Good luck!

Good Luck for the WSOP - Destiny Awaits!

over/under on days till pads leaves more money lying around and maids steal it?

glgl, cya there

Good day, friend I haven't seen in ages picks me up at the airport, switch on phone to see horse is heads up in Super Tuesday and ends up winning with no chop for 80k. Vegas upswonggggs.

Check into apartment and its really great, so happy I have this place, almost perfect for what I want, so I'm extremely happy.

Went for dinner with Matas (who will stay with me for abit) Rob Tinnion and my friend Jason. Won the dinner flip and back home with a perfect body clock ready for Vegas.

Morale is high. $5K no limit tomorrow, lets ****ing go.

Rungood in high swong! Vamooos

mbn, gl in vegas, do you ever feel an obligation to tell your horses to tell them to go on their own once their winning lots if you don't mind me asking?

gl vegascrusher

GL in the $5k tomorrow mate. I am a recreational player and really enjoy following your thread. As someone has said above already, your honest writing and openness in terms of strategy discussions is very refreshing. You have a lot of good karma saved up for the next few weeks! See you in Vegas.

gl in vegas, hoping the brits bring back lots of bracelets this year

Your stable seems to be going great for you congrats to you and your horse on the super tuesday ship, when you talk about Gill taking over a smaller stake section of your stable will you guys accept American grinders on sites like ACR?

GL in the 5k!

Finished day 1 of The 5k with 50,600, longggggg day.
Feel very good though, some fun hands for the blog later in the week. Had wcgrider and Martin Jacobson at the table.

Day 2 tomorrow.

sick draw

best of luck in Vegas man!

Thumbs up for tomorrow!

Great read, enjoy the ride and GL on day2. Maybe we can meet up at the Rio as I live in town.

Also, please check your PMs sir, ty.

GL again,
Joe

Why Do u Play for England?

Because he is English ldo.

Ok that makes sense

GL in bracelet hunting! Your thread has been a good slap in the face of how much poker I still need to learn,so huge thx for your insights on hands and staying motivated in this violent game.
I don't play online but have a few questions, how do you pick a horse to work with or do they ask you?
Also I remember you saying one time a top mtt reg cbets 94% of flops. How would I go about finding all those greats stats of the best mtts regs or cash players? Hopefully I don't need Hud to get them because I don't have that.
It seems like to me your horses the last few months have kept you afloat during an even streak,I thinks its your good karma for all the sharing you do.

Was obv some kind of berate, as cbetting 94% is terrible nowadays

GL VEGAS!!

Oscarrrr what happen in the $5k gotta lose that money? Orrrrr?

75th I think according to twitter. Knocked out by Moorman.

Vegas days 1-3

I got here in Tuesday, checked into our really great place in Panorama Towers, went out for dinner and then prepared for the first event $5000 no limit.

Things started kinda slowly dwindling from 25-18k over the first two levels. Previously this was the biggest danger zone for me. I often played levels 3-7 poorly after starting badly. I kept that in mind and tried to grind through it as much as possible. I was playing a pretty conversative style that i would carry on throughout. I was 3betting 0% a against regs and a 10+% linear range vs the weaker players. I think regs see this and expect that you still have a 3bet strategy and fail to adjust.

It worked to my advantage half way through the day. A good German reg opened from mp1 and I flat Kk in the big blind. I would say my image was semi loose/semi aggro. The flop was t77 and it went check, check. Turn was t77t and I checked again. Players will often mistake here by betting turn, but i don't think it's a profitable spot to bet with my range vs his. It's close at least I guess.

River is T77TT and this player knows I'm very tricky. I 3x pot and he starts laughing, I tell him nuts or air to really try and make my range almost none existstant. He called and I got off to a great start.

The day progressed pretty sloely, I was between 30-50k for most of the day. One pot I was very uncomfortable with was very early.

I opened 425 in the hijac. Cut off calls and pokerguru made it 2000 on the button from a 15k stacks. He picked up the button and announced squeeze instead of raise. He was playing very very loose/aggro and it was a spot where if I fold here vs him he's definitely exploiting me, but decided to pass up this edge, something I would never have done previously.

After level 6, wcgrider came to my table. He was opening/3betting always every hand. Absurdly aggressive. He opened utg to 1150 and I and the bb called.

Flop was a36 he bet 1800 and I called with jacks in the button. Turn was 5 bringing a flush draw and he bet just over pot. I was thinking he was trying to get my relatively weak range to fold. I called very quickly to stop him from bluffing the river as much. River was T and he shoved for 1.5x pot. Now how do I play against the best in the world? Play as close to gto as possible and get crushed. He either thought I was a tourny donk who couldn't fold the river or a tourny donk who couldn't call the river. I was confident that he was bluffing but one evaluated the situation. This is a tournament with a lot of weaker players. I don't need to try and guess against the best player in the world with a hand that is way down in my bluffcatchers. I don't need to try and expoit wc ****ing g.

I got moved tables to Martin Jacobsons table. We have a lot of history live and he thinks I play way more aggressively than I actually do I think.

We played a pretty interesting hand where I raise q2dd in the button and he defends bb. He c/r 842fd 1500->4200, I decide to call. On reflection we could say I could check back but I think my hand warrants protection in some form. 3betting the flop would be an option i would have taken a year ago, maybe I'm just getting ****ing old.

Turn is 842j double flush draw and he bets big. I think he c/r a lot of back door flush draws so this is actually a good card for me as it's less likely he has just hit jx. I call and river is

842j7 flop flush draw completes.

He checks and I decide to think for a while and then turn my hand into a blur betting 60% pot it's very possible he riveted a hand like 76,75,7xcc etc and when he checks river he is very unlikely to have a flush as my range will often be strong enough to check back rather than turn into a bluff. He folded after a while and that gave me great confidence.

The day ended and I would come back at 600/1200/200 for day 2 with 171/460 players left.

My morale was huge. I hadn't been the most gangster player in the room, I hadn't 4bet any flops, I hadn't got into a single pre flop war. I wasn't the most gangster player in the room but I certainly played as good as anybody else that day.

Day 2..