Impressive stuff, how many hours you putting in on an average week?

GL, update often.

#sosick

Glhf in vegas

The time has clearly come to give up these silly sngs and switch to MTTs. Im friends with a young man who's an expert at switching formats if you need any help.

This is so sick. You're an inspiration, keep it up.

And lol @ Ruse.

legends gonna legend

sick first half of the year, BoL in the second half of it!

meh

jk ldo, ****ing sick

Ty, I'm on pace for my fewest hours played by far, just under 600 for the year. Probably put in about ~200 study hours, and somewhere between 150-200 commute hours as well.

At least my hours played were of "higher intensity" than in years past, I tend to go til my games die or my brain starts crapping out, rinse and repeat.

BTW, congrats on the golf-betting success so far, that ****'s crazy.

Gracias, it was only 105 in Austin so it'll be nice to go somewhere a pale fellow like myself can actually get some sun

Lol, I couldn't resist commenting on that. If everyone was properly rolled, had their own action, and could maintain well life-wise through the $200k+ downswings, then maybe you drop SNGs. Otherwise, play Sundays and Series, etc. and keep the steady $$ flowing all the way with the SNG grind unless that majorly bores you.

Thank you, old school (or mid-school? ) STTF up in this biatch!

Hey, that's my type of line. Hope to come close to keeping it up in the 2nd half!

My thoughts exactly Trying to keep my comments range balanced

Played Day 1A of the WSOP Main Event today, finished the day with 51,500 (30k starting stack). Woot. Actually managed to get up to about 90k at one point before deciding to lose a lot of pots the last 2-3 hours

Had the Silva v. Weidman fight going on in Vegas tonight, plus the 10k PLO event started at 5 p.m. the night before, so it was probably >>> the best Day 1 to play. Day 2 on Tuesday, will probably head back to SD sometime tomorrow and grind online Monday before driving back to Vegas.

<<<<Addicted to VPPs

Take a day off ya animal

Finished Day 2 with 160k in chips, Day 3 starts tomorrow. My table the last few hours got pretty lol after the 3 ~-50% short-stacked amateurs busted, was all competent-to-sicko with almost everyone above average stack. Also weird how some earlier tables were very good/little obstruction for stretches, then one person starts getting aggro and the whole dynamic shifts. Guess the later is pretty normal.

Flying back to SD for the day tomorrow and gonna grind online for 4-5 hours in TJ, then coming back for a good night's sleep in Vegas late Wednesday night. Day 3 starts at 800/1,600/200.

gl on day 3

You are going to ship this.

"Action folded to Gregory Byard on the button and he goes all in for 100 bb's"

GL dude!!!

gl Gramps

Give us a rundown of your main event runs since 2006.

Days off are for the weak and un-caffeinated

Ty, I'll settle for shipping playing every hand to the best of my ability and see what happens from there. A deep run would be super-fun at the least.

Pffft, it's live deep $10k buyin tourney poker Sippin. It obviously goes me raise 2.3, get 3-bet to 5.8, then I ship for 100. Maybe I put it to 90 to get some extra FE/skew my stats.

Tyty.

Wayyyy tldr, but:

2006 - If you go to your local casino and enter a $100 tourney, it was close to that as far as skill level of the field . Good old Party days pre-UIGEA. Got knocked out early on Day 3 as a short stack (about ~100 before the money) losing AJ to Prahlad's KJ. He was pretty nice/empathetic about it, at least.

2007 - Got up to 2.5x starting stack on Day 1 before getting knocked out with ~2x starting on my flopped set vs. old-man-flopped-straight in limped pot. Learned it's okay to trust my screaming reads live when I have a lot of info to go on, so that was good.

2008 - Finished 34th for $193k + $23k Stars TV table bonus (sitting next to Tiffany Michele). Got up to about 7.5x starting early on Day 2, lost about 3/4 of it within the next hour (most of big River C/R bluff that I still think was a great play vs. player/range), then was short-to-mid the whole rest of the way.

Did a VGood job of not getting frustrated/spewing, and got tons o'luck/high % double-up opportunities when needed. You see so many players let the pressure/frustration get to them when they start going backwards and spew off.

2009 - Was able to get to 2x on Day 1 without playing a pot of consequence, then lost half-way through Day 2 in a standard big pot/spot.

2010 - flew straight form Cairo to Vegas, was pissing out my arse and puking, then got sicker, decided to play Day 1D, felt horrible, played horrible. Literally could not remember the action in some hands. Bounced early Day 2.

2011 - Think I was ~3x after Day one after a French kid who'd been getting 3-bet/4-bet a fair amount decided 6-betting 99 against my AA was a good idea. Bad table draws, got beat up a bit Day 2 & 3, but got a couple good all-ins then surived an iffy push near bubble to min-cash.

2012 - My standard uneventful 2x after Day 1, bounced half-way through Day 2 in pretty meh/standard spots.

You disturb a pharaoh's tomb or something?

It's a whole other story, but basically going #1 out your #2 hole tends to happen for stretches when you spend time in Africa. Don't think I **** solid for 3-4 days before arriving in Vegas.

The puking came in part from drinking/playing too much beer pong at Durr's 4th of July Party after travelling for 24 hours straight.

The haze was I was feeling better every day for the couple days leading up to Day 1D, and of course as soon as I plunked down the $$ the afternoon before, it started to go South

I got massively sick at PCA the one year I played it too, some bug going around that I caught at the Pokerstars Party the night before I think (other people came down with the same). At least I got a decent cash in that one to ease the pain.

Hope you do well in the main ! Will follow. Fun to see players crushing for years!

loved the events stories in post #316

so ridic, wasnt even born in those days

Such a sicko grinding In between days 2/3. Wish I took lessons on work ethic from you back in Henderson house instead of playing Chinese, peggle and eating medical chocolate

Sorry I was a lousy beer pong/foosball partner...my bad...

Get a best finish this year in main plz!

That's right, forgot we were partners that night. I remember not playing well, maybe my stomach was disgusted with the performance on the tables

Busted from the Main, was a pretty interesting day. Had very good relative position at my table for accumulating without playing huge pots, and got up to 300k after the first break (hitting a lot of hands). People on my left kept busting, but it was always a passive-ish/amateur-ish person sitting down to my left, so things stayed good.

Down to 150k (), back up to about 250k when I played my most intersting hand. Open to 4,800 in MP, get flatted, newer ~50ish Eastern Euro gentleman over-3-bets me in CO to 20k flat. He's playing about 180k. Hasn't been at the table for much more than an orbit, and nothing of note has happened.

I have AA and the sizing is awesome cause we have a chance to go bet-shove on the flop, etc. if things go well. I 4-bet to 48.5k. He has most of his stack in yellows (1k) and blues (500), but not too many ante chips (100s). He thinks for about 90-120 seconds and calls.

A-Q-Q flop. I'm behind

Lost QQ<AKs next hand to shortstack, then lose another hand I opened. Down to 20k, TT>77 to 40ish, was able to steal up to 60k and then shoved 99 for 20 Bigs over an open and call, and new (1st hand) at table ~70 year-old gentleman who only has orange (5k) chips and a few yellow takes 5 seconds to flat in BB for close to half his stack. Doh (yes, AA).

My favorite part is I felt zero tilt/reaction after the AA<QQ hand, figured out what my stack was, and played the next hand (albeit after a 20 minute break). AK>QQ with an Ace on the River, figured out what my stack was and played the next hand, meh. You see so many people get frustrated and tilt off what still can be a super-valuable short-to-mid stack (at least for a good player). My goal coming in was to have a winning performance on the hand I was in, including paying attention to the other players at the table after folding a hand, then reset and do the same on the next. Think I did a pretty good job in that regard.

At least I get to use my ticket for Giants at Padres on Saturday. Heading to Norcal next week, going to be up in Tahoe for the Celebrity golf weekend which is always a blast. Do some drunk -$EV gambling with friends, play a few $40 SNGs, and maybe jump in the $3/5 game against some NBC executives if I feel like playing any semi-real poker.

Dang gg man, was fun rooting for ya. Kind of confused, villain flopped quads on the AQQ hand?

pretty sick about the boat v quads flop, i always thought live wasnted rigged

also not sure if you answered this but did you grind any sngs while out there, and thoughts on grindin those over online for a month?