So I played the $5,000 NLHE 6-max tournament today and was really pumped since it was the first event I played in over a week (being gone to Mexico / back to Bay Area for the past few days). I land at a fairly unknown table and quickly realize that I struck gold with my table draw. There was a retard playing every single pot and staring people down like he was da man. There was an old guy who was limping a ton and minraising a lot, and doing very random bluffs with small sized bets. Joe Beevers from The Hendon Mob was at my table (more on this epic failure in a bit). The only somewhat competent player at my starting table was a european kid to my right who seemed to be fairly solid / aggro.

So I chip up to 16k pretty easily, mostly from value towning the retard who was playing every single pot. Then I pick up KK UTG, and I swear I haven't done this play in the longest freaking time because its sooo transparent, but at this table I felt like I could pull it off. I limped in from UTG, the kid playing every single pot makes it 400 to go (with 5k behind), Joe Beevers flat calls (with 5k behind), small blind calls. When action got back around to me I obv bomb'd it to 2,000. I get called in 3 places!?!?!?! Is this really the $5k 6-max event? R U SRS? So the flop comes down Tc-9d-7c, and I put both the retard & Joe Beevers all-in for their remaining 4k. The retard tanks for a little bit then calls with A9o. Joe Beevers insta-ships it in with 9c8c, and obv binks his suck out on the turn. Uggg, whatever shit happens, that knocks me back to 11k. Then Joe Beevers says something dumb like "I only called because that guy called." to which point my head almost assploded caz the retard didn't realize he just called off 1/3 of his fucking stack preflop with 98!?! But obv I keep my mouth shut. God live pros are so dumb sometimes

I come back from break and play an interesting hand vs the competent aggro guy to my right, where we both flopped top pair in a blind vs blind situation but he had me out kicked, (my QJ vs his KQ on a Q-8-3 board) and took me to value town when the board ran out really weird. That put me down to 7k, I proceeded to chip back up to 10k before losing yet another pot to the exact same guy when he raised my blind with 98, I defended with Q8. The flop came Q-T-5 and he checked, and I decided to check behind. Turn came a J, he fired 1/2 pot I called. River came a 4 he fired 3/4 pot and I snap called only to see him have the winner again. It was really frustrating. That knocks me back down to 6k. I dropped all the way down to 3100 before doubling up with A3 vs KQ. I get back up to 7k at 200/400 level, then I flop top pair in yet another blind vs blind situation and check-shove right into two pair, so GG my tournament.

Tomorrow is the $2k NLHE, so I'm going to practice my guitar then sleep early for it. This entire series is getting pretty frustrating. Tomorrow = Serious Business.


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Shout-out to Baal and his country, it's really not as dirty as I stereotyped it to be. This past weekend I went to Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) randomly for some vacation time with some friends. I was basically 50/50 about going, then decided to just go with it and bought my ticket 8:00pm the night before for a flight that left Vegas at 7:50am. Pretty standard. So I arrived in Puerto Vallarta at 4:00pm in the afternoon, and converted $1,000 into $9,900 play monies... errr I mean pesos (Baal-lin!). Checked into a beach-side room at the NH Krystal Hotel and went directly out to the beach to take a nap. Here are some pics:


Beach side view from the middle lobby area of my hotel.


Pre Epic Sun Burn.

My friends arrived at the hotel around 8:00pm and we ended up just drinking and chilling in the jacuzzi tubs til 1:00am. The next day we went out to the pool area:



San Diego girls out in Mexico with me


The pool's wet bar, which was sooooo clutch


Sunset on the beach

For those of you who went to PCA, you would probably know this bar: Senor Frog's. The one in Bahamas is one of my favorite bars, and the one here in Puerto Vallarta was no disappointment either. Definitely a pretty awesome time.



Such an awesome sign


Teh Drunkz


LOL @ Mexican who sneeks in on the left side of this pic


The boys and me


The girls and me


More drunk dancing

The next day we went downtown to shop and be standard dumb american tourists. Got a few fun souvenirs while I was there. While walking on the beach we saw a guy making these really cool rock formations. Note: These rocks arent glue'd together, the guy was just stacking them one on top of another. Sick balance?


Weird rock formations



Later on that night, we went to the night club (or "disco" as they say in Mexico) right next to our hotel called The Christine. For a $300 peso cover (approx $30 USD) we got a free table, and open bar all night. Sickest deal ever? It was pretty cool how they played a good mix of mexican and american music all night. Not really as upscale as some Vegas night clubs, but it definitly wasn't a shit hole. The place was built similar to The Bank at Bellagio, with the dance floor in the middle, and the tables circling around.


Two of my best friends


Tequila shots!





After one of the most awesome weekends I've had in a while, I left late Sunday afternoon and got back to Vegas at 8:00pm. Arrived home just in time to rail my roommate play his last 2 tables in the UB 200k gtd. After an hour long final table with big shots like AJKHoosier1 and ch0ppy, my roommate Thomas Gabriel (aka: plzlemmewin or GoGators86) took down the $45k for 1st place with help from some of his awesome roommates (*cough*). Pretty epic score. My next event at WSOP is going to be on Thursday, the $5,000 NLHE 6-max. Really pumped to play that! This break I had from Vegas should help clear my mind for it, so hopefully I can make something big out of that event.



Hasta Puerto Vallarta...


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Sorry for the lack of updates, WSOP has sucked!!! Well not totally... So far I've played 8 tournaments, and cashed in 3 of them. Got 55th in Event #13 for a $9,000 cash, then got 25th in a Venetian Deep stack tournament for a min-cash of $3,000. Then a few days ago, I played Event #31, the $2.5k 6-max tournament. I made it to day 2 easily, despite having one of the harder tables in the room on day 1. But day 2 was a total nightmare, as I lost half my stack when I hit my open-ended straight draw on the same card my opponent hit his backdoor nut flush, then lost the rest when my AK somehow didnt win vs QQ? How do I lose a flip? WTF? Thats not suppose to happen to me! I got 60th in that event for a $5,600 cash. So for the most part I've been pretty break even in tournaments with a few close calls to big time cashes. Overall, I expected the fields to be softer than they are. All the internet pros are out in full force, and you'd be surprised to see how many unfamiliar faces really know how to play the game.

Cash games had been going great for me the first week. I instantly won $16k (10k coming from a single day) at $10/20 live at the Wynn. The regulars were mostly deep stacked nut peddlers who avoided getting into big confrontations which was nice. I proceeded to lose $9k in one night, and every session after that has been break even until wednesday where I should have gotten up from the table when I saw it was probably getting too tough for me to play. I was sitting in the main game with one huge fish and a bunch of tight regulars for 2 hours and had been up close to 6k. Then the fish left and that seat was replaced by my roommate Dookie (plzlemmewin on FTP / GoGators86 on UB) who is fairly competent. Then one of the other bad / tight regulars leave and that seat was replaced by Lex (RaSZi), a few minutes later Victor (Nazgul) sits down and all of the sudden I realize this might not be the best of games. Especially since the feeder table had Rekrul, ElkY, teddy_wong, and GiYoM waiting to get into the main game. I somehow lost two 10k pots in a matter of 20 mins (got 2 outted in one, and somewhat coolered in the other although vs this certain player he was so tight that I might have been able to find a fold with KKd on a Td-9d-5c board in a 3 bet pot) and instantly found myself stuck 5k on the day. I finally decided to leave when RaSZi 3 bet the button and I (being the tilted fish that I am) decided to flat call his 3 bet from the big blind with AKss. RaSZi instantly turns to me and is like "Ace King huh?" Then he looks at his cards and starts guessing the suit of my hand, to which he instantly said "Ace King of spades?" as I sit there steaming my ass off. The flop comes down ten high and I just check/fold to him and leave. God sometimes I play so bad

Had a few good online sessions over here, and have been learning a lot about tournaments and heads-up play thanks to my roommates. For those of you who missed it: My roommate Johnny Neckar got 2nd in the $3k NLHE a few days ago for a $375k score (chopped with John Phan heads-up, and took away the bigger prize $). In true degen fashion, after 6 hours of heads-up play they agreed to shove all-in blind! Obv John Phan ran better in that and won, which sucked, but props to my roommate for kicking ass.

Anyways, right now I'm in Puerto Vallarta for a much needed vacation. Ill update my blog more in the up coming week. I promise! Ok later~


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