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Congrats on the win, sick run last week or 2.

Thanks so much everybody, I really appreciate it all.

So much to catch up on, not sure where to start.

We busted the main event, I made what I thought was a good bluff which turned out to be really, really bad since he called with his nut worst bluff catcher. Vs my exploit strategy it could be ok, but in the main I don't think so. Was going really well before then and was pretty tilted.

Won the first Aria 24k, 4 handed, me, koray, tim adams and igor kurkanov. Was a really long and hard fought match. Was super pumped to win this at the time.

Took day off and then played the 2nd 24k, built up stack and was good throughout. Lost KK v AA vs bonomo on the bubble for heaps but built back and finally 4 handed was me, ole, josh arieh and Jake Schindler. Big shout out to Jake was very fun to play with him, really like his style and we had good laugh.

Finally was Bellagio cup, pretty funny actually, my friend wanted to play, but I wanted to play fifa, I told him I would play Bellagio cup after Fifa. He stayed extra 90 minutes with girl he was seeing then we played FIFA. Eventually he decides to go and play last level of the day, I don't have anything to do and have flight home in couple days but decide to take the nice walk through Vdara and Bellagio and see whats up, rail bobbys room etc. I get there and I just cant resist it. So many regs and looked SUPER fun lol. I decide to reg in the end but don't have money, loan some money but don't have passport or ID, they eventually let me in and I bag up 48k from 40k starting.

Day 2 I get up to 200k and chip leader and in the very last level bluff off 90k which was kind of annoying, thought I had good day though so wasn't tilted. Ended up bagging 113k.

Day 3 was a long day, I thought we'd get in the money but wasn't even close. I was on the most RIDIC table you could ever imagine, 8 regs all who are absurdy aggressive and just want to win every pot. Last level of the night we played like 14 hands in 90 minutes, every pot was absolute lunacy and I was happy to bag up 180k at end of day

Day 4 was another super long day, I think we had a 5 hour bubble which was incredibly painful. I had short stacks all in 3 times (I had worst hand) but couldn't hit the 20-40%s, eventually bubble broke and we played down to final 13. Bagged 788k which I was super happy about, was in a great position, albeit in a very reggy line up.

Day 5 get to 5 handed and have huge chip lead, around 50% of the chips in play, bluff off huge pot to 2nd in chips and was in a little bit of a danger zone for a while. Chipped back up and then 4 handed decided to deal. Really wasn't sure about the deal, thought I was for sure giving some edge up here being 80bbs and just being really in the zone, not tired at all, experience of last tables and pretty good focus and intuition what everybody was thinking, but the deal was pretty good, got $475k. 2nd place was $413k or something, so it seemed like a good deal to me.

There is literally 50 or 60 hands I could talk about not sure where to start. Will try to do a "hands from vegas" post or maybe video in next few days.

Right now not really sure what my goals are. If I want to go around playing all the SHR's around the world or if I want to stick to playing more online etc. I think maybe just having healthy lifestyle, studying a lot, playing Sundays, coaching a lot and then going to festivals and playing big series could be the way to go.

Next confirmed trip will be ETP Barcelona, schedule there is pretty crazy.

Tuesday 15 - $10200 turbo
Wednesday 16 - $10300 hr
Thursday 17 - $1100 Estrella
Friday 18 - $1100 Estrella
Saturday 19 - $50,000
Sunday 20 - $2200 HR
Monday 21 - $5300 main
Tuesday 22 - $25500 1 day
Wednesday 23 - $2200
Thursday 24 - $25500 1 day
Friday 25 - $10300 hr
Saturday 26 - $10300 hr day 2

I then would really love to come back to Vegas and play the poker masters. 4 50k events and 1 100k events, it will be televised on pokergo and CNN sports etc. www.pokermasters.com

But it will kinda coincide with WCOOP/Powerfest, which obviously I can't really see myself missing. There is also huge festival in SOCHI with PartyPoker.

Poker is really getting bigger now, WSOP main event numbers increasing, huge tours everywhere, pokergo, partypoker, 888 all really pushing hard, stars starting to react. Really excited about next few years. The fact that a lot of bad-medium regs got filtered out is pretty good thing. Stuff like segregation forced from governments is probably a good thing too for regs. Lets say there is a country like Spain, or Poland or whatever else. If poker is not regulated there, there is likely lots of huge stables, strong community etc and if you go to play a tournament in Barcelona or Madrid or whatever theres probably going to be tonnes and tonnes of local regs. Now though only the best regs survive, they move out etc and all of the "regs' who stay end up becoming really bad and its a lot softer tournament. If you've played WSOP this year you can see the huge difference in skill level between the online guys and the live guys. I think that basically everybody used to be bad and now pio has come out and people who play a lot online are starting to implement correct strategies.

Doing a podcast with thechiprace this weekend which should be fun.

I love how you see an all reg mtt and say "hey that looks fun"
Gg again and hf throwing all your previously made plans put the window and going for bracelets and glory again

I don't think there's much funner things than playing an all reg MTT. Seeing a blend of US guys like Chance, Jesse Sylvia, Jake Schindler, Byron, Europeans like Amadi, Dario, Davide, lots of online bosses like Yurasov, lots of EPT regs etc I really think there's hardly anything in world as fun as competing with those guys. I don't really play poker for the money, I play almost exclusively for the competition. The $1500s etc really are quite boring it's like who gets the biggest stack with donations from the fish and then go from there. 10 handed, quick structure, horrible room etc. in these smaller field tournaments you can rail basically every table whilst playing, speak to 50+ of your "colleagues" I'm actually pretty turned off from the huge "main event" kind of fields in general. It's a little bit like online I guess, I love high stakes online because generally the fields are pretty small. The party/888/stars $1ks I've never really enjoyed playing in the series. Maybe I'm weird idk 😂

I totally get that - if there was any type of non-monetary Poker that people actually took seriously I would be there...

If you dont play poker for the money, and you just love to win, why did you chop the 10k bellagio when you could have just battled it out and tried to win outright? i assume the payjumps at that time wouldnt really have an effect on your bankroll/what you could play that much, but just seems from everything you said it would have been what you were actually looking for (in terms of competition).

Or why didn't you just verbally agree to a chop, play it out and when you get first claim the money.

Or something else that is scummy you would do.

Hahaha amazing

pew pew

*shots fired*

To be fair, Pads has given a bunch back to the community to include free advice, entertainment, charities, and such. So that shot was probably uncalled for.

Who do you think those shots were fired at?

Nevermind. Reading is hard when Im going blind.

Oh just **** off aready Zima

feel free to put me on ignore. or, if pads asks me to stop posting in the thread, i will. i would defend myself, but not worth the time/effort. your mind is made up, and thats.

There's big personal back story to the chop which I can't get into. But something a lot deeper.

In terms of playing for money vs competition. I mean it more on level that I won't game select a live 10k if my roi is 23% instead of 13% etc. if I think I'm
Winning I just play. Of course I care for money. Adding 10, 20 or whatever -% to your net worth is great no matter who you are.

You would defend yourself but.... didn't feel like doing that at some point the last 2 months or so?

was told not to by lawyers for a myriad of reasons. seems like a good idea considering the situation. paying a lawyer, then not following his advice isnt smart.

It's one thing to follow your lawyers advice. It's another to swan around on 2+2 posting like nothing ever happened.

I'm sure you can appreciate given your history as being one of the most high profile and vocal players/investors championing integrity in poker that it might be slightly tilting to many people that you've been silent on matters relating to your own integrity. You really can't blame people for having certain opinions when this has been your line. If somehow you're clean in all this then yeah, **** spot.

/derail.

Congrats on all the success recently pads. The way you approach personal and professional development and the community you've created is very impressive.

agreed on all fronts. i only post in like 3 threads now, mainly in this section. i can understand peoples thoughts about me and can understand their reasoning for trolling.

i made many mistakes during the situation, and pretty much "lay with dogs, get fleas" etc. i should have handled it differently, but did what i thought was best at the time. is what it is now.

prolly will be my last post in this thread about it, hate to derail this thread with nonsense like this. pads thread is prolly the best thread on 2p2 now (since jdawg thread is over, haha).

Ok so follow your lawyers advice

bitB updates from summer coming in next 24 hours. Let's see how we did when I was away..

I like you Kelvis.

Pads, will you be continuing the review of €urop€an's 10k WCOOP FT finish and your $700 WCOOP win between now and WCOOP?