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hello everyone

the wsop starts in just under 2 weeks and i can barely contain my excitement. i'm going for the full 7 weeks and will be playing almost every day. this will be my 4th consecutive summer in vegas, and whilst i've had a couple of brief sweats over there, i have thus far not been as well prepared, experienced or confident as i will be this year. i am ridiculously determined to crush :)

since last july i have focussed more online, with good success (can't get opr or sharkscope to work for some reason but if you would like to know some results; won pokerstars $1k super tues for $65k, chopped .fr fcoop for €195k, ranked world no1 on p5s http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/nigdawg/ and last month won pokerstars sunday $100r for $60k).

live poker wise i feel very comfortable playing big events. i'm on something of a mini live heater actually, having cashed 4 of my last 6 events each for low 5 figure amounts. you can see those results here: http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=102688


Tournaments

29th may  $3,000 nlhe/plo hu

31st may $5,000 mixed max

2nd june $1,500 re-entry

3rd june $1,500 re-entry

4th june $1,500 plo

6th june $1,500 shootout

7th june $1,500 6 max

11th june $3,000 6 max

14th june $2,500 4 max

16th june $1,500 nlhe

17th june $1,000 nlhe

19th june $3,000 shootout

20th june $1,500 nlhe

22nd june $3,000 nlhe

23rd june $1,500 nlhe

24th june $1,000 nlhe

25th june $2,500 nlhe

27th june $1,500 ante only

28th june $5,000 nlhe

30th june $1,500 nlhe

1st july $1,000 nlhe

2nd july $1,500 nlhe

4th july $1,000 nlhe

total buyins = $47,500 

marked up @ ~1.26 so total package costs $60,000

1% = $600
2.5% = $1,500
5% = $3,000
10% = $6,000


i am aware this is a big package; there are 23 events spread over 5 weeks and i will likely be playing even more outside of this package. however, there is a good chance i will not be able to play all of the events because of day 2's and hopefully final tables clashing. i will obviously refund at mark up any event i do not play so there is a likelihood of the package not being quite as big as it initially appears.


i am looking to sell 50% and would prefer to take $ cash since this is how i need to buy in. bank transfer or pokerstars transfer are ok but the mark up for these payment methods will be @1.3 to make up some of the premium i get charged on my wire to the casino.

i am also going to reserve the right to buy back my own action, if i want to, after hitting a big score early.


finally, i am not selling for the main event but if i completely brick this package i will freeroll you the same % bought here in the main myself. i think that is everything, but any questions do ask!

30% please

Please reserve a block for tikay. Not sure how much but as he is offline all day at the mo I wouldn't want him to miss out, so if you can, great. I will message him now

I have a feeling you are going to have a great series, Chris.

yeh ok i will reserve 2.5% for tikay. i do not want to make him feel like he has to buy it though since i know this package is a lot bigger than normal lol

thanks flushy, booked.

thanks

I am sure he can let you know if he doesn't want it ;-)

sold out!

Sigh, dithered over taking 1% for to long :) FML.

VBOL with this.

That answers the do I, don't I question.

Good luck Chris.  Likely to cash big, whilst I kick myself.   ;)

I'm such a child. Keep giggling at Bramm and his 'big package' :D

 $60,000 sold out in 20 mins  ;gobsmacked;

 .........don't you people realise there's a double dip recession on.

 ;goodluck;

Guy has a reasonable rep tho...

rest

Gl Bramm

Yes please Chris, & big thanks to you & Tighty for saving me a piece.

2.5% please.

I can EITHER pay by Bank TX (extra cost noted), OR pay you in $$$'s in Vegas, though I do not arrive there until June 17th.

The VBOL. I have a hunch this is your year.

So sick, I was like that won't sell out for a while, ill post later. Grats Bram ,gl out there.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooool



 v sigh GL tho.

ok booked, and yes $ in vegas would be best thanks

Good morning.

As someone - Lord Hawkins I believe - wisely noted, the debate about the "caveats" really ought to be kept seperate from the thread itself, as Chris and the buyers are all presumably quite happy with the arrangement, so I have split it off.

The debate, in it's entirety - is now here.....

 http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=57897.0

Chris - good luck on Tuesday!

thanks! i'm going to blame the other thread for the bok if i do not win $200k on craps, premium bonds, cash games, and %'s of other bracelet winners, let alone bink on the package itself :)

I had a lump of a chap in a similar (but smaller) package last year who binked the very first Tourney in the package. ;)

I'm really looking forward to this, I think you are a real "live" prospect.

Earlier in the thread, I asked if I could pay in $$$'s in Vegas, & you said that was fine & dandy. I had not realised, though, that you start on Tuesday, & I wont be there until 3 weeks today, June 17th. With that in mind, if you'd like me to pay now, via Bank TX, or through a third party friend in Vegas, please let me know, & I'll sort it pronto.

Get it all won.  Apologies for helping derail the thread.

Good luck in Vegas chris

Get the lot met, funking for you hard

Yeah, but if you win two bracelets, you can thank us for making you more determined!

glglgl

Win the world man, gl gl.

+1

I think we did you a favour... If you do buy back and subsequently bink nobody can moan as they're most definitely aware of the caveat now.

Seriously good luck out there.

Best of luck out there and lets have some rails to cause mischief on pls!!

:( bubbled my first event the $3k nlhe/plo heads up

319 runners meant around half the field managed to get a bye in round 1, which we were fortunate enough to get.

round 2 i played a young guy who seemed decent although i did not recognise him. the comp was structured so that you had 60bb starting stacks with 2 rebuy chips you could bring into play at any point. i ran well in our match, i won 99>AKo all in pre to make him rebuy after 10 mins. i turned top set in plo when he made a big bluff at the river to make him rebuy the last time. finally crippled him in level 4 when he pot 3b the bb, i peeled AKQTss, he committing pot cbet Q87r i set him in, and held vs KT95ds.

round 3 saw 128 play down to 64 and the money. i drew leif force who i remember going deep in the main event a few years ago getting quite a lot of tv coverage. he told me before we started he now played heads up plo for a living and didn't really like nlhe. i would say i was a dog in this match vs him and he seemed very confident playing heads up. i opened 96o otb, he peeled and c/called QT8r. i turned one of my double gutshot outs with the Js which put 2 spades out. he check called again for 3/4 pot and the river Aspades was about the worst river in the deck. he led 3.6k into 5k and i elected to fold. he later said he flopped the nuts so if true i folded a chop but im happy with my fold.

not much interesting happened for a while. 2nd level was 200/400 plo i opened Kc Jh 4h 3c otb off 11k and peeled when he 3b. this was maybe a mistake on my part. the flop came Jd 7h 5c and he pot cbet basically committing. obviously when i peel a 3bet with my hand and flop this i'm not going to be folding. i found myself in better shape than i could of been when he turned over KQ86dd but he hit running diamonds to force me to make a rebuy.

did actually win 1 all in when i got it in for 6k on the flop with KT87 on KJ8ss and held vs Q997 w/spades. unfortunately was my only all in pot i won.

in nlhe i min opened ATss to 1.2k off 12k and cbet 1/3 pot on T22r. he made a small c/r and barrelled the A turn. i gave it a fake tank on the turn but snapped when he jammed a brick river. he had K2s for the cooler

down to my last rebuy with only 20bb vs his 100bb it wasn't looking good. picked up QQ otb and he called my open and check called 985hh flop. turn was the 6 goes check check, river another 6 and he led 1/2 pot. sigh run out this hand but i made the call hoping he could be vbetting worse. he had 74dd.

picked up the prettiest hand all day with  Ahrt Kd Qh 8d and potted the button off of 9k @ 400/800. he peeled and c/jammed  Qd 7h 6h. he said "ooops" when i snapped but we couldn't fade the  Q993 lol.

those hands probs paint him in a bad light. he picked up loads of little pots in between these big hands. my strategy for both games was to just kind of play tighter and actually have it in the big pots more. worked well the first time, not so well the second :(

Unlucky Chris, & thanks for the report.

So many ways to win that last hand, typically brutal Omaha, the difference between winning & losing can be so small.

On to the next, good luck.

Good result for all investors then, no buy back yet

could be starting something there m8 :-)

and ul bram

Nice report dude, gl in the next one!

ffs just busted $5k mix max

starting table could of been better with 5 tough online guys but pre antes the play was all pretty nitty. starting stacks of 15k i didn't really do much to get to around 18k when i noticed we were the next table to break. given how the players to my left were all very tight and the blinds were the 2 of the 3 spots on the table i opened  Ahrt 8s from mp to 500, which the bb peeled. he check called 600 on  5h 3h 3s then quickly check called 1500 on the  Kh turn. i was fine with this tbh since i felt he'd be c/folding river like almost always, and i had a draw to the nut flush anyway. river  Ts he checked again and i bet 3500.

like i said i was very happy with the hand...until he snapped river with 75dd lol. i guess his calldown is actually ok vs me since i will be barrelling but he was this nitty old guy i wouldn't expect to make the call much at all lol. this was the first time in 3 1/2hrs i'd so much as double barrelled let alone triple, and my hands that did get to showdown were good hands...9 handed pre antes i just don't get out of line but oh well.

moved table soon after and i recognised everyone as "name" players bar one middle aged asian guy with heaps of chips and a young guy wearing a cardrunners logo on my left. gavin smith also had a lot of chips, but darren elias and doc sands (two of the best young nlhe players in the game imo) had about the same 11k stack as me. just as i sat down the asian guy was involved in a big pot where he had the clock called on him on the river, which sent him on tilt, before he made a crying call and went on even bigger tilt. i'm not sure what he was playing like b4 i got there but for the next 2hrs he probably folded less than 10 hands pre flop. this created a huge dynamic where ppl were trying to play pots with him but i couldn't exactly open all that wide since this guy 3 to my left just wasn't folding lol. couple that with going card dead and i couldn't really do much.

down to 7.5k @ 150/300/25 with 2 mins b4 the dinner break i 3b shoved ATs from the sb vs gavin smith's co open and he quickly folded. then last hand b4 the 90 min break i opened KJs from the cutoff. the cardrunners pro 3bet the btn, and whilst it's not a great spot, because it's a pretty obvious one to take, i still think he will be light here enough. he snap folded to my shove and i went into dinner with a 10,750 stack, coming back to 200/400/50.

went for dinner at fix in the bellagio with toby, craig, matt frankland, martins and akenhead. was very nice and paid for by craig in the ccr :) so coming back from the break i was actually feeling quite good. this must have followed on into my game because i opened, 3bet and cbet successfully over and over in the first 2 orbits. doc sands, the asian guy and chance kornuth (highstakes cash sicko?) had all busted b4 the break so the table was playing a little easier.

one of the new guy's to replace an empty seat on my right opened the hijack and i found AQo from the cutoff playing 19.5k. i didn't recognise him but he was young, wearing headphones and a hoody. only hand i'd seen him play before this was him open 950 utg, gavin smith peel bb and check call 1.1k on KQ9r then they check down J turn 8 riv and gavin's A9 is good. he'd been here ~12 hands and probably seen me open at least 4 times, and 3b the bb once. 1/3 my stack comprised of 100 and 25 denomination chips. so yeh basically those were my reasons for taking this spot as a 3b/5bet.

him 950--> me 2250--> him 4900--> me all in--> him call AKs--> A8733 board--> gg

i think it's standard, and would probably do it a decent bit wider as a bluff too. feel it's a bit of a cooler with AQ :(

these first 2 events made up 17% of the package so getting a score on the board from 1 would've been very nice but i feel i am playing well so hopefully can make a run at some of these $1500's coming up

oh btw the guy i lost to in the $3k hu (leif force) just won the whole thing for $208k grrrrr

Unlucky Chris.  Probably would have 3b/c the ATs vs Gavin.  Agree bust out hand is cooler

Ul Chris, love the 7-5 hand! Don't be barreling us idiots.

Very confident for the other 83%.

Thanks for the Report, too.

we will be using our re-entry tomorrow for the $1500 im afraid.

you do need to get going early in these with just 4500 starting chips. don't really have much to say since i busted 2hrs in, right b4 the first break. i'm pretty sure i butchered 1 hand where i peeled a 3b w/88 and flop KJ8r. i check called and he potted Q turn. wanted to fold there and then but i eventually didn't lol. i check called (which was probably the worst option anyways) and then made a crying call on the river vs his 1/4 pot bet to be shown A10o for the nuts. i wasn't expecting him to turn over A10 but he can have all higher sets and probably doesn't pot the turn with AA or AK. table was very fishy/random and i just hoped he had KQ or indeed AA/AK. feel like i butchered it though.

it left me with 1.2k @ 25/50. i folded junk hands for the next 40 mins. i marked out 1 guy in particular 3 seats to my right playing especially fishy, even getting to showdown opening both 73o and Q7o from mid positions. when some1 is opening that wide on a 10 handed table pre antes i think i can exploit that fairly easily with my stack. he opened cutoff to 150 and i shoved QJcc from the bb for 975. he folded. next hand he opened hijack and i shoved T9hh from the sb for 1150. he called w/QQ and despite turning an open ended draw we lost.

the blinds were up in 2 minutes to 50/100, so despite actually 3b jamming 23bb pre antes with T9s (something i would not do too often at all) it felt just about ok to do it here since our stack is 11bb in 2 minutes, the opponent has been shown to open extremely wide and meh T9s isn't going to be in the worst shape vs his calling range anyways.

the 88 hand crippled us though and you can't really lose 6k pots in the first 2 levels to do well in these 1k/1.5k's

Unlucky Chris.

When you start the campaign with 2 or 3 duds, does it affect your mindset, or do your confidence levels remain just as high?

Just curious, the psychology of poker players fascinates me.

Good luck with that 2nd bullet.

lasted a bit longer today (5 levels) but same result :(

today didn't start too well, felt like i couldn't win a pot for the first 2 levels, and then lost AKo<J9s vs 15bb, but then got there A8>AK and chipped up from there. i had 8.3k @ 75/150 and was feeling very comfortable. my tables kept breaking (i moved 4 times in the space of 30 minutes) but each one looked to be softer than the last lol. unfortunately it all came crashing down in one big hand...

utg (new to the table but looked exactly like darvin moon) limped off of 6k @75/150. i made it 625 in mp with  Ahrt Kd and he called. flop  Ad Td 2d, he checked, i cbet 800 and he c/raised to 1750. vs a darvin moon type player i wasn't in love with the spot but my hand just feels too big to not go broke with, since i do have tptk and the nut flush draw. he just had  Jd 7d though and we didn't improve.

left with 2.2k we had a break 5 minutes later. coming back to 100/200 i had 1 spot where i could of got in my 10bb. utg (overly loose big stack who pulled his hoody over his entire face for some reason lol) opens to 450, dennis philips umm's and ahh's b4 peeling utg+2, then a youngish guy (who just open shoved the previous hand for 25bb from the cutoff w/33 and lost vs a shorty QQ) shoves from mp for 3k. i have ATo on the button and 2k chips, getting 3/2 on my money... had this guy folded i think i may of shoved my hand vs opponents but calling off felt a lot worse. i had a similar spot in ept monte carlo and folded thinking "hmm this guy could be tilted - i might have the best hand". everyone else folded so i will never know.

w/1950 chips i open shoved myself a short while later with QTdd. the cutoff, playing 5k, thought for a while b4 giving me a spin with 87cc lol. K6577 run out and that was that lol.

on to the plo tomorrow

yeh i think playing mtt's online for a living definitely helps with this since i'm quite used to bricking 20-30 mtts in a row. live hurts a little more because i'm only playing 1 a day as opposed to 30-40 in a session, and they also take a lot longer.

these 1500's are quite infuriating because you start with so few chips it can be a case of losing 1 big hand and that's your $1500 gone. the variance is huge, but when you have over 3000 people fronting up the $ to enter, the tournaments are pretty much unmissable.

Yup, that all makes sense to me, thanks, & do try & run a little better in tomorrow's PLO, right?

played the plo today. i was running well at the start of the tournament, won a couple big pots to get to 23k @ 100/200. from a 4.5k starting stack that's a really good start.

i guess i was pretty fortunate since i got there with 9977 all in on 743r vs AQ65. also got there with A985hh vs QJT2 on QT7hh to bust john eames. but 10 mins later i lost a huge pot for what was probably a top 5 stack in the room. i overcalled KKQ4 single out the sb, flop Q63hh, and i c/r got it in vs the button for 45bb. he had T765hh for 1 pair, a gutshot and a dominated flush draw. i can't imagine his get it in is good in this spot for this many bb's (maybe even overplaying my own hand tbh) but yeh he rivered a 10 for the 19k pot.

very next hand i overcall the button w/KQJ6ss and call a cbet on ATx, before the bb c/r all in for 4.3k into a 4.5k pot. it folded back to me and i figured my hand and pot odds dictated a call. couldn't get there vs top 2 pair though.

these back to back hands tilted me up quite a bit and i didn't really get much going from there on. 150/300 w/7k stack in the bb, hijack opens for 700 and sb calls. i make it up with KQ76ds. flop 754r 2 backdoor flush draws. pot being 2.1k i c/jammed all in over his cbet. i would imagine i have some fold equity but i'm not sure my hand is good enough to shove here. i think i should of showed a bit more patience. certainly didn't feel good getting snapped by T986. i'm not even drawing to a chop because of his redraws, but we somehow turned the mega sweat with the Qd. didn't get there on river tho.

plo is definitely not my strongest game but there were several extremely weak plo players on the 2 tables i experienced playing here. shame i lost the KKQhh hand because w/33k @100/200 i think i would of carried on enjoying it and played better as a result. avg stack for the payouts was like 36k so after stressing how important it is to get off to a good start in the 1500's i'm pretty tilted at getting one here and not converting something wdbfusfbhnjrvfwertgwretgergwrtbryybw

comp one of the softest Ive ever played.

KQ67 hand seems completely fine to me providing it was 3way yh?

finished 4th on my table in the shootout

level 1 i value cut myself with 66 on Q5472 after flop check through, and opened a few nice starting hands and flopped nothing in 4/5 way pots to chip down to 2.5k.

level 2 i was getting lots of flop stabs through in multiway pots to chip back up, then 3b 99 and c/called the guy all in on Q62r for 30bb, held vs T8o lol. went into the break w/5.8k.

level 3 we were down to 7 handed blinds 50/100. it was me, jeff madsen, a young guy and 4 cowboys. jeff was hitting the deck in the face and getting each cowboy to donate to him individually. he went from 5k to 25k (with 40.5k in play) and it was pretty tilting watching the others just give him their chips. i went ridiculously card dead this level, and basically just folded for an hour. i'm not exactly the tightest player but really struggled to find playable hands.

level 4 we were now 4 handed @ 100/200 no ante. i'd blinded down from 6k to 4.8k, the next blind level was 150/300/25 and jeff was running away with over half the chips so i had to get moving. young kid opened utg 4 handed and i shoved 55 otb into his AA, the 1 remaining fish snap told me he folded 75ss to make me feel better lol. i could have folded, but he only had 5k himself so i figured i'd have an awful lot of fold equity. in a shootout format i have to win all the chips on the table so making a loose-ish jam is going to be ok.

1500 6 max tomorrow....any chance of a day 2?

haven't been on the computer last few days so sorry (tikay) for lack of updates lol

the $1.5k 6max i doubled within the first level when i peeled a 3b w/ A5s in position and called 2 streets on AJ5AQ. villain check shoved the river vs a 1/4 pot bet and i received a full double up. the table was very weak, and being 6 max i decided to force the action a little more to punish the weaker players (who were generally overly loose passive). i got away with several light 3bets before finding AK on the button and running into the sb's KK for 10k pot @ 50/100. this left me with 4k. @ 75/150 the cutoff limped and the btn made it 625. i found AK again and happily shoved my 4k from the bb. he called 77 and i did not improve.

i then took a couple days off and came back fresh for the $3k 6 max today. this tournament was probably the one i was looking forward too the most out of the whole schedule. my starting table was pretty tough with 2 euro ept regs, darren elias and online stalwart "apestyles". luckily we were the first table to break. when moved to the other room i was fortunate enough to be sat with 5 huge fish lol. i had around 9.5k from 9k starting stack when i moved there, and chipped up to 11k midway through 50/100 level. just before the break, i 3b squeeze folded from the blinds vs a 100bb 4b shove. then one fish playing way to many hands (badly) 3bet my cutoff open from the sb playing 4k and i set him in with TT. certainly one of the worst hands i would happily get in here, but he had the aces and held.

i went into the break with 6.5k coming back to 75/150, so not disastrous. first hand back from the break i practically doubled up in a thin spot. i opened QTcc utg and found myself oop in a 4 way pot. T76dd flop, and i check called, check shoved the 4 turn vs a euro playing noticeably loose and fishy. my all in on the turn was for very little more and i expected him to call with some sort of pair/draw but to my surprise he ended up folding for 1.5k more into an 11k pot lol. the next 45 minutes saw me playing most my hands vs this guy in particular (since the 2 to my right were quite short, and the guy on my immediate left was very tight). he 3bet me twice and i folded both times. he peeled me a bunch of times and he opened almost always when folded to in the last 4 seats. he'd made some hands early vs the 2 guys on my right to get to 25k and he seemed to have little idea about stack sizes (casually peeled 3bets 20bb eff etc)

i yoyo'd between 12k and 7k. i picked up KK and opened the cutoff, our villain thought a while and looked like 3betting b4 calling in the sb. he then check called 2 streets on J83TA b4 check check on river and his A8o is good. i was pretty frustrated losing this hand and if the flop is Axx i don't lose so much. finally @ 100/200 playing just over 8k i opened ATss otb and he 3bet from the bb. i'm fairly sure vs this guy folding is out of the question. not really sure which is best out of the other options. i could peel and play a pot in position, although we are quite limited by only having 3xpot eff stacks. i decided that 4b/calling may not work out great given his apparent lack of appreciating stack sizes (he might just peel the 4b and set me in on flops or outflop me). i ended up shoving, and that may not be optimal but i think it's ok. he called with AQ and despite flopping 2 spades i did not get there.

we are now 2 weeks in and i don't feel like we have really had much of a run for our money. struggling to make antes in anything and it's getting a bit tilting now :-/

2.5k 4max in a couple days is next on the package

this really isn't going too well

i played pretty good and really enjoyed the 2.5k 4 max. i built from 7.5k starting to 26.5k @ the 2nd break with very little showdowns. then soon after the break i won a monster pot vs a former november 9'er with AQss vs 66 on K62Tss hitting a flush on the river. i went into the dinner break with 47.5k coming back to 200/400. this was a really good start and the best position i'd been in all summer. this comp also played ridiculously fast. i think ~750 people entered and after 6 levels 180 remained. with 80 paid it looked likely to make the money within the next couple hours.

morale was high at dinner with craig and jake having similar stacks, but we were all tilted at the taxi driver "mishearing" us and taking the freeway on our way back from the bellagio causing us a 15 minute detour to get back to the rio. being 4 max the blinds and antes come around very fast (especially if 1 player is sitting out making it 3 handed) and whilst i had a lot of chips it still cost me 2700 chips needlessly. i then lost the first 3bet pot i played and 3b folded to chip down to 36k.

tables were breaking very fast and the 2 seats to my left were replaced a couple times over. guy to my direct left joined the table with around 60k but within a 10 minute spell did not win a single hand, and he was showing signs of frustration. i won a couple pots to get back up to 42k @ 250/500. the floorman came over to our table with the chip racks, we were the next table to break. the guy on my left opened btn and was angry the bb 3bet him but folded. then just as the cards are dealt the floorman says we're breaking after this hand, and the guy opens again, this time utg (but it's 4 handed so =cutoff). folds to me in the bb and i'm already thinking this is a decent spot to be wide for value when i look down at AQo. i really strongly thought he would think a 3bet here is full of shit. thus i 3b/5b/called his shove. he had 3k more chips than me, and JJ, with the board running out 6789T for the 85k pot @250/500. despite the dealer trying to chop the pot i finished 116th.

it's what's known as a "nicky evans bubble" and after having a lot of fun and a lot of chips in this tournament i was completely gutted.


contrast to today's $1500 where i probably played the worst i have done so far. i lost a few small pots by not flopping anything then folded river in a 3bet pot w/AcJx on AKxxx w/3clubs because he potted it and looked ridic strong. the table was extremely weak (ben martin the only exception) and i figured to try and see flops in position vs these guys who were giving chips away. that was my reasoning for peeling Q5dd otb vs a huge whale but with 3350 chips @ 25/50 it's just too loose this shallow. when the flop came  Jd Td 7h fish 1 pot cbet, fish 2 called. fish 3 (me) shoved and did not get there vs fish 2's 98. i had fold equity and they both seemed loose enough to not just have really nutted ranges but still it was a bit spew i think. i mustn't try too hard to get something going in these because there is so much dead money available.

$1k tomorrow, i will play better

Thanks Chris, keep your chin up, you'll come good.

asuhggdbdftbbduivhasuvher just busted the $1k with 500 odd left and 297 paid out of the 2.7k entrants ffsssssss

played great all day, received a couple donations along the way but felt like i was winning every hand i played. definitely one of the softest tournaments i've ever played. i had 15k @ dinner and proceeded to collect almost all the ante chips on my table in the next hour. had 28k going into 200/400/50 and the biggest pot i won in the meantime was raise calling a 4k stack pre to win ATo>KTs. everything else was just raise and take or cbet and take.

then i overcall AQo on the button vs 2 old fish. i'd been playing with them all day, the opener was a little tighter but still showed he wasn't paying attention. the peeler was completely clueless. flop comes a heaven AQ4dd and with 3.8k in the pot the 1st guy snap cbet 3.3k with 12k behind. the 2nd guy peeled inside 15 seconds and now the pot was big. i don't think the opener will fold AK or a good flush draw, i think when he cbets so big he will be heavily weighted towards these hands, and the 2nd guy probs won't fold Ax or any flush draw. i shoved, and the 1st guy just had the AA to have me drawing dead with top two in a ~38k pot.

it left me with 12k. an orbit later, fish 2 from the above hand opens mp and i peeled ATcc from the cutoff. the btn tank peeled. he'd 3bet a couple times the previous level and opened what seemed like most the times i folded. he spewed off in a random bluff vs the opener though which i thought was awful to leave him with 10k. woulda thought he either shoves or 3bets hands better than mine pre and like 77+, but can see him calling 77-TT and AJ sometimes. think his range is mostly small pairs, suited connectors and broadway hands. both blinds come along, making it 5 way. A85hhc flop the fish bet 3.5k into 5k. he starts the hand with the ~same stack as me and whilst i'm not in love with the spot this guy was splashy enough to call/call vs. so i called, the btn then snap shoved all in behind, and it folded back to me. it's now 6k to call into a 21k pot but i am completely crippled when i call and lose. sometimes he will have some random A8/A5 peels but it's most likely he has 55/88 or a flush draw. i have backdoor clubs vs a set and i'm going to have an ok edge vs his flush draws. but basically the pot was just too big to warrant folding i think. he can have a maximum of 6 set combo's and at least 6 flush draw combo's. not completely out the question to think he sometimes flats his sets either imo. alas he had 55 and held.

that hand is brutal imo with so much having to happen for me to lose all my chips, like he has to set mine off 25bb (pretty meh imo), then flop a set on A5xss (easy fold for my hand on a rainbow board), and get fishcake to cbet air in a 5 way pot (to make the pot so big).

another chance gone by qebdvnuiqewrhvjknqwrfghewrgiuvbhqejrkwngv

I think I noticed that you were staying in the palms place. What was the reasoning behind that and could you post some pics if possible.

location, 5 mins from the rio. and for the price the quality is quite good. i had some friends recommend it to me last year and i mentioned it to people this year. think they then asked maineventtravel to see what deal they could get us on apartments. quite a few of us staying here this year

I stayed in a double apartment with my family which was excellent. Can't believe I never took any photos. Good luck for the rest of the series

Love the honesty & analysis Chris. Good luck for the rest of the series.

:( busted 6th on my $3k shootout table just now. feeling pretty dejected at the mo.

think i played good. my table of 10 initially looked quite strong with nobody over the age of 35 but it turned out i had position on the best 2 players, 1 guy was a huge fish and the other 6 were either really tight or just bad. i would say i was the favourite to win the table because i held position over czar19 (a really good online reg). switch our seats and he would be the fav.

i kept it tight early (10 handed pre ante shootout) and just made some cbets and vbets to get to 11k from 9k starting when last hand before the break i won a decent pot off the splashy french fish. he seemed tilted france lost and raised every hand for the last 20 mins (literally) so i peeled T9o otb vs him and called flop and river on 932hhQK to give me 13k heading into the break.

coming back to 100/200, the french guy busted pretty quickly in a big pot and the play tightened up quite a bit. i don't recall any hands of note before we took a jump to 150/300/25. with antes i was now going to loosen up and aggro it up. unfortunately i got crippled in a huge "dirty flip" losing 99<QJ all in pre for 1/4 the chips in play 8 handed :( leaving me with 6k. i folded trash for 2 orbits and went into the 2nd break with 4.5k

coming back to 200/400/50 i was pretty tilted with my bowl stack but played patient in looking for good spots to shove. i stayed afloat on ~6k for a while before getting AA>TT to boost me back up to 12k. amazingly we were still 8 handed (most the other tables were 2,3,4 handed, some had finished) so i actually had an above avg stack. czar19 busted the only other good player on our table and i felt good about the situation. however the blinds were soon to jump to 300/600/50 and i think it's really important to be aggressive at this stage to ensure he doesn't run away and scoop up 3/4 the chips or something (ala jeff madsen in the 1.5k shootout).

utg opened to 950 off of 10k and the guy with QJ vs my 99 earlier peeled the cutoff playing about 20k. both had been really tight for a while but since winning the flip vs me that guy had been very active (peeled and floated T73dd w/A9o vs a 20bb fish not long ago that went to showdown) he'd 3bet the btn once, 4b folded to czar19 once and peeled a 3b vs him too. i figure his peel is fairly weak and would of thought he'd 3b/c decently wide vs the utg, who incidentally was a young guy playing reasonably aggro. he'd shown opening A3s utg couple orbits ago, got all his chips by shoving 18bb utg w/QQ and tripling up. don't recall him winning any hands since. before it got to me i thought this was a decent squeeze spot for my 12.9k stack. picking up like 7bb is huge here imo and i have an awful lot of fold equity. i found KJcc, a good hand to shove with (double blockers, equity when called) and so happily shoved the sb tbh. the first guy gave it a bit of a tank but then folded. the second guy then took a full 5 minutes in the tank. it became clear he had a better hand than i first gave him credit for and figured he had like 77-99 or AT-AJ. the longer he was tanking i kinda knew he was going to call with these hands and so was hoping he didn't have the one hand that dominated me (AJ). anything else i'm flipping vs for nearly 1/3 the chips in play so in a winner take all format isn't that bad. he eventually painfully put all the money in... with AQo. i'm really surprised he a) didn't 3bet call this vs the opener in a 6 handed shootout and b) took so long to call me. if he really doesn't want to put it in with AQ that much pre, my shove is going to get him to fold HEAPS. besides, my equity isn't much worse than a flip even now. that equity increased to make me a small favourite when the flop fell  Qc 9c 3s!

it's sooooo easy to get there this hand and have 28k w/89k in play, and a huge chance of closing out the table from there. 2 bricks send me on my way though and it's a $1500 tomorrow

umm busted very early today.

i've been told by one friend that my bustout was bad but lildave was more sympathetic with "what else can u do". utg seemed like a huge fish with chips (casually cold called a cold 4 bet and c/folded Jxx and just looked like a tourist) playing 10k opens to 75 and 4 call round to me in the bb, i call with  Tc 7c.

flop  9c 7h 2c sb checks i lead 250, utg is the only caller.  8s turn i bet 525 he makes it 1050, i call. river  7d i shove for 2950 he takes 2 mins to call  6s 5s


in my experience the turn minraise is either nutted or trying to get to showdown so he can get me to check river and then he can check back. on such a drawy board i'd kinda expect him to raise more with his nut hands since he has an awful lot to protect against and i've shown strength leading in a 6 way pot and double barrelling the turn. i was therefore pretty confident he was using the min raise on the turn to prevent himself from facing a big river bet. i thought this before i called the turn and decided i would shove clubs/6's/7's/J's for straight up value vs this guy. he was a tourist with chips i wasn't expecting him to fold my cards too often. a common theme here in vegas is that no1 likes to fold when they can click call (no matter how obvious it is they are beat) but i'd also expect him to frequently check back river with all his 9x and overpairs.

1 hand, $1500, lol. $3k friday. i won't give up just yet...

pretty deflated right now just grinded for 10 hours in the $3k full ring and busted last hand before the last break TT<QQ i 4b ripped 13.7k @ 250/500 vs a young asian who could be 3b/folding or 3b/calling worse for sure vs me, and i did not improve.

peaked @ 22k (from 9k starting) with 150/300/25 blinds before losing 77<88 and AK<QQ vs 15bb each and never recovered. i had some really tough tables today but i do ok until i get all in pre...can't seem to win those ones :(

Tell us the story about you getting escorted from the rail by a big black security guard, and your mates choosing that moment to chant your online name plz?!

update from the weekend...

lasted a little over an hour in saturday's $1500. lost a crucial hand with ATs vs 65o on  Aspades 9d 5s 5c Th where he c/called twice and then led. i could maybe fold river but it's awfully difficult vs the opponent when he could possibly have worse or missed spades idk. he bet 1.2k into 2.8k so i was getting over 3/1 on the river call. the hand left me with 1350 chips @ 25/50. the next hand i play i open AJo and get flatted in one spot. AJTr flop i cbet and got called. 5c turn putting up a flush draw i shoved for 1k into 875 and got tank called (lol) by KQ.

missed sundays 1k to watch the england game (equally as painful as my tournaments are going at the moment lol) but going to play tomorrows 1k at binions instead.

today's $2.5k didn't start too well. i struggled to get any cbets through and made only one strong hand b4 the first break but didn't get action from it. went into the break with 5.8k from 7.5k starting. started to get going in the next 2 levels. won QQ>AJs all in pre vs a short stack and got paid on the river with 87s on Q6569r whilst picking up a few more blinds to have 12k at the second break. coming back to level 5 with the introduction of antes i tried to open up a bit more but had to raise fold to shortstacks shoving on me early doors. i won a decent pot bvb with  Jh 4h on  Jc 9h 3s 6h 6s before i busted just as the blinds were about to hit 150/300/25...

middle aged italian american fish opened to 525 from utg+1 before hijack peeled and i overcall the cutoff with  Td 9d playing 14k. 3 way flop comes  Ad Tc 7h and he cbets 1k into 2050, hijack folds and i call. turn  3d and he barrels 2.5k. at this point i was fairly confident he had AK/AQ/AJ, possibly AA, and some hands he'd be bluffing with like KQ/KJ/QJ. i felt pretty comfortable calling here with my hand, with plans to fold river unimproved to another bet, and vbet if checked to when i spike a 10, 9 or diamond. river card Qx non diamond and he checked fairly quickly. once he checks river after having the lead in the whole hand i now completely ruled out the Q improving his hand beyond making him 1 pair with KQ/QJ. i don't think he would check the river with sets either, so i felt very confident his range was like AK/AJ/A9/A8/KQ/QJ. altho i have a pair of tens i have almost no showdown value here (he'd have to have 98s or random 2 barrel with an underpair=unlikely) and 2 of his few bluff's just got there against me. when i think his range is this weak and non nutted, i want to turn my hand into a bluff, and also to make it as difficult as possible for him to call it. i shoved for just over pot...

i don't think i actually have many bluffs that get to the river here. has to be turned diamonds or AJ, and i wouldn't always be turning that into a bluff. he tanked for 10 minutes vs my shove, at which point i called the clock on him (cant remember the last time i ever did this) only for the dealer to say "i can't see any floormen..." so basically nobody came with a clock. another 2 minutes went past before i asked the dealer what is going on and he finally shouted loud enough to be heard. then just as the floorman reached our table the guy called with ATo to win the 30k pot. i am a bit surprised that he checked this hand on the river, and i was not trying to make him fold this, but the fact he took so long to call makes me feel fine with my bluff. sucks that he was actually quite a bit stronger than he ought to be in this spot, maybe i'm just terrible :(

lol probs most tilted i've been all summer right now

binions $1k today, 30k starting stack i went down to 10k by 200/400, but spun it up and then crushed to get 280k by 800/1600. one guy took all my chips tho lol. he played great...he limp called then c/r and called off 40bb on 764Acc w/65 and spiked an 8 before standing up and pumping his chest in my face lol. then 30 mins before the end of the day he peeled a 3bet and c/jammed the turn on KJ9Kcc w/99 vs my AKhh, which did not improve, to bust me. so yeh just played 12 hours for nothing. 36 paid i finished 50th lol, and was 30 mins away from my first day 2. doubt this is real.

Chin up matey you got the skills

But on a lighter note I think all the moaning twats about the caveat would be grateful if you would buy back the rest of their action now please :)

has this thread been cursed !  ;frustrated;

keep trying mate there's plenty of us here who still believe in yas .


RUN GOOD STARTS NOW !! 

As the poster who raised the caveat issue I would like to lift the curse. Feel pretty shit about it all.

Good luck Chris hope you get it all now.

He 100% has at least a deep run now

Busted the 1.5k to rupert

I did get to 27k @150/300/25 but lost every hand I played in the next level without ever reaching a showdown to have 11k going into 300/600/75

Then 2nd hand after the break cutoff opened and rupert shoved the sb for 16.7k, I called off the bb with 88 and lost vs his KTs on 6662K. I think my call is ok and wouldn't call much wider but I'm not sure about his shove, especially in this tournament, but oh well. He might of overbet bluffed me on the river a little while before this too where I tank folded JJ on 99882hh. Seems like nothing is going right :(

Quick summary of the 5k too, I was pretty card dead on what was described as the table of sharks, every player was a "name". I didn't get much going all day and just when I got back over the 15k starting stack @100/200/25 I lost a 20k flip 4betting TT all in pre vs a button squeeze AKo and never recovered. Lost so many flips this trip it's frustrating to not string a set of hands together to get at least 1 going...

You must be feeling the pain, Chris, but everyone still believes in you & your game 100%, and if you offered an identical package tomorrow, there'd be plenty of jostling to get to the front of the queue to buy.

Your "form" will turn when it's ready, & not before, but when it does, it'll be.... sick, possibly even super sick.

Good luck you.

yeah wasn't sure about jamming there, 3b/f? peel? f? i think can make a good case for everything it was a fairly awkward spot

unlucky in the flip though, my heart sank when the K hit :(

it sure did

ehh i've been following this thread and know brammers had a rough time. i was fairly happy about going home too

Whisper it quietly, & no bokking, but Chris seems to be running a little better today in the $10,000 6 Max, with an outdraw or two balanced by a nice suckout.

Oranges 5,000, yellows 1,000, blues 100.  This was at Midnight.




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He has immediate position on this guy, too......


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30k starting stack yes

Keep at it Chris, it's gonna happen sooner or later, got a good feeling your gonna win $400k  ;)

Bagged up 98.5k, even after losing a 100k pot very last hand of the day w/AQcc on 9422Qcc vs the KK of a good friend of mine!

Feels good to make a day 2 lol. $1.1m ftw and around 170 players left I think

3 mile chasers are always the best anyways . keep going ! gglglglggl

Well hello Day 2!

Great stuff Chris.

Congratulations,  I hope you win it.

Very best of luck sir!

GLGLGL

glglgl Chris

Oioi. Brammer just got there in huge pot aj vs aq. Gogogogo

3/47 itm, 1.1m ftw!

Waiting for the penny to drop....

glgl!

At 9pm this evening, just after the Dinner break......

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Orange 5k, yelliow 1k, blue 500.


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As of right now (10.30pm Vegas) Chris has 347,000, 46 players remain, blinds are 3,000/6,000-1,000.

Get it won regardless

According to PN he is chip leader with over 1.2m

An hour later, with 37 left.......

Call it just shy of a million......


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5 minutes ago, with 31 left. (Greens are 25,000)

1.3 million-ish? Think average is around 500,000.


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Nothing like saving it for the big ones!

Good luck fella.

Play has just ended for the day.

27 players remain, all are guaranteed $29,410 minimum.

Chris bagged up 1,467,000, or thereabouts.

:)

GLGLGLGLGL Bink the MilliBall

woah this isnt on the stake? so sick for backers if he binks...

gl bram get the fkn lot, u deserve it pal.

wow didnt realise that. pretty brutal, but vbol mate

+1

good luck Chris!

GL Bram!!

GL GL GL

I gave the 3 package backers first option on this, which they all accepted :)

Good lad, the way it should be done. Although i did text 2 of them to rub them down if they didnt have %

Get it done kid

The Karma's all good . This is the one  ;first;

good luck my son x

Would be sweet to cap things off with a big win befitting your ability after the tough run so far. Good luck

Gl Chris. Need another excuse to watch the stream all night

Hopefully I'll try to keep you updated from the start of play, fingers crossed, I'll do it on the Funk Thread.

There is some run good tekkers having Tikay railing. Try not to get thrown out though :)

Best of luck and nice touch with the backers.  Hope it works out for all.

How we doing? Qualify yet?

Gl Chris