Farewell vegas

We all said goodbye to Devin tonight and Rob, Travis and myself accompanied him to a nice sushi dinner at Caesars palace at a fantastic sushi joint, shared a bottle of champagne and dropped him at the airport. We also had this awesomely georgeous blonde girl at the table across from ours, which made for a nice dinner view.

Tommorow I pack up and head back home to Maryland...life probably won't be as exciting there but it'll be nice to relax and see friends and family before we head to Europe for a wedding/family trip. Thanks for reading the blog (though I never really posted in it), and hope everyones doing well out there. Goodbye Vegas, you shall be missed until next time.


-Alex

SNG tonight

We're going to play a live sit and go at the Palms casino tonight. This will be the first time many people in the house come to the strip in some time - VERY EXCITING!

GKA coming, WSOP bustout

Two updates. The first is happy, the second is sad.
Dave Bach ("Green Kool Aid") is arriving tomorrow morning at 930 in the morning. I hope I can wake up (as can AMT) so we'll be there. Otherwise, he'll be stuck in McCarran Airport for a while!
I busted yesterday night, very late day 2b. There were roughly 1,000 players left (900 something) so I was 300ish away from the money. I'm not going to share any beats, only that I lost all 4 of my all in pots. (Well, I went 1-4, the win being AA>AQ in the middle of day 1!) I lost both big coinflips, and sadly, those coinflips could've been used to at the minimum make the money. I really, really could've used a win.
So, we're heading to the strip tonight, I'm probably going to play 2-5 nl just to book a win or whatnot.
*I think when GKA comes the plan is to go to the Vegas NBA summer league.

BUSTOOO

I had a semi-desperate stack going into Day2 for the Main Event. But found a way to chip up to a healthy 85k or so. Then a dude in EP raises, and a donkfish on the button calls. Im in the BB and have KK, so I 3bet. Both players call and the flopament is KQ6.....yes, touchdown. I lead out 18k and the EP dude basically minraises to 40k, so im like, "ty for your moneys" and put in the rest of my chips. He looks deflated as he calls and flips over AA. The turn is a 6 and the river brings the A.

The pot wouldve been at least 180k, and people are estimating a 200k stack would make the money. I win that hand about 90% of the time........

Im going to go find bengiec's razors now and kill myself k thx bai

My GF comes and leaves

From June 4th to June 8th my GF Noelle was here in the house. I havent posted in a while, so I figured I'd make a couple quick notes:
1. The show "O" at the Bellagio was good, but overpriced, and very weird. French theater is... Bizarre.
2. Sushi Roku is an amazing restaurant, in Caesers.
3. So is Olives, at the Bellagio.
4. I like the champagne "Rosa".
5. Isura and Alreturns (he finally made it!) are in the house now, gotta get them to post.
6. Noelle thinks we all talk about "preflopping" too much.
7. Isura and I play Day 1d of the Main Event tomorrow. Somewhat nervous, table 170.
8. Devin and Travis survived day 1; Gary Stevenson and HEK did not.

Bengiec, complete strip club noob or comedic genius?

Man bengiec cannot hold his alcohol. He spent 10 minutes trying to convince a stripper that one of her coworkers had robbed him. And she kept trying to tell him that the she had been fired from her last two clubs for punching out customers that got on her nerves. Then he he said, "Hah look at this noob," to some guy at the ATM which almost caused a fight until Costanza_g and I intervened.

Next thing you know he's talking to bouncers about how busto he is(all while tearing up 1 dollar bills), and they're trying to convince him that it was worth it.

After we get back to the car, he stars talking about how he hates money and begins dumping unknown quantities of ones, fives, and twenties out the window into the parking garage.

Dear Stripper (Dancer)

You told me that the money didn't matter to you.
I believed you.
You told me that I was a special guy and that my money that I had was special.
You said that it would only be $260 plus tip.
I asked a second time and you said it would be $290.
I was ok with that.
You told me that I needed to go to an ATM. I agreed.
I threw $100 on the ground and told your skank ass to pick it up.
At this point I was getting even with you.
You stole $500 from me, Right from under my eyes.
My own drunken, sullen, glazed over, ripped up, eyes.
Your scar on your right nipple, I don't care, I payed you anyway.
But why did you send me to the ATM?
Are you so greedy that the $500 you found in my back pocket was not sufficient for your three kids?
I thought we had something special.
I guess I was wrong.
Still.
We had some memories.
I told some guy at the ATM he was a newb.
He was like, "Do we have a problem?"
I was like "Lol, you do, lol." Because you were getting money out of the ATM lol.
End of the story.
So stupid fucking *dancer*. Enjoy my money. I hope you die.

i asked for extras

and guess what they gave me

$1 bills.


devan lake cannot ban me.

i hope the fukcnf srippers comment. because she has a nastyt scar above her left nipple.

FUCK THQT CUNT BECAUSE SHE STOLE ALL MY MONEIES.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and then iu itlted and threw all my moeny out hte window. \fuck that cnt. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1





PLEASE DONT WAKE TRAVIS UP!!!!!!!!!!.

HEY FUCK YOU CUNT!!!!111

ok
some fucking cunt
stole $500 from me.



i walk into the club with $500. ok?
i walk out with .. $300....ok -$200. well fuck that. i don't like singles or $20's it's out the window. i threw $like monkey outthe window.


ok
....

ihope the fucking cunt, that stole all my money. enjoys it, pay for your next boob job. pay f

she fucking reached into my pocket.
FUCK THAT.

stupid cunt.

she reached into my fugkcing pocket. i never thought that would happen. i hope you fuckgin chink. i hope you build your business and die. a fiery fiery temper death.

good night. i hope the valet at the panormaa to\wers finds lie $300 waiting for him. lol. ..

2p2 Bracelet!!?!?!?!?

Today, Jonas (Riverboatking) is going to play the final table of the 10k buy in PLO championship event! He fought through a field of just about 400 players and was chip leader for a good part of the time, when he ran into some trouble against an enormous donkey at his table who decided AJT5 rainbow was a good PLO hand and when he couldnt catch his hand with over half the deck as outs (aka the favorite in the hand) against the same huge donkey. He ground back up and seems to be playing very very solid poker. Best of luck to him, we'll be on the rail, 2+2 needs this bracelet! gogogogog

my last day in vegas, hero cries.

edit: i wrote this at the airport like 3 days ago. my post is casually late as usual

i run good live. i ended up winning a $175 sat yesterday making me 2 for 2 in 1st place out of 10 in those. thats a 1/100 shot assuming no edge for you math wizards. i totally wasnt going to play a sat but this is what happened. I put my name on the 2-5nl list which had like 20 people on it. i go back to check on phil (omgclayaiken) in the 6max tourney for a bit. then i decide to pee and when i come back my name isnt on the list. Usually missing your name being called isnt that bad because it is crossed out and you can tell them to uncross it and you then become next in line. but they erased the entire board so i would have to start from scratch. yea i could have probably talked to her about it but the line was already pretty long.

i decide to check out the sat tourneys because my roi is like 700% in them. (due to awkward chopping, dont ask, sigh) i get to the back end of the long line and ask the guy in front of me if he knows how fast its been moving. he says he doesnt know because he just got there. for some reason thats exactly the answer i expected mostly due to my ignorant question. however i thought there was a small chance he had been in the line at another time of a similar length or something. no dice. at this point i realize this guy looks exactly like scotty from the movie Eurotrip. he face was identical but he was slightly bigger. i run the numbers; the movie is 3 yrs old, plus probably 6 months of editing time,etc. he probably packed on a few pounders since filming 3.5 years ago. i am now 80% confident this is him and look for others in the vicinity to engage in a suckers prop bet with my newfound confidence. no suckers are to be found and it is only me that is left to pursue the journey of discovering the mystery man's true identity. it was then the crazy coincidence of the situation dawned on me. in the past few days, the roommates and I have had at least two full discussions about the movie Eurotrip at our place. now im not exactly sure how a full discussion is different from a standard discussion but let me assure you there was a plethora of content. i finally decide that the odds of me being punked are less than 20% and this is likely the real deal. after a few more minutes of hesitation and awkward gawking at his cheekbones for reassurance, i finally crack:

"have you seen the movie eurotrip?"

"yea.. a few times actually."

"you look just like the star from that movie"

"i am that guy"

Solid. I was overjoyed to speak to my first celebrity yet at this point i realized that I had made a bad choice. the tourny line was long enough, plus i had a flight to catch and wanted to see the fountains at bellagio before i went home. winning a higher buying sat would take awhile. luckily, the lower the buyin, the less chips you get. i figured i needed to play in a smaller buyin $325 and hopefully go busto soon. i get to the front of the line and the guy is giving out tickets for a $175 sat. wtf mate? $175? my brain quickly does the math and realizes that there must be a $1500 tourny coming up because that is roughly the payout for that buying. I fight the movie star for a ticket from the usher and quickly turn it over to reveal a "table 228 seat 5" ticket. lo and behold the movie star shows a "table 228 seat 6" ticket meaning he will have position on me. heavens to murgatroid, im going to get run over by the star of the hit comedy Eurotrip! whatever will i do?

But wait, scotty sucks at poker! i mean i really didnt expect scott (his real name too omg) to be good at poker but its not like he is super rich and has tens of thousands to blow.

2 hands of suckiness:

he raises PF on the cutoff after a limper and gets 3 callers (why are you surprised?) flop is KT3 and he bets 2/3 the pot and folds to a push when he has 2/3 the original pot left behind lol. the other hand he raises to 300 from the hijack with blinds 50/100 and 500 behind. he hadnt been raising lots so i think for about 15 seconds (easy push winner take all, decent fold if you know there is a 3 handed chop) and finally push in the BB with ATs and he folds without much hesitation hahaha lol moviestaraments. naturally I end up shipping the win when I check Q8o in the BB when the SB completes with 6bb. Id push online but I had a good read after several hands HU and felt he was limping a lot of bigger type hands here. Flop is 56Q. I check, he checks. Turn is a 7. I check again for the bluff inducing supertrap, he bets 600 and I push. He insta calls with AQo and I obviously ship the river 4. nh gg wp ldo.

midwest airlines - the best care in the air. O RLY? YA RLY

on the plane flying home something almost interesting happened. being in seat 1C i apparently get to see all the action up front. the copilot opens the little window in the cockpit door and then a few seconds later he comes out. a stewardess goes in and closes the door while the copilot then makes himself a drink and goes to the bathroom. after he is done he knocks on the cockpit door at which point the stewardess opens up the little window, looks at him for a second, and the closes it again. door does not open. the copilot decides to make small talk with the other stewardess (oops, female flight attendant) up front. by now almost 5 minutes have past. finally the cockpit door swings open and the chubby to moderately fat ~35 year old stewardess comes out giddy as a school girl. clearly my pilot is a pimp, although his game selection needs some work. but i cant rant on him too much as this is obviously a frequent occurrence. he is probably on the board of directors for the mile high club while i have been stuck in the measly road head club with the commonfolk for years. oh well, like my mother taught me, some things in life just arent fair.



grrr this stuff would have been up earlier but our apartment randomly has no internet since ive gotten back. furthermore it is difficult to write a pilot blowjob story whilst the old man next to you keeps starring at what you type. yes old dude next to me, i mean you.

A Stunning Realization

So I sit down at the Rio 2/5 unlimited bet game for some serious texas hold'em no limit action bet action. I glance around my table and immediately begin sizing up my fearsome opponents. I shift my eyes in a counter-clockwise manner because I'm a baller and don't use clocks. Among the sunglasses, hair gel, clever chip protectors, Jack Nine Suited hats, pocket aces/Las Vegas tattoos, I notice a diamond in the rough, a beauty among beasts, an amazing creature. At about seat 4 this anomaly (given the current meta game) my eyes come to a screeching halt. There is this 30 something bombshell, staring back at me. She's basically the most beautiful thing at the table, and in my head, the most beautiful thing in the world.

Obviously she was sitting across the table, so any of my pathetic attempts at her would seem infinitely more pathetic from across the table. I immediately conceded all of her attention to some guy with Las Vegas and hundred dollar (doLlA) bills tattooed on his left arm. My mind began to drift with all the magic the two of us could have that night if she would just give me the chance. Alas, I fear that night will never bear fruition as I'm sitting here typing this at 7:05am.

It was at this point in time I reached my Stunning Realization:

Women are to me as the "pop drop and lock move" is to a brother in the club at 2am.

It's like looking at a flop and knowing if it hit your hand or not. Only with girls it's like I usually always hit the nuts, unless they're some sort of beast that belongs at the zoo or something.

I'm not sure what all of this means, but I can safely assume that if women were as accessible to me as they I wish they were in my head, my dick would probably shred to pieces.

LOVE MUCH ALWAYS

Satisfying Day

So I decide to head to the Wynn for some 2/5 uncapped today. I buy in for $1k and im sitting a little over $1400 deep and get JJ in MP. I open to $30 over a couple limpers and get 3 callers. Flop comes Jd2s3s. Arab guy in a business suit donks for like $60, i make it $400 because he doesnt know what fold means, he calls. Turn comes 5h, he leads like $120 and i shove for like $900 more (he covers) he takes all of 5 seconds to call and says "ill gamble." River is the Qs, Ts6s scoops the ~$2900 pot. NH SIR.
So at this point i realize i only have $400 more in cash on me, and there's no way im going all the way back to the house, nor am i going to sit short w/ this moron at the table. I call Matt (Flourescent Hippo) and take a cab to the Rio, borrow $800, and go back to the Wynn. I buy back in for $1200.
Like 4 hands later i open TT from the CO over 3 limpers (1 is the Arab dude), flop comes T44 rainbow. He leads $60, i make it $400 (yeah it should look familiar), he calls. Turn is a 7, he leads $120, I shove, he calls. River 8, he flips 56 like his straight is the nuts. LOL not this time sir.
He ends up leaving eventually but i continue to run better and ended up +$400 and change after 7 hours or so, which is pretty damn satisfying considering how the day started. I bought a mini keg of Heineken on the way home and now Im gonna get drunk, eat IHOP, and sleep well.

Week 1

It's ridic hot out here. The first day or so when i was outside for more than 5 mins i was getting these pains/cramps in my stomach. It seems to have gone away since then though. Everyone ive met so far is pretty cool. But there hasnt been nearly enough prop betting.

Our schedules have been mainly to sleep all morning - afternoon. And then go to the strip and grind for the night. After a few nights i was getting bored playing NL, 1-tabling full ring makes me spew so hard. And apparently, Im not rolled for a 2/5 PLO uncapped game with a $10 straddle every hand.....who knew?

My laptop doesnt get internet access because its gay, so im probably going to go to circuit city or something and buy a new one soon. Im getting tired of bumming other pplz. Thats all; highlights so far include the Rhino, but i wont go any farther into detail about that :)

5k 6max, Jack nine suited!

I played in the 5k shorthanded WSOP event today. Not a wonderful idea since I was still on tilt from cash games and also not having slept at all the "night" before, but what can you do. I was seated at Men "the master" Nguyen's table. He played much better then I expected; without a doubt he was in control of the table, but I suspect alot of that had to do with the fall of the cards. (He doubled up and busted a finnish kid on my right when his set owned the kid's top two pair). Anyway, with the blinds 100-200, average stack was probably 12.5k, I was down to 4.5k. (Two failed bluffs) This was the 2nd hand back from the break, as well, and we were playing 4handed, because Men had busted one of the dudes and the other had not come back from the break yet. Men in the CO to 700, I looked down in the SB at AdTd, and since this was my 2nd best hand of the tourney, I shoved. I got instantly called by men with the powerhouse of J9sooooted. Oh well, c'est la vie, perhaps a mistake to have played in the tournament to begin with, but it was somewhat fun. "Next time".

Bumped into Matusow today at the Rio

So I'm leaving the Rio today, hopping a cab to the Ventetian, when I see a guy I think could be Matusow walking with a small group of people. I'm walking faster than they are and quickly overtake them, not wanting to be a gawker I decide that I won't look back to make sure until I get outside, but before I even get there this guy starts swearing up a storm. I'm now sure that it is him.

We get outisde and he wraps up his conversation with his posse and starts to walk off on his own. I see this as my chance so I say, "Hey Mike." He looks a little confused as to why I'm talking to him, but he obliges. The rest of the conversation went something like this:

MM: ....hey
B: How did you do in the HORSE event today?
MM: Busted in 16th(16 pay)
B: Oh wow, weren't you like second in chips yesterday?
MM: I just couldn't fuckin win a hand today man.
B: Yeah I guess it's tough to take down a tournament when you get cold decked like that.
MM: You're fucking telling me, god damn cocksucking motherfuckers just kept bleeding me down. Fucking nothing I could do. I'm so pissed right now.

And he continued to mutter something about cocksuckin motherfuckers as he walked off into the parking lot and I got into my cab.

DONKAMENT SCORE!!

So tonight we all decided NOT to go play live poker (except for DevinLake) and instead we played the online variety. Yeah, this blog is somewhat non poker, but... Myself, BengieC, FutureDoc85, ienjoymoney, and SilentSupra all decided to play the 100+9 MTT on Pokerstars. To make things fun, we all plunked down an additional 109 for a last longer. BengieC won the last longer, and it's somewhat tough for anyone to have lasted longer then him; he won it! He took down ~9.1k or so, while we all watched him. Very nice!

blogging is gay

Blogging is pretty hard. I have to come up with stories that are interesting enough for you to read. Sounds easy enough, but when I can't keep myself interested in the story I'm trying to tell, I can't even begin to imagine what it's like for the reader. Pretty much like every single poker story i've heard or tried to tell since I've been in Vegas (maybe it's an acquired taste). So with a little luck I will keep this un-poker handish as possible.

I arrived in the City That Never Sleeps last Wednesday. Sad to say but my flight was relatively uneventful, except for after my second layover. As I was sitting there thumbing through Time's 100 Most Influential people of the year or month or something, this banging 11/10 came and asked if anyone was sitting next to me. Obviously the seat was open. We exchanged small talk for a little while before the plane took off. Apparently she was visiting her Grandmother in Oakland or something. Somehow we get to the topic of music, and start talking about Outkast's The Love Below. She tells me how she just broke up with her boyfriend or something and how he had cheated on her (what a fucking idiot I'm thinking to myself) with some girl on a plane to a debate trip (lol debate nerd). Once we got into the air she started getting a little closer, leaning over. I was already pretty nervous because flying is unreal to me, so this made me borderline heart attack. She asked me if I was into hooking up with girls even if I may never see them again. LIKE DUH OBVIOUSLY. Ok that never really happened. I just sat in the same seat for six hours reading Time. I managed to read the three most recent Times magazines, so now I have nothing to read on the way back (beat).

The house (http://www.vrbo.com/26074) is pretty sick in terms of my bankroll (lolmicropro). Obviously it pales in comparison to the other mansions or compounds or whatever you feel like calling them, but I can't really complain.

Let's see...roommates. Everyone is really cool. It's really amazing how easily all of us click together having only one thing in common, TEHpokargame. To all the moms and dads out there, no axe murderers.

As for the city itself, how ridiculous and over the top can one city be? Everything that no one actually needs, or could easily live the rest of their lives without is in this city. I'm not complaining, most of my time is useless, so I can get along with a useless city. Today I walked by a freaking oxygen bar. What the hell. Maybe I'm just an uncultured hick, but last I checked there was plenty of oxygen to go around, I can do without paying for it, thanks.

So far I've run into quite a few characters. There are a few stories I could try to tell but It would just end up being "guess you had to be there" so I'll save you and I the time. As I'm writing this, futuredoc85 (Nathan), costanza_g (Travis), blackize (Brett), Mr. BobboFittos (Rob), AMT (Alex), and flourescenthippo (Matt) are all at the Spearmint Rhino enjoying some of the finer things in life. By now you may be wondering why I am not participating in the celebration of the female anatomy, and I'll tell you exactly why.

See when my parents decided to have the sexaments and produce yours truly, they decided that I should turn 21 just after my Vegas trip. But my parents sexed up a smart kid, so I got a fake (read: another white kid's ID) prior to embarking. So it went something like this...

"Have your ID's out"
Ok heres my ID.
"hmmm...." The bouncer freakin interrogated the ID like it was a terrorist in Guantanamo Bay with or without the bondage, It was dark and I can't remember. He hands me back the ID. He frowns and smiles at it. He laughs he cries. He hands it back to me.

YAHTZEE!

Apparently he's not yet done with the interrogation and needs it back.
He calls over his buddy who smiles at me and says "WORKS FOR ME!" and winks at me.
Gorilla52 says, "I can't accept this."
Ship bengiec to the car.

Luckily DevinLake (Devin Lake) in his endless generosity gives up his evening in the Rhino and drives us back home.

Well that's all I feel like writing about.

Devin Chops the 540 deep stack venetian event

32 motherfucking ways!

Out of about 560 runners, when the field got ITM (40 left), people started talking chop but no one was really having it. As we (myself and blackize) continued to sweat, and the field narrowed to 32, a chop was finally put in place. After an elaborate deal fiasco, they agreed to a 32 way chop where the top 5 stacks took 11k and the bottom 27 chopped evenly for just under 8k. Details can be found in this STTF thread...congrats Dev!

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=singletable&Number=10907073&page=0&fpart=1

VEGAS BABY!

so, we're here. finally. after several days of the house members trickling in, the 6 degens, matt (hippo) and brett (blackize) have arrived to round us out. Today was a "get settled, get food, get sleep" kind of day, so we haven't done a whole lot, but Rob (Bobbo) made us a great salmon/pasta and salad dinner followed by a nice little tutorial of his new NL book/Minnie coaching session for the house. It was a good move in day, and we're headed out soon to party with the bigjoe and co. at their place soon I think. More interesting reports to come hopefully.

How much poker stuff is ok to talk about?

If we want to make this blog non poker stuff, that's cool with me. But until that is the status quo, may as well share poker stuff. Last night I got in and met up with JShuttlesworth (Owen) where I am staying until we move in. (So just 2 nights) We play a short - very short session at the Venetian. I sit in the 2/5 NL 1000 buyin, and find a way to get stacked. Game is 8 handed or so, and I get AA and QQ in the 30 minutes or so I'm there. 2 limpers, in the SB I make it 35 with QQ, BB and limpers call. Flop is 9d 9h 8d, I lead for 110 in 140 pot. EP limper calls, the other 2 fold. Turn is an offsuit 7, I check, he bets 220 with another 350 behind. I fold... 2 limpers to me I make it 40 in the CO with red aces. Asian SB calls as do the limpers. 165 in there, comes Kc Jc 7x, checked to me, I bet 150, SB pushes for ~850 total (lol wtf?) the two guys fold, I call. He has 77 of course - Great way to begin the poker trip!
Today was slightly better in the 5-10 and 10-20 Bellagio, but wow, people are so nitty. I hope the house rejuvenates me (and my luck!)

Im Kinda Drunk and Going to Vegas on Wednesday

So let's see here. I go to Vegas (Las) the day after tomorrow, I am I'm rather a lot really excited. What great fortunes and or misfortunes await me only time will be able to tell. All I know about Vegas (Las) is that it's a city in Nevada where people gamble their monies away. I'm rather relieved that i'll be arriving at 8:00PEEM because I'll be able to fly into, basically, a giant city of lights in the middle of the desert at night.
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Sooooooooooooooooo what else is there. I hope i win lots of monies. Hmm.. Story time

Once upon a time there was this boy. This boy was just like every other boy you've ever known, young, youthful and full of a spirit not known before this particular boy was made palpable on this planet. So one day this boy was going to work, as he did on most days, at his Grandfather's butcher shop. The finest meats were sold at this butcher shop, people came from miles around to buy meats from his Grandfather.

ps.

anyone want to go to Montauk, New York on the 26th ?

Vegas-bound

I leave in 48 hours. I haven't packet yet. EEP!

Im a Procrastinator

There's about 2 weeks until I leave for vegas and i have yet to book my flight or anything else that needs to be done. This always happens to me, its been swirling around in my head for almost a month, yet still nothing is done. I was in a similar situation as devinlake these past few weeks. Not entirely confident about my finances, but a couple good scores in MTTs and now i feel pretty confident. Although they're not nearly as big as his, 40k is just sick!

I told my stepdad i was going to vegas last weekend. He has a pretty conservative outlook on the world, so of course he flipped out. Apparently he thinks Im going to be doing coke off a dirty toilet, the people im staying with are going to rob me while i sleep, and Im going to wind up dead in a back alley somewhere. It took him about 3 months before he stopped be pissed at me playing poker online. So hopefully he'll cool off by the time this trip is over so when i win the Main Event I can actually enjoy it.

Tilt

Am I the only one who tilts over HU SNGs that are worth nothing? I sometimes play HU sngs while watching TV - almost always PLO, PLO8, or limit omaha 8. When I REALLY want to tilt, I play limit holdem. So like 10 dollar sngs or so. Anycase, I find a guy who starts calling me a donk (standard) saying I was raising too much. I obviously end up playing him 14 times, only going 8-6 or so over that span. Two hours of my life wasted because of some punk who tilted me. I even won more matches, and I still was not happy! Atleast spiderman was on TV.

Oh, I cant wait for Vegas. I leave June 18th. It's possible that my GF will be with me the entire time, I'm trying to convince her to take a summer course at UNLV. (While I gamble, haha...) We need to get more interest in this blog, too. Also, hooray for laziness! Only 14,000 hands last month. Atleast I did a ton of coaching.

It's getting close!

Well Vegas is getting close, and I’m starting to get really excited. I booked my flight the other day, and I will be arriving the evening of June 19th. We don’t get our place until June 20th, so I’ll probably just play poker all night when I first arrive. But who knows, I’ll also probably be super tired so I might just grab a room somewhere.

My plan a few weeks ago was to grind a lot so I wouldn’t have any financial worries while in Vegas. That plan has changed a bit.

First, I was running super bad at 400NL and was losing confidence in my game. So, I made a trip to Turning Stone for the East Coast Championship series they had going on. I played one event and went deep, but no cash. I also played poorly at the cash tables and lost a couple buy-ins at 300max. So, that didn’t help.

So, I didn’t play much for the remainder of the week following my TS trip. Then, Friday night I decided to play some poker, but not the regular grind. I entered into FTOPs first event and went deep, finishing 127th out of 2k+ entrants. I also took the last $350 I had on Stars and played a $335 turbo, and I won that. So, I was starting to feel better again about poker.

After my deep run in FTOPS #1, I had the MTT bug. So, after being away for the weekend, Sunday night I decided to play a $281 satellite to FTOPS event 4, a $1k buy-in event. I seem to run very well in satellites, so obviously I won a seat.

So, long story short, I came 6th in the $1k event for a nice little cash of about $41k. I haven’t really played much since. But, needless to say, I’m no longer worried about my financials going to Vegas, although I didn’t meet my grinding goals. J

That’s about it for now. I’m getting real excited about my first trip to Vegas. I’m looking forward to meeting a lot of the people I discuss poker with on a daily basis despite the fact I’m older than 99,5% of 2p2ers.

- Devin

Spacegravy out

Grayson (spacegravy) got an offer to live with Joe (bigjoe2003), z32fanatic, iweargoggles....I forget who else, but its a huge lineup and an amazing opportunity for spacegravy so I wish him the best with it, and I still look forward to a summer of partying with him when the 2p2ers ship bracelets at the tournaments this year. Costanza_g is taking his place so now its looking like: futuredoc, bobbofitos, bengiec, myself, costanza_g, DevinLake. I'm still really reallllly pumped about this and I cant wait to get out there and play unhealthy amounts of poker....and do various other things in excessive volume.


-Alex (AMT)

GKA: Out

Alright, I doubt anyone has started reading this blog religiously (hopefully they will during the summer! more stuff going on then) but the big news is Dave, or "Green Kool Aid," has dropped out from the house. I believe Hypnotron is eating most of the cost, so kudos to him, although I guess someone may fill his shoes? Not sure. Anyway, I for one am fairly sad/disappointed, although he's not going for the right reasons. (He lost the desire to play poker, and wants to take summer courses) If I go deep into the WSOP ME though he'll fly out, so there's my extra incentive, I guess. -Rob

Seconds!

Ok hi world my name is bengiec I play poker and go to school. I'm a pretty big degenerate. So vegas is coming and i'm pretty excited. Never been there before or to that side of the United States so i'm really looking forward to seeing something other than the same wang of a state.

I haven't played poker in like two days because i'm down a bit and need some time down before I jump back on the horse. I really hope I can get back on this poker game so i'm not a bum in vegas. I bought an xbox 360 the other day to help me spend my free time not thinking about poker. I forgot how much time video games can suck up. It's great. Tiger Hoods '07 is a must have for all of you out there with ten fingers and a forebrain, and for the nerd in all of us Oblivion IV is great too.

So any ideas for the name of this group? Post them here or send me a msg on 2p2. (bengiec)

S.I.H.W.B - Ship It Holla Wanna-be Ballas ? (yes i know the url)
R.D.G. - Random Degenerates ?

I'm dry with ideas here...

First!

Whoaaa I've never posted on a blog before. I'm incredibly anxious for this summer, I really can't wait for Vegas. I'm actually considering staying even longer there, perhaps because I have no other plans, and perhaps because it just seems so alluring. Anyway, figured I'd put SOMETHING up on the blog, because it's so barren.
Quick thought, as well: The new 2p2 looks very lame. I hope they change it back, because it's been very slow for me, and I can't figure out how to clean my PM box. Hmmm.
Just so this isn't completely without some poker (I don't know if it's important to put anything poker related yet, but what the hell, some substance!) I ran pretty bad this weekend! I posted 3 brutal hands, but then I realized that would be pretty annoying. So this is just as it is!