Good luck to you too. I busted my first bullet yesterday. Chipped up nicely waiting for a good spot vs. the table fish. I then flopped trips vs him with 57 and called massive bets on 545 and 2 turn like he did previously with one pair hands, but obviously this time he has K7...

Busted after getting in AT on BTN for 17bb over active HJ open and fish CO call with antes in play, but ran into HJs AQo.

To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm playing a second bullet. Starting with just 100bb leaves little wiggle room and I'm not enjoying it as much to warrant the $330. Like the first hand I played I already had half my stack in on the turn in a completely legitimate manner. I got a fold but I could've justifiably gotten it in there. So far in the opening events it's just been: loose big pot in cooler, proceed to wait for 3bet gii spot and bust. Meh.

We are back!! It's been a while since I updated this thread as I've been swamped at work and I've been travelling a fair bit. I actually got to go to Easter Island for a supernova conference, which was fantastic obviously. I played a bit online in the last couple of months but have not been running (or playing?) great, so lost a few hundo.

Yesterday I played a $75 satellite for a $3.4k Vegas 2017 package. It got 65 runners and I made FT with a mate who has been featured in this thread as a villain a few times. We both started FT with ~400k at 15k/30k with average around 350k, so we figured we should make some sort of arrangement. The package includes the travel to Vegas and accommodation, which is your own room but with two queen beds. So we decided if either of us happens to win it, the other gets the second bed for free.

Usually these FTs are primarily shove-or-fold, but when we got to 5-handed there was actually some room of post-flop play. I took advantage of the reluctance of the other players to get it in preflop by opening a lot of pots and applying pressure post-flop. It worked great and without any major flips I managed to chip up to 1.3M out of 3.2M in play. Better yet, my mate won a massive flip with AK vs Q5 on KJT against a solid player with another big stack, so going into final 4 we were 1-2 in chips!

I managed to increase the disparity between our stacks and the other two players after check-hero-calling on river with 85 on a T5324 runout, and we were officially HU after coolering third place with AQ>KQ. Immediately we stopped play to figure out a deal. We decided to split the room, he'd get the flight and I'd receive $600 from 2nd place and another $150 from him to pay towards my own flight (as he had 2M vs. my 1.25M). So not only do I get to go to Vegas again in 2017, I actually will have a roomie/teammate who is not a complete drooler! This is so much best-case scenario for this tournament it is crazy. I'm glad the both of us didn't got into major confrontations at the FT, but we definitely kept battling each other as much as the other players. It just happened to work out fantastically. Yay variance.


So given I'm going to WSOP 2017, I guess it's time to rebuild my roll!

Congrats! Great to have this confirmed to look forward to already as well

Yeah, it's a nice spot for sure. Plenty of time to schedule work around it and now I don't have to figure out whether I should go/pay the overhead of such a trip. Would highly recommend binking a package well in advance.

Gratz man! But seriously do you coach or something because you destroy these games! :P

Where do all these WSOP satties play at btw?

Oh, and stoked to see the thread will be alive again!!

Thanks! Kings Poker has this satty every six weeks, usually in Kensington. And no, I don't coach, although it's sometimes really difficult to keep myself from "informing" monkeys about some improvements. For example yesterday:

I just busted in 6th and it's the stone bubble now. There are basically two chipleaders (CL1 with 800k and CL2 with 500k) and three short stacks with ~150k. I don't know what happened pre, but flop is:

KJT

CL2 has bet 100k into a ~150k pot and CL1 has raised all in. CL1 basically is a player who bets big when he has a big hand (AQs 5 handed as massive chiplead vs. avg 20bb stacks? Let's open to 9bb UTG!). CL2 now has a decision to call off his remaining 350k on the stone bubble, with 3 (!) players <6bb. CL2 has quite a decision to make as he flashes K7 to the rail while he's thinking . After about a minute or so he calls!! CL1 has Q9 for a flopped straight (obviously) but the board runs out a flush and they chop it up, causing CL2 to cheer loudly.

Mind you, these are two players that have won this game regularly over the last few months...

Even when I lose, I win.
Got HU in a live game with bounty ($1340) still in. We chopped the money and decided if the person who wins is the bounty, he'll give the other $340 (and gets the remaining $1000). I ran 77 into 99 and lost, but he was the bounty so I made twice what I would have gotten had I won.

Will post some hands tomorrow.

So last night I picked up ~$700 in my regular $22 game after chopping HU for $350 and getting an additional $340 from my opponents bounty score. Pretty sweet score for 2nd place in a $1k gtd.

Usually I make a lot of chips without showdown because these players tighten up instead of opening up when the blinds get back. However, this time around was just pure rungood, I did not lose one flip:


Blinds 300/600, 7-handed

I open UTG with QT with ~60k behind. It folds to BB who is a friend and likes to play back but nothing wild. He 3-bets to 4k, with 40k behind. I'm in position so it's an easy call with such a small 3-bet.

Flop KJ3, pot 8.3k. Pretty good flop. Villain bets 5.2k, I raise to 16k. I'm ahead or flipping vs. his strongest hands and want to build a pot to jam any turn. He thinks for a bit and jams for 36k total. Not the greatest outcome, but I call of course. He shows JJ and I have ~40%.

Turn A
River T


Blinds 500/1000, 6-handed

UTG limps in, BTN limps in, SB complete and I check with K7.

Flop 764, pot 4k. Check to BTN who bets 2k with 20k behind. SB folds and it's up to me. I know BTN likes to bet and doesn't need a hand here at all after getting checked to. I'm big stack with a reasonable hand so I put him all in. He quickly calls with T8 and I only have 36%!

Turn 6
River 2


I get moved to another table with a bunch of droolers. Easier money for sure, but not as much fun as battling the group of young guys I hang out with.


The next hand bored me to death, but got everyone else pretty excited. Honestly, I did not bat an eyelid on the river, the whole hand is so zzz.

Blinds 4k/8k, 7-handed

I'm UTG with ~200k. Everyone is super tight as usual so I open A7 to 16k. CO, BTN call and BB completes.

Flop 575, pot 64k. BB checks and I c-bet 22k. CO and BTN fold and BB jams for ~50k. I obviously call and BB tables T5.

Turn 4
River 7


Then I lose a significant pot in a non-showdown hand where I tanked ages on river:

Blinds 5k/10k, 7-handed.

UTG (chipleader, seems to bet the strength of his hands, but no further reads) opens to 36k. I'm on BTN with AQ and 280k. I'm in position with a nice stack and don't see the need to get it in vs a nutted range so I just call.

Flop QT9, pot 87k. UTG bets 48k, I call.

Turn 6, pot 183k. UTG bets 48k again. This seems weak, but I've seen him string along someone with a set of aces by betting small, so I opt to call getting 5 to 1.

River 2, pot 279k. UTG now jams for 130k effective. I now have to figure out whether he does this with a missed draw, but I just don't have enough reads. It really could be either way. I would snap-call/fold vs. certain regs here. Eventually I fold to continue with a reasonable shoving stack, figuring his preflop sizing looks a lot like 88-AA, of which I only beat 88 or JJ. The latter makes sense if he has the heart to follow through, the prior seems super spewy. Later it turns out he had in fact 88. I gotta give him credit for the river jam, but pre-flop/flop/turn seems terrible.


On FT I find a double vs. the above player in for the night characteristically fortunate fashion:

Blinds 15k/30k, 5-handed

I'm on BTN with A6 with 350k and open to 75k. It's a straight shove, but I'm experimenting with pressuring with smallball a bit more, which is working out quite well in these spots vs transparant players recently. SB calls, BB folds.

Flop AQQ, pot 180k. SB quickly leads 50k, I sigh-call. Unlikely he has a queen here, it's more likely an ace of which a lot are better than mine. Still, random spew or draws is not impossible.

Turn 4, pot 280k. SB now leads 90k, and I shove for 200k total. Sure enough he calls with A9, so I have draw outs and flush outs.

River J


After he busts, I get HU, make the deal, and continue playing around 20bb deep. Villain is quite capable and starts jamming when we get shallower. Eventually I limp-call 77 for 15bb but run into 99. All's good though, since it turns out losing is much more profitable than winning

At the moment I'm observing with the Keck telescope on Hawaii but we're shut down at the moment due to clouds so I figure I might as well pen down some hands from last weekend. I played another $75 satellite to a WSOP package again, the same as the one I shipped last month. I did not make FT this time, but had some fun hands.

Just a 300bb pot...

Blinds 75/150, 8-handed

UTG opens to 325, MP calls, CO calls, I call on BTN with T8, BB calls

Flop A74, pot 1700. BB (likes to play big pots, but does not like to fold) leads out for 2250 , UTG and MP fold, CO calls. I like the A, which rules out a bunch of better flush draws that CO can have. BB does not have a flush draw for sure with this sizing. Given BB's tendencies I opt to call with CO still in, assuming I can win big if I make my flush.

Turn K, pot 8450. Quite clearly best card in the deck for me . BB continues for 1000 (like, seriously?), CO calls, I raise to 6500. Sure, it looks like a made flush, but BB is clueless anyway and I want more chips in the pot. BB calls, CO folds.

River 6, pot 22.5k. BB checks, I bet 7.5k, sizing small since he clearly did not like the flush coming in on the turn. He tanks for a while, and ships for 6k more!! I'm super confused since I don't think he has a better flush, but have no idea why else he'd ship here. Especially, since busting before the add on (same chips for half price, in 15 minutes), means he is out for good. I call, and he shows 44.

Good lord that was bad...


...but he is not the only one that has brainfarts

Blinds 100/200, 7-handed

I'm chipleader after that hand and we're so deep I'm desperate to get some hands in. Table is v. passive, so UTG with 68 feels like an open to me. I make it 500. BTN (older lady, supertight and bets her hand strength regardless sizing) calls, BB calls.

Flop Q93, pot 1600. BB checks and I cbet on the larger side with my medium flush, to 1200. BTN insta-raises to 6000 . It folds to me and I think she must have a better flush with this timing and sizing, given my experience with her. She clearly likes her hand. I'm an idiot and instead of calling to see what happens on turn I hero-fold, making it worse by showing my hand! She tables AA.... Her sizing was clearly intended to just shut down the hand.


Bogans gonna bogan

Blinds 200/400, 7-handed

HJ (reg, looks and acts like a bogan: 750ml VB bottle in hand) limps in. I'm on BTN with 22 and raise to 1300. BB (reg, pretty solid) calls, HJ calls.

Flop KJ4, pot 4100. Checks to me and I check behind.

Turn 2 , pot 4100. BB now leads for 2700, HJ calls. Raising here is a really weird line, but I can't give them a free card on such a wet board obviously. I raise to 8000, only the bogan calls.

River 6, pot 23k. HJ checks, I bet 13k making it look like a missed combo-draw (the only hand other than deuces that makes sense). HJ calls and mucks. Then he starts talking:

"Why do you bet so mean?", he asks.

"I don't know, I guess I'm not a nice guy?", I answer jokingly.

Then it takes a grimmer turn:

"Aren't you worried when you walk home at night? Are you as big a guy off the table as on the table? Some people can be mean in other ways you know..."

I just shrug it off, but as far as I'm concerned this goes beyond funny banter. On the other hand I don't want to run off to TD to start a fight with an Eastern suburb reg while playing in the Eastern suburbs...


A couple hours I bust, and get home without issues.

Just bubbled a supersoft $150 RSL game in an appropriate fashion. I jam AJo utg 6-handed for 8bb, folds chipleader in BB who starts asking questions:

"You have a big pair? 120k total? A big pair yes? I call."

He takes ****ing 30s to call with AK... I'm usually quiet and composed but couldn't help telling him that slowrolling like that is really not cool, especially on the bubble after 8 hours of play.

"But you could have had a big pair!"

crushing!

Thanks mate! I dropped by the TPE booth in June to catch up with Matt, my old coach, and also had the pleasure of meeting Carlos, but I don't think you were around that week. I'll have another shot to meet next year, given that I have already won a 2017 WSOP package . Good luck with the stream, always enjoyable.


I late-regged a small game last night, but nothing came of it. I'm there for the meat-raffle and the bounty anyway. In two weeks I'll fire a couple bullets in a $165 $40k gtd for which I'm quite psyched. Let's hope for a fun deep run in that game. For now, I'll leave you with my updated Sydney graph:



# games: 197
ABI: AUD$35
ROI: 202%

(which does not include me dropping $4.5k in Vegas last WSOP )

awesome and see ya next summer!

Where is this $165 game with the 40k GTD? We're looking at sending some people from our home game to an event and this might be the go!

Played two flights in the $165 tournament. Last night was just showers. Some hands:

Blinds 200/400, 9-handed

I'm UTG+1 with KQ and open to 1000, three players call.

Flop AKQ, pot 4200. I continue for 2500, MAWG to my direct left and BB call.

Turn 5, pot 11.7k. BB checks and I want to charge draws or get value from AJ/AT type hands. I bet 6k, MAWG calls.

River 3, pot 23.7k. This is a bit of a tricky spot. Villain seems the passive type, but the question is how passive. Does he bluff missed draws if checked to? Does he value bet AJ/AT? I opt to bet/fold small for thin value, and I'm 99% sure he's not capable of bluff raising there. I bet 7.5k, he snap raises to 25k, I fold.


Blinds 700/1400, 8-handed

MP limps in, SB takes some time to complete, I check BB with 45.

Flop A23, pot 4200. SB checks and given it's a limped pot I lead 2500. MP folds and SB raises to 6k . Villain seems capable although lacking in fundamentals a bit. This just screams flush with this sizing, I'd think two pair would make it bigger. I call, leaving 23k behind.

Turn J, pot 16k. SB bets 7k and while I'm tanking villain does a deliberate suit-check. This and the sizing convinces me it's a fold.

I sigh, say "this is such a big fold", and muck. People instantly ask me "you had two pair, set?!". I say nothing and feel a bit silly I folded an even stronger hand than that, but when SB flashes KQ at least I can take credit for a solid fold.


I bust shoving 23k on BTN with KJ at 1k/2k with one limper in. BB wakes up with 88 and I can't find an out on a 964 flop.


Day 1D next post.

Day 1C of the $165

Today I had a nice and soft starting table. All the more frustrating that I was card dead and chips were flying left and right. Guy with QQ 3bet and called a big 4bet and continued to call off every street on a T-high board, all in on river for in total a 500bb pot. Obviously the other player had AA.

But my chance eventually came around:


Blinds 300/600, 9-handed

I'm UTG with 57k and AA, I open to 1600. Two to my left is an Old Man Coffee who's playing loose-passive and catching cards for an hour now. He has 100k and is CL. He calls. Folds to BTN who jams his last 17k (50k start stack). I very much want to keep OMC in the hand, so I tank for a bit and call. OMC calls.

Flop J95, pot 52k. I have 39k behind and the board is wet enough that I want to get it in now. I jam and OMC asks for how much. Before I can count it he calls though, showing J8. I know how these people play, but it still astonishes me how hard they find it to just fold.

My hand holds and I'm up to 130k.


Unfortunately my table breaks and I get moved. I get right in the action in my first hand:


Blinds 700/1400, 9-handed

I'm in MP with AQ and open to 3200. BTN calls and BB calls.

Flop QTQ, pot 10k. I continue for 5k, BTN folds and old Asian guy in BB snap raises to 16k. I call.

Turn 2, pot 42k. BB now checks. He's never checking a better hand here, so I really should just bet. He has ~80k behind and I decide to check behind, not really thinking straight.

River 8, pot 42k. He now bets 16k and I wuss out and just call. He shows Q9 and I take it down. Later this player turned out to be very wild, so I really hate how I played this hand, especially turn.


I win a big all in after CO opens to 7.5k at 1500/300 and I 3bet in SB to 22k with KK. He jams for 80k, I call and hold vs. AKo. The very next hand OMC from the first hand is moved to the table and we get involved:


Blinds 1500/3000, 9-handed

OMC limps in UTG, HJ limps, and I'm on BTN with JJ. I raise to 13k. OMC calls, HJ folds

Flop KQ5, pot 33k. OMC checks and I bet 12k. No need to bet big here, but I also don't want to give villain room to bet me off my hand on later streets. OMC calls. At this point I'm pretty much over it.

Turn 8, pot 57k. OMC checks, I check.

River 5, pot 57k. OMC bets 16k and no way my hand is good. I fold and get a "nice fold". He had pocket queens...


After losing the minimum that hand I consolidate my stack going into the last level. Players clearly are trying to make day 2 now so I try to open any reasonable hand and keep the pressure on as big stack. At 6:15 pm we get told to play three more hands. This is the final hand:


Blinds 3k/6k, 8-handed.

CO (weak-tight) limps in and I'm on BTN with 75 with 260k. SB is an OMC with 60k and BB the CL with 500k. OMC will fold too much, BB doesn't want to mess with me OOP and CO is super exploitable. I raise to 22k. SB jams for 59k, folds to me. Obviously I now have to call, so I do.

As I deal the board the tables excitement goes crescendo:

Window card: 6

Second flop card 5

Third flop card 4

Turn 8


I finish the day with 311k coming back to 3k/6k tomorrow. Average is 200k, there are 97 out of 385 players left. I'm 16th in chips, 39 get paid.

First is $14k.

Let's get there!!!!!

What tournament is this?

Pokermania Championships. They're having another similar big game in May I believe.


Day 2

Around a hundred players started day 2 but only 39 would cash so a lot of them would have to go empty handed. With 311k at 3k/6k I was not in immediate danger of busting, but like everyone else I was quite tense for the first couple of hours. Not much happened in the first two levels, but the very first hand of level 3 I was all in:


Blinds 5k/10k, 9-handed

UTG (nicknamed "Gamble", wild player: limping in with trash in EP (82s and 94o) just to try to see a flop) opens to 45k. Next player to act cuts out a raise but eventually opts to call. It folds to me in HJ with 300k and AK. This is a ridiculous raise of course by UTG and his first so he likely has a strong hand, but with another player in this too good a spot to pass up. I jam and everyone folds (UTG claims 99, UTG+1 folded a pair too and is frustrated with his neighbor).


Somehow I keep getting involved in pots with Gamble. I'm not targeting him, but from the looks he's giving me he thinks otherwise. To be honest I fail to make the most of these spots, by jamming too early and not giving him a chance to stack off. In hindsight I left quite a lot of chips in the table at this stage. For example:


Blinds 6k/12k, 1k ante, 9-handed

I'm in CO with T9 and open to 30k. Gamble in BB calls.

Flop KQJ, pot 75k. Gamble leads out for 50k, leaving 250k behind. I should just call here, no question. Instead I go all in, he folds. It's not even a big game, but the whole "playing for three days and wanting to play it safe", like a moron, just got to me. Embarrassing.


Especially because everyone is soooooo bad!:


Blinds 8k/16k, 1k ante, 9-handed

I'm UTG+1 with 500k and 88 and open to 34k. BTN, big stack, calls.

Flop TJQ, pot 101k. Terrible board for me, I check. BTN bets 200k, I fold with a grin. He shows TT...


Stone bubble. I've lost some chips in a boring BvB and now have 210k at 15k/30k. I'm on BTN and wake up with KJ with two nits in the blinds. I shove and Grandpa (15bb stack, old guy from day 1D) takes forever to fold 99 face up! Everyone groans but he explains:

"It's the bubble, I definitely would have called if we're in the money!" (no **** Sherlock)

A few hands later the bubble burst and the table becomes more chatty. We're down to 37 when I find my first shoving spot:

Blinds 15k/30, 2k ante, 9-handed

Grandpa limps in UTG (leaving 4bb behind) and MP (typical MAWG, terrible sizings, overfolds, but big stack and active recently) makes it 70k. It folds to me in BB with 265k including the blind. I have 88. Grandpa can have anything here and MAWG will have a hand he should call with, but might not. I go all in and Grandpa folds. MAWG thinks for ages and finally finds a call with AQ.

Flop 34Q, pot 593k.

Turn A

River 7

..and I'm out.


I was a bit sad to bust with such a soft field left, but it was always gonna be a case of having to win a couple flips. I missed out on some chips in the first few hours which honestly is inexcusable by shoving too soon. It's something I should add to my mental checklist: whenever I feel the desire to shove, check if it's warranted or if it's just an easy way out.

On the other hand I was glad to have cashed, despite not covering my two bullets. The mental pressure of the bubble was definitely magnified by having spend my whole weekend playing this tournament. It was a good game, but work is very stressful at the moment so I'm not sure how well I would have handled bubbling. Now I got home, bored my partner with some hands, and went for a run.

Until WSOP 2017 I'll try to do monthly updates. I spend December and January travelling so did not play at all. I got back late January and played 7 tournaments this month:

$25 Friday game: Played one Friday game because the bounty looked juicy. Only 14 runners for the early game. Got lucky in a couple spots and won it outright for $170. More importantly, I was the bounty! So I picked up an additional $600.

Three $22 Tuesday games: Cashed twice but both 5th (out of ~40) places for a measly $50 where I just got coolered for big stacks. A bit frustrating as it means I get home late but not much to show for it.

$110 $8k gtd: Bust. Shoved 12 bbs UTG with TT and UTG+2 cold calls for a third of his stack with K7 and gets there.

$50 Monthly final: Made FT as chipleader but lost half of my stack when I jammed an ATC hand BvB into a passive nit in BB, but he woke up with AA. Then lost two all ins vs. a mate: QQ < AJ and AQ < A9. Finished 5th/50 for $100.

$150 $10k gtd Petersham Cup: Made FT average in chips and then had zero spots for 3 orbits. Jammed K9 for 6bbs BvB and ran into KJ. Finished 6th/99 for $450.


So cashed 5 out of the 7 games played, which I'm happy with. Also got really fortunate with winning the bounty. Other than that all those 5/6 place finishes is super annoying. I guess a +$1k month is nice, but what could have been... Ah well.


Vegas prep

I booked my flight and accommodation for Vegas 2017. This time around I'll arrive three days early to first hike the Zion National Park Traverse. 80 km in 3 days is going to be quite the effort, but I'm looking forward to it immensely. After the hike I have 10 days in Vegas and will try to sattie into the Colossus and I'll play the $1000 Tag Team with a couple mates. Other than that I expect to play a bunch of Planet Hollywood games and Daily Deepstacks at the Rio. I'll keep you posted.

He's back!!

What's your Vegas schedule looking like this year mate?

For now the only tournaments I'll play 100% are the Colossus satties on June 1st and the $1000 WSOP Tag Team event on the 5th. As soon as the PH schedule is announced I'll do a write up of my plans. Preparing for the trip in minute detail is of course half the fun!

FYP

Hahaha, maybe. I'll be there late May and from what I understand on average that should be bearable. If I do get unlucky hopefully Aussie weather has prepared me well enough to withstand it, I'll make sure to bring plenty of water.

I played a rare online session today while it's still possible. Was deep in the hole but finished 4th/700 in a $7.50 for a slightly winning day. Ran horrible throughout or just got out-drooled, for example 4-bet pre with AKs, cbet on KJT and jam on turn 4. Lose to 44...

Also, anyone who reads this and likes playing online poker in Australia, go check the Australia-thread in NVG and please consider helping Joey out with his effort.

So far this year I've been cruising in live games, it's just too bad I don't play as much. Including yesterday I have now played 14 tournaments and cashed 10, including cashing my regular Tuesday game 5 times in a row. Of course this is all pretty meaningless in terms of sample size, but it's enjoyable nonetheless. My finishes since last update:

Three $22 Tuesday games

First game, we are final three and I'm second in chips, slightly less than chip leader. Third in chips is a very nice lady reg, who is also very bad at the pokers. She overfolds way too much and chats non stop about what kind of hands she would have made had she not folded that trash hand pre. Still, very nice person.
I'm on BTN and have A9 with 12bb, CL in SB and lady in BB. She's pretty short and I don't want to be forced to raise-fold to SB, so I jam. SB thinks for a bit and calls 90% of his stack. Lady reg turns to TD, says "This is what you would do!", and calls off her last 4bb. Turns out they are competing who is best at ICM suicide: she turns over KQ and SB has A7. SB spikes a 7 and I finish in 2nd for $250, courtesy of lady reg. Still, she is a very nice person.

The second $22 game I chopped for $380 with fairly competent player with 20bb in play, not much else of interest I can recall.

The third $22 Tuesday game I finished 4th for $100. The main hands of interest were me slowrolling the **** out of every one. These are all in good spirits with regs I'm mates with and occur vice-versa. First one I make a boat with 64 on J644 and get jammed on after continuing for 1/3 pot on turn. Villain is a fun guy, but I take *only* 5 seconds or so because I'm not 100% sure if he appreciates it.
The second slowroll is just perfect. I'm at a super chatty table with players I all know well. It folds to CO who sort of shruggingly jams for 10bb while there's some banter going on with his mates, like he didn't even look at his cards. Folds to me in BB and he tells me that "he went all in because it would be funny". I'm asking him all these questions like I want to figure out if he went all in blind. This takes the better part of 2 minutes and the table is getting loud, with one of his mates exclaiming it would be fantastic if I'd show aces there. That's my cue, I flip open AA and the table erupts.

$50 Monthly final: I repeat my series of deep-but-not-quite-good-enough runs in bigger games by finishing 5th for $200. I remember 8-handed I jam QT for 12bb on HJ after UTG limps in his last 1bb, and BTN calls with JJ, SB calls with KK and BB calls with AK. Oops. UTG quadrupled by spiking a 6 for a set.

$25 Friday games: I always late reg these and then like to get too fancy with too short a stack. Busted two.

$110 Good Friday game: Busted first hand on FT. With 60 players top 6 got paid, but at the start of the FT the shorties were arguing to get $400 from 1st and 2nd to pay $100 for places 7-10. I'm sitting there with 3bb UTG+1 just waiting the hear the verdict. The big stacks (absurdly) approve and I get to jam my 97 and run into kings.


YTD pub poker:
14 games
+$1763
ROI 252%

Overall pub poker:
214 games
+$14295
ROI +209%

Vegas 2017 schedule

This WSOP I will be in Vegas to play from June 1st until June 10th. Depending on how things go I intend to play every day, but might take a day off at some point. Last year I was roaming around by my own a lot, but this year there are a few mates joining the team that have similar playing interests (mtt's, $100-$300). My current schedule is:

June 1:
Rio: $75 - Colossus satellite
Rio: $150 - Colossus satellite

June 2:
Rio: $565 - Colossus (if entry won)
Golden Nugget: $100 - $100k gtd Multi-day, flight 1a+1b+1c

June 3:
Golden Nugget: $100 - $100k gtd Multi-day, flight 1d+1e+1f

June 4:
(Golden Nugget: $100 - $100k gtd Multi-day, day 2)
Planet Hollywood: $250 - $50k in a day
Planet Hollywood: $100 - Goliath Milly satellite

June 5:
(Rio: $565 - Colossus day 2)
Rio: $1000 - WSOP Tag Team event (split between 3 of us)

June 6:
(Rio: $565 - Colossus day 3)
(Rio: $1000 - WSOP Tag Team event day 2)
Planet Hollywood: $600 - Goliath Milly (if entry won)

June 7:
(Rio: $565 - Colossus day 4)
(Rio: $1000 - WSOP Tag Team event day 3)
(Planet Hollywood: $600 - Goliath Milly day 2)
Planet Hollywood: $350 - Goliath Stack 1a

June 8:
(Planet Hollywood: $600 - Goliath Milly day 3)
Planet Hollywood: $350 - Goliath Stack 1b

June 9:
(Planet Hollywood: $350 - Goliath Stack day 2)
Planet Hollywood: $200 - $20k in a day, 6-max

June 10:
Planet Hollywood: $250 - $50k in a day


If I make no day 2's or win tickets, this amounts to a total of $2658 across 11 tournaments. I would like to play a couple of Rio $235 Deepstacks at some point, so I anticipate a maximum of US $3k in buyins. Sounds pretty reasonable for a lot of fun tournaments, but hopefully this time I also get to actually run deep once or twice. LETS GOOOO!!!!