I first met John Tabba when he rolled up to the Reading uni poker society on behalf of pokerpanthers.com. He sat in the 10p/20p cash game with a wod of $20 notes and proceeded to donate about 300 quid to the rest of the table in about an hour. I knew he was a sponsored pro and i knew he was muffing about (in his own words; 'this is a lot cheaper than tilting $5/$10 online'), but i had no idea that 9 months later he would place 2nd in the WSOPE and pick up 570K.
When i turned up at the empire half way through day 3 i was star struck, Mel Judah was just leaving when i got there and Johnny Lodden was one of the first faces i saw when i got in the door; this was just the start!! The top pro's were all over the place and the great thing was that 90% of the people in the empire had no clue who these people were! Over the next 3 days i got to play cash with Todd Brunson and Marcel Luske and thanks to the limited amount of fans watch John play some awesome poker right up close. Although he was really cut up after he lost John can be so proud of the way he played; he got through 1 of the toughest fields ever and gained the respect of some of the greatest players in the world. When we asked Gus Hansen what he thought of John at the end of day 4 he replied, 'he was super aggresive, he got the better of me today', now thats a fucking compilment.
For me the highlight of the day was after the final table when John orderd a bottle of vodka and a rather impressive 27 bottles of champagne!! Seeing as there were around 15 of us celebrating getting through the vast majority of this was quite an acheivment itself. John is certainly the type to spend his money in a flash and seeing as he only had 40% of himself and 5% of Oyvind (the 4th place finisher) i hope the money lasts until the next big win; if he plays as well as he did in this tournement he wont have to wait long.
Tuesday 18 September 2007
Sunday 9 September 2007
sunday bloody sunday
Today was very annoying indeed. Been lying around in my underwear playing online, i turn on the t.v and i find out that the sky box isn't working cause every time i try and put a new channel on it says 'no signal is being reieved'. I look out the window to discover that the neighbours have erected their own giant sattelite which is blocking ours. I'm a bit scared to ask them to move it cause thier our 4 of them and they are black and scary. I'll wait for Ant to get back and we can formulate a plan to get our much needed sky tv back. The even worse thing is that the normal channels aren't working so i've been stuck on my own ripping up the tables.
By 'ripping up the tables' i of course mean dropping $1K playing every type of poker i can get my hands on. Had a go on the steps on party but been stuck on step 4 for a while and am about -$100. The good thing about the stt steps is that you get to go back a step or stay at that level once you make the top 7 and you can usually make this without playing a hand. Played the $300K gtd V 1600 Runners and crept into the top 500 with 19K in chips, then ran AK into AA and KK into AA within 30 mins and that was the end of me.
Also played a little bit of NLH cash .5/1 but dropped two buy ins quick and decided i didn't want to tilt off another load so i quit. This hand was fun:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1463187
I like his check on the end.
I've always said that when it came to PLO i was a bit of a retard but playing online has made me feel a lot better about my game. The swings are pretty big and with no real bankroll to speak of at the moment its pretty much gambling and hard to be frustrated. Despite this i feel that players are so bad at the lower limits that i should be crushing this game and the bad beats have been really annoying. Start with this gem:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1463197
I know i get lucky on the turn but only $3 has gone in by this point. When he chek raised the end i had allready started swearing cause i just knew, i still can't fold though. 1 outers are great fun.
Classic example of a retard:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1463207
Think the lesson is that people play so bad you should only get all the money in when they are drawing dead, i hate poker!!!!!!
By 'ripping up the tables' i of course mean dropping $1K playing every type of poker i can get my hands on. Had a go on the steps on party but been stuck on step 4 for a while and am about -$100. The good thing about the stt steps is that you get to go back a step or stay at that level once you make the top 7 and you can usually make this without playing a hand. Played the $300K gtd V 1600 Runners and crept into the top 500 with 19K in chips, then ran AK into AA and KK into AA within 30 mins and that was the end of me.
Also played a little bit of NLH cash .5/1 but dropped two buy ins quick and decided i didn't want to tilt off another load so i quit. This hand was fun:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1463187
I like his check on the end.
I've always said that when it came to PLO i was a bit of a retard but playing online has made me feel a lot better about my game. The swings are pretty big and with no real bankroll to speak of at the moment its pretty much gambling and hard to be frustrated. Despite this i feel that players are so bad at the lower limits that i should be crushing this game and the bad beats have been really annoying. Start with this gem:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1463197
I know i get lucky on the turn but only $3 has gone in by this point. When he chek raised the end i had allready started swearing cause i just knew, i still can't fold though. 1 outers are great fun.
Classic example of a retard:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1463207
Think the lesson is that people play so bad you should only get all the money in when they are drawing dead, i hate poker!!!!!!
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