blonde poker forum

(if you ask Mitch nicely I'm sure he'll gladly post the video of me pledging my allegiance to never missing another one)

Just get here quicker fishies. I've been flying the TE flag solo. #theforgottenmemberimo

if im still a member even having left the stable then you are too Titty!

if im still a member even having left the stable then you are too Titty!

Incred bio. Moooooooooore plz.

Keith's more likely to is defo the wrong way around. he always does like 50k of his own money then on of us gets him out of it!

clock of rest of the profiles

Ty for the profile and flattering photo. 
Just like to point out Al that ive never had a losing trip to Vegas (even the one year where I only played roulette!)

Coming soon.... The Nearly Man of Australian Poker

Where r u all staying ? House or hotel ?

moar bio's plz met

Favourite Saying: “……..and 3 hot chicken wings“.

Fucks sake stato!!!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrIIzwMCJn8

love the preflop fistpump. Today's George sure believes he's gonna hold

Introducing next, from Chellaston, Derby, weighing in at allegedly well over 400 pounds...

Andrew ‘Stato_1’ Hulme

Staying:
25th June - July 13th

Bio: Word wizard Hulme, is widely considered the groups best chance of gold. An accomplished MTT grinder, and the one everyone in the team goes to when they have a tricky hand they want an opinion on. For a man so intellectual, his general sense of life skills are poor, once bringing his clothes for a trip dripping wet in a shared suitcase as he'd only ‘got round to’ washing them the night before. Excellent company for a night out, terrible company for a day out, the boy just wont get his lardy arse out of bed. Vegas Karaoke bars beware!

Playing?: This Vegas Virgin will be in every mid stakes MTT going, the ultimate grinding machine!

Claim to Fame: Not a hard one really, everybody has heard the story now, this kid is a anagram assassinator, a number cruncher and a text titan. Holds some geeky boring records on countdown, and can be seen in all his nerdyness is the following you tube clip

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQ_o0WgI8c

Most likely to: take advantage of the unlimited buffets in various hotels. Word on the street is that Stato is watching what he eats. GL with that in Vegas, the food is just too good not to fill your face.

Lil Dave tipped him in his blog earlier on in the year to get some big results, a deep run in the main wouldn't surprise anybody.


Favourite Saying: “……..and 3 hot chicken wings“.

Follow him on Twitter: @stato_1

I'm loving the way this thread has started and will definitely be following your adventures closely.

The very best of luck to all of you.

Some very important information was missed off Georges bio! He's also the leader of an underground dance crew...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AcJphea89E

 :cheers: GOOD TIMES :cheers:

Which one of you owns the cackling girly laugh?

I'm loving the way this thread has started and will definitely be following your adventures closely.

The very best of luck to all of you.

Looking forward to this thread . I think it's gonna b amazing.

 ;karabiner; ;karabiner; ;karabiner;

Good luck guys, may you head out west with your headphones on and win all the gold.

Question: Given that Keith took down Eureka Prague with a hand that is the same as his initials (KJo IIRC) have you guys given any thought as to which poker hand you're looking to take a bracelet down with? Ace high for Stato?

Expect Keys to win with JK, he told me Jack King off was his favourite pastime hand the other day

Good luck all.

sick, what a joke. hopefully it'll all get sorted before you guys arrive. gl

sick, what a joke. hopefully it'll all get sorted before you guys arrive. gl

Ouch. Good luck sorting it fellas.

James Keys
    Had a mare with these apartments. Long story, but am gonna write it down anyway in case I later rely on it in court:

    Pre-arrival: 100% paid up front $2k deposit and $6.8k for the apartments, Wanda emails me to confirm my date of arrival. Says I need to arrive before 5pm if possible. I say I might be cutting it fine if I get held up at immigration/rental car place.

    3.30: Having flown through customs and rented a car I get to the office, Wanda says she wasn't expecting me so early so has some errands to run. I have to go to the bank anyway so do that and return at around..

    4.15: Wanda says she really wasn't expecting me so early, has to run some documents to some place, can I come back at 5:45.


Just knew this blog was going to be epic.Already new and interesting characters have joined the story.
Wanda? What does she look like and how does she talk.Constantine? He won't budge.
7% is that the going rate? And what about neck surgery man? Does he exist and if so will he reappear later in the blog going heads up with Deadman?
Will team Eureka have to smuggle Kirk into the country with a few of his mates to get the deposit back? What will the Vegas lawyer be like and will he cost more than the deposit and how do we know he won't be a colleague of Constantine,the man who will not budge.

All this without a card being dealt. Vegas Baby !

We need pictures as soon as possible.Especially of Wanda. Does she play poker,is she a fish?

    5.45: I return to hear Wanda has great news! Instead of the 2 2bed apartments I asked for, she has got us a 5 bedroom house .... :/ hmmmm. First question "where is it?"
    "Oh it's 7 mins from the Rio"
    "In which direction?"
    "Erm... I'm terrible with street names, just follow me there."
    A 25 min drive across Vegas later, we arrive at a gated community (major cross streets Rainbow & Oakey, 15 mins from the rio AT BEST) to which Wanda doesn't have the gate code. After 5 mins of sitting there waiting, I get out of my car to go tell her not to bother, there's no way we're staying so far from the strip. Wanda says "At least see the house", and after 5-10 more mins wait we finally get the code, from the owner Constantine, who it turns out is in the house cleaning up. The house is only about 90% built and 50% furnished, and has no pool.

    6.15: Now it's 100% clear I won't accept the house substitution, Wanda and Constantine explain that a bloke had neck surgery so hasn't moved out of our apartments. Not sure why he has 2 apartments or why he had neck surgery on the day he was due to leave his apartments but we'll ignore that little plot-hole for now. They say I can have the "penthouse" 3bed apartment in the meridian, and then they will evict Mr Neck Surgery from his apartment tomorrow. I have to wait around for 20mins while Constantine packs up his building+cleaning stuff from the house into a van, then I am to follow him back to the meridian because Wanda has some other people to see.

    6.45: Constantine now changes his mind and Wanda will take me to the meridian as he has to drop off his mate and he doesn't want to waste my time LOL

    7.15: Finally get into meridian apartments, Wanda shows me to the penthouse which turns out to be a construction site, about 50% built and 10% furnished. There are no beds in the apartment at all. At this point I say to Wanda that I am going to check into the palazzo and either they have 2 apartments for me tomorrow AND they reimburse me for the hotel, or they give my $8800 back. Wanda phones Constantine who offers to pay for me to stay in Tuscany Suites for the night ($45) but won't stretch to the palazzo. (Tuscany Suites is an even comparison to meridian apparently.) I explain that as I have paid $6800 for 30 nights I expect a $220 refund for each night where we don't have the apartments. Constantine won't budge, Wanda offers me $100 out of her purse. I turn it down. She admits that "earlier today" one of the owners decided to take his 15 apartments away from their management because they wouldn't lower their 7% fee, and that's why they have no apartments for us. She assures me that there will be some tomorrow though, without explaining how.

    7.45: I check into the Venetian :(

    1st thing tomorrow morning am gonna go round to try and get the $8800 back. Will let you know how it goes. Might have to get a lawyer involved or something. Anyway, will post as soon as I know for sure whether you guys will have to sort your own accommodation. Who's flying when?


^^ Keys a legend for dealing with this, he's the first one there and it sounds like an absolute nightmare! Hopefully it will be sorted
   

What you trying to do Ian? Lol

lol gascoignaments

Business Lunch.

Top class windmilling from Ian there.

Have booked the house/apartment for my Vegas trip the last 3 years and each time I've had to pay up front, something like this was bound to happen eventually. SIGH, MUG.COM. Just paid $50 for an omelette in the venetian as well.

$50 for an omelette FYL - I just had great Joes scramble and a latte with Sian for $20 in Grand Lux. Hope you sort it - has bonuses at Venetian I am in the Canyon Ranch Spa chilling as we speak. See you soon...hope it works out

I knew this blog would be an epic.Before card has been dealt new and interesting characters have emerged.Wanda the startled agent with an obvious problem,Constantine the man who will not budge and of course neck surgery man; is he real?
Financial information like is 7% the going rate and will Hero Stato find a lawyer who will not charge more than the deposit ?
Will Team Eureka have to smuggle Kirk into the country to sort this out? Will Neck surgery man end up playing heads up with Deadman in a later episode.
EPIC READ.
GOOD LUCK HERO STATO.

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That is not a bad idea sir.

FUCKING CONSTANTINES, THEY'RE ALL FULL OF SHIT

Bcareful of GREEK people with that surname! Cos ...... Is that guy related?

U r funny u r Ian! Smuggling mr tattoo into USA
Mr tattoo is on his way stato1, gl boys!

Too Good Jason. wpwpwp

Post more mate. At least until it says jnr member and not probation :)

I'm all good mate hope your all good. You going out to Vegas??

I'm all good mate hope your all good. You going out to Vegas??

Getting to airport on times gonna be closssseeeee!!!!!!!!

ALs beamer confirmed smooth ride for Mitchellina and Benjamin (Dobson).

We're checked in.

Staying in a suite in the Venetian for first few nights till stato arrives.

KURT! (Keith!)

Just had time to read through this thread, had me in stitches, except the accommodation issues (exactly the kind of thing that would happen to me!).

If you've not resolved your accommodation issues, I've got a room at the Wynn available for 6 nts, 3rd to 9th July, as has Mike Hill (Da Bookie).  Will accept £350 for mine (not sure about Mike).

Michelle

Lol. Don't miss a trick

F

Just trying to help!  :)

Selling rooms in Vegas . What A Life

lol Frankie, my new career ain't going too well so far!

that room package u selling , ISIT inclusive U ? u mite sell it better without .....lol

that room package u selling , ISIT inclusive U ? u mite sell it better without .....lol

We're here, checked in at palazzo whilst we try n sort apartments out, which are now ready apparently!

Gonna freshen up, have a dip in the pool n early night ready for the wsop $3k 2moro.

By the way, has that STD cleared up yet?!

Gl in Vegas , hope u bring home some gold , so u don't have to sell the rooms .
C ya when u back in uk. :-)

Updates on them later today Ian!

Update from Simon:

Simon Deadman
made day 2 of the $2500 with 92k going back to 800/1600, 36 left, 13 paid, 94 bags up top..........leggooo

Gl Alex/Mitch anyone else playing today?

Keys has been in contact with the fish called Wanda, shes '100% guaranteed' the rooms will be ready for us to move in at 3pm at Meridian.

Seems weird that yesterday she was saying the rooms were ready to move into then, more bullshit going on somewhere.....
Only problem is that were going to be at the Rio then, so moving all our stuff out the Palazzo, into the boot of James's car until one of us is free to move it all in.

For me the trip starts today, hopefully follow up on the recent British success with some more dangly gold!

Good luck deadman and all

If I were u boys , I will ring kurt now!

Stato not out there yet? Just noticed him on stars now.

Monday.

Personal update.  Arrived at the Venetian to check in and was met by the very polite and capable Dwayne.  Dwayne kindly informed me that even though I was checking into a suite in a 5 star hotel my room would be small and have no view.  Would I like to upgrade for $50 a night, obv I was thinking wtf Dwayne? But trying to keep the pretence that I'm some sort of big dog in front of the girlfriend I submissively agreed to his upsell.
  I arrive at the room and my bag that must have been designed by a failed gnvq design student decides to topple over and crack the large mirror in the room.  We laugh about 7 years bad luck and go to check out the view in the room.  We do indeed have a view in the room now, it is however of other hotel rooms!
We head poolside where I buy a phone off keys for $85.  Apparently phones by the pool are fine, phones in the pool are not :(
Anyway on to a night out where where I lose every flip for 3 taxis, the meal and the drinks. 
So 7 hours in to Vegas I'm $500 and 7 years bad luck down and I haven't gambled a penny yet!

They call the standard rooms there suites for some reason. Must be because you get a sofa on one side of the room lol.

Hey mate baby news?

The posh ones update? Hopefully no news = good bews

Updates on them later today Ian!

Update from Simon:

Simon Deadman
made day 2 of the $2500 with 92k going back to 800/1600, 36 left, 13 paid, 94 bags up top..........leggooo

Me, Simon and Shola played the Venetian deepstack today. Obv only Shola made day two.

It's a great comp, extremely soft field, great structure, $600 buyin and got 350 runners today, with 43k ish ftw. Think it happens most days so definitely gonna play more of those.

I had quite a tilting day - cruising along, built a really big stack, had about 3.5x average. Then lost a big pot with AK vs 92 on A529Q which was annoying. He 3bet me pre as well and I just flatted since we both had over 200bbs. Pretty cold runout.

I busted raising 55 out of 30bbs, einsteins in the blinds peel me with K6cc and J8cc and we get the action fantastic 875ccx board and we get it in for a 3x average pot, and they both turn flushes. And river another club just for rubs! Geeeg.

Lost 1.1k playing cash too, not been a great day!

I did run good in the dinner flip though, getting heads up and winning, meaning I get the buyout money so effectively I got paid $60 to eat! Sigh that it wasn't last nights steak joint! But that's certainly the limit to the run good so far.

No wins anywhere for team_eureka, further hassle with the apartments, the 2nd one is not ready yet and the owners havent answered their phones all day. So between us we have two beds. One set of clean sheets. We have one key to share and the security guards are ridic strict and you have to answer loads of questions before they let you in if you don't have a key. It's beyond tilting.

Seriously considering just going onto the strip and staying in the Wynn or somewhere instead. Quite wanna be on the strip anyway so might just suck it up and flick it in. Wish I wasn't in the hole otherwise would be there already!

Can someone please tell me, pm here or on fb, where I need to go when I arrive tomorrow, have asked a few people but no-one has responded and I'm starting to feel lonely and unwanted

Also Alex/Mitch do you think you could live in Vegas all summer grinding? If not what's the longest u think ud enjoy?

How good are Team Eureka at complaining? The whole apartment thing is a total joke and if you kick off enough i'm sure they'll cave and get you something in return? Have heard stories about people complaining at hotels etc and getting some sick upgrades. Don't just settle once they sort u out, threaten to give them really bad PR

These people are lying scumbags and they literally just do not care. On day 1 I demanded money back so we could organise something else because they just didn't have our apartments and obviously weren't going to have them for a while. They said "ok come back tomorrow we'll have your money", then when it came to it they said they had organised apartments for the next day (day 3) and so I didn't need to get my money back, yay! I said no thanks money back, they said "no we already paid it to the owner you can't have it back." I said "money back or I call a lawyer" and they basically said "ok bring it on".

I wasn't bluffing, I did call a lawyer but he said since his costs are $300/hr it wasn't worth getting him involved to get our $9k back and we should take the apartments they offered, which is the situation we're in now, day 5 of our booking and we have 1 apartment. The lawyer did helpfully recommend some stuff we can do, namely reporting them to the real estate department so they lose their license and taking them to the small claims court, both of which I will be doing.

The whole thing is just ridic stressful tho and has completely ruined my trip. The others are being really good about it but it's definitely dragged down spirits and was v stressful for them before they got here knowing that they didn't have a gtd place to sleep when they arrived. It's extra annoying because I said I'd sort us all a sick place to stay and these ***** have made me look like a right mug.

I don't want to look like I'm shifting the blame here, but if people outed these companies sooner this could have been avoided. I got loads of recommendations about this place last year, basically everyone who stayed here said it was the best thing since sliced bread, 3 mins from venetian, nice modern apartments, quiet pool and pretty cheap. Now all this has blown up I'm hearing stories of people coming back to find the bank has foreclosed on the apartment and changed the locks, deposits going missing for no reason etc. Months ago when I initially went to book this place I contacted Rob Angood who stayed here last year, he got back to me with the details of the agent who sorted him out, so I assumed we had a decent reputable contact. Now it apparently turns out that Rob still hasn't got his deposit back from last year. I thought this was common sense, but since it apparently isn't obvious, if someone ever asks you for contact details for a company and that company has ripped you off, say "steer clear of them, they ripped us off", not "yes mate, here you go".

TILTTTTT


@stato: give me a call when you land, I'll come and pick you up.

What a bag of shit I feel for you guys especially keys !

Take it on the chin and don't let it spoil your trip guys ...c'mon chins up and do some wins

This

Def this. England has let us down, now we look towards TEAM EUREKA! Bring back the GOOOLLLLDDDD

Appoint one member of the team to go into battle with the accommodation issue.Let the rest of the team focus on the comps and winning at cash.Do not let it contaminate morale.You set out as Team Eureka,play to strengths or the cowboys win.So wish I was out there with you.Good luck to you all.

i nominate keef. he grew up on the streets

what are the pro's and cons of appartments vs hotels anyway?

the hotels are definitely there

what are the pro's and cons of appartments vs hotels anyway?

Appoint one member of the team to go into battle with the accommodation issue.Let the rest of the team focus on the comps and winning at cash.Do not let it contaminate morale.You set out as Team Eureka,play to strengths or the cowboys win.So wish I was out there with you.Good luck to you all.

photos and escapdes please

OIOIOI VIVA LAS VEGAS

Made antes tho innit.

Still not been above starting stack in a comp yet.

How many times do you need telling. Get some pics on. Melanie would have been a good start  :)

Are you railing channing ?

How many times do you need telling. Get some pics on. Kara would have been a good start  :)

Are you railing channing ?

fyp

Meh. Been in a lift with her. 7/10

get yourself to the opticians mate!

One of those women who looks better in the flesh than on tele too!

She ain't all that IMO and I would not touch Liv with yours. All a matter of taste I suppose but for me, if you are looking for the best looking woman in poker then you don't have to look any further than Chilli. Having said that one woman who's poo I would use for toothpaste would defo be Jen Tilly, now she comes across as one mucky cow. Matter of taste again mate.

She ain't all that IMO and I would not touch Liv with yours. All a matter of taste I suppose but for me, if you are looking for the best looking woman in poker then you don't have to look any further than Chilli. Having said that one woman who's poo I would use for toothpaste would defo be Jen Tilly, now she comes across as one mucky cow. Matter of taste again mate.

U r  one freaking sick old man!!!

Are any of you are at Binions today? Got $375 for Stato and $300 for Bedi

Ps - if you're not it's worth playing, good fun and will be rammed I guess as NLH at Rio and hi roller at V

think stato/deadman and keys are playing it

R u trying to win the gold yet Neemo?

Trying, but failing at the minute.

Will ship the Wynn main so u can expand chip shop ;-)

What's with the missing 20 bag between Simon and Alex?

MTV Cribs style of The Palazzo balla suite by Team_Eureka

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2oqJRIneo

lolol

(http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc416/cambridgealex/IMG_0221.jpg)

MTV Cribs style of The Palazzo balla suite by Team_Eureka

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2oqJRIneo

MTV Cribs style of The Palazzo balla suite by Team_Eureka

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2oqJRIneo

A+ video..

MOAR 'IN THE LIFES OF' PLS

MTV Cribs style of The Palazzo balla suite by Team_Eureka

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2oqJRIneo

MTV Cribs style of The Palazzo balla suite by Team_Eureka

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2oqJRIneo

Is it mitch on the bed with the money?

What watch do you have?

Good to see that, with his poor run on the felt so far, Mitch has discovered an alternative source of income. Expect that the mask will see the inside of a number of luxury suites in the coming nights.

Is it mitch on the bed with the money?

What watch do you have?

Classic. How Keith doesn't start to laugh when Mitch is on the bed is totally pro. Defo looking forward to the next video. Maybe some pics of you lads at the table?

welcome to Blonde

Post in PHA please - I doubt I'll understand it when you do, but I'm sure others will

'He can never have anything there, just jam it in'.
Cut and paste this for each thread, and you effectively have Simon's input.

Nice update Simon - GL for the Venetian comp.

Simon!!!

Bout fkin time.

Welcome to blonde.

OK so the guys keep telling me I need to start posting on here to let people know what I'm up to and tbh there's no real reason why I don't except the fact that I'm lazy and that I am a mega computer fish and just this post will probably take me about 3 hours :-)

So my trip so far has been good, we arrived last Monday and have been staying in the venetian which is really nice and would stay here again for sure, of course the meridian apartments will be my first choice next year as it seems the lads have had such a nice time there so far ;-)

The poker side of things for me has not quite gone to plan, however I was clever enough to teach my fiance to play poker to the point where she is now teaching me and the poker is going very well for her on this trip so far. She cashed her 2ND comp here, finishing 6Th for $7.2k and has just made day 2 of the Venetian 600 already in the money with 380k, going back at 4k/8k, 37 left and 70k up top. average stack is 230 so in good shape.

I have made two day 2's so far, the 2.5k venetian where I bust 20Th with 13paid and today I played day 2 of the binions $1k after grinding 15-20 bigs for almost the entire comp I got it in pre with  Ks Kh v  Qh Qs on the bubble and lost :-(

Cash games have been good me for, up around $3k ish so far and shola's in profit on the omaha cash too. The games I've played have been really soft and tbh have found them really easy to play, just chilling out and waiting to make hands and get payed everytime because nobody folds in Vegas. Had a really nice 2/5 game tonight, sat with stato on the table too and we were kinda just taking it in turns to extract money from the fish, one drunk customer in particular donating $500 to the table every round or so.

Tomorrow is the venetian $2.2k($500 bounty) which I'm really looking forward too, have high hopes for this comp (even tho I know I'll probably just bust and be on the rail for shola again)

So we got in our Limo and went directly home...

Really enjoying the updates, keep 'em coming.

 ;welcome; to Deadman, hope you'll keep posting mate!

This line here cracked me up. Comedy gold...

Gogogogogogo Shola. Get that wedding paid for.

Awesome result shola well done.

out in 4th for $19.4k... ran  7c 7d into  Ks Kh blind on blind

Shola!!!




 ;kneelsucker;

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Very well done Shola!!!   ;cheerleader; ;applause; ;hattip;

Shola!!!




 ;kneelsucker;

Frank Kassela ‏@fkassela

Million dollar buy-in No Limit Holdem game @ariapoker at $2k/$4kblinds with $8k straddle and theres a list long enough to start 2nd game WTF

Also forgot to mention i've now moved into the apartment with Keys.  Its actually quite nice having a kitchen and being able to unpack my bags.  The only problem i have is that as i was moving in Stato decided to use my toilet.  After he'd been in there for about 20 minutes we did start to wonder until eventually he comes out sheepishly and asks "so anybody know how to unblock a toilet?".  I go into the bathroom to see the toilet overflowing.  In statos own words "well the water wasnt going down so i thought i'd flush it again to try and get some momentum going" (facepalm!).  For somebody so clever I'm constantly amazed by his stupidity.

Shola is playing the ladies main at the rio today and I am at the Venetian $1100. Got a good first table, some guy just cold 4 bet and called off his stack pre with  Aspades 5s and got there against  Ahrt Kc... Pretty funny... Glad he won though. Don't think he'll make level 2!

Lol he just sat there and looked like it was a standard hand.. 150 BB's in with Ace and Five, seems fine ;-)

Also forgot to mention i've now moved into the apartment with Keys.  Its actually quite nice having a kitchen and being able to unpack my bags.  The only problem i have is that as i was moving in Stato decided to use my toilet.  After he'd been in there for about 20 minutes we did start to wonder until eventually he comes out sheepishly and asks "so anybody know how to unblock a toilet?".  I go into the bathroom to see the toilet overflowing.  In statos own words "well the water wasnt going down so i thought i'd flush it again to try and get some momentum going" (facepalm!).  For somebody so clever I'm constantly amazed by his stupidity.
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Sorry Keith. We feel your pain. We spent years trying to add some common sense to that brain. We failed miserably. It was with some relief when we handed him over to you. Good luck.

Mrs Stato itt! <3

Ok you guys will like this one.....
Young guy opens utg and I flat AA next to act because I have so many spazzing behind me who might squeeze, no one does and we go HU to a flop of AKJ rainbow..  He c bets 550, I raise to 1300, he makes it 2500, I make it 4k with 11k back and he shoves with Q5 off..  Up to 30k

The next round I open Aces UTG (yes Aces again) to 375.. 1 call and now same guy who had Q5 makes it 1300 from SB playing 15k total... I just know I'm getting it.. Make it 2800 and he piles with 99, easy game right? Over 45k

Ok you guys will like this one.....
Young guy opens utg and I flat AA next to act because I have so many spazzing behind me who might squeeze, no one does and we go HU to a flop of AKJ rainbow..  He c bets 550, I raise to 1300, he makes it 2500, I make it 4k with 11k back and he shoves with Q5 off..  Up to 30k

Pj whens your flight?

mades day 2 with an average stack of 70k....3rd day 2 of the trip, need to cash something soon! Getting fed up of the 'ur mrs is better than jokes'!!! ;-)

mades day 2 with an average stack of 70k....3rd day 2 of the trip, need to cash something soon! Getting fed up of the 'ur mrs is better than jokes'!!! ;-)

mades day 2 with an average stack of 70k....3rd day 2 of the trip, need to cash something soon! Getting fed up of the 'ur mrs is better than jokes'!!! ;-)

Biiig sigh at reading about your ordeal at Meridian. I wish I'd known people on here were looking to stay there so I could have shared our past experiences.

Bottom line is they would be a good option to stay at if only you could find an agent to deal with who wasn't just the most unreliable waste of space you ever met. I've tried 2 different ones before and both probably as bad as each other. I was dealing with Wanda and Cos (and another guy called Brad who I think got fired for being useless). I can't tell you how many phone calls it took to Wanda last year to get my deposit back and when I did it was a fraction of what it should have been (despite on departure day her thanking us for leaving the place in such good condition). They always seem to get you on "utility usage" which is never made clear. Try not to leave lights/air con etc switched on all day if you are out. I vowed never to stay there again.

That said we rented 3 last year and despite having to get a hotel on the 1st night (we got in at 9pm) we did at least get in the next day although there were obviously lots of small things wrong which took ages to sort out. Things weren't as bad for us as you describe they have been this year

Hope you can/have put this bad start behind you - give me a shout if I can help in any way

Karl

Having a really good time but disastrous day for the boys poker wise. Mitch lost brutal massive pot with 99 vs K9 all in on K957 at cash, and I took a shot at 5/10 which was going pretty well till I got involved in a 6 way pot with 66, the flop was JJ6 and by this time I was already drawing dead vs J6 :(, gg 3.2k pot, Keys lost as well and all but one of us bust the 1k at the Venetian with only Deadman still carrying the flag for tomorrow.

On the plus side playing my first ever WSOP event tomoro, pretty excited even tho I'll have about 4 billion runners to get through!

Fancy putting your trust in someone called Cos. Basic error IMO

rofl so true.

Without turning this into a Pha, played 9d 10d too aggro on Kd 6c 7d in 3way 3bet pot and ended up playing a $7k pot with ten high. Ran it twice vs Ad 4d, and although I turned Th in board one, I got scooped.

I'm not playing the main, and Keith just missed late reg for the one drop. Turned up with a milli in cash as well but was turned away.

How come? Obviously high variance but you could sell a huge chunk at 1.40surely?

Hannah's graduation

Yeh that.

Not really bothered about it now anyway.

Yeh that.

Not really bothered about it now anyway.

Shouldn't be that flippant about it mate. Sure Hannah's worked hard to get her degree

Great story Alex!

I must remember not to try it a third time.

I said he was middle aged

Forgot to mention the other day, but Alex had a spray tan in the Palazzo Spa.

Discussting.

Great story ..li would of strung him along  and got a wad of cash out to get his hopes up !

Didnt lose at poker today! (well kind of)

Played Golden Nugget Grand Finale, made day 2 with 60k, which will be 20 bbs when i go back 2moro.

Stato very excited, made day 2 of the wsop $1500, with good chips ~350 left with $737k ftw. Gl both of us imo.

Love the story Alex, should of kicked him square in the nuts imo.

Love the story Alex, should of kicked him square in the nuts imo.

Quick update from me. Arrived Sunday- played 1/2 at the Venetian and won a 1100 qhich was certainly a nice start. Also grinded cash at caesers in a very swingy game where I was 1k up but booked a small loss on the night.

Comps qise I've played pretty well but lost two biggish flips- JJ vs KQ and 99 vs AK to bust. I'm going bracelet hunting today to play the 1k and I think Alex is joining me. Mitch, Keys and Andy are playing the 2.6 main event and Keith is playing day 2 of the 10k.

Let's go Team Eureka!

Went to see Penn & Teller last night at the Rio with stato n Keith, the rest of the boys were grinding the Venetian 600. Must say it was a massive disappointment. Far too much talking shit, not enough tricks.

To make up for this we tanked up on free drinks as stato took ceasars for a chunk on blackjack. Unfortunatley the pussycat dolls pit was closed so we had to make do with some sour faced stuck up tart to pass us our cards. From there we moved on for a few quiet ones by limo and drank the night away.

Stato, Keys and myself drank one too many and didn't wake up for the Venetian 1600 today, but most of the others have played and are all still in as far as I know. Keith is bocin the 10k 6max. Most of us have a small piece so a deep run would be nice.

Funny moment from last night that Keith will love me sharing...

We're all sat on blackjack n get asked for ID, even Keith, we're all like wtf, look at him!? The croupier puts on her glasses, looks at him and points to the side of his head and says, 'sorry sir, I didn't see that' and immediately passes him his passport back without checking. Keith then insists she checks it anyway, which she half heartedly does for show.

Poker has picked up a bit, decent score in the Nugget 1k, was unlucky short handed but got it in twice on day 2 with pair vs pair and made sets to stay in. Justice. Lol

Wynn main 2moro so the plans to get an early one tonight to be fresh for that.

Down 1200 at 100/200 after opening k9hh from cut off button peels then check jams on q42hh board with a8hh

Hate it when the button check-jams.

Things are looking up!

Day twos for me and George in the WSOP $1k (5500 and 27000 chips respectively, v near the money) and Mitch and Stato in the Wynn Main (both close to average chips, 100 left 25 paid, 150k ftw).

Also, reinforcement to the team arrived today in the form of Neil Giblin, Marc Wright and the one and only Rastafish!

I feel like we're all gonna get out of it over the next few days! Weeeeee

Things are looking up!

Day twos for me and George in the WSOP $1k (5500 and 27000 chips respectively, v near the money) and Mitch and Stato in the Wynn Main (both close to average chips, 100 left 25 paid, 150k ftw).

Also, reinforcement to the team arrived today in the form of Neil Giblin, Marc Wright and the one and only Rastafish!

I feel like we're all gonna get out of it over the next few days! Weeeeee

Alex's fake chip count is on the 1k chip counts page.

And I am down as being German

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-59-no-limit-hold-em/chips.htm

Alex's fake chip count is on the 1k chip counts page.

And I am down as being German

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-59-no-limit-hold-em/chips.htm

Gl Alex, 8th in chips.

Funk for Alex?

Things are looking up!

Day twos for me and George in the WSOP $1k (5500 and 27000 chips respectively, v near the money) and Mitch and Stato in the Wynn Main (both close to average chips, 100 left 25 paid, 150k ftw).

Also, reinforcement to the team arrived today in the form of Neil Giblin, Marc Wright and the one and only Rastafish!

I feel like we're all gonna get out of it over the next few days! Weeeeee

Alex's fake chip count is on the 1k chip counts page.

And I am down as being German

http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-59-no-limit-hold-em/chips.htm

Easy mistake to make
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k19/dino66uk/g2l-1.jpg)

Yeh I have 5500 not 55000, must've been a mistake somewhere.

More pics of nice food and clubs please. Try not to make Mitch look like a dwarf tho

Massively tilting day for me, chipped up steadily all day, and lost AA<KK aipf to have 4x average with 50 left. With the stucture being so good, was still in with a shout after that hand and managed to finish with an average stack, mostly helped by winning AK>AA aipf lateish on. Me n stato drawn on the same table 2moro, could be fun.

Few pics from the last week or so....

Why every time u had ur photos taken , u stick ur head out!!!
Like a giraffe . Mitchhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Meanwhile, George, Keith and I took  a day off from poker (well after that hideous lunchtime session) and spent the afternoon in the spa chilling in the jacuzzi and saunas which was cool, then we chilled out, met up with the others for dinner at Le Cave (awesome restaurant - 2nd visit in a row, probably favourite restaurant out there so far) and then we went to see Peep Show which was pretty entertaining. Enjoyed all the boobies.

George and I about to set off for day two of the 1k, GL to the boys in the Wynn main, big chance of a big score there imo.

This is my last tournament I'm playing, so last chance for a bracelet, last chance to get out of it, last chance for a flagggg!

The trophys are nice

Get the job done lads.

This.

I have to ask, and I'm not having a dig, why did any of you play The Wynn event? I thought it looked horrible.

 I couldn't really understand why anyone played it. It seemed to be absolutely bursting with young internet pros from the UK. I'd venture to say it was as hard as any of the $5k events at the series and it didn't have the sprinkiling of mugs that the bracelet attracts. On top of that it lasted so long (is still lasting) that hourly rate wise it must have been a terrible decision. In that time you could have played three of the $500 Bellagio daily ones with re-entry and a bunch of toursits and seniors or gone to the Rio to play supers that are just getting good and run four times a day.

 Like I say not having a dig, just wondering. There seemed a lot of really bright people at The Wynn.

^^^^^^^^^^
Frankie. Trying hard with rubz

Mitch about 170k, Stato about 80k @ 2k/5k.
Still 22 left, average 330k.

Bedi has the lot. As in, the fucking lot!

350k avg 100 with 130left.

I'm humbly grinding away with 60k at 1500/3000.

Mitch doubled up in Wynn thing too.

Last minute get out for the boys?

I have to ask, and I'm not having a dig, why did any of you play The Wynn event? I thought it looked horrible.

 I couldn't really understand why anyone played it. It seemed to be absolutely bursting with young internet pros from the UK. I'd venture to say it was as hard as any of the $5k events at the series and it didn't have the sprinkiling of mugs that the bracelet attracts. On top of that it lasted so long (is still lasting) that hourly rate wise it must have been a terrible decision. In that time you could have played three of the $500 Bellagio daily ones with re-entry and a bunch of toursits and seniors or gone to the Rio to play supers that are just getting good and run four times a day.

 Like I say not having a dig, just wondering. There seemed a lot of really bright people at The Wynn.

Friggin heck.Well done to Mitch.I feel as if I am in this,if only 50%. :-( whoops , 5%.
You will be far the best player left in the comp.Ship it !

Good luck to Mitch and George tomorow.. Hopefully a good day for the team! I made my 4th day 2 of the trip... Surely I can get at least 1 cash before the main..  Got just below average wiv 60ish left in the Venetian $1100

Friggin heck.Well done to Mitch.I feel as if I am in this,if only 50%. :-( whoops , 5%.
You will be far the best player left in the comp.Ship it !

Pob Lwc yn y byd :)up

Byddwn yn hoffi gallu siarad Cymraeg.

Understandable mistake to make re: the % given the amount you have donated to Mitch over the years...

Have you met jarred for coffee yet?

Best of lucky to George & Mitch today.

Oh and keep tweeting to, nice to follow that way

Mitch's is @Mitch_Johnson8

Lunch break with 8 left. 15k locked up. 17 bbs when we go back.

No updates from the rest of the team - we're all engaged elsewhere on the casino floor.

Those free beverages they give out for playing the table games cost a grand!

Tough spot for Mitch earlier... 60 minute dinner break, 55 minutes in and his Beef in Black Bean Sauce hasn't arrived.
Pretty margInal decision IMO, but our hero showed some heart and waited for his meal, and risked losing a few BB's.

Was there really going to be any other outcome?

I've just temporarily lost my mind on the casino floor...Been getting smashed all day and despite being up $1.5k on the day, have done most of that back. Wheel of fortune is a mugs game. As is roulette. Blackjack ftw though, must be a big winner on the trip from that.

Realised I was losing my mind, so snap got up and went back to my hotel room to sober up.

Gonna get on it again soon but not in a casino. Might have to find some sort of club that serves alcohol and opens during daylight hours.

Mitch 7th for 20k. Were going to get smashed now. Inabit

Well played to Mitch.4 day comp,food must have been good.Over here it was fun watching Frankie running around DTD railing you.

Kinda sick when you have say unlucky to someone who just won $20K :(

Get it all next time instead :)

Chilling with the old man today. Gonna buy into the main and play the 125 at aria to see if my dad can maintain his 100% record of poker wins in Vegas.  So pumped for the the main event. Hope at least one of our group has a deep run.

First break
Me 40k
Shola 31k
Stato 26k
Mitch 19k
Didn't see the others

My exit hand was pretty painful.

Juan marceris, who was somehow a stars pro bust me.

I had 29k at the start of the hand. Ep opens to 750 at 150/300. I flat  Th Td marceris makes it 2200 we both call.

Flop is  Qh Ts 9d. We check to marceris who decides betting 17k into 7k is the best play here. Raiser fold I jam he calls with dem aces.

Turn  Kc river  Jh

My exit hand was pretty painful.

Juan marceris, who was somehow a stars pro bust me.

I had 29k at the start of the hand. Ep opens to 750 at 150/300. I flat  Th Td marceris makes it 2200 we both call.

Flop is  Qh Ts 9d. We check to marceris who decides betting 17k into 7k is the best play here. Raiser fold I jam he calls with dem aces.

Turn  Kc river  Jh

been asked to update got 30k end of lvl 6 shit table no cards fun times

Who asked?

gl bud

If I win big I'll get u a nose job cos

50k you bringing me luck ling