Well day 2 of the main event WPT festa al lago starts today... day 1a went really well for me on monday. starting stack was 45k... and i managed to finish the day with 145,500... i think im prolly about 9th in chips out of the remaining 260 or so players. Its such a deep structured tournament tho so still A LONG way to go. Day 1A was pretty crazy for me... I got to play with some of the best in the world... at my first table was Jennifer Harman (probably the best woman to ever play poker)... i got moved fairly quickly which kind of sucked cuz it was a pretty decent table draw.... but i had taken like 35k off the huge fish at my table so that was nice. I got moved to Antonio Esfandari's table (my favorite player). He's a really nice guy and I have talked to him a bunch of times before. We started playing a prop bet game called "Lodden thinks" which was a ton of fun. You and one guy think up any question that can have a numerical answer to it and then pick one person at the table to think up what THEY THINK the answer is to the question. Then you chinese auction back and forth till u have an over under and then whoever loses pays the winner. Tons of fun... o btw Antonio finished the day with a MASSIVE CHIPLEAD... he has like 313k 2nd has like 205k... gross.
I decided im going to stay in Vegas and play the Caesars Classic which is right after the WPT. Instead of travelling like 18 hours to EPT budapest which is the same time (just for one tourney). Ill be coming home as soon as I bust the Caesars main event. Alright well good luck to me on this day 2... hoping for a good table draw. later guys
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
2 hours of poker in the past 9 days
So I got home this morning from niagara and toronto and realized that not only have I only played 2 hours of poker in the past 9 days (WPT Niagara day 1 busto 2nd level), but I think its been like 18 days since I played online poker... I think its the longest break from online poker ive taken in almost 3 years. In my few days home 7th-10th and today, I have been basically rammed with trying to answer emails, facebook comments, email interviews, catch up with people on the phone and/or online, do laundry and plan out my next trip, while trying to spend time with family and also my new girlfriend. :)
Im leaving on friday to go to vegas for the WPT at the bellagio... going to play the 5k event on the 18th and then day 1a of the 15k main event on the 20th. If i bust i plan on coming home that night or the next day. Otherwise i will just come home whenever i get knocked out.
Although the WPT in Niagara was kind of a bust, i had a great time on the trip... got to chill with my BOIS dblock, fil, stefan, ozren, sanel, and even got to go to kyle's house for canadian thanksgiving BURRRRRRRRRRPPPPPP!!!! Got to see a raptors preseason game vs Russian team from Moscow which was fun. Lemme explain how i busted the tourney so fast
I played a few pots here and there and was down to about 26k from a starting stack of 30k... there was a dead stack directly on my right for about 2 hours. An older guy with a cowboy hat shows up late and sits down next to me he still has like 28k. He calls a few raises preflop in like the first 6 hands he sees but just mucks to cbets. On around the 7th hand he gets dealt... Utg +1 opens to 600... this old guy is on the button and 3bets to 2500... i am in the small blind with KK now some may say flatting is the best play... i don't like to do this there i think i should have 4 bet smaller than i did and then folded to his shove... i made it 7100 (shoulda made it around 64-6600 i think) and after the initial raise folded... old man insta IM ALL IN! i tanked for around 30 seconds saying o thats so sick i know u have AA aight i call and he tables AA... board runs Q J 8 A 4 and im out. I dont think that guy is ever showing up there with QQ or AK so my call with KK is pretty bad i think... altho its tough with such little info on the guy... i mean a guy who shows up 2 hours late to a 10k event may just not care about money and be willing to gamble it up for 130 bbs with AK or QQ. pretty sick but o well.
going to go play in my bball game 2nite... first time playing in around 2 months God help me... i just hope we have subs cuz i will be sucking wind.
Im leaving on friday to go to vegas for the WPT at the bellagio... going to play the 5k event on the 18th and then day 1a of the 15k main event on the 20th. If i bust i plan on coming home that night or the next day. Otherwise i will just come home whenever i get knocked out.
Although the WPT in Niagara was kind of a bust, i had a great time on the trip... got to chill with my BOIS dblock, fil, stefan, ozren, sanel, and even got to go to kyle's house for canadian thanksgiving BURRRRRRRRRRPPPPPP!!!! Got to see a raptors preseason game vs Russian team from Moscow which was fun. Lemme explain how i busted the tourney so fast
I played a few pots here and there and was down to about 26k from a starting stack of 30k... there was a dead stack directly on my right for about 2 hours. An older guy with a cowboy hat shows up late and sits down next to me he still has like 28k. He calls a few raises preflop in like the first 6 hands he sees but just mucks to cbets. On around the 7th hand he gets dealt... Utg +1 opens to 600... this old guy is on the button and 3bets to 2500... i am in the small blind with KK now some may say flatting is the best play... i don't like to do this there i think i should have 4 bet smaller than i did and then folded to his shove... i made it 7100 (shoulda made it around 64-6600 i think) and after the initial raise folded... old man insta IM ALL IN! i tanked for around 30 seconds saying o thats so sick i know u have AA aight i call and he tables AA... board runs Q J 8 A 4 and im out. I dont think that guy is ever showing up there with QQ or AK so my call with KK is pretty bad i think... altho its tough with such little info on the guy... i mean a guy who shows up 2 hours late to a 10k event may just not care about money and be willing to gamble it up for 130 bbs with AK or QQ. pretty sick but o well.
going to go play in my bball game 2nite... first time playing in around 2 months God help me... i just hope we have subs cuz i will be sucking wind.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Run like the sun!
So I know I have been doing a terrible job of blogging… lol I got tired of it pretty quickly. I discovered that I’m definitely way too lazy to record or write down a lot of hands while I play a tournament and then put them up on here. So ill try to update this sometimes but I may stop updating it all together, we will see. Right now, I’m in an airplane flying home yay! So im typing this and will save it and post it later. I have to stop in Atlanta though before flying home to Ft Laudy daudy.
As most of yall prolly already know, yesterday turned out to be an absolutely amazing day for me. I had made it to day 2 of the High Rollers EPT London 20k pound buyin tournament. I was 3rd in chips entering the day, and seeing as how there were 14 players left and only 9 got paid, I was hoping to make history and become the 1st player to every claim 2 EPT titles. Well, my dream came true, I managed to outlast, outplay, and outflip the remaining 13 other players and achieve my goal. The final table was amazingly stacked with pros. 4 online whiz kids, if you will, Isaac Haxton, Michael Watson (recent WPT Bellagio cup champ, and Peter Jetten (2nd place in 10k PLO at wsop), and me of course lol. Then the likes of John Juanda, Scotty Nguyen, David Benyamine, and Isabelle Mercier (my sister obv jk jk), and one high roller amateur.
The final table was pretty grueling, I had to be very very patient and pick my spots well. In the previous 2 final tables I had made on this trip, I had been the one pushing the action at the final table trying to put pressure on guys and get involved in big pots. This time around, I kinda wanted to sit back and develop a sort of tight image and just pick my spots carefully. My strategy worked pretty perfectly as I was able to make some fairly light 3 bets when we got down to 3 and 4 handed, and also light opens from utg 5 handed. It was pretty amazing how everything came all together, I almost feel like I don’t deserve it seeing as how my first win was a mere 6 months ago. I’ve accomplished in 6 months what most poker players hope to accomplish in a span of 5 years.
I got very lucky in day 1 of this event as well, sucked out 3 times when I was dominated, twice for my tourney life. What can I say, I’m running hotter than the sun. I feel like it would absolutely foolish of me to not continue playing big events till the end of the year… like I was telling some of you guys, I’m basically freerolling with rakeback and my equity is so high. My next trip is to Niagara falls for the WPT event there, I’m going to be leaving on the 10th. Lol only gonna be home 3 days sick I kno. Ill have time to spend at home when im older right?
This whole trip was pretty amazing, I wish I wouldn’t have been so lazy and woulda actually gone sight seeing a bit, or taken more pictures. But whatever ill be back to Europe soon im sure. Wouldn’t you go back if you shipped 7 figs each trip lol. Aight enough bragging, seriously though, I appreciate all the support from my friends and family who watched the final tables and updates so fervently. You guys are the greatest. It really does inspire me to try and play my best and do well, knowing all of you are watching. Well that’s it for now pe@ce!
As most of yall prolly already know, yesterday turned out to be an absolutely amazing day for me. I had made it to day 2 of the High Rollers EPT London 20k pound buyin tournament. I was 3rd in chips entering the day, and seeing as how there were 14 players left and only 9 got paid, I was hoping to make history and become the 1st player to every claim 2 EPT titles. Well, my dream came true, I managed to outlast, outplay, and outflip the remaining 13 other players and achieve my goal. The final table was amazingly stacked with pros. 4 online whiz kids, if you will, Isaac Haxton, Michael Watson (recent WPT Bellagio cup champ, and Peter Jetten (2nd place in 10k PLO at wsop), and me of course lol. Then the likes of John Juanda, Scotty Nguyen, David Benyamine, and Isabelle Mercier (my sister obv jk jk), and one high roller amateur.
The final table was pretty grueling, I had to be very very patient and pick my spots well. In the previous 2 final tables I had made on this trip, I had been the one pushing the action at the final table trying to put pressure on guys and get involved in big pots. This time around, I kinda wanted to sit back and develop a sort of tight image and just pick my spots carefully. My strategy worked pretty perfectly as I was able to make some fairly light 3 bets when we got down to 3 and 4 handed, and also light opens from utg 5 handed. It was pretty amazing how everything came all together, I almost feel like I don’t deserve it seeing as how my first win was a mere 6 months ago. I’ve accomplished in 6 months what most poker players hope to accomplish in a span of 5 years.
I got very lucky in day 1 of this event as well, sucked out 3 times when I was dominated, twice for my tourney life. What can I say, I’m running hotter than the sun. I feel like it would absolutely foolish of me to not continue playing big events till the end of the year… like I was telling some of you guys, I’m basically freerolling with rakeback and my equity is so high. My next trip is to Niagara falls for the WPT event there, I’m going to be leaving on the 10th. Lol only gonna be home 3 days sick I kno. Ill have time to spend at home when im older right?
This whole trip was pretty amazing, I wish I wouldn’t have been so lazy and woulda actually gone sight seeing a bit, or taken more pictures. But whatever ill be back to Europe soon im sure. Wouldn’t you go back if you shipped 7 figs each trip lol. Aight enough bragging, seriously though, I appreciate all the support from my friends and family who watched the final tables and updates so fervently. You guys are the greatest. It really does inspire me to try and play my best and do well, knowing all of you are watching. Well that’s it for now pe@ce!
Sunday, September 28, 2008
FT disappointment and spewtastic plays in main event
Well as most of you probably already know... i had a very disappointing showing at the final table of the PLO event 3 at the wsope. I entered the final table 2nd in chips with over double the stack of 6 of the 9 players at the table. pretty much every hand that i played i lost. i dont think i won a pot worth more than 10 bbs. Almost every all in player doubled up. I could have easily managed a 5th place or so if these players had been eliminated. I ended up taking down 8th place, on my bust hand i got the money in on basically a coin flip... i spiked on the turn, giving Theo only 8 outs... which he then re sucked and knocked me out.
I played the main event of the wsope yesterday... i was not feeling very well, but got my head on straight and started grinding. My table was INSANELY soft for what should have been in my mind, a very strong field. I had andy black and eric seidel at my table. Andy black plays weird and is easy to read... Seidel is solid and kind of nitty. I had tmay420 at my table aka Tim West... a very solid online crusher of MTTs, and then a solid older guy Jason Grey. Then there were 4 donks. I started taking down pot after pot never really having to showdown hands. I built my stack to about 40k. With about 10 mins left before dinner break, I decided to make an absolutely retarded play and tried to triple barrel eric seidel with K hi... he ended up shipping over my 11k river bet for only 7k more... which i obv had to fold to. it was so retarded, i dont even want to get into how bad i played the hand. So then i was kind of pissed i lost like half my stack right before dinner.
The dinner breaks at wsope are frickin 2 hours long... which is absolutely ridiculous. i'd prefer 1 hour... 90 mins is too long for me but its not terrible... 2 hours i just want to throw something. So i wait for what seems like forever to come back from dinner break. and on the first hand i have AQo in the bb. andy black is in the sb and raises to 800 150 300 blinds. i make it 2500, and he INSTANTLY makes it 8500... i only have 19k total. Looking back this should be a fold here every time vs him. I hadnt seen him 4 bet anyone yet in 6 hours except once when he had AA... every other time he was 3 bet he either snap called or folded. So his range here is JJ QQ KK AA AK... and i like a donk with no fold equity shove my AQ. He snap calls with KK. Heres the best part about the hand. Flop comes A 4 3... turn 6 RIVER K! lol whatever i deserve it for playing retarded. I'm gonna go play the 1k pound double chance omaha tournament over at the Vic at 6 pm today. We'll see how that goes. Im really debating on whether i want to extend my trip a few more days to go to niagara and play the WPT. ill have to figure it out soon i guess
aight later guys
I played the main event of the wsope yesterday... i was not feeling very well, but got my head on straight and started grinding. My table was INSANELY soft for what should have been in my mind, a very strong field. I had andy black and eric seidel at my table. Andy black plays weird and is easy to read... Seidel is solid and kind of nitty. I had tmay420 at my table aka Tim West... a very solid online crusher of MTTs, and then a solid older guy Jason Grey. Then there were 4 donks. I started taking down pot after pot never really having to showdown hands. I built my stack to about 40k. With about 10 mins left before dinner break, I decided to make an absolutely retarded play and tried to triple barrel eric seidel with K hi... he ended up shipping over my 11k river bet for only 7k more... which i obv had to fold to. it was so retarded, i dont even want to get into how bad i played the hand. So then i was kind of pissed i lost like half my stack right before dinner.
The dinner breaks at wsope are frickin 2 hours long... which is absolutely ridiculous. i'd prefer 1 hour... 90 mins is too long for me but its not terrible... 2 hours i just want to throw something. So i wait for what seems like forever to come back from dinner break. and on the first hand i have AQo in the bb. andy black is in the sb and raises to 800 150 300 blinds. i make it 2500, and he INSTANTLY makes it 8500... i only have 19k total. Looking back this should be a fold here every time vs him. I hadnt seen him 4 bet anyone yet in 6 hours except once when he had AA... every other time he was 3 bet he either snap called or folded. So his range here is JJ QQ KK AA AK... and i like a donk with no fold equity shove my AQ. He snap calls with KK. Heres the best part about the hand. Flop comes A 4 3... turn 6 RIVER K! lol whatever i deserve it for playing retarded. I'm gonna go play the 1k pound double chance omaha tournament over at the Vic at 6 pm today. We'll see how that goes. Im really debating on whether i want to extend my trip a few more days to go to niagara and play the WPT. ill have to figure it out soon i guess
aight later guys
Friday, September 26, 2008
no time to blog... bracelet hunting!
so in 2 hours im going to start the final table of wsope event 3 5k pounds!!! im 2nd in chips with a massive gap between me and 3rd and 3rd and 4th. first is around 400k US$ plus a bracelet... so it could be a huge day. sorry i havent been blogging lately... the internet at my hotel is pretty crap! actually my hotel here in London is pretty crap in general lol. whatever im a travelling nit. so hopefully i will ship the bracelet today and blog about it in a few days... wooohooo u can keep up with it on pokernews or wsop. heres a link for you guys....
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/09/2008-wsope-event-3-plo-day-2-theo-jorgensen-heads-final-nine.htm
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/09/2008-wsope-event-3-plo-day-2-theo-jorgensen-heads-final-nine.htm
Monday, September 22, 2008
wcoop blues
Well... its 3:30 pm right now. I woke up not to long ago. Was up pretty fairly late last night playing the wcoop main event and 2nd chance event. These 2 tourneys did not go so well... On the main event of wcoop... i was playing really good having run my 25k starting stack up to about 37k... at which point I got absolutely screwed by a total retard. I understand if i take a bad beat all in pre or a guy makes a reasonable play and gets lucky, but when i kno the guy is a fairly good player and he makes just an absolutely retarded no thought process play and hits a 2 outer it makes me go crazy. Here is how the hand went down: http://www.pokerhand.org/?3224220
So in this hand... pretty standard pre flop action... I raise button he flats from sb. on the flop i like to check behind here b/c im not ready to play for stacks and i also wanna use my hand as a bluffcatcher. on the turn i pick up a flush draw and when he checks again i kno i have the hand and want to get value out of him having any pair or even something like AJ hes not folding to my turn bet... he will prolly pay off turn and river bets with like 77 88 etc. when he check raises... i knew immediately he didnt have much at all... only hand that makes sense that is beating me is 22. and when i say the only hand i mean the ONLY hand. even if he flatted pre with AQ or AA which is very unlikely seeing as how he has 3 bet me like last 3 times i raised button.... he then wouldnt check raise turn he would either check call trying to trap or lead the turn. i know he wont flat pre with a random 6 like 67s or A6s... so he either has 22 or im good. when the river came down a 4 and he then tanked and bet like half pot... i thought immediately 44... i was expecting a quick like 80-85% pot bet which i was going to snap call knowing i was good. lol so sick sometimes when u kno a guy just hit a 2 outer... such a pathetic hand... anyways i was left with like 15k and the blinds went to 400 800... few hands later c/o opens to 2k and i shove with TT and get snap called by KK gg me. sigh lol donkaments
I lost the 2nd chance having about 30 bbs with QQ... opened mid pos to 800 (150 300) button flats sb flats and the bb makes it 4200... huge squeeze imo no way its KK or AA... im never folding in this spot and i dont think anyone is really... so i ship and he snaps with AA yay!
well i leave 2moro for london... playing the WSOPe event 3 PLO 5k pounds buyin on the 24th... looking forward to that event. today i don't really have anything to do... maybe ill play online idk... its nasty weather right now in barcelona... rainy and overcast... aight later
So in this hand... pretty standard pre flop action... I raise button he flats from sb. on the flop i like to check behind here b/c im not ready to play for stacks and i also wanna use my hand as a bluffcatcher. on the turn i pick up a flush draw and when he checks again i kno i have the hand and want to get value out of him having any pair or even something like AJ hes not folding to my turn bet... he will prolly pay off turn and river bets with like 77 88 etc. when he check raises... i knew immediately he didnt have much at all... only hand that makes sense that is beating me is 22. and when i say the only hand i mean the ONLY hand. even if he flatted pre with AQ or AA which is very unlikely seeing as how he has 3 bet me like last 3 times i raised button.... he then wouldnt check raise turn he would either check call trying to trap or lead the turn. i know he wont flat pre with a random 6 like 67s or A6s... so he either has 22 or im good. when the river came down a 4 and he then tanked and bet like half pot... i thought immediately 44... i was expecting a quick like 80-85% pot bet which i was going to snap call knowing i was good. lol so sick sometimes when u kno a guy just hit a 2 outer... such a pathetic hand... anyways i was left with like 15k and the blinds went to 400 800... few hands later c/o opens to 2k and i shove with TT and get snap called by KK gg me. sigh lol donkaments
I lost the 2nd chance having about 30 bbs with QQ... opened mid pos to 800 (150 300) button flats sb flats and the bb makes it 4200... huge squeeze imo no way its KK or AA... im never folding in this spot and i dont think anyone is really... so i ship and he snaps with AA yay!
well i leave 2moro for london... playing the WSOPe event 3 PLO 5k pounds buyin on the 24th... looking forward to that event. today i don't really have anything to do... maybe ill play online idk... its nasty weather right now in barcelona... rainy and overcast... aight later
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
lazyness.....
Well, its been quite a hectic 4 days since i last posted. I did not have time to post and say that I did make the final table of ept barcelona. I entered the final table 7th in chips because of losing a few flips 9 handed. I ended up finishing 6th... kind of disappointed seeing as how I was absolutely running that table over but no one would bust 9 handed b/c they were all a bunch of nits who were just trying to move up the money scale... and b/c no one busted for 3.5 hours it made the structure pretty terrible for the final table... but its all good... at the end of the day im happy with my performance and also with the nice payday.
As of right now, I am in ibiza, spain just chillin out for a few days relaxing at the beach and what not... right now im playing the wcoop 320$ NL 6 max event... i was also playing the 320R PLO event but got knocked out a few minutes ago. I plan on taking the next few days off from poker and just hanging out and having a good time over here. I fly back to barcelona on the morning of the 21st... which works out b/c that night is day 1 of the wcoop main event 5200$ (this is an online tournament btw) so im gonna just bunker down and play that tourney in barcelona b4 i head to london on the 23rd.
I dont really have the energy to make a long post... havent been in the mood to blog or even think really lol aight later
As of right now, I am in ibiza, spain just chillin out for a few days relaxing at the beach and what not... right now im playing the wcoop 320$ NL 6 max event... i was also playing the 320R PLO event but got knocked out a few minutes ago. I plan on taking the next few days off from poker and just hanging out and having a good time over here. I fly back to barcelona on the morning of the 21st... which works out b/c that night is day 1 of the wcoop main event 5200$ (this is an online tournament btw) so im gonna just bunker down and play that tourney in barcelona b4 i head to london on the 23rd.
I dont really have the energy to make a long post... havent been in the mood to blog or even think really lol aight later
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