So this semester was pretty much awesome from start to finish. I got by with satisfactory grades for the most part (personally I thought I fucking ape smashed excellence into SDSU's grading system considering I didn't go to like 75% of my classes), and now I'm back home in Northern California just chillin with my old friends like the good ol' times. Decided to upload photos from my camera from the past week, kind of disappointed that I got no good photos from Vegas other than these:
Lyric doing his laptop thing at the Wynn
Mango showing off the fashion in the PokerStars sweat shirt
Yea, thats about all the ones I could get from Vegas since they didnt allow flash photos in the Bellagio around the tournament area so all my pics of the tourney came out super blurry. So after coming back from Vegas I decided to chill in San Diego for a week with my friends, and my best friend from Hawaii flew down to visit since his school was finished as well.
My best friend Kaz
Meet Kaz, he's like the chillest kid I've ever known. I've known him since freshman year of high school. He loves reggae music, smoking pot, and long walks on the beach obv. Anyways, he came on tuesday and we chilled around San Diego until my other friends finished their finals. Thursday night a bunch of us went to eat sushi, along with my boy Mike King (the guy I dressed up as for Halloween), which is a really rare thing since he barely leaves his house caz he's the laziest kid ever.
Sushi at Mizu's!
And then after we went to Sandbar on Mission Beach...
And then I don't really remember the rest, but I have pictures!
On Friday, Kaz cooked some awesome stir fried shit w/ white rice and we had a family style dinner. We headed to Typhoon Saloon in PB later in the night, and it was fucking freezing outside so we didn't really stay very long. We came back to my friend's house early, and that wasn't much better since they have no heater in their baller ass pad (what baller pad has no heater! No heater = No justice!) So they use a bunch of these portable heaters to warm up the house. Needless to say, they don't work so well...
Sup punk? Something for byrnesam to photoshop obv.
One of my best friend who has a problem staying warm
Going to be in Norcal til the 3rd of January, then I'm not really sure what I'm doing after that. My grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this month and she hasn't been doing so well in the hospital. Because of this, I am kind of up in the air on whether or not I'm going to the Bahamas this year. My parents think this might be the last Christmas we have together with her so the mood around the family house is kind of down. Doing my best to stay optimistic about it all, I'm not really religious or anything, but I think I might go to church on Christmas for the first time in a few years. For those of you who are religious, please keep Grandma CosMo in your prayers!
So this semester was pretty much awesome from start to finish. I got by with satisfactory grades for the most part (personally I thought I fucking ape smashed excellence into SDSU's grading system considering I didn't go to like 75% of my classes), and now I'm back home in Northern California just chillin with my old friends like the good ol' times. Decided to upload photos from my camera from the past week, kind of disappointed that I got no good photos from Vegas other than these:
Lyric doing his laptop thing at the Wynn
Mango showing off the fashion in the PokerStars sweat shirt
Yea, thats about all the ones I could get from Vegas since they didnt allow flash photos in the Bellagio around the tournament area so all my pics of the tourney came out super blurry. So after coming back from Vegas I decided to chill in San Diego for a week with my friends, and my best friend from Hawaii flew down to visit since his school was finished as well.
My best friend Kaz
Meet Kaz, he's like the chillest kid I've ever known. I've known him since freshman year of high school. He loves reggae music, smoking pot, and long walks on the beach obv. Anyways, he came on tuesday and we chilled around San Diego until my other friends finished their finals. Thursday night a bunch of us went to eat sushi, along with my boy Mike King (the guy I dressed up as for Halloween), which is a really rare thing since he barely leaves his house caz he's the laziest kid ever.
Sushi at Mizu's!
And then after we went to Sandbar on Mission Beach...
And then I don't really remember the rest, but I have pictures!
On Friday, Kaz cooked some awesome stir fried shit w/ white rice and we had a family style dinner. We headed to Typhoon Saloon in PB later in the night, and it was fucking freezing outside so we didn't really stay very long. We came back to my friend's house early, and that wasn't much better since they have no heater in their baller ass pad (what baller pad has no heater! No heater = No justice!) So they use a bunch of these portable heaters to warm up the house. Needless to say, they don't work so well...
Sup punk? Something for byrnesam to photoshop obv.
One of my best friend who has a problem staying warm
Going to be in Norcal til the 3rd of January, then I'm not really sure what I'm doing after that. My grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this month and she hasn't been doing so well in the hospital. Because of this, I am kind of up in the air on whether or not I'm going to the Bahamas this year. My parents think this might be the last Christmas we have together with her so the mood around the family house is kind of down. Doing my best to stay optimistic about it all, I'm not really religious or anything, but I think I might go to church on Christmas for the first time in a few years. For those of you who are religious, please keep Grandma CosMo in your prayers!
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Watch Ryan's interview after Day 4 of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic and you will see FrinkX, [vital]Myth, and myself goofing off and trying to make-up some LP.net hand sign. LOL LP FIGHTTTTINNNNGGGGG
Link:http://www.cardplayer.com/tv
Watch Ryan's interview after Day 4 of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic and you will see FrinkX, [vital]Myth, and myself goofing off and trying to make-up some LP.net hand sign. LOL LP FIGHTTTTINNNNGGGGG
So last night I played a fairly long session of $2/5 an $5/10. 5/10 went pretty poorly in my first session, and I thought I played one hand somewhat bad but given the information I had at the time it might not have been too bad. Basically what happened was I saw this old guy raise 2 pots in a row then reraise and show K9s vs this other guy so I viewed him has a gambling aggro player, instead of what was really true about him: Super tight / nit / scared old fart that happened to have taken a sick bad beat before I sat down so he steam raised K9s to show the guy who beat him. After I ate and grabbed some coffee I played a lot with my good friend Poker Pro Ann (but I think her nickname is going to have to change to Ann the Insomniac since she almost never sleeps). Anyways, we sat at a juicy $2/5 game with a bunch of complete idiots that were drunk. The following went down:
There was this one kid who was the self-proclaimed best player in the poker room by far. He was going on and on...and on...and on about how HUGE his edge was over the table we were sitting at. So I look over at Ann and she is rolling her eyes, and we kinda give each other that "Let's see who can fuck with this idiot the most" smile. So the kid opens to $25, Ann flat calls, I'm on the button with 42o, I make it $120. Kid insta-folds AQ face-up with a look of disgust on his face saying something along the lines of "I wish I could pick up the cards some of these guys are getting." Ann quickly folds and I table the 42o face-up with a smile. JonnyCosMo = 1 - Loud Idiot = 0. An orbit later I pick up AKs, he raises again and I reraise in the small blind to $120, he quickly calls. Flop comes K-5-3, and I bet $105. He insta-ships in $500 and I snap call, and he turns over 65o. Turn and river blank, ship the moneys. JonnyCosMo = 2 - Loud Idiot = 0. So the idiot stands up to go to the ATM, then comes back 30 mins later with a wad of small bills which tallied up to $647 total. The really nice guy playing next to me (his name was Matt) chuckled saying that it looks like thats the end of his bankroll. LOL I wasn't going to say it, but good call Matt! Ann ended up taking a big chunk out of this kid's stack, and once Marshall28 sat down and started to raise / reraise every hand the kid was in he quickly realized he was getting tooled and shut his mouth. After a couple hours, Marshall28 once again got sick of my constant abuse of his opening raises and my table position on him so he decided to pick up the seat to the left of me, to which I responded by taking his old seat (which was right next to the loud idiot). At this point the loud idiot reevaluated his view of my game and started talking to me about everyone else at the table, referring to them as "they". He proceeds to name drop a bunch of known players and online handles, and I'm just trying to tune him out until he says: "I know peachy keen, he is a good friend of mine." So I'm like, oh how do you know him? And he starts going off saying that him and peachy talk on the phone all the time and stuff, (and at this point he thinks that all I know about peachy is that he plays high stakes online) and obviously alarms are going off in my head that this kid is just 100% stuffed with shit. So after about 5 minutes of talking about how well he knows peachy (and me egging him on to tell me more) I asked him one simple question: "What's peachy's real name?" To which he insta-reply's "Matt Keen" to which I insta-reply back "You, sir, are a retard. Have a nice day." GG conversation.
Around that time I see Carmel (yes I fucked the name in my last blog post, her name is Carmel not Camill), walk into the poker room so I go up and watch her and Lyric play some 5/10 short handed for a little bit. After gathering information previous to meeting her again, I realized playing her heads-up in the Venetian would probably not be a very plus EV move on my part since she stated that her main game is heads-up (she placed 13th in the WSOP event that Rekrul won this summer), so we chatted a bit before I headed back to play my game. Oh, for those of you who wanted a picture, this is the girl I'm talking about:
So I just end up playing 2/5 for most of the night (since I was pretty cash broke at this point), and went to sleep at around 6am. Sorry, no epic showdown with Danile Alaei's super blond telepathic girlfriend because I'm a pussy
So last night I played a fairly long session of $2/5 an $5/10. 5/10 went pretty poorly in my first session, and I thought I played one hand somewhat bad but given the information I had at the time it might not have been too bad. Basically what happened was I saw this old guy raise 2 pots in a row then reraise and show K9s vs this other guy so I viewed him has a gambling aggro player, instead of what was really true about him: Super tight / nit / scared old fart that happened to have taken a sick bad beat before I sat down so he steam raised K9s to show the guy who beat him. After I ate and grabbed some coffee I played a lot with my good friend Poker Pro Ann (but I think her nickname is going to have to change to Ann the Insomniac since she almost never sleeps). Anyways, we sat at a juicy $2/5 game with a bunch of complete idiots that were drunk. The following went down:
There was this one kid who was the self-proclaimed best player in the poker room by far. He was going on and on...and on...and on about how HUGE his edge was over the table we were sitting at. So I look over at Ann and she is rolling her eyes, and we kinda give each other that "Let's see who can fuck with this idiot the most" smile. So the kid opens to $25, Ann flat calls, I'm on the button with 42o, I make it $120. Kid insta-folds AQ face-up with a look of disgust on his face saying something along the lines of "I wish I could pick up the cards some of these guys are getting." Ann quickly folds and I table the 42o face-up with a smile. JonnyCosMo = 1 - Loud Idiot = 0. An orbit later I pick up AKs, he raises again and I reraise in the small blind to $120, he quickly calls. Flop comes K-5-3, and I bet $105. He insta-ships in $500 and I snap call, and he turns over 65o. Turn and river blank, ship the moneys. JonnyCosMo = 2 - Loud Idiot = 0. So the idiot stands up to go to the ATM, then comes back 30 mins later with a wad of small bills which tallied up to $647 total. The really nice guy playing next to me (his name was Matt) chuckled saying that it looks like thats the end of his bankroll. LOL I wasn't going to say it, but good call Matt! Ann ended up taking a big chunk out of this kid's stack, and once Marshall28 sat down and started to raise / reraise every hand the kid was in he quickly realized he was getting tooled and shut his mouth. After a couple hours, Marshall28 once again got sick of my constant abuse of his opening raises and my table position on him so he decided to pick up the seat to the left of me, to which I responded by taking his old seat (which was right next to the loud idiot). At this point the loud idiot reevaluated his view of my game and started talking to me about everyone else at the table, referring to them as "they". He proceeds to name drop a bunch of known players and online handles, and I'm just trying to tune him out until he says: "I know peachy keen, he is a good friend of mine." So I'm like, oh how do you know him? And he starts going off saying that him and peachy talk on the phone all the time and stuff, (and at this point he thinks that all I know about peachy is that he plays high stakes online) and obviously alarms are going off in my head that this kid is just 100% stuffed with shit. So after about 5 minutes of talking about how well he knows peachy (and me egging him on to tell me more) I asked him one simple question: "What's peachy's real name?" To which he insta-reply's "Matt Keen" to which I insta-reply back "You, sir, are a retard. Have a nice day." GG conversation.
Around that time I see Carmel (yes I fucked the name in my last blog post, her name is Carmel not Camill), walk into the poker room so I go up and watch her and Lyric play some 5/10 short handed for a little bit. After gathering information previous to meeting her again, I realized playing her heads-up in the Venetian would probably not be a very plus EV move on my part since she stated that her main game is heads-up (she placed 13th in the WSOP event that Rekrul won this summer), so we chatted a bit before I headed back to play my game. Oh, for those of you who wanted a picture, this is the girl I'm talking about:
So I just end up playing 2/5 for most of the night (since I was pretty cash broke at this point), and went to sleep at around 6am. Sorry, no epic showdown with Danile Alaei's super blond telepathic girlfriend because I'm a pussy
43,879 VPPs collected this month
Graph for today
SUCH AN ANNOYING SESSION. Kept losing flips/missing every single flop. Then I put a pretty huge cooler on Freak, and after that everyone decided they wanted to donate their stacks to me.
Total Graph
SHOOTING STARS NEVER STOP, EVEN WHEN THEY REACH THE TOP
THERE GOES A SUPERNOVA, WHY DON'T YOU PUSHOVER
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/338913 - God, it feels good when your 'FUCK YOU' calls work. I couldn't win a hand vs this guy since he wouldn't ever fold and I couldn't make a pair - ever.
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/338863 - This was fun. I raise, get 3bet, fold. I raise, get 3bet, fold. I raise, get 3bet, I have kings, I 4bet (cause I probably look tilted). He has aces.
Start off this blog post by posting the results of the session: -$2300
And I've never had so much fun dumping that kind of money off. I sat down last night at around midnight at the 5/10 at the Wynn and saw that two people were playing heads-up, so I sat and made it a 3 handed game. The guy to my right was in a business suit and talking / acting like a retard (whatever) and the other player was a cute blond girl sitting with 2k+, so immediately I'm thinking the following: Short handed + Vegas Live Players + NL1000 = Ship the bank ez.
First hand I play, the guy to my right limps in the SB so I raise with the good ol' 87o, he calls. Flop comes J-5-3, he checks and I make a standard c-bet. He insta check-minraises, so at this point I'm like eh whatever and fold. He shows like 97o, and was like kind of chuckled while saying "All these young kids think they can just play so aggressive"... so I kinda just smile and ignore him. Two hands later that same guy raises on the button and I reraise to $120 with JJ. He flat calls. The flop comes 7-7-6, and I bet $240 and he thinks for a little bit and calls. At this point I'm putting him on mostly a float or some weaker pocket pair. Turn comes a 3, and I check to him with the intention to check-raise. He bets $100... odd!?! It was slightly alarming that he made this smallish bet but I decided to stick with my game plan and made it $400. He insta shoved for $200 more and I just rolled my eyes and called. He shows 54o and stacks me... then the floor guy comes over and tells the guy to move to the main game (while he's stacking my chips obviously) and so he says something along the lines of "Come on man! Is there anyway I can stay here? This table is so easy!" ... And I'm thinking 'OK MORON!' but if you know me I kinda just smiled and was like whatever. So the floor guy pulls the idiot from our 3 handed game and I find myself heads-up vs the cute blond girl who was sitting with a lot of money. So instantly I'm loving life because heads-up is my thing, so we start playing and 2 mins into the match she 3 bets me. I'm like wtf!?! So I fold... then like 5 hands later I raise from the button and she 3 bets again. Whaaaaat is going on!!?! You are a live player in vegas and you are 3 betting me!?! Wtf this is no good! So the very next hand I 3 bet her and she folds then I raise the button and bam again another 3 bet. So finally I'm like "Ok, you play online a lot huh?" and she smiles and says "Yup!" ... Sick life... what looked to be a clueless blond tourist was actually an online grinder. So we play heads-up for over an hour chatting about random things, and finally the floor guy pulls her from our table to move her to the main game.
At this point I went to go check out the Chinese poker game that FrinkX was playing. They were playing $20 a point with royalties (some hands can get up to $500 with royalties), so I was trying to learn what was going on. Lisa (RaSZi's girlfriend for those of you who don't know) was also sitting at the table and informs me that the blond girl I was playing heads-up against was a friend of Daniel Alaei's and that she gets backed / taught by him. That explains a lot, since Daniel Alaei is like a super live sicko mind reading telepath. 20 mins later the floor guy tells me that there is an open seat in the main game so I hope back in and play some more. I fold like 8 hands in a row then I pick up AK suited and raise. I got 6 callers (including the idiot in the business suit who stacked me earlier) and the flop came K-3-4 w/ 2 spades. It was checked to me and I bet 200 into a 250 pot, and the idiot in the business suit insta made it 600 to go when action got to him. Everyone folds back to me so I jam for $700 more and the guy in the business suit snap calls and tables K9o. Turn and river brick for him and I get what I lost to him back + $300 more. Poker so ez. So eventually I got to talking to another young kid at my table who told me he was a Cardrunners member, so we get to chatting about online poker and it turns out he plays 3/6 and 5/10 on Absolute.
Camill (the cute blond chick that I was playing heads-up against) joined in on the conversation as well as this other young guy who seemed to play online a little too. She ends up losing a couple pots to some random donks at the table and gets frustrated so she asks the table if they would want to do a $100 hand in the blind, but we couldnt get the dealer to run the hand since half the table didn't agree. So Camill purposed another idea to me and the two other guys, and added in a prop called Dueces where we each picked a different suited duece (2) from the deck and if your duece flops, everyone in the prop had to pay you $100 each. One of the young guys added a sleeper rule, so if you didn't call out your prop before the river was dealt, you slept the prop (won't get paid for the prop). Obviously I warned the other 3 that I run infinitly good in these prop bets, and picked the Duece of Diamonds as my prop card. Naturally, the duece of diamonds flops two hands after we set up the game, and ofcourse as usual I'm not looking at the flop and my head is somewhere off in la-la land, so when the river got dealt on that hand everyone at the table started laughing that I just slept my prop. Standard. 25 minutes later, my duece flops again... and this time I'm playing in a big hand where I was forced to laydown 2 pair to this super tight/passive nit. So I fold the pot, and the dealer picks up the flop, and everyone laughs at me again for sleeping my prop. At this point I realize how -EV it is for me to be playing props since I'm like never paying any attention to it. No worries though, as 5 minutes later my duece flops yet again and this time I'm totally 100% aware of the fact so I let out this loud "SHIP THE MONEYS!!!" And I'm pretty sure they heard me at the blackjack tables.
A little while later Lyric sits at my table, and is playing his standard tight/solid style. So I raise to $40 with QQ utg, and get flat called directly behind me, and Lyric pops it up $160 in the cut-off. I asked for a chip count and he had $1500 total at the start of the hand. At this point I'm totally clueless as to what to do since Lyric has to know my raising range UTG isn't exactly wide (although it's not really close to premium either) and he plays a ton more full ring than I do (I almost never play full ring). So I ended up flat calling and the guy behind me flat calls. Flop comes 4-8-9 w two spades and I check to Lyric who now bets $500... and at this point he can probably figure out my hand is TT-QQ, which is a big problem since his bet screams "I want to play for stacks". So I agonize for like 5 minutes and finally ended up folding. The flat caller behind in insta-ships it in and Lyric rolls his eyes and is like "I guess I call". The flat caller behind me had 98o and Lyric tables AJs in spades. River spade, ship it to Lyric. My roommate sits down at the table about an hour later, (if you don't know that's Marshall28) and he is raising a lot of hands so naturally I fuck with him like I always do and start 3 betting him. Then we play this one funny hand where he raised to 50 utg, and I flat called KQdd on the button. The flop came 2-5-7 w/ 1 diamond and 2 spades and he made a standard c-bet so I decided to float him here. Turn was gin for me with the Q. He bets 3/4 pot and I tank for like 2 mins and then call. River is an ace (all flush draws miss), and he shuts down and checks so basically I realize he has some pair like 66 88-JJ or like 87 or something of that hand strength nature. So I count up the pot and see that it's $600+ in there, so I decide to value shove all-in for $1200+ trying to give off representing a busted flush or something since he has a pretty horrible habit of trying to make insane bluff catches, and has a real hard time folding...anything. So he tanks for a little bit, crys "sick" and then folds 88, thinking I have the absolute nuts or something, and I show him my hand and told him I was value shoving. This new guy at our table ends up seeing this hand and has this odd look on his face like "wow these kids are crazy". So naturally, an orbit later I pick up AA on the button, this new guy raises to $40, Lyric calls in the cut-off, I make it $160, the new guy fiddles with his chips a little bit (had a real unsure look on his face) then called and Lyric folded. Flop came 7c-9s-Qc, and the new guy checked. I bet $280 and the new guy made it $700. So I think for a minute then ship the rest of the money in, and the new guy gets this sick look on his face, thinks for another minute before he realizes he's pot committed with T9cc. Turn was 6c (sick life) but I had the Ac in my hand for the redraw. River bricked and poof, there goes my stack.
Camill was trying to get the floor guy to give her and I a dealer to play a fun heads-up freezeout but the Wynn was short on dealers at 6am, so she asked if I wanted to go to the Venetian which wasn't a very appealing idea at that hour of the morning, so I think we are going to play at the Venetian tonight (and by tonight I mean 2am onwards) and try and get a heads-up table going. Head to Venetian tonight if you want to see an epic showdown. :D
Start off this blog post by posting the results of the session: -$2300
And I've never had so much fun dumping that kind of money off. I sat down last night at around midnight at the 5/10 at the Wynn and saw that two people were playing heads-up, so I sat and made it a 3 handed game. The guy to my right was in a business suit and talking / acting like a retard (whatever) and the other player was a cute blond girl sitting with 2k+, so immediately I'm thinking the following: Short handed + Vegas Live Players + NL1000 = Ship the bank ez.
First hand I play, the guy to my right limps in the SB so I raise with the good ol' 87o, he calls. Flop comes J-5-3, he checks and I make a standard c-bet. He insta check-minraises, so at this point I'm like eh whatever and fold. He shows like 97o, and was like kind of chuckled while saying "All these young kids think they can just play so aggressive"... so I kinda just smile and ignore him. Two hands later that same guy raises on the button and I reraise to $120 with JJ. He flat calls. The flop comes 7-7-6, and I bet $240 and he thinks for a little bit and calls. At this point I'm putting him on mostly a float or some weaker pocket pair. Turn comes a 3, and I check to him with the intention to check-raise. He bets $100... odd!?! It was slightly alarming that he made this smallish bet but I decided to stick with my game plan and made it $400. He insta shoved for $200 more and I just rolled my eyes and called. He shows 54o and stacks me... then the floor guy comes over and tells the guy to move to the main game (while he's stacking my chips obviously) and so he says something along the lines of "Come on man! Is there anyway I can stay here? This table is so easy!" ... And I'm thinking 'OK MORON!' but if you know me I kinda just smiled and was like whatever. So the floor guy pulls the idiot from our 3 handed game and I find myself heads-up vs the cute blond girl who was sitting with a lot of money. So instantly I'm loving life because heads-up is my thing, so we start playing and 2 mins into the match she 3 bets me. I'm like wtf!?! So I fold... then like 5 hands later I raise from the button and she 3 bets again. Whaaaaat is going on!!?! You are a live player in vegas and you are 3 betting me!?! Wtf this is no good! So the very next hand I 3 bet her and she folds then I raise the button and bam again another 3 bet. So finally I'm like "Ok, you play online a lot huh?" and she smiles and says "Yup!" ... Sick life... what looked to be a clueless blond tourist was actually an online grinder. So we play heads-up for over an hour chatting about random things, and finally the floor guy pulls her from our table to move her to the main game.
At this point I went to go check out the Chinese poker game that FrinkX was playing. They were playing $20 a point with royalties (some hands can get up to $500 with royalties), so I was trying to learn what was going on. Lisa (RaSZi's girlfriend for those of you who don't know) was also sitting at the table and informs me that the blond girl I was playing heads-up against was a friend of Daniel Alaei's and that she gets backed / taught by him. That explains a lot, since Daniel Alaei is like a super live sicko mind reading telepath. 20 mins later the floor guy tells me that there is an open seat in the main game so I hope back in and play some more. I fold like 8 hands in a row then I pick up AK suited and raise. I got 6 callers (including the idiot in the business suit who stacked me earlier) and the flop came K-3-4 w/ 2 spades. It was checked to me and I bet 200 into a 250 pot, and the idiot in the business suit insta made it 600 to go when action got to him. Everyone folds back to me so I jam for $700 more and the guy in the business suit snap calls and tables K9o. Turn and river brick for him and I get what I lost to him back + $300 more. Poker so ez. So eventually I got to talking to another young kid at my table who told me he was a Cardrunners member, so we get to chatting about online poker and it turns out he plays 3/6 and 5/10 on Absolute.
Camill (the cute blond chick that I was playing heads-up against) joined in on the conversation as well as this other young guy who seemed to play online a little too. She ends up losing a couple pots to some random donks at the table and gets frustrated so she asks the table if they would want to do a $100 hand in the blind, but we couldnt get the dealer to run the hand since half the table didn't agree. So Camill purposed another idea to me and the two other guys, and added in a prop called Dueces where we each picked a different suited duece (2) from the deck and if your duece flops, everyone in the prop had to pay you $100 each. One of the young guys added a sleeper rule, so if you didn't call out your prop before the river was dealt, you slept the prop (won't get paid for the prop). Obviously I warned the other 3 that I run infinitly good in these prop bets, and picked the Duece of Diamonds as my prop card. Naturally, the duece of diamonds flops two hands after we set up the game, and ofcourse as usual I'm not looking at the flop and my head is somewhere off in la-la land, so when the river got dealt on that hand everyone at the table started laughing that I just slept my prop. Standard. 25 minutes later, my duece flops again... and this time I'm playing in a big hand where I was forced to laydown 2 pair to this super tight/passive nit. So I fold the pot, and the dealer picks up the flop, and everyone laughs at me again for sleeping my prop. At this point I realize how -EV it is for me to be playing props since I'm like never paying any attention to it. No worries though, as 5 minutes later my duece flops yet again and this time I'm totally 100% aware of the fact so I let out this loud "SHIP THE MONEYS!!!" And I'm pretty sure they heard me at the blackjack tables.
A little while later Lyric sits at my table, and is playing his standard tight/solid style. So I raise to $40 with QQ utg, and get flat called directly behind me, and Lyric pops it up $160 in the cut-off. I asked for a chip count and he had $1500 total at the start of the hand. At this point I'm totally clueless as to what to do since Lyric has to know my raising range UTG isn't exactly wide (although it's not really close to premium either) and he plays a ton more full ring than I do (I almost never play full ring). So I ended up flat calling and the guy behind me flat calls. Flop comes 4-8-9 w two spades and I check to Lyric who now bets $500... and at this point he can probably figure out my hand is TT-QQ, which is a big problem since his bet screams "I want to play for stacks". So I agonize for like 5 minutes and finally ended up folding. The flat caller behind in insta-ships it in and Lyric rolls his eyes and is like "I guess I call". The flat caller behind me had 98o and Lyric tables AJs in spades. River spade, ship it to Lyric. My roommate sits down at the table about an hour later, (if you don't know that's Marshall28) and he is raising a lot of hands so naturally I fuck with him like I always do and start 3 betting him. Then we play this one funny hand where he raised to 50 utg, and I flat called KQdd on the button. The flop came 2-5-7 w/ 1 diamond and 2 spades and he made a standard c-bet so I decided to float him here. Turn was gin for me with the Q. He bets 3/4 pot and I tank for like 2 mins and then call. River is an ace (all flush draws miss), and he shuts down and checks so basically I realize he has some pair like 66 88-JJ or like 87 or something of that hand strength nature. So I count up the pot and see that it's $600+ in there, so I decide to value shove all-in for $1200+ trying to give off representing a busted flush or something since he has a pretty horrible habit of trying to make insane bluff catches, and has a real hard time folding...anything. So he tanks for a little bit, crys "sick" and then folds 88, thinking I have the absolute nuts or something, and I show him my hand and told him I was value shoving. This new guy at our table ends up seeing this hand and has this odd look on his face like "wow these kids are crazy". So naturally, an orbit later I pick up AA on the button, this new guy raises to $40, Lyric calls in the cut-off, I make it $160, the new guy fiddles with his chips a little bit (had a real unsure look on his face) then called and Lyric folded. Flop came 7c-9s-Qc, and the new guy checked. I bet $280 and the new guy made it $700. So I think for a minute then ship the rest of the money in, and the new guy gets this sick look on his face, thinks for another minute before he realizes he's pot committed with T9cc. Turn was 6c (sick life) but I had the Ac in my hand for the redraw. River bricked and poof, there goes my stack.
Camill was trying to get the floor guy to give her and I a dealer to play a fun heads-up freezeout but the Wynn was short on dealers at 6am, so she asked if I wanted to go to the Venetian which wasn't a very appealing idea at that hour of the morning, so I think we are going to play at the Venetian tonight (and by tonight I mean 2am onwards) and try and get a heads-up table going. Head to Venetian tonight if you want to see an epic showdown. :D
I was considering playing 10k hands today and just getting the last 3k VPPs, but eh, not sure if I'll just leave it to tomorrow.. It's nice to quit on a good note and just relax. On the other hand, tables are a lot better on sundays than on mondays.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I accidently sat down at a 2/4 table and minraised UTG, wondering why I only needed to scroll up once to get to 8$ 13bb/100 ez sustainable, of course (lol 16 hands).
I decided to post the biggest losers from todays session and hopefully get some feedback, so here goes.
1. This guy was 3-betting quite alot ip so i decided to go for a small 4-bet. I make these small 4-bets with my entire range. Guess I got unlucky, or maybe i should just fold pf idk.
2. Uhh I got severely outplayed. I think he floats flop leads turn with a really wide range but maybe im wrong. River shove is just sick stupid I basicly didnt think he had very much. I should have just called but even that is probably a spew.
3. Nothing much to say here really. My range is basicly 2pair/sets and flushdraws. Since almost all flushdraws have either an overcard or a gutshot villians call is beyond horrible.
6. This guy doesnt seem to give me any respect at all so I figured I could get 3 streets of value out of his 9x or w/e. I though about folding river but idk.
9. Hovz going nuts utg. When you 3-bet an utg raise from the sb the calling range is usually pretty narrow. Im basicly trying to represent air and get a call from alot of lower pairs. 10k fight yo?
I think in general I might be looking for thin value way to much and that increases my variance a ton. Maybe I should be trying to take more standard bet flop check turn bet river lines. Any opinions are greatly appriciated.
I don't really think I should fold but his timing was so gay that I wanted to =[
Was also playing horrible/passive/stupid at the end cause I just wanted to get the 5k hands and lock up a win ;p
Yes, dumb, yes, you should quit when you feel that way. Whatever, 2 more days and I'm doneeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I finally played a session where just everything went my way. I hit hands left to right and ppl payed me off every single time. God ive missed this feeling.
Also, Ive finally been made green star here on lp. Damn its so pretty I almost cried.
VPPs collected 35,591
VPPs to go 8,260
Todays graph (missing 500 hands and 50$ in profits, they seem to be gone)
2 week graph
As you can see the last week has been mad swingy, the result of getting a little worn out and variance catching up with me (I was running verrrrrrrrrrry hot) + the poor play of yesterday didn't really help me.
Ended the day losing KK vs TT allin preflop so that sucks, but had a bunch of really nice hands before that so I can't really complain
I'll probably be done with this by Monday, which is sweeet. Maybe I can even finish it off with a sunday-monday morning marathon
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