I woke up at 11 a.m. today(gross) to go play in the Venetian 340 buy in tournament and was reminded why i hate tournaments. I ended up finishing like 22nd or something out of around 500 players for like 710 and the whole day was pretty much a bust. These things pay out so top heavy with 1st place paying like 45k and with the cash game stakes im used to playing unless im making the final table its pretty much a waste of time. I know making 430 or whatever and saying it was a waste of time sounds horrible but i feel like with the 10 hours i just dumped into todays tournament i couldve easily made more money playing cash games. Alright enough of my hate rant towards tournaments because when i finally break through and win one of these it will all be worth it, i think. Alright well i just wanted to let you know how todays tournament went and let out a little venting about my hatrid for tournaments. With that being said..... Im playing in the 550 buy in tourney tomorrow at the venetian haha , so check back to see how that went and im out.
Oh on a good note i bet 500 on Barcelona(soccer) to win today and they came through in what sounded like a very exciting game. Unfortunately i couldnt watch any of it because i was bored out of my mind in the tournament and the dealers/nazis at the venetian wont even let you use your phone at the table so i couldnt even check the score. Alright im out.
-Nechita-
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Some hands from the past week or so......
Ill get to the hands shortly but first i want to talk about a few things. First off i would like to talk about my new cellphone that i picked up last week the BlackBerry Pearl. This phone http://www.blackberrypearl.com/ really is amazing in comparison to my last phone. I have had the same cellphone for at least like 6 years and it was literally like one of the first phones to have a camera on it haha, thats old school. Needless to say its a little bit of a much needed upgrade. Its pretty funny because i feel like an old man trying to figure out how to use all the new features. It has a ton of cool things u can do like internet, video camera, gps, u can watch tv on it, etc. and its just really been one of the best things ive bought in a while.
Yesterday the weather was kind of crappy compared to what the weather channel said but we decided to go golfing anyway. The 4 of us decided to do 18 at this place out in summerlin that i cant remember the name of, lets just call it shithole. I dont know if its just because its so early in the year or what but this mightve been one of the worst courses ive ever played on. The fairways were shitty, the greens were literally like cement, and the "rough" was just some rocks covered in straw. The course was a piece of shit but we still had a fun time and it felt good to get out on the course for the first time this year. I actually expected to shoot a lot worse than i did for my first time out but i was making some decent contact on like every shot. This kid we were with almost got a hole in one too which was pretty nuts. The hole was playing about 140 or something he steps up, hits it, and as soon as he hits you can tell its going to be a good shot. It lands towards the front of the green and starts rolling straight at the pin which is towards the back. It hits the pin and lips out around the cup! it was so sick if it had just a little less speed it definetly wouldve been in, bad beat. That was like the 9th or 10th whole and was pretty much the end of the real golfing. We started shotgunning beers after like every hole on the back 9 and proceeded to get pretty drunk. My friend(hodge) decided to put the cart in reverse( makes a loud beeping noise when in reverse) right in the middle of my backswing and i just pop the ball way up into the air and right on the roof of this lady's house haha. She came out and looked pretty pissed but we just kind pretended like it didnt happen and drove off. Last i recall is racing the carts trying to get the others to crash and whipping beer cans off their cart windshield. I love golf. Anyways this is starting to get way too long so im going to wrap it up. I am going to play in the venetian 330 buy in tournament tomorrow so check back to see how that went and im out.
Here are some hands from the past week.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130439 - decide to play this hand super weird actually trying to get someone to raise and end up losing the pot. He said afterwards that he had QJ of spades!sick
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130429- what an easy game
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130426- turn the nuts and this go decides to go nuts
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130419- Here i decide to try and represent a huge hand by limping under the gun and raising but get called by this idiot. Its a good board to continue with my hand range but this guy was a total donk and once the 9 comes off on the turn theres just no hand he has now that he will fold. He also says afterwards that he had qj, donk.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130411- Here i call the flop with plans of taking it away later, somehow it worked out
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130402- I play good and get outdrawn like usual
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130371 - Ive got a lot of history with this player so i just felt like he was trying to run me over on the turn here with nothing so i shove. somehow it works out
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130358- Once this guy with KK re re raises my reraise i know he has a hand that he is willing to put all the money in with on the flop so i elect to reraise and we get it all in.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108644- Here i just try to value bluff to lightly i guess? i was really suprised to see him roll over aj here and thought for sure i had the best hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108638 aces suck , glad he bets 100 on the river because i was shoving if not
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108633- Here i hate my bet on the river. I was mad afterwards that i didnt shove for value making it look like i missed clubs instead of making this 310 bet that looks like i want to be called.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130340- funny story behind this hand. This is from after we got done golfing and i was just playing some 100 heads up sitngos because i was pretty drunk against this same guy here. This guy is just playing like a total lunatic and talking shit nonstop in the 100 sitngos so i finally tell him lets play some 10/20 heads up and he agrees. This is literally the very first hand we played and i stack him and he leaves immediately after haha, thanks for the 2k buddy.
-Nechita-
Yesterday the weather was kind of crappy compared to what the weather channel said but we decided to go golfing anyway. The 4 of us decided to do 18 at this place out in summerlin that i cant remember the name of, lets just call it shithole. I dont know if its just because its so early in the year or what but this mightve been one of the worst courses ive ever played on. The fairways were shitty, the greens were literally like cement, and the "rough" was just some rocks covered in straw. The course was a piece of shit but we still had a fun time and it felt good to get out on the course for the first time this year. I actually expected to shoot a lot worse than i did for my first time out but i was making some decent contact on like every shot. This kid we were with almost got a hole in one too which was pretty nuts. The hole was playing about 140 or something he steps up, hits it, and as soon as he hits you can tell its going to be a good shot. It lands towards the front of the green and starts rolling straight at the pin which is towards the back. It hits the pin and lips out around the cup! it was so sick if it had just a little less speed it definetly wouldve been in, bad beat. That was like the 9th or 10th whole and was pretty much the end of the real golfing. We started shotgunning beers after like every hole on the back 9 and proceeded to get pretty drunk. My friend(hodge) decided to put the cart in reverse( makes a loud beeping noise when in reverse) right in the middle of my backswing and i just pop the ball way up into the air and right on the roof of this lady's house haha. She came out and looked pretty pissed but we just kind pretended like it didnt happen and drove off. Last i recall is racing the carts trying to get the others to crash and whipping beer cans off their cart windshield. I love golf. Anyways this is starting to get way too long so im going to wrap it up. I am going to play in the venetian 330 buy in tournament tomorrow so check back to see how that went and im out.
Here are some hands from the past week.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130439 - decide to play this hand super weird actually trying to get someone to raise and end up losing the pot. He said afterwards that he had QJ of spades!sick
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130429- what an easy game
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130426- turn the nuts and this go decides to go nuts
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130419- Here i decide to try and represent a huge hand by limping under the gun and raising but get called by this idiot. Its a good board to continue with my hand range but this guy was a total donk and once the 9 comes off on the turn theres just no hand he has now that he will fold. He also says afterwards that he had qj, donk.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130411- Here i call the flop with plans of taking it away later, somehow it worked out
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130402- I play good and get outdrawn like usual
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130371 - Ive got a lot of history with this player so i just felt like he was trying to run me over on the turn here with nothing so i shove. somehow it works out
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130358- Once this guy with KK re re raises my reraise i know he has a hand that he is willing to put all the money in with on the flop so i elect to reraise and we get it all in.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108644- Here i just try to value bluff to lightly i guess? i was really suprised to see him roll over aj here and thought for sure i had the best hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108638 aces suck , glad he bets 100 on the river because i was shoving if not
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108633- Here i hate my bet on the river. I was mad afterwards that i didnt shove for value making it look like i missed clubs instead of making this 310 bet that looks like i want to be called.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130340- funny story behind this hand. This is from after we got done golfing and i was just playing some 100 heads up sitngos because i was pretty drunk against this same guy here. This guy is just playing like a total lunatic and talking shit nonstop in the 100 sitngos so i finally tell him lets play some 10/20 heads up and he agrees. This is literally the very first hand we played and i stack him and he leaves immediately after haha, thanks for the 2k buddy.
-Nechita-
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
"You are a sick sick man"
Things have continued to go well since last post and hopefully i can finish out the month with a good run. The weather is finally warming up and its starting be pretty nice out. Poker has been going pretty well so far this month both live and online. Im going to post a bunch of hands from the past week so i dont feel like writing up a huge post so i will write a little about how pokers been going and a little write up about what ive been up to off the felt.
Ill start off with some poker talk so if your one of my non poker friends you can feel free to skip pass this. Ive been playing pretty well since posting last week but more importantly i havent been getting sucked out on every hand. I cant tell you how good it feels to get all in with AA vs KK and actually have it hold up. The past week of playing live i have put in a lot of hours and have had some good results. I have been playing mostly 2/5 no cap at the wynn but have thrown in a few 5/10 sessions when the games looked good. Ive been putting in at least 5 hours a day which doesnt sound like a lot but i have really been slacking off up until now. Over the past week or so ive made around 5k playing live and have been playing pretty good. Funny live hand from a few days ago and where i got the title to this post from- Old lady(who had a wsop bracelet from the seniors event last year) was playing pretty reckless and i knew i would catch her slipping eventually. Anyways im in the small blind with 22 and everyone folds to the old lady who limps in on the button so i call and the bb checks. This is the first time i have seen her do this so my read is she either has something huge or she really has nothing. Flop comes down Q77 i check, bb checks, she instantly fires out 20 bucks into the 15 pot, I call and the bb folds. The turn comes a 4 so i check it again and this time with no hesitation she fires out 60 into the 50 pot. At this point im pretty confident in my hand as long as a scare card doesnt hit the river. The river comes down a 3 and i decide to bet out a measly 5 dollars because im sure i have the best hand and i just want to see what she will do. Its such a sick bet too because she cant call, she really cant fold, the only thing she can do is raise it which she did to 105. I snap call and she says "nice hand i have nothing" and i proudly flip over my tiny deuces to scoop the pot and part of her soul haha. The look on her face was priceless when i rolled over the deuces and it sent a pretty loud message to the table that im not to be fucked with haha. Most of the players already knew that but it just feels good to make those sick calls/plays every once in a while. The pot wasnt really that big but it feels good to have another player(who i think is a good player) at the table say "You are a sick sick man." As far as online goes im up about 7k on the month and im just going to put up a bunch of hands instead of talking about it.
This weekend was pretty tame compared to others but i still had a good time. I only ended up going out friday night but it was a long one. I started off down at the wynn to make some quick spending money for the night and to get a good pre-game buzz going. After both were a accomplished in a few hours we had a table/bottle at Scores. We ended up going through a few bottles and bullshitting around here for a while until we left to go to Dave Navarro's/ Fuels bellagio suite for a party???? The only stipulation was that we had to bring some girls with us which we could not come through with. I was pretty suprised that barely any of the girls even knew who he was and the ones that did were not interested in coming with us at all. It was now daylight and we were heading to the bellagio to meet up with our friends buddy who we were going to get in with. While we waited we were scowering the bellagio for any chicks we could find to come with us but it was like 7am and we had no luck. We end up going to this party we definately had got there too late. There was like 10 people sitting around(maybe like 2 girls) and it was just kind of dead. The real party was obviously back in the bedroom where supposedly Dave, the lead singer of fuel, and a ton of girls were at but we obviously couldnt go back there. The door cracked open for a second and that was definately where the party was at. I saw like 3 hot chicks speaking some foreign language and then some rocker looking guy came to the door and shut it. I dont know what the lead singer of fuel looks like but im assuming this mustve been him. After having a drink here we decided that the night was pretty much over so we headed home. I felt like death all day saturday so there was no way i was going out.
I have a few more things i want to talk about like yesterdays golfing adventure, new phone, etc. but this is getting way too long. I think ill just wait until later tonight to finish the rest of this up. Im going to go play at the wynn so check back later to see how that went and i will put the hands up from the last week then as well.
-Nechita-
Ill start off with some poker talk so if your one of my non poker friends you can feel free to skip pass this. Ive been playing pretty well since posting last week but more importantly i havent been getting sucked out on every hand. I cant tell you how good it feels to get all in with AA vs KK and actually have it hold up. The past week of playing live i have put in a lot of hours and have had some good results. I have been playing mostly 2/5 no cap at the wynn but have thrown in a few 5/10 sessions when the games looked good. Ive been putting in at least 5 hours a day which doesnt sound like a lot but i have really been slacking off up until now. Over the past week or so ive made around 5k playing live and have been playing pretty good. Funny live hand from a few days ago and where i got the title to this post from- Old lady(who had a wsop bracelet from the seniors event last year) was playing pretty reckless and i knew i would catch her slipping eventually. Anyways im in the small blind with 22 and everyone folds to the old lady who limps in on the button so i call and the bb checks. This is the first time i have seen her do this so my read is she either has something huge or she really has nothing. Flop comes down Q77 i check, bb checks, she instantly fires out 20 bucks into the 15 pot, I call and the bb folds. The turn comes a 4 so i check it again and this time with no hesitation she fires out 60 into the 50 pot. At this point im pretty confident in my hand as long as a scare card doesnt hit the river. The river comes down a 3 and i decide to bet out a measly 5 dollars because im sure i have the best hand and i just want to see what she will do. Its such a sick bet too because she cant call, she really cant fold, the only thing she can do is raise it which she did to 105. I snap call and she says "nice hand i have nothing" and i proudly flip over my tiny deuces to scoop the pot and part of her soul haha. The look on her face was priceless when i rolled over the deuces and it sent a pretty loud message to the table that im not to be fucked with haha. Most of the players already knew that but it just feels good to make those sick calls/plays every once in a while. The pot wasnt really that big but it feels good to have another player(who i think is a good player) at the table say "You are a sick sick man." As far as online goes im up about 7k on the month and im just going to put up a bunch of hands instead of talking about it.
This weekend was pretty tame compared to others but i still had a good time. I only ended up going out friday night but it was a long one. I started off down at the wynn to make some quick spending money for the night and to get a good pre-game buzz going. After both were a accomplished in a few hours we had a table/bottle at Scores. We ended up going through a few bottles and bullshitting around here for a while until we left to go to Dave Navarro's/ Fuels bellagio suite for a party???? The only stipulation was that we had to bring some girls with us which we could not come through with. I was pretty suprised that barely any of the girls even knew who he was and the ones that did were not interested in coming with us at all. It was now daylight and we were heading to the bellagio to meet up with our friends buddy who we were going to get in with. While we waited we were scowering the bellagio for any chicks we could find to come with us but it was like 7am and we had no luck. We end up going to this party we definately had got there too late. There was like 10 people sitting around(maybe like 2 girls) and it was just kind of dead. The real party was obviously back in the bedroom where supposedly Dave, the lead singer of fuel, and a ton of girls were at but we obviously couldnt go back there. The door cracked open for a second and that was definately where the party was at. I saw like 3 hot chicks speaking some foreign language and then some rocker looking guy came to the door and shut it. I dont know what the lead singer of fuel looks like but im assuming this mustve been him. After having a drink here we decided that the night was pretty much over so we headed home. I felt like death all day saturday so there was no way i was going out.
I have a few more things i want to talk about like yesterdays golfing adventure, new phone, etc. but this is getting way too long. I think ill just wait until later tonight to finish the rest of this up. Im going to go play at the wynn so check back later to see how that went and i will put the hands up from the last week then as well.
-Nechita-
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