linus will confirm this

You have literally described what I was trying to describe, completely agree! They are absolutely insufferable and miserable to play with.

Fun fact, I am literally world class at Tomb Raider I and II. And Super Mario All Stars.

Is this an actual game?!

lmfao to be fair if I had mucked 45s I would have realised my mistake after and never ever ever ever told anyone ever.

The amount of hours you have done with PIO will confirm 45s = stones.

Haha the only thing I've got in common with Linus tbh

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So my last update was after a Saturday afternoon sesh. I went in at midnight on Saturday coz I couldn't sleep, and I lost 4.1k. I then went in today (Monday) early doors and lost 3.2k. I then went back in this evening (still Monday) and booked a 2.6k win. I really need to get back to logging hands because I can never remember hands after I've played em, need to start logging em. All of the above was 5/10, I haven't been playing well lately so don't wanna play higher when not on my A game. The 2 sessions I lost back to back I played really poorly if I'm honest. Calmed down a bit when I went back in tonight and played better.

Today I woke up really early coz my Airbnb owner's parents have come in from China for a few months. I love staying with them but fuuuuuuuck me they are loud as **** at 8am in the morning, absolutely no ****s given shouting and screaming at each other over breakfast etc. I got up and went to Commerce. So I'm playing table 28, and table 34 is godly. I am top of the list for table change, chip runner comes across and offers me table 33. I say "no thanks man I only want table 34". Somebody then moves from table 34 to table 33, so there's a seat open at 34. The chip runner then sheepishly shuffles over and quietly tells an American reg that there's a seat open at 34. I'm in a hand etc and when I'm done I go over and ask why I didn't get the seat. Chip runner is like oh ahh err erm coz you said you didn't want to move so you go to the bottom of the list. I'm like yeah that's just not true and we go to ask floor lady who's right and she is like I have no idea, so the absolute legend chip runner Jeremy comes over and we both explain and Jeremy is like wtf man to the other chip runner and confirms that I'm right. Chip runner who thought I go to the bottom of the list has been there for fkn years and obv knows the way it works, so tilting. I didn't get to move tables coz like 5 mins had passed but I didn't make a big deal I just smiled and thanked all 3 of them and went back to my seat.

I left Commerce at around 2pm and went to the bottom of the Hollywood Sign hike. Had a really sick 2.5hr hike up and down the hill. It's the 3rd time I've done it and it's truly awesome. Went back down the hill and got Uber home, slept in the Uber all the way back and then came in and went to bed with the mixture of my sweat and my sunscreen lathered into a lovely paste keeping me warm. Was the best 3 hour nap I've ever had.

Woke up, went into Commerce, was up about 1.1k and in my very last hand a new UK reg bluffed me for stacks and I made the call and we won to put us up to +2.6k for the sesh!

Got 6 more days of grinding hard in the Commerce before going to the beach for a few days, and then ****ing Veeeegaaaaaassssss!!

Never played live but I want to imagine you going on a hike, getting sweaty, waking up, straight to the Casino, sit down dirty as **** and stare down people that give you looks about your appearance.

Haha it goes without saying after I woke up I had a mammoth shower!

Won $850ish today, should've been about $3k. The game was great today, really genuinely awesome. I don't know why but past 4 or 5 days I have been playing really badly. Loose, spewy, calling rivers way way way too thin etc. I'm not looking for ideas why it's like this, and I know what I need to do to revert back to playing solid poker. I need to get my ass into the casino, sit down and focus as best I can on not being a ****ing idiot. Tomorrow we bring our A game!

Didn't log any hands again today but had a couple of really interesting things happen at the table. Firstly a wild hand, I'm pretty sure this is roughly how it went down...

A few limps, the whale of the table raises to 125 in sb, T (solid euro reg I talked about before) makes it 400 in bb.

800 in the pot. AQ3r. Whale donks small, T calls.

1300ish. 7x. Whale checks, T bets half pot, whale calls.

2.5k. Ax. Whale donks small, T jams. 20 people crowd round the table for this huge pot. Whale takes 5 mins and calls. T taps the table and mucks. Whale shows 88 and scoops this huge pot

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A couple of hours later and this whale is raising every hand to like 100. I overlimp/backraised ATs to 750 and scooped 600 pre, and at one point during a round of blind 20s (no straddle at Commerce), I completed from SB w A6o, he makes it 175 in BB, straddle calls, MP limper calls and it folds round to us and we drill it in and everyone folds. I love the drill w A6s, he's never calling and nobody else is either. So anyway a new whale to the table limps, we'll call him calling station whale, spewy whale from above raises to 100 or smtg, T makes it 275, station whale calls, spewy whale calls. Flop is 9 high 2 diamonds one spade, checks round. Turn Js, spewy whale bets 200, T calls, station whale makes it 400, they both call. River small spade and spewy whale snap jams for like 3k total. T is next to act and while he's thinking station whale (who is a suuuuuuuuuper nice guy btw) is clearly folding and is chatting to other ppl at the table. T says that he has a small flush. Spewy whale asks him if he wants to see a card. T obv says yes but that there's another guy in the hand too. Spewy whale says it's okay and that he'll show the other guy too. T then points at a card and says "okay so I can see this card?" The whale is a few beers deep but defo sober enough to be accountable for what he's saying. The whale says that he will show one card so T turns over the card he pointed too. It's a fkn red 9. T snap calls and scoops a huuuuge pot with like 45ss or something. A couple of regs down our side of the table start murmuring that T did something wrong, but the whale 1000000% said that he could see the card. Afterwards the whale started complaining that T turned over his card and didn't show the other guy in the hand, but the other guy definitely saw it and imo T did nothing wrong. Whales gonna whale.

Another fun hand involving station whale. Like I say he was an absolute legend. So there's a euro reg in S6, really well known guy and former PGCer, we'll call him D. Whale is S7, South American reg S8 and GazzyfockinB s9. South American reg is a lovely guy as well, and he always plays at the same table with his gf, idk if they are chopping up after or w/e but anyway she's S4. Every time station whale wins a pot she is squealing really loudly "yaaaaaaaaaaay!!!" and clapping her hands, in a far too patronising way for my liking. Station whale is loving life at the table and constantly laughing and smiling and stuff. So anyway me, D and station whale get into a pot and station whale stacks us both for 4k pot, I win a little sidepot off of D but nothing major. Station whale the absolute legend that he is tips the dealer $300, she nearly falls out of her chair, and he smiles and says "rebate!" and chucks me and D $100 each. We of course tell him he's an absolute legend for even contemplating it but we ofc can't accept. The chick in seat four honest to ****ing god pipes up with "hey seat 7 what about me?!" and he smiles and chucks her a $100 chip. She's not even in the fkn hand. She actually takes it and puts it on top of her stack. Her bf in S8 is mortified and is like "fkn give that back now." and she's like "no i'll buy him a beer." He was like "Give it back, now." Thank **** she gave him the $100 back coz that was ****ing outrageous of her.

S7 was swinging up and down coz he legit couldn't fold a pair and he kept saying how he really needed to cash out and sleep coz he'd been awake for 3 days and he needed the money in front of him etc. Me, D and S8 literally racked him up and sent him on his way to the table's frustration. He was hand on heart the most lovely man I've ever met at a poker table, I was delighted seat 4 didn't get to rinse any more money out of the guy.

Fun times in the Commerce!

Most fun game ever! Was a great day with SpazzyB123!


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loving the stories as always man. S4 would've tilted the **** out of me, good on you guys for the way you handled it. whale is an absolute legend

In the write up it doesn't look like the whale confirms that he'll show that exact card. Also would never touch someone else's hand unless they explicitly told me too. Again, maybe he did, but it didn't seem like it in the story

story checks out

Will reply properly to the above messages. Took yesterday off and getting ruined today, down just under 5k. Got a fantastic uncle Pete story tho.

So I'm s1 and he is s2. Mid hand that neither of us are involved in, he calls over a floorman. Floorman Jim comes over and Uncle Pete points at me and says "we gotta get this guy outta the game." Me and floorman both look at him and he goes "This Asian only table, he not Asian, kick him out!" As uncle Pete is bellowing with laughter I look around the table and every single person is Asian, even the dealer. I say "what you talking about Pete?! I'm Chinese!" As he howls with laughter I say one of the 3 Chinese phrases in the world that I know and point at him and say "Ho Pan Yao!" It means good friends. He is absolutely loving it.

Floor goes away and I lean into the dealer and say "we gotta stick together dealer, we are the only white guys at this table." and uncle Pete just about ****ing dies

Lolol Pete the legend

Sitting in the Commerce happy as Larry and about 5 tables behind us we hear a commotion. 2 guys are squaring up to each other. Another guy comes rushing across and gets in between the two and tells them to calm the fk down. One of the guy lamps the guy in the middle. The guy in the middles mate from nowhere lamps that guy and before you know it there are four guys smashing **** out of each other, while a couple of fat security guys waddle over to break it up. Floor managers are jumping in and a couple of noble strangers are breaking it up etc.

I can just about understand the violence, people get upset when they lose what they can't afford to and when you factor in cocky winners, you can just about understand why it kicks off. My question is this; why on earth do 100 strangers start jumping on chairs and tables and start howling and screaming and taking so much joy in 4 strangers punch the **** outta each other?

Just curious like!

Murrica! There seem to be a lot of fights at the LA casinos. I guess just a bunch of dude bros out there

Hahah vintage murica

Because the intellect of the average casino patron is below average


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Saw your post about the sunglasses at poker table. Completely agree haha.

You should get a shirt that says "Sunglasses make you a better player" for the tilt factor

Legit lold, this needs to be printed

played with gazzy the other night. what a pleasant guy to have at the table. even though he was running bad he still had a good attitude and joked around, despite being so miserable it looked like he might go off jump off a cliff, if a cliff had been handy to jump off. luckily the nearest cliff is like 40 miles away.

i did get an excellent needle in on him if i do say so myself..... gazzy ordered some kind of chopped salad, which is actually pretty great for casino food. it's not bad at all. but the baller sitting next to him ordered ubereats or something and had food delivered from outside, and he was saying "yeah, i just don't like the quality of the food here" as he bit into his whatever baller food he ordered. and i say "yeah man, especially those chopped salads they serve here. just terrible quality" as gazzy is taking a bite of his chopped salad.

also, i think he lost some weight. he looks great!


gazzy, do you remember the insane meal you ordered a year or two ago? i took a picture of it i was so impressed. it was something like spaghetti with extra cheese, fries with cheese, and one or two other things with cheese

Mr SpazzyB, please stop being a nit and update the thread like we are used to.
Thanks in advance,
b1o

The fight stuff defo isn't a Murica thing, it happens in the UK. Was just curious for thoughts on it!

filthyvermin's needle was so good I actually started explaining to him that he was needling me without realising it, then I realised that he knew what he was doing yes I definitely remember. I asked the server lady for mac and cheese and that's what she brought me hahaha. One day you can post the pic in this thread, but not yet pleasure seeing you as always, will most likely be back in LA mid-July!

Haha I do apologise!

Trip updates were great at the start coz I was logging hands, I will 100% get back to that when I get to Vegas. I'm up about 20k so far, ran really well since the beginning and really grateful for that! I'm currently in Venice Beach area. The man, the myth, the legend Welshgaz arrives today and we're gonna chill for a day or two before going to fukkin VEGAS on Friday! It's gonna be so sick, I can't wait. Staying with welshgaz, everest17, wj294, hu4hoes and bbissick over the course of the summer, all top lads! Will also see all the old faces, bilesy, max85 etc etc etc too.

I went to lie on the beach today and I was a bit disappointed because it was pleasantly warm but not roasting hot, there was a nice breeze coming in from the ocean. Obv it was scorching and the breeze made it deceiving. I am now so sunburnt I can't sleep painful stuff. Not much else to report, had a couple of things going on over the past week, very grateful to all my skype pals for lending their advice as ever. All sorted now tho, and we're ready to kick on and crush this WSOP!

Back to poker updates in a few days

Edit - ****! Forgot to say. The other day I was playing with filthy in a really sweet 10/20 game. I was stuck 9k in the first hour and managed to book a very pleasing $320 win. I played a great hand, Asian American reg opens UTG whilst playing on his phone, Armenian Mike calls +1 and we sqz AQo on the btn. Only Mike calls. Flop is J85hhx (we have no hearts). We cbet 70% pot, Mike calls. Turn Jx goes x/x. River brick and I look up and he's staring at me. I catch his eye and look away and he bets 2k into 1350ish. I look back at my cards and have mammoth Jx blockers and give him the two teale chip call after about 20 secs. He sheepishly rolls over A4hh and nobody at the table gave me any respect at all. I was abbbbbbsolutely buzzing with myself tho so made my hand into a little gun and started going "pcckww-pcckwww-pckwww-pcckkwwkwkkw!"

Double edit - for those that don't know, Armenian Mike has basically been exiled from the poker scene in LA coz of this...



Triple edit - the 10/20 is a 'timed game'. We all pay $6 every 30 mins and pots aren't raked. We do a 'collection pot'. The left-most card OTF determines which seat number pays. Some players at the table just pay their own time. I like to "buy their time" to speed up the whole process (it's obv neutral EV so it doesn't matter). So if I'm seat 5 and seat 6 wants to pay his own time, I buy his time and if left most card is 5 or 6 then I pay time for the table. So at the very first collection pot of the session Mike wants to pay his own time and when I tell the dealer I want to buy it, for reasons unbeknown to man Mike insists nobody is allowed to buy his time. I laugh coz he is surely joking but apparently he's being dead serious. I subtly say "oh you're serious? Sorry, I thought you were making the joke with me." A very subtle reference to the above video

Please allow me to pontificate on how to properly worship the sun in the state of California. Stay in the shade between the hours of 10am and 430pm. You will get burned by the almighty star's powerful rays. In the early morning and late afternoon hours most of the harmful UV rays are blocked by having to come into the atmosphere at an angle and the beneficial rays seep in. And while at the beach the sand reflects the sun, so even in the shade you are at peril of getting burned. Get some aloe vera gel for your burned skin to help cool and relieve it.

No aloe vera, ima take my punishment LIKE A MAN!!!! Back into the sun tomorrow, maybe a lil sunscreen this time

Selling 33% of WSOP $1500 6max @1.2 markup. I might sell another 17% but I very much doubt I will. Can take cash, stars or uk bank!

Will just pick and choose my timbeys this year as I go along, and sell accordingly! God I can't ****in wait.

10%

18% gone gone gone

btw nobody send yet, pls wait til i confirm xoxo

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