Viva Las Vegas! A lone rangers blog!

[redsimon]

Good luck today. Took me till the 16th day of my trip to have a profitable day, hopefully you will do it faster!

[BorntoBubble]

We have some day 2 sweats! Updates in my staking thread but we are 40/144 according to poker news. already in the money and over $300k up top. Win this and this blog could get a little lively

[brookie]

what min cash u will get buddy ,but get it won

[BorntoBubble]

what min cash u will get buddy ,but get it won

like $2k locked.

Unfortunately thats not very close to getting me out so far

[DrDreh]

40  Gabon   Callum Morgan48,400        -Warrington-Gabon

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp?rr=5&grid=1052&tid=13645&dayof=

If i'm not mistaken, you're not from Gabon

[brookie]

what min cash u will get buddy ,but get it won

like $2k locked.

Unfortunately thats not very close to getting me out so far

it don't matter because am sending u all my run gud and your going to win it so gud luck

[nirvana]

Have fun and best of luck for today

[tikay]

Good luck today, Callum!

[BorntoBubble]

Thanks again for all the good luck messages really means a lot, poker update about the comp in my staking thread ill leave all that stuff out of here and try and describe my experiences over the last few days.

So at the end of last week i was not having the best of times financially. The trip was going great socially but the poker not so much and really was losing the will to live playing cash etc as could not book a winning session hand blah blah blah boring zzzz variance etc! But on the social side of things I was having a great time and much better than last time when there was no so many brits about. Spending some time with Tal putting the worlds to right and not really discussing poker which is always good when your away from the tables and then with the "DTD boys" arriving it really was a boost to morale, i didnt play for 2 days i drank, played house games, spent time round the pool, did some touristy stuff it really was a breath of fresh air and when i sat down on Sunday first my first ever WSOP event i was in the best position mentally of the trip, it never really hit me throughout to be nervous, worried or whatever i just tried to play my best possible poker. It was good to get back to the tables and was a much needed boost to morale to cash and run deep. Unfortunately since then the poker has not gone to well again but the head is held high and im looking forward to my next event.

During the comp I had a really good mix of table friends, young and old, pro and rec's etc etc. There was a moment on the bubble coming to the end of day 1 where a guy to my left was tanking every decision to make the money and the rest of the table but mainly the guy to my right was getting very frustrated with him. He made a very good point which he managed to make very well and it got to the point where they guy had 30 seconds to make a decision as he was unnecessarily tanking any decision, he was lying that he had hands but im 99% sure he didnt. The main issue was, he had 10 BB he was guaranteed a cash. But he was tanking so that he could make the money with a playable stack rather than blinding down just to make the money, i thought this was a little out of line, he was damaging the rest of the tables tournament to much for his own gain. If a guy has 4BB and decides he needs to tank to the money, im happy to allow him a little time to do this. But with this guys stack it was OOL. He did continue to do a bit of tanking to day 2 which was even more frustrating as we all wanted to get on with the game after a very slow bubble on our table and then a 15 minute delay after the bubble to find out who actually bubbled! Anyway i was happy with how i played against the guy to my right who is a really aggro high stakes MTT player on stars (american playing in Mexico). This was the first Sunday hed missed for the series and it was only cause he made day two of the 1.5k the day before. He even commented how he "let me get away with too much" at the end of the day, but it was all good fun and we had a nice long chat throughout the day also.

Day 2 i bit of time talking to Allyn Shulman, shes a bracelet winner in a seniors event and wife of Barry Shulman. We discussed lots of things but started off by talking about the Mike matasaw outburst. She had just wrote an article here

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-blogs/89-allyn-shulman/entries/561819-wsop-the-matusow-penalty

and a few of the dealers had thanked her for writing it. Which was a nice touch, we discussed how the game is played differently in the UK and the states. I commented how there is a lot more "excessive celebration" in the US, its in there nature. I find it rude personally, yes you may have just won a big pot but on the other hand someone has just lost a big pot and a big chunk of money too so have a little respect. Around the room there was lots of celebrations going off as we were talking about it and later as i got knocked out of the competition she wished me good luck and commended me on my behavior in both winning and losing. For me this is important, yes we are in this game to make money. I am also here though for the experience, to have a good time and to have a great holiday. I do not want to do one at the detriment of the other and maybe some poker players should lighten up a bit, smile a bit more, talk a bit more and generally enjoy the game a bit more. I 100% am playing better poker when the tables are talkative and friendly, i watch a lot more closely and i know whats going on at all points. When its boring and i keep checking my phone or the screens or whats going on around you can miss a lot of information so i enjoy the way i play the game. For me being polite at the table, a good winner and a good loser is also important. I hate losing, it really hurts inside and that has been inside me from day 1. I used to disagree with any teacher in primary and high school that used to tell me its not all about the winning and i stand by that to this day. But as i grew older and through the help of sports like rugby and cricket i learnt how to respect people, officials and my opponents. So although all i want to do inside is win on the outside i will still be respectful in the way i go about winning. I will thank dealers shake hands with players, wish people good luck etc for me that just feels right. Do i want my opponent to win in a flip v me of course i dont. Will i shout and swear when i lose to him, no chance, will i dance round the room if i beat him, no chance. I hope i continue to play this way for the rest of my life as the people who dont, really do make themselves look like fools. Of course i will celebrate my victories but rubbing it in the face of the losing opponent is not right in poker nor in sport.

[BangBang]

Always loved this diary, enjoy the rest of your trip...

[redsimon]

"" and a few of the dealers had thanked her for writing it. Which was a nice touch, we discussed how the game is played differently in the UK and the states. I commented how there is a lot more "excessive celebration" in the US, its in there nature. I find it rude personally, yes you may have just won a big pot but on the other hand someone has just lost a big pot and a big chunk of money too so have a little respect. Around the room there was lots of celebrations going off as we were talking about it and later as i got knocked out of the competition she wished me good luck and commended me on my behavior in both winning and losing. For me this is important, yes we are in this game to make money. I am also here though for the experience, to have a good time and to have a great holiday. I do not want to do one at the detriment of the other and maybe some poker players should lighten up a bit, smile a bit more, talk a bit more and generally enjoy the game a bit more. I 100% am playing better poker when the tables are talkative and friendly, i watch a lot more closely and i know whats going on at all points. When its boring and i keep checking my phone or the screens or whats going on around you can miss a lot of information so i enjoy the way i play the game. For me being polite at the table, a good winner and a good loser is also important. I hate losing, it really hurts inside and that has been inside me from day 1. I used to disagree with any teacher in primary and high school that used to tell me its not all about the winning and i stand by that to this day. But as i grew older and through the help of sports like rugby and cricket i learnt how to respect people, officials and my opponents. So although all i want to do inside is win on the outside i will still be respectful in the way i go about winning. I will thank dealers shake hands with players, wish people good luck etc for me that just feels right. Do i want my opponent to win in a flip v me of course i dont. Will i shout and swear when i lose to him, no chance, will i dance round the room if i beat him, no chance. I hope i continue to play this way for the rest of my life as the people who dont, really do make themselves look like fools. Of course i will celebrate my victories but rubbing it in the face of the losing opponent is not right in poker nor in sport. ""


A good point made well.

Good luck with the rest of your trip!

[BorntoBubble]

Thanks Simon,

Well the last few days have been a bit shit tbh! poker has been going very badly can not win on cash think i have had one winning session on cash which is disappointed as the tables definitely have not been to great. Mixture of play bad and run bad on my behalf, losing 4 pots where in  i have had straight flush draws and one with a straight and a flush draw and im probably at least 60/40 in all of them has hurt a bit. especially as they have all been for $1k+ pots. Saving my run good for the comps hopefully where i can bink a big prize. Aside from poker its been a bit quiet since i moved hotels, this hotel is really really nice but with me being a bit away from the rest of the lads i keep missing out on things which is a bit wank. Once ive got back to my hotel it always seems like an effort to get back up to the rio etc, but will be definitely making the effort as getting battered on cash is no fun!

Anyway got some big comps for me in the next week so a couple of big cashes would do me grand!

The monster stack, overall it was a crazy good comp, so many runners its incredible the place was buzzing. Queues for everything but i can accept that with the numbers of players, i didnt hear to much grumbling which was good only the odd french man - what is there problem? Do people not look and go, wow 8000 players in one day how is this not tits up? and cut the guys a little bit of slack, obviously not in all cases but they did in most. Just sat there quietly waiting for there table to be called. My table was not as "fun" as the first few days not as many people talking apart from one of the "Ivey players/pros" (im not to sure what he was or who he was but he was wearing a patch) sat two to my left who was the stereotypical pro that i talked about in my last piece that winds me up. Not wind me up in a bad way to affect my comp but wind me up to think, if i was in your shoes - representing a brand, i would like to think i would do it a lot better. First thing to grind my gears was his "i knew you had that" "you should have bet the river there" "obviously got AK" etc etc. Well well done to you if you can play perfect poker but firstly, why do you need to tell everyone? Why give out the information that you have for free to everyone else, is iut because you want us to pat you on the back, or just steal it and use it for ourselves? Secondly, "doing the dealers job", someone would go all in and he would go its "7525" while the dealer was already counting it, why? Let the dealer do their job if they get it wrong i dont mind a little dealer i think its this and not that, but why dive in there before youve given the dealer chance. It slows things down and just makes you look like a nobby know all that nobody likes. Even worse he kept getting it wrong! Just keep your mouth shut please. Luckily we were split from this guy after 4-5 hours but it does amaze me that people want to brand people like that, have they seen the way he acts at the table? I guess not as i would not want to put my name/brand to someone who was not only embarrassing to himself but to the brand he was representing. A couple of dealers told him to stop doing it as it was putting them off but he didnt, sigh. I would have just loved to have got KK in v his AA one time and got there! Anyway, couple of big comps over the weekend. Need to do some wins!!

[BorntoBubble]

I will do a full update at some point but basically I've been drinking and losing!

But deadman is a boss so W.E

[BorntoBubble]

Still here, still not doing great but having an absoulte blast. Will try and do an update tomorrow i suppose!

Trying to get in the main event over the weekend and then get to the november nine next week!

[BorntoBubble]

Well its been a week since my last update so i guess we are due one! Anyone still out there?!?!?