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Monday, January 26, 2009
Stuff
Well its that time again for another blog update on what ive been up to so here goes.... First i will start off with my standard bitching about bad beats section of the week. Ill start by talking about how ive been playing great live poker and keep getting absolutely shit on by the cards. I havent been played any live poker in almost a week but its probably for the best as i think ive strung together like 4 or 5 losing sessions in a row. Three of the sessions were kinda small losses but in a couple sessions at the Wynn i was stuck over 1600 and over 1200. That might not sound like too much but to get that stuck in a 2/5 game is quite impressive haha, especially since the Wynn has recently changed their 2/5 game to a 1500 maximum buy-in, instead of no cap like it used to be. The weird thing is is that i feel like ive actually been playing really good poker but just everytime i get it in for a big pot i lose. I seriously played the best ive played in a long time the other day and still ended up losing like 500 and was actually stuck like 1600 at one point. Heres the hand i talked about at the end of the last session and it pretty much sums up how ive been running whenever i get it for big pots. The HAND-
Ive been at the new table for about an hour, the table is playing pretty tight, ive been raising quite a bit pre/playing a decent amount of pots, and am sitting with like 1800 or so when.....
Im in late position with 68 of clubs, 1 limper whos horrible so i make it 20, the button calls, the sb, bb, and the limper all call. So we have 5 way action to the flop with 100 in the middle. FLOP comes down J 9 7 with 2 spades. The blinds check and the limper who only has like around 100 left bets out a smallish/stupid bet of 20, i decide to just call to hopefully get at least another caller, to my suprise everyone calls. The TURN is a beautiful 5 and now everyone checks to me so i decide to bet out 115 into the 200 and the guy to my left instantly says "IM ALL In" like before i even finished betting out my chips. Well he called the 115 and shoved all in for 1k more! I obviously call pretty confidently as this guy was nowhere near smart nor competant enough to over shove the nuts. He has a set of 99s and obviously the river pairs the board with another J and the 2.5k pot gets shipped his way, standard. To make things even better, literally like 6 hands later i get this lady all in with just a J high flush draw against my KK for like a 1k pot, obviously spikes the flush on the river. I run well. After all that and being stuck like 1600 right from the get go i still managed to only lose like 400 or something and really shouldve had like a + 2k day. Ive just been running horrible whenever the money goes in in the big pots...... alright enough with my rant.
Other than running horrible at live poker the online scene has been going pretty well the past week. Ive only been playing PLO ranging from 1-2 to 5-10 and its been going good. I actually cant even recall the last time ive even played no limit online, been at least a few months since my last serious nl session. I think everyone pretty much knows how to play no limit now and the games are way tougher than they were over the past few years. Omaha though is still filled with bad players that really dont know what their doing, kinda like how the nl games used to be a couple years ago. So for now im going to keep grinding away the PLO online and playing nl live.
Well i was planning on putting up a few pics and talking about my weekend but this is getting way too long. Dont worry i still plan on doing my europe trip pics/summary and the porn convention with pics but am just kinda lazy. Hopefully ill get some kind of energy within the next few days and actually write up the summarys and put up the pics. Probably going to go play live tomorrow somewhere on the strip so check back for that and im out.
-Nechita-
Ive been at the new table for about an hour, the table is playing pretty tight, ive been raising quite a bit pre/playing a decent amount of pots, and am sitting with like 1800 or so when.....
Im in late position with 68 of clubs, 1 limper whos horrible so i make it 20, the button calls, the sb, bb, and the limper all call. So we have 5 way action to the flop with 100 in the middle. FLOP comes down J 9 7 with 2 spades. The blinds check and the limper who only has like around 100 left bets out a smallish/stupid bet of 20, i decide to just call to hopefully get at least another caller, to my suprise everyone calls. The TURN is a beautiful 5 and now everyone checks to me so i decide to bet out 115 into the 200 and the guy to my left instantly says "IM ALL In" like before i even finished betting out my chips. Well he called the 115 and shoved all in for 1k more! I obviously call pretty confidently as this guy was nowhere near smart nor competant enough to over shove the nuts. He has a set of 99s and obviously the river pairs the board with another J and the 2.5k pot gets shipped his way, standard. To make things even better, literally like 6 hands later i get this lady all in with just a J high flush draw against my KK for like a 1k pot, obviously spikes the flush on the river. I run well. After all that and being stuck like 1600 right from the get go i still managed to only lose like 400 or something and really shouldve had like a + 2k day. Ive just been running horrible whenever the money goes in in the big pots...... alright enough with my rant.
Other than running horrible at live poker the online scene has been going pretty well the past week. Ive only been playing PLO ranging from 1-2 to 5-10 and its been going good. I actually cant even recall the last time ive even played no limit online, been at least a few months since my last serious nl session. I think everyone pretty much knows how to play no limit now and the games are way tougher than they were over the past few years. Omaha though is still filled with bad players that really dont know what their doing, kinda like how the nl games used to be a couple years ago. So for now im going to keep grinding away the PLO online and playing nl live.
Well i was planning on putting up a few pics and talking about my weekend but this is getting way too long. Dont worry i still plan on doing my europe trip pics/summary and the porn convention with pics but am just kinda lazy. Hopefully ill get some kind of energy within the next few days and actually write up the summarys and put up the pics. Probably going to go play live tomorrow somewhere on the strip so check back for that and im out.
-Nechita-
Monday, January 19, 2009
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg
my new theme song when it comes to poker. I just had a decent sized blog wrote up but of course somehow the internet disconnected and somehow the blog wasnt saved...
So instead of doing it all over right now im going to wait til later to tell you about this week in bad beats. Including me getting rivered yet AGAIN for like a 2.5k pot, fun fun. Check back later tonight and im out.
my new theme song when it comes to poker. I just had a decent sized blog wrote up but of course somehow the internet disconnected and somehow the blog wasnt saved...
So instead of doing it all over right now im going to wait til later to tell you about this week in bad beats. Including me getting rivered yet AGAIN for like a 2.5k pot, fun fun. Check back later tonight and im out.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Poker is fun
Its a funny thing about poker.... One day you can feel like your the best and on top of the world, and the next day it can make you feel clueless. Thats how i feel sometimes anyways. Things were going quite well for the short time ive played into the new year before they came to a screaching hault over the past 3 days. I was up a little over 4k (2k from live play/2k from online)and on my way to a nice little 12k month to start the year off until the poker gods decided to slap me back down. I was trying to find a clip of when Hellmuth went nuts saying "if there werent luck in poker id win em' all" but somehow one of the greatest quotes EVER spoken to this day is not on youtube. You might not like Hellmuth but truer (not sure if thats even a word) words have never been spoken and pretty much sum up my past 3 days. Ive been playing great this year and should easily be up about 8k or so on the year but have just ran stupid awful the past 3 days. But i guess thats poker and no one likes to hear bitchy bad beat stories so ill just stop now before i go on some long rant and throw my computer out the window.... haha jk.
Here are some hands from the new year. Keep in mind that after my couple bad sessions i just logged off pokerstars before saving a bunch of hands i wouldve liked to have shown here.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3706857
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690448
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690426
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690418
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690401
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690409
Outside of poker i havent really been doing a whole lot since the new year. For my birthday i did in fact end up taking the "laying low" approach by just hanging with the gf and not doing the usual "get as rediculously drunk as possible" thing. We started off by her taking me to dinner at Ruth Chris's steakhouse http://www.ruthschris.com/ which was amazing and im going to go out on a limb here and say it mightve been one of the best steaks ive EVER had. Thats a pretty bold statement to make since ive ate at a lot of the "fancy/expensive" restaurants here in Vegas. Its really not that bad on the wallet either. I think our bill including appetizers,cocktails, and dinner was under 200 which is pretty good. Even better since i wasnt the one paying haha. Afterwards we went over to this martini type bar inside of Paris called Napoleans. They had this awesome dueling pianos show which was a lot of fun. It was definitely a nice change up from all the clubs like pure,lax. etc.. The guys put on an awesome show and they knew every song you could throw at them ranging from obscure metallica songs to billy joel. Highly recommend checking it out if you like fun.
New Years was a blast as well. Shawn had got us Fergie tickets at the Palazzo so after some dinner/a little predrinking that was our first stop. I actually like Fergie so it was a pretty fun time and she put on a great show. The concert ended around 11p.m. so we were in panic/rush mode to get down to fremont street to meet up with some friends and most importantly be down there before midnight. We both were pretty drunk at this point so we cabbed it downtown and luckily got there around 1130. I was on the main strip last year and Fremont new years blew it out of the water. The light show leading up to the countdown was really cool and it just had a lot better party feel/atmosphere compared to the main strip. After midnight we met up with a few friends for some drinks/drunken blackjack before shawn and i finally cabbed it home and capping off a great new years eve.
This is getting way too long and i have stuff to do so im going to wrap this up. Dont think i forgot about my europe trip summary. My computers with most of my pictures is still getting looked at so once i get that back i will put it up. Im either going to play live somewhere or online tonight im still undecided so check back for that later and im out.
Oh also my buddy and i went to the PORN convention this last saturday so ill tell you all about that and put up some pics of me and ron jeremy lol in the next post. later.
(his win at bellagio cup last year)
P.S.- Congrats to my buddy kevin aka "belowabove" on his 8th place finish in the pca at bahamas for 250k. Im sure hes pretty pissed he didnt go on to take down first but either way congrats on being a sick human being.
-Nechita-
Here are some hands from the new year. Keep in mind that after my couple bad sessions i just logged off pokerstars before saving a bunch of hands i wouldve liked to have shown here.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3706857
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690448
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690426
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690418
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690401
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3690409
Outside of poker i havent really been doing a whole lot since the new year. For my birthday i did in fact end up taking the "laying low" approach by just hanging with the gf and not doing the usual "get as rediculously drunk as possible" thing. We started off by her taking me to dinner at Ruth Chris's steakhouse http://www.ruthschris.com/ which was amazing and im going to go out on a limb here and say it mightve been one of the best steaks ive EVER had. Thats a pretty bold statement to make since ive ate at a lot of the "fancy/expensive" restaurants here in Vegas. Its really not that bad on the wallet either. I think our bill including appetizers,cocktails, and dinner was under 200 which is pretty good. Even better since i wasnt the one paying haha. Afterwards we went over to this martini type bar inside of Paris called Napoleans. They had this awesome dueling pianos show which was a lot of fun. It was definitely a nice change up from all the clubs like pure,lax. etc.. The guys put on an awesome show and they knew every song you could throw at them ranging from obscure metallica songs to billy joel. Highly recommend checking it out if you like fun.
New Years was a blast as well. Shawn had got us Fergie tickets at the Palazzo so after some dinner/a little predrinking that was our first stop. I actually like Fergie so it was a pretty fun time and she put on a great show. The concert ended around 11p.m. so we were in panic/rush mode to get down to fremont street to meet up with some friends and most importantly be down there before midnight. We both were pretty drunk at this point so we cabbed it downtown and luckily got there around 1130. I was on the main strip last year and Fremont new years blew it out of the water. The light show leading up to the countdown was really cool and it just had a lot better party feel/atmosphere compared to the main strip. After midnight we met up with a few friends for some drinks/drunken blackjack before shawn and i finally cabbed it home and capping off a great new years eve.
This is getting way too long and i have stuff to do so im going to wrap this up. Dont think i forgot about my europe trip summary. My computers with most of my pictures is still getting looked at so once i get that back i will put it up. Im either going to play live somewhere or online tonight im still undecided so check back for that later and im out.
Oh also my buddy and i went to the PORN convention this last saturday so ill tell you all about that and put up some pics of me and ron jeremy lol in the next post. later.
(his win at bellagio cup last year)
P.S.- Congrats to my buddy kevin aka "belowabove" on his 8th place finish in the pca at bahamas for 250k. Im sure hes pretty pissed he didnt go on to take down first but either way congrats on being a sick human being.
-Nechita-
Monday, January 05, 2009
Happy New Years!
Alright im late by 5 days but still... Happy New Years! I hope all of you had a safe/fun time, i had a great time here in good ol Vegas. Ive been really lacking on the blog but thats all going to change now that its a new year. Man am i glad 2008 is over with..... It was by far my worst year in poker since starting out and im hoping to bounce back with my best year in 2009. I would definitely say the main problem in 2008 was discipline/work ethic. I just wasnt putting in the hours and when you combine that with running horrid it adds up to one big mess. Well im going to the Wynn to play for a while so check back later to see how that went and im out.
Monday, December 29, 2008
ICuraRook....
Congratulations to my buddy Jeff "ICuraRook" Bowski on having a pretty sick sunday yesterday. He chopped the 55/rebuys tourney for 25k then just an hour later he won another PCA Bahamas package for like 14k more. You sir are a sicko.
Thats all for now. too lazy to make a real post...
Thats all for now. too lazy to make a real post...
Monday, December 22, 2008
Freezing!!!
Sitting here back in good ole port huron wheres its absolutely FREEZING. It was 8, thats right i said 8 degrees last night and its currently at a high of about 18 at the moment, gross. I just got back into town last night after staying down in Detroit for 3 nights with the gf. Our plans got kinda jacked up so we missed the wings game so we just chilled in the room the first night. We went to fishbones (possibly the most popular/bigname restaurant in the D) and just had some drinks at a bar inside MGM. The last night we went to hockeytown for some drinks/dinner before heading to the wings game against the kings. We didnt have tickets so we just went there with the plan of buying them at hockeytown or scalp some down at the door but obviously we run good and some chick gave us 2 tickets for free, ship it. The good thing about the joe is that its pretty small so whatever seat you have its still good. We were up towards the top but we were around center ice so they worked out perfect. We couldnt have asked for a better game to see either. High scoring, close until the end with the wings trailing 4-3 with about 3 minutes left, and finally the wings tieing it up then taking the lead with about a minute left and eventually winning 6-4. I have some pretty good pictures from the game but of course they are on her camera so ill post a few when i get them. You will also finally get to see this mystery woman haha.
So now im back here in ptown until friday the 26th before i finally head back to vegas to see mr. jinx and finally sleep in my own bed! That might not seem like a big deal but its literally been over a month since ive been home and sleeping in different beds/locations like every other day is getting a bit tiring. Also i just cant wait to get back on a somewhat normal schedule. I dont think that is going to happen though until after new years since i still have xmas here, my birthday in vegas, and of course new years all coming up within the next week. Its going to be a great time but im pretty worn out from the past month and cait wait to bring in the new year. Im still uncertain as to what im going to be doing for my birthday on the 27th because i just found out that i will be in vegas instead of michigan. I kinda just wanna relax and not do much.... but at the same time part of me almost feels obligated to go out and do it up big just because its my bday. And for new years that is also still kinda up in the air. I have a buddy coming into town to stay at our place over new years but at the same time Shawn really wants me to go with her to see Fergie at the venetian so we'll see what happens. I really wouldnt mind just having a drink or two and chilling out.... BUT theres also that big devil sitting on my shoulder yelling at me to go out and get rediculous on both nights so i guess we'll see if i can fight the urges haha.
Obviously a ton has been going on since my last post so i really dont even know where to begin. I want to start writing up a summary of the trip but at the same time its kinda stupid because i dont have any of my pictures to include with it. My computer is still fucked up and best buy said they would have to send it out for like 3 weeks so i have to wait until i get back to vegas before i decide what i want to do. I would just buy a new one but its only a little over a year old and still in really good shape/up to date so thats not really an option. So i think im just going to go ahead and break down the trip by country and i will put up the pictures whenever i figure out what to do about my laptop. Unfortunately for you though this is getting way too long so i will start with part 1/italy tomorrow. So check back for the beginning of my trip summary through europe sometime tomorrow and im out.
Oh and i will be sending out the 10 dollars to the 5 people from last week in a few minutes. Merry Christmas you bastards.......jk haha.
-Nechita-
So now im back here in ptown until friday the 26th before i finally head back to vegas to see mr. jinx and finally sleep in my own bed! That might not seem like a big deal but its literally been over a month since ive been home and sleeping in different beds/locations like every other day is getting a bit tiring. Also i just cant wait to get back on a somewhat normal schedule. I dont think that is going to happen though until after new years since i still have xmas here, my birthday in vegas, and of course new years all coming up within the next week. Its going to be a great time but im pretty worn out from the past month and cait wait to bring in the new year. Im still uncertain as to what im going to be doing for my birthday on the 27th because i just found out that i will be in vegas instead of michigan. I kinda just wanna relax and not do much.... but at the same time part of me almost feels obligated to go out and do it up big just because its my bday. And for new years that is also still kinda up in the air. I have a buddy coming into town to stay at our place over new years but at the same time Shawn really wants me to go with her to see Fergie at the venetian so we'll see what happens. I really wouldnt mind just having a drink or two and chilling out.... BUT theres also that big devil sitting on my shoulder yelling at me to go out and get rediculous on both nights so i guess we'll see if i can fight the urges haha.
Obviously a ton has been going on since my last post so i really dont even know where to begin. I want to start writing up a summary of the trip but at the same time its kinda stupid because i dont have any of my pictures to include with it. My computer is still fucked up and best buy said they would have to send it out for like 3 weeks so i have to wait until i get back to vegas before i decide what i want to do. I would just buy a new one but its only a little over a year old and still in really good shape/up to date so thats not really an option. So i think im just going to go ahead and break down the trip by country and i will put up the pictures whenever i figure out what to do about my laptop. Unfortunately for you though this is getting way too long so i will start with part 1/italy tomorrow. So check back for the beginning of my trip summary through europe sometime tomorrow and im out.
Oh and i will be sending out the 10 dollars to the 5 people from last week in a few minutes. Merry Christmas you bastards.......jk haha.
-Nechita-
Monday, December 15, 2008
Live from spain....
well as i told you in my last post my laptop is fucked so im coming to you live from our hotel lobby in barcelona haha. Its about midnight here, raining like it has been the whole time we´ve been here, and we´re pretty much just taking it easy tonight. i wish we were heading home tomorrow but we have 1 more day in barcelona before flying home thursday back to good ol´ freezing cold michigan. Im not really sure whats up with my laptop but it looks like its in pretty critical condition. The screen is like totally jacked up so it displays everything like 3 times and on top of that windows wont even load!!!! I have no clue what happened either, it was working fine the whole time then we get to barcelona and its like i have some complete junker now. On top of that my bank really screwed me over by not transfering money into my checking account so ive pretty much had to borrow money from my buddy the whole time which is horrible. I never borrow money and i absolutely hate having to borrow money because it just makes it feel like im in debt and cant really do/spend it the way that i want. Luckily hes been really cool about it as the tab has grown to a pretty rediculously high number haha, thanks dan.
Other than the few problems stated above and the hard time using the phone everything has gone really smooth. Im pretty impressed with the way that we have kinda mastered the ins- and- outs of the way things work over here in a little under only 3 weeks. The first few days were pretty intimidating but now i feel like im just on vacation anywhere and kinda know my way around everything. I do plan on writing up a much more detailed trip report but obviously dont have the time to do so here in the lobby. Another thing that sucks about my computer being down is that im not going to be able to get all of my pictures from the computer until its fixed, theres a ton of pictures too. Hopefully they can fix it but i have a bad feeling its in pretty bad shape, we´ll see. I get home thursday night and finally get to lay back and relax...... for a whole 1 night haha. Im getting home thursday then staying down at the renaissance center in detroit for 3 nights with my gf, im pretty excited and cant wait to see her. Also i will get to see my first redwings game of the season so im pretty pumped about that as well.
The trip has been absolutely amazing and really has opened my eyes. Ive done a decent amount of traveling i guess but will be taking big trips like this once a year for now on. Im not positive on where the next destination will be for sure but we´ve got a couple really cool places in mind. Alright well this is getting long enough so check back like friday for some more updates and im out.
Other than the few problems stated above and the hard time using the phone everything has gone really smooth. Im pretty impressed with the way that we have kinda mastered the ins- and- outs of the way things work over here in a little under only 3 weeks. The first few days were pretty intimidating but now i feel like im just on vacation anywhere and kinda know my way around everything. I do plan on writing up a much more detailed trip report but obviously dont have the time to do so here in the lobby. Another thing that sucks about my computer being down is that im not going to be able to get all of my pictures from the computer until its fixed, theres a ton of pictures too. Hopefully they can fix it but i have a bad feeling its in pretty bad shape, we´ll see. I get home thursday night and finally get to lay back and relax...... for a whole 1 night haha. Im getting home thursday then staying down at the renaissance center in detroit for 3 nights with my gf, im pretty excited and cant wait to see her. Also i will get to see my first redwings game of the season so im pretty pumped about that as well.
The trip has been absolutely amazing and really has opened my eyes. Ive done a decent amount of traveling i guess but will be taking big trips like this once a year for now on. Im not positive on where the next destination will be for sure but we´ve got a couple really cool places in mind. Alright well this is getting long enough so check back like friday for some more updates and im out.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Spain!!!
Well i dont really know where to begin since my last post. Unfortunately this is going to be super short since im on my friends computer. Somehow my computer is totally fucked and wont work so ive pretty much been screwed there for the past 3 or 4 days. We went to the barcelona vs. real madrid game last night and it was sick. Our seats were literally on the field but ill put pictures up and stuff when i get home. Alright well ill be back thursday so check to see whats up and im out. Sorry for lack of updates but its been pretty hard to use the computer/internet. later
-Nechita-
-Nechita-
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Train kept a rollin all night long.....
Well its 11:30 a.m. and im reporting live to you from Amsterdam! We are laying around dead in the hotel room, we just got into town yesterday so you can only imagine what kind of chaos ensued last night. Sorry for the lack of updates but its been a real pain in the ass getting the internet over here. None of the hotels have had free wireless and get this they charge your 20 euros A DAY to use their internet. I mean i could see like 10 or something but 20 (about 25 u.s.) to use the internetz is a bit rediculous in my opinion. So being the nit that i am i have only bought it a couple days. Theres been so much going on since my last post and since ive been over here across the pond i really dont even know where to begin. I dont really feel like posting at all but i know if i wait until i get home that i will forget a ton of stuff. I guess ill just break things down into countries so here we go....
Alright well i wrote this paragraph above about an hour ago with the intentions of writing up a trip summary but got side tracked so i guess ill try and do it later. Im sure ill be a little under the influence so it will be much more entertaining for you anyways lol. Today we are about to head over to Anne Franks house, check out the van gogh musuem, and then start the gong show all over again haha. Some reason its taking forever to load up so u will just have to wait until later, check back later and im out.
-Nechita-
Alright well i wrote this paragraph above about an hour ago with the intentions of writing up a trip summary but got side tracked so i guess ill try and do it later. Im sure ill be a little under the influence so it will be much more entertaining for you anyways lol. Today we are about to head over to Anne Franks house, check out the van gogh musuem, and then start the gong show all over again haha. Some reason its taking forever to load up so u will just have to wait until later, check back later and im out.
-Nechita-
Monday, December 01, 2008
Italy!
Im at the airport right now. We're actually boarding so im going to keep this short. It hasnt been a week so whatever and i dont have time at the moment to send anyways as stupid stars wont connect so too bad lol. Alright well ill be reporting from italy within the next few days so check back for that and im out.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Ramblin,Gamblin, Travelin Man.....
Well its finally here, i fly out of mccarran tonight to start my month of adventure. Its currently quarter til 2 in the afternoon and my flight is scheduled to leave at 10:50. Obviously i havent did a single thing to get ready haha. I still have to pack, shop, make a few calls, go to the court to take care of a ticket, get litter, clean up my room, and try not to forget anything. All of this while my brain feels like mush after staying out drinking til about 5 this morning, Warning! Im a professional, dont try this at home kids haha. This is by far the longest im going to be away from vegas since moving out here. Its going to be a great time but im pretty sure once the trip starts winding down towards the end of december im going to be dying to get back out here. Obviously i had to do it up pretty big the past 3 nights to kind of go out with a bang since i wont be here for a while. Friday night my gf took me out for a really really fun night. We started off with reservations at Benihanna http://www.lvhilton.com/dining/benihana.shtml which may or may not been the greatest meal ive ever had. Ive never been here before but it was amazing, im still undecided whether or not it tops the Kobe beef at Craft steak in the mgm which was currently the best meal ive ever had. Either way if you havent been i strongly suggest it. For those who arent too sure what the place is its a japanese steakhouse deal where they bring everything out and cook it at your table while tossing peices of meat all over the place in the air. After dinner and about 490934 sake shots we had tickets to this comedy club show at the Riviera. The Riviera is pretty grimey but it was right across the street from where dinner was so it worked out perfect. The show was alright for the price. We missed the first act, the 2nd act guy was hilarious and killed it, then they brought out the headliner who was an absolute HACK. I guess it just kind of depends on what time of humor you like. I loved the second guy because he did a lot of dry and raunchy humor where as the headliner was more of a in your face/carrot top type guy with props and very obvious jokes. After the show we walked over to the peppermill to continue to get our drink on. The peppermill http://www.peppermilllasvegas.com/lounge/ is this really chill place that actually has like a fire inside that you can sit around and drink at. My friend described the place best as saying " the interior design look is- it looks like a what a pimps bedroom would look like if he threw up in it haha. We stayed here til around 4 or 5 before finally calling it a night.
Saturday i was still feeling pretty rough when i woke up which wasnt good because i had to do it all over again starting at 5p.m., ugghhhh. A group of us had tickets to go see Jerry Seinfeld do his stand up at Caesars at 730. We decided to all grab some dinner/drinks before hand at this place called Sea Blue http://www.mgmgrand.com/dining/seablue-mediterranean-restaurant.aspx inside of the mgm. It was more of a seafood place which im not really a fan of but the filet was really good and our buddy had a 400 voucher that he won at work so that always helps haha. The bill came out to around 700 between the 6 of us so we only had to pay 50 each at the end which was a pretty sick deal. Unfortunately Texas Tech was getting slaughtered on the tv right next to our table so that kind of sucked since we wouldve won like 650 or soemthing if they couldve covered. Our seats in the seinfeld show were pretty sick, we were dead center about 100 feet away. His stand up was pretty funny but seemed to go on and on towards the end. After the show got out we stood around the bar by the sportsbook hammering down drinks/shots until we decided what to do next. Of course when you get a group of poker players together drinking the night always seems to gravitate towards the strip club. So i collected my 200 bucks from betting on the sj/washington game (brag post) while we were in the show and we decided to head to penthouse http://www.penthouselv.com/ which has this rediculously almost too good to be true deal of 25 dollars all you can drink haha. Thats just absurd.
Last night was supposed to be a take it easy/early night which obviously ended up in doing jaigerbombs til 4 in the morning. We (gf) went to buffalo wild wings to just grab a few cocktails and some food until the subject of bowling came up. We went bowling a few weeks earlier and she had beat me both games we bowled which was bullshit because i could barely walk let alone bowl at this point but thats another story. The bartender at bdubs told us they had 1 games/ 1 dollar beers after midnight at the south point, ship it. So we decided to head down there and give myself a shot to redeem my manhood haha. Unfortunately for her i was a little more sober this time and i won all 4 games. I couldnt believe how packed they were at like 3 am. It was a pretty fun time even though for 1 dollar games/beers i ended up running up like a 80 dollar tab haha, damn you jaigermeister.
Alright well this is getting crazy long and i have a ton of stuff to do so im going to wrap this up. It hasnt technically been a full week since my last post but ill ship the 10 to you guys anyways for me even letting it get close to a week. I still have a ton of hands from plo over the past week i planned on putting up but ill do it later. Im sure ill have some time in the airport later tonight so maybe ill put them up then. Check back later and im out.
-Nechita-
Saturday i was still feeling pretty rough when i woke up which wasnt good because i had to do it all over again starting at 5p.m., ugghhhh. A group of us had tickets to go see Jerry Seinfeld do his stand up at Caesars at 730. We decided to all grab some dinner/drinks before hand at this place called Sea Blue http://www.mgmgrand.com/dining/seablue-mediterranean-restaurant.aspx inside of the mgm. It was more of a seafood place which im not really a fan of but the filet was really good and our buddy had a 400 voucher that he won at work so that always helps haha. The bill came out to around 700 between the 6 of us so we only had to pay 50 each at the end which was a pretty sick deal. Unfortunately Texas Tech was getting slaughtered on the tv right next to our table so that kind of sucked since we wouldve won like 650 or soemthing if they couldve covered. Our seats in the seinfeld show were pretty sick, we were dead center about 100 feet away. His stand up was pretty funny but seemed to go on and on towards the end. After the show got out we stood around the bar by the sportsbook hammering down drinks/shots until we decided what to do next. Of course when you get a group of poker players together drinking the night always seems to gravitate towards the strip club. So i collected my 200 bucks from betting on the sj/washington game (brag post) while we were in the show and we decided to head to penthouse http://www.penthouselv.com/ which has this rediculously almost too good to be true deal of 25 dollars all you can drink haha. Thats just absurd.
Last night was supposed to be a take it easy/early night which obviously ended up in doing jaigerbombs til 4 in the morning. We (gf) went to buffalo wild wings to just grab a few cocktails and some food until the subject of bowling came up. We went bowling a few weeks earlier and she had beat me both games we bowled which was bullshit because i could barely walk let alone bowl at this point but thats another story. The bartender at bdubs told us they had 1 games/ 1 dollar beers after midnight at the south point, ship it. So we decided to head down there and give myself a shot to redeem my manhood haha. Unfortunately for her i was a little more sober this time and i won all 4 games. I couldnt believe how packed they were at like 3 am. It was a pretty fun time even though for 1 dollar games/beers i ended up running up like a 80 dollar tab haha, damn you jaigermeister.
Alright well this is getting crazy long and i have a ton of stuff to do so im going to wrap this up. It hasnt technically been a full week since my last post but ill ship the 10 to you guys anyways for me even letting it get close to a week. I still have a ton of hands from plo over the past week i planned on putting up but ill do it later. Im sure ill have some time in the airport later tonight so maybe ill put them up then. Check back later and im out.
-Nechita-
Monday, November 17, 2008
Busy Month Ahead....
Sorry i know its been a while since my last post but ive had a lot of stuff going and im pretty lazy so that doesnt help either haha. Its like 9 in the morning and i cant sleep so i figured im well over due for an update so here i am. Like the title of this post says Im going to have a pretty busy/hectic/SUPER FUN month ahead of me. Here is a rough schedule of my upcoming plans-
November 24- December 1) Home to Michigan for thanksgiving
Pretty self explanatory i guess. Back home to good ole' meeeechigan to see friends and family for thanksgiving that i havent seen in a while before heading out on the 1st.
December 1-17) Traveling around Europe (awesome)
Here is a rough sketch of what our trip is going to look like-
(click on the pic to get a better view)
We fly out of Detroit on the afternoon of the 1st and land in Rome, Italy on the 2nd. We are staying here until the 5th because I've heard from quite a few people that there is tons of stuff to see/do here, (wine,italian girls, the mafia, (insert italian stereotype here), etc...). Next we will travel up towards the Czech for a day(not really sure why other than the fact its kind of a middle point between italy and germany), im sure we'll find something to do..., Next we will probably stop in Germany for a day to maybe check out some beer and some of the old world war stuff(not sure what else there is to do there). After fleeing Germany we will make our way over to Amsterdam (probably for a few days lol) to sight see and really take part in some of the "cultural" activities their city has to offer. After a few days in amsterdam we will clear our heads with a stop in Brussels for a beer and some brats or whatever else there is to do there. After Brussels we will head to cowardly France to check out Paris for a few days and see how rude the french will be to us "ignorant americans." We will leave France and head down to Barcelona, Spain where will be spending the last week of our trip. We are going to the huge/superbowl esque soccer game between Barcelona vs. Real Madrid which should be an awesome time. The tickets were a bit pricey( 500 for a soccer game, i mean really? come on its soccer) but whatever im sure the experience alone is going to be well worth the price. And if not ill be betting a decent amount on the game to make up for it haha. Ive done a little research and it sounds like this game is like the superbowl where theres just 100k (stadium holds 100k) people partying all week long leading up to the game, fun fun. Well thats pretty much the summary of the trip. We are staying in hotels about half the time and hostiles the other half so I WILL be updating this when i get the chance to use the internet and put up tons of pictures along the way.
December 18-21) staying down at the Renaissance Center in detroit with my "friend"
Im not really sure what to call her so ill go with "good friend." We've been going out/hanging about everyday for the past month now and it just so happens she has to be in michigan for a wedding until December 15th. Instead of coming back to vegas shes going to wait until i get home so we can visit for a few days. It will also be pretty cool because believe it or not downtown detroit is actually a lot of fun (bars, restaurants, about every sporting event imaginable, casinos, the occasional murder(and by occasional i mean very often haha, sorry detroit i had to do it), etc..) but just gets such a bad wrap due to the city being in shambles. The redwings also play the sharks that night of the 18th which is perfect because ive been dieing to go to a wings game this season.
December 21-28 possibly 29th) Port Huron for christmas/my birthday
December 29th- ? ) Rounding out the trip in Vegas for new year's. Its going to be a pretty good month coming up and i cant wait to get it started.
Alright well this is getting way too long and im about falling asleep here on my laptop so time to end this. Im probably going to lay down for a while then head out and play some poker either at the wynn or venetian depending on what kind of mood im in. Poker has been going really well with me making a little under 10k in the past week or so but ill tell you all about that in the next post. I have a ton of hands to show you/talk to you about from the past week so ill probably update this tomorrow night. Seriously this time though i am going to start updating this on a much more frequent schedule then how its been lately. How about this? For now on if i go over a week without updating this i will give the First 5 people who call me out on it 10 dollars on pokerstars. All you have to do is give your name/city on pokerstars and the 10 is yours.
-Nechita-
November 24- December 1) Home to Michigan for thanksgiving
Pretty self explanatory i guess. Back home to good ole' meeeechigan to see friends and family for thanksgiving that i havent seen in a while before heading out on the 1st.
December 1-17) Traveling around Europe (awesome)
Here is a rough sketch of what our trip is going to look like-
(click on the pic to get a better view)
We fly out of Detroit on the afternoon of the 1st and land in Rome, Italy on the 2nd. We are staying here until the 5th because I've heard from quite a few people that there is tons of stuff to see/do here, (wine,italian girls, the mafia, (insert italian stereotype here), etc...). Next we will travel up towards the Czech for a day(not really sure why other than the fact its kind of a middle point between italy and germany), im sure we'll find something to do..., Next we will probably stop in Germany for a day to maybe check out some beer and some of the old world war stuff(not sure what else there is to do there). After fleeing Germany we will make our way over to Amsterdam (probably for a few days lol) to sight see and really take part in some of the "cultural" activities their city has to offer. After a few days in amsterdam we will clear our heads with a stop in Brussels for a beer and some brats or whatever else there is to do there. After Brussels we will head to cowardly France to check out Paris for a few days and see how rude the french will be to us "ignorant americans." We will leave France and head down to Barcelona, Spain where will be spending the last week of our trip. We are going to the huge/superbowl esque soccer game between Barcelona vs. Real Madrid which should be an awesome time. The tickets were a bit pricey( 500 for a soccer game, i mean really? come on its soccer) but whatever im sure the experience alone is going to be well worth the price. And if not ill be betting a decent amount on the game to make up for it haha. Ive done a little research and it sounds like this game is like the superbowl where theres just 100k (stadium holds 100k) people partying all week long leading up to the game, fun fun. Well thats pretty much the summary of the trip. We are staying in hotels about half the time and hostiles the other half so I WILL be updating this when i get the chance to use the internet and put up tons of pictures along the way.
December 18-21) staying down at the Renaissance Center in detroit with my "friend"
Im not really sure what to call her so ill go with "good friend." We've been going out/hanging about everyday for the past month now and it just so happens she has to be in michigan for a wedding until December 15th. Instead of coming back to vegas shes going to wait until i get home so we can visit for a few days. It will also be pretty cool because believe it or not downtown detroit is actually a lot of fun (bars, restaurants, about every sporting event imaginable, casinos, the occasional murder(and by occasional i mean very often haha, sorry detroit i had to do it), etc..) but just gets such a bad wrap due to the city being in shambles. The redwings also play the sharks that night of the 18th which is perfect because ive been dieing to go to a wings game this season.
December 21-28 possibly 29th) Port Huron for christmas/my birthday
December 29th- ? ) Rounding out the trip in Vegas for new year's. Its going to be a pretty good month coming up and i cant wait to get it started.
Alright well this is getting way too long and im about falling asleep here on my laptop so time to end this. Im probably going to lay down for a while then head out and play some poker either at the wynn or venetian depending on what kind of mood im in. Poker has been going really well with me making a little under 10k in the past week or so but ill tell you all about that in the next post. I have a ton of hands to show you/talk to you about from the past week so ill probably update this tomorrow night. Seriously this time though i am going to start updating this on a much more frequent schedule then how its been lately. How about this? For now on if i go over a week without updating this i will give the First 5 people who call me out on it 10 dollars on pokerstars. All you have to do is give your name/city on pokerstars and the 10 is yours.
-Nechita-
Monday, October 27, 2008
Yup
Few hands from online the other day....
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3356623
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3356628- not really a big pot but pretty much sums up how ive been running. They try to give it away but the cards just wont let them........ mbn
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3357264
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3357265- just your standard 400+ bb pot. this was a fun one. Im going to go ahead and assume that a good portion of you who look at this are saying "wow cant this idiot fold aces" but im still kind of unsure how i feel about this hand. Anyone whos played online cash games over the past few years knows who Leatherass is and that hes a pretty solid player/winner and a thinking player. When he reraises the turn i was thinking he either just has me on some sort of weak jack/mid pair so he can get me off it or he has like qq/kk/ maybe the other AA. I elect to just call and set the trap. He overbets the turn which is where i decided like 99% sure i have the best hand so i just call again and am getting it in on any river. He insta shoved the river which kind of suprised me but ive played with him a ton and know hes definitely capable of value shoving a hand like KK on this river. I called fairly quickly/confidently only to be shown the JJ, sick sick. Given the line i decided to take in the hand and having played with leather quite a bit theres just no way im not getting it in in this spot. meh. I had a decent session going up a little over 1k over a few hours but this killed it and i mark up yet another losing session..
Alright just wanted to update this thing with something. Im heading to venetian or wynn to play for a while but i will be updating later on tonight with a real update so check back for that and im out.
-Nechita-
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3356623
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3356628- not really a big pot but pretty much sums up how ive been running. They try to give it away but the cards just wont let them........ mbn
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3357264
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3357265- just your standard 400+ bb pot. this was a fun one. Im going to go ahead and assume that a good portion of you who look at this are saying "wow cant this idiot fold aces" but im still kind of unsure how i feel about this hand. Anyone whos played online cash games over the past few years knows who Leatherass is and that hes a pretty solid player/winner and a thinking player. When he reraises the turn i was thinking he either just has me on some sort of weak jack/mid pair so he can get me off it or he has like qq/kk/ maybe the other AA. I elect to just call and set the trap. He overbets the turn which is where i decided like 99% sure i have the best hand so i just call again and am getting it in on any river. He insta shoved the river which kind of suprised me but ive played with him a ton and know hes definitely capable of value shoving a hand like KK on this river. I called fairly quickly/confidently only to be shown the JJ, sick sick. Given the line i decided to take in the hand and having played with leather quite a bit theres just no way im not getting it in in this spot. meh. I had a decent session going up a little over 1k over a few hours but this killed it and i mark up yet another losing session..
Alright just wanted to update this thing with something. Im heading to venetian or wynn to play for a while but i will be updating later on tonight with a real update so check back for that and im out.
-Nechita-
Friday, October 10, 2008
BUSY......
Well its been a while so i guess i better update this thing. It seems like ive had a million things going on since last posting about a week ago. The past week has been kind of a hometown reunion which is always a good time to see friends you havent seen in forever. In addition to some friends out visiting we also have a friend living with us at the moment until he finds a place out here. So i guess you could say its been more of a week of partying rather than being busy but ill pretend like ive been getting a lot of stressful things accomplished haha. Laying in the pool, playing cards, drinking, getting bottles at clubs, and hanging out to the weeeeee hours of the morning can be pretty "stress"ful haha.
Poker has been going alright since my last post. Ive actually been playing a little online and am up like 3k or something since last post in very minimal time put in. Live poker has been pretty so so. I havent really put in a real live session since last posting but have managed to play like 3 or 4 days. I dont call them "real" sessions because in the last week ive gone to play 2/5 with my buddies from back home and we would just get wasted/do shots while playing before going out for the night. Needless to say the shots made for some pretty swingy sessions and some interesting hands. The last session i put in though was absolutely sick. I was getting cold decked and ran into so many set up hands it felt like i was playing online in a tournament. I havent had to make so many huge lay downs in a session like that in a while and i still ended up losing a little under 1k in a 500 max buy in game at the MGM. Although i think i did manage to drink close to 1k in alcohol so i guess it was worth it haha. This was kind of a funny hand since my buddy was dealing and it was literally like my 2nd hand at the table.
Hand- someone limps in early position, im in the cutoff with 10 8 off so i raise it up to 20, the small blind calls and limper calls. FLOP is 997 , checks around to me i bet out 35 and the sb thinks for like 2 seconds before min raising to 70 and the other guy folds. I wasnt too sure of what he had but i figured if he has a 9 and i hit then theres no way hes folding so i just call. The turn is a Q and he checks??? I really thought about betting here because now im thinking hes probably not checking a 9 but i check and decide to take the free river. River is what appears to be my money card of a J making the BOARD 997QJ. He now leads out for 80 and the way the hand played out im like 90% sure he doesnt have a fullhouse so i raise it up to 250. He thinks for like maybe 5 seconds total before calling and flipping up K10 off for a higher straight hahha. I mean how could i not put him on minraising that flop of 997 with K10 ??????? hahahah. I shouldve known that almost getting stacked on the first hand was going to be a sign of things to come but what can ya do.
I started writing up this blog like 3 hours ago and got distracted by the new chris rock special on hbo so im going to have to finish this up tomorrow as its getting pretty late. Here is a list of some things i wanted to talk about that you can look forward to but more for me so i dont forget what i wanted to blog about.
My cars
Few fun/funny moments from partying the past week
My tanking mutual funds
My 3 week trip to Europe at the end of next month
Barcelona vs. Real Madrid soccer game
and some other random stuff i cant think of at the moment
Here are a few hands from today. Dont feel like explaining them but here they are and im out.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3301978
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3301989
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3301996
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3302176- STANDARD bustout hand for me involving any kind of tournament or sit-n-go i play online. They both couldve had like qq and i guarantee they wouldve hit a flush or possibly even a 5th queen on the river haha. It really is absurd/ almost mathematically impossible to run as horrible as i do in any kind of tournament i play on pokerstars but whatever. If i get it in vs. a 2 outer i think im about a 90% under dog, i really wish i was joking too but its pretty gross.
-Nechita-
Poker has been going alright since my last post. Ive actually been playing a little online and am up like 3k or something since last post in very minimal time put in. Live poker has been pretty so so. I havent really put in a real live session since last posting but have managed to play like 3 or 4 days. I dont call them "real" sessions because in the last week ive gone to play 2/5 with my buddies from back home and we would just get wasted/do shots while playing before going out for the night. Needless to say the shots made for some pretty swingy sessions and some interesting hands. The last session i put in though was absolutely sick. I was getting cold decked and ran into so many set up hands it felt like i was playing online in a tournament. I havent had to make so many huge lay downs in a session like that in a while and i still ended up losing a little under 1k in a 500 max buy in game at the MGM. Although i think i did manage to drink close to 1k in alcohol so i guess it was worth it haha. This was kind of a funny hand since my buddy was dealing and it was literally like my 2nd hand at the table.
Hand- someone limps in early position, im in the cutoff with 10 8 off so i raise it up to 20, the small blind calls and limper calls. FLOP is 997 , checks around to me i bet out 35 and the sb thinks for like 2 seconds before min raising to 70 and the other guy folds. I wasnt too sure of what he had but i figured if he has a 9 and i hit then theres no way hes folding so i just call. The turn is a Q and he checks??? I really thought about betting here because now im thinking hes probably not checking a 9 but i check and decide to take the free river. River is what appears to be my money card of a J making the BOARD 997QJ. He now leads out for 80 and the way the hand played out im like 90% sure he doesnt have a fullhouse so i raise it up to 250. He thinks for like maybe 5 seconds total before calling and flipping up K10 off for a higher straight hahha. I mean how could i not put him on minraising that flop of 997 with K10 ??????? hahahah. I shouldve known that almost getting stacked on the first hand was going to be a sign of things to come but what can ya do.
I started writing up this blog like 3 hours ago and got distracted by the new chris rock special on hbo so im going to have to finish this up tomorrow as its getting pretty late. Here is a list of some things i wanted to talk about that you can look forward to but more for me so i dont forget what i wanted to blog about.
My cars
Few fun/funny moments from partying the past week
My tanking mutual funds
My 3 week trip to Europe at the end of next month
Barcelona vs. Real Madrid soccer game
and some other random stuff i cant think of at the moment
Here are a few hands from today. Dont feel like explaining them but here they are and im out.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3301978
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3301989
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3301996
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3302176- STANDARD bustout hand for me involving any kind of tournament or sit-n-go i play online. They both couldve had like qq and i guarantee they wouldve hit a flush or possibly even a 5th queen on the river haha. It really is absurd/ almost mathematically impossible to run as horrible as i do in any kind of tournament i play on pokerstars but whatever. If i get it in vs. a 2 outer i think im about a 90% under dog, i really wish i was joking too but its pretty gross.
-Nechita-
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