Sorry for the lack of updates, WSOP has sucked!!! Well not totally... So far I've played 8 tournaments, and cashed in 3 of them. Got 55th in Event #13 for a $9,000 cash, then got 25th in a Venetian Deep stack tournament for a min-cash of $3,000. Then a few days ago, I played Event #31, the $2.5k 6-max tournament. I made it to day 2 easily, despite having one of the harder tables in the room on day 1. But day 2 was a total nightmare, as I lost half my stack when I hit my open-ended straight draw on the same card my opponent hit his backdoor nut flush, then lost the rest when my AK somehow didnt win vs QQ? How do I lose a flip? WTF? Thats not suppose to happen to me! I got 60th in that event for a $5,600 cash. So for the most part I've been pretty break even in tournaments with a few close calls to big time cashes. Overall, I expected the fields to be softer than they are. All the internet pros are out in full force, and you'd be surprised to see how many unfamiliar faces really know how to play the game.
Cash games had been going great for me the first week. I instantly won $16k (10k coming from a single day) at $10/20 live at the Wynn. The regulars were mostly deep stacked nut peddlers who avoided getting into big confrontations which was nice. I proceeded to lose $9k in one night, and every session after that has been break even until wednesday where I should have gotten up from the table when I saw it was probably getting too tough for me to play. I was sitting in the main game with one huge fish and a bunch of tight regulars for 2 hours and had been up close to 6k. Then the fish left and that seat was replaced by my roommate Dookie (plzlemmewin on FTP / GoGators86 on UB) who is fairly competent. Then one of the other bad / tight regulars leave and that seat was replaced by Lex (RaSZi), a few minutes later Victor (Nazgul) sits down and all of the sudden I realize this might not be the best of games. Especially since the feeder table had Rekrul, ElkY, teddy_wong, and GiYoM waiting to get into the main game. I somehow lost two 10k pots in a matter of 20 mins (got 2 outted in one, and somewhat coolered in the other although vs this certain player he was so tight that I might have been able to find a fold with KKd on a Td-9d-5c board in a 3 bet pot) and instantly found myself stuck 5k on the day. I finally decided to leave when RaSZi 3 bet the button and I (being the tilted fish that I am) decided to flat call his 3 bet from the big blind with AKss. RaSZi instantly turns to me and is like "Ace King huh?" Then he looks at his cards and starts guessing the suit of my hand, to which he instantly said "Ace King of spades?" as I sit there steaming my ass off. The flop comes down ten high and I just check/fold to him and leave. God sometimes I play so bad 
Had a few good online sessions over here, and have been learning a lot about tournaments and heads-up play thanks to my roommates. For those of you who missed it: My roommate Johnny Neckar got 2nd in the $3k NLHE a few days ago for a $375k score (chopped with John Phan heads-up, and took away the bigger prize $). In true degen fashion, after 6 hours of heads-up play they agreed to shove all-in blind! Obv John Phan ran better in that and won, which sucked, but props to my roommate for kicking ass.
Anyways, right now I'm in Puerto Vallarta for a much needed vacation. Ill update my blog more in the up coming week. I promise! Ok later~
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