I like the night life baby.......

The title is pretty fitting to how the past weekend has gone. Oh and The cars are so sos sosos so underrated its stupid. Seriously though start listening to the cars and your mind will be BLOWN. Yeah things have been going alright i guess since the last post i made about retarded tournaments. Just got home like 20 minutes ago Pretty wasted since it is 11 AM and we started boozing pretty early last night hahaha. Pretty interesting night to say the least... Anyways for some odd reason i really wanted to hear the cars and figured i would post about how sick they are. Going to post tomorrow for sure about that trip to europe ive been talking about, me actually making monies over the weekend, and how ballin/retarded i am haha.

-drunk-

This

Played my first 2008 WCOOP http://www.pokerstars.com/wcoop/#schedule tournament today. The tournament started at 11:30 A.M. which is disgusting in the first place but the fact that i didnt get to bed til around 6 or 7 made it that much worse. Also i had the great idea to get up to get mcdonalds breakfast by 1030 so i really got about 2 hours of sleep. This was one of the tournaments i wanted to play most despite the fact i knew i would be dead tired all day. So after every hour we got our 5 minute break i would run downstairs and jump into the deep end of the pool just to keep me awake haha. I made a little under 500 which is pretty weak because after playing a little bit of cash games i ended up down like 100 or something haha. Not sure if im going to play in anymore of the wcoop's but we'll see. I want to play the 300 heads up and 500 pl on saturday but their on the weekend and its just so damn hard waking up by 11:30.Anyways im pretty dead right now but wanted to give you a quick update. Ill give a more lengthy update tomorrow including my upcoming trip to europe so check back for that and im out.

-Nechita-

"All in KatDaddy"

I was playing some 2/5 nl at the Wynn a few days ago when former nba "great" (notice the quotation marks around great ha) Chris Mills and Mekhi Phifer came and sat at my table. Normally this would be a good thing since mekhi bought in for like 2k and mills for a little over 200k (yeah i said 200k in a 2/5 game) but i had already been playing for like 7 or 8 hours and was pretty tired. It was pretty late and dead when they sat down but mekhi still had fans coming up like every 10 minutes or so to tell him what big fans they are, not so much for chris mills. I think mekhi had a decent buzz going because he was just super laid back just playing like tight abc poker and laughing at everything. Chris mills on the other hand was very loud and playing like every pot regardless of how much it was pre but i suprisingly he was actually a pretty decent player from what i saw. All in all it was a pretty fun table with them there and for some odd reason CM called everyone KatDaddy which was pretty funny because mekhi would giggle like a school girl everytime he said anything. Unfortunately i was super tired when they got there so i left the game stuck like a little under 300 which sucks but i was actually down like 1100 earlier in the day so it wasnt too bad. Obviously im still running what is becoming normal i guess, Horribly. Got it in with QQ vs. Ak for like a 900 pot obvious A on the flop. Then get it in with 57hh on a board of K57 against this clown with QQ for like a 1k pot, ill let u take a wild guess what the river was......... Queen. Pretty standard for me.

I was planning on waiting to update this tomorrow but im laying in bed and cant sleep so i figured i would write a little something up. I only got like 5-6 hours of sleep last night too so im not sure why im wide awake. Speaking of last night, it turned out to be a pretty adventurous tuesday night. We started off around 10 grabbing some food at this bar down the road called kopper keg. Which was supposed to be just kind of a relaxing night of grabbing some dinner and having a few drinks quickly escalated into a gong show. There was a pool table there so instead of playing for money we decided the loser had to buy shots after each game. Obviously i totally dominated winning 3 of 4 games and after the 4th jaigerbomb we headed over to meet up with some peoples at the good ol Dragonfly. We chilled here for a bit having a few more drinks and shots before heading over to the infamous Olympic Gardens. It was probably around 2 by the time we arrived and it was super dead but they let us in for free so we just decided to stay here. It was starting to get late so we decided to head out of here and head home but not before making a few pit stops haha. Im not sure how or why but we decided to stop at the Peppermill http://www.peppermilllasvegas.com/ for a scorpion race haha. A scorpion is their house drink which is pretty much a huge glass literally the size of a soccerball that is filled with like 8 shots and a bunch of fruit and juice. So after racing these down we decided to stop at penthouse since it is right on the way home haha. Also we get free admission and drinks so its kind of hard to pass up free drinks and naked girls when drunk. Anyways this is getting way too long so im going to attempt to get some shut eye. Im getting up pretty early (like 1) to get my vegas I.D., move some couches into our house that we are getting for free(thanks clay) and i also have to go apply for my passport. I am going to Spain in december but ill tell you all about it in tomorrows post, im out.

-Nechita-

Long Overdue Update. (Part 1)

Im kind of pissed because i wanted to start with this sweet clip from the dodgers game but now i cant find the clip anywhere on youtube. Its pretty much the definition of ownage so rather than tell you about it and ruining it ill wait til tomorrow to ask my buddy where it is so i can put it up on here. I got back from california on Friday and it was an awesome trip. It was my first time going to cali and i can definitely see many more trips out there in the future. The first night we arrived in L.A. just in time to meet up with some peeps and head into the dodgers game to watch the warm ups/batting practice. It was pretty cool because we actually got to walk out onto the field. We hung out here for a bit before we went to our seats and began drinking heavily. Unfortunately we did no pre-drinking before the game so i think i spent a good 50-60 dollars on beers alone by the time the game was over. Although it did kind of even out since our tickets were pretty much free and were super sick seats. Our seats were the very front row in left field so we were pretty much breathing down manny's neck all night. Speaking of manny, they absolutely LOVE him there. It was pretty nuts, the crowd would literally go wild and cheer even if he just happened to look their way. We had a really fun time at the game and it ended up being a really good game with it ending by a play at the play in the bottom of the 9th to give the dodgers a 4-3 win.

The next night we headed to san diego and had an awesome time. We decided to hit up the Padres game to start off the night which was really fun. The stadium was great because there wasnt a bad seat in the place. Unfortunately we bought tickets for like 40 bucks which was a waste because we couldve just got some 7 dollar cheapos and just moved to anywhere we wanted. The brewers beat them down pretty bad like 8-1 or something i think which was nice since i had like 200 on the brew crew. Afterwords we hit up this place called the Waterfront where our buddy used to work. It had a really cool/chill vibe to it. There was a band playing and it was like half outside kinda and i love places like that, unfortunately there are like none in vegas since its 894092 degrees. Only thing about this place that i disliked was that it closed at 2a.m. , after living here in vegas its just so weird now going to places (everywhere but here) where things close at 2 since some nights we dont even go out til 2. After the bars were closing we still wanted to party so we hit up some strip club called platinum i think that was open til 4 or something. It mightve been the creepiest display of creepiness ive ever seen. The rules are obviously a little different than vegas so it was just a weird experience all around. There was like 4 girls in the entire place with like 60 guys, super creepy.

The last day kinda sucked because i had a prett intense hangover from the night before. We walked down to the mall which is out in the open with no roof and just looked around at some stuff. I was planning on buying some stuff but all i really wanted to do was get the hell out of there becasuse i felt like shit. I did however purchase a Jamba Juice for the first time and talk about a total scam. This place had people lined up around the corner waiting to buy this over priced hippie crap. I mean my drink was alright but for 4 dollars and some change no thanks. I have some pretty cool pictures from the beaches and stuff but obviously i somehow managed to forget my camera in my friends car so once i get it back ill put them up. Anyways this is just a little piece of the update but its getting super long so im going to call it a night. Im on like no sleep and have lost my desire to type so check back tomorrow for part deux of the update and im out.

-Nechita-

Huge Post.....

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Haha gotcha. Im sorry for the lack of updates due to me being busy (mostly lazy) but i am updating later tonight for sure. I got some shit i have to do for now and am going to play some cards after that for a bit but whenever i get home later tonight im 100% updating. If by some chance i havent updated by tomorrow i will give the first 5 people ( as if there are even 5 people who read this..)who call me out on it 20 bucks on pokerstars. Alright well have a good day and check back later for the newly updated post.

-Nechita-

Busy Busy.

Sorry for the lack of updates over the past couple weeks but ive just been super busy with all kinds of things. Things have been pretty hectic mainly due to us moving into our new place but we've been moved in for a week now so things are starting to get back to normal. Our new house is in henderson and is pretty sick. I could go on and on talking about it but i decided that im going to make like a cribs type video with my camcorder and put it up on here for you guys to see rather than hearing me babble about it. I had quite a bit of stuff to talk about but i just dont have the time at the moment. Its 3 a.m. and i have to wake up tomorrow at 11 am to head to L.A. and san diego for until friday. Ive never been to cali before so im pretty excited to see what all the fuss is about. We also have front row dodgers tickets for tomorrows/todays game so that will be pretty cool. We are in left field to so we'll be able to talk shit to manny ramirez even though i dont really have anything against him. Anyways i need to get some sleep for this trip so ill just leave you with a list of things to look forward to in my next post which should be friday.

-Video of our apartment
-Video of me burning my fortune cookie fortune
-Me rivering a straight flush for a 2.6k pot
-Me bitching about how i run horrible (2.4k pot all in with my AA vs QQ) QQ=nuts obv
-My new cali king bed and me bitching about how expensive/involved bedding stuff is.
-Bugs
-The cops in our area
-Sick storm that hit us a few days ago which included golf ball size hail!(we live in the desert....
- And how i FUCKING HATE Wal mart and will never shop at the white trash magnet again.

Alright well check back friday or saturday afternoon for a HUGE post and im out

-Nechita-

Weekend Wrap up...

My plan going into this weekend was to lay low and play a bunch of poker and thats exactly what i did. Well i wouldnt exactly say a bunch but it felt good to get back on the tables and make a little bit of money. Friday night i went back to the wynn to play some more 2/5 and things went pretty shitty. Ive been on a some what normal sleep schedule since coming back from michigan so by the time i actually got down there to play it was like 10pm and after just a few hours i was feeling kinda tired, weird. The game was pretty soft but i couldnt get anything going and after about 3 hours of play i called it a night stuck around 600.

We got turned down once again on a house we were looking to move into and its really starting to get down to the last minute. Unfortunately the people that were in there before totally trashed it and they want to rent to families now. So after searching for houses during the day i decided to hit up red rock after to play some 2/5 mainly because i didnt feel like driving all the way down and dealing with the madness of the strip on the weekend. Red rock is a really nice casino and only like a 2 minute drive from our place but the game usually sucks and theres NEVER a 5/10 going. I got there around 8 or 9 and the session went pretty well. I think i left around 1 or 2 and was able to book a nice win of just under 1800, not bad for 2/5.

I woke up today really looking forward to burning/donating money in the sunday donkaments but our real estate lady called us with 3 more houses and since our lease is up in 5 days and we have nowhere to live yet we decided it might be a good idea to go look at them haha. They were all pretty nice located in the henderson area and she is supposed to let us know tomorrow which ones are available. Hopefully we can get this over with by tomorrow or tuesday so ill know for sure where we'll be living next week. Also my friend (c. moeller) is leaving michigan thursday to drive out here to live with us and it would be nice to let him know he has somewhere to live when he gets here haha. Although i wouldnt be opposed to setting up shop and getting a room in the I.P. for a month haha..... A little tip for all you vegas newbies- Ive stayed at the flamingo,wynn,harrahs,hooters,frontier(r.i.p),caesars,a few others, and NONE of them compare to THEE Imperial Palace.

Tonight after looking at a few more houses i decided to head back to red rock to play a little pokah. The game was super dead but i managed to pick up a set of 4s and take down a decent sized pot. Good thing to because other than this pot i dont think i won another hand in the 2-3 hours i was there. I started to feel my interest level/patience starting to quickly disappear so i decided to rack up and call it a night with a profit of around 750 or something. All in all its been going pretty well since coming back. Im up a little under 3k since coming back on tuesday and hopefully i can get things turned around with a little heater and forget about that nasty little downswing i was on. Anyways this is getting pretty long so check back tomorrow to see if we have somewhere to live in a week and how tomorrows poker went and im out.


P.S.- Dont think ive forgot about burning that fortune cookie fortune haha. Ive decided im going to wait until we get a new place and do it there for a fresh start. STAY TUNED for Pictures/possibly video of the sacrifice to come.......

-Nechita-

Vegas/ 200th post!

Since aerosmith made this song like 89 years ago this was the closest thing to a music video i could find for this song. I think back in the saddle is a pretty fitting theme for this blog and how i feel about returning back to vegas from my 2 week vacation to michigan. Michigan was a blast but towards the end i was ready to get back to vegas and do work.

I signed in ready to make this post when i noticed that this was my 200th post.... It doesnt really seem like ive made that many pointless ramblings but apperantly i have so thats kinda cool i guess. I wish i could talk about how things are so much different since starting this blog with my 40k in 100 days goal but not much has. The only real change has been that i live in vegas now which i guess is kind of a major change but other than that things kind of are the same as that first post. Unless you are a die hard thats been reading my blog since day 1 (im sure theres none haha) I suggest going back and reading some of my early posts, kinda cool to look back and see exactly what i was doing/thinking at that point in my life.

I logged my first live session in what seems like years yesterday at the wynn. It felt kind of weird walking back in there because i went from playing there almost everyday to yesterday was my first time there in like 2 months. Everything/everyone was pretty much the same except the fact that the room was completely dead. There was only 2 tables of 2/5 no cap and only 1 table of 5/10 going. I decided to go with the 2/5 which i played for about 4-5 hours and was able to pick up a little over 700, finally a winning session. I still ran pretty shitty but was able to just grind out a few smallish pots that added up to a pretty solid first session, IM BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCKK, BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCKKKKKK in the saddle again...
I think im about to 8 table 1-2 on stars for a bit to get some vpp points on stars so i can get back to Platinum status. I still need like 5k points but i think i should be able to reach that by the end of the month. Ill probably do that for a few hours then head down to the wynn again for some live pokers so check back later to see how that went and im out.

-Nechita-

Michigan.

Well i was hoping being home would be a nice relaxing time without much poker but i was wrong. There really hasnt been much poker but ive sure managed to dump a pretty decent amount in very limited play. Since being home ive played for maybe 4 or 5 hours total and have managed to lose about 7k, fucking sick. Im really glad i dont know how to make those pokertracker graphs because mine would be a straight line down. In my defense about 5.5k of it was from coming home wasted and playing some drunken plo which was probably not the best idea haha. Ive been really good about not playing serious stakes when drunk but i started off just playing some 1/2 heads up against this total idiot who put me on tilt so i followed him to 5/10 and ran like dog shit like the past month now. Im not really sure what my next move is going to be pokerwise. I really dont feel like im playing bad but obviously something isnt going right. I have been running horribly but i cant really put all the blame on that. I might take like a week of just watching cardrunners videos, studying, and just try to clear my head and come back with a fresh start. I cant remember who's blog i was reading but they were talking about how they had too much time on their hands so they would play poker to just pass time instead of really wanting to play and i feel like that might be whats been going on lately. Hopefully after a tiny break i can get things back on track and quit lighting money on fire like the past month or so... This is in no way an "im busto" post haha which is probably what you are thinking reading this. Im still in great shape financially (bankroll management 101) but anytime you lose 20+k in a month it can mess with your mind a bit. aaahhhhhhhh the life of a poker player. STAY IN SCHOOL KIDS HAHA.

Also im not a very superstitious person at all but i swear since i got this fortune cookie fortune at the beginning of my downswing things have just gone awful. I kept it on my desk at home kind of as a joke but i think when i get back to vegas next week i will be lighting it on fire haha.



Other than the few hours of poker Michigan has been great. Its always fun to come home to see family/friends especially this time of year with the beautiful michigan weather. I know people talk about how shitty michigan weather is and for the most part thats true, but there's no better place to be in the summer. Just relaxing outside, bbqing, having some drinks, and hitting up the lake is just awesome. Its always a nice change of from the dress clothes/shoes scene of vegas to just being able to throw on some shorts and sandals and grab some beers. Im heading up to my 2nd favorite city Toronto with my dad on thursday and i cant wait. I really dont know what it is about that city but i just love it there and if i didnt love vegas so much i would strongly consider living there. Ill be back from there friday and hitting up a kid rock concert this weekend so ill try to put a post up sometime after that. Until then here are a few of the hands from that drunken night of plo, check back in a few days to see whats up and im out.

drunk plo is fun......

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892330
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892338
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892344
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892348
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892355
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892363
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892392
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892400
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892410
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2892422


-Nechita-

random (continued)

Well im sitting here at the airport in vegas with about an hour and a half to kill so i figured i would donk it up in a few sit n gos and finish my post from yesterday. At least i thought i was, I just registered for a 120 6 handed sit n go and its really choppy for some reason so i think this will be the only one ill play. We've only played about 7 or 8 hands now but a few of the players seem to be totally retarded. Heres a funny hand that just went down as i was typing this.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2870184 - I know at the very worst im a coin flip but i dont think its worth it this early. The players are horrible and i run super unlucky so i try to keep the luck element out of it as much as possible. So ill take the hellmuth aproach and fold even when im ahead a pretty large amount of the time here. weak sauce

Back to the blogging. I totally forgot to mention that we went to look at some houses yesterday and found a pretty sick place out in southern highlands. Our lease is for our apartment is up at the end of this month and we found what appears to be the perfect house. 2 years old, 4 bdr, 2700 sq ft., really nice gated community, and a pretty sick backyard with pool and hot tub. I really like the Summerlin area but its just kinda too far out there away from the strip and this place is about a 5 minute ride on the highway to the strip opposed to the 25 minutes it took from the apartment. The place is called royal highlands right by south point for anyone familiar with the vegas area.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2870231- some more higher level thinking from these tourney retards. well played

My buddy chris/sweetness just texted me saying he is going to marry the chick that we ditched at the rhino last week haha. I guess she just texted him saying her favorite animal was a pig which is pretty ironic because she is a pig haha. I accepted his offer of me being the best man in the pig wedding, updates to come....

The one thing that never gets old about traveling in and out mcCarren is overhearing all the people talk about all the money they lost. Such degenerates... I dont think ive ever heard anyone say that they won. I remember one time a guy next to me and i were talking and i had told him that i made like 4k while here and i literally thought he was going to have a heart attack. He just couldnt believe it and then obviously i had to sit there and talk about poker for the whole flight.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2870335 - bad call i guess. I really thought i was good here...

This thing needs to start moving along my flight leaves in about 25 minutes and there are still 5 players left.

4 left im in 2nd place

some dude just rolled by in a segway holding some hands chick and it was pretty funny because you could tell she was having a hard time keeping up haha.

Seriously underestimated how long this would take.

chipleader now JJ>55 weird i usually lose these about 98% of the time

The plane is boarding haha

chip leader 3 handed

chip lead now heads up and i think the plane mightve left haha.

WINNER WINNER ship the 460 or whatever 1st was.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2870411


chasing down my plane. later

-Nechita-

random

Well if you've been wondering where/what ive been doing since my last post i think the picture above pretty much sums it up. The last few weeks have been pretty hectic with a lot of people in town for the W.S.O.P. partying just about every night. Once you combine that with how bad ive been running its turned into a pretty expensive few weeks and equates to the picture shown above. There are a ton of things that have been going on that ive wanted to talk about but i have a lot to do before i fly home tomorrow so im going to give you the cliff notes. Ive dumped quite a bit of money over the past month or so and am really looking forward to taking a mini (week or so) vacation from Vegas. I dont really want to get into specific numbers but lets just say its over 5 figures, insert vomit haha. The really disappointing part of the mini downswing is that a good portion of the money has gone towards partying instead of poker. Which i guess you can look at in 2 different ways. 1) Ive always been really good with money so its nice to be able to spend it every once in a while on fun stuff or, 2) Im an idiot and have nothing to show for the past months festivities other than some pretty interesting stories..... I guess ill say its a combination of both 1 and 2 and hopefully once i reture from michigan, see friends and family, I can return and begin to conquer again.


Poker has continued to go pretty shitty over the past few weeks. It just seems like every time i get it all in, im always ahead and somehow always find a way to lose. I was planning on talking about some hands from the past few weeks but i know once i start ill ramble on here forever about the hands and i kind of want to keep this short. Instead of making this a huge poker post i will save that for when im in the airport tomorrow night. So if you are here specifically for the poker content check back in tomorrow night, the rest of this blog is going to be a brief recap of the past weeks fun. Hmmmmm i really dont even know where to begin.....

I guess ill start off with last monday nights bowling which kind of set the tone for the week. The pocketfives party was the next day on tuesday so a group of us decided to take it easy with some bowling at the gold coast. Obviously once the drinks started flowing the "easy" night quickly escalated to an all night/morning affair. There were a ton of prop bets which i think i broke about even on and was a pretty fun time. Once we started doing shots it was pretty much a gong show from there on out. In usual fashion once you get a large group of poker players together the night quickly shifted from the gold coast over to thee Rhino. Im trying to remember all i can from the night but am coming up with a blank. The last thing i remember is waking up in a hotel room at 5pm at palace station without the rhino girl i had came there with????? fun night imo.


The p5s party was the following day from 7-10 so i pretty much got a few hours of sleep before starting the night all over again. We showed up at hooters around 9 feeling like death but to my suprise once i had a couple drinks i was ready to go again. Unfortunately we missed doyle brunson and whoever else was there before we got there but the sleep was much more important. After the p5s party we had tables at PURE outside on the balcony. After going through about 15 bottles or so here it was now like 4 and everyone obviously headed to the the rhino again. I tried making it an early night(before 10 am) but obviously my buddy who ill keep anonymous (deals in LV) fell completely in love with a stripper and wouldnt let us leave haha, OWNED. A few funny things from the night, Jared superstar "wacokidd" hamby just lighting up a joint at our table at Pure like it was acceptable, unfortunately he got kicked out but somehow was back in within like a half hour haha, baller. Someone puking all over our table and himself, gross.

After another long night and some much needed sleep in a familiar setting i woke up around 9pm for the Cardrunners party at the Rio. I met up with a few people and we headed over to Shannigans or something like that where the party was being held at. Unfortunately i found the party to be pretty lame. There was free booze and stuff but everyone was playing beer pong which i was in no shape to play. I think i stayed here til about 1 or 2 before meeting up and heading over to treasures where our buddy chaz had the hook up. We stayed here until about 5 i think before hitting up some breakfast at the Rio and calling it a night.


After 3 very long nights i was happy to just relax and maybe play some poker thursday night, Wrong. I ended up meeting up with my buddy chris(sweetness) at this bar down the road and before you know it a few drinks turned into many drinks. Which i didnt really mind because it was cheap and i was having a good time just shooting some pool and it was a nice change from the strip club that we always end up at. Sure enough i get a text from kevin"belowabove" saying he just busted from the main event meet us at the Rhino...... sure. So chris and i head over there around 2 or something to meet up with him but not before something pretty funny on the way happened. We pull up at this light and look over to the right where there is this girl who just looks hammered so jokingly we put the window down and tell her to follow us. Sure enough she rips over behind us and is now following us to the rhino haha. Somehow we got lost by the rhino so we were driving around for like a half hour before we finally get there and sure enough she is right behind us the whole way. Unfortunately she looked decent in the car but was a major let down once we got to see her upclose, beer goggles werent in full effect yet. Anyways we help her finish her drink she has which is literally a 7-11 cup full of straight vodka and we start to head into the rhino with her. She tells us her friends ditched her, shes lost, blah blah blah, and she cant wait to come into the strip club with us. Obviously we get up by the door and she tells us she lost her i.d. So we pretty much just tell her she can probably get in(we know theres no way in hell shes getting in without i.d.) and just plan on ditching her at the door which we do. We meet up with Kevin and a few of his friends and continue to drink here til probably like 6 or 7.
So were heading out to get a cab when i look at my car and notice what looks like a note on the windshield. We're immediately thinking damnit this crazy drunk that we ditched did something to my car or somethings up. The note goes something like this " Sorry guys but i didnt feel like waiting for you outside. Im going back to my hotel give me a call later if you want to hang out" hahahaaha. Obviously we immediately call her and she tells us shes driving back to arizona? but is coming back this weekend and wants to hang out haha. weird.

I tried keeping this short by leaving out a lot of stuff but its still getting super long. So im going to finish this up and continue with the rest of the stories tomorrow at the airport. My flights at 9 so check back tomorrow night to finish up on this and im out.


-Nechita-

My Head Hurts.....

Its been a few days since last bloggin so I figured while im laying around hungover i might as well update this thing. I guess old age is finally starting to kick in because i just cant drink anymore like i used to. Dont get me wrong i probably drank enough beer/liquor/ tons of shots last night to get 3 or 4 normal people drunk but its the day after that gets me. Its almost like if i plan on going out and doing quite a bit of drinking my entire next day is shot. Its a little past 1a.m. right now and the only thing ive accomplished today has been watching tv and im just now starting to feel normal.

Last night it was a friends(clay) birthday so we went out and did a tiny bit of celebrating. The night started out with everyone meeting up at Dragonfly around 1030 for a little food and some serious pre drinking. By the time everyone showed up we had a pretty decent group of about 25 to 30 people and a pretty impressive line up of poker minds. There was belowabove, apestyles,kush, wretchy, acerunner, wein, amak,pokerjamers, myself, and some others that im sure im forgetting about. We chilled here drinking/ doing many shots until about 3 (i think) before we were supposed to stick to our original plan and go play beer pong at O'Shea's. Obviously once you get a large group of poker players together the night always seems to end at thee Rhino and instead of beer pong we all headed over to rhino. The drinking carried on here until about 8 this morning before we finally climbed into a cab and called it a night. It just doesnt seem right if you leave the rhino before the sun comes out and thats exactly how the night ended and with the wallet being a little lighter.

Poker has been going pretty well since my last time posting. Ive actually put in a lot of play since last post and had a bunch of winning sessions going on until it came to a screaching hault at the rio on tuesday where i lost about 2k. Other than that session though things have been going well i guess and was able to bring home about 4k or something this week. It wouldve been nice if i didnt drop that 2k but it was all pretty much from 2 hands that i feel i played well but just didnt go my way. Im getting super tired so ill tell you about the 3k pot tomorrow as i dont feel like explaining it now.

On a more serious note a good friend (d. lewis) from back home got in a really bad car accident today so i really hope everythings okay. Im not a very religious person but i will certainly say a prayer tonight for him and his family.

-Nechita-

Quick Update.......

I planned on putting together this long/lengthy update together but im not in the mood at all to blog. So im going to try and keep this kind of short. We'll start off by my amazement at how well the "Big" name pros are completely OWNING the W.S.O.P. this year. Its really pretty nuts with the fields only getting bigger that every bracelet is being won by a whos who of poker players. We're just about half way through the series and Nenad Medic, David Singer, Erick Lindgren, Mike Matusow,Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Kenny Tran, Max Pescatori, and im sure some others have all already shipped bracelets this year. Proving that i guess the "Live" pros do know a thing or two about playing poker and the "online" donks arent taking over the world. It hasnt been total "live" domination with OMGClayAiken(phil galfond) and Dario Minieri shipping bracelets but the live players are definitely having a major year. Obligatory picture of Dario and his cool ( and by cool i mean gay haha) scarf.







The word on the streets is that their are tons of prop bets on winning bracelets including mr. Ivey (aka God) betting everyone at 1.8 to 1 that he will win one for what im sure is a stupidly large sum of money. Which reminds me of these video clips on Pokerroad.com called "the life of ivey" which is kind of like a daily video diary of him doing random things. Some are pretty boring but theres some where he was stuck a million playing craps at wynn and other degen things like this which is awesome imo. Also rumor has it that he had 2 million......... thats right i said 2 MILLION dollars on the lakers the other night where they got stomped losing to the celtics by like 40 points, it doesnt get much more balla than that.


Poker has been going okay as of late i guess. Ive pretty much given up on the boredom of tournaments and have just been playing the cash games. Online play has been pretty so so. I did put together my longest online session of about 5 hours in a long time and was able to put together a nice profit of around 2.5k or something. I had a bunch of fun hands i wanted to put up here but of course PokerTracker is a piece of shit and keeps giving me errors when i try to use it. So now when i want to post a hand i have to save it while im playing which is super annoying and upload before i quit my session, gay. Yesterday i put in a few more hours 4 tabling the 5/10 and it was a super boring/lame session. Was completely card dead and grinded out a tiny profit of like 300 or something, which for 4 tabling 5/10 is like nothing but its much better than losing so ill take it. After the boring online session i headed to the Rio to check out the 5/10 games. I was actually super card dead there too but was able to book a nice little win of a little under 1.5k. I played for about 5 hours and there were only 2 significant pots i can think of.


Hand 1- 2 limpers utg, i have 56clubs in late position and with the limpers utg i just limp. blinds check and the flop comes down 5 7 8 with the 78 being clubs giving me an open ended straight flush draw, not a bad flop. Utg bets out 30, second limper utg calls, i make it 110, folds around to original better who flat calls, then the 2nd caller gos all-in for about 450 more. I decide to just shove because the original better had only like 900 and he folds. All in guy flopped the straight with 46 which is great for me because every out i thought i would have were still live. Obviously the turn brings the 9 of clubs giving me a straight flush, easy game.


Hand 2- This hand was actually pretty funny. I never like to chop but for some reason the button says ill let u 2 chop so im in the SB and without thinking ask the BB if he chops. He was some foreign dude who was totally clueless of what i was talking about so once the table explains to him what it means he goes" no we play." I hadnt looked at my cards yet but obviously was playing any 2 against this tard heads up but to my suprise i look down at a pretty nice AK of diamonds. He seemed pretty dead set on playing so i decide to limp with the intentions of raising but obviously after being all excited to play he checks behind. Flop comes down AKQ rainbow and i check he bets out 10 into the 20 and i just call. Turn is like a 9, i check again and he bets out 30 this time so i put in a pretty big raise for the size of the pot to 140 to hopefully make him think im full of shit. I mean really i cant have that big of a hand i LIMPED can i??? He SNAP calls saying i call whatever that is before im even done putting out my chips. River is a 4 so im thinking he must have like A10 and isnt folding so i bet out 240 and he calls fairly quickly, easy game. Obviously after the hand was over everyone at the table was laughing and giving him shit saying " see you shouldve chopped" blah blah blah.


I was planning on talking about the other nights drunken festivities and how i somehow ended up at the Wynn eating breakfast with this stripper from Rhino haha????? but this is getting way toooooooooo long so im done. Look over to the right---------------->>> where theres a link to clays blog and u can get a very brief/PG summary of the night there. Im going to head to the rio and get a session in before tonight so check back tomorrow to see how that went and im out.



-Nechita-

"Iron" Mike "classic" moments.....

Ive been pretty busy lately playing poker/partying and havent really had the time to update this thing. Im going to play some pokah at wynn or bellagio for a while but i will update later on sometime tonight for sure. Check back for that and enjoy mikes insanity.

GOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you watched any of the Spain vs Russia game today you got to hear the announcers yell GOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLLLL quite often. The game ended with Spain dominating the russians 4-1 and making me a nice little profit of 1500 in the process. It wouldve been a pretty good day except i lost about that much playing 5/10 at the bellagio, gay. I wasnt exactly playing my best but i ran into a couple tough spots that i couldnt really get away from and 2 hands pretty much did me in for the day.

Hand 1- 1 limper utg i make it 45 in mid position with pockets tens, button calls as well as the BB. Flop comes out 10 9 6 rainbow, checks to me and i bet out 120 into the 180. BB calls as well as the utg limper calls pretty quick. Turn is a J checks to me i bet 300 which the bb like beats me into the pot but the 300 puts him all in and the utg limper thinks forever and calls too. River is a 3 which was meaningless and with the bb all in i know the utg limper has like qj so i bet a tiny 180 in hopes he'll make a crying call with his J but he folds. BB flopped the straight with 78off and the utg player said he did indeed have qj, rigged.

Hand 2- I raise from early position to 35 with 97clubs folds around and both of the blinds call. Flop comes great for me with it being 985 with two clubs giving me a straight/flush/straightflush draw. I bet out 60 into the 100 and the bb calls. Turn is a K of hearts he checks again and i bet out 200. He thinks for like 10 seconds and makes a tiny raise to 500 which makes me think he flopped a set or possibly the straight. I contemplated reraising because we were pretty deep but i was about 98% sure he wasnt going anywhere once he made that smallish raise so i just decide to be gay and call in hopes of hitting. River brings a A which obviously completely misses the millions of outs i had and now the BB checks to me???? I pondered the idea of betting like 620 or something on the river but he was definitely the type of player who didnt like to fold so i check behind and he rolls over 89 off for 2 pair, ugh. what can ya do....

Last night my friend nicks birthday and to celebrate his gf got a pretty baller suite at MGM. The suite was pretty nice with an upstairs/downstairs but the real sick part of it all was the balcony. It was an enormous balcony with a jacuzzi over looking the entire strip which was pretty cool. We ended up partying there til the weeeeeeee hours of this morning and im definitely feeling the after effects of it. We are meeting up at Dragonfly for some food/cocktails later and im still undecided on whether or not im going out tonight. A girl friend from back home is in town with some teachers til thursday and we have plans to meet up tonight but as of right now theres no way i feel like going out and repeating last night. I say that now but im sure once a few drinks start flowing ill come around........ Anyways check back tomorrow to see how things turned out and im out.

-Nechita-

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I couldnt really come up with any title for this short post so ill go with the ............ Played the venetian 550 deepstack tournament yesterday and busted out like 80th or something with it only paying the top 27 out of around 300 or so players, fun times. I really like the structure of these and now that they have made them even deeper stacked than originally planned i definitely will be playing some more of these. We started out with 15,000 chips !!!! The donkament started at noon and i didnt even show up til a little before 2 and i still had like 14k with blinds only 100/200, sick. Im glad we get a lot of play with them being deeper stacked but im more excited about the fact that i dont have to wake up super early at noon and can now stroll in around 2 and still have more than enough chips. The reason i put this video of Ivey straight owning this no namers soul is because this guy to my left was talking up Jamie Gold and about how hes the best bluffer in the game..... right.... Jamie Gold? come on now. I dont really think you can put a title on someone and call them the best bluffer but whenever i hear someone say anything about the greatest bluffs ever this bluff by Ivey immediately comes to mind, such a sicko. How do you 840942-bet a guy with air and then shove on him when hes put like 75% of his stack in, ivey is god.

Alright well i plan on getting up early and getting in a good session somewhere so im going to wrap this up. A buddy of mine (clay) who knows a thing or two about betting soccer has been on fire so far in the Euro Cup (4for 4 so far) and ive been able to ride the coattails of his heater to make a nice little profit of around 1k or so over the past few days. Which reminds me of my killer day at the black jack table the other day haha. I never play black jack or any table games cuz their all a scam but i couldnt just sit and watch so i decided to put a 100 in fully expecting to lose it, wrong. Went on a sick heater and made about 300 all while owning the bj dealers soul, ship it. 300 i know isnt exactly baller but its pretty nice to win when i pretty much went into it thinking im losing the 100 but itll still be fun to play. Also i might be the worst sit n go player ever. Played a 125 sit n go yesterday at caesars while we railed kevins (belowabove) gf in the caesars tournament and i managed to bubble out when i had half the chips in play 4 handed hahahaha, how is that even possible??? I did manage to win the 20 bounty on below while owning his soul so that was fun i guess..... hahaha i still have no clue how its even possible to bubble with the position i was in, i suck. Alright well tomorrow is going to be a long day/night because its a buddies bday who is having a party at some sick suite at MGM tomorrow night so that should be fun. He said it has some enormous balcony overlooking the strip so im assuming it must look something like this http://www.mgmgrand.com/accommodations/terrace-suites.aspx Alright im out.

-Nechita-

Greatest Game Ever...

Its pretty hard for me to call a game that i lost 1500 bucks on the greatest game ever but it really was. Ive watched a lot of hockey games and seen a lot of amazing hockey games but i can honestly say that was the best game ive ever seen. It had everything. For a sport that has been really lacking fan appeal for some years now i really hope that game was a perfect showcase and will start to draw some more fans to the sport. I thought it would go 6 before the series started but i really wish they couldve closed it out at the Joe. The series is still OVER btw and i will only start to worry if they somehow lose tomorrow in pittsburgh. SHIP THE CUP.......

Today i put in a decent session for the first time since my last post. I know in my previous post i talked about how i wanted to play a bunch of donkaments this month but with my insomnia its going to be pretty hard to do. Okay, i dont really have insomnia but with my sleep schedule totally out of wack it makes it pretty hard to get up at like 11 to make it down to the strip by noon for tournaments. Today for example i wanted to go play in the venetian deepstack 330 at noon so i went to bed pretty early (2am) last night with the intentions of getting a somewhat decent nights sleep, WRONG. I tossed and turned in bed watching tv until around 7 this morning and there was no chance i was making it to any tourney at noon. Instead i got down to the bellagio around 5 or so for some 5/10 fun, i love the WSOP. The games i was in was filled with tournament retards which made for some pretty easy money and some pretty funny hands/explanations of some horrific plays. NO FOLD EM HOLD EM= Value city imo. I didnt really get tangled up in any big pots but was able to make a little under 1500 in around 5 hours or so. The big game was running 2 tables in bobbys room and there were a ton of big name players around the room, Doyle, eli elezra, tj degen cloutier, kenny tran, david benyamine, sammy farha as well as many others. Im not really the star struck type and ive seen all these guys around town as well as tons of real celebrities before so it wasnt a big deal until i saw thee Tom " DURRR" Dwan. For those not in the poker know he is pretty much the sickest online player killing 200/400 forever and is now crushing what seems like every live tournament he enters. Im not sure what games they were running in there but im sure there was some pretty sick action goin down.

Well tomorrow is game 6 so GO WINGS. Also its wednesday which im sure will include some dragonfly followed by god knows what... Im going to try and get some sleep so i can get in a session live or online before the game starts so check back to see how things go and im out.

-Nechita-

Go RED WINGS!!!!!

The wings are 1 game away from winning the stanley cup( hockey) and its going to feel great watching them lift the cup tomorrow. The game is at 8est for anyone who cares about hockey and i plan on putting a nice little wager on the game. I already bet 800 on them to win the series before it started so i figure since the series is already over( obviously just jinxed myself and the wings) that ill bet 800 on tomorrows game, FREE money. The line is redwings -240 which is okay but ill be betting them at -1 1/2 goals at +130 and like i said before, whenever you can get the wings at even money or+ whatever its such great value i cant pass it up. GO WINGS....

Not sure whats up but i woke up today and felt like total shit. As soon as i awoke my whole body was aching for some reason and i seem to have a little bit of a soar throat. Ive been feeling pretty lousy all day but hopefully its just some 24 hour bug or something and will be gone when i wake up. The world series of poker just started a few days ago and ive been getting the itch to donk it up in some tournaments. The wsop events have really shitty structures so i think im going to stay clear of those ones and play some of the other ones in town. Caesars, Venetian, and the Golden Nugget are all offering deepstack tournaments ranging from 200 to 1k all month long so ill probably try to play as many of these as i can tolerate. Binions is also running their mini-world series which i went 1 for 1 in last year when i final tabled the only event i played last year. I think it was a 250 six handed tourney and ill probably play it again this year because there arent many tournaments that offer 6 handed events. I cant even remember the last tournament ive even played live or online but with all the world series buzz in town its given me the itch so we'll see how things go with that.

I was driving down to the strip earlier and thought i was going to get beaten up by some bikers haha. Its funny now but it wouldve sucked if they wouldve kicked my ass. Heres the story-
Theres this side street that runs from our apartment to almost all the way down to the strip so instead of taking the busy/crazy ( Vegas has the worst drivers ive ever seen) main roads i usually just cruise down this side street and avoid all the insanity. Anyways im cruising along going maybe 25-30 approaching a stop sign and these bikers are going about the same speed on the cross road. We are both going at a pace that if they kept going and i kept going it was timed out that we would just run into each other. They didnt have a stop sign but i do so i come up to the stop sign kind of fast i guess but totally see the sign ( i drive this road like everyday) and stop a little before the sign and these guys like slam on their brakes and stop in front of me. Apparently they thought that i didnt see the sign and wasnt going to stop even though i had pretty much stopped before they over dramatically slammed on their brakes and were flipping out. Their like literally 10 feet from my hood stopped in front of me yelling " theirs a fucking stop sign" "asshole" blah blah blah and it took them what seemed like an eternity to finally keep going and move out of the way. I mean these guys were no Hells Angels and more biker wannabes but it still wouldve sucked if they decided they wanted to come fight me cuz i probably wouldve just had to run them over and leave haha. Such over dramatic bikers........ They werent even on harleys either, weak sauce.

Another thing that i want to talk about thats always tilted me but even moreso the past couple of days is Chopping. Chopping is - say you are in the big blind and everyone folds so its just you and the small blind often times people will just "CHOP" instead of playing out the hand. Its up to the players whether or not you want to "chop" but for the most part the majority of people chop, keep in mind though its totally your choice. I prefer not to chop and play out the hand because a)chopping is stupid imo, b) heads up i will out play you, c) the 5/10 games are paying time games.
I guess where im going with this is i cant stand how people FREAK out when you say you prefer not to chop. A guy yesterday went nuts saying i always chop, its common courtesy, blah blah blah.... Then again today i told the guy i dont chop and he gets all bent out of shape complaining about i always chop even with aces and a bunch of other bullshit. Guess what buddy i dont chop so fucking get over it. Its just funny how people get so bent out of shape about people that dont chop and if you say you dont chop they literally dislike you because of it. Another thing about chopping that tilts me more than anything are the people that get all excited and worked up about chopping. It comes to them to chop and their all excited saying the generic donk lines like" i always chop", " I chop even if i have aces" and of course they do the stupid look at each others cards and get all excited if one of them has kj saying i had u crushed blah blah blah. It makes me literally want to bounce their heads off the table haha. Alright well this has turned into one big long rant about nothing so im going to wrap this up and call it a night. Check back tomorrow to see whats up and im out.

-Nechita-

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I planned on writing up a pretty lengthy post from about yesterdays session, dragonfly, stripclubS(plural), and how i ended up playing drunken 1/2 poker til about 3 this afternoon at Hooters????? but you will have to wait til tomorrow for that. Im pretty wiped out from last night so im about to hit the bed but here are a few hands from a little online session i had yesterday(made a little over 2k) and this hilarious link you have to check out.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=212302


Its about poker and is called "what would they do if they werent poker players" and its a bunch of hilarious photos of poker players, definitely worth checking out. Here is my personal favorite where daniel (in the closet) negreanu is a member of the village people hahahaha.




Another funny one






Here are a few of the hands which are pretty self explanatory i guess...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2685666
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2685661
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2685662 -Here i somehow manage dodge a bunch of outs and my queens hold up for a nice little pot of around 2.5k

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2685664 - I would normally fold or raise the A10 offsuit a lot in this spot against good players but i wanted to take a flop against this guy who i felt was a weak player. Reasoning being is that i knew if i were to hit any kind of decent flop the guy would definitely stack off with weak holdings and thats exactly what happened.


-Nechita-

DETROIT.

The motor city almost had the sweep yesterday but of course the underachieving Tigers lost 1-0 to the angels in extra innings. I wish the tigers wouldve won but it didnt really effect me too much as i bet BIG on the Red Wings and Pistons. I ended up making almost 2k by doing a team team parlay of the wings at -170 and the pistons at -270. I also had a few smallish bets of the pistons 2nd half, ship, and the red wings -1 1/2 goals at + 170(which IMO there is no better value for your money) ship. Not a bad day for sitting around hungover watching sports. Well i just wanted to throw a mini brag post in before heading to the bellagio to own souls. Go spurs (did i really just say Go Spurs haha) , i hate the spurs but for the first half (got them at -2.5) they will by my favorite team. Check back later to see how the day went and im out.