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Overall at the WSOP in 2008 i’ve played 8 events and won’t be playing anymore until the main event later this week (due to needing a mini break from live after the 5k 6 max event) here’s my results so far…..

1. event 7 $2k nlh.1592 entrants I finished 124th for $4056!!! lol (lost a race in the money then shoved short with 56 sooted straight into 88 boo)

2. event 13 $2.5k nlh. 1390 entrants I finished about 650th (never got anything going and overshoved q7 sooted blind on blind into aq)

3. event 21 $5k nlh 731 entrants I finished about 300th (made a big laydown of two pair on the first hand still not sure whether I should of called or not then was extremely card dead all day b4 squeezing kq into kk ooops!

4. event 31 $2500 nlh. 6 max 1013 entrants I finished about 450th (barreled off half my stack early on but then managed to double up back to starting stack with tens versus Clonie gowen’s ace jack. Not much action from then on in untilt I jammed 12bbs on the buton with ace ten got called by 88…. flopped a ten but he turned his set…. gg me)

5. event 36 $1500 nlh. 2806 entrants I finished 189th for $3006!! (played pretty good on the whole but screwed when i 3 bet a guy with q4 sooted and a short stack woke up with ak behind me and I was commited to call and lost. Bust jamming 96 into kq when I really needed those blinds and antes almost held after a 9 hi flop but he 4 flushed the river booo)

6. event 38 $2000 nlh 605 entrants i finished about 450th (had JP on my left on my starting table until his aa was busted by ak sigh! I obviously never stood a chance as it was plh so I had to see flops lol also ak losing to ak all in pre doesnt help lol)

7. event 44 $1000 nlh rebuy 879 entrants I finished about 180th (was in for $6k in rebuys so not too bad. Had a really sick table in me sctrojans, brynkenney, sbuck21, Eric Froehlic, Shaundeeb and Klausen/Tulkaz (obv not all at the same time but they overlapped as 1 busted another sicko came along…) grinded all day but then reshoved 22 bbs blind on blind v aggro Canadian with a8 straight into aq meh)

8. event 46 $5000 nlh 6 max 805 entrants I finished about 330th (had AJ fucking K Hoosier on my left but we didn’t get involved 2 much. Felt in control of my stack and table and had chipped upto about 17.5k at 300bb when I raised 34 off on the button got flat called by AJK in the sb (put him on something like qj or kq sooted possibly trapping with a big pair and the bb who was a proper donk so could have anything. Flop came 942 rainbow…. dryest flop ever and AJK checks BB donk leads 1500 but he always has air on 90% his donk leads so far… I call and ajk folds. Turn is a 6 and he checks to me and isnt good enough to trap check here so i bet 3175 to protect my hand and also for value and he check calls after thinking for 2 minutes with only 6k behind. The river comes the 5 and he jams SIGH. This card makes my straight but I think he is bad enough to call the turn with just 78…. I call after thinking for maybe 20 seconds or so and obv he has 78 off wp sir. Now im short get it in 3 ways pre with ten ten after the same guy limps then calls my shove after he has been isolated pre and the isolater comes along2. At this stage I think I’m dead to a ten after he limp calls that much pre… the flop comes low and he bets the pre flop isolator off of his hand and sumhow he only has ak but binks the river ace to bust me from the tourney…. really frustrating when u know the guy is just going to donk off your chips and has no shot at actually winning.

After the last bust in particular I didn’t feel like playing live anymore for a while so decided only to play the main event and skip a few $1500′s and 2k’s and just chill in vegas and play a bit of online on the side. Online has been going ok with a couple of decent wins of the tilt ko tourney (won it 5 times now lol weeee microgrinders ftw) and a win of the early tilt 150 $40k guaranteed for just under $12k my only 5 figure cash in Vegas so far lol.

Played the Sundays online yesterday but proceeded to get screwed all over although I did win a prop bet that I made with a couple of my housemates which was that I would make a final table on a Sunday at 2/1 for 1k action with both. I actually managed 2 finals which were the Mansion 100k and the Ipoker 30k unfortunately I came 8th and 10th…. mansion was sick as I was 3rd in chips and got kk in the bb versus the cl on the button who somehow managed to hold the aces…Ipoker was just a simple ak down to a8 scenario after running tens into kings whilst chipleader to lose most of my stack before…. Good old Sundays… Just decided to play the $2500 on Wednesday at the Venetian. Time to finally make a noise live.

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Ok here goes….. Loving it here in Vegas. The house is 2 sick and I get on well with all the people in the house (stevie’s birthday celebrations on Sunday night were particularly messy). I’ve only played two events so far in the WSOP…. the 2k nlh event 7 and the 2.5k nlh event 13. Event 7 was my first live event at the series this year and I got off to a great start when my aces held in a Huge all in pre flop confrontation versus Kings, jacks and a8 sooted?? wtf sir.

My starting table had a few tough spots in the face of Adanthar and Ryan D’Angelo (finished 20th in event 2 $1500 nlh and plays online under jaction eff/g0lfa). The rest of the table were pretty weak though and I felt like I was in great shape to pick up even more chips at this table once the two tough players had busted. Unfortunately I moved tables shortly after this and at my new table things didn’t go so well with me being particualry card and situation dead. However, I made it to day 2 and itm with a 27k stack at 1600bb (obviously I donked some off on the bubble).

Unfortuantely day 2 didn’t go so well and I only lasted 40 mins or so after I lost a very important flip with a8 versus a shortstack with 77. Shortly after I busted by shoving my last 12k with 65 sooted straight into 88 and despite a 5 on the flop I failed to get there. I only got $4k for 124th but it was a huge confidence boost finally getting a live cash and it being my first event too.

Onto my 2nd event and I’m not going to lie but this was pretty much a complete disaster. With the 2.5k buyin we were given 5000 chips at 25/50 blinds (wow 100 bb’s finally) instead of the 4000 in the previous event. This should of meant a bit more time to chip up at the start, however, I bluffed off 1500 on the first orbit and was playing catch up from there. I had a huge slice of luck when i got my stack in with 22 versus tt on a t92 3 diamond flop in a heads up pot and was outrageously lucky to hit running diamonds and chop the pot. After this hand my spirits picked up and I thought maybe it was going to be my day afterall. I managed to double up after flopping a set but never managed to push on from here and made a bad tilty overshove blind on blind with q7 sooted an ran into the table donks aq. Frustration got the better of me here and I’m definetly not going to be so rash when I play the 5k nlh on Wednesday.

As far as the online grinding is going things havent been too hot. I’m not sure If I mentioned this already but I had a bet with my housemate Pab on who can get the highest plb score on p5s for the month of June with the loser having to pay the other $1k, buy the whole house dinner (that’s becoming more expensive after we discovered japanese wagyu steak the other day at $240 a steak) and wear a t-shirt for the main event saying how the loser got pwned etc. Well 10 days into the bet and quite honestly I’m doing shit. It’s a term that often gets thrown around but I have been running awfully. I’ve been in the position to get quite a few big scores but have just had my pants pulled down at crucial times, even early on I’m getting coolered an unbelievable amount of the time. Its getting to the stage where I’m almost hating poker but I’ll get through this I always do…… I just hope it turns around sooner rather than later. I probably need some kind of party speed luckbox win or something. Anyway as I’m writing it I’m going to put a full days schedule in online (something I haven’t done for a while) before the WSOP event tomorrow. Fingers crossed I can start making some big noise again.

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