This update is going to be short since I gotta bounce to Rio for the $2000 today. Just got into Vegas a couple days ago, played my first event yesterday which was the $1500 6-max and lasted about 6 hours. Value cut myself pretty hard in the first level and had to claw my way back to starting stack, then got my brains coolered out by a "live pro" which name I will leave out of this. Whatever, tournaments are stupid. Rio has had the most bomb ass cash games ever! They are running 5-10-20 with the 20 being the straddle on the button, action starting in the SB. Makes the game super juicy.
Pretty much the funniest thing I've witnessed so far was at a 5-10 game with Myth and PoorUser, where PoorUser is completely smashed and absolutely crapping all over this younger guy. Finally, On a board PoorUser like double pot shoved the river after betting all 3 streets. The kid turns over and obviously I'm thinking there is no way he's going to fold. Kid tanks forever as PoorUser keeps telling him "When you fold I'm going to show you JUST the Qd" and after like 3 minutes of thinking THE KID MUCKS THE 3RD NUTS. PoorUser insta shows the and we had a good ROFL for the next ten minutes.
Anyways, if you guys are keeping up with the updates on pokernews or the WSOP site, keep your eye on my boy Jake Kalb.
He has mountains and mountains of chips going into day 3 of the $1500. He's 2nd out of 36, so hopefully he can bring a bracelet back to Palooooomar cardroom. Weee!!!
Basically listed out everything that I plan on playing over the summer today. I'm heading to Vegas Friday morning so I'll prolly get in around 3-4pm. Obviously I'm not going to be playing all of them, since Day 2 will overlap into a lot of those tourneys and I plan on making a lot of Day 2s. Anyways here it is:
On the off time I'm probably going to be around the Rio or Bellagio playing cash games. Planning on coming home (San Diego) for one or two of the weekends. Other than that, I will be in Vegas til July 18th in a house 10mins west of the Rio on Spring Mt with GoGators86(UB/AP) aka plzlemmewin (FTP) , RetiredAt30 (UB/AP), and UnderAAged (PS). My house WILL bring home a bracelet this summer. I'm calling it now!
PS: If you see me in Vegas, don't be shy! Say hi! I swear I don't bite. This is me:
SPOILER: Blog post contains epic pictures of VITAL FUCKING MYTH below.
Yea, so my New Years Resolution about keeping my blog updated is not going so well as you can see. The playing 2500 hands each day minimum was going well for about 3 weeks, then I realized I'm lazy. I started going to the gym, then stopped, then started again, then stopped again, and now I'm just too busy to get my ass back up to go again. I'm pretty bad with time management and organization in general so that definitely is probably contributing to my so-called laziness. Other than that, this year has been a successful one already for one simple reasons: THE LIVE POKERS!
There is a card room in San Diego called Palomar where they run a 5/10 game with a $2k cap buy-in, with the occasional 10/20 w no cap buy-in. I knew about the place when I first came down here to San Diego, and visited it once or twice at the beginning of last year, when I didn't really have the motivation or discipline to play live poker yet so I never really went back. After a year of practice on the live tournament circuit, and losta time spent in the Vegas live cash games I came back to San Diego with more of both motivation and discipline. So starting last November, I started to dedicate atleast one day a week to the Palomar grind. At the beginning of this year, I was going 2-3 times a week. Starting March I upped it to 4-5 times a week. Basically it would be spewing money not to go, the games are THAT juicy. It really is the sweetest mix of loose/passive random middle aged guys, super old super nits, and gambling loose aggrotards. Very comparable to the Commerce games during LAPC (Really, nothing on earth will surpass the goodness of the live games are Commerce during LAPC). From Jan 1st to the present I'm up ~$65k playing live 5/10 and 10/20 (which breaks down to 21k at Commerce 10/20, and 44k at Palomar 5/10). Pretty funny since most of my time is still spent playing online NL 6-max / HU, and I'm up but not close to those numbers so far this year.
All the practice has really made my live poker reads really sharp, mainly because I get pretty good insight into how different people think about how to play hands. Before I'd always think "Shit this guy is so stupid, none of his logic makes any sense" but now I realize that most people actually attempt some sort of reason to their play and even thou it is incorrect the majority of the time, now it makes a lot more sense to me on why they think these ways in certain spots. Can't think of a better way to put it, here is kind of a basic example of what I'm trying to say: Player A never realizes the pot size in any hand. Therefore, when he faces a $50 bet to him and has the decision between calling or folding he only sees the size of the bet. He reasons that his opponents hand is probably weak because he only bet $50. If his opponent bet $250, he reads the hand strength as strong. So he ends up calling looser in single raised / limped pots, and folding big (seeing ghosts in the closet) in 3bet pots, assuming that his opponent is adjusting his betting sizes to the size of the pot (surprisingly some people don't adjust their betting sizes either because most of them think like Player A). Just one of a dozen things that run through the head of your average live player. Live poker so ez lol...
So far this year, went to LAPC which was a bust tournament wise (Direct yourself two blog posts down to my 10k Commerce event recap), followed by a trip to Rincon which is an hour north of San Diego (even thou they call it WSOP Circuit in San Diego, but in reality that shit hole is nowhere close to SD). Only played the main event there and ended up getting 8th for $24.5k which made up for all the LAPC buy-ins I dropped which was nice. Last hand was a coinflip to the ever so aggressive shaundeeb prodigy, Esther Tayor (E-Tay) for a top 2 stack. Decided to skip the Bellagio series because I got lazy and decided to do real life fun stuff with my friends, here is a short recap with pics:
On Oahu with a couple high school buds of mine, this is the backside of Poli
On top of Diamond Head over looking Honolulu & Wakiki
Going snowboarding for the first time @ Big Bear
On the lift... before I bruised my tail bone on a rock
My boy Noah and I on Valentines Day with the girls in LA @ Geisha House
At XS w Evan & Eric. We got drunk.
Some girl smiling at the camera before I smashed her skull open with my pool stick. GTFO bitch it's my picture day imo.
That's VITAL FUCKING MYTH!
That's VITAL FUCKING MYTH ONE MORE TIME!
Oh yeah so last Friday was my 24th birthday. Fuck I'm old. We've discussed that if you're 21, you are the average age for an online poker player. At 24, you reach your mid-life crisis. At 28+ your like grandpa (or grandma) to all these young-ins. We ended up having a chill dinner in Mission Beach at this bomb place called Mizu's where they are like "FUCK YEAH!" if you sake bomb. So we sake bombed all night, then headed to Bar West in PB which is also pretty ill. PBDrunks round-house kicked one of our grey goose bottles to the floor. Smooth.
Evan to the left, PBDrunks (post-roundhouse kick) to the right on my birthday. Nehekus, TeeJayOrTJ, and ktrieu behind me in the background.
For the weekend me and my "kinda" girlfriend Anna, went to Vegas to see Dave Matthews Band two nights in a row at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Let me mini-rant first: Wynn's ticket service people can suck my fucking left nut. Other than that is was an awesome weekend. Boyd Tinsley on the violin is the illest. Dave Matthews Band absolutely rocked the entire house. I'm def a big fan of all the new stuff they have coming out too. Can't wait til the new CD comes out in June.
Here is some random youtube clip of my favorite song 'Dancing Nancies' played on the second night (Note-> Boyd Tinsley rocks socks):
And a pic from weekend:
Fixing my laziness! Maybe post something more enjoyable to read soon...
board PoorUser like double pot shoved the river after betting all 3 streets. The kid turns over 
and obviously I'm thinking there is no way he's going to fold. Kid tanks forever as PoorUser keeps telling him "When you fold I'm going to show you JUST the Qd" and after like 3 minutes of thinking THE KID MUCKS THE 3RD NUTS. PoorUser insta shows the 
and we had a good ROFL for the next ten minutes. 
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