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TimDawg  United States. Sep 02 2010 18:16. Posts 10197 | | |
Hey, what's up everyone?
I thought I'd go ahead and give everyone a brief Vegas trip report since that's a way more interesting and fun read than the other stuff I'm going to post about. All in all, it was an great time. Myself, Bob, Mez, Doomer, Doomer's friend Shane, and Ket stayed at TjBentham's house. Everyone in the house got along really well, which was really cool. Before heading out there, I was kind of going through a really weird time and probably the worst depression of my life. It was a combination of many different things, some I don't mind talking about, others I'd rather not talk about. But anyway, the reason I wanted to say that was because I think staying in the Vegas house for a month was one of the best things for me in a lot of different facets. As far as poker growth, learning, and just motivation, there really isn't a substitute for living with just poker players every single day. Eat, sleep, and breathe poker 24/7. Doomer especially helped a bunch. Just about every day we would sweat each other and just discuss different lines, pros/cons to them, and just random new ideas and concepts. Doomer, myself, and Shane also went to play live at mostly the Bellagio/Wynn quite a bit. Live poker is just so LOL in so many ways. I've finally come to realize how unique and different it is to online poker. My results live were pretty disappointing. At the beginning of the trip, I wanted to make some money and get some confidence going before playing 5/10, so I started out grinding 2/5. In probably 2 sessions, I did pretty well and made 2kish. Around that time I was also starting to crush the 1/2 deep games on stars. That combined with getting sweated and always talking hands with guys in the house had my confidence at an all time high. I started playing 5/10 live and started to get back to the good ole 2/4 games on stars that I've done pretty well in the past at. I continued to crush online, while I sort've broke even/lost a bit playing 5/10 live. I still felt really good about the way I was playing and started to sit in some soft 3/6 and 5/10 online games. Well in short, I had a couple of nasty sessions at 3/6 where I had position on 3 or 4 huge fish with 200bb+ stacks and got crushed a few times at 5/10 live. Oh well....
So in summation for my results in vegas, I would say I was prob +$7k or so at my highpoint and prob finished the trip around even or maybe up +$1k including all expenses. All in all, I learned a lot and that's what's important to me. I now feel I'm once again a strong midstakes winner and will continue to get coaching from dzoo and jamie to try and improve and break into becoming a 5/10+ reg.
Now as far as degen/crazy nights go, we really didn't get too wild but had a few epic strip club nights with tj/KET!!!!/clay/dzoo/jamie/some of their houesmates. Pretty standard though and nothing too crazy happened (that I remember).
One night however, I will have a hard time ever forgetting. I would for sure say it was one of the best nights of my life  It started off with all of us going out to eat at some sort of asian type place at the Palms with hopes of getting into the Pokerstars party later that night where Snoop Dogg was performing. I don't think any of us had tickets to get in but we were just hoping to meet up with some sort of connection there. Well if my memory is correct our good friend Peachy Keen was able to get Elky to pull some strings  You da man Eric (thanks to Elky as well). So Shane is able to sneak me in using Bob's ID (Bob you da man as well). We go inside of Rain and start getting drunk right away and by the time Snoop came on around 1am, kush filled the air as I was legitimately shitfaced. Shane, Bob, and I were together while everyone else was scattered throughout the club. So Snoop comes on performing his old hits like Gin and Juice and newer ones like Sexual Seduction. I was very drunk and enjoyed them all.
Well towards the end of his performance is when the night starts to get good. I'm sort've dancing by myself (lol), just enjoying the performance and the whole time this girl behind me in like rubbing up against me. I sorta just ignored it at first and thought it was kinda weird. Then she started to tap me on the shoulder, so I turn around and say what? She yells something... I don't hear her.....she yells again....I still can't hear.....finally she says, "CAN I GET IN FRONT OF YOU?" haha...im like yeah sure. she gets in front and just immediately starts grindin on me. So we're dancin and having a good time, then another girl (a rather large one, who i had lots of trouble moving around when we were trying to get to the front of the crowd), grabs my hand and lifts up the girl's dress (who im dancing with) and puts my hand right on her ass.......YES lol. What sucked though was that this was towards the end of the performance and when he was done the whole club cleared out very quickly along with the hot girl I was dancing with 
The night continues on however and our group reunites with Clay and everyone else who are playing blackjack and drinking. I would say around 20 min after that I see 3 really tall black guys walking past us. One of them was wearing a Washington Wizards shirt and I immediately realized that they were here for the NBA Summer League that was going on in Vegas at the time. Then I look up at their faces and I know one of them right off the bat, J.P. Prince. He played basketball in college at the University of Tennessee, where I went to school at for a few years. Me being a drunk idiot, yelled out his name, ran over to him giving him a hi-five and screamed GOOOOOOOOO VOLSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! From what I remember he was loving it but who knows haha. Here is a picture of him:
Literally right after that while Bob and I are laughing hysterically at what just happened, some guy almost bumps into me. I turn around and he pats me on the shoulder while smiling and says, "Hey buddy" or something of that nature. I look him in the face and it's Mark.........................
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CUBAN!
He is the controversial billionaire owner of the NBA team known as the Dallas Mavericks who is always giving the referees shit for those who don't know.
And I finished off the night by continuing to drink and play blackjack where I finished up $200ish or something. Sick night 
That's it for Vegas....
I just moved into much a nicer, more spacious apartment with two good friends from high school in Knoxville. Still having a bit of trouble with a few things but I'm starting to get settled in pretty nicely. I wanted to post an update sooner but my laptop got a really nasty virus and I've been strugglinggg to get rid of it (on a friend's now). I ended up taking it to a computer repair shop and they fixed it along with 100 other viruses that the original one spurred up. I had to pay a one time fee of $100 with no guarantees that the virus wouldn't come back. Obviously the first day I get it back, the same one popped right back up It happened both times when I went to a site to download some new music. Oh well, guess I won't go back to that site. It's pretty weird though, because I've never had any problems with that site or my laptop in general in 1.5 years. Maybe someone on here could help me out. The virus is called "security suite" and basically acts as an anti-virus software and proceeds to block anything and everything. Really gay.....
Anyway, on the recent poker side of things, everything's been going really well. In the past few weeks, I've had 2 final tables, both in $100 rebuys. The first one I took down for $6k and the other I finished 4th for $6.8k after running pretty terribly at the end. I also won a seat in a $260 sat for the WCOOP main event worth $5.2k. I will want to be selling probably around 50-60% of myself in that and hopefully bring out my inner Sunday Mil luckboxing to hit a big score in that  If you're interested in buying action for that I'll be selling at 1:1 like always, so just send me a PM if you want some.
The final piece of business I want to get to in this blog is coaching. Coaching is something I've thought about getting into for a long time but for whatever reason I never did. I myself have been coached by many different people including mez, dzoo, jamie217, and adam001. I can say it is without a doubt worth it. That isn't to say a lot of the time it isn't worth it. There are plenty of coaches out there who don't know what they're talking about or can't even beat the games their students are playing, are not very good at articulating their thoughts to others well, and are wayyyy overpriced. These are some of the reasons why I am confident I will turn out to be a good coach. Although my cash results have been pretty poor lately, I am still VERY confident that I have a big edge in the games I currently play and will try my best to prove that this month. I also feel that I am pretty good at explaining my thought processes pretty well and I post advice quite frequently in the Mid-Stakes Forum. Another part of my coaching that I think a lot of people will enjoy will be the price. Since I have never done this before, I'm going to start out charging only $50/hr. I'd rather not get into profit sharing or anything of that nature but I think you will have a hard time finding a good coach for this price anywhere else. Once again, I'm still trying to get settled into my apartment and fix my laptop ect, so I will not be able to immediately start booking sessions with future students but I hope to be at that point within a week or so. So if you're interested or would like to find out more about me or my coaching, send me a PM.
Here is my PTR for those interested in coaching : http://www.pokertableratings.com/stars-player-search/timdawg888
If anyone has any questions pertaining to my PTR, feel free to ask me about it as well.
Thanks for reading guys
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sawseech Canada. Sep 02 2010 18:52. Posts 3182 | | |
coach me? the kid ain't got no money but this would be a good way for you to further enhance the general feelings of kindness he feels towards you. |
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YoMeR United States. Sep 02 2010 18:54. Posts 12435 | | |
glad to see you're doing well. I'll ez swap sweat sessions. My nit ring expertise for your 6m wisdom. Been kinda trying to get back into 6m lately since 5/10 + is mostly 6m |
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Bigbobm United States. Sep 02 2010 19:04. Posts 5511 | | |
mark
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cuban
with about 5 asian bitches behind him.
was a pretty sick vegas trip. next year will be better though, because youll actually be 21 and bouncers wont think youre me anymore
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vltava United States. Sep 02 2010 19:06. Posts 1742 | | |
Good blog. So does 1:1 mean that $260 would get me 5%? |
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milkman United States. Sep 02 2010 19:25. Posts 5719 | | |
sux about your laptop, mine got fucking ape smashed in like 5 mins today and now i gotta reinstall windows lol |
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Jamie217 Canada. Sep 02 2010 19:44. Posts 4351 | | |
aha no more college kids yellin in the background during lessons? 
vegas was pretty sick I shoulda done a TR as well but its all so hazy...hmmm |
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TimDawg United States. Sep 02 2010 20:22. Posts 10197 | | |
| | On September 02 2010 17:52 sawseech wrote:
coach me? the kid ain't got no money but this would be a good way for you to further enhance the general feelings of kindness he feels towards you. |
ok Casper I am actually really sorry for posting that. I thought u were talking about me from the way ur post was worded
Which is the exact reason why u tilt me so much, ur posts are always weird and hard to understand |
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CirCa Canada. Sep 02 2010 20:44. Posts 1249 | | |
he is talking about himself |
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sawseech Canada. Sep 02 2010 21:00. Posts 3182 | | |
wow i had no idea you were so sensitive about money matters |
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| lets go fucking mental la la la la lets go fucking mental lets go fucking mental lala la la | |
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ggplz Sweden. Sep 02 2010 21:24. Posts 16784 | | | |
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TimDawg United States. Sep 02 2010 21:34. Posts 10197 | | |
| | On September 02 2010 20:00 sawseech wrote:
wow i had no idea you were so sensitive about money matters |
Yeah of course, anything pertaining to my rep is very important to me, especially if I am going to offer coaching services to people on here. Some even long time posters may not know certain things that would pertain to choosing me as a coach versus someone else |
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D_Zoo Canada. Sep 02 2010 23:52. Posts 4013 | | |
ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt-dawgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg |
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Exhilarate United States. Sep 03 2010 02:05. Posts 5453 | | |
o wow sick stuff dude, did you talk to mark cuban at all after u bumped into him? |
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Jhyun88 United States. Sep 03 2010 03:15. Posts 1383 | | |
Hey I'm pretty interested in trying out coaching. Hit me a PM |
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