Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[booder]

Link to the book please.

[Chompy]

I am the official cuckoo listener this year. Went for a DofE practice walk with my youngest round Grafham Water.  Heard one there too, so 3 different places, and again at parkrun last week.  Don't recommend Grafham in 32 degree heat, but have got myself a splendid sun hat.  

I do a circuit of Grafham Water three or four times a week on the bike. Nine miles approx. Never get bored of that route.

Just kidding, I haven't read it yet as chompy wants to present me with a copy in person.

Sold out

Link to the book please.

Not being published this one. There's material in there not suitable for public consumption, including the Foreword.
Got another one in the pipeline for the end of the year though. This one will be published, a collaboration. I'll stick a link up when it's out.

Can confirm Vegas in the summer still the same. Wiggly everywhere, me getting ejected from a tournament by the table clown after three hands and then getting ejected from the Venetian poker room by an overzealous dealer. No sign of the salmon pink trousers fortunately.

[booder]

Ejection stories please.

[RED-DOG]

I have to suffer the salmon pink trousers on the golf course, several people there think we are a couple.

[Doobs]

I am the official cuckoo listener this year. Went for a DofE practice walk with my youngest round Grafham Water.  Heard one there too, so 3 different places, and again at parkrun last week.  Don't recommend Grafham in 32 degree heat, but have got myself a splendid sun hat.  

I do a circuit of Grafham Water three or four times a week on the bike. Nine miles approx. Never get bored of that route.

Just kidding, I haven't read it yet as chompy wants to present me with a copy in person.

Sold out

Link to the book please.

Not being published this one. There's material in there not suitable for public consumption, including the Foreword.
Got another one in the pipeline for the end of the year though. This one will be published, a collaboration. I'll stick a link up when it's out.

Can confirm Vegas in the summer still the same. Wiggly everywhere, me getting ejected from a tournament by the table clown after three hands and then getting ejected from the Venetian poker room by an overzealous dealer. No sign of the salmon pink trousers fortunately.

Used to go round Grafham on a bike at least once a week when I wasn't working.  It is much the same route walking.  Shame the main cafe is shut, as can't get a bacon roll right now (the flapjack at the other cafe is pretty good).  Good to see the swallows are back to deal with all the bastard flies.

My MP, Ben Obese-Jecty, goes up there fairly frequently.  Seen a few pictures of him there on his bike. Out last MP was invisible, this fella is everywhere. 

Do you ever do Rutland Water? that is much more of an effort, but they have Ospreys.

[Chompy]

Ejection stories please.

$250 WSOP Daily Staredown, late regged, 200-400, third hand, AK utg+1 900, old roffler with no clue 1800, two callers, me all in 25k, snapped! "How much is it?" K9dd, two diamonds on flop, etc

The other one I was stood by a tournament table for a couple of hands learning how to best utilise a short stack in five-card PLO. "You can't be in the tournament area sir..." Shuffles a foot to the left. "Sir, you can't be there, you'll have to leave. FLOOR!"

[Chompy]

Do you ever do Rutland Water? that is much more of an effort, but they have Ospreys.

Been past it but never round it. Will at some point though. Flies are a killer at Grafham this year, need a snood and shades biking.

[tikay]

Morning all.

First up, I think/hope there's some good news about animalpoker. I'm not 100% certain but his name is Rob Price so I think he ran 4th for decent money...

[tikay]

He was briefly on my table & was strangely quiet (poker-wise, not chat wise) but he ran up a giant stack early doors. Hopefully he did finish 4th & had a nice payday.

[tikay]

Won't bore you with too many details of my demise in the $1,100 Big O Bounty affair at Venetian as I don't want to make it sound like I'm complaining, it was one (another) of those days when I could not do much right.

The highlight - well lowlight - was flopping a boat in the BB in an unraised pot. I was holding 7-7 on the 10-10-7 flop. He had a 10 so he bet it. I think I played it badly, but bottom line is he the turn was a 9 & he was holding a 9 as well. He bet half pot on the River & I fell for it... Have to be so careful with "under boats". 

So after sliding down the ladder I went for a flip strategy & went up & down for an hour or two before eventually visiting the luck well once too often.

Only positives were I never took the rebuy, as I would have only got 20BB or so, & I won a $200 Bounty in somewhat fortunate circumstances off a shortie.

Ummed & arred about playing the nightly $200 NLH @ Orleans but swerved it in the end, was a bit tired.

[tikay]

Ejection stories please.

Hmm.

We had an arsey Dealer - "NO 'PHONES ON THE RAIL", "PLAYERS ONLY IN THE TOURNAMENT AREA" & so on.

I'm vaguely aware of a bloke stood behind me. I turn round to look, it's an unkempt elderly chap about my age. Dealer repeats PLAYERS ONLY IN THE TOURNAMENT AREA.

A few minutes later, rinse repeat. I give the bloke a withering stare.

The bloke is too thick to take a hint & now Dealer shouts "FLOOR, REMOVE THIS SPECTATOR". I turn around & see him slinking away.

It's was only when he polled up to me at the break that I realised it was Chompy. He's not aged well, though the weird thing is I'm almost certain we used to be the same height.

[tikay]

He's a horribly abrasive & small-minded man who dislikes me, & the feeling is distinctly mutual. And I know it will soon kick off between us, despite my best intentions not to get involved in any bad blood at the table. He's the sort who can start an argument in an empty room & we have a lot of history.

Early doors & we play a small pot which is checked down, it's a chop & the Dealer splits the pot.

3 hands later he suddenly complains that the Dealer short-changed him by 100 chips. Imagine starting an argument over 100 chips....

I have no idea if he's right or wrong, nor does anyone else, but he's getting very agitated now. I cba with all this & toss him a 100 chip across the table with a bit of a cutting comment, "there you go sunshine, happy now?" sort of thing. He gives me the mother of all dead eyes & I know trouble is brewing...

But not a problem, as he tilts off his entire stack the very next hand with an inexplicably poor play & he's history. I just about resist the temptation to give him a send-off.

Love this
I hate having nonsense at the table in cash games, but in tournaments I find it entertaining especially when they tilt it off afterwards.
You’re still better than me in mtts , I’m 0/3 and -3100 so far.  
Was great to see you though, and you can’t escape me at WSOP as I’ll look up your table number to say hi .
Hopefully get time for proper catch up rather than 30 seconds at breaks !
Catch you Monday if not before I think - WSOP O8 mix deffo my favourite one of the trip

Hi Rob,

Yeah, see you Monday. I'm playing a $240 Big O at Orleans tonight, too small for you, 6pm kick off, next stop the WSOP Omaha Mix tomorrow.

I went across to WSOP @ Paris last night as I accidentally discovered that I needed to get "re-verified". What a faff. I was fully verified last year so no idea why I needed to do it again.

Walked into the Registration Room & there's 12 staff sat at computer stations assisting folks to get verified. They are open 22 hours per day, I guess 3 shifts, so imagine the cost of that.

My bloke was dead helpful, & knew what he was doing, & it still took 45 minutes. Had to give him everything except my Blood Type.

I really don't understand why we have to jump through so many hoops to play a WSOP event. We can walk into Venetian, Wynn, Bellagio, Aria, GN etc etc with a Rewards Card, pay in, & that's that, don't even need ID. What's so different about a WSOP event?

Meh.

And then I had to pay $25 to exit the Car Park. Luckily, it's only $20 Monday - Friday.

See you tomorrow. And hopefully the next day too....

PS - I bumped into the (self-styled) "PLO Professor" last night, Dear God, please don't be drawn on his table tomorrow. He's less humble than Trump.

They probably have to be wary of people trying to steal Jack Ury's record.

My first target is to be the new Eric Dalby except that he was famously grumpy. He must have been well into his 70's when he ran 3rd in a WSOP-E for £85,000, & he almost exclusively played Omaha variants. Not seen or heard of him in a very long time.

How are you & the family keeping?

I assume you have read Chompy's latest book, where you get a mention or two? I very much enjoyed it, although easily the best part was the Foreword.

Weirdly I read the foreword and it put me off the rest of the book...

Just kidding, I haven't read it yet as chompy wants to present me with a copy in person. I have seen bits of it, brings back a lot of good memories that helped me through a tough time. Even Chompy was ok back then.

We are all ok here thanks, I do get back to the UK about 6 times a year but not really up your way, or Tom's so you can both relax. But I suspect you'll come to Malta soon anyway for some mixed games tournaments so you can buy me a coffee then.

Just a coffee? It used to be Dinner. To be fair Chompy told me you are hard-dieting & have lost a ton of weight. WP.

Mixed Games in Malta? - keep me informed please, it's certainly tempting.

[animalpoker]

Morning all.

First up, I think/hope there's some good news about animalpoker. I'm not 100% certain but his name is Rob Price so I think he ran 4th for decent money...

Thank you
$30k including bounties for 4 way equity chop approaching 4am - it was the least pressured I ever felt to do a chop, which was lovely as normally 1 or 2 go nuts if people don’t want one, but it was late , I was running on fumes , and I’d laddered up well at the final table as one of the short stacks.
Was chipleader with 17 left and for hour or more before that but couldn’t push on, but totally happy with my game.  Applied pressure when we were short handed before the final table which could have resulted a huge stack if not for one single pot where the chap murdered his aces but scooped me . My biggest cash in 17 years so buzzing this morning and thoroughly enjoying a celebratory Eggslut before the 2pm WSOP $1,500 PLO8 .

On the “quiet” front I like to think I’m not as splashy as I used to be but still capable of any move at any time - prime example when we were 5 or 6 to a flop of 10,10,x and I bet mid position for 1/4 of the pot and everyone folded - the other Brit and yourself convinced I had a 10.  Nah just a standard stab then give up move .  That said if I don’t get a tough table today I’ll be trying to push the action a lot more in 4 card than big O where 8 handed your moves are very limited .  My skills are postflop so I try to apply that rather than pot raising preflop these days .

[celtic]

He's a horribly abrasive & small-minded man who dislikes me, & the feeling is distinctly mutual. And I know it will soon kick off between us, despite my best intentions not to get involved in any bad blood at the table. He's the sort who can start an argument in an empty room & we have a lot of history.

Early doors & we play a small pot which is checked down, it's a chop & the Dealer splits the pot.

3 hands later he suddenly complains that the Dealer short-changed him by 100 chips. Imagine starting an argument over 100 chips....

I have no idea if he's right or wrong, nor does anyone else, but he's getting very agitated now. I cba with all this & toss him a 100 chip across the table with a bit of a cutting comment, "there you go sunshine, happy now?" sort of thing. He gives me the mother of all dead eyes & I know trouble is brewing...

But not a problem, as he tilts off his entire stack the very next hand with an inexplicably poor play & he's history. I just about resist the temptation to give him a send-off.

Love this
I hate having nonsense at the table in cash games, but in tournaments I find it entertaining especially when they tilt it off afterwards.
You’re still better than me in mtts , I’m 0/3 and -3100 so far.  
Was great to see you though, and you can’t escape me at WSOP as I’ll look up your table number to say hi .
Hopefully get time for proper catch up rather than 30 seconds at breaks !
Catch you Monday if not before I think - WSOP O8 mix deffo my favourite one of the trip

Hi Rob,

Yeah, see you Monday. I'm playing a $240 Big O at Orleans tonight, too small for you, 6pm kick off, next stop the WSOP Omaha Mix tomorrow.

I went across to WSOP @ Paris last night as I accidentally discovered that I needed to get "re-verified". What a faff. I was fully verified last year so no idea why I needed to do it again.

Walked into the Registration Room & there's 12 staff sat at computer stations assisting folks to get verified. They are open 22 hours per day, I guess 3 shifts, so imagine the cost of that.

My bloke was dead helpful, & knew what he was doing, & it still took 45 minutes. Had to give him everything except my Blood Type.

I really don't understand why we have to jump through so many hoops to play a WSOP event. We can walk into Venetian, Wynn, Bellagio, Aria, GN etc etc with a Rewards Card, pay in, & that's that, don't even need ID. What's so different about a WSOP event?

Meh.

And then I had to pay $25 to exit the Car Park. Luckily, it's only $20 Monday - Friday.

See you tomorrow. And hopefully the next day too....

PS - I bumped into the (self-styled) "PLO Professor" last night, Dear God, please don't be drawn on his table tomorrow. He's less humble than Trump.

They probably have to be wary of people trying to steal Jack Ury's record.

My first target is to be the new Eric Dalby except that he was famously grumpy. He must have been well into his 70's when he ran 3rd in a WSOP-E for £85,000, & he almost exclusively played Omaha variants. Not seen or heard of him in a very long time.

How are you & the family keeping?

I assume you have read Chompy's latest book, where you get a mention or two? I very much enjoyed it, although easily the best part was the Foreword.

Weirdly I read the foreword and it put me off the rest of the book...

Just kidding, I haven't read it yet as chompy wants to present me with a copy in person. I have seen bits of it, brings back a lot of good memories that helped me through a tough time. Even Chompy was ok back then.

We are all ok here thanks, I do get back to the UK about 6 times a year but not really up your way, or Tom's so you can both relax. But I suspect you'll come to Malta soon anyway for some mixed games tournaments so you can buy me a coffee then.

Just a coffee? It used to be Dinner. To be fair Chompy told me you are hard-dieting & have lost a ton of weight. WP.

Mixed Games in Malta? - keep me informed please, it's certainly tempting.

 

[Doobs]

Congrats Rob.  Got to push on and get that bracelet.