Celtic & Chompy's Vegas Extravaganza II

[celtic]

Nowt to report really, played like a complete tit in the $500 deepstack. totally my fault, went deep in the evening comp and made a horrible call after being put all in on the river. Had too many chips comitted to fold top pair 4 kicker . Played a bit of 1/2 cash and again made a nice profit. Moving on to the $1000 deepstack today. Good luck me!!!

ps football shirt latest just in. Peterborough 3 Celtic 0.... i have a feeling its gonna be 4-0 soon..... me and chompy will be off to the rio at some point soon.. we have a very important message for those guys that have made it to the final table............................................

[the sicilian]

Nowt to report really, played like a complete tit in the $500 deepstack. totally my fault, went deep in the evening comp and made a horrible call after being put all in on the river. Had too many chips comitted to fold top pair 4 kicker . Played a bit of 1/2 cash and again made a nice profit. Moving on to the $1000 deepstack today. Good luck me!!!

ps football shirt latest just in. Peterborough 3 Celtic 0.... i have a feeling its gonna be 4-0 soon..... me and chompy will be off to the rio at some point soon.. we have a very important message for those guys that have made it to the final table............................................

Please dont make the reports too long or detailed...

[celtic]

ok then i wont...

just got knocked out the 1k deepstack. 88 no good on a 875 flop after Mr german called pre-flop raise with 64 turn k river j no help.

$330 deepstack tomorrow. i'm gonna win it imo.

[Snatiramas]

Beware the power of the 6, 4....

As regards the whooping. I find a well placed put down on the lines of "sir, you have a lot of class......you just disguise it well" tends to work for me. Obviously should be used sparingly and only when not involved in the pot.

Serial whoopers should just be smacked in the gob though.....

Enjoying the diary muchly

[$muszlesz$]

how many runners are the 550 and 330 tournys gettin guys ?

[Chompy]

Field sizes are down from the summer but still plenty big enough. Yesterday's $340 somewhere around 350 I think. Sunday's $1,000 got just over 100. The $550s have been getting around 200.
Last night's evening tournament got 129. Now, let me see, who won it...blatent brag coming...oh yes, me.
It was chopped of course, five ways, yours truly with 410,000 chips, Jim McBride second with around 320,000. The Luton boys are back!
I arrived half an hour late and ended up on the same table as Celtic and Kevin O'Leary. KO'L won comedy moment of the night award for this...
An older player at the table, short stacked, said he could instead have been shooting craps and having a cigar. KO'L "Or shooting cigars and having a crap." That got me.
Drunk way too much. Those tumblers of merlot must be half a bottle a pop. Oops.
Nobody lasted long in yesterday's $300 and not a great deal else to report. Finally spent some time in the room and tried a film. Mirrors. Crap. No Chompy stars out of ten for that pile of pap.
Switched over to ESPN2 and caught a few WSOP ME shows, from the final 27 down to the final nine. Joe Bishop is what poker should be all about, apart from the slowroll with ace king for which he was roundly booed by the rest of the table.
Tiffany Michelle is what poker is NOT all about. She just came across as an utter bitch imo. Apparently a former beauty pageanter. Who'd have guessed?
Another $340 now, then either the evening tournament or off to see this poker show they've got on here, The Real Deal. Got free tickets if I want them but nobody seemed able to explain what the show is or how it works.
They say you don't need to know how to play poker in order to enjoy it, so it should be ideal for Celtic.
PS, still no Celtic shirt on display. WTF?
PPS, childish play of the night. Blinds 50-100, I raise to 250 UTG with 23 off. Celtic re-raises to 900 with 69 off. Honestly...

[celtic]

so, going back a couple of days, me and chompy paid a visit to the rio for the final table of the ME. We felt it was best to warn the finalist that whilst they have done well so far, they should always remember one thing.............

[Pelham Boy]

so, going back a couple of days, me and chompy paid a visit to the rio for the final table of the ME. We felt it was best to warn the finalist that whilst they have done well so far, they should always remember one thing.............

 

[celtic]

following on from the set v straight flop in the 1k, i got over it and played the $330 deepstack the next day. Managed to get up to 21k from starting 12k in the first level. Everyone seem to want to call a raise pre-flop and fold on the flop. It was great. My favourite was the guy who folded AK face up on a board of A, K, J, 10, 2. I felt bad showing him 9 3 but he asked so i obliged..... anyway, karma took over and in the 2nd level i called a raise of 400 from a tight player with 88, another lady called and flop came 8 7 5. hmmm that looks familiar. Mr tight bets 1k, miss lady makes it 2.5k, so i make it 19k. Mr tight fold (JJ) very quickly and miss lady, who has 12k @ 50-100 says, this a bad call but but i call. She has 9 10 and the rest is history. Later when down to 10 bb managed to shove j7 into 4 limpers just to pick up the blinds & antes but Mateyboy 1 had 425 in the pot so was commited to call with jq and 3 people to act after him as was 78 which i can understand a bit more. Anyway that was that. $120 evening comp was good fun while i lasted which wasn't for long really. All night cash game was good, playing 1/2. won a nice pot finding KK on the button, re-raising to $50 then getting the utg raiser to re-shove for $283 more. Felt a bit better about my hand after the BB exposed AJ by mistake & The guy to my right exposed AK what seemed like in frustration at the utg shove. Board blanked for once and i was off to bed. ready to be up in 4 hours for the next comp. $330 on tusday was a waste of time. Managed to get it all in on the ace high flop with AK v AQ and the river signalled the end of another competion without success's. Just got back from the evening $120 crapshoot which i bubbled!!! Ran 22 in to QQ. So, a few more comps to try and do something productive, $330 tomorrow, Thursday & Friday then back home. Would be nice to be able to post something positive before then... if not, then so be it. Had a great time, Kirsty is out here with me and is having a great time, went & done some of the tourist things, madame Tussuad's, gondola rides, looking at dolphins etc. Was nice to get out the poker room. I have seen her for about 15 hours since we arrived and she seems to be loving it. She's off to the grand canyon tomorrow (on her own) she's a better man than me!!! Good luck with that!!! Thats all for now, gonna try & post a few more pics if i can.

ps well done chompy on winning the evening comp on monday, i knew if he wore that peterborough shirt for long enough it would be lucky for him.

football shirt count.... peterborough 6 celtic 1. wp chompy.

[Simon Galloway]

so, going back a couple of days, me and chompy paid a visit to the rio for the final table of the ME. We felt it was best to warn the finalist that whilst they have done well so far, they should always remember one thing.............

Ooh this needs some love.

[the sicilian]

so, going back a couple of days, me and chompy paid a visit to the rio for the final table of the ME. We felt it was best to warn the finalist that whilst they have done well so far, they should always remember one thing.............

NOW THATS FUCKING FUNNY  !!!   i ACTUALLY LAUGHED OUT LOUD...

p.s.  Glad you boys have finally realised but there was no need to tell everyone..

[Chompy]

This is it, my final day and I'm determined to go out and do something non poker tonight.
That said I'll doubtless sit down in the $120 at 7pm after busting out of the $330, which I'll be playing aggressively, and will go from there.
I need another cash of some description to break even this time but fingers crossed it will come somewhere. Might even play a bit of cash to see if I can push into plus figures. Will be wearing my new lucky t-shirt for sure.

[Chompy]

And now the end is near, plane to Washington in a couple of hours. Already looking forward to the bacon and sausage sandwich at the Pot Belly Sandwich Factory in the morning.
It's been a pleasing enough trip, although it was pure poker and nothing else. I never even left the Venetian until last night, which meant eight nights in one spot.
I'd reckon I averaged 10 hours' table time a day, often went deep but only managed two cashes, one minor cash in a deepstack plus the night tournament win. That night tournament has been good to me the last 12 months or so.
So what's been learned from the trip? Celtic runs bad over here, Jim needs to adapt his game for the deepstacks if he's to have another go at them. Keith got unlucky several times but never really threatened to cash (cashless trip to Vegas is henceforth known as 'doing a Sicilian').
Kevin O'Leary is a top man. When I bought in for the $1000 the other day there was some confusion about how much to enter but I was told definitely $1060, not $1070. This was without the staff bonus and extra 2500 chips though.
Anthony, one of the cardroom managers, rang KO'L at 1.30am when he was in bed. KO'L came down to pay the extra $10. Above and beyond imo.
I'll probably be back for another ten dayer in Febraury if they're running the deepstack again, but already thinking ahead to the WSOP next summer (all things being equal).
Some can stay in a hotel for a month but I'm thinking an apartment plus a couple of rooms, one at the Venetian and one at the Rio, split three ways is the future. Need a bit of drudge occasionally, as in shopping, getting petrol, tidying up the house, so on. Got a couple of ideas for sharers but it's a long way off.
PS, Celtic, check your PM...

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Nice one lads. Have a safe trip back.

My turn monday   Cant wait!

[Chompy]

Will you be penning a diary Rookie? Would you like to borrow my t-shirt?