Vegas Baby!!!

Tomorrow night we will be leaving for Vegas and i cant wait to get there. I don't know why but i feel more pumped up for this trip to Vegas more than the other times I've been out there. I think a major factor is I've been working on my tournament game the past few weeks and for once i actually feel confident going into tournaments. I have been running pretty deep into some tourneys lately and hopefully that will carry over into the w.s.o.p.. I plan on playing in the 500$ deep stack tourney at the venetian on Friday and then playing in the 1500$ wsop tourney on Saturday, if i don't final table the venetian tourney. I was thinking of not playing in the wsop tourney and only playing the venetian tourneys but i like my tourney game right now and wouldn't mind picking up a bracelet haha. Also my buddy(hodge) and i are going to be looking for apartments while i am out there so that is kind of exciting. I will be taking my laptop out there this trip so i will try to put up some posts of what we are up to and how we are doing in the tourney. It really sucks not having my desktop work because it really has limited my play the past week by only being able to play 2 tables at a time. Also i cant put up any hands but over the past few days I've got killed on bodog for about 2k, dropped around 1k on FT, and up around 2k on pokerstars. I really wish i was playing on my laptop because i have been taking some horrific beats over the past few days on bodog and FT. I keep getting it all in as a huge favorite and people are just hitting 3 or 4 outers on the river every time against me, its actually getting pretty funny on how i am losing some of these pots. Anyways i still have to get everything ready for tomorrow so I'm about to go to bed so check back within the next few days to see what kind of shenanigans we are up to and I'm out.

-Nechita-

Another disappointing sunday.....

Once again i played in both of the big Sunday tournaments on stars and full tilt and was unable to cash in either. In the stars tournament i just couldn't get anything at all going. I picked up aces and kings within the first hour but obviously both times i raised everyone insta folded and every time i didn't want action i got it. Also out of the 6500 people in the tournament you would think i would be at a table of nobodies but of course i had to good 25/50 regulars at my table so that sucked. I only made it half way through the 2nd hour of play before getting all in with 77 vs. kk. gg me and gg $370. The full tilt tournament was a $530 buy in and was giving away around 140 seats with about 300 entrants. My table was pretty weak so i was able to pick up some small pots until this hand came up. The blinds were at 30/60 and we both had a little over 3k in chips at this point. I have 77 utg so i limp in, it folds around to the bb who was a weak player but was raising a lot of pots, i just call. Flop comes down aj7 rainbow and i decide to fire out a kind of small bet of around 150 into the 450 pot and he just calls. The turn is a 6 of hearts and with the pot around 750 i bet out like 450 hoping to get raised but yet he just calls again. The river comes down the 3 of hearts making the board aj763 with now 3 hearts and I'm still very confident in my set. I bet out like 800 on the river praying to get called and wouldn't u know it he instantly min raises it to 1600?? As soon as he did this i was 100% sure i was beat but i just don't see how i can throw it away at this point so i call, he turns over j9 of hearts for a runner runner flush so sick. That left me with like 300 chips but i was able to build back up to around 3k before getting it all in with aq vs. ak gg me. It was another pretty disappointing Sunday in the big tournaments but luckily i had played some plo on both sites before the tournaments and was able to win my buy ins. The big tournaments didn't go well but i did play in a $55 tourney while i was playing the others and made a pretty deep run. There were like 1200 people in it with first paying 14k and i got all the way down to 23rd place for a weak $230, disappointing. I am disappointed because i feel like i keep getting so close but end up busting out for barely any money but at the same time I'm very happy with how Ive been playing. I think that with all these deep runs i am due for a final table and no better time than while i am in Vegas next week. Well that sums up yesterdays mess and I'm about to start up a session so check back later for that and I'm out.

-Nechita-

Hacked!

That's right, some how i think i managed to put a virus onto my desktop yesterday. I'm not really a big computer tech guy so I'm not 100% sure but i believe i might have put a key logger on it. A key logger is a program people can put onto your computer without you knowing and it allows them to see everything that you are typing. Obviously this isn't a good thing to have on your computer and its been really freaking me out because of all my passwords i have on my CPU. I am on my laptop right now which i think is secure but its sucks because i can only play like 2 tables at a time. Also i don't really feel like having to run around to best buy or computer stores to get this fixed right before i leave for Vegas on Wednesday. Anyways that is the recent problem i have been dealing with and has pretty much limited me to little or no play. I did play some PLO yesterday on full tilt and was able to pull in close to 2k which was nice since i started off down like 700. All the sites today are having their huge main event tournaments so i will be playing in them and hopefully can win a seat. Pokerstars is giving away at least 150, Full tilt is giving away 100, and i haven't looked yet to see what bodog is doing. Last year i got pretty deep into both of these tourneys but came up short so hopefully i can win a seat this year. I haven't played any tourneys yet that give away seats to the main event because i could really care less about playing in it. Even if i cash in one of the tournaments today i am just going to keep the 10k instead of playing in the main event. Anyways that's just a quick update on what i have been up to and check back later to see how i did today.

-Nechita-