I am officially booked.
Tue Nov 11 2265 Depart BUFFALO NY (BUF) at 7:50 AM
Arrive in LAS VEGAS NV (LAS) at 10:00 AM
Mon Nov 17 3944 Depart LAS VEGAS NV (LAS) at 5:05 PM
Arrive in BUFFALO NY (BUF) at 12:15 AM
Total? $166 USD..SICK!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Poker Sunday
Played a bunch of poker yesterday this weekend, and I think its safe to say that I ran pretty good. Originally had to referee a few basketball games in the evening, so didn't load up/try to satellite into any of the big Sunday tournaments. It turns out the games were canceled as the motor for the basketball net wasn't working (or something). So instead, I grinded out the double-or-nothing turbo Sit and Gos on Stars, and was up about 15http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif BI by the end of the night. Could've been up a bit more but can't really complain. Other than that, also grinded out a few steps tournaments and I have a few step 3s and 4s tickets in my bank, so hopefully I'll be able to grind out a PCA tournament seat or something soon.
Nothing really new other than that - won't get to play much the next week or two as midterms/papers are really starting to swarm in...and hopefully will confirm and book my flight out to Vegas for a few days in mid-November. Still debating whether or not to head out to BC to play the British Columbia Poker Championship..probably not but we'll see.
Last Friday - went to the Sabres vs. Canucks game in Buffalo with Adam Schwartz (2p2 Pokercast) and Terrence "Not Johnny" Chan. Being with 2 huge Canucks fans, obviously I had to join in - not that I'm not a hater, Canucks is actually one of my favourite-non-favourite teams. Adam had an extra Canucks retro jersey which I proudly worn, although it probably set of the alarms of all the fashion police in the area. Obviously credit card roulette is on the menu when you're out with a bunch of poker players, and with 2 asians and a white dude, the white guy was losing the roulette with 100% certainty. Betting of the game must take place, and obviously being the most non-baller guy on the 3, $300 was placed for the over of 5.5. Adam and Terrence both won a dime from the game while I got chump change of $320~. While the Canucks lost the game 5 - 2 (can't really blame them - they just played Detroit the night before and won in OT..oh..AND Luongo wasn't playing), the 3 of us were probably the happiest Canucks fan in the arena when the 6th goal was scored. A funny note occured when we were crossing the US border - the border guard decided to ask whether the 3 of us were family. Let see, a 40 y/o white dude, a 28 y/o asian dude, and a 21 y/o dude as a family...
Nothing really new other than that - won't get to play much the next week or two as midterms/papers are really starting to swarm in...and hopefully will confirm and book my flight out to Vegas for a few days in mid-November. Still debating whether or not to head out to BC to play the British Columbia Poker Championship..probably not but we'll see.
Last Friday - went to the Sabres vs. Canucks game in Buffalo with Adam Schwartz (2p2 Pokercast) and Terrence "Not Johnny" Chan. Being with 2 huge Canucks fans, obviously I had to join in - not that I'm not a hater, Canucks is actually one of my favourite-non-favourite teams. Adam had an extra Canucks retro jersey which I proudly worn, although it probably set of the alarms of all the fashion police in the area. Obviously credit card roulette is on the menu when you're out with a bunch of poker players, and with 2 asians and a white dude, the white guy was losing the roulette with 100% certainty. Betting of the game must take place, and obviously being the most non-baller guy on the 3, $300 was placed for the over of 5.5. Adam and Terrence both won a dime from the game while I got chump change of $320~. While the Canucks lost the game 5 - 2 (can't really blame them - they just played Detroit the night before and won in OT..oh..AND Luongo wasn't playing), the 3 of us were probably the happiest Canucks fan in the arena when the 6th goal was scored. A funny note occured when we were crossing the US border - the border guard decided to ask whether the 3 of us were family. Let see, a 40 y/o white dude, a 28 y/o asian dude, and a 21 y/o dude as a family...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Another Frustrating Session
Just returned from Brantford, and it was basically another frustrating session. So if you are keeping track, this is my second straight losing session at Brantford after going 20+ straight winning sessions over the past 2 years - so I really have no right to complain. Tonight was a different type of frustration compared to last session - tonight was more of the "how hard can you get screwed by the deck except not by bad beats"...illustration:
1. On my BB with A2, we have a blind raiser/straddler UTG. 5 callers including myself, and flops A2x - obviously the blind raiser has AA.
2. I cold-call a raise OTB with 98hh after a EP raiser and 3 callers. Flop A98 - got 2 bets in on the flop, 2 on turn, and 1 on river from 2 other players. Obviously they had A9 and A8
My last name of the night at 10/20 - LAGtard who has probably dropped close to $1K who just won a pot with 92dd on a AdK10d 10 8d board decides to wake up with KK when I have QQ....
And then there are other hands where it was essentially the deck not hitting in my favour.
1. 3 bet a LP raiser with AQ, lead flop, turn, check river and loses to 88.
2. Capped pre-flop with AK, and doesn't win race with QQ
3. Missing OESD/flush draws, OESD straight + flush draws
Just wasn't my night. Here is me hoping that I'm saving my good karma/cards/luck for Vegas - speaking of which I should get around to book my flight.
Next poker games - probably just grinding out FPPs on Stars, and trying to satellite into the PCA. Just got a reload bonus of FTP, so will probably play some PLO there as well.
Probably heading down to Buffalo on Friday with a couple of 2p2 guys for a hockey game, so will probably squeeze in a bit of poker/craps at Fallsview before the game.
1. On my BB with A2, we have a blind raiser/straddler UTG. 5 callers including myself, and flops A2x - obviously the blind raiser has AA.
2. I cold-call a raise OTB with 98hh after a EP raiser and 3 callers. Flop A98 - got 2 bets in on the flop, 2 on turn, and 1 on river from 2 other players. Obviously they had A9 and A8
My last name of the night at 10/20 - LAGtard who has probably dropped close to $1K who just won a pot with 92dd on a AdK10d 10 8d board decides to wake up with KK when I have QQ....
And then there are other hands where it was essentially the deck not hitting in my favour.
1. 3 bet a LP raiser with AQ, lead flop, turn, check river and loses to 88.
2. Capped pre-flop with AK, and doesn't win race with QQ
3. Missing OESD/flush draws, OESD straight + flush draws
Just wasn't my night. Here is me hoping that I'm saving my good karma/cards/luck for Vegas - speaking of which I should get around to book my flight.
Next poker games - probably just grinding out FPPs on Stars, and trying to satellite into the PCA. Just got a reload bonus of FTP, so will probably play some PLO there as well.
Probably heading down to Buffalo on Friday with a couple of 2p2 guys for a hockey game, so will probably squeeze in a bit of poker/craps at Fallsview before the game.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
BCC Trip
Was at Brantford Charity Casino last night, and to say it was a blood bath was probably an understatement. [note of brag] I don't proclaim to be a limit expert/shark like Moose, but its probably been two years, about 20 or so straight sessions at BCC where I have left in the black. [/end of brag] So anyways, went to play some 5/10 yesterday, partly due to lack of liquidity, partly due to the fact that I was there with some friends so I wanted to play at the same table and what not...and the whole night I probably won maybe 5 pots max.
[bad beat stories] Normally I hate telling them, and I don't plan to, but this is more of reporting of hands and how badly I ran.
1. 1010 loses to 56 when it was capped preflop, and on the flop of 9 5 4 when 6 comes on the river
2. 2 pair goes down to rivered straight
3. 2 pair goes down to a guy who calls with top pair when board 4 flushed with clubs thinking he only had a pair when he had the 2 of clubs in his hand
4. AA loses to 22 when 22 flops a set
[/bad beat stories]
The table was the juiciest table I've seen, and if I had more money I don't think I would've left, but with that table the variance would've been huge, and unfortunately I was just on the bad side of variance. Things happen and I'll be back...In all honesty though, I definitely didn't play my best poker. There were things Moose pointed out playing on my right that definitely has got me thinking about limit and playing certain players a certain way. Also played some hands just more out of frustration where I could've probably saved a few big bets here and there, lessons learned and hopefully will get back there after the Thanksgiving weekend.
As for now, I SWEAR I'll have the tourney report from the one I cased in up soon...its all typed up on my Blackberry but I just keep forgetting to transfer it on to my PC when I'm in Toronto, and when I'm in Waterloo I don't have the data cable.
I was going to try to grind out some NAPC satellitse this week, but with school and assignments and midterms, I don't think I can really grind those out. MIGHT take one day and just go and see if I can get a couple in, but other than that I'm going to be focusing on grinding out for a seat in the PCA. Going back to Vegas in Nov, just need to book a flight now...should be a blast with Venetian Deepstacks running again.
[bad beat stories] Normally I hate telling them, and I don't plan to, but this is more of reporting of hands and how badly I ran.
1. 1010 loses to 56 when it was capped preflop, and on the flop of 9 5 4 when 6 comes on the river
2. 2 pair goes down to rivered straight
3. 2 pair goes down to a guy who calls with top pair when board 4 flushed with clubs thinking he only had a pair when he had the 2 of clubs in his hand
4. AA loses to 22 when 22 flops a set
[/bad beat stories]
The table was the juiciest table I've seen, and if I had more money I don't think I would've left, but with that table the variance would've been huge, and unfortunately I was just on the bad side of variance. Things happen and I'll be back...In all honesty though, I definitely didn't play my best poker. There were things Moose pointed out playing on my right that definitely has got me thinking about limit and playing certain players a certain way. Also played some hands just more out of frustration where I could've probably saved a few big bets here and there, lessons learned and hopefully will get back there after the Thanksgiving weekend.
As for now, I SWEAR I'll have the tourney report from the one I cased in up soon...its all typed up on my Blackberry but I just keep forgetting to transfer it on to my PC when I'm in Toronto, and when I'm in Waterloo I don't have the data cable.
I was going to try to grind out some NAPC satellitse this week, but with school and assignments and midterms, I don't think I can really grind those out. MIGHT take one day and just go and see if I can get a couple in, but other than that I'm going to be focusing on grinding out for a seat in the PCA. Going back to Vegas in Nov, just need to book a flight now...should be a blast with Venetian Deepstacks running again.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Long Time No Post
Yeah..its almost a month since my last post. Honestly, I haven't really played too much since my last update. Pretty much got 2500 FPP within the first week of August multi-tabling 6max 0.50/1 PLO, and the occasional turbo SnG, but other than that I have barely opened my Stars/Tilt/Cake client. Played a couple of APPT steps here and there and made one last push for a Macau seat, which failed miserably as I couldn't advance past step 5. Good thing is I have 2 step 5 tickets sitting around, bad thing is none of the other tournaments really interest me. The Seoul one is around midterms time, Manila is while I'm going to be in Vegas, and Australia is happening right around finals, so the only other one I can try for is New Zealand which is a month away. If only those can be converted to EPT Tickets...
Played me third (or maybe fourth) turbo takedown, and I have yet to last 1 hour in the tournament. This time I busted out in spectacular fashion with JJ vs. KK where I flopped a set and he turned the straight. Not trying to tell a bad beat story, just more reporting a hand. I've found it to be quite hard to report a hand where you got a bad beat, and make it not sound like a bad beat story. In any case, I really haven't played much, but with WCOOP coming around, I'll probably play a few. Already won a seat in the $215 HORSE, and a couple of other satellites so I have some W$ saved up, so will probably end up buying into a couple of the $215. I'm definitely taking a shot here, and I will definitely need to get lucky, but I figured why not =D
I promise I'll get the July 7th day report up..soon. With school coming around next week, it'll likely be done while I'm procrastinating or something. Right now, planning a trip to Vegas again in November with a few guys from the Pokerforum, should be fun and probably will play in a couple of the Venetian Deepstack tournaments again.
Played me third (or maybe fourth) turbo takedown, and I have yet to last 1 hour in the tournament. This time I busted out in spectacular fashion with JJ vs. KK where I flopped a set and he turned the straight. Not trying to tell a bad beat story, just more reporting a hand. I've found it to be quite hard to report a hand where you got a bad beat, and make it not sound like a bad beat story. In any case, I really haven't played much, but with WCOOP coming around, I'll probably play a few. Already won a seat in the $215 HORSE, and a couple of other satellites so I have some W$ saved up, so will probably end up buying into a couple of the $215. I'm definitely taking a shot here, and I will definitely need to get lucky, but I figured why not =D
I promise I'll get the July 7th day report up..soon. With school coming around next week, it'll likely be done while I'm procrastinating or something. Right now, planning a trip to Vegas again in November with a few guys from the Pokerforum, should be fun and probably will play in a couple of the Venetian Deepstack tournaments again.
Monday, August 4, 2008
PLO
Jeez I'm behind on writing up my trip report. I still have 1 more full day tournament report to write on July 7th, and a couple of short cash sessions on July 8 and July 9. I can't really make an excuse for my lateness as its been almost a month now, but there are times when I could be writing at home, I just choose to play poker or video games over writing. I'll definitely get the July 7th one up soon as I already have some of the hands typed up.
As far as poker post Vegas goes, I've ventured out into playing mostly PLO cash game with some donkament and HE cash game mixed in there. I thought about starting at PLO full ring, but after observing it for awhile, it seems like 6 max is much more profitable. Not everyone is sitting just waiting for the nuts, and it is much easier to find and exploit the players who over-value hands like TP, bottom 2p, or an overpair. There has been more than one instances where players got their hands in drawing to 2 outs with an overpair and no redraw but getting there, but I'm getting money in good so whatever. I'm still learning to play the game for the most part, especially playing post-flop with pot control and what not. While I'm hardly a good player at hold'em, I figured I would jump on board the PLO ship while the money is there and continue learning hold'em on the side.
FTOPS is coming up soon, I'm not really sure how many events I'll end up playing with a regular 9-5 work schedule, and softball 2-3 nights a week + weekends. Looking ahead to WCOOP and obv going to be trying to satellite into APPT Macau still. After that I'll probably aim for EPT London and probably won't be anything until either Aussie Millions or PCA. Obviously these live tourney will be all talk no result as I am so far 0/4 on these big live tourney satellites.
As far as poker post Vegas goes, I've ventured out into playing mostly PLO cash game with some donkament and HE cash game mixed in there. I thought about starting at PLO full ring, but after observing it for awhile, it seems like 6 max is much more profitable. Not everyone is sitting just waiting for the nuts, and it is much easier to find and exploit the players who over-value hands like TP, bottom 2p, or an overpair. There has been more than one instances where players got their hands in drawing to 2 outs with an overpair and no redraw but getting there, but I'm getting money in good so whatever. I'm still learning to play the game for the most part, especially playing post-flop with pot control and what not. While I'm hardly a good player at hold'em, I figured I would jump on board the PLO ship while the money is there and continue learning hold'em on the side.
FTOPS is coming up soon, I'm not really sure how many events I'll end up playing with a regular 9-5 work schedule, and softball 2-3 nights a week + weekends. Looking ahead to WCOOP and obv going to be trying to satellite into APPT Macau still. After that I'll probably aim for EPT London and probably won't be anything until either Aussie Millions or PCA. Obviously these live tourney will be all talk no result as I am so far 0/4 on these big live tourney satellites.
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