feed from ket blog 2009-03-31T04:20:52+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 ket http://ket.liquidpoker.net Yeah ive been lazy with wsop blogs (sorry about that) but today was crazy. I've played 3 donkaments and my personal highlights include bustoing a bunch of people with middle pair, best being busting Roland De Wolfe with midpair in a limped pot in level 1 blinds when we were deep (c/c flop c/rai his turn overbet, hold vs obvious big draw). Other notable funstuffs in the last 3 days for me includes 8 hours of gambling it up with and battling vs Phil Ivey in the $1k rebuy WSOP event nr 5, having Clonie Gowen get annoyed at me for raising too much on that same table and busting lilholdem later on in that tournament with a call that was so good and destroyed him so hard that he didnt even realise how badly he got destroyed and just thought I was a donk. eat it sir. But anyway far more notable than my live donkament funtimes were two things: Grant Hinkle, Blair's brother (Blair being mig's roommate who sick hero destroys huge tourneys everywhere), is right now as I write this on the verge of winning Event nr. 2 $1500 nlh (the biggest 1500 tournament ever to take place ever with like $830k for first). Obv mig, echo and his family are right now where I should be, railing him, but myth and I came home early to get an early night as we're playing day 2 of the $1k rebuy tomorrow from 2pm. The best thing about this is that Grant isn't even a poker player, he has a fulltime job in the corporate world and was telling me yesterday how his work colleagues who were ignorant of poker being a skill game different from regular gambling were shaking their heads at him when he told them he was taking time off work to go to vegas to play in a poker tournament, and saying "u know the house always wins in the end, but good luck man...". Now they're gonna see him on TV winning a huge 6 figure amount, a guy who only came for a few days to play in that one single tournament, and bought himself in and has all his own action. So awesome, I'm mad happy for him even if he just comes 2nd. And the second sick thing of the day is what Tom got up to after he busted the 1k rebuy and came home. NOTE: from now on in my blog whenever I say Tom I will be referring by default to the real McCoy that is Tom, the bonafide sicko known as teej1985 on lp and tjbentham on stars, my ex-roommate. fkin TOM, not to be confused with certain other "talented" pretenders who should heretofore be referred to by either their full names or full lp id to avoid any sort of confusion at all with the real TOM. Anyway I digress, TOM played the sickest 6-7 hour session ever at 200/400 stars fullring with Steve_haris driving the action as is standard for whenever that game actually runs. He had all his own action which is so huge for both of us, and ran probably something like $400k below expectation and broke even overall. HEAD ASPLODE SICKKKKK. just INSANE swings compared to what either of us are used to, a HUGE shot but one that was TOTALLY worth it because of how insane ++EV the game was. He's taking it incredibly well and feels really good about having gone thru it and gotten some experience at playing nosebleed level games against a fish and regs that are scared money (Tom shouldve been superscared money too but somehow from being some sort of sick hero wasn't, and was instead beating on other regs that were). We're gonna go all thru the hands and discuss soon after he finishes importing in PT3, which is the last thing I'll do today just before sleeping for the donkament tomorrow. Also Joy (liquid`meat) is here at our house and has reset TOM's long-forgotten LP password so he'll begin posting here again soon and has promised to share his awesome hero graph of today pretty soon. So sick, all this stuff happened today! text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 ket http://ket.liquidpoker.net A work in progress of Jons and mine over the past few days has been to leave a little gift to the owner of the house we're staying in, who's clearly a big movie fan (see pictures of our place in my first blog post, including that random darth vader hat in the cinema room). Since he likes star wars and we poker players like expensive ballin' things like stones, we have culturally combined our interests to give an essential upgrade to his existing Darth Vader decorational centerpiece: [b]the Bling Vader[/b] [img]http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/7084/img0221wd1.jpg[/img] [img]http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/733/img0219bi2.jpg[/img] So yesterday at 9ish after RaINKhAN (was i close with the lettering?) was done with ESPN interviews and photo shoots and other random interviews at the Rio and what-not, we ate a pretty baller meal at Alize on the xx-th floor of the Palms where xx is fairly large and the view of the strip from up there is insane. All the walls of the place were made of glass so it was pretty sick. Too bad the food sucked, I'm just not a fan of pretentious posh shiz i guess. We (rain, echo, myth, teej and I) were joined by the gobboboy household (gobbo, actionjeff, nath and nath's assistant because he is apparently baller). After dinner we went bowling. I suck at bowling but was on some degree of tilt having dropped 200 bucks on a meal I didnt particularly enjoy, so I was up for some good old chasing losses. My game selection was excellent just gambling with fellow bowling fish teej and gobbo for the nosebleed stakes of 50 bucks a game winner takes all. I managed to narrowly take it down both games with blistering scores of 91 and 96, i am so pro. After this me and Tom decided to head back home at about 3am in order to get some sleep for Khan's FT railing. Sadly Jon and Corwin were not as sensible. They were drinking heavily during bowling and decided to keep drinking and stay out after, and I think went to some casino that has beer pong tables. Crazy cats Just as I'm drifting off to sleep, as the sun's starting to rise, it suddenly occurrs to me that the front door of our garbage house is broken and can only be opened from the inside. To get in we've been having to leave the back door unlocked and have one of us jump the gate to the back, get in through the backdoor and open the front for the rest, a task whos peril increases exponentially when alcohol is involved. I decide it's worth getting out of bed just to make sure one of these fools havent broken their neck in the back yard after coming back drunk. When I open the back door and step out into the yard, I suddenly hear this sound of barfing in progress coming from up front. WTF?? So I rush through the house to open the front door and have a look around at wtf that was, and sure enough Myth is leaning on the garage door and has left a fairly nasty puddle on the ground, another wonderful surprise for when the owner of this place gets back. Twistedecho is at this point nowhere in sight, it's just Myth. He wasn't out there for long either, just how good does he have to run for me to get out of bed on a whim to check something like that out of paranoia. And to barf at the exact moment so I hear it when I open the back door. Seriously when way too drunk and dehydrated it could have been some real trouble with the desert dry heat and sun rising if myth wouldve fallen asleep outside or something. Anyway so after he's dragged in and made to drink a bunch of water I go upstairs to see if i can find out where echo is. I get distracted by my friend on msn and end up chatting for a while, and eventually come downstairs a while later to check up on Myth and find a pretty hilarious sight [img]http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/2180/img0216ru4.jpg[/img] [img]http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/2904/img0217ih6.jpg[/img] So it's now 8:20am, I'm pissed that I'm still awake because Echo's still not back. I'm obviously not gonna be able to make the FT rail anywhere near on time for it starting anymore, and Khan might even have busted before I wake up, but hopefully that doesnt happen. I'm just gonna go to sleep now, hopefully Echo is sober enough to scale the gate successfully or someone else wakes up to let him in. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 ket http://ket.liquidpoker.net [img]http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/725/img0150wt4.jpg[/img] Left side from closest to furthest: Rekrul's brother (sry forgot name), Rich (RiKD), Tom (tjbentham), me, Jon (TwistedEcho), Luke (ultimate hero 1/2 grinder), Corwin (Myth) in middle Right side: Elky, Rekrul, milkman, Clay (vvvq), iamalex, Rain Khan [img]http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/4454/img0137ud3.jpg[/img] milkman vs Elky 100$ pint downing race [img]http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/3944/img0138tn1.jpg[/img] GOGOGO [img]http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/5961/img0139ks5.jpg[/img] milkman winnar [img]http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8527/img0140ri5.jpg[/img] [img]http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/6169/img0141za9.jpg[/img] [img]http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5512/img0143xw1.jpg[/img] [img]http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/4959/img0145zt7.jpg[/img] [img]http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1834/img0146oy3.jpg[/img] lol Corwin so gay [img]http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/8655/img0147gj3.jpg[/img] [img]http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9153/img0149vl7.jpg[/img] Credit Card Roulette final table: [img]http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7248/img0152wa1.jpg[/img] ONE TIME!!! [img]http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/3226/img0153ox8.jpg[/img] HU ACTION Jon vs Rich [img]http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1773/img0154es7.jpg[/img] RiKD ships it [img]http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2842/img0155lb3.jpg[/img] How does Echo lose cc roulette AGAIN! THAT'S 5 OUT OF 6 TIMES! nobody runs that bad wtf? [img]http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/2315/img0156cs1.jpg[/img] Look how happy he is [img]http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7403/img0157ed0.jpg[/img]