Great run so far. Keep up the good work Whey. I am living vicariously through you for the summer.

Good to finally meet ya man... We had the rungoods going today it seems, and perhaps we are on a collision course for a badass final table tomorrow??!!! GLGL and see ya for the Day 2

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U 2 . I hope we can clash at FT.

Soooo just bagging and shhhht...dealt with some gross 'luck' today but played on the level I've been now consistently getting to and I'll be seeing tomorrow with 20 bigs and a game plan.

Day 2 at the PHo starts at 2pm with well over 600k in the pool...trying to better my last run here. Follow on twitter @wheydacheese and lend me those run-good vibes.

Stone-cold-bubble at the PHo jammed short stack with fold eq AQ from hijack but bb snaps with AA then I get stabbed in the eyeball with 9-9-case Ace on the flop. Really happy with my play day 1 and for the most part day 2 so I'm very confident going into the wsop mixed format MTT tomorrow.

Big day tomorrow, definitely want to go deep in this one but so does everyone else so I've got to play at a higher level.

Good luck Whey!

rough ride since the PHo bubble bust. came in swinging playing too aggro and active in the mixed format today and forgot to bring my brain...firing the $1100 1mill GTD VDS tomorrow, the structure is made for me so I really need to recollect and get it done.

GL in the VDS - if you run into a wall consider taking a day off for a hike/workout/chillin in Henderson and kinda hit the reset button

Thx, def what I'll do since I don't play again till the 20th. Just going into tomorrow wanting to play perfect/no mistakes and not stress the outcome; feeling pressure gets me off my game.

Playing VDS tomorrow, too. See you there Ryan.

Nice. Let's do work.

Finally made it through this whole thread and figured I'd post. Been a great read.

Thx for reading! ...well here we are at the V for the $1100...been feeling a bit off my game trying to force things lately, today I'll go back to just playing perfect with no regard to result/outcome as that is what's always worked for me and will continue that approach going forward. Glad to be inside early today, anyone in town knows these 110°+ days have been a pain.

Hey Car Guy, driving back to the Bay from Tahoe, I saw a McLaren going the other way. That's a fun mountain road in a Corolla, it would be outrageous in a McLaren.

Nice I've been trying to take it easy on the Bim given this wicked heat

So no 'luck' in the VDS today but got back to playing stronger so I'm pretty dam confident and motivated going into the next event on the 20th. Also I have filled out a gap in my schedule with a smaller 3 event package in the MP if anyone is interested in a piece: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18.../#post47282906

I'll try to get an update+pics of whats been going up tomorrow, unfortunately nothing but deep crushing runs shy of the $ in this round lol

Well time to catch up with where I left off last pic update. No $ going on, my motivation has just been taken over entirely by mtts for the moment...all I want to do is make FTs lol. As a reflection of that I've picked up a few more on the schedule and that's where all my energy is going at the moment. I'm sure I'll get back to moving forward in the cash grind after the series ends.

First up I had back to back events at GN so got a room there for 2 nights. I stayed in the newer Rush Tower so the room was pretty nice.




The PLO event was pretty uneventful...field was small less than 100 but most of them seemed to be fairly experienced at the game. As for myself, I felt I was fundamentally on par but my lack of experience in live tournaments (PLO) was evident as I struggled with the pace/structure ect. I lost to some rivers and ultimately put it in in what I expected would be a better spot than it was (committed on QhQsJh10s and had to call repot all in vs AAKK rainbow).


The 6max event I came into feeling strong. I have a ton of 6max and shorthanded experience and have little doubt I was a favorite to scoop this thing. I came out dominating and ran stack up over 75k when average was around 45k...unfortunately I lost a huge pot KK < 66...yeah apparently 66 is my late game huge pot bane. I jockeyed the short stack for a good while after but couldn't regain footing and had a pretty disappointing bustout.




Snap regged a late afternoon $100 mtt at GN and busto first hand shoving AKs over EP QQ open and begging him into gambling with me haha...called it a night and did dinner at the Hibachi place there. Got the lobster, filet, and shrimp...all and all decent but the filet was notably excellent.




Played a bit of the crapz before bed, likely angering the table as I chipped up a bit on the dark side


Next up was the WSOP Monster Stack and PHo deepstack. I figured I'd give the hotel thing another shot...hey it supposedly works for college bball teams. Got a room at Palms Place 2 nights and got ready for the Monster.




I started off solid in the Monster stack but ran into trouble and dropped below average early on. Guy to my right gets K.O.'d and in comes Mr. Antonio $%#%kn Esfandiari. I've met him several times but never played against and I had an itch to stack him. He got down to the chip range I was in when the following hand occurs. Blinds were I believe 100-200 with a 24 ante, it's folded around to a loose passive button who limps, Antonio completes from the SB and I go for a gross overraise to 1400 with 6d7d with 12k behind knowing button is folding but expecting Antonio to play sometimes in which case I can rep ridiculously wide/big. Button fold and Antonio pops it to 3200 leaving himself only 7k behind. It's obvious to me he doesn't have a premium hand from his SB limp...my first instinct is to jam but he's just put too dam much of his stack in and I suspect he puts me on something like 44-99 so will call if he feels he has overs. I tank awhile and decide my best chance at winning this pot is to flat...not only should it look very strong, I'm planning on jamming 100% of flops he checks to me on. The flop comes 6-8-Q one diamond and I'm planning to jam but Antonio puts the pressure on me open-jamming. He never limp raised SB over BB with AQ nor any pp QQ or above and I also doubt he's shoving with a lesser value hand like TT...QJ doesn't make sense either and there should be no 8x in his range as played. I decide hes on air a significant % here and much of the rest KQ so snap him off pretty quickly. He tables AT off and while I don't like the 8 turn, I fade and K.O. the Magician. Feeling pretty confident afterwards I start running up the big stack at the table with some nice momentum rolling. Coming up on the dinner break however things go quite badly. I raise pre in MP with with Qh10h and get called by both blinds and an UTG limper with a mid stack. Flop comes 557 2 hearts. It's checked to me and I bet 2/3 pot getting the sb and bb off and getting flat by the ugt limper. on a 9h turn utg limper leads into me for about 30% his remaining stack...I jam and he calls with the 5-6 to nail a 6 on river for something like a 50k+ pot. I still have a decent amount of chips at this point so recollect until this hand: I raise x4 in LP with AJdd, only the SB calls, a short-mid stack with Beats headphones and a hood on. Flop comes 66J one spade...he checks, I c-bet he calls. With the blinds and antes and the % of his chips in (25% or so) I decide to jam on an 8s turn, he insta calls and I say I guess I made a mistake, guy beside me is like "yeah you did I saw that coming" obviously we both expect him to table the 6x but he flips KJ spades and I'm way ahead again but don't dodge ten of spades river. Pretty terrible call on his part as he only beats air (nothing of value I'm shoving here is losing to KJ given my over-large open and line). If he can figure out as much, then he's getting terrible odds to call on the merit of the flush draw alone even before taking into account the board is paired. The only thing I can think of is he thinks I c-bet with Ax spades and jammed the turned nut draw. I lost a 40kish pot there and am left pretty short. At this point I lose my composure a bit and am not happy with how I handled the short stack. I am very skilled with a short stack so feel I didn't give myself the best chance possible, ultimately jamming a weak Ax suited into a dominating Ace and busting.





Upset with how the Monster ended for me I knew I was going to come in to the PHo event and play perfect poker. I crushed all the way through the first 3/4 or so of Day 1 despite not running particularly well card-wise. Just hero-called and bluffed my way to a top stack and pushed it along. Later in the day I lost big pots virtually back-to-back reminiscent of the 2 in the Monster. Hand one I flat an UTG+2 open from MP with TT and it folded around to a bad player in the BB who flat. On a TQ8 rainbow flop the BB player just open ships all in and the original raiser folds. I snap and I see a J as he's tabling and I expect to be facing the KJ open ender BUT he has QK...cool I win...if not for the Q turn and K river...sigh. The other hand was pretty standard spot, I open 3x in MP with KK and a shorter stack girl jams QQ..I call, guy to my right says "you know a Q is coming right?" to which I replay "yes sir, I have played this game before" ...Q on the flop bleh. I kept playing solid and managed to bag Day 1 just over 100k which out me very close to average. Always good making Day 2 but winning those aforementioned pots would have put me in great shape to crush through over 200k, instead I'd be back with a 20 bigs. Day 2 I just ran card dead and couldn't get much going amidst the shorties shoving in. I had top open fold 25% or so of my stack at high blinds/antes with KQ when a tight player jammed over. Before I got anything going the table broke and I was moved to what was surely one of the tougher tables remaining. As we approached the bubble and my stack dwindled into the 12 and 10 bigs range, it became clear however much I hate it that I would likely be laddering into the $. I did so staying card dead until we got hand for hand. 2 hands into hand for hand and 2 off the bubble I picked up AQ with 8 bigs in the cutoff. The SB only had 1 bb and was folding 100% just trying to $ and the bb had about 20 bigs so is probably calling with tens+ and A10s+...the button is largely irrelevant since he's advertising a fold. I jam it and the BB snaps me with AA and not even a sweat on an 9A9 flop. Me and another guy are out on the stone cold bubble . I've talked to a number of players and its pretty split...the hardcore mtt guys assure me it's an easy fold from an ICM perspective...the super high % outcome that I pick up the blinds and antes and go from 8 bigs to say 11-12 bigs just doesn't justify the risk of complete bust on the money. However I think there is a larger range that I flip against and a small range that I dominate that need to be assessed too since I believe BB makes the call here with 88-JJ, A9s possibly, A10, AJ...the % of his hands that he picks up that dominate me are so small, certainly less so than calling I flip and I'm seeing FT not min cash. Ultimately I'm torn on it, I certainly understand why it's a fold, I just couldn't bring myself to do it knowing I only needed to get through one player.






Next up was the Mixed Format $1500 WSOP. I came in pretty excited for this one bc I know that with a solid start I could really take advantage of the Day 2 6max and the HU portion. Unfortunately I got way too invested in this idea of early momentum that when I came into a bad and pro heavy table draw I came out firing way too strong and aggro without the necessary considerations behind it and ended up going nowhere with a disappointing K.O. within the first few levels and nothing to blame but myself.

Went and hit this massage place in China Town that's open late...$20 gets you a pretty epic 60 min body massage. Place is legit and I'll be back often.



I fired at the VDS 1mill GTD $1100 last a few days ago. I came into this one in a better frame of mind and got some early momentum running the 15k to 19 or so before losing a huge % of my stack still in level 1 with AA < JJ (come on...so soon???) I was in bb and an EP player raised x3, got one call, I popped it significantly, he flat other guy folded. I lead out large on a J74 2 heart flop and he put in a big raise...felt so much like JJ but I convinced myself it could be QQ, KK, AJ, AQ/AKhs ect...I flat and we check check a heart turn AND river. I felt strongly I should have turned my hand into a bluff when the 4th heart binked the river but I just couldn't pull the trigger and we went check-check to see his non flush flopped JJJ take it down. I never really got momentum after that even though I felt I played alright (not my best). Ended up going for a big squeeze with QhJh but opener had top of his range and flat, I jammed on a 2h flop but he snapped with AhKh and neither of us improved.

I've taken the last 2 days off and just relaxed other than being in the gym. I feel like I've got my focus and motivation back and can go into the next few mtts just playing a strong and close to perfect game. The action starts back up tomorrow with the $1500 WSOP Extended Play 90min levels which is one I'm really looking forward to. The 7500 starting stack is something I need to keep a cool head about but I know I can do some work with that sort of time and if I even run neutral I can make a good run of it.

u do that post on a phone? biggest paragraphs ever. didn't read any more of it once I saw a full screen of text with no line breaks. nice pics tho :P

It doesn't seem like that bad a call. He has top pair and is only losing to AJ or an overpair. It's unlikely you're opening with a 6. You could easily be opening with QJ or KJ (in which case he's freerolling). So there's a reasonable chance he has the best hand, plus the flush draw, plus 3 outs from the overcard.

You would have folded in that spot? I haven't run it through flopzilla, etc but you probably should.

Srry! Actually I was just typing really fast and didn't realize I typed so much. Will break it up better in the future.

It's not so bad as I made it sound I suppose. TBO in his situation I would have likely chk raise-folded the flop. The thing is as played I don't jam QJ or KJ on that turn, it's probably much more likely a check behind spot so I think he's generally facing an overpair or air, the later seems optimistic so deep in a tournament for all the cookies. Also if I'm opening there with equal or worse jacks than his there's actually an equally weighted number of 6X I would think in which case I could be polarizing the turn lol.

Good push with AQ on the bubble. I think you are on with your ranges and logic in that spot. You're not playing that tournament to min cash. Continue to learn from mistakes and don't be afraid to pull the trigger. GL

Yabut a shove doesn't look like a 6 from a competent player. So if he puts you on an overpair he actually has 2 more Jack outs.

I saw a tool recently for analyzing bluffing frequency. Basically you enter a bunch of parameters and it gives you a percentage that opponent has to be bluffing to make the call profitable. Wish I could remember the name of it, lol.

I guess that makes you the tool for not remembering , sounds interesting though

I knew I would probably never use it. Too much thinking and hard work required.

Could be useful for someone with some poker work ethic though.