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AC broke at house

Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

pwnt So life decided to pwn me a little a few days ago and break the AC in my condo. After sleeping through the 90 degree night, we decided to go stay at Shannon Shorr, Jerry Limber, Cody Slabaugh, Eric Baldwin, Adam Geyer, and Mike Katz's mansion for the night. We had a pretty good time, chilling by the pool and playing wii. I am still the nuts at wii tennis but have lost quite a bit of my bowling skill. Thats ok though, cause wii tennis is where its at. After getting the AC fixed today, I sat around and played a little 2/4 six max and made $1600 and played a few multitable sngs and a few mtts. I was chipleader in both the big mtts at one point but ended up near bubbling both when I ran into AA in each one. So, that is pretty much no fun. Tomorrow is another $1500 wsop event. I am getting tired of these. I am patiently waiting for another big buyin one, but for now, these will have to work. Actually, here is the schedule for the rest of the wsop... 6/20 2000 plhe 6/21 1500 6/22 1500 mixed holdem 6/24 plo8 1500 6/25 1000 rebuy 6/26 5000 6max 6/26 1500 78 5pm 6/27 2000 6/28 1500 6/29 10000 plo 6/30 1500 7/1 1500 7/3 10000 ME 4 day 1s Sadly, there arent too many big ones left besides the 10k plo, 5k s max and 1k rebuy. I guess I just look foreward to the main events a lot more than the prelims. I suppose I just like playing deepstacked poker with meh players a lot more than the 20bb push fold game, probably because it is super easy to bust out at any moment whereas it takes a few bad things to happen in the big ones to knock you out. Enough ranting. Im going to chill. GL to everyone else throughout the rest of the series.

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Week off in Martha's Vineyard

Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

Hopefully very relaxing I left Vegas last night at ~10pm for Martha's Vineyard, where my family vacations almost every year. I've probably been up there 10 or 15 times for at least a week at a time, and it's always fun with tons of fishing and hanging out on the beach. I'm also excited to see my cousins who I missed last time I was in Columbus. I probably won't play much if at all while I'm up there, unless it rains or something, so the week off will be fun. I'm also glad to be getting out of Vegas, because the whole atmosphere is getting kind of annoying with the lights, etc. Hopefully I'll be refreshed when I get back for the last week of WSOP. Lastly, I'm pretty excited for a trip in early August to play Pebble Beach and Spyglass with my dad, as my present for father's day. Neither of us have played Pebble Beach, and as an avid golfer it's something you have to do at some point. Hopefully my next update will include some pictures of bluefish!

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Mtt scores

Date: Tue, Jun 17, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

Good online, busto live So since last time I've gotten 4th in 22r, 3rd and 6th in the 77 six-max and 4th in the 11r. So all in all Im up ~12k in mtts online this month. I've also played in the 2k and 1.5k nl wsop events. I will play another 1.5k tomorrow at noon. Then another one on thurs. and one more on sat. Then I'm not really sure. I have 50k vpps this month and def. need to make sure I get at least 100k which I will.

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running bad in wsop, running good in multitable sngs

Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

meh I wish it was the opposite. I doubled up early in the $2500 6 max event today when I had 77 on a 733A4 board but eventually had a straight flush draw with a pair lose then ran JJ into KK. I played 5 multitable sngs today, 3 45 mans and 2 180 mans and won one of the 45 mans, took 5th in another 45 man, and took 5th and 9th in the 180 mans. Expect a video of the 45 man win sometime after the 180 man win goes up. Tomorrow is the $1500 crapshoot wsop event. It should be either a long day or over within 4 hours. Hopefully it is the first one. Also, good luck to my friend Phil Galfond, who is the current chip leader in the $5000 plo with rebuys event with 3 people left.

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busto in 99/2700 in 1.5k wsop event

Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

meh Finally got knocked out yesterday after losing a $50,000 flip in equity too go out in 99th place. I still cashed for 5k, but had won that flip I could have had a good chance at final tabling. O well, still planning to play alot more events and with how poor the quality of play is in these I think I have good chance at making a really nice cash. Other than poker life in Vegas is pretty amazing. We kind of got screwed over on our house because we waited till the last second too get it, but we have a roof close to the pool which you can jump off during the day and night life the clubs all have balcony's overlooking Vegas which is an amazing view. I could never live here forever but coming out for a month is a great time.

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6th Place in Razz

Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

fairly dissapointed Well first off, I just want to say that the WSOP and Pokernews.com's coverage of this event was just horrible. They missed most of the important hands and the hands they did report where usually incorrect. But I'll summarize essessentially what happened. I started the final table in 4th place with 155k chips. The level was 8k-16k with a 2k ante. The second hand after we sat down was an absolute monster pot. Someone open limped with an 7 up, and then the chipleader going into the final table Viox (who was a pretty strong player) limped with an Ace up. Now this told me alot about Viox's hand. Namely that at best he had something like 68 in the hole, or more likely a 9 or a Jack in the hole because as the chipleader and with an Ace up he would complete (raise) with any stronger hand. So knowing Viox's Ace is a very marginal one I look down at A25 with a 2 showing. Now 3 cards to the wheel is the best starting hand in Razz so I raise. Both limpers call. The turn gives the first limper (I'm pretty sure it was this kid Klodnicki, who turned out to be a pretty bad player, certainly the worst at the table) a 9 and Viox a 3 and me a Jack. So our boards look like so......xx2J (Me) xx79 (Klodnicki) xxA3 (Viox, chipleader). Viox has the low hand and he bets out, I call because the pot is enourmous and folding here is out of the question, especially since I know Viox has at least a 9 in the hole. Klodnicki folds. Fifth street gives me a 7 and Viox a 6. Now our boards look like so xx2J7 (Me) xxA36 (Viox). Viox is the low hand and obviously bets out, as his board is just huge, he could already have made a 6 low which is a super strong hand, and the best hand I could have is a Jack low, and I can only be drawing to a 7. Now here is where I have to make a decision. On fifth street the bet doubles, so I have to call 16k. Now the 7 is a good card for me, but the 6 could have been a good card for Viox as well, in fact I could almost be drawing dead. If I call on fifth I will almost certainly have to call two more big bets on sixth and seventh street, 48k more total, which if I am wrong will put me down around 80k in chips and almost certainly end any chance I have at winning. But on the other hand the pot has gotten enourmous. The antes and bring in 18k, on 3rd street there was 48k more put in, on 4th 16k more, so 72k in already....and more importantly my read says that at best he has a 9 low made, in which case I am still drawing very live since a 3, 4, 6, 8, gives me a better hand, and he may have paired the 3 or the 6 or even have a Jack underneath. So even though I'm scared as hell to throw away half of my stack only five minutes after sitting down at my first final table I make the call. Sixth street gives me a Ten...an awful card, and gives him an 8, a good card for him. Now he bets again of course, but I still am drawing to the 7 so I make the call. The problem now is that even if he paired his 6 or his 8 or his 3 he almost certainly didn't pair more than one card. The river gives me....another Ten...brutal. He bets again and I have a real decision to make. The pot is huge, almost 200k in chips....more than a seventh of the chips in play, but I have a freakin' Ten low, which against a board of xxA368x is not lookin too good, as all he has to have underneath is to have ONE of his three hole cards be a 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and I lose. And even though the pot is huge the extra 16k I am calling with is alot of chips, it would mean teh difference from me being in 6th place at the time to 8th place at the time....but my read said that he just had to be weak to limp in as the chip leader with an Ace showing, and I wasn't playing for 6th, I was playing to win, so I make the call. Viox shakes his head and says "I think you got me" and flips over his first two hole cards which were a 6 and a Jack...Just like I thought!!!! and his last card was a Queen, so my Ten low was good and I scooped a massive pot, bringing me to tied for the chiplead. I am pleased to say that I think the other players at the table were pretty impressed with the play, and even Archie "the Greek" told me that "I was learning fast". At that moment I really thought I was going to win...Sadly it just wasn't meant to be. The begginning of the end was started, as it usually is by a player making an awful play and getting incredibly lucky. In Razz, whoever is dealt the highest card up (King being the highest..aka worst) has to "bring in", essentially they have to be the blind. Almost always in Razz this player instantly folds there hand to the first person who raises, except in very rare cases when all low cards are dealt or there is a raiser and a caller or two and so you are getting extremely good odds. In this case, Klodnicki brought in with a King, it folded around to me and I raised with a 4 up (my hole cards really don't matter, but they happened to be a Ten and an 8, also at this time two players had already been eliminated so it was 6 handed). Klodnicki was by far the short stack at this point, I think he had about 65k chips to start the hand. But instead of folding, as is extremely standard, Klodnicki calls with the King!!! The turn gives me a 7 and gives him a 4. I bet and he calls again, for like a 6th his stack, again needing to hit two great cards out of three yet to come. Awful odds. Fifth gives him a 2 and me a Jack. Now I raise and he goes all in, I obviously have to call, though at this point I know he has gotten really lucky and hit two great cards in a row. And sure enough when we flip over he has A3K42.....which is now a favorite over my hand. Sixth pairs his 4...so now we are almost dead even.....sadly he spikes a 9 on the river and wins the 150k chip pot. At this point I am almsot in a daze...how could this player get this far and make such an awful play...and get rewarded for it at my expense. I try to compose myself and after a hand or two calm down....and then a few hands later I raise again with a 6 and he calls me with a 7....ok fine enough. Then my 4th card is a 7 and his is a Queen, I bet and.....he calls!!!! another disgustinly awful play given the circumstances, in this situation I am a more than a 2-1 favorite. He calls me on fifth, and on sixth. I don't remember the exact cards, but he was boardlocked the entire time, and badly. Obviously my last two cards brick out and he catches two miracles in a row to win another big pot. Now I am down to about 150k.....and then I just get awful cards for awhile and don't play a hand until I'm down to around 60k in chips. In razz more than any other game, if you don't get the cards you really just can't play a hand. LIke if you have a Q up, or a pair in the hole there isn't really anything you can do, especially against quality opponents. Eventually I get it all in with A57 against Viox's 467 for a pot around 170k and I lose....(I'm only a 53-47% favorite here sadly, but I was ahead and there wasn't anything I could do but get it in). Anyway, I was really upset for awhile, especially because if it wasn't for Klodnicki playing horribly I probably would have had a great chance at winning. But after I settled down I realized that making my first final table at the WSOP is a very big step, and that I am twenty times better at Razz now than I was at the start of the tournament. So I am taking tomorrow off, and am definately looking forward to the World Championship of Stud Hi/Low, which is a 5k event on Tuesday, where in my opinion I am one of the favorites to win. I have been playing alot of Stud hi/low online at the biggest levels, and live at the Rio cash games as well and I have done very well, and especially after final tabling the Razz tournament I am feeling very confident with my Stud game. I am considering playing the 50k HORSE, depending on how I do in tournaments before then. I think I might have a small event against the field. I am definatly not one of the best players who would be playing, but I think on average I am better than field. In Stud Hi/Low I am one of the very top players, in Razz I am probably in the top 20-30% of players, in Limit Holdem I am probably even money against the field, and in Omaha Hi/Low I am learning fast (playing alot online and picking it up fast) so hopefully I will be at least even with the field in that game, the only thing stopping me from definately playing is the Stud Hi game, as I just don't feel confident with it at all. Though there is a very strong player who said they will teach me how to play it, and said it was in fact the easiest of the HORSE games to learn....so we will see how that goes.

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FINAL TABLE!!!

Date: Sun, Jun 15, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

RAZZ baby, final table is tomorrow at 3pm pacific time Its very late so I can't go into detail, but I'll say that Razz is a much more interesting game than people give it credit for. I learned a ton just by playing this one tournament. I got bluffed badly yesterday in this one hand, but made up for it today by making a huge bluff in a very key situation for a very large pot. I was the chipleader with 40 or so left and then went pretty card dead for awhile, but with about 15 people left I won some key hands and finished the day with 155k, which is just about average out of the last 8 players. Barry Greenstein, Tom Schneider, and this guy Archie "the Greek" Karas were to my left for the last few levels, and I can tell you that they are very very good. Certainly better than me at this point, but sometimes I can use my obvious inexperience against them by making a sneaky play they don't think I'm capable of. Anyway....ONE TIME PLEASE!!!!!!

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Big day for the icons

Date: Sun, Jun 15, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

... In the money with 200/2700 players left in the 1.5k nlhe event along with mcshove who I'm swaping action with. Also, bigjoe final tabled the razz event so gl to him tomorrow. I've been playing for about 12 hours straight tho so gotta get some sleep. I will not be playing the Sunday tourney tomorrow obv. so anyone who bought action will be refunded their money or can buy action in any other tourneys. Email at gphysioc@verizon.net to let me know what you want to do. Thanks, Grayson

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good luck

Date: Fri, Jun 13, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

lol Something that is rather intresting, to me is that I have told maybe 10 people good luck for the entire wsop. Andrew Robl (3rd in 5000 mixed holdem) Mike Sexton on day 1 (he took 3rd in the $10000 plhe) Mike Banducci (he won the 1k rebuys) Shannon Shorr (he took 2nd in 2500 nlhe) Vanessa Selbst (won 1500 plo) Adam Geyer (4th going into ft of $5000 nlhe) and im sure a few more I forgot. So anyways, congrats to them all. I will continue to give my good lucks to one or two people per day and see how it turns out. Also, I tried to give myself good luck today... Today was the $10000 nlhe event. The structure was, again, pretty meh. Actually, it was very similar to the nbc heads up tournament. You stars with 100bbs for 20 minutes, then 70, then 50, then 30, then 20, then 15bbs. I was playing a nice young guy that I think was from Australia. About 10 minutes into it, I had Q9. He limped, like he had been doing a few times, and I raised to 800 in 100/200. He called and it came 962 or something. A few hands earlier, I took a bet check bet line with tptk, so I decided to bet bet bet here. So, I bet 1000 on the flop. The turn was an 8, so I bet 2000 and he called. At this point, I was fairly sure he had nothing and was going to try to take it away. He had tons and tons of eye tells (which I will go into more details in my book, if I ever make it.) The river was a Q and I bet 4000 and he pushed pretty fast. I was pretty sure he had something now but the only thing I am losing to is JT, and that wasnt too likely cause that would have been a total float on the flop. I called and he showed the JT to put me down to 5000 chips. I won a few hands and got back to 20000 again, which was nice. To get back to 20000, I had to run a pretty big bluff with 74s which I basically never do, cause bluffing is bad. A while later, when we both had 20bbs, He raised to 2500 in 500/1000 and I pushed 97s and he called with AJ and I lost. I had 4bbs left and doubled the next hand then a few hands later ran 33 into AA. All in all, it was no fun. However, when it is best 1 out of 1, whoever gets the good cards in the right spots is going to win. Simple as that. Finally, 2 or 3 haters have decided to spam my blog constantly, telling me to get a life, which doesnt even make sense, so I have decided to take their small, sad lives away. I have been researching things about blogs for the last few days and it seems that having comments enabled or disabled does not effect the traffic of a blog at all. Also, since they bring nothing positive to my blog, by either giving correct or insightful comments, or by subscribing to my site, I have decided to take away their lives for good. So, no more life for the lifefish. GG. edit: I had 2 hours to burn around the house before Katy gets home (we are going out to have dinner and see a show tonight) so I decided to watch some training videos and play a $33 and $11 180 person turbo sng on stars. I ran hot and won the $33 one for $1700, which was nice. Expect a video of it to go up as soon as I have time to make it.

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Potential prop bets for next month

Date: Fri, Jun 13, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

Spacegravy's gonna win another prop bet fo sho I'm planning on buying a house soon straight cash, so I need an incentive to really put in some volume next month and quit slackin online. Here are the list of prop bets I'll take if I can get enough action. Email me at gphysioc@verizon.net if you're interested. I'll play the whole time in front of a webcam if any person taking action makes the request. -Make 20k playing $16 tables in one month. (Need at least 50k in sidebets at 1-1) I would actually make more playing high stake sngs in the amount of hours I will put in but it will be funny so w/e. -Make 40k playing $60 sngs in one month. (Need at least 25k in sidebets at 1-1) -Make 70k playing any stake sngs in one month. (Need at least 15k in sidebets at 1-1) Any other offers I'll consider. Also, live poker is rigged.

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Still no good in wsop

Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

bah I feel like I type this every day. I got up to 70,000 chips by the dinner break in the $5000 wsop event, which made me happy. I then made a few speculative plays and bustoed my 50bb stack. It sucks when average is only 25bbs. It makes it pretty easy to lose at any point. I like when average is at least 50bbs, so usually one hand wont wipe you out, but that isnt what the wsop is. Today in the $2000 event, I doubled in a weird hand where I raised J6s from mp and got 2 callers. It came JJ5, we all checked. The turn was a 6, I bet 800 and got one caller. The river was a 2 or something, which put a runner runner flush on the board, so I pushed for 2xish pot and he called with the nut flush to double me to 8000. A few hands later I raised KK and got 2 callers. It came JT9. I bet 700 and they both called. The turn was a 5 and we all checked. The river was another 9. The guy that called in the bb lead for 800 and I called and he showed Q9 for trips. A while later, I got TT and a guy that had been opening to 800 a lot in 100/200 made it 800 from mp. I of course pushed for 18bbs and he tanked for 2 minutes before calling with QQ. Very nice slowroll sir. I also made an intresting observation today. There were about 6 people with headphones at the table today and 4 of them were constantly headbobbing. Every one of them were horrible horrible ladtards constantly raising and checkraising and bluffing, and all going broke early. So, if you bob your head to the music while playing poker, you may need to rethink your game. The wsop is half way over and this has not been a happy year. At least we are getting the the bigger buyin, smaller fielded events so the good players actually have a real chance to win. Hopefully I start getting the set up hands in my favor, instead of against.

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Long time no blog

Date: Thu, Jun 12, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

googling your sn is pretty funny So, I haven't blogged in a while. I had to focus a lot of my attention on my studies during the rest of the school year, so there wasn't a ton of time for poker- although i did some sng's with pretty decent results for a small sample, and fared pretty poorly in mtt's ever since my 52k cash in the super tuesday at ps earlier this year. I've been trying to do hu cash games, starting at .25/5, and .5/1, but in a small sample size have ran frigidly cold. I have a feeling I can get the hang of it with some review of my play, and getting more hands in. Summer has been nice, moved into my new place, adopted a new kitten, spending a lot of time with my gf and friends. But i'm trying to put a special emphasis on qualifying for the wsop m.e.- I found out that i can't pre-reg for it since i turn 21 on july 6th, but i can show up the last day to sign up- which would be pretty fun to do on my 21st bday (idk if i'd be the youngest ever to play?). Anyways, I've just started to do the steps at ps and hopefully can quali through that or this upcoming sunday when a plethora of seats will be available to qualify for. I also googled my sn, and some pretty funny stuff comes up, including my old days of hi stakes omaha, but I've gone to omaha rehab and there will be no more crack-cocaine poker for me. I also came across #1 stalkers crapping on me- pretty funny stuff- and no I haven't gone busto #1 stalker- but keep doing your thing. Fugg

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lots of stuff going on

Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

yay Well it is 3 am and I cant sleep. I have been awake thinking about the future and what I really want to spend my time doing. I have been tossing around the idea of writing a book for a while now and I think I am. I prob wont go into any details about it until it is about to come out, but I have basically decided that I would rather put out some info that would hopefully help people instead of sitting around grinding online all day. I also made a little online store using cafepress.com tonight. So far, it is just a bunch of random stuff, but eventually I will put a lot of time into it and make it really good. Here is the link if anyone wants any of these things. http://www.cafepress.com/jonathanlittle As for the wsop, it is still going poorly, but that should be expected when every small buyin event is a crapshoot. Tomorrow is one of the first big ones where I thiiink we are actually going to start with chips. It is a $5000 buyin, so I know we are going to get 10,000 chips and I am assuming we are going to start at 25/50 blinds, although they may pull the crap they did in the $10000 plhe and start us at 100/200, which would pretty much be the nut low. Today was the $1500 plo event. I got it in with AKKQ against KQxx early and doubled. to 4000ish. I then got it in with KKQ8 against KQxx on a K72 board and doubled to 8000. I then got it in with JT87 against AAT9 on a J82 board in a kinda weird spot where I was pretty sure he had nothing. He hit a 7 though to put me down to 3000. I then got AJTT in against QQJJ getting 2;1 (when I had 42% equity) for the rest of it and didnt win. All in all, I think I played this tournament, as well as every single other one, just fine. I just havent been winning any big hands early, which you have to do to make it far. Thank goodness we are finally to the part of the wsop where the bigger buyin tournaments are, so we can have some decent structures. Hopefully they go well.

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Busted in PLO, $5k NL tomorrow

Date: Wed, Jun 11, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

PLO = all in Today's PLO went as expected. In the first level three people busted at my table. I didn't get much for the first hour, except one hand where I had KKJx and raised to 150 preflop. The button called with only 1100 behind or so, with starting stacks 3000. The flop came T9x and I bet 250. He shoved for ~1000 total, which I had to call, and was really surprised when he turned over QQJx. From his point of view it's fine because he has an open ended straight draw and a set draw in case I just had AA. In actuality, I had nearly the best possible hand against his hand. What I mean by this is that my equity against his hand is actually HIGHER with my one pair and gutshot straight draw than it would be if I had the absolute nuts at that point, TTxx. I was really lucky to have 2 of his straight outs covered, as well as nullifying his set draw. He ended up sucking out, but I was happy to get it in as a 75/25 in PLO, which is a pretty big edge post flop. After that the same guy limped bb100, as usual, and I raised AKQ9ds with 1300 total. He limp reraised and I was committed to call because my hand is 35% against his likely AAxx. It was kinda frustrating because I really like PLO, but with only 60bb to start, the chips are bound to just fly around the table all day. I wasn't surprised to see almost 80% of the field eliminated in 7 hours of play, whereas in NL events, eliminating 80% of the field takes 11+ hours. Anyways, tomorrow is the $5000 NL event, which should be good. It will probably be a small field because it's a weekday event, but that also means it's a decent chance at a bracelet, which obviously would be sick. I've also been grinding online whenever I can, trying to get more VPPs to move closer to Supernova Elite. This month I have 40,000 vpps which I think is pretty decent considering I've played an event every day except one since June 1st.

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