Well Vegas so far has been kinda more than I expected, There is basically everything you can imagine here. First couple nights we didn't really do anything just kinda relaxed and walked around some of the bigger casinos. Then last night we met up with some of Rob and Sol's euro buddies and went for supper on the top floor of the palms. Was an awesome meal although it costs about $200 a person, well worth it. After supper we headed over to New Orleans to watch comedian Bill Maher, he is a political comedian and although I didn't know half the people he was talking about it was still funny. When that was over a few people were going to a new club here, but we decided to pass since we were playing the main event today. Now onto that:
Walking into the Rio today was something I can't really explain. Kinda a combination of nerves, feeling like your on top of the world and just general excitement. The mass amount of people in the halls and cameras is hard to explain until you experience it. I had quite the seat, I was right behind the feature tables playing one table over from Hellmuth and another over from Negranu. Hellmuth's entrance was well......... interesting. He came in dressed as some Egyptian king with 100 models following him in, As much as I think he over does it and kinda gets annoying the energy around him is crazy, gotta admit the man is a legend here. Got a few good pics I'll put up later, I was about 3 feet from him.
On to the event, we start with 30,000 chips which is 300big blinds, so a ton of play. For the most part for me the day was extremely frustrating. I started at a very good table with awful players but was so card dead. One of the worst run of cards I ever dealt with so it was very annoying day. So I don't really have any interesting hands to talk about. Last 45 mins of night I get moved to a horrible table, heres how it lined up. Direct left (25 yr old wsop academy instructor), left of him 5/10nl multi tabler online, left of him 25/50 nl player on stars. Direct right online tourney grinder and then some live pro i recognize from winning a WPT event. Not exactly the dream table to be at. I found it hard to play hands here with my stack, opened 107 in cutoff got instant 3 bet from the button and had to fold, then other young guy opened and I 3 bet with 74 suited and got snap shoved on. Nothing I did today really worked. But with that said I made it through the day with 28,925 chips which is still 48 big blinds. I play day 2 on Wednesday so hopefully I can run it up a bit. Blinds will be 300/600, so I def have some time to find a good spot.
Rob is out of the main event....
Sol is among chip leaders for our day with over 100,000
Ltr all.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
New House Tommorow!
Pretty excited as we finally move into our new house tommorow. Will be nice to have a complete day off to just move and get settled in. Then I leave for Vegas on Thursday, weeeeee.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Becoming to Complacent....
Complacent - pleased, esp. with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied.
Pretty much sums me up as of the last few days. After having a pretty bad day yesterday (12buyins at plo, $2400) It made me realize I need to start thinking differently about how I play the game since it's stll evolving so rapidly and players are getting better which is leading to much tougher games on a day to day basis. I need to get better at the things I can change and work on and not focus on what can't be done. Getting in as a 93% favorite on the flop 3 way and losing $500-$700 pots cant be changed, but calling off $200 on the river with 2nd nut flush out of anger when you know hes never bluffing can be. Looking through my stats yesterday and my $EV I only put in around $800 bad. Putting in that much bad certainly isnt good but keep in mind in plo alot of that is 55% to 45% or in that area. So I clearly was running horrific (to end up down $2400), to the point where I almost wanted to fold AAxx pre when the opportunity arose to get it in. I mean obv this would never happen and really it's an extremely stupid thing to say, but we've all been there when nothing is going right and you can just feel your going to lose.
I really do get to complacent sometimes I feel or as we say go into "Auto Pilot" mode where your just clicking buttons and doing what your use too. Not really thinking on a high level and taking that extra few seconds on every street to make sure I"m making the most optimal play in every situation. I'm sure at times yesterday I made a bad payoff here and a bad fold here for $40-$100 on more than a few occasions. Well ok, but over the course of a day or even a week that can add up and become a huge factor in your overall success.
I also jump around too much 100plo one day 200plo the next, limit, nl, sngs. I mean I do get bored but I'd guess I'm easily in the top 1% of all people that play maybe even less than a 1% margin for amt of hrs/hands in a week/month. So I'm now going to stick with just plo for 100,000 hands and just focus on one game for a bit. It's what I've been playing mostly anyways but that's what were gonna do. Just working on the things I can control so I can start crushing the games. I think I will also write out a sheet and keep beside me with things I already know but just to read when things are going bad.
-Am I feeling OK? Stressed? and if so from poker or outside factors?
-Am I 100% focused on what I'm doing and what I should be doing?
Especially for PLO
- Make sure I'm not calling to much (this happens when I start to auto pilot) 3 bet more, call less. Calling (esp in blinds) Just puts me in horrible spots over and over where good players are just gonna rape me.
- Am I picking up enough pots that nobody else wants? It becomes very easy to just keep checking in small pots when everyone else is doing it (auto pilot) when that $8-$20 here and there adds up huge in the long run.
- TIMEBANK, I have it for a reason. I need to use this more and more each hand to take that extra few seconds to ensure I'm making the correct decision.
- And as you will see in the bigger games where one of my good friends plays after making the jump from 5/10 to 10/20 and 25/50plo. You need to fight harder for every dollar. As the games get bigger and tougher people just aren't going to give away money.
I mean most of this stuff is definitely common sense and I know that, every player should. But after playing so many hrs I think it becomes easy to forget, at least for me it does. With half the year done and almost 500,000 vpps in the book (including wsop) Here's to 500,000 more weeeeeee FML :)
Hope everyone is enjoying there summer.........Only two weeks till Vegas!!!
Sorry for the length
Pretty much sums me up as of the last few days. After having a pretty bad day yesterday (12buyins at plo, $2400) It made me realize I need to start thinking differently about how I play the game since it's stll evolving so rapidly and players are getting better which is leading to much tougher games on a day to day basis. I need to get better at the things I can change and work on and not focus on what can't be done. Getting in as a 93% favorite on the flop 3 way and losing $500-$700 pots cant be changed, but calling off $200 on the river with 2nd nut flush out of anger when you know hes never bluffing can be. Looking through my stats yesterday and my $EV I only put in around $800 bad. Putting in that much bad certainly isnt good but keep in mind in plo alot of that is 55% to 45% or in that area. So I clearly was running horrific (to end up down $2400), to the point where I almost wanted to fold AAxx pre when the opportunity arose to get it in. I mean obv this would never happen and really it's an extremely stupid thing to say, but we've all been there when nothing is going right and you can just feel your going to lose.
I really do get to complacent sometimes I feel or as we say go into "Auto Pilot" mode where your just clicking buttons and doing what your use too. Not really thinking on a high level and taking that extra few seconds on every street to make sure I"m making the most optimal play in every situation. I'm sure at times yesterday I made a bad payoff here and a bad fold here for $40-$100 on more than a few occasions. Well ok, but over the course of a day or even a week that can add up and become a huge factor in your overall success.
I also jump around too much 100plo one day 200plo the next, limit, nl, sngs. I mean I do get bored but I'd guess I'm easily in the top 1% of all people that play maybe even less than a 1% margin for amt of hrs/hands in a week/month. So I'm now going to stick with just plo for 100,000 hands and just focus on one game for a bit. It's what I've been playing mostly anyways but that's what were gonna do. Just working on the things I can control so I can start crushing the games. I think I will also write out a sheet and keep beside me with things I already know but just to read when things are going bad.
-Am I feeling OK? Stressed? and if so from poker or outside factors?
-Am I 100% focused on what I'm doing and what I should be doing?
Especially for PLO
- Make sure I'm not calling to much (this happens when I start to auto pilot) 3 bet more, call less. Calling (esp in blinds) Just puts me in horrible spots over and over where good players are just gonna rape me.
- Am I picking up enough pots that nobody else wants? It becomes very easy to just keep checking in small pots when everyone else is doing it (auto pilot) when that $8-$20 here and there adds up huge in the long run.
- TIMEBANK, I have it for a reason. I need to use this more and more each hand to take that extra few seconds to ensure I'm making the correct decision.
- And as you will see in the bigger games where one of my good friends plays after making the jump from 5/10 to 10/20 and 25/50plo. You need to fight harder for every dollar. As the games get bigger and tougher people just aren't going to give away money.
I mean most of this stuff is definitely common sense and I know that, every player should. But after playing so many hrs I think it becomes easy to forget, at least for me it does. With half the year done and almost 500,000 vpps in the book (including wsop) Here's to 500,000 more weeeeeee FML :)
Hope everyone is enjoying there summer.........Only two weeks till Vegas!!!
Sorry for the length
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Starting to see some perks....
Nice work on Stars. I just received an email today saying that on top of the 100k vpp, room, party we now get:
All Supernova and Supernova Elite players are entitled to your choice of one activity for you and 1 guest and $100 palms gift card for food/spa.
Activities include:
Vegas Lights at Night (Maverick Helicopter)
Blue Man Group
Mystère - Cirque du Soleil
Zumanity - Cirque du Soleil
David Copperfield
Criss Angel - Believe
Disney's The Lion King
Le Rêve
Penn & Teller
I like free stuff, Now I just need to make a deep run so Brigitte can come out and we can spend a night going to shows.
All Supernova and Supernova Elite players are entitled to your choice of one activity for you and 1 guest and $100 palms gift card for food/spa.
Activities include:
Vegas Lights at Night (Maverick Helicopter)
Blue Man Group
Mystère - Cirque du Soleil
Zumanity - Cirque du Soleil
David Copperfield
Criss Angel - Believe
Disney's The Lion King
Le Rêve
Penn & Teller
I like free stuff, Now I just need to make a deep run so Brigitte can come out and we can spend a night going to shows.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
All Registered!
Well I'm officially registered for the main event and will get to Vegas on July 2nd. I just finished doing up the process to register through stars and it looks pretty cool:
- 100,000 VPPs to be issued after July 17, 2009
- PokerStars Player Bag
- Free Shuttle bus between the Palms and the Rio between July 3 - 13
- Free +1 Invite to the PokerStars Party on July 9 at Rain Nightclub, the Palms
- Entry into the PokerStars $1 Million Freeroll Summer Spectacular (July 3-6, 2009) at the Palms
PokerStars will be hosting an EPIC party at Rain Nightclub (at The Palms) on the 9th July from 9pm - 1am. All PokerStars players who sign the Terms and Conditions document will get their wristband PLUS up to 4 additional invites for friends.
There will be free food served from 9.30pm - 11.00pm and free drinks served until 1am. Entertainment will be a special guest performance by rap star Nelly starting at approx 11.15pm.
So I think that should be pretty fun, especially since I can take 4 friends. Quite excited to go, as I have never been to Vegas so im guessing it will be quite the experience. Hopefully I can make a deep run so Brigitte can fly out for a few days, maybe go to a few shows and stuff.
In other news our condo sold two days ago, and we have possession date bumped on our new place on June 28th. Although I really hate moving I'm pretty pumped to get into the new house. Should change things up a bit poker wise which will be good. Just a different atmosphere and new surroundings should be nice for a few days. Also the all the new space to finally have some room, and bring a bunch of stuff in that has been sitting in our parents houses.
Ltr all
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Selling Action!
Ok, so I need to sell a bit more action for the main event.
I have 38% to sell still, let me know if you are interested
TY
I have 38% to sell still, let me know if you are interested
TY
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