Stuff

Well its that time again for another blog update on what ive been up to so here goes.... First i will start off with my standard bitching about bad beats section of the week. Ill start by talking about how ive been playing great live poker and keep getting absolutely shit on by the cards. I havent been played any live poker in almost a week but its probably for the best as i think ive strung together like 4 or 5 losing sessions in a row. Three of the sessions were kinda small losses but in a couple sessions at the Wynn i was stuck over 1600 and over 1200. That might not sound like too much but to get that stuck in a 2/5 game is quite impressive haha, especially since the Wynn has recently changed their 2/5 game to a 1500 maximum buy-in, instead of no cap like it used to be. The weird thing is is that i feel like ive actually been playing really good poker but just everytime i get it in for a big pot i lose. I seriously played the best ive played in a long time the other day and still ended up losing like 500 and was actually stuck like 1600 at one point. Heres the hand i talked about at the end of the last session and it pretty much sums up how ive been running whenever i get it for big pots. The HAND-

Ive been at the new table for about an hour, the table is playing pretty tight, ive been raising quite a bit pre/playing a decent amount of pots, and am sitting with like 1800 or so when.....
Im in late position with 68 of clubs, 1 limper whos horrible so i make it 20, the button calls, the sb, bb, and the limper all call. So we have 5 way action to the flop with 100 in the middle. FLOP comes down J 9 7 with 2 spades. The blinds check and the limper who only has like around 100 left bets out a smallish/stupid bet of 20, i decide to just call to hopefully get at least another caller, to my suprise everyone calls. The TURN is a beautiful 5 and now everyone checks to me so i decide to bet out 115 into the 200 and the guy to my left instantly says "IM ALL In" like before i even finished betting out my chips. Well he called the 115 and shoved all in for 1k more! I obviously call pretty confidently as this guy was nowhere near smart nor competant enough to over shove the nuts. He has a set of 99s and obviously the river pairs the board with another J and the 2.5k pot gets shipped his way, standard. To make things even better, literally like 6 hands later i get this lady all in with just a J high flush draw against my KK for like a 1k pot, obviously spikes the flush on the river. I run well. After all that and being stuck like 1600 right from the get go i still managed to only lose like 400 or something and really shouldve had like a + 2k day. Ive just been running horrible whenever the money goes in in the big pots...... alright enough with my rant.

Other than running horrible at live poker the online scene has been going pretty well the past week. Ive only been playing PLO ranging from 1-2 to 5-10 and its been going good. I actually cant even recall the last time ive even played no limit online, been at least a few months since my last serious nl session. I think everyone pretty much knows how to play no limit now and the games are way tougher than they were over the past few years. Omaha though is still filled with bad players that really dont know what their doing, kinda like how the nl games used to be a couple years ago. So for now im going to keep grinding away the PLO online and playing nl live.

Well i was planning on putting up a few pics and talking about my weekend but this is getting way too long. Dont worry i still plan on doing my europe trip pics/summary and the porn convention with pics but am just kinda lazy. Hopefully ill get some kind of energy within the next few days and actually write up the summarys and put up the pics. Probably going to go play live tomorrow somewhere on the strip so check back for that and im out.

-Nechita-

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg

my new theme song when it comes to poker. I just had a decent sized blog wrote up but of course somehow the internet disconnected and somehow the blog wasnt saved...
So instead of doing it all over right now im going to wait til later to tell you about this week in bad beats. Including me getting rivered yet AGAIN for like a 2.5k pot, fun fun. Check back later tonight and im out.

Poker is fun

Its a funny thing about poker.... One day you can feel like your the best and on top of the world, and the next day it can make you feel clueless. Thats how i feel sometimes anyways. Things were going quite well for the short time ive played into the new year before they came to a screaching hault over the past 3 days. I was up a little over 4k (2k from live play/2k from online)and on my way to a nice little 12k month to start the year off until the poker gods decided to slap me back down. I was trying to find a clip of when Hellmuth went nuts saying "if there werent luck in poker id win em' all" but somehow one of the greatest quotes EVER spoken to this day is not on youtube. You might not like Hellmuth but truer (not sure if thats even a word) words have never been spoken and pretty much sum up my past 3 days. Ive been playing great this year and should easily be up about 8k or so on the year but have just ran stupid awful the past 3 days. But i guess thats poker and no one likes to hear bitchy bad beat stories so ill just stop now before i go on some long rant and throw my computer out the window.... haha jk.

Here are some hands from the new year. Keep in mind that after my couple bad sessions i just logged off pokerstars before saving a bunch of hands i wouldve liked to have shown here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3706857
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690448
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690426
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690418
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690401
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690409

Outside of poker i havent really been doing a whole lot since the new year. For my birthday i did in fact end up taking the "laying low" approach by just hanging with the gf and not doing the usual "get as rediculously drunk as possible" thing. We started off by her taking me to dinner at Ruth Chris's steakhouse http://www.ruthschris.com/ which was amazing and im going to go out on a limb here and say it mightve been one of the best steaks ive EVER had. Thats a pretty bold statement to make since ive ate at a lot of the "fancy/expensive" restaurants here in Vegas. Its really not that bad on the wallet either. I think our bill including appetizers,cocktails, and dinner was under 200 which is pretty good. Even better since i wasnt the one paying haha. Afterwards we went over to this martini type bar inside of Paris called Napoleans. They had this awesome dueling pianos show which was a lot of fun. It was definitely a nice change up from all the clubs like pure,lax. etc.. The guys put on an awesome show and they knew every song you could throw at them ranging from obscure metallica songs to billy joel. Highly recommend checking it out if you like fun.

New Years was a blast as well. Shawn had got us Fergie tickets at the Palazzo so after some dinner/a little predrinking that was our first stop. I actually like Fergie so it was a pretty fun time and she put on a great show. The concert ended around 11p.m. so we were in panic/rush mode to get down to fremont street to meet up with some friends and most importantly be down there before midnight. We both were pretty drunk at this point so we cabbed it downtown and luckily got there around 1130. I was on the main strip last year and Fremont new years blew it out of the water. The light show leading up to the countdown was really cool and it just had a lot better party feel/atmosphere compared to the main strip. After midnight we met up with a few friends for some drinks/drunken blackjack before shawn and i finally cabbed it home and capping off a great new years eve.

This is getting way too long and i have stuff to do so im going to wrap this up. Dont think i forgot about my europe trip summary. My computers with most of my pictures is still getting looked at so once i get that back i will put it up. Im either going to play live somewhere or online tonight im still undecided so check back for that later and im out.

Oh also my buddy and i went to the PORN convention this last saturday so ill tell you all about that and put up some pics of me and ron jeremy lol in the next post. later.


(his win at bellagio cup last year)

P.S.- Congrats to my buddy kevin aka "belowabove" on his 8th place finish in the pca at bahamas for 250k. Im sure hes pretty pissed he didnt go on to take down first but either way congrats on being a sick human being.


-Nechita-

Happy New Years!

Alright im late by 5 days but still... Happy New Years! I hope all of you had a safe/fun time, i had a great time here in good ol Vegas. Ive been really lacking on the blog but thats all going to change now that its a new year. Man am i glad 2008 is over with..... It was by far my worst year in poker since starting out and im hoping to bounce back with my best year in 2009. I would definitely say the main problem in 2008 was discipline/work ethic. I just wasnt putting in the hours and when you combine that with running horrid it adds up to one big mess. Well im going to the Wynn to play for a while so check back later to see how that went and im out.