Friday, June 27, 2008

I suck

Jason made about 2500 out of mega-stack while playing at the WSOP - he ran over on the first break. He went out of the short-handed Event with a set of queens vs. a straight draw that hit.

Adrian is right now at the final table of the Venetian 8pm tourney and looks to made a G or so. That means I am officially the only bloke in our little group with no cashes this year. To be fair, my like tourney experience is still fairly light, especially compared to all these guys. And, nearly half of my live tourneys have been WSOP events.

To make matters worse I had my first losing cash game of the week and finished down about 230 when I got chased down by a flush draw and then check-called a stiff 100 dollar bet on the river when the third diamond came off. It was another example of where I think I disguised mu hand but in so doing it contributed to me putting my opponent on a weak ace. When I check-raised a turn that gave me a nut flush draw to go with my aces and second kicker and he flat called I thought he just wasn't getting away from the ace. He didn't strike me as a particularly imaginative player but wound up with a 10 high flush.

I took a time out and went to Grand Lux with Andy and Adam to commiserate, them over the 8pm tourney and me getting my first twerking in a while.

We didn't get the KCL game going due to their time in the tourney. There was a 6/12 HORSE game going but I let it get away going to check on Jason. I found him at O'Shea's with a room full of top on-line pros playing beer pong. There's something wrong with these guys getting tanked on the cheapest St. Louis beer possible. While there Jason dropped 100 playing war on a 5 dollar table when he shoved with one hand and had his 9 nicked by "Sahara's" ten. Bad beat, bro.

Adrian just doubled up with AK all-in preflop against AJ.

As for poker my trip is ending with a bit of a whimper. I played one bad hand tonight that has me smarting and I'm over HE right now. One thing this week really reminds me is what hard work it is to play good poker. When you're not focused nearly 100% on the game, don't bother.

We plan to all go out to Tao tomorrow and I have a 6 am flight Saturday so I'm likely to be destroyed. I don't know if I'll be doing much of anything tomorrow which is a lot like today.

Game on for next year. The lads spend 4 or 5 weeks out here so it should be easy to schedule around in 2009, and a condo is a distinct possibility.

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