Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm back in Michigan for the holidays and hope you all had a great Christmas. It feels good to be back home for Christmas even though i was just here a month ago for thanksgiving. Christmas just seems to have more of a cheery kind of feel to it opposed to thanksgiving and i guess that's why i like it better. Its a pretty hectic time of year with visiting everyone, my annual last minute(i literally save my shopping until a few hours before the stores close on Xmas eve) shopping, Christmas, my birthday, and finally new years. Ive still got my birthday(tomorrow) to go and new years in Vegas which should both be a pretty fun time. Even with everything going on around this time i cant help but wonder what Mr. Jinx is up to back in Vegas.




I didn't feel like bringing him home with me on the plane just because it would've been a huge hassle so my plan was to take him to a cat resort haha. That's right i said a Cat Resort. There is a cat resort down the road from our apartment i was planning on taking him to while i was gone but i kind of procrastinated on calling there and all their "rooms" were booked. So i looked online to see if it was okay to leave cats alone for a week and it said that he should fine. I just left out like 3 big bowls of food and he drinks out of the toilet anyways so I'm sure. Hes probably just crawling up the walls though because i don't think hes ever been alone for more than a day at a time let alone a week.

With everything going on this week so far I've still managed to get in 3 decent sessions of poker. Ill break them down by sessions.

Session 1- Ive been doing pretty well at these 100 heads up sit n gos lately so i decided to play a bunch of those. I cant figure out how to keep track of the in pokertracker but i know i did pretty well and made a little over 1k playing these. I also played a little 5/10 and 10/20 for about an hour and brought the days total profit up to a little under 2k. Some hands-

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856832- i play so bad. I really felt like he had AA when he bet the 300 on the river but i thought about it forever and made the bad call. what can you do
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856846- apparently this guy doesn't like to be check raised as you can see in his chat.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856908- me playing bad once again. I have no clue why i checked this turn?????????//

Session 2- Played for like 45 minutes, played good, got river fucked 3 times for about 2k, logged off and went out to the bar and got wasted. My rapings-

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856920- my 4th hand of the day. I guess this ones not that bad because I've played a lot with this guy and i know hes not going anywhere on this board and i probably make the same play as him.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856929- rivered
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856936- again

Session 3- Played a little 5/10 10/20 with some decent results for only playing about a half hour. Then decided to play in some tournaments and cashed in 2 of the 4 that i played in.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856955- 4k heads up pot with ACE high.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856970- me getting OWNED. Went with my read and was obviously wrong. But i still like the call because heads up I'm pretty sure I'm good here most of the times just not this time.

I learned how to take screenshots so for now on when i cash in tourneys i can show you. Here are my donk cashes from yesterday.

-Nechita-

I Run Good.

Im sitting in the airport right now about to head back to michigan so this is going to be pretty short. I wanted to post something up before heading back though because i dont know when the next time i post will be. I got stuck in traffic on the way to the airport and thought there was no way i would make the flight but lucky me the flight was delayed 40 minutes! Man im running good this week haha. I didnt end up getting to the airport until 20 minutes before the flight was scheduled to take off so there was no way i wouldve made it if it wasnt cancelled. I went to the venetian again yesterday and the game was super soft once again so i was able to make around 1k in probably only an hour and a half. It was all the same donks as before and i really am hoping that these are the 5/10 regulars at the venetian because they are awful. I wanted to keep playing the game all night but a few people left and no one else wanted to keep playing once it got down to 5 handed. I also put a few hours in online and was able to pick up around 1300 or so. I had some hands that i wanted to put up but my plane is starting to board now so i will do that later. Anyways i gotta go but check back on like sunday or monday and i should have a updated post up.

-Nechita-

COLDDDDDDD........

The stupid thermostat in our apartment is broke so its freezing in here. The heat works but once you turn it on you cant set it to a certain temperature and it just keeps rising. The other day i turned it on and set it to 7o and about an hour later i thought it seemed pretty hot in here so i looked at the thermostat and it was 95 haha. Instead of being hot and uncomfortable we just leave the heat off and freeze. Luckily ill be going home in a few days and into some nice weather.... nope, in Michigan its currently 31 degrees with snow. Alright that's enough venting.

I picked up this book right before going home for thanksgiving and i highly recommend it. I'm not a big reader at all, in fact i don't think I've actually read a whole book from front to end, but recently I've been having trouble spelling the most common words so i figured it was time to hit the books. Ive been wanting to actually read a book for a while now and when i saw Slash on Conan O'Brien promoting this i was sold. I'm a huge Guns n Roses/80's rock fan so this book is perfect for me. I was kind of skeptical at first once i saw how thick it was(about 500 pages) but after one plane ride I've already read about a 1/3 of it and this reading thing isn't so bad after all.

Except for the occasional bad beat here and there poker has been going pretty well since last posting. I signed up for some tournaments on Sunday and as soon as they started i just didn't feel like playing at all. If it was just the 215 i mightve just quit but it was the 615 satellite to the Bahamas so i stuck it out only to lose yet again. I'm not to sure what it was but i just had no motivation at all to play poker that day and the results showed. Yesterday i played in the softest 5/10 game at the venetian that I've played in since moving out here and i think i might start playing there a lot more often. I usually play at the Wynn or Caesars but just felt like a change yesterday so i tried out the Venetian for the first time and i cant believe how bad the players were. This kid who sat next to me yesterday said he plays there all the time and its not usually like that but he kind of sucked too so I'm thinking i might have stumbled across a really profitable game. Just a bunch of old rich guys there to have fun and try to play some poker. I played for about 4 hours and ended up making around 2300. I also played a few hours of sit n gos online and made around 600. The Wynn has been spreading a 5-5 PLO high game which i think i might play in today but i just don't think i can pass up the venetian. Here is some drunken 200/400 PLO at its finest- http://www.natarem.com/2007/12/15/thepokerfilm-bonus-clip/ .

There is also a link on this page to the left called the Poker film which includes a 10k prop bet to who can drink a fifth of Jack Daniels the fastest. Anyways I'm about to head down to the strip so check back later to see how things went and I'm out.

-Nechita-

Fell off the wagon....

Tuesday night we went out to Pure and it was the first time i had a drink in 2 weeks. I wasn't intentionally trying to not drink it just kind of happened. I didn't really want to post anything in here about it because its kind of like when a pitcher is throwing a no hitter you just want to leave it be. Ricky Hatten or whatever his name was there and i cant believe how tiny he was. It says online that he is 5'6' but I'm only 5'10 and he was easily a good foot shorter than me.

The past few days have been pretty good in poker and I've been able to string together some winning sessions. I played some 5/10 at Caesars on Tuesday but was really card dead but was somehow able to still pull in like 400. Paul Wasicka came and sat to my left so i really had to kind of play lock down poker because he was playing every hand. I don't think he was playing too serious but i saw him make some nice calls and was pretty impressed with his game. His picks for this weekend are the packers and the under in the Cleveland game for anyone interested in betting. Yesterday the 25/50 game on stars was looking super soft so i sat down and made about 1200 or so before the game broke. I didn't really get any hands but was able to make the best out of what i had. After the short online session i went to the Wynn to play some 5/10 but the game looked really tough so i decided to play some 2/5. That really annoying guy from poker after dark David Boston i think his name is was playing the 5/10 along with some of the more solid 5/10 regulars so i passed. The 2/5 went pretty well and i ended up pulling in around 600 or so in a little over 3 hours. I was up around 1100 at one point but flopped a straight and a guy rivered a flush against it costing me around 400.

Today i played a little online and some 5/10 at the Wynn. I decided to play some heads up sit n gos while sitting around and ended up making around 700 doing so. I played like 6 100 dollar heads up matches winning like 5 of them and won a 4 person 100 heads up match and also won that. I would still be playing some of them right now while watching TV but for some reason stars keeps disconnecting me and i really had a hard time finishing the last one almost timing out every hand. The 5/10 game was real soft at the Wynn today and i was able to make around 800 in around 4 hours. I shouldve been up more but stupidly i tried bluffing this old calling station donk and bluffed off about 600 to him. Heres the hand-

He limps in early position which hes done a lot with very mediocre hands and 2 others limp in. I'm in the BB with K7 of spades and the flop comes out J73 with the J3 being spades, a great flop for me. I decide to check. Old dude leads out for 70 which is about the size of the pot and i had seen him make this bet many times with 2nd pair/ top pair weak kicker type hands. Other guy calls the 70 and i check raise it to 220 total. Old dude thinks for a bit and i see that he reluctantly calls and the other guy folds. I immediately knew that he had a weak J like j10/jq/j9 type hands and THINK i can get him off it and if not i have a zillion outs. The turn card is the 6 of hearts which obviously is horrible for me but i lead out for 320 and again after some deliberation he calls. The river comes the 2 of hearts,another brick because i cant hit draws even when i have 9840932494 outs. He had about 600 left at this point and after some thought i decided that this calling station was going nowhere so i check and he shows J9 which is exactly what i thought. He told me a few hands later that if i pushed the river he would've called, donk.
The game was super soft though for a while and i didn't really get involved in any huge pots but was able to finish up around 800. Alright well this is getting pretty long so I'm going to wrap this up with a few hands from the 25/50 the other day. Check back tomorrow to see whats going on and I'm out.

These hands arent all that interesting but they are all i got out of the session.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808679- i really thought about shoving here but pussied out. If i shove he has to put me on at least QQ and i just dont see how he can call here with his mid pair type hand which is what i put him on. This is a flaw of playing the 25/50 for me because if this was 5/10 or even 10/20 i wouldnt think twice about shoving here but instead of going with my read i let the money scare me into folding. who knows maybe he smooth called behind with a big hand but i wouldve liked to have shoved here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808695 here im actually mad because i feel like i lost out on 200 more. As crazy as this sounds i actually wanted to reminraise the river here for 200 more but once again backed out. I was 100% sure he had an A high type hand and i feel i couldve got 200 more out of him but what can you do.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808713- here we are shorthanded with Aj on the button and would usually reraise here but i had been 3 betting him preflop a few times and feel like he wouldve made a stand here with or without a hand. We get a favorable flop here but ive played with him enough to know he doesnt need a hand to bet so i think we are way ahead in this spot.
I elect to make a smallish raise on the turn because i think it looks super strong and i also think he has close to nothing. If he shoves back at me here i probably puke on my computer screen but make the call.

-Nechita-

Random stuff from the past few days.

So i arrive back to Vegas and go into my room to unpack, and this is what is sitting on my bed, a huge poster of brian urlacher. I guess while i was gone our neighbor knocked on our door and said he was throwing this away and wanted to know if we wanted it. I think this is kind of weird because I've never talked to them and honestly i think I've only seen them once but that's another story. The real dilemma is now figuring out what to do with this thing. Normally i would just hang it up on the wall but unfortunately its a picture of douche urlacher who i don't really care for. I really don't want to throw it away either because its framed and is kind of nice. Anyways enough ranting on about this poster and i guess once i figure out what I'm going to do with it i will put a picture up of it, probably a pic of it in the trash but we'll see.

Since going to Turning stone last week my sleep schedule has been really out of wack and its weird being on the schedule I'm on. I really liked everything about the tournaments at turningstone but instead of a noon start time like everywhere else all of these tourneys started at 10a.m., gross. Since getting back to Vegas i have been waking up at like 9 a.m. every morning and by the time 10-11 p.m. rolls around I'm dead tired haha. The one positive thing about waking up so early is that i never really realized how much you could accomplish in a day if you wake up before 2 or 3. But other than that i just don't think this schedule is for me. I'm a night person so I've been forcing myself to stay up later and trying to sleep in so i can get back to "normal."

Since returning i haven't really had the best results playing poker. It feels like someone just flipped the bad beat switch and now i keep running into set up hands. I'm up a little bit playing live which is really a mystery to me because I've ran into some pretty sick set ups which included me folding KK preflop the other day. Folding the kk preflop isn't a big deal but it kind of summarizes how the cards have been running and luckily ive been playing well and have been able to get away from big hands when I'm beat. Every time I've picked up or made any kind of hand though its been resulting in me running set vs. set/ flush over flush every time and those are just tough to get away from. Even though I'm up only a few hundred bucks (playing live) since returning I'm very happy with my play because i feel like i could easily be down like 2 or 3k. Online has been pretty much the same. I had a couple nice days when i first got back but the past 3 days have been non stop set ups with people trying to give me their money but stars not letting them. Ive only been playing 2/4 but its just frustrating when you keep getting people to put their money in as a huge dog and they keep sucking out. Ive still got about 7000 VIP points to get before the 31st but i don't think its going to be a problem.

Anyways i just wanted to give a quick update on whats been going on the past few days. I think I'm going to play some 5/10 at Caesar's today so i will give an update later on of how that went and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1798167- this is a summary of the past few days online.


-Nechita-

I'm Stupid.

I went to best buy yesterday to pick up a cord so i can hook my ipod up in my car and got the wrong cord. Now that's not that big of a deal or very stupid but let me tell you what cord i got instead of the one i needed. The cord that i needed was the itrip adapter that has a headphone jack on it that hooks into your ipod so you can listen through your car. The cord is 80 bucks at best buy which is ridiculous so i decided to get a cd adapter for your car which is the same thing but only 20 bucks. Here is the cord that i bought for a quarter of the price-

Same cord for 2o bucks not bad right? Well i start driving home and realize that i don't have a tape player in my car haha. In my defense i had an explorer before my mustang that had the exact same looking factory CD player but had a tape player in it, but still how dumb am i haha?

Also while i was there i bought another xbox controller but got the wrong color. Here is everything that i picked up while there along with the very DISAPPOINTING movie Super bad. I don't know if it was over hyped and i was thinking it was going to be some amazingly funny movie but i just didn't think it was funny. It had a few funny parts here and there but for the most part it was pretty lame. If you have an xbox i definitely recommend getting call of duty 4. I usually dont really like these types of games but this is one of the best games ive played in a while.

I also attempted to go to the dmv again to try and pass the license test again but forgot where it was at so i just gave up and went to play poker. I went to the Wynn to play some 5/10 but ended up sitting on the waiting list for about 2 hours and when i finally sat down they were playing with everyone straddling. I ended up playing for about 20 minutes before finally leaving because i wasn't in the mood to play 10/20, which is pretty much what it was. I still felt like playing after i left there so i decided to head out to Red Rock which is close to our apartment but I've never been to their poker room. I heard they usually have a 5/10 game going but of course the night i show up they have nothing but 2/5 with a 1k cap. This was probably the softest 2/5 game i have ever seen and it was really weird to see how different the game was from down on the strip. I only stayed for a few hours but ended up making about 600 which wasn't bad because i really didn't have any cards the whole time. Anyways that's what I've been up to the past few days, I'm about to head to the Wynn so check back later and I'm out.

-Nechita-

Ship the 2008 world series!!!!!!

The tigers just pulled off another sick deal today and now their line up is absolutely sick. I guess the only real question for the 2008 season is who the tigers will have to beat in the world series. Today they picked up dontrelle willis who is a beast and miguel cabrera who when healthy is one of the best players in the game. The tigers have by far had the best off season by picking up these two along with edgar renteria and jacque jones and im pretty sure you can lock up the world series title right now. Here is just a guess of what the line up will look like:

1.Granderson
2.Polanco
3.Sheffield
4.Ordonez
5.Cabrera = SICK
6.Guillen
7.Rodriguez
8.Renteria
9.Inge


After a few weeks in michigan and new york i am finally back in vegas. I was looking forward to getting off the plane and out of the freezing weather of ny/michigan but to my disgust it was freezing. I forgot how cold it gets here at night around this time of year and its really not any different than michigan weather except theres no snow. The turning stone deep stacks tournament didnt really go to well and i think i lost like 800 overall on the trip. I did manage to cash in 2 of the 4 tournaments i played in but not for anything significant. It was a pretty nice change of scenery from vegas to go back to michigan to see friends and family but after being there for a few weeks i was getting the itch to get back out here. Although it actually feels like im coming out here for vacation because im only going to be here a few weeks before heading back again for christmas and my 24th birthday, im ancient.

I played a decent amount of poker while i was home and was able to make around 3k from grinding online. This wouldnt be that big of a deal if i was playing my regular 5/10 but i was playing 1/2 and a little 2/4 haha. I have really been slacking online/not playing much since moving to vegas so i was stripped of my supernova status http://www.pokerstars.com/vip/?utm_id=1 on stars.So i decided im going to 6 table 2/4 until i can get back to supernova status. I currently have 90,450 vpp points so i figure if i just put in like 2 to 3 hours a day of 6 tabling i should be able to get to 100,000 by the time i have to head home for xmas. It doesnt really seem like a big deal to be supernova but i havent even reached platinum status in like 5 months and that means im not getting enough time in online. Im currently a gold star(gross) which is pretty pathetic for someone who plays poker for a living.

Anyways i just wanted to give you a quick shout on what ive been up to lately and pretty much brag about the tigers. I just got back last night so i have some running around to do but i might play a little poker later so check back to see how that went and im out.

-Nechita-

Quick Update.....

Alright so its about 7:30 in the morning here at Turning Stone and due to my dads ridiculously loud snoring I'm unable to sleep once again. I didn't really know what to expect when coming to turning stone because it was kind of a last second thing but its actually a pretty nice place. We got the poker rate for 80 a night which is a steal for how nice the rooms are. The bad things about turning stone are : 1. the hotel is out in the country in the middle of nowhere and 2. there is NO ALCOHOL in the hotel! Its the craziest thing I've ever heard. I can deal with being in the middle of nowhere but, when you are out in the middle of nowhere what else is there to but drink? The casino has a bunch of bars and clubs inside of it but they don't have a liquor license and aren't allowed to sell it haha. I guess you are supposed to sneak around with your own liquor which kind of gives it high school dance feel. All in all though i would say its a pretty nice place and definitely a good place for like a poker getaway.

Alright now onto how I've been doing in the tournaments. The tournaments have such a good structure its almost too good. Its a deep stack tournament which i feel gives me a huge advantage because it plays more like a cash game for like the first 4 levels instead of a pick a hand and pray online tourney. You start off with 10,000 chips with the blinds starting at 25/50 for 4o minute levels and this really gives you a ton of play before you have to start worrying about the blinds. The only problem with these tournaments are is that they start at 10a.m. and that's just way too early for me to be waking up. Ive felt like a zombie the past 3 days of play but have been playing pretty good but with some minimal results.

The first tournament was a 230 buy in which had around 360 players. I cant even remember what first prize was but it paid the top 35 and i ended up finishing like 28th or something. Which really sucked bad because i had been playing for like 13 hours only to end up making a whopping 90 dollar profit haha.

The second tournament was a 340 buy in which was a little better because there were less players. There was around 220 players with first prize being like 19k and the top 25 i think getting paid. Unfortunately i was pretty much card dead the whole time and when i did pick up hands i couldn't get any action so i busted out in like 42nd place or something.

Yesterday was really what i was looking forward to and it was the 6 handed tournament with a 500 buy in. The tournament had about 170 entrants with first prize being a nice 27k and the top 15 making the money. Ive had some pretty decent success in 6 handed tournaments which is pretty weird because i don't play 6 handed cash games. I drew a pretty tough table with all young/aggressive Internet players but i was finally rested and was just able to pick apart the table. It actually got to the point where the 2 players on my right kept saying i cant wait until the table breaks and we get to move. The table ended up breaking like after the 3rd level and i had already doubled up my stack to 20k which is pretty decent for what the blinds were at. After that i just kind of got stuck in a rut for like the next 5 hours where my stack didn't move much. I couldn't really get anything going in the later stages but got it all in with AK vs. guys 1010 and didn't improve so i busted in a disappointing 15th for like 970 or something. If i couldve just won that flip i couldve made some moves but i didn't and i end up with yet another deep/disappointing finish.

Well that's pretty much how things have been going up here. The 1k tourney starts in about an hour so hopefully i can get deep in that as well. Anyways room service is about to be here so check back in a few days to see how i did and I'm out.

-Nechita-

Windsor,Michigan, and New York all in one day........

Exhausted! I am just finally settling down in my hotel room in New York and man it feels good to just lay down. You might be wondering what the hell I'm doing in New York and to be honest I'm kind of wondering the same haha. After a long night of drinking Saturday night we decided it would be a good idea to leave from Denny's at around 4a.m. and go to Casino Windsor to bet on the Patriots game. This was probably not the best idea but it sounded good at the time. We strolled into their new sports book around 5-6 and sure enough they aren't open, no big deal the game isn't until 8pm the next day. We go back to bet on the game the next day and let me tell you their sports book is the most rigged thing i have ever seen. You cant place a single bet on just 1 game, the only bets you can make have to be parlays, and you cant even bet the spread and over/under parlay it has to be either all point spreads or all over/unders, so gay. Well sure enough this ended up really helping us out because the patriots played like shit and that would've been money down the drain. We ended up just staying in Windsor for Sunday/Monday and there was lots of alcohol consumed and some crazy canucks on the loose. Just a few things from the few days- drunk chick completely doing a face plant on the floor, some guys doing coke right on a table at the bar in front of everyone, these guys getting mad because they got kicked out haha, getting approached by some street walkers that wanted to "Party" with us for 20 dollars hahahahahha, that's right i said 20 dollars, so gross. I'm sure there was some stuff I'm leaving out but it was an interesting couple of days to say the least.

We left Windsor this morning around 10 to head back to ptown and i decided i needed to go to Turning Stone http://www.turning-stone.com/ for a while. So i got back to port Huron still feeling like shit and decided to change my flight back to vegas from today until next Tuesday and booked a room at Turning stone through Sunday. They have like 5 deep stack tournaments this week http://turning-stone.com/gaming/poker/2007superstacks.php with really great structures so i figured i might as well win them, haha no but i think with these structures i like my chances. I'm playing all of the events until Sunday and really hope that i can make some noise in one of these things instead of my usual get deep/get screwed bust out.

Anyways i just wanted to give you a quick update on where/what Ive been up to the past week. I will post a little more when i get back to Vegas about how my turkey break was and put up some pics from over the break. The tournaments are only 1 day tourneys so i will give an update each day of how I'm doing/or how i managed to donk off my chips. Well I'm pretty beat from traveling around all day so check back tomorrow and I'm out.

-Nechita-

Weekend wrap up.............

Im sitting here in Mcarran airport nervously awaiting (i hate flying) to board my plane and figured i would do a quick post before heading home. I thought that the airport would be a total madhouse due to it being the day before thanksgiving but its actually been pretty quick. My flight takes off at 10:30 and i didnt get here until a little after 9 but im already done with everything and now just waiting. When i booked my flight through travelocity they didnt give the option to pick you seat which happens sometimes and has usually never been a big deal, but sure enough i am stuck with a fucking middle seat. I already dread flying anywhere as it is and now i have to be uncomfortable the whole time on top of it. Usually you can just ask for another seat and they will give you one but not this time, i even tried asking for 1st class and that was a no go as well.

Its been a few days since i last posted and with me going home i dont really know when the next ill be able to so i figured i would do a quick post. I went to best buy today to finally pick up a new ipod and decided to go with the 80gb video classic one. I really wanted to get an ipod touch but the largest one they have out so far is only 16gb so i know if i buy one im sure they will come out with like a 5899594 million gb one tomorrow. I also went to the bank, washed all my clothes, returned some stuff, bought some new clothes, and even washed my car, what a long day.

Friday night we went out to this bar/lounge called Taboo inside of Mgm. We got a comped table/bottle so it was pretty cool but we didnt really stay too long because the bottle was literally gone in about a half hour. After that we decided to head over to the strip club Sin again where we had 2 more comped bottles. Stayed there until about 8 in the morning again which really hit me the next day and i didnt even end up going out saturday night just played a little poker.

I played some 5/10nl at the wynn on saturday night and was able to book around 500 after being really card dead the whole time. I went back sunday on like no sleep and ran into a pretty sick set up which ended up in me losing like a 2k pot. Then I played some more 5/10 at the wynn last night but left up around 800 bucks when the game got pretty tough. I still wanted to play so i went over to caesars hoping they would have a 5/10 going but they didnt so i played some 2/5 for a few hours and made around 1100.

Anyways my plane is boarding so im out.

-Nechita-

Long night followed by a long day of nothing.

I didn't really plan on posting anything but I'm sitting here watching my roommate play guitar hero and figured what the hell. Just when i thought i was starting to get back into a some what normal sleeping schedule we ended up staying out partying last night until about 10 this morning. We had a few beers here before heading to Pure where we were supposed to have a table/bottle but that didn't really end up happening. We did end up getting right in for free with no waiting in line though and I'm kind of glad we didn't end up getting a table because it was actually kind of lame in there. It was still pretty busy/cool but compared to other times I've been there i guess it seemed lame because it wasn't jam packed full of people which i hate anyways. Travis Barker was supposed to be there last night but something came up i guess and he wasn't there, big loss. We ended up drinking there for a while and i think around 3 or 4 we decided to head over to this strip club called SIN. We ended up getting a free table/bottle from this kids girlfriend we were with and this is about the point where things got a little hazy. I ended up talking to this chick for what seemed like 85 hours and she wants me to teach her to play poker haha. I ended up getting her number but i don't remember her name or really what she looks like so i think that's about as far as its going to go but who knows. Theres nothing more disgusting than drinking all night and having to walk outside afterwards when its broad daylight out. Well that was a recap of last nights mess and my sleep schedule is now going to be fucked again thanks to it.

Today i woke up around 4 and immediately knew that i was going to accomplish absolutely nothing. I was still kind of drunk/ feeling weird from the night before so i decided to play in some tournaments because those don't really require much thought haha. I ended up playing in 3 tournaments total and cashed in 2 of them. I played in the 22+re buys, 50+5, and the Wednesday 300+20. I really feel like i shouldve cashed in all 3 of them but i got unlucky in the 22+re buys and wasn't able to cash in this one. I made pretty deep runs in both of the other tourneys but disappointingly finished 18th in the 50+5 for about $360 and busted 61st in the 300 for like $560, another waste of time.


While i was sitting around playing we watched probably the funniest stand up show i have ever seen. If you have on demand watch this show called Katt Williams : Pimp Chronicles and thank me later. Its by far the funniest thing I've seen in the past few years and actually almost had me in tears at one point. Also while i was sitting around we got a knock on the door and sure enough it was my xbox 360, thanks pokerstars haha. Pokerstars hasn't updated their frequent player points store http://www.pokerstars.com/fpp/store/ in a while so i decided to waste some points on a Nintendo Wii and this xbox. I really hope they put update their store with some more electronics because I've got like 200,000 points but i have ordered pretty much everything from there. Anyways this is getting pretty long so I'm going to wrap this up with a few pictures so check back tomorrow and I'm out.



Thank you pokerstars





When i opened up the fedex box that this xbox was in this game was floating around in it. Which is pretty cool because i only ordered the xbox and it didnt say anything about any games coming with it so it was a nice suprise. It was also a nice suprise because i got to laugh at adam morrisons porno mustache which i havent seen in a while.



-Nechita-

Too lazy to type, here are some random pictures

Today i woke up around noon and i am completely exhausted from it. Noon sounds like a pretty late time to wake up but my sleep schedule has been really messed up the past few weeks and im not used to getting up until like 4 or 5. I did play some live poker today at the wynn and messed around for about an hour online playing. I got to the wynn around like 2 and i think i might start going earlier in the day from now on because the players were absolutely horrible. It was a lot older crowd of players which generally means super tight and they are usually just bad players. I started off down 600, then up like 900, and when i decided to quit i had made around 500. I also played a few 100 dollar sit n gos while watching conan and ended up making like 300 online. Anyways I dont really feel like typing much more so ill just put some pictures up of random things in our apartment. Check back tomorrow and im out.

Before

After

Jinx playing guitar hero 3

Some kick ass slippers from Full tilt. So comfortable

New laptop-

New paper weight

Logitech universal remote which i still havent set up.

our messy set up(dont mind jackie chan)

The best 150 ive ever spent. Automatic litter box which i havent had to clean in almost a month and it still doesnt smell. if you have a cat buy one of these.

The sickest food on the planet. I like dominos but ive had it like 3 times since moving out here and its just awful compared to back in michigan. I had 2 slices of it because i was starving with no car and probably wouldve rather ate something out of the picture above.

-Nechita-

A strong finish to the week.............. followed by another huge disappointment.

When the week started off it looked like i was on pace to have one of my worst weeks ever, but luckily i was able to finish it off strong. I think i was down about 5-6k after the first few days(got killed/ took a million bad beats at Omaha) but after some pretty good no limit sessions i was able to finish the week about even. After absolutely getting raped at Omaha i decided to play some 5/10nl (first time in like a month)10/20nl and i was able to put up some pretty good numbers in a very short period of time. I played for about an hour on Thursday made around 1k, played about 3 hours Friday made around 3.5k, and played a ton of tournaments today and made around another 1k. I also played live at the Wynn for a few hours last night before going out and made another 500, which felt great because the last few times I've played live I've got killed. To quote the great Phil Hellmuth "i guess if there wasn't luck I'd win every one." and as ridiculous as it sounds this quote really sums up how i feel about my last week or two of poker. I feel like I've been playing great but every time i get it all in as a huge favorite i just take some horrible beat and end up losing the pot. Hopefully those days are over now and i can get back to making a few bucks.

With today being Sunday it could only mean one thing..... football and tournament poker. I played like 7 tournaments today, cashed in 3 of them for around 1k, and got a brutal reminder of why i hate tournaments. The only cash that really mattered today came in the $215 second chance tourney where i got really deep before getting fucked yet again to finish in 16th place. There were around 1200 players with first prize being a nice 50k and i manage to bust out in 16th place for 1500 or something..... SO FRUSTRATING. Theres just nothing more disappointing than playing forever, getting deep in a tourney, and taking some horrible beat to get knocked out. This idiot tourney donk made such a horrible play and in true pstars fashion he was obviously rewarded when his K10 off suit was greater than my pocket 10's all in preflop. He made such a horrible play and if my 10's hold up in that spot i would've been in the top 4 in chips with 16 left, but obviously he hit a K on the turn and i busted in 16th place. I wish i had the hand history to show you his horrible play but i only know how to put up cash game hands and not tournament hands.
Quick summary- I have 110,000, he has around 180,000, blinds are 5,000/10,000
He minimum raises it utg to 20,000, everyone folds to me in the big blind with pocket 10's, I raise it to 95,000 and he thinks for like 5 seconds before going all in. Such a horrible play i just don't understand what can be going through someones mind to be pushing in k10 off there for all ur chips. So GAY and another lost opportunity to have my first big score.

I planned on talking about some other non poker stuff but after re thinking about that hand i really don't feel like typing anymore and am just pissed now. Check back tomorrow to see whats going on and I'm out. Here are a few hands from the past few days....

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1689260
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1689262 - aces no good obviously
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1689266 - cant remember why i limped with 10's here but look at what the other 2 guys had and how strange they played it. set over set and no action at all, very odd.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1689272
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1689280
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1689284 - another set. what an easy game.

-Nechita-

FUCKKKKKKKK

The title of this quick post pretty much sums up my play over the past few weeks. I really feel like I've been playing pretty good poker but i just cant find a way to book a winning session. This sucks because i really wanted to put up some good numbers before going home for thanksgiving but its still early in the month and hopefully i can turn things around. I don't think that I've been playing my A+ game, but at the same time i feel like I've been playing pretty well. I just cant find a way to get any of my hands to hold up. Ive taken a sick amount of bad beats this past week and its just getting more frustrating by the day. It just seems like every time i pick up a hand I'm already thinking to myself "here we go again" instead of thinking about how I'm going to maximize the value out of it. I put in a session at the Wynn yesterday which ended up in me just getting up and leaving after i got it all in on a flop of AK8 with KK and the idiot with A8 obviously hitting an A on the river. The game was so weak it was actually amusing but after flopping a set for the 5th time and losing all 5 i figured it wasn't going to be my day. I haven't played much plo this month but have managed to lose like 2.5k and for no limit I'm only down about 700 which i think is amazing for how many beats ive taken. Its really frustrating to play when u are running bad but i feel i can statistically only lose so many hands before skill starts to outweigh luck again. Im going to play at the venetian tonight just for a change of scenery and I've also had the itch to play in a tourney so i might play in the 175 buy in to change things up. Oh , almost to mention my latest final table meltdown which happened at binions about a week ago. Binions was running a mini world series last month with different tournaments daily with 200 buy in. Unfortunately i didn't find out about this until like the last week of the month so i only played in 1 of the tournaments. I played in the 6 handed 200 buy in tourney which had about 140 people and paid the top 12. http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result19588.htm- here is a link to my disappointment. I was playing really well and the other players were pretty bad so i made the 6 handed final table only to come up short once again and bust out in 4th place for like 1900 or something. The 1900 was okay but as I've said in all my previous posts i just want to win one of these stupid things. Ive won/lost pots worth more than the first prize money but it doesn't even come close to comparing to how shitty you feel after making a final table and not closing the deal.

In other news i finally decided to pick up a new laptop so now i can play poker without having to be cooped up back in my room. I got an HP and I'm really liking it so far. I was pretty pissed at first because the wireless Internet wouldn't work but rather than take it to best buy (more on these clowns in a second)to pay them 50 bucks to push a button i decided to try and figure it out myself. I knew it had something to do with the Internet settings but just couldn't figure out exactly what it was. Luckily pocketfives.com is such a great site that if you have a question about anything you can get the answer to it in about 10 minutes so that's what i did and i was on the net in no time.

The best buy here is the biggest compilation of scum i have ever seen. As soon as you walk in the door its like you are entering a circus or like a party at a trailer park. Ive never been to either of these but I'm assuming its the same as the best buy here. First I'm trying to get some help/ask some questions about a few different laptops which ended up in me telling the employee about the computer and this "new crazy" technology known as HDMI. I'm asking him what the difference between these 2 models are and he actually says "i don't know the only difference i see is that this one is 200 more." I then had to pretty much figure it out myself and find out that the actual difference was twice as much memory and it was HDMI compatible. I point this out to the guy and show him how there is a hdmi input in the one i ended up getting and not one in the other and the guy had never heard of hdmi haha. Im sure this isn't common knowledge to everyone but for someone who works at best buy in the computer dept. i would think this would be pretty standard. The guy was absolutely clueless and I'm assuming that if you have a pulse you can work in the computers department there. After finally deciding on which computer i want to go with its time to actually pay for the thing at the geek squad(should be called circus show) counter. There are about 7 employees all standing around talking to each other doing absolutely nothing. There were 2 people in line in front of me and what shouldve taken about 5-10 minutes ended up in me sitting there pissed for about a half hour. It was like they were there to hang out with each other instead of doing any kind of work. The 3 of us are standing in line not being helped while 7 of best buys retards are in the corner just talking/laughing it up like they are hanging out at a bar or something. One of the retards actually yells across the room to a guy in another dept. to go turn on some music and turn it up. The guy at the front of the line then says to the group of uselessness how about you forget about the music and come over here and help us. The kid didn't really seem to enjoy this comment but what could he really do i mean it is what they are being paid for. So after that fiasco which caused me to miss the first 45 minutes of the Sunday million(went out in 1100th place,gay) i was finally able to get out of that gong show and come to the conclusion that i will never return to that best buy again. This is the 3rd time I've gone there and each time ive left the store thinking what a bunch of idiots so I'm done with them.

While i was there i also picked up Seinfeld season 8 and Guitar here 3 which might be the most addicting game ever. I planned on going to play poker that night but decided to play the game for a few minutes and ended up playing for like 3 hours and not leaving the apartment haha.

Well this has got to be a lot longer than i expected so I'm going to finish this up. I was planning on putting up some pictures but i think my camera is down in my car so i will do that in the next post which might be later tonight. Hopefully it wont be another rant about bad beats but we will see. Anyways check back later to see how things went and I'm out.

PLO total needed- $7,483.55

NLH total needed- $ 5,720.00

-Nechita-

HALLOWEENNNNN

It has been a while since I've posted so i want to give you a quick run down on what I've been up to. As you can see from my previous post i didn't have much time to play poker with friends being in town and right after they left we had another buddy come in town 2 days later. So as you can imagine its been a pretty long couple of past weeks and i haven't found much time to play as much poker as i wanted to. I had a fun time during the visits but man am i glad to get back to a normal schedule instead of going out every night until the sun comes up. I don't really know why i tried to run a goal this month when i knew i wouldn't have much time to play but i still managed to put together a decent month on very limited play. I think overall i made around 10k online and anywhere from 4-7k playing live. I'm not really sure how much i made live because it seemed as though the money was being spent quicker than i could make it. I started off the month running insanely good but have since cooled down and dropped about 3-4k in the past few sessions. I was able to reach the original goal of 15k in the month but with so much going on and me hitting a little road bump theres just no way the 25 was going to be possible. Overall I'm still very pleased with how the month has turned out but it honestly feels like i haven't made anything because i haven't been able to book a winning session in like a week. So i guess i reached the original goal but i didn't take it serious at all. Now that i can get back on a some what normal schedule i plan on getting in a lot of poker before going home for a week during Thanksgiving. I fly out to go home on November 20th so i think im going to run a 3 week goal of making 5k from no limit and 5k from omaha before i head back to p town.

I usually suck at betting on football but over the past 3 weeks i haven't had a loss! That is just a little crazy to go from losing about 80% of the time to going 100% and even hitting a 3 team parlay this weekend. I think before i would just kind of bet a few games just for the hell of it but now unless theres a game I'm very very confident in i wont bet. This weekend there were 2 games that i really liked, the patriots and the steelers. The Steelers were -3.5 at Cincinnati who are awful and the patriots were -16 at home vs. the redskins. Instead of betting the games separately i decided to put together a 3way parlay which included the steelers,patriots, and the over in the patriots game which was 47.5. Long story short they all came through and i was able to turn my 120 parlay into a nice 840 dollar payday. Also my friend(c. moeller) and i decided that we would bet every single nfl game and every over/under. This made the last 2 Sunday's very entertaining because we didn't pick the games. Instead we went down the list of games and flipped a coin (heads=home/ tails=away) to decide who to pick on every single game haha. There are 14 games every week so with the games and the over/unders that meant there were 28 bets we had to make. We decided to just bet 10 on each and actually ended up doing pretty well haha. Last week we turned our 280 into like 380 or something and this week we didn't do as well but we still ended up making like 40 bucks, either way it was still pretty fun.


On Sunday we went to Vegoose music festival and it was amazing. The show started at noon and we didn't get there until about 630 due to Saturday nights activities. We got there right as the Muse were going on stage and they really put on a good show. I didn't really know much about them before the concert but i think i am probably going to pick up their cd(rip it from limewire), i was really impressed with them. The real stars of the show were Rage against the Machine. They played all their old stuff and really put on a great show. I couldn't believe how good they sounded for being live. They honestly sounded just like you were sitting in your room listening to the cd it was that good. Ive been to a good amount of concerts and usually when i go to a rock one the band always sounds pretty crappy.

Tomorrow is Halloween and i still don't have a costume.. I really have no clue what I'm going to be so we will probably just go to some crappy costume store tomorrow and put together some random stuff. We got tickets to go see Marilyn Manson tomorrow night at the Palms and it should be a pretty fun time. Ive only heard a few songs from his new cd but i have liked what I've heard and I'm sure he'll be playing some of his old stuff as well. If for some reason the show isn't good I'm sure it will still be entertaining to see peoples costumes and the crowd of people for the show. Paris Hilton is having some costume party tomorrow night at LAX so we might stop by their after the concert for a quickie. Anyways this is getting pretty long so i hope you enjoyed the update and check back tomorrow to see how the concert was and I'm out.




-Nechita-

What a 4 day weekend........ (very long)

This picture came out pretty blurry but i would say it perfectly sums up the week and how things looked during it. We had some friends in town for 4 days and what started off as just going to some clubs ended up in us ballin out for 4 nights straight. They arrived in town on thursday and it was pretty much on from the get go. The first night we decided to go to L.A.X. and we got the sickest table in the club. My roommate(hodge) pulled some strings and got us a table right next to the dance floor and it was pretty sweet. We went in expecting to just have just one of the normal tables upstairs but ended up getting escorted to the best seat in the house right next to the dance floor. We took a few pictures but unfortunately they didnt really come out and didnt really capture how sick it was. We also got a bottle for free which was gone in about 20 minutes so we decided to buy 2 more haha. I think we mightve been pushing it going for 3, since there was only 5 of us on 3 litres, but what can you do. Unfortunately the birthday boy got kicked out shortly after we bought the next 2 bottles so we had to leave but not without the rest of the drinks. Our hostess (who i probably wouldve married on the spot) came back and gave us some big cups to take the rest of the vodka with us. After wandering around the luxor for a while we somehow ended up at Caesars and got into a confrontation with some "working ladies." These girls wouldnt leave us alone so some things were said that they didnt like and long story short they took off to go get their pimps to "come get us." It turned into quite the spectacle in the lobby. So after they said they were going to do that the bartender told us that we should probably leave because they would be coming back to get us. We decided to just head back to the imperial palace where things got even more rediculous but i cant really go into detail about it.


Friday i woke up feeling pretty shitty from the night before but was ready to do it again. Lauren had arrived from cali and it was time to do some serious drinking. Before we went out though we decided to have a decent meal at the Stratosphere haha. You're probably thinking "the stratosphere? thats gross" because i was thinking the same thing but they actually have a nice restaurant at the very top of it. It actually ended up being a lot nicer than i was expecting and the food was really good. We all ended up getting steaks/drinks and our tab ended up being around 500 which i didnt really mind because i havent had a nice meal like that in a while. The place was all quit with people trying to have nice romantic dinners and then there was us.


This is a picture from our dinner and the really nice view of the whole city. It was pretty cool up there because while you are eating the whole restaurant is actually spinning around. I would definately recommend it to anyone who comes to vegas because the restaurant is nice plus you get a great view of everything. It takes an hour for the thing to make a whole rotation so while you are there you get to see the whole city. This picture came out really good but for some reason when i try to load it on here it looks all shitty so you cant really tell thats the strip behind us.



After our dinner it was time to start getting down to business. We headed back to the I.P. to do some pre drinking before we headed out. We ended up doing a lot of pre drinking this night before actually going out. It was now about 1 so we decided to get out of the palace and head over to the palms. We saw a limo out front of the imperial and decided we definately needed one for the 5 minute drive. After this limo ride on friday night we only took limos the rest of the trip no matter where we went haha. We rolled into palms around 130 or so and decided we were going to go to ghost bar, didnt happen. We got up to the door and there was no line so we decided it was probably dead and decided we would check it out another night. We then continued to pre drink at a bar in the palms which involved a ton of shots, all of us getting raped at roulette, and some high stakes paper,rock, scissors haha. It was pretty funny at the bar when we were roshamboing for money everyone there was more interested in watching us then anything else. Here's me owning tony telling him im going to go scissors (although it kind of looks like im doing something else.... haha) before we play and then actually going scissors to take it down.





So it was now about 4 or 5 in the morning and after all the shenanigans and predrinking at the palms we decided it was time to go out haha. We hopped into a limo and decided to head over to an after hours club called Seamless. Seamless is pretty cool because its a strip club but its not. What i mean is that its pretty nice inside but theres no stage so its more like a nice bar where there are girls walking around giving dances. Hodge whipped out his business card at the door and we were immediately escorted into the "celebrity" table, which was pretty much the same as all the other tables but up a few feet in the air and had some ropes in front of it. I think at this point we were all pretty wasted/some passing out but we decided we needed to get a bottle anyways. We were here for a few more hours before finally calling it a night/morning so we decided to get a party bus back to the I.P. I really dont remember how or why we got in this party bus to drive us back but it sounds like it was pretty cool.

The end of the night on the party bus


I woke up saturday evening feeling like total shit and did not want to move. But after some tylenol, tums, tons of water, some Fifa 08 (if you have a ps3 buy this game)and a kettle&cranberry i was ready to go again. We headed over to their hotel (i.p.) around 10 to meet up and do some pre- drinking. I think we were all feeling a little shitty from the night before but within no time we were doing shots again haha. It was pretty funny because when we got there we were all saying how we spent so much money last night, took so many shots, were NOT going to take anymore limos, pre-drank for way too long, and didnt want to do that again tonight, wrong. We sat around the i.p pre drinking for like 3 hours, took shots, and decided to get into a limo around 1 to take us to the ghost bar at the Palms. This was the bar that was on the Real world and it was pretty cool i guess. There wasnt anything to spectacular about it other than the outside area. There was a great view from out there and they had a spot where there was a glass floor where you could stand on it and see all the way down to the ground. It was kind of funny to watch people around it. There were people like stomping on it trying to break it for some reason which was funny but would suck because you would die.

outside at ghost bar


After a few hours of the ghost bar we decided to limo it over to an after hours club called empire. Empire is really cool because they play sick music( if you like techno) and it doesnt open until 3am and closes at like 3 the next day i think. Obviously we decided that we needed another table/bottle but this time it kind of sucked because our table was in a really shitty spot. We stayed here for a few hours before finally calling it a night.

Finally it was sunday there last night out here and i was glad it was their last night. We had a great time but i just dont think my body could handle many more nights like these. I headed over to the I.P. to have some pre drinks and for us to figure out what we were going to do for the night. I didnt get there til around 11 or 12 so we only predrank for an hour or so before deciding we were going to go to the playboy club.

in front of the i.p. pre-limo


After we got there we talked to a few people who told us that it sucked so we just decided to have a few drinks there and figure something else out. We decided that we were going to head over to the Wynn and go to Tryst. Once again hodge pulled out the business card and we were right in with no cover. I have always heard this place was sweet and is supposed to be one of the hottest clubs in vegas and it definately lived up to the hype. It was like an inside/outside (whatever that means) place so when you were inside it still felt like you were outside and it had this huge waterfall type thing in the middle of the club. Its hard to explain exactly how it looked but it was just a cool place to be and the fact that every girl in the place was amazing didnt hurt.
i like


We left tryst around???? and decided we were going to head to a strip club. We went to a place called Sin which i had never really heard but at this point we couldve went anywhere and it wouldve been fun. We ended up staying here for a really long time and i didnt end up getting home until around 8 or 9 in a cab, gross.

I know this was reallllllllllllllyyyyyyy long but i hope that it was entertaining. I dont really feel like getting into any poker talk right now after typing all this but i will tomorrow for sure. Ive hit a little road bump and im now convinced that live poker is rigged after losing a 4.5k pot to a world series of poker bracelet winner last night, ill get into it more tomorrow. Anyways hope you enjoyed the post and here are a few more random pics and im out.









this chick looks like Clonie Gowan on steroids


-Nechita-