Random Stuff

Since i haven't posted since last week i decided i would throw together a post of a few random things on my mind. First off i will start off by talking about the grand theft auto 4 game since i was cut off last time in the middle of my post. Its a pretty fun game so far i guess even though i haven't played it that much yet but i would say its definitely worth getting. I can already feel that its going to be one of those games that i play for like 2 days straight and then never want to play again. All in all though its a fun game but i would definitely say that Call of duty 4 is way better, I'm pretty biased though because i honestly think call of duty 4 is the best game I've ever played.


I guess ill throw together a quick poker discussion and finish off that 5/10 heads up story from the other day. As you might remember from my last post i was at red rock, the 2/5 game broke, and me and this older guy decided to play 5/10 heads up. The guy was a pretty cool dude who said he was just there blowing off steam since his real job is betting horses, talk about a stressful job that must be. Anyways he was a decent player but i felt i definitely had a huge advantage in any type of match against him. We ended up playing for about 3-4 hours and i managed to slowly milk about 1.5k on him before we decided to call it a night. I cant really think of any huge/interesting hands so i think it was more of me just slowly chipping him down. Flash Forward to Tuesday night and i go back to the redrock to try and get a 5/10 game going but of course it doesn't. I decide to play some 2/5 for a bit in hopes that the 5/10 will go but no one wanted to play, so I'm about to rack up and head out until the guy from the heads up match walks in and we go for round 2 of the heads up match. It went pretty bad. I don't think i was playing my best but he certainly ran hotter than hot for a heads up match. He was just hitting literally like every single flop and if not he would turn or river me every hand. After the match was over he told me that hes never seen such a rush of cards like that and he was getting hit with the deck the entire time. We played for about 3 hours before it was finally like 4 in the morning and we decided to call it with me being down around 700 or 800, which honestly would've been like 2k but i was able to get away from some big hands. While we were playing a kid around my age decides to hop in the game for about a half hour, no big deal right? Wrong. He was super aggressive and a pretty good player so something comes up about playing online and he tells me his name is " Tsarrast." Not really a big deal other than the fact that he plays the highest games online which are 300/600 nl haha. Overall though i say i held my own picking up probably around 4-500 from him in the short amount of time he was there. Unfortunately after he left the old guy pretty much steamrolled with his heater and i ended up losing around 800 on the night.


Lets see what else is there i want to talk about? Sunday we went out to celebrate a friends birthday with bottles at PURE http://www.purethenightclub.com/. We had comped bottles since half the people we were with including the birthday boy worked there and we had one of the best tables right next to the dance floor. I'm not sure what was up with that night but their was a lot of old people there for some reason and it wasn't all that busy but it was definitely still a good time. After the bottles were gone it was getting pretty dead in there 2 or 3 so we decided to head over to Tryst http://www.trystlasvegas.com/indexFlash.php over at the Wynn. If you come to Vegas Tryst is definitely a must do as far as clubs go. I'm not a huge club person but i would say that tryst is probably my favorite club of all out here. Its just really nice all around and with the weather being nice and the waterfall out there its just really sweet atmosphere. The fact that there are always tons of great looking girls/women there doesn't hurt either haha. Our original plan was just to have a drink or 2 since it was already kind of late and dieing down but somehow the shots started flowing and we didn't end up leaving til right before closing time.



Last night i decided to go out as well and am feeling the effects of it today. It was a friends bday again so we all met up at dragonfly for some great food, sake, and some some drinks. I wanted to post a link but for some reason they don't have a website???? I thought everyone had a website... weird. Its pretty much this smallish/nice sushi place that runs a happy hour from 10-2 am or something silly like that so you get great food, drinks, and shots for very cheap. After getting our drink on we decided that we needed to go see some naked women so we went over to this place http://www.ogvegas.com/ep/club.php called Olympic Gardens where we chilled to the weeeeeeeee hours. I felt pretty shitty today but all in all it was a pretty fun night.



Since my last post its been an awesome time to be a Detroit sports fan. We just had the tigers finally start playing good by sweeping the Yankees in 3 games, the Pistons who finally took care of business by advancing to the next round of the playoffs, and most impressively the Red Wings who just dominated the avalanche by sweeping them in 4 games to advance to the western conference finals. Its been a great week for Detroit teams and hopefully the pistons and red wings can both win championships, that would be really cool. Sports betting has also gone pretty well this week so ill finish up this post with a few pics from the past few days picks and I'm out.

Wings sweep





Boston doin work







Tigers 10/1 to win the world series. Great price since they opened the season at 3/1






-Nechita-

Grand Theft Auto 4 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I honestly cant believe how hyped this game is. I dont think theres ever been as much of an anticipated video game ever than gta4. Its all over the tv, the internet, and pretty much everywhere you look. Ive had the past few grand thefts and thought they were alright but i dont know about going all crazy for it. With that being said we're about to go to walmart at midnight and get it haha. Its weird because im not a huge gamer but i would say more of a binge gamer. I have a ps3,xbox360, and a wii which in total altogether they probably get used like 3 or 4 times a month. I go on these spurts where ill play a game for like 3 days straight and then get bored and not play any video games for like a month. Im just hoping this game lives up to all the hype and isnt collecting dust after a few days, we shall see i guess.

Wow that was a pretty long paragraph about video games sorry about that haha. Anyways i just wanted to make a quick post about what ive been up to the past few days and the weekend. Somehow in my last post i completely forgot to talk about my 5/10nl heads up match at Red Rock casino http://www.redrocklasvegas.com/index.php that i somehow got myself into Thursday night. I went there a little before 11 just to bet on a few games for friday and saw they had a short handed 2/5 game going so i decided to hop in for a few. When i sat it was playing 7 handed with a bunch of old donks and this douchebag who was around my age. I call him douchebag because as soon as i sit down i start raising quite a bit of hands and he says to me "I remember you and your stupid raises" haha. I thought this was pretty funny so i ask him where/how he knows me because ive never seen the kid in my life and he wouldnt tell me, wtf? He says something like" lets just say i remember playing with you and i dont want to tell you where from because i dont want to give off any information" , something stupid along those lines. I tell him it doesnt matter because i have no clue who you are and now im just going to raise more hahaha, i was in a gambling mood and the game was so soft i felt it was -EV to not be playing every pot. He didnt seem to think this was as funny as i did and preceeded to rack up his chips immediately and leave haha. Anyways after that we play 6 handed for about a half hour before everyone decides they dont want to play shorthanded anymore and they quit. I was trying to talk them into staying and playing 4 handed but no one wanted to except this old guy so we decided to play heads up.

Roommates just got back with grand theft auto so im sorry im going to cut this off until tomorrow. Check back tomorrow for the 5/10 heads up and how my weekend went, including sundays tournament failures.

-Nechita-

Hello 9k.......

Well you're probably wondering why im at home posting on a saturday night and the answer is i feel like shit. We went out last night to Hawaiian Tropics http://www.hawaiiantropiczone.com/about.asp inside of Planet Hollywood for a friends birthday and needless to say i had a "few" drinks and am feeling the effects today. It was the first time i had been to this place and i have to say it was pretty cool. We had tables/bottles which has kind of become the norm but what i liked the most about hawaiin tropics is they have an outside bar/patio area. I love places like this especially now with the weather being perfect, it just has a much better feel than being cooped up inside the dark/hot club. We didnt even get there until around 2 a.m. so i knew it was going to be a long night. There was probably 15-20 people with us so im not even sure how many bottles we went through but i just remember seeing them coming out just one after another. It started to get pretty dead in there around 4ish so we decided to move the party on over to Empire. Empire is this really cool after hours spot that plays some of the best techno ive ever heard and also has a really cool outside area, for some reason we never made it out there though.

After getting home some time this morning from empire i did what any normal person would do after a night of 89304 kettle crans and doing shots would do...... Fire up pokerstars and play some drunken 25/50nl haha. As you can see from the title "hello 9k" things went pretty well and i was able to book a nice win of around 9k, not bad considering the fact i dont remember much of it haha. I remember my original plan was to try and stay up until noon when the redwings game came on but couldnt make it and crashed sometime around 10 i believe. Ive been looking over some of the hands from last nights adventure and some of them are pretty bad haha. Well im starting to get pretty tired and i want to get up early to play some of the sunday donkaments so im going to wrap this up. Here are some hands from last night for your viewing pleasure and check back tomorrow night to listen to me bitch and moan about why i hate tournaments haha, hopefully that wont be the case but we shall see. Anyways check back tomorrow, im out.

Hands- (No point in trying to explain any of these because your guess is as good as mine haha.)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528193- 9.5k pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528188
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528189
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528190
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528197
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528199
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528201
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528203
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2528206

Looking back on these i think every hand was played poorly other than the AA hand but what can ya do......

-Nechita-

Slump Buster.....

After reading that my life was over and it was time to find a new job(all from my fortune cookie) i decided to roll the dice and give this poker thing 1 more shot...... I played some 5/10 at the wynn yesterday and was able to book a nice win of almost 2k, hopefully this will get me out of my slump. Although i didnt really pick up many hands/pots i was able to take down around a 3k pot which felt good to be on the winning side of. I went down to the wynn tonight to play but the game wasnt that great and i honestly just wasnt feeling it so after about an hour i just decided to head home. Very quick summary of hand

Hand- i raise utg to 30 with qq and get 4 callers to the flop. Flop is 10 9 6 rainbow so i lead out for 90 and get 2 callers. Turn comes down a beautiful Q and i bet out 250 and get raised to 680. I pretend to be thinking when in reality im just trying to look like i have some hard decision with AA/KK. After the 680 raise he has like 900 left and i have him covered so i shove and he calls with 77 and i win a nice pot. What an easy game......

I already cashed the slips but i had another decent day betting sports. I had the tigers for 300 to win 360 which was a winner, I also had the spurs for 200 at -2 winner, and almost went 3 for 3 as i had the washington capitals but they lost in OT in what was a good game. Luckily the washington bet was for only 150 so overall on the day i came out with around 400 profit. Im waking up early tomorrow (at like 10 A.M. = super gross) to meet up with some peeps to watch the Barcelona vs. Manchester United game. Obviously i had to throw a little bet on it to make the game just a bit more interesting to watch so go Barcelona! Well the simply sleep is starting to kick in a bit so here are some games that i bet on for tomorrow so check back tomorrow night to see whats up and im out.

Barcelona game

Tomorrows basketball bets-

-Nechita-

Damn you Fortune Cookie.........

This is such a bad beat its actually hilarious. So after i got done finally updating my blog a few days ago about what ive been up to and pretty much how ive been running bad/on a minor downswing i decided to grab some chinese food for dinner. The food was alright but on to the point that im getting at, Im done eating and onto the fortune cookie. I open up the cookie in hopes of getting some kind of lucky/nice fortune and to my suprise this is what i get- this is no joke i had to put this picture up because i just couldnt believe it haha.... talk about running bad haha.

I said in my last post that i planned on playing in the sunday tournaments but that didnt happen. I woke up to watch the red wings game who i bet on and just didnt feel like playing retard(tournament) poker. After the wings handled business i decided to head down to the bellagio to play some 5/10. Things started off like they have this whole month with me running horrible and me being stuck like around 1.5k in a quick period of time. It was at this point where all i wanted to do was rip the cards in half and just leave but the players were so bad i felt id have to be retarded to leave this game. I went to grab a quick bite to eat and cool down before coming back and dominating these clowns. I ended up getting back in the plus side and ended up the day with a nice profit of like 200 or something haha, ill take it. More importantly than getting even Im glad that i was able to keep my cool and keep playing my game even when things were/have been going bad. Hopefully this will turn things around and i can end the month on a positive note. Well i really only posted so i could show how bad ive been running with the fortune cookie haha so im going to wrap this up. I still have a ton to talk about but am tired so check back tomorrow night for that and this pretty funny/gross thing that happened to me at the store yesterday. im out. few bet slips

Go Lebron! tommorrows game

few hands from online-

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1787454- 5 handed, i still dont know how i feel about this one. Once i make it 760 or whatever i feel like im committed but at the same time i feel like i couldve got away from it. meh

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1787459- bad turn for me as it makes me think i picked up a boatload of extra outs. This was also right after the AK hand above so i was willing to gamble it up a bit more although im probably getting it in a good amount here anyways.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1787463- heads up, aces no good sorry pal

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1787469- i elect to limp ak UTG with the plan of reraising pre but it gets checked around and then this guy loses his mind. ty

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1787473- this hand could be a summary for my whole month.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1787475

-Nechita-

HI.......

Well as im sure you all have noticed(thats assuming people actually read this blog) that i havent updated in a long while since creating my goal for the month. Obviously being the lazy degen poker player that i am, i still havent started on the goal yet. I really wanted to get this goal underway but i just kept telling myself "ill just relax today and start tomorrow" which has led up to now. Im trying to think of what ive been up to the past few weeks since last posting but nothing to significant comes to mind. The only thing that really sticks out to me i guess is the fact that ive been losing a good amount of money. After losing like 3k on the carolina game then 1.5k on the memphis game i decided it was time to chill out on the sportsbetting. The money was all the profit i had made from the ncaa tourney leading up to those 2 games so i ended up even. It still kinda sucks knowing if carolina doesnt play their worst first half ever and memphis couldve hit 1 damn free throw to win the championship i wouldve been up almost 9k on the ncaa tourney instead of even but..... what can you do. Ive been doing fairly decent betting games lately but its just been a few hundred here and there, nothing crazy like the last to ncaa games.

Poker has been going pretty horrific like this whole month so far. I dont know what it is but i just cant seem to put together a winning session. Its sad to because ive been playing in some pretty weak games but its like the "fish" just seem to be on fire against me. Ive tried looking to see if im doing something wrong but i feel like ive been playing well and just running below expectation. Then on top of that it seems as though everytime i pick up a hand like kk i run into aa or if i have a set i run into a higher set, just a bunch crap like that the past few weeks that as a poker player make you want to scream....... haha not really but its been frustrating live and online.

As for the goal i really dont know what im going to do about it. I definately still want to do it but obviously its kind of too late for this month so ill have to think of something. Its been so long since posting and there are a million things i want to talk about but i just wanted to give you guys an update on whats been going on. Im going to start posting again regularly so check back tomorrow to see how sundays donkaments went and im out.

-Nechita-

Official Goal for April......

UPDATE - so i went and exchanged the scale and bought another one and sure enough this one is off even more than the first one. What a bunch of shit. So im not going back to that dump again until tomorrow so that means we'll have to to start tomorrow. check back for that.


Ive given some thought to the goal over night and have came up with the final details. Ive heard some mixed reviews on whether or not losing 15 pounds was doable/safe so i dont really want to set myself up for failure so i will be doing a 12&12 instead of the original 15. So with that said here is the official goal-

Goal- to win 12k only playing poker and to lose 12 pounds in the month of april.

For every pound that i come up short of the 12 i will donate 100 to some sort of charity.
If i accomplish this goal i will buy something nice for myself but i have no clue what yet.


I bought a digital scale so i could take pictures for proof of my progress but of course the thing is a total piece of shit. Since ive opened and used its given me about 12 different weights ranging from 268 down to 261(still very high but i was kinda suprised because i thought i weighed more) which is a pretty big range. So im about to try and return this junker and get one of the old school ones that arent digital. Anyways im about to head out but check back later because i will do the official weigh in haha and put the picture up so we can get this thing underway.

-Nechita-

The 15 & 15, NEW GOAL!!!!!!

Its been a while since ive done a goal and ive really been slacking off on playing poker lately so i think this is the perfect time to come up with a goal for April. Ive given this some thought and the goal for april is going to be called the 15 and 15 goal. The 15 and 15 goal is pretty simple, my goal for the month of april will be to make 15k playing poker and to lose 15 pounds. I will be updating pretty much on a daily basis during april and hopefully will be able to accomplish both by the end of the month. Anyways this just came to me a few hours ago so im about to head out and get a few things that will be needed for this. Check back tomorrow for the official start to the goal and the official guidelines to the goal. Im also thinking of adding an extra incentive for myself to really put the pressure on me to go through with this thing. Ideas im floating around right now are if i lose have some sort of giveaway to the readers(thats assuming people read this haha), possibly giving money to charity if i lose, and buying myself something nice if i accomplish this. Anyways the idea is pretty new so the ideas are flying around right now but check in tomorrow for the official start and good luck to me.

If anyone would like to bet against me let me know and i will take you up on it.

-Nechita-

Go Tar Heels?........

SHIP IT



Im not really a north carolina fan but they are quickly becoming my favorite team haha. As you can see i bet pretty big on them again this game and they were able to make me some more money. Im not sure if i will be betting anymore games for the tourney but if i do i will keep you updated.

Ive only been back in town here in vegas since tuesday but it feels as though ive been here for like a month. I returned on Monday night kind of tired but decided i to go out for a while anyways, little did i know that the while would end up being until 7-8 in the morning. We went to dragonfly for a while to predrink then ended up heading over to the Rhino til the weeeeeee hours of the morning. Im not positive but i honestly think we mustve done at least like 15 shots over the course of the night which led to me and my wallet feeling pretty shitty the next day. I took a day off before going out again on thursday night. We once again went to dragonfly for some predrinking before heading over to LAX around 1 or so where my buddys friend had a table/bottle. There was some bikini contest http://www.luxor.com/nightlife/lax.aspx or something going on there that night so it was completely packed and had a huge line outside, luckily we were able to bypass all that nonsense and were able to get in after a few minutes. As we were heading in to the table Chuck"iceman" Liddell walked right by us, not sure why im telling you about this but its one of the things i remember while being there. There was also this dude there doing some magic tricks at the table that were pretty amazing to watch, it was like watching david blaine or something but i could see it with my own eyes instead on tv and im still pretty amazed at some of the stuff he did. We ended up staying here til probably 3 or so before it started to clear out kind of so obviously we went to the strip club http://www.penthouselv.com/ Penthouse. Im not really a huge strip club person but somehow ive found myself at them an unusually high amount lately which equates to some expensive nights. We chilled here for quite a while before finally heading home some time in the morning, but not before going to palace station to bet on thurs. N. carolina game. I was really feeling the effects the next day from the night before so just laid on the couch all day and watched nc make me the monies.


My buddy (d. lewis) was staying with us for the weekend so as much as i didnt really feel like going out i kind of had to. I picked him up from the airport and we headed straight to caesars to watch michigan state get completely beaten down by memphis. We continued to predrink here for a while until we met up some peeps and went to studio54http://www.mgmgrand.com/nightlife/studio-54.aspx where we had a table. We didnt get there until probably around 2 or a little later so it was kind of dead unfortunately. The 5 of us put the bottle down pretty quickly and since it was so dead we decided to get out of there and head to.................... where else but the strip club haha. My roommate( hodge) pulled some strings and was able to get us a free bottle at scores http://www.lvscores.com/index.php so we ended up chilling here until sometime in the morning before heading home but not before we headed to palace station again so i could bet on NC again haha. The tickets at the top are from this morning and it was great because the guy behind the counter was actually telling me Louisville was going to win and apparently i started talking some shit to him and almost wasnt allowed to place the bets. The great part was cashing the tickets later in the day from the same guy rick pitino superfan #1. Last night we ended up just playing some cards at mandalay bay and planned on just taking it easy but that didnt really work as we sat there and drank until sometime this morning. Anyways thats pretty much what ive been up to since coming back to vegas. I havent played barely any cards since like before i went back to michigan so im going to try and get in a lot of play this week. Im supposed to go out to Pure tonight but im pretty wiped out from the weekend and i really want to feel good tomorrow so i can play some poker, still undecided as i type this as to what im going to do so we'll see...... Anyways thats my past week in a nutshell so check back tomorrow to see how poker went or if what kind of shenanigans i get into if i decide to go out tongiht. Im out.


-Nechita-

Back in Vegas weeeeeeeee........

First off let me get my little brag post out of the way^^^^^^ as you can see in the picture above i did okay betting todays ncaa games making a little under 2k. The 1k bet on north carolina was by far the largest bet ive ever made but it just seemed like a gimme only being -4 point favorites in the first half. Also after todays wins im pretty much freerolling in all of the games tomorrow. Here are the games that i like tommorrow-

Wisconsin - 4 1/2 The over in the texas game and texas at -1 1/2

I also have michigan state +5 and the under in the game at 137



And of course a little parlay action.










Alright enough with the degenerate section of this post and onto what ive been up to since last blogging. I went home to michigan for 10 days for easter/st. pattys day and man i have to say it was a long 10 days. It felt really good to get away from vegas for a while but 10 days in cold michigan had me glad to finally get back to nice and sunny vegas. It was really nice to see family and friends but i think next time i will only be going for 3-4 days instead of the 10 day thing. Its just kind of hard after living here in vegas where you can do whatever you want 24/7 to going home and having everything shutting down by 2. All in all though it was definately good to see family and friends so it was worth sticking out the cold weather and lack of entertainment. A few fun things i did while i was home. Went to the red wings game the day i got home which was something ive wanted to do all year and they won so it was a good time. St. pattys day didnt exactly go as planned because it was on a monday this year so everyone went out saturday instead. Unfortunately for me I drank a ton thursday night at the wings game, then drank a ton Friday night until about 4-5 in the morning, and by the time saturday rolled around the last thing i felt like doing was a bar crawl that started at noon. I felt like total shit but toughened it out and suprisingly made until about midnight before i finally decided to go home.

We also made a trip down to detroit to check out the new MGM http://www.mgmgranddetroit.com/ they built a few months ago. It was suprisingly a lot nicer than i thought it would be and really had the feel of a vegas casino with one exception, all the degenerate losers hanging around. A large amount of the players we played poker with there all knew each and were just kind of miserable to be around. Somehow we got suckered into eating at Wolfgang puck's restaurant( i say suckered because ive ate at wolfgangs here in vegas mgm and swore i would never eat in his restaurant again) but this time my meal was really really good so i guess my hate for wolfgang is over for now. We also decided to take a break from the table and head over to bazoukis (strip club) http://www.bouzoukiclub.net/ for a while and saw something really funny. Im sure by now you have heard on the news of the whole scandal involving mayor kilpatrik involving taking city money, cheating/lying underoath, and a stripper that was murdered at his house during a party, the whole thing is pretty rediculous. Anyways as we are leaving the strip club we see this cop pull over down the road and 2 strippers get into the back of his car and he drives off haha, gotta love good ol detroit. That pretty much is my trip to michigan in a quick summary.



Ive been back here in vegas now for about 4 days and its been a pretty long 4 days to say the least. Im still exhausted/dead from last nights activities and its going to take way too long to type up what ive been up to so far since being back so i will do it tomorrow. A friend of ours(D. Lewis) is coming into town this weekend and staying at our apt. so im going to wrap this up and get some shut eye for what will probably be a pretty long weekend. Anyways check back tomorrow to read the rest of what ive been up to lately and im out.


-Nechita-

Thats gold Jerry, gold!

I dont think ive ever laughed so hard at something from the internet as i did at this. This is from two plus two where people are making all kinds of fake poker posters which are pretty funny but this one is far and away the best. (if you are one of my non poker friends you wont find this funny) here is the link to look at the others- http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=160195

im back in vegas with a ton to talk about but its late and i dont feel like staying up to post right now. Check back sometime tomorrow afternoon to see how michigan was and what ive been up to since my last post, it seems like i havent posted in forever.

-Nechita-

Let the good times roll..........

If you cant tell already by the title of this post things have been going good. The weather is really nice out, pokers going good, and ive just been having fun. If you didnt see my last post it showed how i came so close to winning a WSOP main event seat and ive came to the conclusion that im done playing tournaments on my pstars account. I really wish i had a way to check all my stats over all my tournaments on stars because its really rediculous and almost mathematically impossible to get it in as 80% favorite and lose everytime. Im not just saying this because of the wsop seat ive really felt this way for a good while now but have just been stupid enough to think that one day my Aces will finally hold up against random hands, nope im done. Funny how i play way more hands in cash games and take probably about 5% the amount of bad beats that i take playing just a few tournaments. So with that being said i would like to officially tell pokerstars tournaments FUCK YOU haha.

The weather has just started to get really nice here in vegas and of course im going back to cold michigan haha. My flight is tomorrow morning at around 945(gross) and im still not sure when i will be coming back. I bought a one way ticket because it was cheaper and i really dont know when im going to want to leave. It will most likely be sometime next week like tues or weds, or i will stick around for easter and be back next monday. Im arriving in michigan around 445 tomorrow and am going straight from the airport to Joe Louis arena to watch the red wings. Ive wanted to go to a game all season but they were always out of town when ive been home this year so im really looking forward to it. The seats i got are pretty shitty because it was kind of a last minute idea but it should be a good game because they are playing Dallas who is pretty good.

Its around 1:00a.m. here and i really have no idea how i plan on getting up in a few hours. After last nights mess i dont think im going to be able to fall asleep tonight without taking a sleeping pill. I would like to just stay up but like i said im getting picked up at the airport and we're going straight to the game so i dont want to be a zombie all day tomorrow and i cant sleep on planes. Anyways back to last nights adventure..... I start getting ready and have a few beers before we all meetup at DragonFly around 10pm for some food, drinks, and bottles of sake. Im just about to walk out the door and receive a text from clay saying that hes picking up a special suprise guest and not to go there until 10:30. So now im already with nothing to do for the next half hour so i decide to have a few more beers and own some fools online real quick. I played some 10/20 and 5/10 for about 20 minutes and made a quick 2.5k, a decent start to the night. I arrive at dragonfly a little after 10:30 to the usual entourage of clay, john(chatter), ace, and the 2 special guests of the night who were Belowabove and the Wacokidd. For any of my non poker friends these are two of the top online tournament players in the world and are probably the definition of balling haha by poker standards. I dont really feel like introducing them anymore but im sure if you yahooed or googled their names a zillion things would probably come up. Anyways we chilled here for quite a while (until around 2 or 3)killing drinks and bottles of sake (Aka- kool-aid) until we decided it was time to head over to the http://www.spearmintrhinolv.com/index2.html RHINO, oh boy haha. Ive heard many stories about this the rhino and its considered the top strip club in vegas and i had never been here before so i was interested in seeing what all the fuss was about. It lived up to the hype but in the end its still just a strip club but i would definately say it was probably the best one ive been to. There are like a million girls and they all look amazing which at any other strip club there might be like 1 or 2 that are amazing but here they all are. We had a pretty big group with us so it took a minute for us to get a table but once we did it was on. The drinks and shots continued to flow and it was a pretty fun night. We ended up chilling here until the sun was out so im assuming it was probalby around 9 so by the time we finally called it a night. good times.... I got back to the apartment this morning and instead of passing out like a normal person i take a look to see if there were any good games to bet on. The only game that i liked was the houston rockets at- 5 against the hawks so i (stupidly) drive down to the redrock to throw 500 on it. My hot streak of betting continues as they end up winning by 8. Anyways the sleeping pill is kicking in here so im out and check back in a few days to see how Meeechigan is going.

Ship the 500- (dont know why this came out so blurry)


-Nechita-

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-