the big blind. So I shoved. Cut-off folds, and big stack insta calls and shows AA. Ug not again... Flop J-3-5 rainbow, turn 6, river... KING! I run so good. Ship me that double up. So this guy is visably upset about the beat (even though he has the entire table covered by x3) and I proceed to play a very sick hand against him:

With my newly acquired 12k stack blinds moved up to 200/400 w/ 50 ante. I raise KQo in middle position to 1200. This same big stack I just sucked out on calls on the button. Flop comes As-7h-8s, I bet 2000 and he calls. Turn comes a 4c, I check and he checks behind. River comes a Kh. I check, all ready to just fold if he makes a value bet. He eyes my stack then puts me all-in with a 10,000 bet into this 7,000 pot. What!?! I ask him "How can you have a big hand? You checked the turn" ... he gives no response. So I try to get something out of him: "Sir you can't have a big hand here, you checked the turn. Your line makes no sense." Still no response. WTF "Ok I call." He slams his fist down on the felt and says "Good call" as he mucks. I usually dont celebrate when I win poker hands, but I definitly gave a mini RaiNKhaN yell "YYEAAAAAH SICK CALL" as I tabled my KQ on this hand. So with 26k I cruised to the final table.

The final table was pretty easy for the most part. I picked up QQ on the button and stacked the only good player at the table when he reshoved A3s in the big blind (and I was raising every button so it was def a set-up / cooler). Later on I see this game good player get into the Top 40 at the WSOP Main Event. The "key" hand was at 2k/4k blinds w/ 400 ante. We are 5-handed and I pick up AQ utg so I raise to 20k and commit myself vs anyone who wants to reshove on me. Well this tight/solid Danish guy reraises to 100 less than what I have. I look at him and feel sick strength. Yes I know this fold is bad... And I swear I never make this fold vs anyone but I cant describe in words the look this guy had on his face that just screamed: "I HAVE ACES, AND I'M GOING TO SILLY SMACK YOU OUT OF THIS TOURNAMENT KID." I should have just made it 12k to go so I could have some room to fold. But I'm a total donk. Worst fold ever, but I did it. Everything seemed to work after that, as I raped the fat guy dressed in WSOP gear with my Q3s vs his T3o, and he stormed off without shaking my hand. Then I raped that tight/solid Danish guy when I reshoved AJ and he called with AT. Lastly, this guy who was playing very tight through out the entire tournament just lost his head against me and had enough of my abusive blind steals, so I raised A9o on the button and he insta reshoved from the big blind... so I called and he had K8o, my A9 held and the remaining two players were like: "Wow... how did you call that? He's been so tight." And I responded: "I can't fold, dont bluff me." So ship it:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/staff/JonnyCosMo/WynnWin.JPG

Wynn Tournament #3 - July 12th
Again, Pavel and I have a room at the Wynn and I register for the $300 tournament at 11:00am. Went back to the room to take a shower then went to the Cafe to pick up a bagel and some coffee. Got back to the Wynn poker room around 12:10, 10 minutes late. I sit down on the cut-off, my 3rd hand I pick up 77 and raise to 150. The guy behind me flat calls, and both blinds call. Flop comes Q-T-7 with two spades, both blinds check to me and I bet 600. The flat caller behind me calls and the blinds fold. Turn comes a 8. I bet 1600 and the flat caller calls again. I say to the dealer "No Jack no six please!" and the river is a 10. Sweet, full house. I bet 2400. He shoves... I'm like ugg, I call. He has QQ and decks me. Sick life. Busto 3 hands into the tournament.

Wynn Tournament #4 - July 13th
It was a Friday $500 during the Main Event of the WSOP and I got sat down at a table full of complete morons. Unforunately, I was card dead for the first 2 hours and couldnt get anything going. About 20 mins into the tournament I raised AKo on the button to 150 and got a call from the retarded small blind, it came K-5-6 and he checked I bet 300 he called. Turn came a 9, he checked I bet 750 and he called. River came a Q, he lead out for 750 and I'm like "Ug... show me your KQ" as I called. Eh, I was close enough... he had Q5o. So I lose a big chunk of my stack in that hand. I then pick up AJo in the big blind, and it gets folded around to this old guy in the small blind who limps, so I raise to 300 at 50/100 blinds, and he limp-raises to 1500. So I'm like ug oh well and fold, and he flips up 73o in the middle of the table like he made some kind of great play. I proceed to watch this crazy asian dude who played every hand go up vs this old guy aggro bluffing monkey and they play some 15k pot with 44 vs A5 on a 7-8-9 board, crazy asian dude's 44 holds and everyone thinks he made the sickest call in the entire world. The clueless retard obviously has no clue what he's doing, he just cant fold a hand. I'm thinking to myself: "Give me a hand one time please!" So at 75/150 I'm at like 2500 left, crazy asian dude limps, weak/tight small blind limps in as well and I'm in the big blind with A4s in spades. I make it 700. Crazy asian dude calls, and other guy folds. Flop comes J-3-5 all hearts. So I c-bet 1500 leaving myself 300 behind (lol). So the crazy asian dude is like "I have too many outs to fold this... ok I call" and puts the rest of it all-in with Q9 with the Q of hearts. I table A4, and the turn and river bricks out for him and I double. Then after the hand he starts talking to the guy next to him saying: "I knew that kid had nothing by the way he bet." ... OK SIR! So after the break at 100/200, crazy asian dude limps I raise on the button with QJ, and crazy asian dude calls. Flop comes Q-9-6. He checks, I bet, he calls. Turn comes a 3. He checks, I check behind. River comes a 3. He bets 1600. I snap call, and he's like good hand and holds on to his cards waiting to see my hand. So I decide I'm not going to turn over my cards unless he shows me first since I did call him. We give each other like a 15 second stare down (lol) and finally he tables K4o, and I show him the QJ to take down the pot.

Later on in a 6-way limped pot, I checked 96o in the big blind and flop came 9-6-5 with two hearts. So I lead at the pot and got two callers, one of which was this crazy asian dude. Turn came a 9 so I had this hand on lockdown, I bet 1/2 pot trying to keep the draws in. The first caller folded and the crazy asian dude made the call. At this point I put him on a draw, so river came a blank 3 (flush draw missed). And I checked to him. He pauses for a second then picks up two stacks of chips (about 4k worth) and starts counting em out infront of him. Then he asks me how much I have in my stack left, to which I respond that I have about 8k left. All the while I am totally cumming in my pants waiting for this moron to try to bluff me with his missed draw. Finally after 2 minutes of debatting he pussys out and checks behind. So I show him my full house, and he says something along the lines of "I knew you had that." ... sure you did. I proceed to lose a few chips on short stacks reshoving on my blind steal attemps and I leave myself with 11k at 150/300. I raise in early position to 900 with JJ and this aggro old guy insta makes it 3000. At this point I thought I could have just folded and played on... but the other part of me just felt this guy was loose enough to have a fairly wide range of hands here. Plus JJ was the biggest preflop hand I've seen in 4 hours. So I shoved and he snap called with QQ and I go busto. I was pretty frustrated with myself for the entire afternoon, but looking back on it now I dont think the shove was that bad given what I knew at the time.

Wynn Tournament #5 - July 19th
I came, I saw, I conquered. Plain and simple. The weird thing was, I left the room to go register and Pavel is half asleep in his bed and says "I think your going to win this one..." before he passes out. Only 30 players entered this one so I played solid ABC poker til the final table. At the final table I attempted to turn it up after the first 4 aggro donks killed themselves. There was this one young kid from denmark with all the chips, and what made it worse was this kid kept getting more chips through total gifts from other players. The young kid limped AA and flop came A-J-5, he gets check-raised, and turn comes a 8 and the guy shoves all-in and he calls and the guy has 43! GAH MAKE THESE MISTAKES VS ME PLEASE! So we are 4 handed, and they all want to chop 4-ways but the pay-out only awarded the top 3 players. So I'm like no... I dont chop. I pick up some chips on the bubble, and the guy who bubbles tilt shoves another gift to the young kid from denmark. The guy who busted in 3rd place got value towned when I had KQ and raised his big blind. He called and the board ran out K-5-3-3-9 and he called 3 barrels with K4. The kid from denmark took him out and we were heads up at 300/600 blinds. I had 25,000 and the young kid had 125,000. He offered a chip chop right here and I laughed at him. So we played it out and I found that he had totally changed his play from being real passive when we had the other players at the table to a very hyper aggressive heads up. The only problem was that he was limping every button. So the first big pot we got into was about 30 mins into our heads up match, as I chipped up to about 30k he limp reraised all-in and I called with 77. He had KT and we were coin flipping. The board bricked out for him and I won the huge double up to get me at 60k vs his 90k in chips. He then offers me a 40% chop, to which point I respond "If you take 40% then I'll chop" and he says no so we play on. 30 minutes later I deck him in a pot when he limp-reraises me on the button (like he's been doing frequently at this point) and I call with AJo. Flop comes 8-9-A and I check call a bet on the flop. Turn comes a 3 and I check and he jams and I make the call. He has A4o and I hold to take over the chip lead. We battle it out for an hour more, and I feel that he continues to get more and more frustrated. Finally he raises on the button and I call in the big blind. Flop comes T-9-3, I check raise him on the flop and he 3 bet shoves all-in. I insta call and he has K2o. Turn and river brick out and I win the tournament. The kid was very nice, and was praising how well I played heads-up etc... Some guy who was watching us play heads-up on the rail for the entire time came up to me and said it was one of the sickest comebacks he's ever seen and asked for some information about me. I was like, thanks dude but, uh, your weird, and I aint giving any info on where I live and shit. LOL.

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Wynn Tournament #6 - July 20th
Only 10 players entered this $500 friday tournament so it basically played out like a deep stacked sit n go. I noticed that most of the players at the table were just complete nits that thought they could outlast each other. So I decided to change up my play at the start and raised more hands to pick up some chips. I chipped up to about 10k and knocked out one player at the first break which I thought was good. My plan back-fired a little bit on me as the antes kicked in at 100/200. The players that were short started giving me no respect and were reshoving on my raises. This forced me to play tighter than I wanted to at this point of the tournament, and be more cautious with my opening raises. I pretty much played real tight and folded my way til we were 4 handed. I was on the shortest stack at that time with 6,000 at 150/300 blinds. The other 3 players wanted to chip chop 4-ways, and I'm like: "I dont chop." They all seemed real tight and wanting to make some money so I decided to test the waters and pick up some blinds. The action for me started off like: Raise, Fold, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Fold. No action from anyone... all the pots were getting walked around or folded preflop. Hmmmm, lets turn this up a bit. Raise, Raise, Fold, Raise, Raise, Fold, Raise, Fold, Raise, Raise. Still no action, I had now chipped up to almost being chip leader. Ok... lets just keep raising until someone decides to play back: Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise, Raise. Still no action... for the next hour I raise every single hand (with the exception of 4-5 hands where one of them open raised before me and I had trash) and chip up from 6,000 to 30,000 without playing a pot past the flop. The dealers were joking that I should just put out the raise before I get the cards. It seemed that the 3 players left were all look at each other and trying to wait each other out. So finally one of the guys pushes in his short stack and I have JJ and bust him. I have the majority of the chips in play going into 3 handed and I'm pretty sure I can't lose, so these two ask for a chop again. And I again tell them I dont chop. So they REALLY want a chop this time, and eventually tell me that they will both give me first place money just so they can chop 2nd and 3rd place. I'm like... uuhhh Ok well I guess I'll take that chop. Later that night I told Lyric and Daut at dinner, and Lyric suggested that I should have asked more than 1st place to let the other two players chop. ROFL.

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Ship the moneys:

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Yea I know I've been a little slow about these Vegas updates... they aren't really up to date since I'm actually back home now. I'll be putting out some of these pictures each day (Got about 200+) for you guys to check out, with a detailed summary of what went on. If you are in dire need of seeing all the pictures immediately then just get a facebook account (www.facebook.com) and add me (Jonathan McGowan @ UCDavis) as a friend since I posted all my Vegas pictures in 4 albums (There is also 2 albums worth of PCA pictures from earlier in the year).

So I call this picture "Underaged in Vegas" ->
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The first night I met MezmerizePLZ, iamalex, and milkman they came over to our condo and we played a fun game of Blind Man's Bluff. Here is milkman getting back some of the money I took from him online:

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What a sick set-up... I fearlessly shoved in seeing his pocket aces... and the fish still calls. WTF.

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At the end of a grueling night of Blind Man's Bluff the young-ins left at around 5am. Here is a cute picture:

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And to end this blog post, I caught Derric and SakiSaki in their love affair at the Venetian:

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Awwww so cute ~<3


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