WSOP ME - Here I come!

That is all

Well..that was fun

0-4 in sports betting, with the 3 baseball teams that I took scored a combined 4 runs. Hopefully tomorrow gets better.

Sports Betting - May 19

Time to really get back into posting these things - took a few bets again today, took all underdogs and I guess we'll see what happens.

Giants +135 over Padres
Blue Jays +130 over Red Sox
Twins +109 over White Sox
Lakers -7.5 +120 over Nuggets


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A Guide on How to go from Big Stack to Short Stack in 3 hands

Setting - 45 players left in a Full Tilt 90 player Turbo Knockout.
Average stack 6000, Hero largest stack in the entire tournament with slightly over 15K

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4251878

Getting close to 2 to 1, plus a shot of getting 2 bounties and the call costing 20% of my stack approx. makes this a pretty standard call IMO.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4251887

3 Hands later - another standard spot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?4251900

I have some history with this player where I wrote down he has a tendancy to stop and go with a wide range, and also noted down donk bets = weak.

Obv with his hand, he was a fav. against my hand but I THINK it might've been the right play given my history with him - will have to pokerstove my equity in this spot when I get a chance to see what it looks like against his range.

So there you have it, a guide on how to go from big stack to short stack within an orbit.

FTOPS Main Event

So ended up playing by satelliting in, and also played the miniTOPS Main Event. Getting some chips in both, but didn't cash in either. In the ME, I got to a high of 50K when avg. was only about 20K, and proceeded to drop to 10K within a span of 3 hands. First losing KK to AA, AK to KK, and finally QQ to AJ. Survived a few more orbits and squeezed an aggro player with AQ into his AK. to bust.

Tough few orbits, but that's just the nature of tournament poker.

Vegas Trip Report

No poker content, so I posted it on my "regular" blog instead. For anyone interested, go over to www.sportswizard.blogspot.com

Just came back from a quick 2 day stop in Chicago where I caught the Canucks/Blackhawks game from rinkside seats. Met up with Terrence Chan, along with his buddy Matt from Chicago, and Andy and Scott from Vancouver. The Canucks were outplayed for the game and the better team won, although I do wish the Canucks would've put in a better effort in the third rather than playing a stupid trap against a fast and skilled team like Chicago.

Now that school is underway again, pretty much going to stick to grinding it out online until the World Series. The goal is still to try to qualify for a seat with either Stars or Full Tilt and play in the Main Event. Pretty sure I'll still end up going down regardless if I qualify, and will try to play if I can enough people to buy pieces of me.

Right now, just going to be playing some FTOPS and mini-TOPS for the next week or so. Hopefully can do something decent this time around.