There are two ways that i can look ay my current situation: 1) I havn't cashed in a single tourney, I'm spewing off way to much money on shit, I'm having a losing month. 2) I havn't played that many tournies, the main event is coming up, i still have positive expectation in any tourney or any cash game i'm rolled for.
As far as my life outlook goes i think it has to be the second option. I've been running bad in Vegas but i really havn't played that many hands yet and am still hoping that things can turn around in the upcoming weeks. I'm playing a $1500 on saturday and then anothr one on monday so they are my last chance for a decent score before the main event. In the last bracelet event i played things went a little better. I made the dinner break and managed to get up to 18K at one point from the 4.5K starting stacks. Things went badly from here however and i eventually got cold decked before running a shortstack shove into KK. I also played a $330 deepstack at the venetian yesterday and got a guy to stick 130 bb's in pre with AQ v's my AK, flop K 7 3, turn Q, river Q, horrible way to lose but life moves on.
Life in the house is still fun, my diet has been shocking so far on this trip but this was to be expected. Hope to eat better and exercise a bit more when in Australia. Started playing heads up online a bit more and am finding it quite exciting. Think playing every hand certainly suits my style but havn't run that well so breaking even at the moment.
Wednesday 24 June 2009
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Having Fun
So the bad news is that the last tournament went worst than the first one. I started out really well, playing fast and making a few hands early to get up to 7K from my 4.5K starting stack. From then on however everything went wrong. I ran AA into 86 on a 88x board and lost a bit then fired 3 barrels with J5 on a JJ104K board. Was called all the way down to be shown Q9, nice call on the turn sir!! Finally i ran KQ into AQ on a on a queen high flop before shoving a shortstack 56 into A9, oh well. The good news is that i'm happy with every decision that i have made so far in the two tournaments, sometimes it just isn't meant to be. I'm playing another $2K event tomorrow so hope that one goes well and i can have a deep run.
In other news everything in the house is fine. Just spending a lot of time chilling playing a massive pool tournament and drinking lots of beer. Played golf today and lost $300 on silly betting but still had fun. Didn't play great on the front nine but to my great suprise found some of my best form on the back to shoot 42 which was +7. I also hit 4 or 5 shots with my Sw that were fucking awesome so happy with that.
In other news everything in the house is fine. Just spending a lot of time chilling playing a massive pool tournament and drinking lots of beer. Played golf today and lost $300 on silly betting but still had fun. Didn't play great on the front nine but to my great suprise found some of my best form on the back to shoot 42 which was +7. I also hit 4 or 5 shots with my Sw that were fucking awesome so happy with that.
Monday 15 June 2009
Ouch!!
Just busted out of my first event, the $2K NLH. Had a fairly tight table and not much happened in the first 2 levels until right at the end when i got in 2400 playing 50/100 against a shortstack with J10. He hit the flop and after that was down to 3.5K from my 6K starting stack. Thankfully i doubled soon after this when i slowplayed AA and then got it in v JJ on a 10 high flop. Chipped up after this hand to 10K before running QQ into a shortstacks KK.
My bustout hand was pretty sick. Playing 100/200/25 a bigstack who had been play quite loose but very badly opened UTG to 600. Three players called and when i looked down at KQ on the button decided it was a good spot to squeeze and made it 2600 total. UTG called and the rest folded, we saw a J108 board and he put me in for my last 5400. I called and he showed up for AQ which was one of the worst hands i could see and pretty terible play from him. Anyway i missed and he ships the 18K pot with ace high.
$1500 tomorrow so hope to go better in that one.
My bustout hand was pretty sick. Playing 100/200/25 a bigstack who had been play quite loose but very badly opened UTG to 600. Three players called and when i looked down at KQ on the button decided it was a good spot to squeeze and made it 2600 total. UTG called and the rest folded, we saw a J108 board and he put me in for my last 5400. I called and he showed up for AQ which was one of the worst hands i could see and pretty terible play from him. Anyway i missed and he ships the 18K pot with ace high.
$1500 tomorrow so hope to go better in that one.
Sunday 14 June 2009
Greetings from Las Vegas
I'm very aroused!!! Landed here in Las Vegas yesterday and can't wait to get playing my first wsop event of 2009.
As usual the flight was shit. I'm not a great flyer at the best of times but being on my own and the bad turbulence made it a bit of a nightmare. I'm also a really moody flyer which makes it difficult to enjoy the entertainment. I watched Milk and Valkyrie which were both quite good but i'm sure i would have enjoyed them a lot more if the screen was bigger, sound was better and i wasn't constantly thinking about plunging to my death from 30 thousand feet.
Moving quickly on, the house is awesome. Five double rooms, A+ Pool table and a really nice swimming pool outside. The weather is ideal. It's hot but not as crazy as last year so i spent yesterday outside just lapping up the sun and trying my best to stay awake. I'm already -$60 on the pool table playing $20 a rack but hoping i can improve on my 2-5 record throughout the holiday.
One good thing that has come out of my current lifestyle is the ability to deal with jetlag. Despite only getting 3 hours sleep on the friday and not sleeping on the plane, i was able to stay up till 10pm saturday night, (which would be 6am UK time). I was then able to sleep 9 hours and get up at 7am this morning. My first event is tomorrow at noon so the plan is to stay up till midnight tonight, get another 9 hours and then get to work. I'll be writing tourney reports on my gutshot blog as well as on this one. The only difference is on this blog i will be writing tons of random crap as well. If you only really care about the poker side of things just click on the link from one of my previous posts and that will take you to my gutshot blog.
Before i go i just want to say that Newquay was epic!! Although we didn't see more than 5 hours of sun in 4 days the drinking and general banter was fantastic and the dressing up was hilarious. My body has just about got over it but drinking that amount in four days is quite a challenge and probably not a good idea. Personal highlights include the all round performance of Michael Alp, the dressing up of big tone, Brad Larks 10/10 ipod and Tom 'the ranger' Parkinson asking if he can do a girl up the arse that he had met 2 days before, kids these days!!
As usual the flight was shit. I'm not a great flyer at the best of times but being on my own and the bad turbulence made it a bit of a nightmare. I'm also a really moody flyer which makes it difficult to enjoy the entertainment. I watched Milk and Valkyrie which were both quite good but i'm sure i would have enjoyed them a lot more if the screen was bigger, sound was better and i wasn't constantly thinking about plunging to my death from 30 thousand feet.
Moving quickly on, the house is awesome. Five double rooms, A+ Pool table and a really nice swimming pool outside. The weather is ideal. It's hot but not as crazy as last year so i spent yesterday outside just lapping up the sun and trying my best to stay awake. I'm already -$60 on the pool table playing $20 a rack but hoping i can improve on my 2-5 record throughout the holiday.
One good thing that has come out of my current lifestyle is the ability to deal with jetlag. Despite only getting 3 hours sleep on the friday and not sleeping on the plane, i was able to stay up till 10pm saturday night, (which would be 6am UK time). I was then able to sleep 9 hours and get up at 7am this morning. My first event is tomorrow at noon so the plan is to stay up till midnight tonight, get another 9 hours and then get to work. I'll be writing tourney reports on my gutshot blog as well as on this one. The only difference is on this blog i will be writing tons of random crap as well. If you only really care about the poker side of things just click on the link from one of my previous posts and that will take you to my gutshot blog.
Before i go i just want to say that Newquay was epic!! Although we didn't see more than 5 hours of sun in 4 days the drinking and general banter was fantastic and the dressing up was hilarious. My body has just about got over it but drinking that amount in four days is quite a challenge and probably not a good idea. Personal highlights include the all round performance of Michael Alp, the dressing up of big tone, Brad Larks 10/10 ipod and Tom 'the ranger' Parkinson asking if he can do a girl up the arse that he had met 2 days before, kids these days!!
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