all i remember from cab is that nick punched me in the face and i prob deserved it , funny how i knockout this random dude 2x my size and **** him up in 3 min brawl and get nothing from it, and nick hits me dicking off in random cab and gives me mark on my eye

yeah that was me

Thought so. I played PLO with u in Sac a couple times but I didn't know you were the NCJ on here back then. I'll say what's up next time I see you around.

Will be playing online tonight and taking tomorrow (gasp a friday) off before firing the $600 Planet Hollywood event Sat morning, sweat on twitter @Wheydacheese

*Got a lot left to sell on my 2 strongest WSOP events if anyone is feeling ambitious/generous/lucky or any combination of said factors. The extended levels and larger stack of these 2 events play strongly to my advantage and anticipate a really good (and hopefully translating to productive) experience in them.
link > http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...vents-1614129/

Glglgl Ryan! I'll be sweating.

FWIW I've invested in Ryan and he's a class business associate in transactions and despite his just taking large field mtts seriously the last couple of years has proven to be a great player and solid investment over and over.

If I was a few buy ins deeper in my gambling roll id buy as much of him as I could. Alas I'm tight and selling my own pieces to events this summer so I can't. Therefore you all should take that money I'm missing out on

Thx Nat, we must keep trying to ship them for the good guys

I played with that Maurice guy in the Colossus and couldn't remember where I knew him from. Turns out it was this thread. He was being pretty douchey to the dealer which was uncalled for even though, admittedly, she was a god awful dealer. He was also acting like a whiny bitch about losing a pot with kings that happened before I got to the table.

He was two to my left playing super agro and I shoved 77 against him with ~35 bigs when he 3 bet me. He beat me into the pot, flipped AJo and immediately got there. GG.

Fired my first tournament of the summer yesterday afternoon. It was the $600 600k gtd at Planet Hollywood. I don't usually post a lot of hands anymore and when I do it's for criticism/review not to whine about beats but I took a gross one that deserves a recap.

As I mentioned this was the first tournament of summer for me, it's a 15k starting stack. I opened with 77 once folded flop, 3 bet a 99 on button but folded to a lead on a QJ7 flop, and then opened KK and took down on cbet flop. I currently have around 14k at 75-150 w/25 ante when the firs hand of any consequence that I've played in a tournament thusfar this summer occurs.

One limper and I've noticed table is opening way bigger than standard raises and getting calls so I make a weird raise to $1100 in mid position with ppAA. Button calls and big blind calls, limper folds. I love the action bc two people just called like a 9x lol but obvs its multiway so I'm cautious. The flop however comes Ac8dQc so not much to worry about as I smash trip Aces. I lead $1100 again knowing it should induce the button a particularly sloppy player. As hoped he pops it to 3k, big blind folds and I flat. I don't love the 6c turn but he very rarely has clubs...Ac and Qc on board just not many club combos he can have except exactly KcTc and KcJc. I check planning to call any bet because he's pretty much obliged to continue all bluff and value lines after he took action off the induce flop bet...as expected he bets, pretty large 6k especially since he has only 2-3k left behind now...I call and now have under 4k. River is PUKE 4c for 4 clubs on board...I check and he jams. Yeah I can fold here...its usually a club but 3k into 20k+? Also he is honestly going to jam here with everything he has turning all his value hands into bluffs with the stack to pot ratio when I check to him. Considering all these things and that not many combos that flush make much since with A and Q on board that should have called $1100 pre I have to make the call.

He exposes the Kc for the nuts. Flips both cards and he has KcJs...so he called $1100 pre with KJos then proceeded to get in the vast majority of his chips on a gutter gone running 4 card flush sigh...was kinda nasty, tried to get pic but dealer swiped it up to quick. I'm left super crippled in level 2.

To my credit I didn't punt my last $1800...I fought hard getting it all the way back to 15k and taking it 2 breaks in into level 10. The table action and massive cold cards though forced me into getting blinded down something I can nearly always avoid better than anyone. With a few big stack liberal openers, a few other short stacks jamming, and absolutely NOTHING...like I would have loved an A7/K9 at this point...I ultimately got blinded and anted down to 8-9bbs and had to jam a weak suited K utg +2 before blinds got me again. I could have waited for utg+1/utg but then would have been painfully obvious and 0 fold equity, button woke up with AQ so had 2 live cards/40% not at all bad with the ante/blind money in middle but couldn't take it down.

So ya...just seemed kinda gross to have that happen in the first large pot of the first tournament of the summer I play. Hopefully got that one out of the way and can just run like Mercier for the rest of mtts this summer.

Pho 600kgtd


this was a hand I had boat vs flopped nut str, the guy in blue was the one that fleeced me on the 4 card river flush lol


running it back up


getting zoned back in on 1st break :P




making break 2 before the lvl 10 busto


Snap walked to the Ballys 1-2 and proceeded steam raise and reraise every single hand...kinda though I'd just blow off a buyin...it's really not good to busto a mtt and hop in a cash game but wanted to play more and thought I would be relatively safe if I didn't play 2-5; ran it up for about +$400 before leaving


Played 2-5 at Rio the other night but I went reallllly late the the place was pretty dead. As hyped as it is, there ARE some really good games at Rio during WSOP, this was not one of them...I played 2 hours and left down like -$30...I could squeeze no value out of this game and should have tried to switch tables but it was late and I was tired so wrapped it up and left



So that's all for now, kinda boring. Frustrating that I jump in my first summer mtt all pumped up and take a worse beat in the first 2 levels than in the 200 hundo or so hours of cash Ive grinded since my last live mtt...lol. Still looking forward to the next ones though and happy with how I played and felt.

*Also in retrospect the only issue I had with the AAA < 4 card flush hand was there was no reason for me not to put him the rest in when I check called the 6k turn and he only had 2-3k left behind...hes never folding at that point so yeah no reason not to jam over. Same result obviously but better line because of the times when he bricks river and I lead put him in he hero folds sommme hands (ok pretty much he only folds exactly what he had if river bricks but w/e)

Agree on your addendum.

small update tomorrow then a big week or 2 ahead of us that will dictate plans in July.

in other news, gf got a super digital slr camera so my pics quality should go through the roof in a week or 2 when I figure it all out, also does video which I've been trying to do more of so may post some vids too. I'm way too lazy to do like a super clean/consistent trooperesqe vlog but would be cool to throw in some vids with the pics for updates on occasion if someone could maybe pm or say itt how to inbed youtube vids and such?

Easy, just copy the link and paste it inside [ youtube][ /youtube] (minus the spaces)

thx, simpler that I expected

Not a ton to report here, been mostly grinding cash games since last update with a few mediocre 2-5 sessions in games that popped up at both Ballys and Planet Hollywood (great games just mediocre results). Also have gotten back to killing the Aria 1-3 game which for whatever reason remains the highest hourly for me.

On the tournament front I had a pretty disappointing experience at Planet Hollywood. Before getting into the tournament I'll cover the issue that arose. I was excited to be playing in this new format called 'Quantum'. The format essentially has 4 tiers of buy ins with 2 flights of the first 3. The tiers are as follows: $250 10% advances 10k starting chips, $350 15% advance 15k starting chips, $450 20% advance 20k starting and $1600 direct Day 2 buy in w/100k chips. Furthermore anyone advancing from the first 3 tiers you get $400 and advance, if you advance twice you get $2k bonus and keep the bigger stack into Day 2.

So it sounds like a good/refreshing new format and apparently it's been doing really well in California and smashing most guarantees. I planned on firing one bullet at the $350 tier and likely one at the $400 seeing about maybe picking up that $2k bonus also. It was advertised as being a $300k guarantee heading into the Planet Hollywood Phamous series and on a pretty packed weekend with a lot of big seniors/super seniors poker events going on I thought it should get close. However, and there are conflicting accounts of how/when these changes took place and where they were or were not mentioned, but at some point it was changed to a 250k gtd, and ultimately as we were told in the tournament a 200k "estimated" prize pool.

We found this out about halfway into lvl two of the first $350 flight. The place was super dead noone had shown up and someone mentioned an overlay. An older gentleman at table said "no we found at yesterday during the flight there's no guarantee" which was pretty upsetting especially when he went on to reveal they had only 43 players in the first flight of the $250 tier and we currently had 28 players in the $350 tier... Floor was called over and corroborated that there was no longer a guarantee in this mtt. One guy was particularly upset because he was in for 3 bullets and he asked floor if they were telling anyone at registration. Floor said they were letting people know at registration but not a single person at my table was told and no less than 5 (myself included) would not have played had we known. I'm not pointing fingers, I was at fault for not checking/investigating more before but I feel like a place should do it's research and then it they advertise/post a gtd at any point they should commit to it.

On to the actual mtt itself. I was frustrated by the lack of the gtd, however I still wanted to win the whole thing like every mtt I enter. I mixed it up and stayed active and taking a more aggressive approach than usual in this one chipping up and down before taking somewhat of a hit on a missed open ended nut flush draw w/one over.

In level 2 I opened early position 3.5x with AQ and this 68 year old man (he had just mentioned his age and that he was playing the seniors event at WSOP sunday) just jams in 15k...I fold and he proudly flips ppKK. Later in that level or early in lvl 3 I open again from early position with JJ, one flat and old man jams full stack in again...given the KK show, hes 68, and he just rammed 18k into the middle I just can't see calling so fold and he proudly flips over...Ten Ten. Arg.

Unable to catch the momentum I was looking for I had to sit back a bit around lvl 4 and look for spots. Table was aggro so when I pick up ppKK in late position at 150-300 50 ante I just limp, button limps after, SB completes, and BB checks. Flop K7A rainbow...score. When BB leads out small I'm counting the chips in my head as I flat behind, button folds and SB folds. Turn brings a second A for a K7AA board and BB leads for significantly more to which I tank-flat...I'm blocking Ks so hes pretty much representing 77 or an A here so the vast majority of his range I'm going to get the double up off and I', under-repped so I can probably even get a value bet in if he checks a Kx hand to me on river. River brings a THIRD ACE...well sht. He bets small/valueish like 1/2 pot or less and I've already put in a significant amount of my remaining stack by this point so I say something about how ridiculous this spot/situation got and make the crying call. He says "I don't have the ace" and flips over K8os!...so yeah we CHOP lol. We were somewhere around 1% to chop this hand on the flop and he led every street. At least I didn't lose like the AA on the A9Q flop last tournament.

Table got very active after that and I was not able to find many spots. I used my last flat spot on a multiway pot with ATs where I could have possible jammed but stack size was a little awkward for that. I finally did open jam 12 bigs with AhQh from early position and was called by a guy in big blind with A9, he spiked 9 on flop and was gg.

It's certainly frustrating because I take mtts very seriously and am hyper competitive where I just want to final table and win every single one. I'm not so much frustrated that I've not cashed the 2 I've played this summer that is super common place...0-2 is like nothing for a summer 0-8 or something I would start worrying. The frustrating thing is never having gotten any momentum over starting stack in these last 2 tournaments despite setting good lines to max value (in my opinion) in some pretty dominating positions.

My motivation is still very high and I'm ready to get on the board in the tournaments this summer...I've intentionally been playing very few to focus on cash but that just makes the ones I play all the more important to me. This week I'll be playing the WSOP $1500 Extended Levels/Summer Solstice event on the 20th, the megastack at Planet Hollwood on the 22nd, and the WSOP $1500 Monster Stack on the 24th...all 3 of these have structures that play largely to my advantages so I feel really good about playing great and running deep. After that I have a few I would like to play before June is up then my tournament plans in July or lack thereof will based largely on how these go for me.

I've also decided to do a little running tally on here of my results of cash and mtts for this summer if anyone is interested.

Cash: +$2130 (disappointing but good considering I've been running really bad in all in scenarios and draw outs)

MTTS: 0-2 -$950


aside from that I've made about +$270 more online where I have been playing very little this summer limited to a few O8 and plo sessions.

PHo Quantum

Busto


They opened this place in Henderson near Sunset Station called PizzaRev, you pretty much pick whatever you want on your pizza sort of like a Mongolian BBQ place then pop it in the oven. It's like $9 but $7 on Tuesdays and if you go after 8:30 pm anyday you can do pizza and any beer for 10$. The pizzas are big enough for 2 people but we got 2, one fennel sausage tomato sauce pretty basic other than some Ricotta cheese tossed on then one BBQ Chicken pizza with bleucheese and bacon. I told them to hook it up on the chicken and she put about a half pound on there. I for a draft IPA called something Creek but didn't really care for it. I like my IPAs to punch me in the mouth with Hops and this one was just too light/watery and not bitter enough.



And this Oreo Dessert Pizza


CLIFFS: WaWaWa My life Sucks I'm so unlucky and run bad, I'll never cash another tournament again, I'm getting fat on pizza and beer...hey my car's clean waxed though

lol @ your description of how you like IPA's

sounds like you're playing good poker, keep it up!

Awesome thread just read through whole thing... Heading to Vegas in 30 days to play some poker, this has me pumped up and going to try some of the food places you posted. I'll buy you a beer if you're around, maybe play a table.

love this thread brotha, hey just quick question? what are your favorite 1/2, 1/3 rooms to go to in vegas? going up there this sunday thru tuesday to try to ratchet out something...i know there's a high variance of opinion. just wondering your take on it...g'day mate!

l depends a bit on day of week and time but if you can play ideal times (10pm to about 4am imo and obvs better on weekends) then for potential profit at 1-2 and 1-3 I would def first check out Planet Hollywood for 1-2 and Aria 1-3. The new Wynn room can be worth checking out too when its crowded/weekends bc with the 500 cap on the 1-3 game can get kinda deep/splashy.

Been busy and had patchy wifi last few days, brutal heat outside. Been trying to use snapchat more and will be on twitter a lot have Day 2 of the big megastack at PHo tomorrow have a little over 100k going into 1000-2000 blinds then the MonsterStack WSOP at Rio on Fri. Snapchat and Twitter @Wheydacheese

played super solid and ran deep in that PHo bird...took advantage of the deepstack structure and never got in in behind or really even flipping for 2 days...finally lost a big hand iso raise shorty shove and a failed min raise (guy didnt put out enough) with AsKs and lost a large pot to QJos. treading well well into the money when button spazz rips Ad7d for like 240k over a 38k early position open at 5000-10000, I look down at AsKs again and payout tiers are soooo whacked out on this one it's an easy call. nice shot at a massive pot but he flops 2 diamonds and I don't fade river.

frustrating b/c I cash for like $1245 but there was niiice $ up top including $195,000 for first and some other solid final table $. def feel I have the mtt abilities to reach and compete at these final tables consistently but guess it wasn't my time. entitlement is one of the hardest issues to conquer in poker; it took me a very long time to get a handle on it in the cash games and its something I still struggle with in mtts.

will post a more detailed recap with pics tomorrow w/update if I don't hold it off until after WSOP Monster Stack on Saturday.

I like my IPAs to punch me in the mouth with Hops and this one was just too light/watery and not bitter enough.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/18858/62911/

working on big update today but have to split it into 2 parts, hoping to get part 1 finished tonight

ugh will get it posted tomorrow, absolutely disgusting on and off internet service right now, already cost me $200 in a hu hyper turbo when i'm 890 to 110 chip lead and disconnect come back to 25 chips and busto

Keep on grinding bud... MTT livin ain't easy!

Been unable to update thread, what I thought was the internet service or router was actually a busted PCI card or something in my desktop so am only accessing site from cell phone at the moment. Got tons of good stuff poker and otherwise but I doubt I could piece it together like I want from phone. Got a few more mtts left then I'll figure something out may try a USB adapter to run the cable through idk. Either way will just have to post a big 3-4 part summer update or something then have some pretty new plans for the direction I want to take things with poker this year.

Look forward to it

It's Maurice Hawkins and you pretty much hit the nail on the head. He's definitely a D-bag who just tries to tilt people into making bad decisions. Basically another form of angle shooting. He plays the events here in J-vill pretty often so if you're gonna be making more trips out here I'm sure you'll run into him again.

You're right though the PLO games in J-Ville are pretty epic and soft except for the few regs that grind it for a living. But then again the $2/5 here is also pretty epic as well.

There is going to be another WPT series here in October. A $5K main buy in with several mega satty's before hand. You gonna come in town for that series? If so, let me know your coming bc I grind $2/5 here for a living and could give you some pointers on who's who and what's what.

BTW love your thread.....keep the CHICKS, CARS, FOOD and POKER coming!