Hello there, I am MISTERCOCKBLOCK. 30 years old, 4 years completely sober and currently living in Las Vegas (doing **** backwards.) I was born and raised in San Diego, (Encinitas) California. I have been playing poker for a living for just over 4 years and It has aged me like 25 ****ing years (grey hairs are taking over.) Don't get me wrong I love the game with all my heart, but my god, this game can be a cruel bitch! Who am I kidding, I've loved every minute of this journey. Anyway I wanna start this thread with a little background into who I am and what I have been thru in the past, so lets flashback a lil bit to 2007.

I'm 22 years old and single, living in a nice 2 bedroom house with my brother in Encinitas, Ca. At this point of my life I have a pretty strong love of Vodka and cocaine! I am banging just about any female that will give me the time of day and loving every second of it. I am working for my Dad's Tile company and making 13.00 an hour, but I hate the work.

One summer night in July me and three friends somehow ended up at a sports bar in Del Mar, Jimmy O's. We are all wasted at this point (Vodka/Diet Peach Snapples and plenty of lines), the last thing I remember was smoking a cig outside and trying my best to break up a fight.....then I woke up in ICU at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla. I ended up getting jumped by 3 dudes, who did a number on me! I spent 5 days in ICU and a total of 11 days in the hospital. They pounded my head into the sidewalk so many times that I fractured my skull 14 inches across and had hemmorraging of the brain. I guess my blood/alcohol level in the ambulance on the way to ICU was 3.2, which is just absurd!

The accident started a chain reaction of events that would change my life forever and bring me to where I am now. After the accident, I was put on disability for months, which made my drinking habits 100x worse. I was getting blackout drunk about 5 days a week for the next 4 years and practicing unsafe sex at least once or twice a week. I was getting kicked out of bars on a regular basis, drinking and driving all the time, and a lot of my friends were getting so sick of my **** that it seemed they would only hangout with me or want me around if I brought a bunch of sluts around. I was truly becoming quite a dirtbag, so much that I ended up getting a tattoo right above my penis that reads "...and I slay chicks," which was an inside joke with a couple of my friends. I was such a tool back then, so proud of my sexual escapades! I eventually ended up getting three DUI's from 2007-2011. They were all from minor traffic stops but the 3rd one came with a hefty 6 month jail sentence (among other things.)

When I was in jail I had all the time in the world to think about how my lifestyle was killing me and ruining my life, I needed to come out of jail a better man, so I made the choose that the only way that was possible is if quit drinking and doing drugs. During my horrible time in jail I grew a lot, maybe it was listening to all the young toolbags who were trying to be "HARD" and make a name for themselves by jumping people and bragging about how many drugs they plan on doing when they get released, but I knew I wanted out of that lifestyle that had been haunting me since I first started drinking back in High School. During the 4 months I was in jail, I had a couple friends die from heroin overdoses, which I found out about via letters from friends. It was pretty surreal finding out of your friends passing away while you're locked up in jail because it seems like "outside life" is worlds away. While I was really sad to learn of my friends passing away, it really made me realize that I was making the right choice by getting sober.

I made it through my 4 months in jail and I was excited to be back in the real world, the first thing on my mind was to have sex! It had been 4 months since I even seen a girl that wasn't working at a court or jail, so lucky for me a "FWB" let me have some fun for a minute or two hahaha. After a week or two of getting used to living my new life and catching up with some friends who I had missed, I was back to work for my dad's company. It was good to get some normalcy back into my life, but during this time I was also watching a lot of poker on TV and getting really into it.

This lead to me having a bunch of dreams of me winning some major tourneys for crazy life-changing money, which gave me the urge to take my hard earned money down to the local cardroom and try to bink some nightly donkfests! I had some instant success, randomly playing tiny stakes donkfests and grinding 2/2 and 2/3 cash at Oceans Eleven in my freetime from my 9-5 job. After 3 months of my part-time grinding I built a nice little roll and I when I added the roll with the money I had from my 9-5 and decided to quit my job and focus on poker and just grind live cash for a living.

Fast forward to present time and I'm still grinding! I met some cool people and made some good friends from playing poker, even got to travel all around the US grinding cash in different poker rooms all over. Its been a blast, I even moved out to Vegas two years ago to be with my GF and to grind out here and I'm still sober and loving the sober life! When I first started playing, I really wanted to focus on tourneys and travel the circuit, just grinding tourneys but I got so into cash games that I kinda pushed away my goals to breakthrough via tourneys, until now! I have only played a handful or two of tourneys since late 2013 and even then the tourneys I played were never over $400 with the exception of 2014 WSOP Monster Stack, so from here on out my goal is to work my way up the tourney ladder and come 2015 WSOP I will be able to play my first major tournament package, hit some nice scores and start focusing on buying a house and figuring out where I want to raise a family and **** like that.

I will update this with some cash sessions here and there but also will use this to post tourney updates, progress on my goals and just random life crap. Feel free to ask any questions and I'd be more that willing to give you clowns some advice, if needed. Enjoy the ride!

Played a very quick 1/3 session tonight at Wynn. Pretty boring table and nothing too interesting besides the first hand I played.

I bought in for $500 and had actually had 3/4 of the table covered. One Euro guy had about $950 and another nitbag old reg had about $800. I had just sat down and was planning on playing ABC for the first couple orbits to get a feel for the best way to play at this table. 3 hands into sitting down I get this hand:

Hero ($500): J J

Two limps to hero in hijack, who makes it 15. Folds to SB ($250) who calls and the two limpers folded.

Flop ($39): J 9 5

Villain instantly donks 28, Hero tanks and min-raises to 56. This board is way too wet for Villain to ever fold to a min raise and obv if he has a draw of any sort, this could induce him to put in another raise and hopefully his whole stack. To my happiness, villain tanks and shoves in his remaining 220ish, I snap.

Turn: T
River: T

Villain tables A A

I stack him for a $505 pot. He played Aces about as bad as possible and quickly reloaded for $300. I thought he would spew off a bunch after how he played that hand but he ended up playing pretty nitty for the next hour I was at the table. The table ended up being way too boring and depressing so I got up after about 1.5 hour of playing and went home +275.

I want to start getting into tourney mode in time for the WSOP so I think I'm gonna play some of the upcoming Wynn Classic so I can get used to the long ass torturous days of the tourney grind!

PBBBBT Good night.

Oh yea I forgot to let everyone know that my overall poker goal for 2015 is to have at least 100k in tourney cashes for the calendar year. I have only played two tournaments so far this year and I'm 1/2 with a measly $450 min cash in the LAPC $240 500k guarantee. So that means I have a little longer than 9 months to make $99,550 in tourney cashes. HAHAHA looks like I need to get my ass in gear, good thing I'm motivated as hell and ready to start putting in work and crush my goal!

Just got done with short 2 hour session at Bellagio 1/3. Bought in for 300 and cashed out for 550. Played a pretty funny hand where I check-raised the river for value with the 3rd nut flush on a double pair board, which I ended up getting piled on, I didn't expect the 3 bet shove but I ended going with my read and calling and being right. I'll be go into details in the next paragraph.

I had just tabled changed and had been running over the table with only one showdown. The table was super soft and full of fishy tourists with the exception of two young TAG wizardy kids, who both had been running pretty bad. This hand starts off with me checking back my BB with Q 7 with 5 limps behind me.

Flop ($19):
8 3 3
It's checks all the way through

Turn ($19):
8
Again, it checks all the way though and I'm certain nobody has an 8 or 3.

River ($19):
2
I hit my backdoor flush and since I'm certain nobody has a boat and my plan is to check raise anyone that decides to bet 44, 55, 66, 77 for value or maybe even small suited connected hearts like 56, 45, T9 etc of hearts for thin value. I check and villain in cutoff bets 20 with about 120 behind. It folds to me and I snap raise to 45. Villain snap rips in her stack in and it's 75 for me to call. I started the hand with $420 so I easily have her covered. I tank and start thinking of what she has.

I am 100% she doesn't have an 8 or 3 because she is type of player that would of bet the turn because she is too fishy to trap and wouldn't be able to contain herself with such a big hand without putting money in the middle on the turn. so her range is now narrowed down to small to middling pocket pairs and suited connected hearts like 45, 56, T9 etc. With my image and how I've been running the table over I'm pretty sure she thinks I am trying to blow her off hand with Ace high or a small pocket pair so her shove is intended to get me to fold.

I go with my read and call with Q 7 on a board reading:
8 3 3 8 2
She says flush and rolls over J T and I drag the pot.

I was pretty happy how that hand played out, as I pride myself by getting razor thin value when I have the chance. Thoughts?

Hey Mister, interesting story.

I live in Pacific Beach and loving it.

Subbed, GL!

Thanks RF!

Got some fun memories from some crazy nights in PB! Such a beautiful area and so close to the La Jolla Reefs (favorite area in SD.) Best of luck to you too!

Thinking about PB reminds me of the first and only time I've been slapped in the face! It was probably back in 2008, me and some friends were all out a bar on Garnet Ave (don't remember the name, haha) I got pretty haggard drinking vodka sodas mixed with the occasional shot of tequila. I ended up meeting some random girl who was with a big group of girls for a bachelorette party. Me and the girl seemed to on the way to another one night stand, when her stupid friend decided to ruin all the fun by causing some huge scene saying how I should get lost and let her friend spend time with all her other friends in the bachelorette party. This pissed me off and some words were exchanged and she ended up bitchslapping me right in the face, and I responded by throwing my drink in her face! One of the bouncers saw all of it go down and instantly kicked us all out. Don't remember too much after that but I never saw any of the girls again and had no idea how me and my friends got home. Haha good times!

Sounds like typical PB frat craziness .

Im a recovering addict too, but can still drink, smoke weed and play poker, I just cant pit as blackjack has been a serious issue for quite some time. Happy to say I havent pitted in 9 months and life has been great.

If you can hang with someone who is always stoned lets hook up and talk some poker and San Diego. Ill be out to Vegas Saturday to Monday or Tuesday.

I don't mind being around a little weed smoke at all! I actually love the smell. We can def get together and talk poker and other things. Where are gonna be staying and where do you normally play while in Vegas?

That is cool man. Ill be at the Rio and this is my first visit to Vegas in over a 15 years or so. I was a BJ and sport betting degen so was before my poker days which started at the Lake Elsinore Casino in like 2001.

Ill send u a PM..

Nice op and congrats on getting sober. Good luck man, subbed

Thanks spacehippie! GL to you too.

Played 2-5 at Bellagio today for about 4 hours. Lost 1k, it was an awful session. I ran like a blind amputee who has a wife that steals from him and has sex with his brother on a regular basis.

Flopped a set of deuces in a 3 way single raised pot and lost to flopped top pair. Folds to MP, he makes it 20, folds to me on button I call with 22. BB defends. OR is the effective stack at $225. Flop is 2TQ rainbow. They check to me and I bet 15 trying to induce a raise. BB calls and OR tanks and makes it 100 total, with only 120 behind. I tank and make it $220. BB snap folds and OR sighs and gives some stupid speech about how he thought I was weak and calls off. I get the T, T runout and he confidently flips over QJdd for runner runner bigger boat! NH SIR!!!!!

That hand mixed about 7 or 8 horrid run-outs made it a pretty forgettable session, but oh well at least I only lost two buy-ins.

Oh yeah, this really nice older gentlemen who was sitting directly to my right had breath that smelled like he has been sucking on a POOP-cicle for 6 hours, but that just added to all the fun! Doesn't anyone use mouthwash or chew gum anymore!?!

Had a pretty funny 1/2 session at Excalibur with a good friend of mine, and ended up making a smallish profit. I wanted to give you guys a hand that I played with my friend that had me really confused and see how you would of played the hand, I'd like to call this "WHAT THE F*@K WOULD YOU DO!?!?":

First let me give you the dynamics of how my friend plays when we are both at the same table; he plays like an absolute monkey yet he is an amazingly good thinking player who normally plays 5/10 NL, he also 3 bets me about 95% of the time and is obsessed with doing his best to outplay me. We are about 30 mins into this mega soft 1/2 game and he is already stuck 300 bucks and playing like a maniac. He rebuys for another 300 and is down to a stack of 220ish. I have about 150 in front of me to start this hand and have been running pretty bad.

Folds to UTG +2 who makes it 10. Folds my friend in the SB (lets call him Biff,) and he calls, I defend my BB with AJ.

Flop ($30):
AQ5
Biff donks 10, I call and UTG +2 tanks and folds.

Turn ($50):
6
Biff leads again for 25, I just call because i'm certain I have the best hand and don't wanna stop him from doubling me up on the river. At this point i'm putting him on airballs, maybe a flush draw at very best. He is visibly on monkey tilt and I think he is just gonna spew every river.

River ($100):
J
He snap bets enough to put me all in and says "Dude, save your money" which he has NEVER EVER said to me in a hand. Now i'm thinking he might actually have a hand, but I now have two pair and can beat a lot of his value betting range on the river, since he loves betting for thin value.

Knowing what I know about Biff's tendency to blow up against me and his current state of mind, WHAT THE F*@K WOULD YOU DO!?!?

Call

+1 no way I'm folding to a friend who pulls dat ****, did he miss his flush?

Was it the same table when I left? Man those $1 dollar chips must of looked huge for a $300 BI, lol.

The one dollar chips were on the limit table. All this monkeyness went on at the 1/2 NL table.

I ended up calling off with AJ (two pair) but I was beat, Biff had AQ for top two pair! I gotta remember that even tilting monkeys can pick up a real hand from time to time haha. Oh well.

Wow, yah us spewfishes get lucky sometime , next time he pulls that u are going to be really in a pickle, lol..

Somehow I think it still a profitable call considering how often that spazz likes to bluff. I guess I just had to give him some more chips so he could have some additional ammo to a spew across the whole table!

Haven't had a chance to play the last couple days, been busy dealing with some drama from my pathological-lying, passive aggressive, psychopath of a landlord (some of the worst people in the world live in Las Vegas). I wont bore you with the details but she is trying to screw me out of money she owes me and she is playing stupid and refusing to pay.

Anyway, me and my GF are going back to SD tomorrow for 4-5 days for my moms birthday party and to look for houses because we are moving after the WSOP in Mid-July (pretty excited to get out of Vegas!) Gonna also meet up with Rehabbing Fish while in SD and talk some business, he has got a some big things brewing and I'm looking forward to hear the latest!

Gonna get back to my tourney goals when I get back to Vegas next week, still have only playing two tourneys this year so I need to get my ass in gear and start chipping away at my goal for 100k in cashes for this year. Got a long way too go, but i'm so ready to take my game to the next level.

Gonna get some more Pics involved in this blog, so here are some pics from last month in SD and LA.

Bike Cash Out

Oceans Castles


More of the same


Random Lesbos for the fans!

Barney got some from this beast

LAPC 500k guarantee

Looking forward to meeting again down in San Diego.

Some impressive chip porn and an even more impressive rack .

TBT:

During "The Blackout Years" aka the time before I got sober, me and some friends were enjoying a nice summer day at the beach, of course we all were equipped with our 44oz super big gulps full of vodka and whatever else we decided to mix it with. Needless to say we were all enjoying the shenanigans and the barely legal views that a San Diego summer beach day had to offer.

Fast forward a couple hours and we had all somehow made it to a local mexican restaurant/bar to celebrate our friends 21st bday. Many tequila shots later we all thought the best place to continue this s*%tshow was the closest stripclub to Encinitas called "The Main Attraction" aka The Purple Church in Oceanside. Sadly, at this point my friend Casey and I were way too drunk to gain access to too all the ass and titties that were waiting for us inside. The bouncer was not impressed with our display of stumbling and slurring and told us to get lost.

At this point, it gets pretty blurry but somehow me and Casey end up at Oceans Eleven Casino. Next thing you know, Im sitting at a full 2/2 NL table and I'm so drunk I can't even see straight. When I'm looking at my cards, all I can see are blurs of color, yet somehow I remember raking a pot or two in midst of my drunken haze! Then, I get that awful feeling. It starts with spinning and lose of vision and then my mouth starts salivating like a fat man day dreaming about chilli-cheese fries. Then........BARRRRRRRRRRF! All over the table!!!!!!

The sudden release of alcohol and whatever food I had eaten in the few hours previous had me now feeling amazing yet pretty bummed as I notice that a lot of the puke that didn't land on the table actually landed on the lap of my jeans. I decide to relieve myself of my newly soiled jeans, exposing my free-balling lower half. Finally a security guard makes his way over and escorts me out of the casino, half naked. Somehow I didn't get banned from the casino and everytime I saw the dealer who was dealing at the time I puked, he couldn't stop laughing and telling me how that was the best thing that he has ever seen while dealing. Awwww the good 'ol days!

What is the most scummy thing you've ever done or been apart of at a casino? Lets hear some good ones!!!!

jesus dude, i drink a lot, but never that level of drunk publicly and im only 25.

i can see why some people have to pick either A) blackout drunk or B) stone cold sober, personally I can regulate my drinking super well and would never want to quit, i mostly only drink at the casino and im only there on weekends anyway.

at the poker table ill be drinkin vodka and some older dude will be like "yup been sober 5 years now!" and i always give my honest response...

"oh...wow" (In my head im thinking oh wow that really sucks)

so it was hard to see why people have to "go sober" for life until now upon hearing your blackout drunk story lol.

I can only speak for myself, but alcohol brought out the worst in me and I was consistently making horrible decisions like drinking and driving on a regular basis and banging random girls without rubbers! I'm lucky I never killed someone on the road or got any STD's. I am a lucky guy and getting sober was the best decision I've made to date. I would probably be dead or in prison if continued my stupid ways.

do you have more blackout stories?

the people of the internet love drunken tales, trust me