Aww that's a bit of a spoiler I see a heater coming in the future of my thread reading lol.. but yeah they actually do during mid days have a good 5/10 going in the prime time hours mostly full of regs with occasional new blood from time to time that's just there to gamble their chips away because they're there to "have fun" and waiting for the daily tourney..

Btw choctaw wpt series is coming up 2 mil gtd main event I believe $3.5k+200 buy in.. I don't go too often but it's been a fish pond when I have so might **** around with the deep stack tourney next weekend which on top of the payouts 1st gets main event seat..

13 hours a day for 41 straight days ? I don't get it, no way are you going to be able mentally to pull this off, but screw it, I'll go to the looney bin with you, I'm down with this thread !

I'm in Vegas for the duration of the WSOP, so I can't check anything out until after that... So I'm pretty sure that rules out the Choctaw WPT, right?

There are 48 days, I'm playing 41 of them, and need to average just under 11 hours. I'm glad you're down with it either way, though! I'm definitely shipping the 450 hours!

Yeah July 16-Aug 4th. . 2 mil gtd main event July 31st-Aug 4th

Choctaw WPT is after WSOP ME so no reason to rule it out.

As for Winstar, 5/T runs Thursday-Sunday for sure and possibly on the other days as well. During the WSOP the 5/T will be soft as butter but aside from that it's really hit or miss (lately, been a lot more misses than hits though as there have been an influx of grinders coming from OKC casinos and Dallas home games in addition to the regular grinders that play the game). 2/5 is good though.

In Colossus Flight A I lost most of my stack with QQ < AK all-in pre flop. I shoved A9 for my last few big blinds and got snapped off by AJ.

In Flight B I got it all-in pre flop with AA vs. Q6 and A9. I did not hold.

Two more bullets to go!

0/3... Ran KK into AA. One more shot.

Cawmawn cooz!

Thanks man.

Down to 7bb on my last Colossus bullet. Running brutally bad.

Meanwhile a girl just opened to 4x for 20% of her stack with AhQh and checked every street on a KhJh8x Th Jd board. Then she asked if there was a bonus for a royal.

Please don't let me go 0 for 4 on bagging chips in this field.

High hand tho at least right??

Lmao

You should ask for her digitz yo

I'm out. 0/4. Took a bad beat to chop with AJ when I had AK. Huge raise pre. 3 calls. QJTr. I bet she calls. Turn Q. I bet enough to commit her she calls. River K. I jam, she puke calls thinking I rivered her somehow (figure out a hand she beats on the turn and doesn't at least chop the river lol). I ran two huge bluffs that worked, was otherwise card dead mostly. I soul read a guy and jammed thin for value, got called and had him pipped. But, it wasn't enough. I resteal squeezed 15bb in a perfect spot after being spot dead for hours, got called and my QT couldn't crack TT.

0/4 on the Colossus but I'm beasting the cash games and my confidence is very high.

In the interest of saving time while in full grind mode, I'm not really going to type up many reports or hands, but I'll make a post like this one every now and then. I am also not even attempting to keep an eye on grammar, spelling, etc, so if my post quality is down a little, you'll have to suffer through it... I can't be losing too much grind time during the trip out here!

Colossus

Reflecting on all four flights of the Colossus, I might have made five mistakes. One probably wasn't in the long run and three were very marginal.

Two were the same play - I had AK high, was highly confident my opponent was weak, and was being laid a really good price on the turn with an option to jam or call. I decided to call. In both cases, the opponent was bluffing with an underpair, I bricked the river, and it went check-check. This could be a little results oriented, but I do believe a jam was the most +EV play in both spots. It folds out the bluffs that beat me, and it gets value from draws that call off - but does pay off very oddly slow-played hands that make no sense given the action. I was trying to lessen my variance a little bit, but I should have embraced it in this event. I had a similar situation in Flight D, ripped it in, and the villain folded. Sometimes these extreme novices take really weird lines that are hard to get used to exploiting.

One was heroing off with a pocket pair and two overs out because I was trying to soul read an opponent that looked terrified. I knew they felt weak, but I underestimated how much they would s*** themselves over pushing all-in with top pair weak kicker, because, you know, it's the WSOP. This is the one I'd really like to have back, but it was a small pot.

One was calling off A6 in what is probably only a slight mistake. One villain opened to 2x, I 3bet light to 4.4x on the button, and the SB jammed about 17x. On the one hand, it's a cold 4bet, and I could range it very narrowly. On the other hand, my raise was small and could be perceived as really weak, and I only needed around 35% equity. I ran some ranges and came up with about 33%, so it was a small mistake. It didn't cripple my stack or cost me any fold equity with regard to my stack size, either.

Finally, I hero folded AA in a spot that it's never supposed to be good and with a soul read that the villain had a monster. The trouble is, she thought QT (no spade) was a monster on a QsJs6s5x board. I made a big pre flop raise, the flop checked through and I bet the turn. She made a significant raise, was totally calm despite being a nervous wreck throughout the tournament, and when I asked her to show, proudly turned it over like it was the stone cold nuts. Right physical read, and I can't say I thought highly of her game, but I didn't think she was quite clueless enough to value raise QTo no spade there. She's the one who later sucked out to the chop with AJ vs my AK on the QJTQ board, so despite not believing in the "find a better spot," mentality, I did end up having about an 85% chance of getting all of her chips anyway a couple hands later. In the long run, in this spot, it's going to be the right fold with the AA, so I can't beat myself up.

Odds and Ends

That aside, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that I played damn near my A game and MORE than well enough to bag not just a respectable stack, but a deep stack, in all four flights. I just didn't run good at all. It is what it is, and I ran fine in cash games around town and crushed it pretty hard in between Colossus flights, so I'm still having a great week dollar wise. I've just always been a huge fan of the WSOP, so cashes and bracelets do mean something to me, and it hurt a little losing my last bullet in this one and knowing that probably my best shot (given the four bullets) was gone.

I also know that playing cash the whole time was very likely way more +EV, and I'm seriously considering reducing my tournament schedule. Barring shipping a final table or something on the next one I play, I'm unlikely to play more than three more. Coming in I was considering the Milly Maker, Monster Stack, Extended Play, Little One, 777, and the Main, and possibly firing multiple bullets in a couple depending on how things were going.

I still plan on playing the Main, and 2 out of the Milly, the Monster and the Extended play, but there's virtually no chance I play the Little One or the 777.

The Railbirds

I played in some cash games that had a ton of railbirds around them, despite no famous names at the table. Both times I was in the biggest NLHE game in the room in terms of action/stacks, and it was weird to have 10-15 people crowded against the rail to watch, and hearing them talk quietly about me and others at the table. I'm paranoid about someone seeing my cards from the rail and signaling, so I didn't like that, but the energy from the whole thing was pretty cool.

That said, I may be hunting for different games/atmosphere at other locations in the coming days for a variety of reasons.

Famous Names

I'm sure I played with some bracelet winners and what not that I didn't recognize, but I did also play with T.J. Cloutier, Rep Porter and Athanasios Polychronopoulos. All of them were nice and carried themselves well at the table. It was kind of funny seeing people stumble over themselves to get pictures with Cloutier, but at the same time, the Colossus had a ton of fans moreso than serious players, so I hope they enjoyed themselves and I credit him for being very gracious.

I don't think anyone else at the table recognized Rep or Athanasios, and I tried not to blow up their spots on that. I was sitting next to Athanasios, and had a nice chat with him - awesome player, good dude, great story teller too.

I also heard an awesome story about Stu Ungar from a dealer, but I'll save that for later.

I also played with a bracelet winner in the cash games who didn't carry himself well, so, I just won't name him. I'm not going down that road, and most of you probably haven't heard of him anyway. Maybe he was just salty because I took him for a couple big pots.

Roadside Twisters

That funnel cloud story really plays well at the table, but it's still a little too painfully fresh to be glad that I have it in the story arsenal .

Running So Bad It's Funny

Today in 5/10 I got one outed, five outed, and coolered for the worst session of my career. I called it a day early, and did some chores around the house.

Tonight, Sequel was screwing around in a freeroll watching some TV, and then went into the money and was stuck just playing it. I told him to let me jam AA for him, and I'd get him broke. We laughed. He got AK two hands later, I said let me hit the call button after the button jammed. I leaned over, hovered over the touch pad, and clicked call.

Sequel: AK
Button: 76

Flop: 682

We laugh, and I say, "See, I told you!"

Turn: A

Sequel goes, "Ohhh!"

The poker software freezes for about five seconds, and I point to the spot the river will be dealt like the grim reaper and say, "SEVEN!"

River: 7

We laughed for about five minutes straight.

Sequel confirmed busto.

Running Worse

I was getting my swipe on on Tinder and came across a really hot girl with a great profile... I show Sequel, he offers to hit the like button so I'll run better... I say no, I got this. I hit it...

I'm out of likes for the day.

Damn yo. Hopefully you know an awesome guy who went to Syracuse who could potentially stake you.

Sequel confirmed NOT busto. Not even close.

He doesn't need it, though.

Pretty sure the confirmed busto statement was a joke since he was playing a free roll online

I think this as well. lol

Of course it was a joke.

Yeah, probably, but if I don't say it's not true, some people may think it's serious...

On the poker front, I played what has to be my biggest cash pot to date (over $5,200), and played deeper than I've played before (700bb). It's amazing how much the game changes from 200bb to 500+bb. Suddenly things that are "always" -EV can arguably be +EV.

I feel like I've learned a lot about Vegas, how to handle different elements of the WSOP, and the routine, which I can use while I'm here this year and again in future years.