Las Vegas

Well what an amazin place! what can I say that hasnt already been said, poker on tap, neon lights gorgeous girls serving you free drinks whilst you play, nightclubs galore and people treating you like a king. I stayed in the paris hotel and it was amazing, right in the centre of the strip opposite belagio and either side of ballys and planet hollywood! It has an eifel tower which runs through the building and comes out on the 3rd floor at the pool area. Hot waitress' and nice food also. Its just out of this world!

The week started off OK pokerwise, winnin 2 buy ins an 200NL in planet hollywood then over to belagio winnin another 2 buy ins. Then this happened in belaggio on the 2nd night and kind of put me off cash when I realised just how easy I could lose so much money in one hand. I was lucky I never had more cash on me as the villain had a bout 1k infront of her and I would normally keep 2, $100 bills as well as chips on the table just incase that rare holding called the nuts ever came my way, well it did an here's the outcome

Belaggio - $1/$2 NL + standard $4 straddle

me BB - Js9s - $500 stack after spinnin me initial $200 up, Villain - old chinese lady, with 2 very hot daughters standing behind her. She was getting needled, by some fat american constantly. To be fair he was a twat, going on about how he dealt Hellmuths home game for years and made 50k in tips which he span up to over half a mill on BJ. He claimed he played 25/50 mainly an was only playing 1/2 because he was drunk an out for fun. At one point he asked to old chinese lady were the nearest whore house was and how she must know, one of her duaghters proceeded to bitch slap him in front of the whole table lol, to the tables delight the floor was then called and he was asked leave. This was directly before the below hand

Full ring 9 man table. Young Chinese lad makes the standard straddle to $4 and everyone flats round to me and I complete the straddle with my J9s

flop....

Jh 9c 4c

I bet about $30 which is nearly the pot, 1 caller from mid position and old chinese who's hitting the deck like you wouldnt believe squeezes to $70 otb, I consider a set but she has been playing so aggressive and the table is way to lose to lay top 2 down just yet, so I think maybe NFD and 2 overs / SD, an OP is unlikely as she would deffo of bumped it up pre, no way she could get trappy with AA/KK on this table 44 is possible but i put her on TP or completer air/draw, so I decide to flat, now I do this because I think i am ahead, if a club lands on the turn I can still get away, she's hittin so many draws maybe I should just get it in there but I wanted to trap her, she werent folding any draws to a shove, she was so aggressive plus if she had top pair, she could put me on a draw, If a blank comes my plan is to get in on the turn or give it up. The other person in the hand now folds.

turn...
Jc$

Lickin lips time, either she has hit her FD or has 44 or even a J, even my initial nightmare 44 is now my dream holding for my opponent so I decide to now check the nuts, she shoves an I fist pump call

dealer hollywoods the river which is a K

she flips JK and I feel physically sick, I stumble out the bellagio in utter shock, back to my hotel an think to myself, cash poker can FUCK OFF!!!


Found a nice tourney in ceasers palace, $85, 7500 stack average 70 runners 20 min clock, gets a bit crap shooty when deep tho. Busted the 1st time I played after being card dead and shoving 10 bb and 77 into AT which hit. Made the last 17 2nd time but shoving 9bb and 99 in from mid position and the button found AA, 2 other callers called with QK and AT aswell which both missed an would of been a good final table stack! My dad finaled it twice 8th and 4th and we were half of everything so that was nice. After busting that I lost a buy in in cash in ceasers when I raised KK and got a caller by TT and all the chips went in on a TJJ flop. Maybe I coulda folded but some one folded a J face up pre so it made the hand really weird, chinese lad couldnt put me on a J and I couldnt put him on a J, obvs he had TT lol. Had the J not been folded faced up I may of passed me OP, chinese own live poker in vegas! I seen one chinese lad 4 best shove 50bb against some poor english mans AA with 35, flop A46, turn J river 7, they are just so sick!!!

won a small tournament in Planet Hollywood, $80 buy in 30 runners an a couple of re entries so about $800 FTW, small but nice to win one. Bubbled this twice and me dad won it once to. Also had 2 min chashes in it. Planet Hollywood was were we had the best cracks, dealers were funny, waitress were hot and the atmosphere was relaxed, cash games were lose and the tournies were small and beatable. 'The Blimey Limeys all in' was one dealers fave saying (in her crap attempt an english accent) whenever I went all in LOL

I never played poker as much as I thought I would because of the running bad but more because the place is just amazing, spent most nights drinking until the early hours so werent focused enough for big long sessions. Plus it was so sick and I werent about to waste 7 hours a day in tournies to bubble on a standard flip when i was missing everything else vegas had to offer, a week werent long enough to cope with variance either. One thing is for sure I will never slag online poker again for the rest of my life! anyone who thinks its sick, just go to vegas and you will love online poker forever!

all in all it was a great experience and made me look at online poker in a new light. I will be starting a project pretty soon with BRM being the key. Just awiating the role..........

few pics from the trip as I know your all dying to know what I look like ;-)

she dealt me the win haha!






In Summary - GG Vegas and Online poker FTW!!! cant wait to go back next year tho! The main problem was we didnt play any of the $200 deepstacks were you expect the best poker to come on top but they were like 13 hours in average, all the tournies under $150 were a worse structure and while there was play at the start if you went card dead after half way you were fucked with rising fast blinds/antes and no fold equity you needed the cards, obvs they never came at the right times

Stars have some nice new tournies running. They have a 3k stack with capped runners. Something I have wanted for a while, smaller fields suit me down to the ground. They use 10% payout structure to so you get more than double for a min cash. Hope the trials succesful because they will put them in the regular schedule. Played my 1st one last night an here's my exit hand, standard flip for a good pot approaching the FT, but instead busted 13th, so sick he hit his set on the river but hey thats poker

PokerStars Game #33844125821: Tournament #201432062, $15.00+$1.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIV (1500/3000) - 2009/10/10 2:31:38 WET [2009/10/09 21:31:38 ET]
Table '201432062 39' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: yaniyoux (118829 in chips)
Seat 2: RENDEEZY (142335 in chips)
Seat 3: badcallthat (34732 in chips)
Seat 4: datrell (45375 in chips)
Seat 7: Shaneopoker (18717 in chips)
Seat 9: Iplaythbored (51979 in chips)
yaniyoux: posts the ante 375
RENDEEZY: posts the ante 375
badcallthat: posts the ante 375
datrell: posts the ante 375
Shaneopoker: posts the ante 375
Iplaythbored: posts the ante 375
badcallthat: posts small blind 1500
datrell: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to badcallthat [Ac Ks]
Shaneopoker: folds
Iplaythbored: raises 48604 to 51604 and is all-in
yaniyoux: folds
RENDEEZY: calls 51604
badcallthat: calls 32857 and is all-in
datrell: folds
*** FLOP *** [7s 2s 6c]
badcallthat said, "ONO"
*** TURN *** [7s 2s 6c] [Ad]
RENDEEZY said, "sigh"
*** RIVER *** [7s 2s 6c Ad] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Iplaythbored: shows [Js Jd] (three of a kind, Jacks)
RENDEEZY: shows [Ah Kc] (a pair of Aces)
badcallthat said, "wow"
Iplaythbored collected 34494 from side pot
badcallthat: shows [Ac Ks] (a pair of Aces)
Iplaythbored collected 108321 from main pot
badcallthat [observer] said, "nh gg"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 142815 Main pot 108321. Side pot 34494. Rake 0
Board [7s 2s 6c Ad Jc]
Seat 1: yaniyoux folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: RENDEEZY (button) showed [Ah Kc] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 3: badcallthat (small blind) showed [Ac Ks] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 4: datrell (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Shaneopoker folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Iplaythbored showed [Js Jd] and won (142815) with three of a kind, Jacks


played the 20k guaranteed $22/1500 runners whilst today as well an this was for a top 20 spot with 400 left, not long after losing this sick I shoved 68 suited on the BTN for 8 BB same guy called with J9 and rivered a flush after i flopped 2 pair. One day I will hold an take one of these down lol. My game is gettin better each time I play. Its so tough when you play good poker an donks hit like this but what can you do? keep goin i suppose. BvB he might have a legitimate hand I suppose but i hadnt got tricky with once up until this and had only showndown good hands

PokerStars Game #33867622521: Tournament #200030396, $20+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (125/250) - 2009/10/10 18:51:35 WET [2009/10/10 13:51:35 ET]
Table '200030396 66' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: Piquette (22869 in chips)
Seat 2: fleming1979 (5211 in chips)
Seat 3: Robby g 901 (4155 in chips)
Seat 4: lowrider21 (10008 in chips)
Seat 5: badcallthat (14189 in chips)
Seat 6: R.P.T.K (10065 in chips)
Seat 7: juelle07 (13554 in chips)
Seat 8: Mr.Kissy (16827 in chips)
Seat 9: ricolajuve (3005 in chips)
Piquette: posts the ante 25
fleming1979: posts the ante 25
Robby g 901: posts the ante 25
lowrider21: posts the ante 25
badcallthat: posts the ante 25
R.P.T.K: posts the ante 25
juelle07: posts the ante 25
Mr.Kissy: posts the ante 25
ricolajuve: posts the ante 25
badcallthat: posts small blind 125
R.P.T.K: posts big blind 250
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to badcallthat [Kh Ad]
juelle07: folds
Mr.Kissy: folds
ricolajuve: folds
Piquette: folds
fleming1979: folds
Robby g 901: folds
lowrider21: folds
badcallthat: raises 500 to 750
R.P.T.K: calls 500
*** FLOP *** [5s Kd 2s]
badcallthat: bets 1250
R.P.T.K: raises 8040 to 9290 and is all-in
badcallthat: calls 8040
*** TURN *** [5s Kd 2s] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [5s Kd 2s Qs] [2d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
badcallthat: shows [Kh Ad] (two pair, Kings and Deuces)
R.P.T.K: shows [Kc Qh] (two pair, Kings and Queens)
R.P.T.K collected 20305 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 20305 Rake 0
Board [5s Kd 2s Qs 2d]
Seat 1: Piquette folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: fleming1979 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Robby g 901 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: lowrider21 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: badcallthat (small blind) showed [Kh Ad] and lost with two pair, Kings and Deuces
Seat 6: R.P.T.K (big blind) showed [Kc Qh] and won (20305) with two pair, Kings and Queens
Seat 7: juelle07 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Mr.Kissy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: ricolajuve folded before Flop (didn't bet)

gl fish!

God Dam Blogspot

Done a vegas post, took me fuckin ages, an its now gone. Dont know if Ive wrote something blogspot didnt like but its seems to have disappeared!

anyone know how i can get it back?

Sickest Hand I've Ever Played, Vegas and BRM (or lack of it)

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PokerStars Game #33391794164: Tournament #199550541, $10+$1 USD Omaha Pot Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2009/09/28 19:45:57 WET [2009/09/28 14:45:57 ET]
Table '199550541 15' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: osnapper (3000 in chips)
Seat 2: halberry (2960 in chips)
Seat 3: Qcity1 (5950 in chips)
Seat 4: Hughnormous7 (3650 in chips)
Seat 5: stevo_95658 (3580 in chips)
Seat 6: duchpool (5000 in chips)
Seat 7: Szammy (1440 in chips)
Seat 8: badcallthat (2110 in chips)
Seat 9: ResDogs23 (5900 in chips)
ResDogs23: posts small blind 15
osnapper: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to badcallthat [As 9d 7h 7c]
halberry: folds
Qcity1: folds
Hughnormous7: calls 30
stevo_95658: folds
duchpool: folds
Szammy: calls 30
badcallthat: calls 30
ResDogs23: calls 15
osnapper: checks
*** FLOP *** [7s Jd 7d]
ResDogs23: checks
osnapper: checks
Hughnormous7: checks
Szammy: checks
badcallthat: bets 90
ResDogs23: folds
osnapper: folds
Hughnormous7: folds
Szammy: calls 90
*** TURN *** [7s Jd 7d] [9s]
Szammy: checks
badcallthat: bets 210
Szammy: calls 210
*** RIVER *** [7s Jd 7d 9s] [Ts]
Szammy: checks
badcallthat: bets 420
Szammy: raises 690 to 1110 and is all-in
badcallthat: calls 690
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Szammy: shows [2s Js 8s 8c] (a straight flush, Seven to Jack)
badcallthat: shows [As 9d 7h 7c] (four of a kind, Sevens)
Szammy collected 2970 from pot
Szammy said, "lol"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2970 Rake 0
Board [7s Jd 7d 9s Ts]
Seat 1: osnapper (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 2: halberry folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Qcity1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Hughnormous7 folded on the Flop
Seat 5: stevo_95658 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: duchpool folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Szammy showed [2s Js 8s 8c] and won (2970) with a straight flush, Seven to Jack
Seat 8: badcallthat (button) showed [As 9d 7h 7c] and lost with four of a kind, Sevens
Seat 9: ResDogs23 (small blind) folded on the Flop

now that is disgusting!!! to top it off he had already had me the hand before with my KK vs his AA BvB after he lost a massive pot, so he only had 700 chips and he doubled twice in 2 hands through me. Very next hand I flop the nut flush an the rest of me little stack goes in an 2 pair turns a full house, very sick!

I havent really been playin very much because of stuff like this, however I have taken stupid shots at big money an lost. I do have some interesting graphs from experiments but they're only from small sample of a couple of a couple of hundred games, but they look promising. I know the game I am good at and I know what I have to do to make money at it and achieve long term success. I go to vegas on wednesday an cant wait to try my hand at some real decent live tournaments. I am there for a week and I am only going with my Dad who's been to many times so while there will be a day set aside for site seeing for me to see the necessarys and a bit of time for relaxing, the main aim will be to play as much poker as we possibly can, tournaments and cash. I dont have much experience in cash games but have watched an read more than enough to know what I need to know, an I have played some with small success. Me dad is a consistent cash winner so I might play the tournaments an leave the main of the cash games to him.

Poker has not been fun for me lately and I have been learning the hard way. I hit a brick wall, but the obvious positive is that its the not poker or the way i play it thats the problem its the lack of bank roll management. I am not a even a gambler, I hate blackjack, roulette, horses etc. I put the odd bet on the footy thats it so this is an easy problem. I learned the hard way that you just can not win in poker with out BRM. Hopefully Vegas can get me enjoying poker again then I can come back refreshed an ready to do it. May the cards be with me!!!

Leave you with 3 donkaments Ive picked already, deffo takin one of these down. When I am back I will be putting everything I have learned into practice. Its a tough game this, but I will beat poker before I let it beat me

Casino Name: Venetian
Game Type: NL Hold'em
Day of Week: Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa,Su
Time of Day: 07:00 PM
Total Buy In: 120
Admin Free: 20
Fees Returned: 83%
Rebuy: No
Rebuy Description:
Addon: Yes
Addon Description:
$5 optional staff bonus for T2500 in chips. Included in starting chip count. This is included in total buy in and admin fee, but is optional.
Starting Chip Count: 5000
Avg Number Players: 100

Casino Name: Wynn
Game Type: NL Hold'em
Day of Week: Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Su
Time of Day: 08:00 PM
Total Buy In: 225
Admin Free: 25
Fees Returned: 88%
Rebuy: No
Rebuy Description:
Addon: No
Addon Description:
Starting Chip Count: 20000
Avg Number Players: 80


Casino Name: Venetian
Game Type: NL Hold'em
Day of Week: Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Su
Time of Day: 12:00 PM
Total Buy In: 150
Admin Free: 20
Fees Returned: 86%
Rebuy: No
Addon: Yes
Addon Description:
$5 optional staff bonus for 1500 in chips. Included in starting chip count. This is included in total buy in and admin fee, but is optional.
Starting Chip Count: 7500
Avg Number Players: 90
Payout Structure:
unknown
Level Time: 00:30
Avg Tourney Length: 8-9 hours

pokerstars sunday million...........

...............Heartache

After 2 decent cahses after sat'n into the warm up I thought Id use this sat ticket for the million. Before we go there I want to start by sayin I played some of the best poker I have ever played in my life in this tournament. I started well chippin up to about 16k then got lucky against a shortstacks KK with AJ to put me up to 20k. I lost 2 big races with QQ V QK (k on the turn) and JJ v AK BvB he hit an ace. I then got upto 50k without showdown I was corectly assigning ranges to peoples hands, I laid QQ down to a 4 bet shove pre and he showed me AA. I was feelin really good and hadnt been at risk once which also felt quite good. Then this happened...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4618888

firstly I want to explain my reasoning behind my pre flop actions. The initial raiser was a serial early position stealer an the button had high squeeze % but the table was aggro also, so I flatted here hoping to induce a squeeze from behind. Anyway it never came an AAbenjaminAA a winning online regular flatted AJo in the SB (pretty bad imo). when the flop came JJ9 2 clubs I felt physically sick tbh, but I just couldnt lay it down. AJ was a possibilty but they way the hand was played his range had to be wide pre. He then bet 1200 into 1600, standard considering his stack size. Now here I am thinkin he has a FD. I smove call at this point with the intention of seeing the turn action wich again brought more draws, but could of completed for KT or 8T. He then led for another 30k, I basically didnt know were I was at this point. is he drawing has he got AQ QK, I have no major winning numbers, does he just see me as weak?? is he playing his big stack?? I really didnt know so I just shoved hoping to see QK, AK, AQ, flush or straight draw obvs he had the AJ an I was out.

I posting it here hoping for some advice. Did I basically out think myself pre flop? 90% of the time here I am 3 bettin here without a doubt, sometimes shoving.
I think the flop call wasnt bad, maybe should of raised to see were I was, but looking back I think I probly fold the turn as most of time he shows me the J here. But this was a top 10 pot approaching the bubble and I am sick of min cashing I really thought maybe he's at it and if I win this hand, who knows. Plus am not drawing completly dead. Anyway sick as fuck

Everton & Sharkscope Data

Time for Moyes to bite the bullet an sell Lescott. As much as I wanted him to stay and it would have been nice to finally see a manager stand up and say fuck off to player power, its just not realistic anymore. He tried and tried well but he has to accept defeat. I say defeat lightly though because if he can get 25 mill in a package of cash and players then I think its excellent business. Not going to come on here and say he's shit, I want him to go anyway etc because he's not. He's 27, English, scores goals, and is consistent in terms of appearance. He does however have a tendency to make a mistake. The amount of times Jags pulled him out the shit last season was unbelievable. He gets left by the top class strikers and the cup final was a perfect example of this, he just couldn’t contain drogba at all. Jags is the main man at the back for us and I just hope he comes back stronger than before his injury. We need at least 4 new faces and the rumour on the street here is , 18 mill and dunne for lescott, then buy Stephen Taylor from Newcastle and moutihno from Portugal, along with the Swedish midfielder rassmus elm now if he pulls off them signings then I think it could be a decent season. The start doesn’t worry me, if anything getting tonked 6-1 at home by arsenal is better than getting beat 1-0 as it highlights the problems that moyes will have to deal with, lets face it when you CH tells the boss 10 mins before the game he doesn't wanna play as he is not focused, then what else dya expect to happen when the team goes on the pitch. Something dramatic needs to happen in terms of a "reaction" and am sure it will. Last season we lost our 1st 3 home games, Wigan, Blackburn an Portsmouth yet we finished 5th and made the cup final, so it’s a marathon not a sprint. People still forget our 3 best players are out an when we get jags, arteta and the yak back it will be like 3 new signings. I think Chelsea look uber strong and I can see anyone getting near them so they're my tip for the league and under ancelloti it could be their year in the champs league to, definitely 1 of the 2

Poker has been a bit non existent lately on the playing front, playing for fun really but I have put a lot of volume in terms of studying. I bust my stars roll by playing with out BRM as stated in me last post. Won about $600 on FT and withdrew it because I am going to Vegas in 6 weeks so needed some money for that. Still waiting for this staking deal to start but I had to be brutally honest with myself and say I am just not ready for that. I am not far off but needed to study more. The studying is going well learning new things and reading plenty of archived and new posts on 2+2. I need to buy cardrunners which I will be doing and will probs watch every streets SNG video on there. He's a sicko. Also www.sngnick.com is up an running so check it out if you haven't seen it. Its Nick Rainey's site an he's a sicko when it comes to MTTSNG's,. Wouldn’t mind 10 days in his boot camp.

I bought sharkscope and found some very interesting facts on myself and the way I have been playing. It fairness I needed something like this, its not nice seeing that you're a losing player but something you have to do in order to improve obviously. I did find one game that I am a winner at which was nice and it was the $6/$16 18 man turbos on stars.Another good thing is I am a winner since starting the blog and a lot of my losses are from when I was a clueless idiot and had not even learned the game before playing it. The fact I am a loser at $3.40 18 manners makers me wonder how this is possible. I just hate playing micro stakes poker. You are basically playing no fold em hold em against clueless dickeads who type 'ajajajajaaja' or 'hahaahaah' or 'weeeeeeeeeey' every time there pocket deuces bust your rockets after flopping quads, it tilts me no end an there is just too much variance playing at that level. Also the fact that win rate is so small makes you about as happy as losing a £100 and finding a quid. You sit there for 5 hours 6 tabling and make a about $0.50 a game for a profit of $50 over a 100 games and 8 hours lol. So I am going to wait til I have $1600 dollars spare an take a proper shot at the $16 18 manners and couple that with the staking deal on VC w/ rakeback then things do look good for the coming months. Its just a case of getting this extra bit of training an coaching. I am by no means giving up. a little experiment on the $16 18 man turbos, threw this up. Obvs 125 games is not a big enough sample, but its a start



gl fish!

leave you with this! $22/5k on stars 950 runners, 50 off the money!