What a Game....

Yesterday was finally the big day of the game between Manchester United and Chelsea for the Championship. Let me just start off by saying it was an absolutely amazing game that eventually ended up with Man U winning in a shootout. It was probably the most exciting game that ive ever seen by far. Well maybe thats not true but the fact that it was such a close exciting game combined with me having a little under 1k riding on it made for some great excitement. I woke up pretty early (10 a.m.) to head over to MGM where a friend(clay/lvpokerdealer) had the skybox suite reserved above the sportsbook to watch the game. The sportsbook was completely packed with no seats for this game so it was pretty nice to have our own suite with recliners and drinks. In case you missed the game it was pretty much as exciting a game you will ever see. They went into the shootout and Ronaldo who is one of if not the top player in the world missed his shot in the shootout! Obviously once he missed it was pretty much over because its almost impossible for a goalie to make saves in these. So Chelsea makes all their shots and its down to their captain with the last shot to win the game....... and he kicks it off the crossbar!!!! Unbelievable. All he had to do was make that shot and it was over, instead it was all back to even. Man U scores, chelsea scores, man u scores again, and chelsea comes up and the goalie for man u made a sick save and MAN U wins. It was a very exciting game filled with us jumping around, yelling, sweating, and even me losing my voice for a while after the game. SHIP the monies. After the game was over we grabbed some lunch at hooters before i headed back home to take a nap before the nights celebration but not before stopping by red rock to place a few more bets on the lakers game.

The line was pretty tough at L.A. -7 so the only bets that i actually liked were the over/under on kobe bryants points at 31.5 so i took the under and owned kobes soul when he only scored 27, ship. The other bet i really liked was the over/under in the total number of 3 pointers made in the game at 14 which to me sounded rediculously high so i took the under and they only ended up making like 9 i think in the game,ship. I also put some money on the Red Wings to win the stanley cup which is pretty much free money, GO WINGS!!!

I also ended up totally killing it today on bodog betting the pistons game. I hit 5 out of 6 bets that i made during the course of the game for a nice win of around 7oo. Ive now ran my 180 deposit on bodog up to a little under 2k in a few weeks so maybe this time i wont be so lazy and actually withdraw the money instead of saying "fuck it" and just blowing it by being stupid.








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In my last post i said that i was planning on going home to michigan for the weekend but theres been a change of plans. After yesterday it was pretty apparent that it was going to be close to impossible to get tickets to the wings games so i called in today and cancelled my flight. Im going home for a few weeks in July anyways so i figured ill just wait and i really felt like shit today from last nights excursion so i didnt really feel like packing and going through the whole airport headache. Which reminds me, DONT ever fly Spirit Airlines. Their customer support was absolutley horrible as it took me about 2 hours to finally get someone on the phone to cancel and another thing that really pisses me off is that they charge you 20 dollars to check your suitcase! Not an extra suitcase or an overweight suitcase but just any suitcase you want to take with you,gay.

Obviously we had to go out last night and do a little celebrating from the game so we met up at Dragonfly for some food and a lot of shots. It was John(chatter), clay,(lv) kevin(poker super star Belowabove), and another sick tournament player steve( gboro). This was my first time meeting gboro who had just got in town yesterday for the world series and was a real chill dude. We shot the shit at dfly and pounded drinks/shots til about 2 or so before heading over to thee Rhino. Other than the place being way too packed it was a pretty fun time and we chilled here drinking til around 6 or so before calling it a night. Well thats pretty much a recap of whats been going on since my last post so check back tomorrow to see whats up. I think im going to try and wake up pretty early(by 2) to get down to the bellagio or wynn for some 5/10 so check back to see how that went and im out.

-Nechita-

Good Day

Today was a pretty good day all around. The day started off with me winning almost 500 on the Red Wings and almost 800 on the Spurs who i had bet to win the series. I actually totally forgot i even placed the bet because it seems like the series started so long ago. Ive always hated the Spurs and TIMMMMMAAAAAYYYYY but their just a really good team and i wouldnt be suprised at all if they end up winning it all again. I know everyone including David Stern is probably begging for a Celtics vs. L.A. finals but i really think its going to end up being Detroit vs. San Antonio again. After the games finished up i decided to head back down to the Bellagio for some of the 5/10 stupidity. The games were pretty soft like usual and i was able to make a little over 1300 in about 3 hours or so. I just got back about an hour ago from bellagio and decided to hop in some 5/10 games on stars for a bit while i surf the net and was able to win a little over 1k in about 10 minutes haha. It was all pretty much won from this hand- http://www.pokerhand.org/?2636416

Im glad the wings were finally able to close out the Stars, i was getting pretty nervous after they lost that 5th game.. Also I had planned on going home to michigan to go to either game 1 or 2 of the Stanley cup but i couldnt really book a flight until the wings closed out the series and they announced when the games would be. The 2 home games at Joe Louis are Saturday/Monday night so i booked a flight home today and will be back home from Friday morning until Tuesday. Im really excited to go to the games and it will be nice to take a little break from vegas even if it is just for the weekend. The Pistons and Tigers are all playing home this weekend as well so hopefully i can get to one of those games too but we'll see...

A buddy of mine(clay/lvpokerdealer) is a huge soccer nut and loves Manchester United in the finals in wednesdays game so i put 650 on it and if you like free money you should too. The game is wednesday at 2 eastern/11 here(gross) so dont miss out and go MAN U!

You're probably wondering what the hell that video is doing at the top of the post and i figured i would just share with you my favorite song at the moment. Kanye is pretty full of himself but he definitely makes great music and artistically is pretty far ahead of everyone else in the rap game IMO.

This weekend was so so i guess because i only went out 1 night on Friday. Actually it was a really fun weekend but i guess i just consider it so so because i only went out 1 night instead of 2. Honestly though i cant really do the back to back nights o partying anymore because i usually do it up so big the night before im just completely dead the following day. We started off doing some pre drinking on the roof top of NYNY then headed over to this new locals club called BLUE MARTINI http://www.bluemartinilounge.com/. Ive heard quite a few people talking up this place and it didnt disappoint at all. Its a huge bar/club with tons of good looking girls and an outside patio which is what im all about. The drinks were pretty stiff at 10 bucks each but our buddy got this like credit card from the owner or something so everything was 50% off the whole night, not bad. I think we stayed here til around 3 or so before everyone decided to head over to this after hours club called Seamless http://www.seamlessclub.com/ . This place is really cool because its like a club/bar but there are strippers there haha. Its cool because its more of a cool chill spot until you see a naked chick walk by and you remember that its a strip club and not just a regular lounge. We had a few drinks here before our buddy said we should go over to scores http://www.lvscores.com/index.php where his girlfriend works (cocktail waitress) and was going to give us free drinks for the night. Well at this point it was literally already sunny out by the time we got there haha so we went in for a drink before finally heading home and calling it a morning...

Well this has got way longer than i originally planned so im going to wrap it up. Check back tomorrow to see whats up and GO MAN U!!!!!!

-Nechita-

I WON 2700!!!!!!!........

Unfortunately i was already down 3,000 hahaha. I played the longest live session i have played in a long time of about 9 hours and it was a pretty wild day. Im calling it a pretty wild day because i had some pretty big swings for playing 5/10 and even though i lost 300 i really feel like i won. I started off at the wynn where the game was decent but after all was said and done i was down about 1200. There was this idiot asian guy who kept going all in for like 5k into like 100 dollar pots haha. I was just praying that i would be lucky enough to pick something up against him but no luck. I did however get into a pretty interesting pot with him...

Hand- Theres a straddle so it folds to me in middle position with AJ of spades and i make it 60 to go. Folds all the way around to the wild asian guy who calls and the BB calls.

Flop- K 4 2 with 2 spades

asian dude makes a small bet of 60, bb folds, and i reraise it up to 220 total, HE SNAP CALLS.

Turn brings a 5 (non spade) so i now have the nut flush draw with a straight draw. Asian dude checks to me and i bet out 410 and he INSTA calls, like he literally almost beat me into the pot when i bet. So the river comes down a 3 (non spade) making the board......

Final Board- K 2 3 4 5

I obviously missed my flush like usual but make the straight and as soon as the 3 comes out the asian dude SHOVES ALL IN, sick. He has like 5k or something covering me. Im sitting with about 2500 more on the river so i decide to throw up in my mouth a little bit before finally folding. I know it sounds like a pretty easy fold but i just couldnt put him on any kind of hand that would have a 6 in it. Wrong, after i fold he shows K 6 of spades...... Wouldve been nice to have a spade come off on the river cuz i know he wouldve shoved but instead i LOSE.

After a few hours the game started to get pretty shitty so i decided to leave the Wynn stuck around 1200 and head over to the Bellagio. I absolutely hate the bellagio poker room but the games have been pretty good/super soft lately so ive been going there quite a bit. This was really where the rollercoaster began. I was already down 1200 from the wynn and within maybe 20 minutes of sitting im back to even when i hit a set of 2's against some dudes KK and stacked him because no one can fold anything in the bellagio games. After about an hour or hour and a half im up almost 1k before shit hits the fan. I went from up around 1k to down almost 3k in the matter of about 3 hours! Those are some huge swings for that game and that short period of time but i just kept running into hands i couldnt really get away from. Set over set, K high flush vs A high flush, getting drawn out on a ton, and me bluffing off a little over 1,000 with 6 high haha. I could feel myself starting to tilt a bit but instead of just leaving and calling it a day i just took like a 5 minute break to cool down. I guess ill share the 6 high bluff before i go onto how i started steamrolling my way back to actually back up a few hundred.

The Bluff- I had been very active at the table but it was great because i would raise a lot of hands but no one would reraise me or really show any kind of resistance at all so i was basically dictating (i think thats a word)all the action.

I pick up 56 of clubs utg and come in for my standard raise to 35 and get 3 callers.

The FLOP- J 7 4 (rainbow) great flop giving me an open ended straight

I thought about going for a check raise but instead decided to lead out for 100 and get 2 callers. These arent your regular 2 callers though because these 2 players were in like every pot and calling down with anything. The TURN is a 4 making the board J 7 44 which i feel is a pretty card to bet with so i make it 280 and the this old donk calls and the other idiot reluctantly folds.

the RIVER- is a Q making the final board J 7 44 Q leaving me with 6 high and in a tough spot

I really felt like he just had some shitty J so i fire another shot on the river of 480 and he only had around 700 total at this point. He thinks forever and i think im going to get away with it until he donks it up and says" well if you got it you got it, im all in" Which wasnt exactly music to my ears because i now had to fold to his 200 dollar raise into the close to 2k pot haha. After i muck he shows his QJ off haha, such retards.

Looking back i like the play but i just dont like the timing. I broke my number one rule in poker and that is DONT try to bluff old people. I really feel i get away with it a ton against anyone with a clue but i tried to bluff an old calling station donk and thats just impossible to do.


Shortly after this bluff i was stuck around 3k and almost decided to just go home because i could feel myself tilting but theres just no way i could leave that game no matter how bad i was playing. The game was so weak i knew it was only a matter of time before i would get things going as i had it all pretty much set up.
At this point i had a great image set up and was gettting called down with anything so as long as i could pick up some hands i could value bet all day which is what i did. I finally picked up a few hands that actually held up and was just getting paid off huge. I was able to go from down the 3k to up a few hundred before finally calling it a night down 300.

There was one more hand i wanted to talk about but im getting pretty tired so im going to give u a quick summary. I raise 99 in early position and get 3 callers including both blinds. Flop i 10 5 3 with 2 clubs. I lead out for 90 into the 140 pot and it folds all the way around to the BB who is thinking forever before calling. Turn is another 5 so he checks to me and i know he has some shitty 10 so i make it 210. He sits and thinks forever before finally calling and the river brings a 7 of clubs bringing the flush out there. He thinks for a while then bets out 150?? This guy was super tight and i thought forever about popping it up to like 600 but pussied out and decided to just shut down and fold. He then shows me his 10 7 haha, how horrible is that? He calls down with just the 10, the flush gets there, the board is paired so if i have an over pair he is beat and im never folding, and yet he leads for 150 hahahhhaha, such retards. I was pretty mad at myself afterwards, not because i lost the pot, but the fact that i think i backed out from raising it to 600 on the river because i was content with losing the 300 on the day and didnt want to lose more.... so i pretty much talked myself out of making what wouldve probalby taken the pot down but who knows he mightve called anyways........... Anyways im exhausted so im going to bed and check back tomorrow to see how the day went and im out.

-Nechita-