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Hey all,

Quite a few people have asked me to create a Vegas blog to keep everyone updated on whats going on while im here for the 22 days so will try to keep this going, especially now as I actually have the internet in my room.

Well, I set off yesterday from home after seeing the family for a few days and got dropped off at Gatwick at 7 am.  Went to the check in desk and was met by a very pleasent young lady and after a bit of charm and pleasentaries I managed to nfind myself with a free upgrade. Weeeeeee running good and the trip hadnt even started.  Went for a regulation breakfast and got on the plane and was very happy to see a seperated chair and ample leg room.  Not only that but the food was actually fresh and included a Smoked Salmon salad which was awesome.

I flew into Philli where I was expecting a 6 hour connectio delay until they managed to get me on an earlier flight so only had a 4 hour stop.  Cue trading on the Querrey vs Cilic game at Wimbledon and the USa vs Spain confedarations cup game from some airport Bar Philli.  Managed to win enough to cover the flights so was a happy bunny.  Eventually got to Vegas at around 9 pm and was shattered.  Checked into the room and was quite happy with the room seeing as I had herd one or two bad things about the Flamingo.  After a quick shower I decided to head straight to the Rio to buy in to the $3k triple chance on Sunday and the Main Event and saw flushy in one of the comps.  Bless him constantly looking around for camera's and his railers, neither were anywhere to be seen.  I had a quick chat and was pleased to hear he was already in the money and had Matusow in his pocket ;)  Managed to grab an early night last night after winning $1k on the blackjack when I got back to the Flamingo.

Wondered down to Caesers today for their $340 deepstack and boy is it soft.  I actually saw a guy limp, shove for 17k at 300/600/50 after a raise to 1900 that had received a caller.  The caller then called the all in.  I complimented him on trapping well until he flipped over  Js Ts and saw the limp shover had  Kc Tc.  Hmmmmmmm wp boys.  Structure gave us 15k stack on a 50 min clock and was actually very enjoyable and incredibly soft.  Sadly I got all my money in with  Ad 8d on a  Ac 5d 4d flop vs someone who had flatted me pre with  Aspades 4s and I sure didnt get there.

Have wondered back to the hotel room now and eventually managed to get the Internet in my room.  Will probably wonder up to the Rio tonigth to raid all the freebies from Full Tilt, and will then have a chilled out cash session somewhere tonight.

uh?

Sure didn't = a double negative = a double up in this spot.

If you lost you should have said- I sure did get there.

BTW thanks for messaging me champ- nice to know you landed safe!!!

And stop luckboxing it now- save it for the main event!!!

sure is actually a negative statement Neil.

I sure won = I lost

I sure got there = How the fuck did I miss?

You get the idea.

gl...good diary. Keep it up and ship the lot pls.

Lol, a great start to the blog. Looking forward to this. Good luck.

Looking forward to the diary Neil.

Just because you are in Vegas though, that does not excuse you from updating the daily Wimbledon tips thread.

Without your tennis tips I may have to rely on Barry's dog tips to make a living.

Opportunity for you here Chris........

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=42712.msg995942#new

Is this some kind of teleportation skill? Why did you bother getting a flight to Vegas, couldn't you have just 'wondered' your way there? :P

Sad news is I cant bet on betfair while in Vegas, against their rules so ive lost a bit of interest in it sadly.  So I phoned them and asked what I could do and they said nothing.  I asked if I could phone up and place a bet ovr the phone and he said, I can now but not when I arrive in Vegas.  Hmmmmmmmmm I asked how he could tell where I was and he said from the dialing code.  That obviously worked seeing as I called him my mobile in the hotel room in Vegas.

Sure does make it impossible to trade IR.
You could always find a putter-onner if you just want to back something but otherwise you're struggling. You can't even read stuff on certain forums.

wow- why don't they allow you to trade in Vegas???

Im absoutly gutted, especially seeing as a major darts comp is here in two weeks.  Had visions of me traing from the crowd and having a 5 sec advantage on everyone trading in the Uk.  Bye bye dreams of being a millionaire :(

On a better note I went to play the 2/5 game at MGM last night and its a nice mix of soft and solid players.  Got chatting to a young local pro who told me that the $1500 limit shootout today is the softest bracelet event there is and I should play it.  I agreed I would if I made $1500 at the cash that night.  After a nice heater im now playing the shootout event in 4 hours time after making $1750 in the session.  Yes im free rolling it but the problem I dont actually know the rules of limit poker.  Oh well will be comical to play and I only have to beat 9 others apparently and then another 9 and then im final table.

Off to chill by the pool for a couple of hours and then going Bracelet hunting, weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Betfair dont have an American agreement and License set up apparently

Cliff notes:

- first two streets are bet at lower limit (pre flop and flop)
-turn and river at higher limits

So (i think this is right)

If blinds are 25/50 you can bet 50 and only 50 pre and on the flop

You can bet 100 and only 100 on turn and river

Betting is capped on the forth bet on each street

Well if I dont win ill find Cliff and have words with him

Good luck Blatch! Bring home some bling :)

I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain if your HU there is no cap on the betting.

Dunno bout HU! Knowing Neil he will need to know the rules HU ;)

Yes thats true.  Also 3 bet a lot from the button and co and avoid being 3 bet by other ppl when they are in the btn and co and ul do fine.

Three rules for winning at LHE

1. Isolate
2. Isolate
3. Isolate

I started my poker life as a limit holdem player and that's the one bit of advice I'd give if nothing else. Applies particularly against the fishy players obv.

Good luck Neil, I really hope you ship something but if not have a great time.

(you may know me as WASP)

gl blatch, prolly get a lesson on limit dude!

Sadly im back in my room now and basically what vsick fuck invented limit "poker", or should it be called Limit "Who hits the most cards"?

I did actually really enjoy it and I think I had a pretty soft table really.  There were 540 registered and so we played 8 or 9 handed with 64 going through and all 64 cashing for $4.3k.  I busted in 3rd and think with a bit more experience of limit I would have won it.  I made some schoolboy errors in the early levels that I managed to work out by about level 3 or so.  What I really enjoyed was trying to figure out a new game and improving on my errors.

I staretd off in the first level playing a few small pots and started off well getting up to 5k after 15 misn from a 4.5k hand.  I then had Aces busted by a flush draw chaser which got there on the river.  I then found 77 in the cut off and raised, got re raised by a tight player on the button, I flatted after a call in the BB too.  I loved the 7 flopping and check called a bet from the button.  The gorgeous case 7 then popped up on the turn and I checked raised and still pick up two callers.  A flush draw filled on the river and I led into the Button and still got 2 callers. 

Would limit players check raise there??

Going into the final 5 I had 7k or so and was 3rd in chips when the problem hand came.  I raised with 10 5 on button and got called in the SB.  I managed to flop an up n down straight flush draw flush draw and got looked up by 33 all the way including the river.  Pretty sick and frustrating having 3 million outs and not hitting one.  Sadly that hand left me with 50 chips with blinds at 300/600.  I did then win the next 3 hands, with 55, then Q8 twice, first floipping two pair and then next top pair.  Sadly my J5 on a J high flop was no good against KJ.

All in all a very entertaining comp but doubt ill ever play it out unless it is the shootout next year.

Off to bed now as a chilled day tomorrow before my first big comp of the $3k triple chance on Sunday.  Also the sky poker crew arrive here tomorrow and they want to do a lot of filming of me in Vegas and at the tables so I may have to get some of that done too.


Oh yeah .... almost forgot!!  Went to pick up my Full Tilt stuff and got a hat, one shirt, one top thingy and a t shirt and thats it.  Wasnt overly happy really and the stuff really isnt that good either but oh well.

Good news is I saw Steve Jelenik at the Omaha High Low and is he down to the final 22 and going well.  He told me the only pot he had won in the last 4 hours was against Hellmuth and while he was scooping the chips Hellmuth went to town until the guy next to Steve gave Hellmuth the rub down :)

Enjoying the write ups, Keep um up and good luck out there.

Jelly neck 5/10 atm.

jsut mask ur IP address

tried that and stil doesnt work

Apologies if I'm being thick here but what is the triple-chance ?

Same as a normal double chance but you get a third go as well.

You start with 3k in chips and everyone is entitled to another two lots of 3k in chips at any point in the first two levels.  If you havent taken them by the end of the 2nd level you have to take them then.  Basically a 9k freezeout but its up to you when you get all your chips.

Forgot to mention something I foudn very funny yesterday.

During the break in the shootuout I went into the Full Tilt private lounge to see what it was like and grab some food.  As I walked in I sawq John Juanda sitting down on the sofas talking to someone and he didnt look too happy, then as I walked round the corner there was a table of the top pro's from Full tilt.  A huge buffet of fresh fruit was next to them and I overheard their conversation as I was at the buffet.  Gus Hansen was moaning about some guy, who is apparently an awful razz player and fished out on him in the HORSE event.  Chris Ferguson, John Juanda and Andy Bloch all then started saying how this guy had really pissed them off and they all started relaying bad beat stories.  I found it quite amusing that even at the highest level they still moan about their bad beats during the breaks from their comps :)

Neil can't you just get someone you trust to do your trading for you?

I thought about being on the phone to someone while im at the darts but no one I know well understands betfair to trade quickly enough or fully understands.  Shame as a 5 second advantge could make me £100k in a week possibly with the darts.

Cant you just use a proxy of some sort?

You must be ridic multai now if you can afford to miss out on a free 100k! Can't you just explain it all to George or someone?

George would be far too busy working on J,T, 9, 8 and 7...

Maybe George was a bad example but he's the only friend Neil has

Great blog kep up the good work.

:)

Sadly not, betfair have all the info they need to trace evrything liek that

Well I was going to "chill" today in the 102 degree heat by the pool but when I got there at around 11.45 am I found that virtually every one of the 1020 sun beds was taken and there was literally no standing room in the pool either.  Was quite a sight seeing the place so busy.  Off i trotted to the MGM to play the 2/5 game and walked away with a $1200 profit which was nice.  Although one hand really made me chuckle: -

I raised with  4s 6s to $20 and got 4 callers, pretty standard.

Flop of       2s 5h 7s, some guy leads into me for $45, I raise to $185 and he ships for another $90 on top. 

I sure got there and he flips  Ahrt Ks for no hand no draw really but is sadly good and makes me wonder just how many outs I actually needed against him.

Just been up to the Rio to check how the $1500 is going and sadly there is 520 left and I couldnt see any Shrewdies, Blackbelt team, Julian and Trick left but I could only see about half the tables.

Early night tonight before the $3k triple chance tomorrow.

Hi i hear you on the Flamingo pool, we heard it was superb and was goner stay there for that reason, long story but we didn't in the end.

We went to have a look to see what we were missing and the answer was nothing.  It was choc-a-block and looked like  a scene from a 18-30 beach party.  Ok if you like that kind of thing i suppose :)

Gl in the triple chance.... 4s 6s FTW always

Well not the greatest of days today but still very enjoyable.

Woke up at 9 by the maids and then eventually got up at 10.30 so I could grab some brekkie from the full tilt room before the comp at 12.  Went down to the taxi place to get a ride up to the rio to see a huge cue, forgot it was sunday and looks were checking out.  So was forced into getting a Limo for $40 as wouldnt arrive in time.  So off I went in the limo in my Full Tilt gear.  Pulled up at the rio at the Poker entrance and was greated by some little Chinese kid who asked for my autograph.  I didnt have the heart to tell him I wasnt a pro so I signed away and off he ran to his Dad saying "I got it".  Bless :)

Got my to my table and was pretty happy with it.  Table was very soft apart from a Stars pro in seat one and Mr O'Dea to my left.  After a round of the button one guy had shown to be an idiot so I targeted him and about a round later I managed to get 3 streets of value out of him with JJ on a 10 high board.  Then Layne Flack came to sit in seat 10, two to my left.  First hand he flopped a set and then within one round he then had AA, KK and AK and got action everytime. 

I got the first break with around 11k from the 9k start and had started to work most of the table out.  I then got in a hand with Flack, with it folded round to me on the button I raised with A3 off.  Flack flatted and check the ace high flop with 2 diamonds, I checked behind.  Blank on the turn saw me get check raised which I called and Flack led for 2k on the river when the flush draw filled up.  I called and he mucked so was no sitting pretty with around 19k.

About a round later an active player raised UTG to 550, I flatted with  4h 5h and the stars pro flatted on the button.  Board came   2s 3h Jh HELLO!!!!  UTG led for 825, I flatted, BUtton pumped to 4150, UTG folded and I shoved for 19K.  Button had me covered by 1k and reluctantly called.  He flipped  Ahrt Qh to kill most of my outs but I was happy to see any 4 or 5 werre good too.  Quenn came on the river to leave me thin and blank on the river to leave me out.  Sadly a 40k didnt go my way when the average was around 12k.  Maybe I could have played it differently but im surprised he raised with the flush into a UTG bet and a flat.

I have registed for the $1500 tomorrow after Channing telling me just how soft it was.

On British news Karl, Richie Allen and Stu Rutter all seemed to be going well in the $3k triple chance and one of the blackbelt team was deep in the $1500 from Saturday.

I met up with Tikay and the sky team earlier and they want to start there filming tomorrow so could be an interesting day.

LOL at this, there's always the walking option no? 15-20 minutes tops.

PM sent

Dont be sooooooooo stupid

Quick walk to Paris, free shuttle to Rio FTW (I'm so not ballla :) )

Went to play the $1500 yesterday after recommendation from Channing on just how soft it is.  Got up there a little early and did a quick interview with Sky Poker and had a quick bite to eat.  Again managed to get a great table without any good players until after 10 mins had gone a certain Mr J C Tran turned up.  One of the young kids from California went mental as he was apparently his hero.  Was  a tad annoying with the constant questions especially when every other word was homie.

I managed to last 1 level and 8 minutes before going busto.  Cost me half my stack to get away from AK on a ace high board when JC turned two pair with AJ and then lost the rest blind on blind with JJ vs AK soooooooted, with an ace popping up on the river.  So wasnt overly happy with the way things went.  Went back to the hotel and met up with Julian Thew to buy some $$ and to have a few beers.  Oh yeah thats a good point - you may have want to get a bet on me winning the main event.  I have now bought in using Thew $'s - surely I cant lose it now?!?!

Went for a few beers in the Venetian and was joined by Simon "Fountain of all knowledge in Vegas" Galloway.  Had some very amusing stories and enlighting tips for in Vegas.  Julian got word from Kevin O'Leary and good lady were popping down whilst on there break from the Ceasers comp, with both of them flying.  Sounded like Kevin was angle shooting in every possible way and all sounded incredibly funny.  After they went back to hopefully chop it we ended up going for a meal downtown at a fantastic steak house.  Simon gets recognised from 18 months ago but one of the wine waiters and duely gets told a handful of appauling bad jokes before the most incredible seafood started and steak arrived.  Julian was determined to eat a whole steak - something apparently thats never been accomplished before, so obviously he had a starter and then quite a chunky salad.  The salad went back to kitchen after about 2 mouthfulls and well lets just say after Simon, his wife and myself has a slice of Julains Steak there was still enough there to feed half of Ethiopia.

Jeff Kimber, Karl M and Paul Jackson all strolled in as we were sat down which kind of gave us the clue that none of them had too well in the $1500 event either sadly.  After a great meal were managed to spin up a bit on the craps table before myself and Julian forcing SImon to shove it all in one one spin, hmmmmm apparently 7 isnt a good number GG craps.

Mate which day are you playing of the main event and why?

Who would you say is the best known player you've played out there? Who is the worst?

Will you bring me back a souvenir?

Good posy lol

hugo's cellar & v nice it was too.
the sommelier from leeds knew his stuff & we had a great red.
as for that steak, yes i was well & truly beaten...kinda wished i got the rest to go once i got back to my room ;popcorn;

james keys is doin well in the 1500 from saturday i think. double average chips with 100 or so left. james keys from the blackbelt poker team

Registered today for day 1a.  Its the day before independance day and im guessing all the yanks will play that day so they can celebrate July 4th properly.

Best player was JC Tran, he had such a good presence at the table and run over the table for my brief stay.

Possibly - if I dont go broke.  Hopefully ill get you a first class flight out in November to watch me on final table ;)

U alright Blatch?

Yeah im good just had a mad couple of days really.

Met up with a load of boys from a different forum - please dont kill me.  Had a really good night out with them after visiting quite a few bars where Ive never been before.  Thats one of the things I really like about Vegas; this is my 3rd time here and still going to different places that are so different to other places on the strip.  Went to bars including Hard Rock at Imperial Palace, a sports bar at Plant Hollywood called Blondies and went for a fabulous steak at a steakhouse in ballys I think.

Had a really chilled day yesterday as its main event today.  Chilled by the pool till around 3 or so, played cash till 6 and then ordered room service and watched CIS and went to bed around 11 so I was really ready for today.  Im gonna jump in the shower now and head ofd for day 1 of the WSOP main event and hopefully have a good update to do later on tonight for you all.

GL me and my stakers :)

gl buddy

gl blatch

Neil about to pm you.

Besf of luck mate!

good luck in vegas mate, will be thinkin about u while at dtd this weekend, sounds like i fancy u, lol , but if u see kevs tan...........wow!!!!

dude gl- win mad dimes!!!!

GLGL

He's seen it before Mike, and the white bits....;)

pmsl kev, we know u and neil are close............ but really that close?

Blondies is hevaen when there is a big game on.

Still in Champ? Update?

Why don't u text me anymore? Too famous for me?  :'(

I know Neil got his aces busted, I don't know any more than that

Funny that- whenever Neil busts he had aces.... ;)

I busted out late last night about 15 mins from the end of the day and was in such a bad mood last night I didnt bother doing the report.  I was meant to be playing the Venetian 1k today but was feling to rough when I woke so went back to bed.

Got to the Rio at around 11.30 and the buzz was already amazing, went into the Full Tilt room again for some breakfast and was obviously a lot more busy this time than normal.  Got to my table and didnt recognise anyone but I tend to sterotype people.  The guy to my right seemed a seasoned tour compaigner, I had Tony G's best mate to my left who came 14th in the horse event apparently and had an Internet kid in seat 9 (I was in seat 3).  The rest was a bit of mix but was quite happy with the table from first look.  Steve Jelinek was on a table 3 to my left, John Conroy was on the table next to me and he had Phil Laak to his left, so had a quick chat with them before we started.  Shane Warne was on the table behind Laak's so we had quite a crowd constantly around us, which made the atnosphere that bit better.

My plan for the day was to take things slow and literally make day two and then go from there.  So after 3 rounds and then young kid in seat 9 nicking my blind every time when folded round I took a stance.  He raised with J9 I flatted with 67 and the board came 899, I sure got there so there went 4k in chips trying to bluff on the river.  I didnt really do much after this apart from the occasional open and continuation bet which seemed to work most of the time.  Then came my first real problem hand of the day.  I raised with  Ac 5s to 550 at 100/200 and got flatted to my left and by the only idiot at the table in the BB.  By this time the guy to my left had around 90k after hitting set over set twice and people not being able to fold.  Flop came down  Aspades 5c 7c, BB leads into me so I thought this was a perfect spot to build a big pot ashe had led out with weak aces and flush draws previously in the day.  He led for 1250 so I pumped to 3325 to try to isloate this guy and play from there.  Sadly the dude to my left flatted which I thought was very strange.  I was expecting either a re re raise or a fold.  The BB makes up and the 3 of us see the turn with over 12k in the middle.  Turn is the  6h which I really couldnt see helping anyone and the BB leads for 5k, around 40% of the pot.  This confused me a bit so I decided to peel in postion and then the guy to my left shoves the lot.  BB calls after thinking leaving 5k behind and im forced to fold.  BB flips 77 for the set and other guy flips  8c 9c for the gutshot straight flush which got there.

So im now down to around 14k out of my 30k stack and feeling a tad pissed off.  Thankfully the break came so I get myself together a bit.  After the break seat 9 raised again and I flat on the button with JJ and we managed to get it in on a  Ad Js 3d board with him tabling AK, King pops on the turn to make me sweat but after the blank on the river im scopping almost back to ym starting stack.

I then went on a really cold session, nothing playable, people three betting pre constantly, especially out o the BB and without me seeing anything im peeling occasionally with SC and not getting anywhere.  After 3 hours of this im down to around 9k and getting quite down, im keep trying to grind it out thinking something will come along and it did but boy did I play it badly.  Seat 9 raises, a new, very tight Spanish lad flats in seat 1 and I flat on the button with JJ, three of us see the flop of  3h 7h Js.  Seat 9 checks and after continuation betting about 90% of the time, seat 1 fires out a 2/3 of the pot bet and I flat for some stupid reason expecting a re pump from the OR.  Sadly OR folds and we see  Ahrt come on the turn which is gonna kill all my action.  I get checked to and so I fire a very weak 1/3 of the pot and around 40% of my stack in the middle which duly gets flatted, blak on the turn I shove after being checked to and he flips 33 and says I cant call.  Why I didnt raise the flop I dont know!!

Anyway the hand puts me up to around 16k again and im feeling a bit better, I then pick up 3k more with two raises and coninutation bets that get through and then comes my exit hand.  Im starting to feel good and find AA UTG.  Ive had them twice before today, both UTG and got no action.  I raise to 900 at 150/300/25 and pick up 4 callers.  Praying for a safe board I get one im fairly happy with in  Qd 7d  4s and fire out a bet of 2/3 out the pot (2375) and then get raised by UTG +2 to 5725.  Everyone folds round to me and I ummmm and are a bit as he has been quite a tight player and decide this is my spot really to double up and get back in the tourney properly.  I raise leaving myself 300 behind, so another 12k or so and think for eternity before calling with  6d 3d and obviously hits on the turn.  I couldnt fin myself to fold for the 300 remianing and im prety gutted as I felt that one hand would have been perfect to leave me on a high after quite a brutal day at the tables.

Afterwards I went for a wonder in the Rio and had a quick look in the shops and ended up bying some fantastic poker art work from a guy called Michal Goddard, you guys should google him and look at some of the stuff.  Im not relly an arty person by this stuff is awesome.  Prob gonna be a quiet week for me now with a few comps dotted here and there at the Venetian before the main event at Ceasers.

Cracking read, this whole topic and shows what you can learn in the game, life and how to take some beats with class.

GL for the rest of your trip!

Ha i collect Goddard Rio gallery is a joke but he has his own one in the miracle mile at PH, guy is the nuts does loads of cool stuff hardly any of it poker though!

U saying I should go to PH instead then?

There is one or two poker themed but most obviosuly casino general stuff but its all awesome.

Was gonna get 2 AP's, 2 S+N and 1 Print

from Memory: -

Pocket Rockets
Praying for 7
Stacked Burn
19th Hole
and 1 more which I cant remember

Cant look at the moment but if you do buy go to the PH one service is far superior and you can usually wangle something extra.

Cheers

If you do can you find out how many 'Card Shark' they have left plz, cheers!

Well its been a pretty uneventful few days really.  So much so that I didnt even leave my hotel room for 2 days.  I have felt so ill its been untrue, I havent eaten for 36 hours and then yesterday I had a plate oif fruit and water.  Just felt really dizzy and fluey all day so that was great.  I had to put up with 6 hours of ESPN highlights of the world series from last year, re run of wimbledon final, independance day and men in black.  Today felt a bit better so decided to take it easy and see how things went for me.  I wondered down to the taxi place to head to the MGM to collect on a Federer bet (never in doubt) and when I got to the taxi queue there was a group of 8 girls argueing about which taxi to get in.  Anyway, once these 8 girls has sorted this out some guy got in a taxi he shouldnt have which meant my taxi driver was put one place back in the queue.  I jumped in the taxi and off we went .... or so I thought.  The driver pulled over after 3 yards to talk to the bell boy and decided to call him a prick for letting people jumping the queue.  So after bell boy has a go back I have a bell boy and my taxi driver squaring up to each other.  Im sitting there smiling and eventually I get taken to MGM with constant stories of why he was so out of order.

I get to MGM, collect on my bet and ask for a 2/5 game and sit at a 1/2 game to kill time.  After 30 mins im $40 up and this young ish kid who apparently use to play for Leicester city in the late 80's comes sits down who really fancies himself.  I happily take $400 off him in half hour, of which $200 was with a hero call.  I then constantly get the "What a bad call" and "all those chips will be here in 30 mins" type comments to which I make a very unsubtle gesture at the cash desk to get them to take me off the 2/5 game list as ill make plenty on the 1/2 with this idiot.  Everyon found it very funny except this guy who ended up doing $1k at a 1/2 game.  So anyway, comes to around 6.30pm and im feeling good and more importantly feeling quite good in myself so I headed up the 7pm evening comp at the Venetian.  256 runnes for $120 each and I ended up taking the majority in a 5 way chop.  Ended up taking $4k for the result and boy was it a crapshoot.  With 56 players left average chips was 34k with blinds at 1.5k/3k/300 and I had 175k. 

Sadly I then proceeded to double people up left right and centre until two people limped on my blind and i shoved with 84 off and got called by kk and spiked runner runner straight.  You can imagine how the american took that one!!!  On final table i had 750k at peak of 1.9M in play and then lost 3 back to back 45/55 and decided to take a chop giving me the majority.

So what could have been a very boring day in bed again turned into my first cash in a tourney this trip and around a $5k profit on the day.

Blatch, do you ever lose?!

No.

+1

Whats the point in losing?

I dont like losing and dont take it well so generally I try to avoid it at all costs.

There does tend to be a general consesus that I run very well as well ;)

Nice result mate!

Please let me run like you one day ;)

Agreed LOL

After 30 mins im $40 up and this young ish kid who apparently use to play for Leicester city in the late 80's comes sits down who really fancies himself.


Name please

How young can he be if he played for leicester 20 years ago?!

I really couldnt remember to be honest but he said he went on to play for a few states teams before knee ops destoryed his carear.  He certainly knew all the names of the old Leicester side though.

Anyone with knowledge would know his name and I may remember

Went down to Ceasers today for there 1k main event and basically: -

Sadly backers no joy.

Sat down at a very soft table without any really good players and things were going great.  I managed to flop an early set and get a decent start before chassing two flush draws and missing both apart from that was quite a quiet start for me.  First break im on 55k from 50k start.  First hand back guy raises UTG +1 to 1800 at 300/600 and I flat with  8h 8s next nexts to me, a card runner blogger. bumps it to 4100, OR calls and I call too.  Flops brings  9h 8d 4h, checked to me, I bet 10.2k, guy next to me flats and UTG +1 folds.  Turn brings  Jh and I shove pretty certainn he has aces and he snaps me off and flips his aces.  Nice double up to 110k.

I then re raise twice in next two round to hit a peak of 119k with average of around 62k and then sadly the wheels came off.  I raise with KK get no action, very next hand get QQ and get check shoved on bu a short stack on a King high flop with 2 hearts.  I make the call knowing he is on the draw and the sicko calls in the  Ac to get there with his nut flush draw.  Not too bad as still have 92k ish.  The flop set over and down to 72k, could have done more but guy made it so obvious he has top set.  Next I chase down a flush draw on two streets and obviously miss getting a huge price on both streets, down to 50k, then walk AJ into a short stacks AQ.

At this point im down to around 38k or so and starting to get a tad annoyed with todays events.  Eventually I end up shoving on someone is opening too much with  Kd Qd and he obviously snaps with 55 and obviously holds.

GG Ceasers.


On a lighter note was good to meet up with Sunny again and grabbed a quick bite to eat with him during the dinner break.  Also met up with Eck after he landed 2 hours previous, and he's got me to join up with him in the Dream Team Poker thing at the rio.  Not too sure what it is about but its at the weekend and costing $500 so hopefully should be a good weekend.

Probably gonna play the venetian tomorrow now that im feeling better and gonna see if I can win a Satty to get me a $5k seat to their grand final.

Good to meet you Neil, I had a look at that prop bet thread comical. Good luck for the rest of the trip mate, win mad ones!

and u mate, always nice to put a name to a forum post

Last nigth I went for a uiet nioght at the 2/5 at MGM again and went with the thought of leaving early so I could get up and play the 550 at Venetian.  Well I left $2.5k up but not will 6 am and therefore slept through till 4 pm, oh well not to worry with the venetian.  One hand stood out for me: -

Been straddled and over active player raises to 50, guy who has been going at it with him all night flats; standard, I flat with 88 and straddle calls too, so 207 in the pot.  Flops comes 872 rainbow.  Over active guy goes all in for around 500, next guy snap calls for 450 off it, I find it in me somehow to call and the straddle who had checked folds 22 face up.  9 on turn and J on river, sees me scooping the lot vs AA and KK.  Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Got up today a tad late but still went down to the venetian and caught up with Julian who was struggling but still in at the late stages, also caught up with Rich Hawes.  He made the blackbelt team and was good to catch up with him as havent seen many of the blackbelt guys since ive been here.  I then decided that I would give 5/10 a go at the venetian.  I was actually a little nervous as i had never played that high stakes before and for me it seemed a little daunting but I had found the 2/5 very soft so far so wanted to see what it was like.  Well, lets just say, its as soft as the 2/5.  I sat down with 2900 and after 5 hours play walked way 1300 up without really playing too much.  I played pretty much ABC stuff, raised in posistion and continuation bet most fo time and took most of pots down pretty easy.  Was only in two tough spots throughout the night and for something that I thought was going to be full of good players, I was a little surprised.

I think thats the real difference between back home and Vegas.  The average and bad player in Vegas will play for much bigger stakes than they will back home.  Seriously, I have seen better and more knowledgable players playing 50p/£1 at DTD than the 2/5 and some 5/10 players over here.

Ive just registered for the $550 at Venetian tomorrow so will be up early for that and will hopefully get a result; if not well ill be back on the 5/10 game.

One comical thing from tonight; I saw Eck and Steph playing the 2/5 game at Venetian.  I have agreed to play the dream team poker with them.  As I wondering out the game I went over for a quick chat and got to the table as Steph has made a $20 raise and Eck was counting out a $100 re raise, and I dont think Eck saw me.  Steph and I had a quick chat while Eck was counting his chips for the raise and Steph told me he has aces, he was gonna ship it for Eck's remaining $1100 and that Eck would call.

So ...... Eck re raises to $100, Steph ships the lot for $1100 more or so, Eck snaps and flips KK and Steph's AA holds.  All very comical - will be anice atmosphere in their room tonight.

I am currently cleaning his blood from the floor however i did have the last laugh............

do tell ...

+1 and nice to see ur cleaning up blatch, keep it up.

n1 neil keep it goin dude

Mbn to be you neil!

Oh my lol

Try to look after them Blatch they were in a right mess the other night when I was out with them - well Steph was!!

Just been up to the rio to check on the boys and its generally good news.  Team Blackbelt still has 5 runners in with 1017 left, Nik Persaud has around 60k and playing the short stack well.  Channing keeps popping his head up and dissappearing off again.  James Akenhead currently is 5th in chips with over 700k in chips :)

JUst to prove thats its not nice to be me, playing 5/10 at Rio again today because obviously the board pairs on the river in the comp when I have the made straight vs set with all the money going in on the turn.  Had the following hand at the cash game: -

I raise UTG +2 with AK off
Tight player in SB re raises to 130, I flat.

Flop AA3 with two hearts. Check check.

Turn black 8, he bets 200, I pop to 480, he calls

River Ace.  He fires 1300 and I find the call holding quads somehow.  He says I got your queens beat and I reply with "Is wuads any good though?"

GG NH and all that.

It's not just me that you run good against then...

Steph came 25th in the deepstack at the venetian so you will get your 10% at the bar; don't know if that stretches to a double tho   :D

Good to hear you're still running like god blatch.

Sounded like u slowrolled him from that last story!?

Should have but didnt

lol I'll never forget the time you slow rolled that bloke at dtd.

Can't remember the action but I think Neil checks river oop on a 3 spade, 9 high board. The guy checks right behind him.

Guy states "Kings" Neil nods his head and motions for the guy to show his cards. Obv guy thinks he's won and shows his kings. Neil then slowly turns over nut flush.

Suppose I got a few days to update here, so I will try and remember the best and worst bits.

After recently crushing the 5/10 cash games the natural thing happened and its something I really need to work on.  The two days that saw me crush the game and make virtually every correct play made me over confident and think that I was too good for the game.  I sat down day before yesterday with $5k and after an hour or so was up to $5.6k and was going great.  Sadly I then took one bad beat and then decided to try and win every pot I enetered.  I believed I was the best player at the table and simply played awfully bad.  Every bluff I made was silly and the guys simply werent folding.  After another hour or so I was down to 2.5k and I new I was playing badly.  I thought to myself I should get up and come back another day, but did I?  Hell no.  I thought I would just sit tight,, go back to playing properly and all the money would come flying back.  So about 5 hands later I tried bluffing another guf off AK on an ace high flop and quickly spunked the lot.  I litrally bluffed off $5k without seeing a good hand and played like an absolute tit.

Thankfully I didnt reload and decided to have an early night as I was playing the dream team event at the Rio the next day.

The dream team event seemed a great idea.  3 players to a team with the prize pool split 2/3 to the team side and 1/3 to the individual pool.  Things were going well and I had a really soft table.  I had one guy who thought he could play until I called his bluff on the river with Queen high which was good.  Sadly I then made a call for half my stack which I didnt need to make.  I was ahead at the time but only just and he hit one of his many outs and then left me short.  Im not too sure how Eck or Steph got on but they were both around average chips with but both had about average chips with around 130 left from the 390 that started.

Today got up and went back to the 5/10 game determined to play a solid game and try to earn back my money that I spunked.  I managed to walk away with $6.2k after buying in for $3k although I did hit a peak of $7.8k.  The game is pretty soft and most of the players and very predictable and play a lot of hands face up.  Im not sure if they players are bad or if I have just found another level in my game out here but I seriously believe I have had much tough tables at the DTD 3-2-1 events than the 5/10 cash games out here.

Tomorrow im off shopping to pick up a few things for a few friends back home and then Wednesday probably going out with the blackbelt crew for a last night in Vegas combined with Jerome Bradpiece's birthday, so looking fwd to that.

grrr missed jeromes birthday that wudda been a blast. all the vegas 8 guys were fun to be around i enjoyed the bbq at the house even though it rained briefly