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-
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
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-
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-
Friday, July 25, 2008
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-
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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-
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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-
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-
Friday, June 27, 2008
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-
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-
Friday, June 20, 2008
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-
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-
Thursday, June 19, 2008
"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.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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-
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-
Monday, June 09, 2008
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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-
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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-
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-
Monday, June 02, 2008
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-
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-
Friday, May 30, 2008
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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-
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-
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Beer Pong and Prop Betting Degeneracy....
Im not sure if degeneracy is even a word but it sounds good so lets go with it. Yesterday i planned on trying to get a good poker session in but it just wasnt meant to be. First off i woke up pretty late (3ish i think) then took a while before finally getting myself ready and heading down to the bellagio for some 5/10. Well of course the lines for the 5/10 game were massive so instead i sweated the first half of the spurs/lakers game in which i had bet 300 on the spurs -2.5 for the first half, SHIP it. After finally getting my seat in the 5/10 game it was pretty much pointless because i had waited so long it was almost time for me to leave. I went to meet up with a buddy(clay/lvdealer) at In n Out burger for some dinner. Everyone raves about how In n Out is so good but up until yesterday i thought it actually sucked. There is one down the road from my place so i tried it like 2 or 3 months ago and had no idea what the big fuss was about because i thought it was horrible. Anyways i think it mustve just been the one by my house because i gave it a second try yesterday and it was pretty damn good.
After fattening it up at In' n Out we headed over to Kevins( pokersuperstar Belowabove) to celebrate his birthday with some beer pong and what not. We first got there and everyone was finishing up the sunday tournaments so started drinking and shot some pool for a bit. Funny thing i noticed yesterday about all poker players seems to be is that they are all good at pool. I dont know what it is but it just seems like every poker player i know is/was really good at pool, almost as if its in our genes. What started off as just some friendly doubles matches for fun quickly turned into 100 dollar games and really set the tone for the night. After we won below and clay decided to do some WII bowling for some loot. They started off at 100 a game which clay won, then double or nothing for 200, clay won, below wanted to get even so they made the third game for 500 haha. Luckily i was able to buy 200 worth of clays 500 and he ended up winning by about 8 pins or something, SHIP the easiest 200 ever ha. Everyone had a pretty good buzz going at this point and it was time for some beer pong. I havent played in a really long time but once the first couple of shots started to drop it all came back and we ended up winning the first 3 games i think. Now that i think about it we were playing for 20 bucks a game and i dont think we recieved any money for any of the games haha. Fun night.
Unfortunately im feeling the effects from last night today. I went to bed around 6 or something and woke up at 11 (gross) this morning and havent been able to fall back asleep. Its pretty much pointless now because the Red wings/Pistons games start in a little over an hour and i have a pretty decent amount of money on them..... GO DETROIT. Well thats about it i guess so check later and im out.
-Nechita-
After fattening it up at In' n Out we headed over to Kevins( pokersuperstar Belowabove) to celebrate his birthday with some beer pong and what not. We first got there and everyone was finishing up the sunday tournaments so started drinking and shot some pool for a bit. Funny thing i noticed yesterday about all poker players seems to be is that they are all good at pool. I dont know what it is but it just seems like every poker player i know is/was really good at pool, almost as if its in our genes. What started off as just some friendly doubles matches for fun quickly turned into 100 dollar games and really set the tone for the night. After we won below and clay decided to do some WII bowling for some loot. They started off at 100 a game which clay won, then double or nothing for 200, clay won, below wanted to get even so they made the third game for 500 haha. Luckily i was able to buy 200 worth of clays 500 and he ended up winning by about 8 pins or something, SHIP the easiest 200 ever ha. Everyone had a pretty good buzz going at this point and it was time for some beer pong. I havent played in a really long time but once the first couple of shots started to drop it all came back and we ended up winning the first 3 games i think. Now that i think about it we were playing for 20 bucks a game and i dont think we recieved any money for any of the games haha. Fun night.
Unfortunately im feeling the effects from last night today. I went to bed around 6 or something and woke up at 11 (gross) this morning and havent been able to fall back asleep. Its pretty much pointless now because the Red wings/Pistons games start in a little over an hour and i have a pretty decent amount of money on them..... GO DETROIT. Well thats about it i guess so check later and im out.
-Nechita-
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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.
Wings ticket-
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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-
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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-
Monday, May 19, 2008
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-
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-
Friday, May 16, 2008
Live Poker is Rigged.....
Just got back from the Bellagio and obviously anything that could go wrong did. Well maybe im over exaggerating a tiny bit but this post is kind of just a way to blow off a little steam. The 5/10 game was playing as weak as usual and i drew a super weak/passive table but unfortunately a few river cards ended up making me a loser on the day. The game was pretty soft and actually fairly tight so im not really sure how i managed to have such a swingy session. I played for maybe 4 hours and went from up around 400, down 500, up around 500, to final ending the session stuck around 1300. Looking back there were only a few big pots so i guess i mustve been splashing around a bit more than i remember. Onto the 2 interesting hands from the sesh.
Hand 1- Everyone folds to me in late position so i raise it up to 35 with AJ, the button calls, the small blind calls, and the BB folds. The FLOP - J78 rainbow
SB checks, i elect to check for some pot control and the button also checks.
Turn is another jack making the board JJ78 with 2 spades
The SB leads out for a whopping 120 into the 100 dollar pot giving me the option of raising or getting super sneaky and just calling...... I flat call because i feel im so far ahead of him any raise is going to kill any action. and i called with the intention of raising any non scary river card. Now i know ur thinking JJ78 wtf are you just calling for on such a draw heavy board? Well as i just said i felt i was so far ahead there arent many cards other than a 9 or 10 that are going to be bad for me so i was raising any river other than a 9 or 10.
The River- is a non spade 10 making the board- J J 7 8 10
He thinks for like 10 seconds and checks? I really feel like not betting here is losing value from a lower J or a 78/pocket pair type hand so as thin as it might be i decide to bet out 220...... to my dismay he takes about 10 seconds before barely raising me back to 500 total, sick. I know hes really never raising anything less than a straight in this spot but i just felt the way the action went down my hand is so under represented that i have to pay it off. So i call only to see him show me his 89 off for the rivered straight and listen to him tell me how he was sure his 8 was good on the turn and his plan of calling any river bet even if he had missed the straight......... so at least my original plan wouldve worked but unfortunately i let him hit the straight and cost myself 500 on the river bet. blah
Hand - 2 Under the gun player makes it 40, guy in mid position calls, im on the button with AK off and decide to just call rather than raise and the BB also calls. 4 way action to the flop....
FLOP- A 7 8 2 diamonds ( the A and the 8 were diamonds)
Original raiser leads out for 100 into the 160 pot, mid guy folds to me, I decide to make a smallish looking raise like i might have a huge hand to 260 total and the BB folds. The original raiser thinks for maybe 5 seconds tops before shoving all in for 720 more after my 260. I had seen him overplay a few hands previously and was actually pretty confident in my hand so i CALL.
TURN- 3
(neither are diamonds)
River- 9
He says "the nuts" and rolls over the J10 of diamonds for the rivered out straight, ugh.
Im in no way faulting his play because i wouldve probalby played it the same but it just sucks getting it in for a big pot and losing yet again to some turn or river bullshit. Lee jones can you please flip off my doomswitch??????
There hasnt been much else since last post to talk about so i guess ill just keep this strictly a poker post. Ive decided to play some PLO over the past few days (mostly 3/6 and 5/10 , 6 handed) and have had some pretty nice results in very limited play. Its funny because i actually play this almost retarded style and its been working quite well. I pretty much barely minraise almost every hand preflop then preceed to make smallish bets on the flop with air or huge hands. As stupid as this sounds it seems to actually anger people( actually had people in the chat boxes talking shit to me) and they start just trying to call me down with nothing or i get them to just stack off with weak holdings. Well im starting to get tired so ill leave you with some hands from the past few days and im out.
I had a lot of hands to show but some reason pokertracker is all fucked up so i guess you will only get a few of the ones that work.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617163
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617166
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617169
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617174
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617177
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617180
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617182
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617186
A lot of these hands actually suck and i wish i could show you a bunch of the other ones where im not just a luckbox but i dont know what the problem with the trackers are. Hopefully i get that figured out and can put some more interesting hands up this weekend, til then....
-Nechita-
Hand 1- Everyone folds to me in late position so i raise it up to 35 with AJ, the button calls, the small blind calls, and the BB folds. The FLOP - J78 rainbow
SB checks, i elect to check for some pot control and the button also checks.
Turn is another jack making the board JJ78 with 2 spades
The SB leads out for a whopping 120 into the 100 dollar pot giving me the option of raising or getting super sneaky and just calling...... I flat call because i feel im so far ahead of him any raise is going to kill any action. and i called with the intention of raising any non scary river card. Now i know ur thinking JJ78 wtf are you just calling for on such a draw heavy board? Well as i just said i felt i was so far ahead there arent many cards other than a 9 or 10 that are going to be bad for me so i was raising any river other than a 9 or 10.
The River- is a non spade 10 making the board- J J 7 8 10
He thinks for like 10 seconds and checks? I really feel like not betting here is losing value from a lower J or a 78/pocket pair type hand so as thin as it might be i decide to bet out 220...... to my dismay he takes about 10 seconds before barely raising me back to 500 total, sick. I know hes really never raising anything less than a straight in this spot but i just felt the way the action went down my hand is so under represented that i have to pay it off. So i call only to see him show me his 89 off for the rivered straight and listen to him tell me how he was sure his 8 was good on the turn and his plan of calling any river bet even if he had missed the straight......... so at least my original plan wouldve worked but unfortunately i let him hit the straight and cost myself 500 on the river bet. blah
Hand - 2 Under the gun player makes it 40, guy in mid position calls, im on the button with AK off and decide to just call rather than raise and the BB also calls. 4 way action to the flop....
FLOP- A 7 8 2 diamonds ( the A and the 8 were diamonds)
Original raiser leads out for 100 into the 160 pot, mid guy folds to me, I decide to make a smallish looking raise like i might have a huge hand to 260 total and the BB folds. The original raiser thinks for maybe 5 seconds tops before shoving all in for 720 more after my 260. I had seen him overplay a few hands previously and was actually pretty confident in my hand so i CALL.
TURN- 3
(neither are diamonds)
River- 9
He says "the nuts" and rolls over the J10 of diamonds for the rivered out straight, ugh.
Im in no way faulting his play because i wouldve probalby played it the same but it just sucks getting it in for a big pot and losing yet again to some turn or river bullshit. Lee jones can you please flip off my doomswitch??????
There hasnt been much else since last post to talk about so i guess ill just keep this strictly a poker post. Ive decided to play some PLO over the past few days (mostly 3/6 and 5/10 , 6 handed) and have had some pretty nice results in very limited play. Its funny because i actually play this almost retarded style and its been working quite well. I pretty much barely minraise almost every hand preflop then preceed to make smallish bets on the flop with air or huge hands. As stupid as this sounds it seems to actually anger people( actually had people in the chat boxes talking shit to me) and they start just trying to call me down with nothing or i get them to just stack off with weak holdings. Well im starting to get tired so ill leave you with some hands from the past few days and im out.
I had a lot of hands to show but some reason pokertracker is all fucked up so i guess you will only get a few of the ones that work.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617163
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617166
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617169
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617174
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617177
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617180
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617182
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2617186
A lot of these hands actually suck and i wish i could show you a bunch of the other ones where im not just a luckbox but i dont know what the problem with the trackers are. Hopefully i get that figured out and can put some more interesting hands up this weekend, til then....
-Nechita-
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