So SakiSaki, pmilanov, actionDJ, DF_Newb, foxfox1, and myself all moved into this condo at the Jockey Club (next to the bellagio) the othe day. It is a piece of shit. There is no internet. None of our laptops have wireless working around here. Fucking beat yo~!

I will update pictures tomorrow when I have the time. Got a lot of good ones. :-)


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Obviously this time I got pictures. In my Day 2 post I was in a rush to get back to the poker room so I couldn't put up any pics. So yesterday I basically played in that tournament in the morning that I talked about in my last post, then Derric (actionDJ) gave me a call so I met up with him, his girlfriend Shana and his girlfriend's friend Anna. We headed off to the pool with Mango and met up with TYROMPER and his girlfriend Courtney coming back from the European section of the pool. For most of the afternoon we just chilled and drank pool side.

After the pool we headed to the poker room to pick up Lyric for dinner. Ate at Corsa at the Wynn, and it just wasnt nearly as good as some of their other places to eat. So after I headed off to The Mirage to hang out with Shana, Anna, and Derric in their baller ass suite. The original plan was to hit up Pure (in Ceasars) but we convinced the girls that Daut's house was like x1000 more baller than any night club. Now the problem: How to transport 7 people with one car.


Shana, Anna (behind her), Me, and actionDJ


Anna, Me, and actionDJ

So let's stuff 5 people in the back of Lyric's Porshe Caymen! Seems like a smart idea! So we head off to Daut's baller pad, and upon arrival half the house was upstairs watching Martine23 play the final table of the PokerStar's Super Tuesday. With 5 left, he shoved K6 in SB vs BB and was "slowrolled" by this euro guy who tanked and called w/ A6s. Martine23 bricks off and is out in 5th. He then proceeds to berate the shit out of the rest of the FT players. Some funny ass shit.


actionDJ, Mango, Lyric, and pmilanov

So Lyric goes out and grabs a lot of beers, then we decide to transform the nicest marble table in the entire house into a beer pong table. And the battles begin:

Genius28 & youngman VS. actionDJ & Shana


actionDJ & Shana


Lyric, Mango, Anna, and Daut

At the end it was Genius28 & youngman who hustled the Santa Cruz beer pong pros. Next match:

Genius28 & youngman VS. JonnyCosMo & pmilanov


Me and Pavel getting totally fucked...


youngman & Genius28

We got swept pretty hard, leaving 5 cups on their side as they cleaned us out. Genius28 & youngman now 2 for 2. Next match:

Genius28 & youngman VS. Mango & Anna


The defending champions


The challengers: Mango & Anna


And once again... The winners are...

Genius28 & youngman, just hustling everyone so far. Then Martine23 entered the room after getting over his bust-out of the Super Tuesday.


Martine23, Genius28 and youngman

So we now had our next match:

Genius28 & youngman VS. Martine23 & Lyric


Discussion of possible prop bets??


The champions... struggling?

In the end, the underdogs came out on top and Martine23 and Lyric took down the defending champs. Next match:

Martine23 & Lyric VS. actionDJ & Shana


Team UCSC trying to get their shit together

actionDJ and Shana ended up taking this match in a really close 1 cup vs 1 cup ending. Next match:

actionDJ & Shana VS. JonnyCosMo & Jesse


"Oh fuck...


Ship??


Ding! Winnars! Happy Dance that shit!

Bam bam and the new champs are Me & Jesse! Ship ship!! So after that we all ended up going to the spa (which is huge) and chilled a bit there, and then Pavel ended up driving all of us back home in Lyric's car. While driving down LV blvd I stuck my head out and blew chunks so scratch #9 on my things to-do list. That is pretty much all I remember. Oh btw, most baller picture ever?:


LOL... ok hasta


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So yesterday I basically woke up, went to the Wynn poker room and played til I dropped. I sat down at a juicy 2-5 table but couldnt get anything started. Then I moved over to my good friend Ann's table (Poker Pro Ann!) who is regular at the Wynn, and probably one of the better live pros I know. She plays some pretty sick 24+ hour sessions on a regular basis. My luck started picking up at her table as I raised A3s in the cut-off and the wreckless button called. Now before I explain the hand, let me tell you guys what I know: Ann is a thinking player who plays more off of instincts than off of the math. With that said, I know she is capable of huge hero calls, as well as some wacky plays. So Ann called from the big blind and the flop came 2-4-5. Ann leads $45, and I flat call in hopes the button goes psycho. The button folded, and the turn came a 9. Ann checked, and I bet $100. Ann didnt take very long and called. River is a 10, and Ann checked again. I thought about it for a little bit, then shoved for $350. That immediately got a weird look from Ann, as she reaches into her stack and counts out $350. I got the super stare down for the next 5 mins, as she kept asking me questions and saying things like "I think I'm going to make a donkey call" just to see my reaction. I just sat there silently for the most part as she continued to think about it. Then she asked "Will you show your cards if I fold?" I should have just said nothing, but for some reason I had to open my fucking big mouth and say something retarded along the lines of "I dont know whats the correct answer to that question." Way to give it away JonnyCosMo you fucking moron... she doesn't take too long after and ends up folding. To make matters worse, I decide to be the nice guy and show her the A3. Smart one... Later on we talked and she told me she tossed QQ. I play so bad, how do I not stack an overpair there, zomg.

I end up making like $500 in that first session, and took a break to get something to eat and walk around. Lyric and Daut came from the $2500 6-max WSOP event and told me they both busted so we all went to the buffet at the Wynn w/ Pavel. After we ate we all went back to the poker room to play. A young kid sat to my right at the new 2-5 table I was at and was obviously an internet player. So I asked what his ID was on PokerStars and he told me he was GoGator86 (a NL200 regular who I use to play against) so that was cool. We talked a lot about the games online, and I noticed he was being the most active player at the table preflop. Raises and repopping people left and right. So I'm $700 deep and he covers at this point when a loose player raises in MP to $25 and he reraises right behind him to $75. I look down to see AKo... I figured I could just fold... but this might be a good spot to try that 4 bet over the top squeeze. So I make it $250. Everyone folds as does the original raiser, back to GoGator86, who takes like 10 seconds and then says "Reraise all-in". Ugg... fuck me. So I call and hate myself when I see his AA. Flop came a K, but turn and river brick off and I lose that $1400 pot to put me back to even on the day. Shit. I play 2 hours more after that and couldnt get much working so I went back to my room around midnight and just crashed.

Woke up this morning at 11:30 and decided to play the $330 tournament at the Wynn. They start you off w/ 5000 in tournament chips with really slow blind levels starting at 25/50 and moving up every 45 mins. So 20 mins into the tournament I pick up AQo, folded to the cut-off he raises to 150, I reraise to 550, he calls. Flop comes A-K-3 all hearts, he checks, I look and see I have the Qh, so I check (apparently a mistake). Turn comes Kc, he bets 700 so I smooth call. River is the As and he insta shoves his last 4000 into the pot. I'm like "Whaa.... ok I hope we chop." and call. He taps the table and is like "I thought you had nothing" as he mucked his cards. Thanks for the gift sir. So I'm up to 10k, build up to 12k over the next hour. Then right before the 1st break, at 75/150 the utg player (10k stack) raises to 600, folded to me in the big blind and I look to see KK. I make it 1600. UTG player looks at me and insta raises to 6000. So I insta re-shove all-in and he insta calls and shows me AA. Bam, board bricks off for me and I'm down to 2k in chips. We take a 15 min break, I come back and on my 2nd hand I find AA on the button. UTG limps, folded around to me, I make it 1200 at 100/200 blinds. One of the blinds calls, and the utg calls. Flop comes Q-2-3 rainbow. Check check to me, so I put my last 800 in obv. The blind tanks for a while then puts in a call. The limper reshoves all-in, and the blind folds. Limper has 33, gg JonnyCosMo.

Poker sucks lol.




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So I arrived in Vegas and met up with my roommate Pavel (pmilanov on Stars and FTP) and we went over to check in to our mini-baller room at the Wynn. Let me take the time to say, the Wynn is easily the nicest hotel in Vegas. Hands down. And they give poker players a sick good room rate for only playing 6 hrs a day at the poker room. EZ Yo!

So after taking a shower I immediately headed down to the Wynn Poker Room and started playing some $2-$5. Wow the players that play in casinos are terrible. I have KQ in middle position folded to me, I raise. I get 2 callers. Flop comes K-T-7 rainbow. Donk out of the blinds check, I bet $75 into a $100ish pot. Guy behind me folds, and this donk calls. Turn comes a 7. He checks I check. River comes a 3. He checks, I bet out $125. He's like "I can't put you on a King" and calls. Ship it. Then he starts telling the guy next to him how if I played the hand correctly and bet the turn he could have laid down his AT. I said sorry to him and told him I play bad. Make sure the donk knows that he's correct about his idea of the game. Came out of my first session +$500 which was sweet.

Lyric randomly ran into me in the Wynn poker room and there he introduced me to none other than Lex (RaSZi) and Dan (Rekrul) playing some $10/20. They are both real cool guys. So after, Lyric, Mango, Pavel and I went to dinner at Border's Grill at Mandalay Bay. Definitly some good mexican food. Daut met up with us after he went busto from the $3k WSOP event, and later on in the night Myth, and Ket both came to dinner. Obviously Ket is the man.


The Man, The Myth, The Legend... Ket

Mig.com came right when we were leaving and for the first time I got to see his brand new WSOP Bracelet. Totally baller yo. The plan was to head over to the Wynn and figure out our plan from there. Back at the Wynn poker room we all went up to talk to Rekrul again while he was still playing. Rek was playing with some sick big stack of bills and massive mountain of chips since all of Wynn's poker games are uncapped. While we were talking we see a guy at Rekrul's table stand up and start swearing "You stupid mother fucker, fucking shit I can't believe that. This fucking kid is so bad". Apparently Rekrul check/raised this guy all-in on a T-6-3 rainbow board w/ K7. The guy snap called with KK. Turn 4, river 5. Obviously this guy didn't know... Rekrul can see the turn and the river. So the guy just storms off and leaves and we all start busting up laughing over it.


[vital]myth, Ket, pmilanov, and mig.com


mig.com, Lyric, Mango, Daut, and RaSZi (cut-off)

We meet up with RaSZi and finally figured out that we were going to drive over to Ryan's total $4million baller pad on the south side of the strip. So we get there and wow....


The group gathers to leave

So words cannot describe how baller this pad is... When we got in, we saw Martine23, Reddog, tbc, and Genius28 all on this huge stretch couch playing on their laptops. We went down to the game room and were met with a poker table and a pool table with some baller ass chairs to boot.


Wannabe pool hustlers


Wannabe poker hustlers

So we whipped out the drinks and played some crazy ass $1-$2 mixed game format with a 50 cent ante and it just got totally degen yo. Daut on the other hand decided to get his champion sleep for the $2500 6 handed event coming up.



We end up heading home around 4:00am and I just pass out. Btw for those that dont believe me that Wynn is the sickest place ever, just check out the view from my room:






Ok I'm going to plug in some more hours downstairs at the tables. Later you guys!




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So I've come up with a list of things to accomplish for my trip to Vegas. I'll put em up here so I can keep track of em:

1. Leave Vegas with more than I originally came with.

2. Find twin-caracas.

3. Take another picture w/ twin-caracas.

4. Make sure twin-caracas knows I'm still his #1 fan for life.

5. Goto the Spearmint Rhino w/ ElkY (I hear that this should be on everyone's list)

6. Make a tournament final table. I dont care what tournament it is.

7. Get on ESPN. And I will do everything in my power to somehow get on.

8. Don't throw up. Not likely... I'm such a light weight.

9. Run Good in credit card roulette. One time! Is it so much to ask?

10. Be up in prop bets. I dont care if I'm up $1000 or $1. I just dont want to be down!

Ok that should cover it.


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This is the big day! Although the major beat is that my original plan was to get there yesterday afternoon, unfortunately we couldn't get a room at the Wynn over the weekend so we had to wait til Sunday. Yesterday I spent all day packing and preparing for my journey out to the WSOP. I'm so excited I can't wait. Went to the bank and asked the lady for $2,000 in small bills (Mostly $1's and $20's) and she's like "You going to make me count all that?" LOL... Ofcourse!



It felt weird, it was actually the first time I went to the bank and withdrew more than $500. Then Lyric has to crash my party and remind me that anything under a $100 bill doesn't play on the poker tables. Asdf... So I go back to the bank and get the same lady to give me $100's for most of my $20's. She now hates my guts obv.

Anyways, this has been a pretty decent month of poker for the most part. I'm up $4,200 total in cash games, and like $1500 from tournaments (mostly from getting deep in the Sunday a week ago). Since I'm bringing $6k to Vegas, that makes me about break even if I end up going busto there. Woot!



For all you guys stuck at home just reading the WSOP Blog, mine is obv going to be the best when I get there. Pictures every day I promise! Ok, I'll be back on the 3rd! Wish me luck~! weeeeeeeeeee


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