5k day

just had my first $5000 day at 2/5. Played around 10 hours and just absolutely crushed. Got quads twice and got paid both times. basically just took the ops to my little shack on the edge of value town and left them there. lol biggest day ever at 2/5 so i'm real happy atm. playing in a freeroll with about 400 others today at caesar's. top 10 get a 10k seat in the main event of the caesar's classic main event. maybe ill get lucky!

vegas update

Sensory overload. All the time. That's what Vegas does to you at first. Luckily, I'm pretty much totally immune to it now. I no longer become distracted by all the flashing lights and ding-ding-dinging of the slot machines. However, I do become annoyed. Mostly by the type of people I encounter. Fat, smoking, barrel-assed type people injecting their monies into machines that are going to take 1/4 of the money you spend guaranteed. 80 year old electric wheel chair bound white haired ladies smoking marlboro 100s and Burger King fattened 40 year olds knocking back shitty free American beer. These are the people that detest me. And they are all over the place. The strange thing about Vegas is that it's tough to find anyone that's actually genuine. Everyone always has some sort of act going. It's difficult to differentiate between those person's personalities that are based on fiction and those that are actually real. Some people enjoy Vegas for this reason: You can be whoever you want. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't embelished some information about myself...but nothing too extreme.

Despite all the people I dislike, Vegas does give you the opportunity to meet lot's of celebrities. Not fake-ass "I'm a celebrity because I was on a reality TV show celebrities" but actual famous people. For example, I was in Caesar's Palace Poker Room last week and who do I literally bump into by Michael Phelps. Arguably the best Olympian ever and I got to talk to him. Just a regular dude who likes to play poker. He actually did pretty well too as he final tabled a $1500 dollar event. Just a college student but he is one of the recognizable people on the planet. And a nice guy to boot. Who would have thunk it?

Also, playing 2/5 with Denis Philips. For you non poker players he is currently the chip leader in this year's main event at the WSOP. It's the biggest deal in the poker community. And he was just a regular dude as well. He dumped money to the table. I guess that's what you get when you know you are going to win at least 3 million dollars. Lucky bastard!

All for now.

Viva Las Vegas!

Hey peoples! Have settled in to my lifestyle in las vegas and am having a very succesful and profitable time. So far my days have gone:
M: $1000
T: $633
W: $2090
R: $1600
F: $400
S: $2300
S: -
M: $1200
T: $800
W: $2600

So a very positive start to the trip. Will write more later about specific hands etc.

Till Later

ship the 12k!

Ended up chopping three ways in a $55 buy in tourney. 2157 players and I played extremely well / ran really hot. We chopped by stack sizes so one guy took 14k, the other 12.5k and myself around 12.2k. Took 8 hours to complete. Pretty tired but super pumped up for my biggest tourney win ever! I'm not really a tourney donk, so it was great to actually post a legitimate result and go deep. Only remember putting one bad beat on a guy where my 77 beat his AA AIP but i flopped a set. Besides that, I played extremely patient poker and I just kept hitting. I was in the top 50 chip counts the entire time so was consistent in my play and didn't get unlucky.
Ship the Monies!

you know you're running good when...

PokerStars Game #20931704569: Tournament #110964400, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level XX (3500/7000) - 2008/10/04 20:14:58 ET
Table '110964400 103' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: kobepham (128393 in chips)
Seat 2: SKUNKWENCH (341021 in chips)
Seat 3: 8oggo8 (232454 in chips)
Seat 4: alani111 (929161 in chips)
Seat 5: foldorpayme (213556 in chips)
Seat 6: marconwinner (183128 in chips)
Seat 7: NetDrifter (59799 in chips)
Seat 9: surprise1964 (118424 in chips)
kobepham: posts the ante 700
SKUNKWENCH: posts the ante 700
8oggo8: posts the ante 700
alani111: posts the ante 700
foldorpayme: posts the ante 700
marconwinner: posts the ante 700
NetDrifter: posts the ante 700
surprise1964: posts the ante 700
alani111: posts small blind 3500
foldorpayme: posts big blind 7000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SKUNKWENCH [Kh Kd]
marconwinner: raises 14000 to 21000
NetDrifter: folds
surprise1964: folds
kobepham: folds
SKUNKWENCH: raises 49000 to 70000
8oggo8: folds
alani111: folds
foldorpayme: folds
marconwinner: calls 49000
*** FLOP *** [Kc Ks 8h]
marconwinner: checks
SKUNKWENCH: checks
*** TURN *** [Kc Ks 8h] [7c]
marconwinner: checks
SKUNKWENCH: checks
*** RIVER *** [Kc Ks 8h 7c] [3s]
marconwinner: bets 112428 and is all-in
SKUNKWENCH: calls 112428
*** SHOW DOWN ***
marconwinner: shows [8c 8s] (a full house, Eights full of Kings)
SKUNKWENCH: shows [Kh Kd] (four of a kind, Kings)
SKUNKWENCH collected 380956 from pot

2nd in chips with 28 left. gogogogogogogog

still in the $55

2157 entrants. currently 83 left. i'm second in chips. first wins $17,000. run good one time.

$55 donkament

Playing in a tourney right now. running hot but also playing sick good. Made a nice call with king high on a very coordinated board to take a nice pot. Lost with my AK to AQ AIP and he hit a Q. If he bricks, I'm chip leader.

Also won this hand with 65 high!

PokerStars Game #20926410585: Tournament #110964400, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (125/250) - 2008/10/04 16:40:37 ETTable '110964400 39' 9-max Seat #4 is the button

Seat 1: saranghada (10402 in chips)

Seat 2: Missolson (5705 in chips)

Seat 3: DerBremer12 (4845 in chips)

Seat 4: KingDonation (4340 in chips)

Seat 5: SKUNKWENCH (23722 in chips)

Seat 6: Jutlandia (5405 in chips)

Seat 7: Nous44 (5969 in chips)

Seat 8: iMaKon (6380 in chips)

Seat 9: Joggi (16020 in chips):

HOLE CARDS ***Dealt to SKUNKWENCH [6s 5s]

Nous44: folds

iMaKon: folds

Joggi: folds

saranghada: folds

Missolson: folds

DerBremer12: folds

KingDonation: folds

SKUNKWENCH: raises 500 to 750

Jutlandia: calls 500

*** FLOP *** [2h 3d 9d]

SKUNKWENCH: checks

Jutlandia: bets 1250

SKUNKWENCH: raises 21697 to 22947 and is all-in

Jutlandia: calls 3380 and is all-in

Uncalled bet (18317) returned to SKUNKWENCH

*** TURN *** [2h 3d 9d] [Qc]

*** RIVER *** [2h 3d 9d Qc] [7d]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

SKUNKWENCH: shows [6s 5s] (high card Queen)

Jutlandia: shows [6c 4s] (high card Queen - lower kicker)

This hand was interesting and I got a lot of respect from my opponents in the subsequent hands. It really does show the importance of hand reading.

Dealt to SKUNKWENCH [Ks 6s]

iMaKon: folds

Joggi: folds

saranghada: folds

Missolson: folds

DerBremer12: folds

KingDonation: folds

SKUNKWENCH: raises 500 to 750 - I attempt a button steal with K6o which is very standard figuring I have the best hand anyways.

kobepham: calls 625 - An ok player just calls from the BB and we play a hand.

Nous44: folds

*** FLOP *** [3s 3h 5d] - I missed and he knows I missed.

kobepham: checks

SKUNKWENCH: checks - No point in betting here as I have been opening very liberally. He def. check raises flop here if I bet

*** TURN *** [3s 3h 5d] [Ac]

kobepham: checks - He definitely does not have an ace, 3 or 5 as he would have lead out here

SKUNKWENCH: checks - cant bet here because I most likely would have bet flop with an A

*** RIVER *** [3s 3h 5d Ac] [Qd]

kobepham: bets 1250 - tries the post-oak bluff on me.

SKUNKWENCH: calls 1250 - K high is def good sucka! snap call.

*** SHOW DOWN ***

kobepham: shows [4d 6d] (a pair of Threes)

SKUNKWENCH: shows [Ks 6s] (a pair of Threes - Ace+King kicker)

SKUNKWENCH collected 4475 from pot

Not a big pot but it let the table know I could hand read.

thursday thursday

Dumped $500 in my weekly thursday cash game. Overall, I played extremely poor poker and I deserved to lose. Here's one hand I butchered:

6 sissy limpers and I raise to $35 OTB w/ A9dd. Two callers and the flop comes down 8d 5c 3d so i flop a flush draw. Checked to me and I bet $65. One fold and crazy aggro maniac comes along for the ride. Turn brings the 4h. He checks and I bet $90 which he c/r to $210. At this point he could have a set, two pair, or total air. If I were to call I would only have $180 left. At this point it's either shovefold but i do the stupid thing and just call. The board bricks out and I fold to his river bet. He flips up QJ off for a total bluff. So nh sir and stupid me for misplaying my hand. Also pot odds says I should call there, but I guess I thought he would never be bluffing in that situation. Bad poker from me and that's that.

Another bad play:

I call a raise to $10 with 10c7c as do about 4 other people. Flop comes down 8c9c9s. Checked to me and I bet half pot and get c/r to $40 more. I look at his stack and put him in for what is $160 more. He snap calls with quad 9s. I don't hit my two outer and I ship him the $500 pot. Silly play by me because he has 9x almost everytime there. With the paired board I should just check call check call.

Till next time.