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teej1985  United Kingdom. Jul 15 2010 11:43. Posts 716 | | |
Hey guys, I suppose this is my first real blog entry, how many will follow is anyones guess.
I arrived in Vegas on the 20th of June with Ket and Andy (mate from uk). We stayed at my house out there
with such heros as mezmerizeplz(clay) bigbobm, doomer + his lovely girlfriend,
timdawg, a former bodybuilding sicko called shane clays sister.
It was a good positive crowd of people.
Since my mates from the UK were only staying for a week I basically wrote off the first week poker wise and touristed it up.
We saw the Grand Canyon (definately take a hellicopter trip, It's worth paying a bit more for, which was absolutely breathtaking but also terrifying at times as I'm terrible with heights!
We went clubbing at Surrender, which could be my favourite club there now - it's bumping without being as overcrowded as XS. My mates did some shooting on the gun range, eating at Cut, Lotus of Siam,shopping yadda yadda.
Obv we had to hit the strip club on the last night, they werent going to escape that, and nor did they want to.
We got the other English guys along (unknown solja, Ben, Fionnmac, Asa, Ket, Supfoolio) as well some housemates, and 'Sapphos' was the place of choice this time round. We drank it up before hand and got our table,
enjoying the view, trying to see Vegas through fresh eyes as I had done all week.
A couple of strippers got lucky and had a dance, one blonde one fiesty columbian...the search continued.
I caught a glipse of a rather ridiculous looking asian girl with a big tattoo on her back and grind on her mind,
lets not beat around the bush here gentleman, this girl was a freak...and she had the sort of ass normally reserved for girls with names such as Ebony, Imani or Laquisha.
I gave her a try out and she was an excellent dancer so it was not a matter of if but when, I ended up spending some time in skybox which
is very private (though Kierans girl convinced me to share with them and go halves on the mandatory bottle).
A good time was had by all, but my wallet had lost so much volume it was starting to resemble a combination of the wrinkliness of a Shar Pei and the thickness of nanonokos left arm.
After the English lads returned home it quieted down a bit, and I had the 25k 6max tournament coming up.
I managed to sell around 60% of myself at 20-25% mark up. My starting table consisted of Sorel Mizzi(zangbezang), Scott Montfaggery, a Phil Galfond lookalike
('you think because you look like me you can play like me?'), a very tight but insanely aggressive french dude and 1 semi weak player...I was pretty happy given the buy in.
I lost a lot of pots that kinda played themselves and was down as low as 25k from a 75 start stack and was getting a bit disheartened but succeeded in
doubling up by raising qq and bet bet shoving on a 10 high board and being good against the french guys presumed Tx.
I managed to almost double vs Montfaggotry when he 3bet me in position and put in bets on flop and river
on a scary board, and I made the call with my bluffcatcher. I told him nice bet and he thought I was being a sarcastic,
I told him i was being sincere and he muttered something about 'well it sure sounded douchey' to which I responded 'well you
have the douche thing down pretty well so ill take your word on it'.
I then took great joy in doubling through him with 95dd on qx7d8d where I checked and put in a raise over a bet and a call, Montfaggery decided to shove his king hi flush draw with no fold equity and
was in amazing shape, but the river was an offsuit 9  .
Once I had dancing chips I moved my chips around well and my stack grew while taking little risk, I ended day 1 with just under 300k with the average prob being something under 200k.
Day 2 my table consisted of Nutsinho, Domcee, 2 live pros and a young German guy...everyone had a lot of chips. You guys should go to www.domcee.com for humour value. This guy seemed to play EVERY
running 2knl+ table and also some plo on maybe 10 sites. He is an ok player online but has some leaks, including way too many tables.
At this tourney he was dressed up in a jesters outfit, CONSTANTLY talking and folding just as constantly. It because clear that he wanted to fold his way deep into the tourney for exposure (he mentioned
that he had a couple of big live results and wanted to get his face out there). He literally played 3 hands in the first 2 hours. A couple of live pros started needling him about this (wtf idiots?). He raised and won the next 3 pots
some guy mentioned that he'd raised every pot since they said that, and he went back to foldstationing while drinking his triple Jack Daniels and coke.
My stack was around the same after the first 4 hours despite playing some excellent poker. The main pots responsible for me not chipping up are as summarised here:
KQ vs AQ in raised pot we get 2 bets in on qxxxx
I value cut myself with AJ vs nutsinho AQ after we both decepticon it up on an ace high flop
Worst of all I lose a 260k pot with 87ss vs qj on 9stxjx.
After returning from the dinner break I get moved to the feature table with Daniel Negreanu to my left with chips so high youd only know its him behind them due to his trade mark table talk. The rest of the table contains live pros like hoyt corkins and some others I perhaps ought to know.
I find AA my first hand and 3bet vs a DN raise and hoyt call, I get stared down but they both fold. After this DN 3bets me huge the next 3 times i enter the pot when i had holdings such as KT, QJ, KJ I
lay them down. He then informs me that 'my spies have told me you are tjbentham' (we've played a bunch at 100 200nl on stars).
I also get dealt a4s twice when its folded to me on the button and Corkins moves all in for over 30bb both times, so more chips I have to lose by raise folding. I pick up 44 and win a flip vs Corkins AK
s (I shove button with 20 or so bb).
My chipstack declines until I win ATo vs JJ all in pre and now have over 500k chips at 5k 10k. I 3bet A9o vs Abe Mosseri's utg open (he was at my table earlier and was raising tons from ep) he snap calls
and i bet small on a flop of 822 (67 into 150 i believe) and he makes a small raise to 150.
I consider all my options and end up folding and regreting sizing my bet so small. I bust at 6/12 when DN opens ep and i shove AQo for 2xx and DN makes the call with AJo and hits a pair.
Ket and the rest of the guys try to cheer me up, but I'm surprisingly upbeat - it was a great experience and hopefully I will become a better player on the back of it.
During my ultimately fruitless run in the 25k Clay and Shane had been making waves in the 2k venetian deepstack. They BOTH make the final table and we go down and rail. The venetian is a terrible place to
spectate as they have what can only be described as a reverse stadium, with the table way above the standing area. I get a 100$ freeroll from an easy going Aussie guy who is a sports psychologist/poker guru on deuces cracked.
He seems completely sure that I cant stand on the first of the steps leading up to the table for 10 seconds. I see that the security guy's back is turned and step up..1,2,3...so far so good...4, damn hes seen me.I look in the complete opposite direction but he comes over
so then i start focusing really hard at the table like theres something I have to see, I get to around 8 before he removes me, nice sweat anyway.
Clay had come into the day with 21% of the chips in play with 18 left, and Shane was somewhere in the middle of the pack. By the time it was final table time clay was still going strong but Shane had fallen short, I'll leave it here for now and post the rest soon.
Tom
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sChOuA Switzerland. Jul 15 2010 11:55. Posts 2302 | | | |
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dUUd_ Estonia. Jul 15 2010 12:02. Posts 1840 | | |
Played with Domcee in Baltic festival Day2 when he was huge chipleader, i think he protected his BB 4-5 orbits in a row and tripled my stack he shipped 2nd tho and played good (ran even hotter)
nice read Sir |
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AndrewSong United States. Jul 15 2010 12:11. Posts 2355 | | |
Yoooo some1 from your squad has my louis vuitton black sunglass. Khan mistakening gave it to some1. who is it?? |
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good read! thanks for posting |
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tapatapaz Brasil. Jul 15 2010 12:57. Posts 1279 | | | |
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| And what does self awareness have to do with anything you retard? srsly stfu. - baal | |
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iop Sweden. Jul 15 2010 13:00. Posts 4951 | | | |
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| Milkman lol i didnt spend half a thousand on a phone so i could play it cool and be all stealth | |
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Jul 15 2010 13:25. Posts 5647 | | |
great blag would read again. love the pictures of the ket. hahah, nanonokos left arm. |
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Bigbobm United States. Jul 15 2010 15:30. Posts 5511 | | |
| | On July 15 2010 11:11 AndrewSong wrote:
Yoooo some1 from your squad has my louis vuitton black sunglass. Khan mistakening gave it to some1. who is it?? |
lol me. khan gave them to me and was like these are yours, and i looked at him pretty drunk and was like, "ok?"
im staying at migs house for 4 more days if you want to work something out |
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| Its time to stop thinking like a bitch and think smart like a poker player - ket | |
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F4Zi United Kingdom. Jul 15 2010 16:41. Posts 3462 | | |
wow you guys dress like homeless people
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| My girlfriend started blowing me and then she stopped, I went on tilt and donkey punched her. | |
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teej1985 United Kingdom. Jul 15 2010 17:54. Posts 716 | | |
I'm sure you'd rock a white suit to the canyon, fazi |
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Zep United States. Jul 15 2010 18:33. Posts 2292 | | |
some people are beyond what an image in a blog might look like, F4Gi |
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| NeillyJQ: I really wanted to prove to myself I could beat NL200, I did over a small sample, and believe Ill be crushing there in the future. | |
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Highcard Canada. Jul 15 2010 18:47. Posts 5428 | | |
nice blog but less pics of water and more pics of ridiculousness |
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| I have learned from poker that being at the table is not a grind, the grind is living and poker is how I pass the time | |
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PoorUser United States. Jul 15 2010 18:59. Posts 7471 | | |
you write in unmatched prose
do it more often |
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F4Zi United Kingdom. Jul 15 2010 19:26. Posts 3462 | | | |
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| My girlfriend started blowing me and then she stopped, I went on tilt and donkey punched her. | |
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TimDawg United States. Jul 16 2010 00:05. Posts 10197 | | | |
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| online bob is actually a pretty smart person, not at all like the creepy fucker that sits in the sofa telling me he does nasty shit to me when im asleep - pinball | |
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