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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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Busted in 1500 Shootout

Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

Michael "the grinder" Mizrachi once again proves that live pros love to donk around basically we started with 3k chips, big blind 50. So not too much room to work with. With big blind 100 I raised from the high jack with 67 spades to 275, and I had 2500 chips total, and Mizrachi called out of the small blind and the big blind called. The flop was J24 with two spades. It checked around. The turn was a red 6, they checked to me and I bet 525, Mizrachi shoved and I called and Mizrachi had J2.....Obviously I don't hit a 6 or a spade and I lose. Don't ask me to defend his play, calling a raise with J2 out of the small blind when the person raising has just raised over a tenth his stack is absolutely horrible. It is just awful poker anyway you look at it. But I wasn't very suprised, these guys are almost all backed (playing with other peoples money) and therefor just play horribly. Tomorrow is the 1500 Pot Limit Omaha tournament, it should be fun.

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ITM in Event 17, $1500 Shootout

Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

really easy first table, structure of 2nd table sucked I was looking forward to today's event because it's basically just an SNG, which I've played a few of. My first table was pretty soft, with only one internet player and Annie Duke. Luckily this horrible guy was on my immediate right, and I doubled through him with KK v A7s for 8000 chips (3000 starting chips). Because it's a winner take all tourney, people seem to adjust horribly. By the time we got down to 5 handed, I raised KQs to 800 with bb300 a25. The button shoved 2200 total chips with K9s, which is just awful with no folding equity considering I was getting about 3-1 on the call. Eventually I got up to 9k chips and won a flip with AT vs 22 against Annie Duke for ~6000 chips, giving me 15k total (1/2 the chips in play). Somehow the horrible player busted the 3rd player and we got it heads up with him having a 2-1 chip lead. This player was literally one of the worst live players I've ever played against. He was so bad that with bb200 I would raise or limp top 30% of hands UTG just so I could get in a pot with him. He also seemed to never play a pot against Annie Duke, or ever raise her blinds for some reason. Considering he was playing about 50% of hands in the first two levels, this was pretty weird. Anyways, when we got it heads up, he would just massively overbet every pot. The standard situation would go something like this: I complete from the SB bb300 with 25 ante and 12k chips total, he shoves. He probably did this 35% of the time. When he would check his option, he would then open shove the flop ~35% of the time, so he was getting it all in for 10x pot about half the time. The other amazing thing was that he would then OPEN FOLD FROM THE SMALL BLIND OVER 50% of the time. It was the weirdest thing I've ever witnessed heads up. At the beginning, I had 10k chips to his 20k. I opened 77 to 800 preflop and the guy shoved, so I quickly called because he was crazy. He ended up having A8, which is fine of course, but really unlucky to get it in as a flip against a horrible guy. I got lucky and won the flip, giving me a 2-1 chip lead. After this he grinded himself down to ~6k chips to my 24k. He kept just open shoving the flop but I never flopped anything so I had to just keep folding for about 45 minutes. Luckily with him folding his SB most of the time, he could never get up over 8k chips. The final hand went like this, I complete Q8o bb400, he checks with 8k chips. The flop came QT3. He checked and I checked. The turn was a 5 of diamonds, bringing two diamonds on the board. He checked and I bet 400, hoping he would just shove or something dumb. He called and the river was a black Ten. He shoved the river for 7k or so into a pot of 1600. I thought for a minute but realized he would've probably shoved the flop or turn with a Ten, so I called and he showed J4s of diamonds for a missed flush draw. It was pretty satisfying to just wait patiently and inevitably stack him, instead of making a thin call with mid pair or something like that. After this there was a 3 hour break before the 2nd round. When the 2nd round started, we got 30k chips with bb600 and a 100 ante. This makes the effective blinds 600/1200, giving us 28 big blinds, which is extremely short for the first level of a tournament. I got up to 48k pretty early with QQ then got reraised a few times down to 36k or so. With the blinds so high, you have to play very aggressively, as the pot preflop was 1900, and the standard opening raise is usually 1800 at that level. This means you can raise to 1900 and only have to take it down 1/2 the time to be extremely profitable. This also means that you have to call raises out of the blinds a ton, because you're getting 3-1 or so preflop. With everyone raising really wide, it would open up the flop/turn/river calling ranges because people's hands would be generally much weaker than when raising ranges are tight. For example people make much stronger hands postflop at a full ring table than a heads up table because they are raising 5% of hands instead of 50%. With bb800 and 100 ante, I opened the button to 2200 with Q9o. The big blind called and the flop came Q87 with 2 diamonds. He checked and I bet 4500. He check raised to 11000, which I thought he could be doing with a diamond draw, open ended straight draw, or just a hand like 98. Considering I had a fairly aggressive image, and had already continuation bet a flop and folded to a reraise, I basically had to shove over him. He thought for a few minutes and even did the "fake putting in chips to gauge my reaction" move, which is classy. Luckily I didn't give off any tells to that bush league move. Eventually he called and had KQ, busting me. I'm not really that upset as I played pretty well I thought. It sucked to get it in that far behind, but there's really nothing you can do with 20bb effective in a winner take all structure except get it in when you flop top pair and hope you're good. Although I liked the fact that there were large antes in the 2nd round, because people generally don't raise wide enough with antes, it sucked that you only got <30bb to start, whereas we got 60bb to start the first table. Oh well. Tomorrow I have the $1500 PLO event which should be really soft. Starting with 60bb I'll probably have to just pick one hand and go with it because PLO is such an action game and people just get it in all the time.

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Update!

Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

In Vegas So I'm in Vegas at the house with the icons, bustoing WSOP events. I'm 0/3 so far, despite getting to top 20 % of field each time, but losing a big race/cooler to bust just before the money. In my last event, the Saturday $2500, I made it to day 2, but finished like 133/1500, which is kinda irritating cuz it was top 10 % of the field, but the tourney only paid 99 spots. I really want to cash in my first live tournament. (Yes, stalker, I am 0 for life.) Since I last blogged I've had some decent scores, most notably 5th in the 1k million for 61k. I lost a giant flip for about 140k in equity which sucked. I'm been playing lots of cash, some tournies, and bought a house in Saint Paul, which is really nice. It's nice to be back blogging on my favorite instructional poker website: sngicons.com Good luck to z32 who is playing the 2nd table of the 1500 shootout as I write this. Hopefully he can win his 2nd table and final table this. Mcshove

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Grinding, Vegas, My Two Cents and the Gravy Icon

Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 Tournament Internet Professional

I need to stay focused. I get bored too easily. My roommates laugh at me because I come up with a new scheme every day. One day I'll decide to play 45 mans. The next I'll try to figure out how much I could make at 9 mans. Then I'll try to play cash. Right now I'm trying to focus on playing 45s and 180s hard for the rest of the month. That's seems to be my best game. If I make decent money this month, I'm going to go to Vegas for a week next month with Basquiatcase and drive Bones's car back. It will mostly be a working vacation. I want to see Vegas a little and meet new people while getting more experience playing live. I've been through Vegas several times, but I've only stopped at the truck stops, so it's like I've never really been to Vegas. Last night I blew the last $22 in my FT account. I was annoyed that poker sites always keep $0.02 in your account and don't let you use it so I sent them an email. I want access to the remaining $0.02 in my account. Either send me a check or let me use it in a game. Wickss Hello Chad, Thank you for contacting Full Tilt Poker Support. Unfortunately, we will be unable to issue a check for the remaining balance in your account. At this time, I suggest creating a payment processor account to withdraw your funds. However, this option in the long run will cost more and simply not worth it for 2 cents. If there's anything else we can help you with, please feel free to ask. Best of luck at the tables! Regards, Andrew T Full Tilt Poker Support Last night, I was in a 1/2 mixed game with Bones, Basquiatcase, and MadScientist. Bones was wearing a sngicons hat. One guy asked him, "what is sngicons?" Bones said, "It's a friends website." "Do they have icons there?" "Yeah" "Like icons you can download to your computer?" "Yeah" Basquiatcase goes, "I need to download the Gravy icon to my computer." That's my new scheme. I need to get the Gravy icon.

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