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-