FUCK

click on the picture to see my latest failure. Instead of a 12,500 world series seat i win 350 fucking dollars, so gay. Get it all in with QQ vs. A8 off and sure enough i get raped deep in a tourney again, this time it cost me around 12k though. Fuck tournaments. thats all

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Sorry i couldn't really think of a good title for this so I'm just going with the ................ . as the title of this post. Its mostly going to be a bunch of random things from the past week so i bare with me. I had a huge post written up a few days ago titled "i hate poker" but it somehow got deleted before i could put it up and there was no way i was going to write it all over again. The lost entry was pretty much a rant about losing 5k in the first few days of the month and about how i think online tournaments are totally rigged but I'm okay now and don't hate poker anymore haha. I want to talk more about how i really do think online tournaments are rigged but i don't have time right now and i will talk more about it in the next post i promise, its something I've been meaning to post about for a while. Lets just say i feel my account is doomed when it comes to tournaments and the good tournament players just have lucky accounts. Anyways ill discuss all that in the next post for sure. Other than that i haven't been playing a ton of poker but have been doing okay and have grinded back to about even on the month.

I don't really know why but I've had the itch to bet on sports games lately and its been going really good, almost too good. Ive only been betting like 100 or 200 on a game here and there but I've just been running insanely hot. I think I've won something crazy like 11 out of the last 12 bets that i have placed over the past week and this even includes a 3 way parlay from the other day. I put 150 on the Celtics tonight at -6 in the first half against the bulls and they managed to cover by 20 going into halftime haha, ship the monies. Another game that i absolutely loved was the warriors at -5 against the heat but by the time i got to the sports book the line had jumped all the way up to -8 and i decided to pass and go with the Celtics, warriors won by 35 haha, bad beat.

Its about 730 Friday night and I'm still debating on whether or not i feel like going out tonight. I have no motivation to get off the couch right now and i still feel pretty shitty from last nights festivities. Last night i went from not planning on going out and doing anything to getting bottles, doing shots, and staying out until sometime this morning. I started off with my usual routine of collecting peoples money to pay for my night(aka- playing poker) and doing a some predrinking at the Wynn. This went pretty well by me winning a little over 1200 on my very first hand haha.

Quick hand summary- I post after the button and pick AK of clubs, 2 limpers to me and i make it 25 to go, both the blinds and the limpers call, eww. Flop comes J10 8 with 2 clubs, a decent flop but certainly one that hits a ton of hands. everyone checks to me and I decide to bet 75 with the intentions of going all the way if reraised here. small blind calls quickly(putting him on like 109/89) and one of the limpers reraises it 160 more and he only has like 200 more behind. Normally i would reraise here and put him all in but i wanted the small blind to come along too because he had like 700 more so i decide to call and pray he calls as well. Instead once i call the small blind insta shoves all in for like 480 more. The other guy calls off his last 2oo and with how much is in the pot theres no way im folding at this point and i call. turn comes a 7 of clubs giving me the nuts and the river is a 2 of hearts. Small blind had 89 for the turned straight, other guy didnt show, and i win with the nut flush, easy game.

Then i headed over to meet up with over at the Luxor where a friend(molly) is in town and some of her girlfriends had a table/bottle at http://www.laxthenightclub.com/ LAX. Thursdays are pretty weak at LAX but the table was right on the dance floor and it was a pretty fun time there. After the bottle was gone it was starting to clear out so we decided to head over to Empire and get another bottle. Empire http://www.empireballroom.com/ is this sweet after hours club that plays the best techno I've ever heard but for some reason it was extremely dead last night. Its usually packed every time I've ever been but i guess last night was just an off night. We chilled here for a a few hours and once the bottle was gone everyone decided it was about time to call it a night. or morning whichever way you look at. I got back and shouldve passed out but not before i played a little 25/50 haha. I didn't get too involved but woke up with my stars account 1.5k richer so that was nice. The only thing i really remember from the "session" was talking shit nonstop to "thegrumpyone" for some reason?? haha oh well.

Alright well this was supposed to be a quick update post but is getting way too long so I'm going to finish this up. I think I'm going to head down to the Wynn here in a while to play some poker and decide whether or not i want to go out. I know I've been slacking on the updates but I'm going to start posting a lot more from now on, i mean it this time. I didn't really get to talk about everything i wanted to so i will post more tomorrow for sure so check back for that and to see how tonight went.

-Nechita-

Close again.....

(click on the pic to actually be able to see it)

Here is my final table from saturday where i once again couldnt finish. I only entered this tournament because it was a new style on pokerstars that i havent seen yet. It was a 4 handed 88 buy in with only 10 minute levels so i knew it would be over quick and i wouldnt have to sit around playing it all day/night. I didnt really feel like playing at all saturday so i entered a few tournaments to just mess around in while i was sitting around watching tv before the night began. As you can see i ended up finishing in 3rd for around 1700 or something which is pretty decent for not really wanting to play and i was also pretty shortstacked from like 45 players on to the final table. Pokerstars had a ton of good tournaments running on sunday but unfortunately I had a very late saturday night(which ill get to in a sec) and wasnt able to play in any of them. Ive only had a few short sessions since my last post 2 live and 1 online which have all been winners. I played earlier online for maybe a half hour and here is the only decent sized pot i was involved in.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2169380 - what an easy game. flop the nuts get paid. although i was half ready to whip my mouse off the wall once the Ace hit the river but luckily he just had qq.

Saturday night started off pretty standard for me, predrinking/poker because it just feels better spending other peoples money during the night. I finished up the tournament above and had a a few drinks while getting ready to head over to the Hard Rock to meet up with some people. This was my first time going to the hard rock and i have to say its nothing like what i expected, it was actually really cool. They have tons of cool rock memorabilia all over, its much smaller than the other hotels, and they played rock music. We pre drank a little more before going to Body English http://www.bodyenglish.com/ we had tables/bottles waiting for us. Ive heard from a lot of people about how cool this place is and it definately lived up to the hype. It was a lot smaller than the big clubs like Pure, Lax, etc. but i think that almost made it better. Although i think it probably wouldve sucked if we didnt have a table because it was so small/packed but we did so it was a good time. I think we left here around 3(total guess) to go meet up with some friends(hodge and company) who had a table at penthouse http://www.penthouselv.com/ . After this things get a little fuzzy but i do remember getting home around 10 or 11 and trying to stay up until 1:30 to play in the 530 buy in on stars haha. Needless to say i couldnt make it and woke up out on the couch around 3 and went back to bed til about 8 or 9. Im not sure what i was doing on the couch because i never sleep there but i mustve been trying my hardest to stay up for the tourney but just couldnt do it. Oh and I also may or may not be going out this weekend with a girl that works there........ she wants me to call her thursday so ill keep u updated if i decide to man up and call her. Anyways thats pretty much a recap of my weekend so check back tomorrow to see whats new and im out.

-Nechita-

Very long day.....

I woke up at 11 a.m. today(gross) to go play in the Venetian 340 buy in tournament and was reminded why i hate tournaments. I ended up finishing like 22nd or something out of around 500 players for like 710 and the whole day was pretty much a bust. These things pay out so top heavy with 1st place paying like 45k and with the cash game stakes im used to playing unless im making the final table its pretty much a waste of time. I know making 430 or whatever and saying it was a waste of time sounds horrible but i feel like with the 10 hours i just dumped into todays tournament i couldve easily made more money playing cash games. Alright enough of my hate rant towards tournaments because when i finally break through and win one of these it will all be worth it, i think. Alright well i just wanted to let you know how todays tournament went and let out a little venting about my hatrid for tournaments. With that being said..... Im playing in the 550 buy in tourney tomorrow at the venetian haha , so check back to see how that went and im out.

Oh on a good note i bet 500 on Barcelona(soccer) to win today and they came through in what sounded like a very exciting game. Unfortunately i couldnt watch any of it because i was bored out of my mind in the tournament and the dealers/nazis at the venetian wont even let you use your phone at the table so i couldnt even check the score. Alright im out.

-Nechita-

Some hands from the past week or so......

Ill get to the hands shortly but first i want to talk about a few things. First off i would like to talk about my new cellphone that i picked up last week the BlackBerry Pearl. This phone http://www.blackberrypearl.com/ really is amazing in comparison to my last phone. I have had the same cellphone for at least like 6 years and it was literally like one of the first phones to have a camera on it haha, thats old school. Needless to say its a little bit of a much needed upgrade. Its pretty funny because i feel like an old man trying to figure out how to use all the new features. It has a ton of cool things u can do like internet, video camera, gps, u can watch tv on it, etc. and its just really been one of the best things ive bought in a while.

Yesterday the weather was kind of crappy compared to what the weather channel said but we decided to go golfing anyway. The 4 of us decided to do 18 at this place out in summerlin that i cant remember the name of, lets just call it shithole. I dont know if its just because its so early in the year or what but this mightve been one of the worst courses ive ever played on. The fairways were shitty, the greens were literally like cement, and the "rough" was just some rocks covered in straw. The course was a piece of shit but we still had a fun time and it felt good to get out on the course for the first time this year. I actually expected to shoot a lot worse than i did for my first time out but i was making some decent contact on like every shot. This kid we were with almost got a hole in one too which was pretty nuts. The hole was playing about 140 or something he steps up, hits it, and as soon as he hits you can tell its going to be a good shot. It lands towards the front of the green and starts rolling straight at the pin which is towards the back. It hits the pin and lips out around the cup! it was so sick if it had just a little less speed it definetly wouldve been in, bad beat. That was like the 9th or 10th whole and was pretty much the end of the real golfing. We started shotgunning beers after like every hole on the back 9 and proceeded to get pretty drunk. My friend(hodge) decided to put the cart in reverse( makes a loud beeping noise when in reverse) right in the middle of my backswing and i just pop the ball way up into the air and right on the roof of this lady's house haha. She came out and looked pretty pissed but we just kind pretended like it didnt happen and drove off. Last i recall is racing the carts trying to get the others to crash and whipping beer cans off their cart windshield. I love golf. Anyways this is starting to get way too long so im going to wrap it up. I am going to play in the venetian 330 buy in tournament tomorrow so check back to see how that went and im out.

Here are some hands from the past week.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130439 - decide to play this hand super weird actually trying to get someone to raise and end up losing the pot. He said afterwards that he had QJ of spades!sick

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130429- what an easy game

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130426- turn the nuts and this go decides to go nuts

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130419- Here i decide to try and represent a huge hand by limping under the gun and raising but get called by this idiot. Its a good board to continue with my hand range but this guy was a total donk and once the 9 comes off on the turn theres just no hand he has now that he will fold. He also says afterwards that he had qj, donk.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130411- Here i call the flop with plans of taking it away later, somehow it worked out
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130402- I play good and get outdrawn like usual
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130371 - Ive got a lot of history with this player so i just felt like he was trying to run me over on the turn here with nothing so i shove. somehow it works out

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130358- Once this guy with KK re re raises my reraise i know he has a hand that he is willing to put all the money in with on the flop so i elect to reraise and we get it all in.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108644- Here i just try to value bluff to lightly i guess? i was really suprised to see him roll over aj here and thought for sure i had the best hand.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108638 aces suck , glad he bets 100 on the river because i was shoving if not
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2108633- Here i hate my bet on the river. I was mad afterwards that i didnt shove for value making it look like i missed clubs instead of making this 310 bet that looks like i want to be called.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2130340- funny story behind this hand. This is from after we got done golfing and i was just playing some 100 heads up sitngos because i was pretty drunk against this same guy here. This guy is just playing like a total lunatic and talking shit nonstop in the 100 sitngos so i finally tell him lets play some 10/20 heads up and he agrees. This is literally the very first hand we played and i stack him and he leaves immediately after haha, thanks for the 2k buddy.

-Nechita-

"You are a sick sick man"

Things have continued to go well since last post and hopefully i can finish out the month with a good run. The weather is finally warming up and its starting be pretty nice out. Poker has been going pretty well so far this month both live and online. Im going to post a bunch of hands from the past week so i dont feel like writing up a huge post so i will write a little about how pokers been going and a little write up about what ive been up to off the felt.

Ill start off with some poker talk so if your one of my non poker friends you can feel free to skip pass this. Ive been playing pretty well since posting last week but more importantly i havent been getting sucked out on every hand. I cant tell you how good it feels to get all in with AA vs KK and actually have it hold up. The past week of playing live i have put in a lot of hours and have had some good results. I have been playing mostly 2/5 no cap at the wynn but have thrown in a few 5/10 sessions when the games looked good. Ive been putting in at least 5 hours a day which doesnt sound like a lot but i have really been slacking off up until now. Over the past week or so ive made around 5k playing live and have been playing pretty good. Funny live hand from a few days ago and where i got the title to this post from- Old lady(who had a wsop bracelet from the seniors event last year) was playing pretty reckless and i knew i would catch her slipping eventually. Anyways im in the small blind with 22 and everyone folds to the old lady who limps in on the button so i call and the bb checks. This is the first time i have seen her do this so my read is she either has something huge or she really has nothing. Flop comes down Q77 i check, bb checks, she instantly fires out 20 bucks into the 15 pot, I call and the bb folds. The turn comes a 4 so i check it again and this time with no hesitation she fires out 60 into the 50 pot. At this point im pretty confident in my hand as long as a scare card doesnt hit the river. The river comes down a 3 and i decide to bet out a measly 5 dollars because im sure i have the best hand and i just want to see what she will do. Its such a sick bet too because she cant call, she really cant fold, the only thing she can do is raise it which she did to 105. I snap call and she says "nice hand i have nothing" and i proudly flip over my tiny deuces to scoop the pot and part of her soul haha. The look on her face was priceless when i rolled over the deuces and it sent a pretty loud message to the table that im not to be fucked with haha. Most of the players already knew that but it just feels good to make those sick calls/plays every once in a while. The pot wasnt really that big but it feels good to have another player(who i think is a good player) at the table say "You are a sick sick man." As far as online goes im up about 7k on the month and im just going to put up a bunch of hands instead of talking about it.

This weekend was pretty tame compared to others but i still had a good time. I only ended up going out friday night but it was a long one. I started off down at the wynn to make some quick spending money for the night and to get a good pre-game buzz going. After both were a accomplished in a few hours we had a table/bottle at Scores. We ended up going through a few bottles and bullshitting around here for a while until we left to go to Dave Navarro's/ Fuels bellagio suite for a party???? The only stipulation was that we had to bring some girls with us which we could not come through with. I was pretty suprised that barely any of the girls even knew who he was and the ones that did were not interested in coming with us at all. It was now daylight and we were heading to the bellagio to meet up with our friends buddy who we were going to get in with. While we waited we were scowering the bellagio for any chicks we could find to come with us but it was like 7am and we had no luck. We end up going to this party we definately had got there too late. There was like 10 people sitting around(maybe like 2 girls) and it was just kind of dead. The real party was obviously back in the bedroom where supposedly Dave, the lead singer of fuel, and a ton of girls were at but we obviously couldnt go back there. The door cracked open for a second and that was definately where the party was at. I saw like 3 hot chicks speaking some foreign language and then some rocker looking guy came to the door and shut it. I dont know what the lead singer of fuel looks like but im assuming this mustve been him. After having a drink here we decided that the night was pretty much over so we headed home. I felt like death all day saturday so there was no way i was going out.

I have a few more things i want to talk about like yesterdays golfing adventure, new phone, etc. but this is getting way too long. I think ill just wait until later tonight to finish the rest of this up. Im going to go play at the wynn so check back later to see how that went and i will put the hands up from the last week then as well.

-Nechita-

Good week.

I know ive been slacking a lot lately on the blog but i promise i will start updating more frequently from now on. As you can see in the title things have been going a little better this week compared to when i last posted. Im not really sick anymore, the weather has been perfect, and poker has been going much better. I never ended up going to the doctor when i was sick but i just took a ton of medicine and it just kind of went away, hopefully. Im not really one of those people who wont go to the doctors no matter what i just dont like going because its a huge hassle. Having to set up a appt., go there wait in the waiting room, finally go back in the room and wait some more for the doctor to look at you for 2 seconds and im just too lazy for all this.

A few random stories and happenings from the past week. First off here are a few stories from the news. Heres your everyday story of a kid shooting his sister in the face because she wouldnt give him some chips, how fucking sick.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/02/14/burkett.sc.child.shot.wbtw

I was also going to post a article on the top 10 worst cities in the U.S. that was on yahoo a few days ago but now i cant find the link damnit. Anyways my home state of good ol michigan had two of the top 3 spots haha. Detroit took down the number one spot and Flint came in at a very impressive 3rd. The list was called the top 10 depressing cities in the u.s. and was based on their economies and homicide rate.

Mr. Jinx hasnt been eating at all this week so i guess im going to have to take him to the vet. He doesnt really seem to be acting any different he just refused to eat his dry food. Ive even tried giving him 3 types of dry food that i know hes liked in the past and he just wont eat anything other than normal human food or cans of food. So i dont know if its because he is sick or if hes just become spoiled.

Last night i met up with some poker/pocketfives people which included: mcleod,chatter,chatters brother,lvpokerdealer, acerunner,and one more person but i just cant remember his name and we had a pretty fun night out. The night started off at the Orleans for drinks and some high stakes bowling. We bowled 3 games and i ended up losing every bet that i made haha. Its so sick too because the last game i ended up bowling a 194 which is pretty good for me(highest score of the night by anyone:brag) and we still ended up losing, bad beat. By the time we were done bowling i was stuck about 40 bucks which sucked but it was still a good time and i got a good buzz going by the time we were done. After we got done bowling we headed over to this place called dragonfly which was pretty cool. Ive only heard of this place and never been but it was definatley a pretty cool chill/pre drinking type place. Also they have like happy hour after midnight where everything was half off so we ate, drank, bottle of sake, and some JAIGERBOMBS and my bill was like only 30 bucks. Im not positive what time we left but im i think it was around 3 or so and we decided that we needed to hit up a strip club. We tried going to this place i cant remember the name of way off the beaten path past old downtown but because the wind was so strong yesterday their was a power outage and the place was closed. Instead we ended up heading to this place called Olympic Gardens and proceeded to get pretty wasted. I had a decent buzz by the time we got there and decided it was time to start powering down shots. Clay/lvpokerdealer was the only other person who was up for shots and i think we mustve took a good 5 or 6 jaigerbombs that were probably 80% jaiger and a splash of redbull. I ended up getting the number from this chick who i was talking to all night but im a coward and probably wont end up calling her haha.

I was planning on talking about the week in poker and my new phone i just got but this is getting way too long so i will finish up tomorrow. Check back tomorrow for that and im out.

-Nechita-

"Sick" Month...

So where do i begin....? Its been a little over 3 weeks now since my last post and a lot has been going on. The superbowl, me being sick, friends in town, losing 10k, and more of me being sick which i still am kind of. Ive also pretty much accomplished absolutely nothing towards my 2008 goals. I havent started working out, have played in maybe like 5 tournaments, and havent really been playing much poker. Hopefully after i start feeling a little better i can get my shit together and get motivated.

This was probably the worst/most boring superbowl i have ever watched, up to the last quarter when it became the best ive ever seen. The game really had everything, a huge underdog, a perfect season on the line, and a game winning play in the last minute of the game. The one thing that was pretty lame this year was the commercials. Usually you can at least run off at least 2 or 3 the next day that you remember/thought were funny but this year there was none. The only commercial i can actually even remember is the pepsi one with Justin timberlake which was pretty dumb too. I decided to make a last minute bet of 500 on the patriots at -12 which obviously was a bad idea. Its pretty funny because i have been riding the giants like the whole 2nd half of the season and the game i decide to bet against them they kill it. I was actually half joking around towards the end of the season saying that the giants would win the superbowl. I also bet on the under of 1.5 rushing yards for tom brady which was a winner so i only ended up losing about 280 altogether which actually shouldve only been 180. I get to the sportsbook a few hours before the game and they have a million things that you can bet on EXCEPT the coin toss. Obviously i wanted to bet on tails and sure enough it ended up being tails FUCK, so i felt like i was stuck 100 before the game even started.





Here is a picture^^^ of my bathroom counter filled with all the medicine ive been taking the past week. Luckily i havent really felt shitty ive just been really congested and have a little bit of a cough. Unfortunately i think i am going to have to go see a doctor though because its been a little over a week now of taking all this^^ stuff and it doesnt seem to be going away. I think mr. jinx might have caught my cold as well because he isnt eating anything and he puked all over my laptop(luckily it was closed) so i probably have to take him to the vet as well, colds suck.

Time to elaborate on my losing 10k comment haha. January started off good with me being up about 8k between live/online by like jan. 10th then it came to a screaching hault. It was as if someone flipped a switch because after the 10th i didnt have another winning session the rest of the month. I wasnt playing bad but i wouldnt say i was playing good, was running horrible, started tilting, and by the end of the month managed to lose my 8k profit and 2k more making for my first losing month in forever, great start to the year right haha. Ive managed to break out of my funk a little bit the past few days online but man what a rough 3 weeks that was and hopefully its over. Ive also had a few winning sessions live the past few times ive played. Im not going to get a ton of live cash game play in this month because the venetian just started their deepstack tournament series yesterday which runs all month. Here is a list of the events http://venetian.com/venetianeng/assets/files/DeepStac.pdf . I plan on playing in all/most of the Monday, Wednesday, and thursday events and depending how those go possibly play in some of the sundays as well. I played in the first event yesterday which didnt go to well. I got maybe 4 hours of sleep before the start and really felt like a zombie playing. Also i get there like 20 minutes before the start and there is a huge line so i had to be an alternate which sucks because i didnt even sit down until about 45 minutes into the tournament. I doubled up pretty quick but ran JJ into AA when i had about 14k in chips which i shouldve got away from and then busted out with JJ vs. AK. I definately shouldve got away from the JJ hand but i wasnt exactly playing my A game. Anyways im about to head down and play a little poker so check back later to see how that went and im out.



-Nechita-

Quick update....

Its been 2 weeks now since i planned on starting my goal and i still haven't started yet. It was just kind of hard to do when people are in town visiting but they are gone now and i still feel like i can lose 5 pounds by the end of the month. Tomorrow is the official beginning to the goal and i mean it this time haha. We had a friend who was supposed to move out here with us at the end of this week but we haven't talked to him in 2 weeks so who knows whats going on with that. He already paid us for rent and now hes just fallen off the face of the earth. As I'm typing this there is a huge fight or something going on in the apartment directly below us. All our neighbors are super quiet but i don't know whats going on down there but it doesn't sound good. All i can hear is screaming and a bunch of banging around. If we got the cops called on us for playing video games I'm sure someone will call them over this. I think i mightve forgot to mention us getting the cops called on us so here goes.

During like the first month i moved out here bill,hodge, and i were drinking and decided to play some video games. I had just bought Fifa 08 for ps3 and we decided to play it online against some other fools. Now this was probably around 3 or 4 in the morning and it was still nice out so we forgot that we had the windows open. The games were pretty close so we were screaming and yelling at the TV and next thing you know a cop shows up at the door haha. My buddy answers the door and the cop says he is here for the domestic dispute haha. Buddy tells him no we are just in here playing video games and he was still like"are u sure theres nothing going on in here?" so we tell him to look in the door and see for himself that we are playing games. He popped his head around the corner to take a look and the very first thing he says is "cool is that HD" haha. He was like blown away with the ps3 hd that he seriously wouldn't leave haha. He just sat at the door watching the TV and kept asking us all these questions about the ps3 and hd for about 5 minutes, almost to the point where it was uncomfortable. I think he was waiting for us to ask him to play or something haha. We were so into the game that we got the cops called on us haha, EXTREME!. Its funny because we aren't gamers at all, i have a ps3,xbox 360, and a Wii and all together they probably get used about 5 hours a month. Although i just hooked up the xbox online yesterday and played call of duty 4 for a while. This game is awesome but the gamer nerds online are so good and i suck so bad that its almost unenjoyable because i just get killed like every 2 seconds.

I really haven't been getting in much poker this year either. Ive played a few live 5/10 sessions with minimal results and put in a nice online session yesterday. I played a bunch of 10/20nl and some 3/6 and 5/10 omaha. The 10/20 games were pretty soft but I'm not going to lie i got pretty lucky in a few hands, i guess if you call flopping sets lucky. I guess now that i look back over my hands from the session i wasn't too lucky i just didn't run bad like usual. Although i did pick up KK vs. AA and then a set over set and managed to lose only 450 total! To pick up those huge hands in a 10/20 game and only lose 450 between the two of them is amazing. Here are the hands-

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945295- This guy hadn't played a hand the whole time i was there and as soon as he re raised the first guys bet i instantly got this feeling he had an enormous hand. I pick up kings in the small blind and lose the bare minimum. He even falls for the blocking bet on the river. I guess i couldve folded the turn????? haha how sick would that have been.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945305 - Same guy as the above hand and another set up where I'm supposed to go broke. He raises it up, i just call with my 10s and i flop a set of 10s, now this is great right? WRONG. I elect to just call the flop because with how tight he is I'm putting him on a big hand again. I am 100% sure that if he has aces or ak he would check and the only hand he will bet again on the turn is a higher set. So a blank hits the turn, he leads out again, and once again i lose the bare minimum on a huge set up hand, he shows his set of kings right after i fold. I told him i had a set of 10s and he wouldn't believe me haha. Ive never been so happy losing 500 but i easily couldve lost a lot more or possibly gone broke in both hands. I'm good haha.

This is getting way too long so I'm just going to put up some more hands and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945355
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945347
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945339- this is usually where an 8 is supposed to come
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945326- back to my usual luck

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945267
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945258

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945285
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1945275



-Nechita-

Last night/this morning......

Table at PURE, 13 bottles=7k tab, Penthouse grand opening, more tables/bottles, walking out of the strip club at 11am. my head hurts. i love this city. alright well im heading out to do it all over again. check back tomorrow to see what kind of trouble we get into tonight.

-Nechita-

Off to a semi productive start...

Ive had a pretty good start to the year in terms of poker but other than that its been a pretty unproductive start. I haven't started working out yet i still think i should be able to reach the 5 pound goal by the end of the month. We have some friends (Lewis,Mcfarlane, etc.) in town so its kind of hard to work out and eat healthy with them being here so i will start Monday. They have some suites at the Mandalay Bay which are really nice and the Porn convention is being held there this week so that's cool too.

Last night we started off the night going to LAX who were having a Penthouse party but we didn't have a table and it was way too packed in there to have any fun unless you had one. So after finally pushing our way through the crowd we left there and just grabbed some drinks at a bar in the lobby for a while. Finally we decided to go up to this place called MIX http://www.mandalaybay.com/dining/mixlounge.aspx which is on the very top of Mandalay bay. I don't think we got there until like 2 or something so the only good scenery there was the actual scenery. Its on the very top floor with a balcony so you really get a great view of the strip/city. Its kind of like the ghost bar at the palms but on the total opposite end of the strip. The place was pretty dead but these two porn stars came and sat at the table next to us so that was pretty interesting. I was pretty wasted at this point and these chicks still didn't look good. One of them was semi attractive and the other one had to much plastic surgery done and looked like Michael Jackson. After a few drinks here and no luck with the "stars" we decided to head back down to the lobby to see what other kind of trouble we could get into. I think it was probably around 4 at this point and we ended up stumbling across the taping of that MTV show Wild N Out. It wasn't really the show but it easily couldve been. It was this little dance floor with everyone sitting around it cracking jokes on each other and challenging each other to dance offs haha. Needless to say it wasn't exactly our scene. We wandered for a little bit longer before finally calling it a night and going home.

It was like 5 and i was totally wasted so i did the only logical thing to do at this time and decided to play some online poker HAHA. I ended up playing until like 8 or 9 this morning and had some nice results racking up a profit of around 8k haha. I really don't remember much from the session but i remember playing all over the place. I think at one point i was playing a 3/6, 5/10, 10,20, 25/50nl and some Omaha all at the same time.

The pistons game is starting and i have to start getting ready for the night so I'm going to wrap this up. Tonight we are going to eat at Craft Steak http://www.mgmgrand.com/dining/craftsteak-steak-house.aspx inside of the MGM and i cant wait. I ate here last year and its probably the best meal I've ever had. Its a bit pricey but theres definitely nothing like some kobe beef. Well before i start drooling on the keyboard I'm going to wrap this up with some hands from last nights drunk session. Check back tomorrow for another recap of the night and I'm out.

I don't really have time to explain any of these so I'm just going to post them.

Omaha-
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922827
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922823
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922819
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922819
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922811
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922809

No limit-
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922783 Ok looking back on this hand it really bothers me. I dont mind me just calling pre but after that it goes down hill. I guess i check raised the turn to represent a heart draw? i dont know. Then I make a blocking bet on the river to try and induce a bluff??? this was definately the kettle one playing and not me.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922781 - here i just floated the flop hoping he would shut down on the turn but of course he has top 2 and i get really luck.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922748 - bad call on the river. I know that he knows i have to have a big ace in this spot and yet i still make the bad call.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922759
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922775
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922769
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922768
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1922764

-Nechita-

Hello 2008......

Its officially 2008 and i hope everyone had a fun new years eve. This was my first year in Vegas for new years and they don't call it "America's party" for nothing. They completely shut down the strip around 6pm and its just one huge party from then on until after midnight. Some friends from California came into town for a few days to celebrate so i hung out with them on new years eve. They were staying at the Excalibur which i thought was a total dump but it was actually a nice hotel and the rooms were pretty nice. I had never been there before but it definitely impressed me so anyone looking for a decent priced hotel i would stay there, of course that's only if you cant get a room at the Imperial Palace. I headed to down to the strip to meet up with them at their hotel around 6 and it was already getting pretty nuts. We went out to eat at this restaurant (who's name i cant remember) inside Mandalay bay before we headed out for the night. I got the NY strip which was really good and I've never been a big wine guy but we got a few bottles and it was alright. A quick thanks to Cory and josh for putting the bill on their company's account. After some good food/wine it was time to get down to the strip and let the party begin. We headed down to the strip around 10 or something and it was just total mayhem everywhere which was cool but kind of sucked at the same time. It was like being in a club/bar that is too packed to the point where you cant even move, but this was how the entire strip was. It was kind of weird not seeing the ball drop for the first time. Instead all the hotels put on a huge fireworks display which was pretty cool if you are into fireworks. After the ball dropped my memory is a little fuzzy. We were supposed to meet some people at Caesars but forgot they shut down all the entrances to the casinos after midnight so we couldn't get in there. Somehow this chick we were with saw some guy she knew working the gate at harrahs so we were able to get in there and that's about the last i recall of the night.

Well now that its the new year every ones got their resolutions and i thought of a few for myself for 08'. Ive had this same resolution now i think for about 5 years in a row but this year i am going to make it happen. Drum roll please................................... here are my 2008 resolutions.

1. Lose weight/get healthy. This is by far the most important of the goals to me and I'm going to do everything i can to do this. I am going to start working out, cutting out fast food, eating healthy, and my goal is to lose at least 5 pounds every month this year. I'm not sure what my exact weight is now but I'm getting a scale tomorrow and will be posting the results to keep me motivated. Ill get more into specifics with this tomorrow once i get things ready.

2. To be playing 25/50nl regularly by the end of the year. Right now my regular game is 5/10 and a little 10/20 when they have games running. I feel like I've been playing good poker lately but in order to be playing 25/50 you need to be playing Great poker. Ive really slacked off big time over the past 6-8 months and feel like I've just been in this rut to where I'm content with my game instead of doing everything possible to become the best i can be. Also I've been playing really short sessions and quitting when I'm up like 700 or 800 instead of staying as long as possible while the game is good.

3. To have at least 3 cashes in tournaments over 10k. I think this one is going to be tough but i feel like its definitely achievable. I didn't have even 1 cash in 07 over 10k but i think my tournament game is going to blow up this year. I don't play very many tournaments but I'm going to play more this year and try to become a good tournament player.

Alright this is getting way too long so I'm going to wrap this up. I will write up a better post tomorrow about the specifics of these resolutions and what I'm going to do to reach them. Anyways hope you had/have a great year and good luck to you and me in 08'. I almost forgot to mention that i did finally reach supernova on the very last day of 07. Also i didnt feel like playing any poker for real last night so i got in a few cheap tourneys and thought i was going to start off the year with a win but.......... nope.



-Nechita-

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm back in Michigan for the holidays and hope you all had a great Christmas. It feels good to be back home for Christmas even though i was just here a month ago for thanksgiving. Christmas just seems to have more of a cheery kind of feel to it opposed to thanksgiving and i guess that's why i like it better. Its a pretty hectic time of year with visiting everyone, my annual last minute(i literally save my shopping until a few hours before the stores close on Xmas eve) shopping, Christmas, my birthday, and finally new years. Ive still got my birthday(tomorrow) to go and new years in Vegas which should both be a pretty fun time. Even with everything going on around this time i cant help but wonder what Mr. Jinx is up to back in Vegas.




I didn't feel like bringing him home with me on the plane just because it would've been a huge hassle so my plan was to take him to a cat resort haha. That's right i said a Cat Resort. There is a cat resort down the road from our apartment i was planning on taking him to while i was gone but i kind of procrastinated on calling there and all their "rooms" were booked. So i looked online to see if it was okay to leave cats alone for a week and it said that he should fine. I just left out like 3 big bowls of food and he drinks out of the toilet anyways so I'm sure. Hes probably just crawling up the walls though because i don't think hes ever been alone for more than a day at a time let alone a week.

With everything going on this week so far I've still managed to get in 3 decent sessions of poker. Ill break them down by sessions.

Session 1- Ive been doing pretty well at these 100 heads up sit n gos lately so i decided to play a bunch of those. I cant figure out how to keep track of the in pokertracker but i know i did pretty well and made a little over 1k playing these. I also played a little 5/10 and 10/20 for about an hour and brought the days total profit up to a little under 2k. Some hands-

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856832- i play so bad. I really felt like he had AA when he bet the 300 on the river but i thought about it forever and made the bad call. what can you do
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856846- apparently this guy doesn't like to be check raised as you can see in his chat.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856908- me playing bad once again. I have no clue why i checked this turn?????????//

Session 2- Played for like 45 minutes, played good, got river fucked 3 times for about 2k, logged off and went out to the bar and got wasted. My rapings-

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856920- my 4th hand of the day. I guess this ones not that bad because I've played a lot with this guy and i know hes not going anywhere on this board and i probably make the same play as him.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856929- rivered
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856936- again

Session 3- Played a little 5/10 10/20 with some decent results for only playing about a half hour. Then decided to play in some tournaments and cashed in 2 of the 4 that i played in.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856955- 4k heads up pot with ACE high.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1856970- me getting OWNED. Went with my read and was obviously wrong. But i still like the call because heads up I'm pretty sure I'm good here most of the times just not this time.

I learned how to take screenshots so for now on when i cash in tourneys i can show you. Here are my donk cashes from yesterday.

-Nechita-

I Run Good.

Im sitting in the airport right now about to head back to michigan so this is going to be pretty short. I wanted to post something up before heading back though because i dont know when the next time i post will be. I got stuck in traffic on the way to the airport and thought there was no way i would make the flight but lucky me the flight was delayed 40 minutes! Man im running good this week haha. I didnt end up getting to the airport until 20 minutes before the flight was scheduled to take off so there was no way i wouldve made it if it wasnt cancelled. I went to the venetian again yesterday and the game was super soft once again so i was able to make around 1k in probably only an hour and a half. It was all the same donks as before and i really am hoping that these are the 5/10 regulars at the venetian because they are awful. I wanted to keep playing the game all night but a few people left and no one else wanted to keep playing once it got down to 5 handed. I also put a few hours in online and was able to pick up around 1300 or so. I had some hands that i wanted to put up but my plane is starting to board now so i will do that later. Anyways i gotta go but check back on like sunday or monday and i should have a updated post up.

-Nechita-

COLDDDDDDD........

The stupid thermostat in our apartment is broke so its freezing in here. The heat works but once you turn it on you cant set it to a certain temperature and it just keeps rising. The other day i turned it on and set it to 7o and about an hour later i thought it seemed pretty hot in here so i looked at the thermostat and it was 95 haha. Instead of being hot and uncomfortable we just leave the heat off and freeze. Luckily ill be going home in a few days and into some nice weather.... nope, in Michigan its currently 31 degrees with snow. Alright that's enough venting.

I picked up this book right before going home for thanksgiving and i highly recommend it. I'm not a big reader at all, in fact i don't think I've actually read a whole book from front to end, but recently I've been having trouble spelling the most common words so i figured it was time to hit the books. Ive been wanting to actually read a book for a while now and when i saw Slash on Conan O'Brien promoting this i was sold. I'm a huge Guns n Roses/80's rock fan so this book is perfect for me. I was kind of skeptical at first once i saw how thick it was(about 500 pages) but after one plane ride I've already read about a 1/3 of it and this reading thing isn't so bad after all.

Except for the occasional bad beat here and there poker has been going pretty well since last posting. I signed up for some tournaments on Sunday and as soon as they started i just didn't feel like playing at all. If it was just the 215 i mightve just quit but it was the 615 satellite to the Bahamas so i stuck it out only to lose yet again. I'm not to sure what it was but i just had no motivation at all to play poker that day and the results showed. Yesterday i played in the softest 5/10 game at the venetian that I've played in since moving out here and i think i might start playing there a lot more often. I usually play at the Wynn or Caesars but just felt like a change yesterday so i tried out the Venetian for the first time and i cant believe how bad the players were. This kid who sat next to me yesterday said he plays there all the time and its not usually like that but he kind of sucked too so I'm thinking i might have stumbled across a really profitable game. Just a bunch of old rich guys there to have fun and try to play some poker. I played for about 4 hours and ended up making around 2300. I also played a few hours of sit n gos online and made around 600. The Wynn has been spreading a 5-5 PLO high game which i think i might play in today but i just don't think i can pass up the venetian. Here is some drunken 200/400 PLO at its finest- http://www.natarem.com/2007/12/15/thepokerfilm-bonus-clip/ .

There is also a link on this page to the left called the Poker film which includes a 10k prop bet to who can drink a fifth of Jack Daniels the fastest. Anyways I'm about to head down to the strip so check back later to see how things went and I'm out.

-Nechita-

Fell off the wagon....

Tuesday night we went out to Pure and it was the first time i had a drink in 2 weeks. I wasn't intentionally trying to not drink it just kind of happened. I didn't really want to post anything in here about it because its kind of like when a pitcher is throwing a no hitter you just want to leave it be. Ricky Hatten or whatever his name was there and i cant believe how tiny he was. It says online that he is 5'6' but I'm only 5'10 and he was easily a good foot shorter than me.

The past few days have been pretty good in poker and I've been able to string together some winning sessions. I played some 5/10 at Caesars on Tuesday but was really card dead but was somehow able to still pull in like 400. Paul Wasicka came and sat to my left so i really had to kind of play lock down poker because he was playing every hand. I don't think he was playing too serious but i saw him make some nice calls and was pretty impressed with his game. His picks for this weekend are the packers and the under in the Cleveland game for anyone interested in betting. Yesterday the 25/50 game on stars was looking super soft so i sat down and made about 1200 or so before the game broke. I didn't really get any hands but was able to make the best out of what i had. After the short online session i went to the Wynn to play some 5/10 but the game looked really tough so i decided to play some 2/5. That really annoying guy from poker after dark David Boston i think his name is was playing the 5/10 along with some of the more solid 5/10 regulars so i passed. The 2/5 went pretty well and i ended up pulling in around 600 or so in a little over 3 hours. I was up around 1100 at one point but flopped a straight and a guy rivered a flush against it costing me around 400.

Today i played a little online and some 5/10 at the Wynn. I decided to play some heads up sit n gos while sitting around and ended up making around 700 doing so. I played like 6 100 dollar heads up matches winning like 5 of them and won a 4 person 100 heads up match and also won that. I would still be playing some of them right now while watching TV but for some reason stars keeps disconnecting me and i really had a hard time finishing the last one almost timing out every hand. The 5/10 game was real soft at the Wynn today and i was able to make around 800 in around 4 hours. I shouldve been up more but stupidly i tried bluffing this old calling station donk and bluffed off about 600 to him. Heres the hand-

He limps in early position which hes done a lot with very mediocre hands and 2 others limp in. I'm in the BB with K7 of spades and the flop comes out J73 with the J3 being spades, a great flop for me. I decide to check. Old dude leads out for 70 which is about the size of the pot and i had seen him make this bet many times with 2nd pair/ top pair weak kicker type hands. Other guy calls the 70 and i check raise it to 220 total. Old dude thinks for a bit and i see that he reluctantly calls and the other guy folds. I immediately knew that he had a weak J like j10/jq/j9 type hands and THINK i can get him off it and if not i have a zillion outs. The turn card is the 6 of hearts which obviously is horrible for me but i lead out for 320 and again after some deliberation he calls. The river comes the 2 of hearts,another brick because i cant hit draws even when i have 9840932494 outs. He had about 600 left at this point and after some thought i decided that this calling station was going nowhere so i check and he shows J9 which is exactly what i thought. He told me a few hands later that if i pushed the river he would've called, donk.
The game was super soft though for a while and i didn't really get involved in any huge pots but was able to finish up around 800. Alright well this is getting pretty long so I'm going to wrap this up with a few hands from the 25/50 the other day. Check back tomorrow to see whats going on and I'm out.

These hands arent all that interesting but they are all i got out of the session.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808679- i really thought about shoving here but pussied out. If i shove he has to put me on at least QQ and i just dont see how he can call here with his mid pair type hand which is what i put him on. This is a flaw of playing the 25/50 for me because if this was 5/10 or even 10/20 i wouldnt think twice about shoving here but instead of going with my read i let the money scare me into folding. who knows maybe he smooth called behind with a big hand but i wouldve liked to have shoved here.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808695 here im actually mad because i feel like i lost out on 200 more. As crazy as this sounds i actually wanted to reminraise the river here for 200 more but once again backed out. I was 100% sure he had an A high type hand and i feel i couldve got 200 more out of him but what can you do.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1808713- here we are shorthanded with Aj on the button and would usually reraise here but i had been 3 betting him preflop a few times and feel like he wouldve made a stand here with or without a hand. We get a favorable flop here but ive played with him enough to know he doesnt need a hand to bet so i think we are way ahead in this spot.
I elect to make a smallish raise on the turn because i think it looks super strong and i also think he has close to nothing. If he shoves back at me here i probably puke on my computer screen but make the call.

-Nechita-

Random stuff from the past few days.

So i arrive back to Vegas and go into my room to unpack, and this is what is sitting on my bed, a huge poster of brian urlacher. I guess while i was gone our neighbor knocked on our door and said he was throwing this away and wanted to know if we wanted it. I think this is kind of weird because I've never talked to them and honestly i think I've only seen them once but that's another story. The real dilemma is now figuring out what to do with this thing. Normally i would just hang it up on the wall but unfortunately its a picture of douche urlacher who i don't really care for. I really don't want to throw it away either because its framed and is kind of nice. Anyways enough ranting on about this poster and i guess once i figure out what I'm going to do with it i will put a picture up of it, probably a pic of it in the trash but we'll see.

Since going to Turning stone last week my sleep schedule has been really out of wack and its weird being on the schedule I'm on. I really liked everything about the tournaments at turningstone but instead of a noon start time like everywhere else all of these tourneys started at 10a.m., gross. Since getting back to Vegas i have been waking up at like 9 a.m. every morning and by the time 10-11 p.m. rolls around I'm dead tired haha. The one positive thing about waking up so early is that i never really realized how much you could accomplish in a day if you wake up before 2 or 3. But other than that i just don't think this schedule is for me. I'm a night person so I've been forcing myself to stay up later and trying to sleep in so i can get back to "normal."

Since returning i haven't really had the best results playing poker. It feels like someone just flipped the bad beat switch and now i keep running into set up hands. I'm up a little bit playing live which is really a mystery to me because I've ran into some pretty sick set ups which included me folding KK preflop the other day. Folding the kk preflop isn't a big deal but it kind of summarizes how the cards have been running and luckily ive been playing well and have been able to get away from big hands when I'm beat. Every time I've picked up or made any kind of hand though its been resulting in me running set vs. set/ flush over flush every time and those are just tough to get away from. Even though I'm up only a few hundred bucks (playing live) since returning I'm very happy with my play because i feel like i could easily be down like 2 or 3k. Online has been pretty much the same. I had a couple nice days when i first got back but the past 3 days have been non stop set ups with people trying to give me their money but stars not letting them. Ive only been playing 2/4 but its just frustrating when you keep getting people to put their money in as a huge dog and they keep sucking out. Ive still got about 7000 VIP points to get before the 31st but i don't think its going to be a problem.

Anyways i just wanted to give a quick update on whats been going on the past few days. I think I'm going to play some 5/10 at Caesar's today so i will give an update later on of how that went and I'm out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1798167- this is a summary of the past few days online.


-Nechita-

I'm Stupid.

I went to best buy yesterday to pick up a cord so i can hook my ipod up in my car and got the wrong cord. Now that's not that big of a deal or very stupid but let me tell you what cord i got instead of the one i needed. The cord that i needed was the itrip adapter that has a headphone jack on it that hooks into your ipod so you can listen through your car. The cord is 80 bucks at best buy which is ridiculous so i decided to get a cd adapter for your car which is the same thing but only 20 bucks. Here is the cord that i bought for a quarter of the price-

Same cord for 2o bucks not bad right? Well i start driving home and realize that i don't have a tape player in my car haha. In my defense i had an explorer before my mustang that had the exact same looking factory CD player but had a tape player in it, but still how dumb am i haha?

Also while i was there i bought another xbox controller but got the wrong color. Here is everything that i picked up while there along with the very DISAPPOINTING movie Super bad. I don't know if it was over hyped and i was thinking it was going to be some amazingly funny movie but i just didn't think it was funny. It had a few funny parts here and there but for the most part it was pretty lame. If you have an xbox i definitely recommend getting call of duty 4. I usually dont really like these types of games but this is one of the best games ive played in a while.

I also attempted to go to the dmv again to try and pass the license test again but forgot where it was at so i just gave up and went to play poker. I went to the Wynn to play some 5/10 but ended up sitting on the waiting list for about 2 hours and when i finally sat down they were playing with everyone straddling. I ended up playing for about 20 minutes before finally leaving because i wasn't in the mood to play 10/20, which is pretty much what it was. I still felt like playing after i left there so i decided to head out to Red Rock which is close to our apartment but I've never been to their poker room. I heard they usually have a 5/10 game going but of course the night i show up they have nothing but 2/5 with a 1k cap. This was probably the softest 2/5 game i have ever seen and it was really weird to see how different the game was from down on the strip. I only stayed for a few hours but ended up making about 600 which wasn't bad because i really didn't have any cards the whole time. Anyways that's what I've been up to the past few days, I'm about to head to the Wynn so check back later and I'm out.

-Nechita-

Ship the 2008 world series!!!!!!

The tigers just pulled off another sick deal today and now their line up is absolutely sick. I guess the only real question for the 2008 season is who the tigers will have to beat in the world series. Today they picked up dontrelle willis who is a beast and miguel cabrera who when healthy is one of the best players in the game. The tigers have by far had the best off season by picking up these two along with edgar renteria and jacque jones and im pretty sure you can lock up the world series title right now. Here is just a guess of what the line up will look like:

1.Granderson
2.Polanco
3.Sheffield
4.Ordonez
5.Cabrera = SICK
6.Guillen
7.Rodriguez
8.Renteria
9.Inge


After a few weeks in michigan and new york i am finally back in vegas. I was looking forward to getting off the plane and out of the freezing weather of ny/michigan but to my disgust it was freezing. I forgot how cold it gets here at night around this time of year and its really not any different than michigan weather except theres no snow. The turning stone deep stacks tournament didnt really go to well and i think i lost like 800 overall on the trip. I did manage to cash in 2 of the 4 tournaments i played in but not for anything significant. It was a pretty nice change of scenery from vegas to go back to michigan to see friends and family but after being there for a few weeks i was getting the itch to get back out here. Although it actually feels like im coming out here for vacation because im only going to be here a few weeks before heading back again for christmas and my 24th birthday, im ancient.

I played a decent amount of poker while i was home and was able to make around 3k from grinding online. This wouldnt be that big of a deal if i was playing my regular 5/10 but i was playing 1/2 and a little 2/4 haha. I have really been slacking online/not playing much since moving to vegas so i was stripped of my supernova status http://www.pokerstars.com/vip/?utm_id=1 on stars.So i decided im going to 6 table 2/4 until i can get back to supernova status. I currently have 90,450 vpp points so i figure if i just put in like 2 to 3 hours a day of 6 tabling i should be able to get to 100,000 by the time i have to head home for xmas. It doesnt really seem like a big deal to be supernova but i havent even reached platinum status in like 5 months and that means im not getting enough time in online. Im currently a gold star(gross) which is pretty pathetic for someone who plays poker for a living.

Anyways i just wanted to give you a quick shout on what ive been up to lately and pretty much brag about the tigers. I just got back last night so i have some running around to do but i might play a little poker later so check back to see how that went and im out.

-Nechita-

Quick Update.....

Alright so its about 7:30 in the morning here at Turning Stone and due to my dads ridiculously loud snoring I'm unable to sleep once again. I didn't really know what to expect when coming to turning stone because it was kind of a last second thing but its actually a pretty nice place. We got the poker rate for 80 a night which is a steal for how nice the rooms are. The bad things about turning stone are : 1. the hotel is out in the country in the middle of nowhere and 2. there is NO ALCOHOL in the hotel! Its the craziest thing I've ever heard. I can deal with being in the middle of nowhere but, when you are out in the middle of nowhere what else is there to but drink? The casino has a bunch of bars and clubs inside of it but they don't have a liquor license and aren't allowed to sell it haha. I guess you are supposed to sneak around with your own liquor which kind of gives it high school dance feel. All in all though i would say its a pretty nice place and definitely a good place for like a poker getaway.

Alright now onto how I've been doing in the tournaments. The tournaments have such a good structure its almost too good. Its a deep stack tournament which i feel gives me a huge advantage because it plays more like a cash game for like the first 4 levels instead of a pick a hand and pray online tourney. You start off with 10,000 chips with the blinds starting at 25/50 for 4o minute levels and this really gives you a ton of play before you have to start worrying about the blinds. The only problem with these tournaments are is that they start at 10a.m. and that's just way too early for me to be waking up. Ive felt like a zombie the past 3 days of play but have been playing pretty good but with some minimal results.

The first tournament was a 230 buy in which had around 360 players. I cant even remember what first prize was but it paid the top 35 and i ended up finishing like 28th or something. Which really sucked bad because i had been playing for like 13 hours only to end up making a whopping 90 dollar profit haha.

The second tournament was a 340 buy in which was a little better because there were less players. There was around 220 players with first prize being like 19k and the top 25 i think getting paid. Unfortunately i was pretty much card dead the whole time and when i did pick up hands i couldn't get any action so i busted out in like 42nd place or something.

Yesterday was really what i was looking forward to and it was the 6 handed tournament with a 500 buy in. The tournament had about 170 entrants with first prize being a nice 27k and the top 15 making the money. Ive had some pretty decent success in 6 handed tournaments which is pretty weird because i don't play 6 handed cash games. I drew a pretty tough table with all young/aggressive Internet players but i was finally rested and was just able to pick apart the table. It actually got to the point where the 2 players on my right kept saying i cant wait until the table breaks and we get to move. The table ended up breaking like after the 3rd level and i had already doubled up my stack to 20k which is pretty decent for what the blinds were at. After that i just kind of got stuck in a rut for like the next 5 hours where my stack didn't move much. I couldn't really get anything going in the later stages but got it all in with AK vs. guys 1010 and didn't improve so i busted in a disappointing 15th for like 970 or something. If i couldve just won that flip i couldve made some moves but i didn't and i end up with yet another deep/disappointing finish.

Well that's pretty much how things have been going up here. The 1k tourney starts in about an hour so hopefully i can get deep in that as well. Anyways room service is about to be here so check back in a few days to see how i did and I'm out.

-Nechita-