Long Time no Blog

Hey its been a while since I posted last. Back at home for a while and going to try to get back to updating. I just got back from Vegas where the Bellagio didn't treat me too well. However the rest of the trip was a blast and I had some online success while out there.

Couple of interesting hands I played

1. - Playing 10-20 NLHE at Bellagio I am stacked 5k deep with the villain having me covered. I open 33 UTG and get flatted in 4 spots. Flop 33J, OHAI quads, felling good but with the deck crippled I am praying for action. (I got it) Flop Ck's around turn is another J to make the board 33JJ. I lead for 1/3 pot $60 in to $180 original flatter calls and there is a overcall from the SB. I'm loving life at the moment thinking they both have a Jack in there hand so my goal is to try to get the most money in the middle as possible at this point so I make it $800. Original flatter folds and the guy in SB flats putting roughly 2k in the middle. At this point I am semi leery but still thinking he has a random J, river A (board 33JJA) and he leads into me for$900, I am now thinking his hand is AJ for sure and decide to over ship the river for 3500 more, a look comes over his face as he snaps, I table 33 and he tables the JJ, my heart sank.....:(.

2. - Playing 25-50-100 PLO at Bellagio in a super juicy game that I decided to run a little below expectations. The game is very live and at this point I am stacked about 15k effective. I open UTG+1 to 200, Benba makes 800 (he is 3300 effective) and Sam Fahra flats the 800. At this point I am just doing the math to try to get all the money in the middle PRE because I know sammy is never folding. If I pot here then ben calls and it closes off the pot at me only getting 3kin pre leaving 1.5 pots behind which is not what I was wanting to do, therefore I re-min giving ben the option to ship, sammy calls and it allows me to re-open the pot for 90% of my stack like 13kish. Sammy obv calls this and I got what I wanted. Flop comes 4-8-9 2tone with diamonds and Sammy immediately sets the rest of the money in and shows me the 2-6-7-10 with a FD turning my preflop 61-39 equity into 20-80 and I'm a huge dog now :(. We run the turn and river twice and he turns me dead in both spots shipping him a 33k pot and me back to Ponca to grind the nubs.

However I did get some coaching (ty benba) and was able to score a 2nd place finish in the Sunday Mulligan on Full Tilt for 39k. Thank you for all the supporters during that. Felt like I played amazing and also ran amazing throughout the tourney. It was nice to finally turn a big stack into a big cash. I have been putting myself in some really good spots lately just to come up a little short so this was nice for the confidence.

Besides that nothing much new, its a rainy day here in Ponca so going to try to watch the entire season 2 of Sons of Anarchy, shouldn't be a problem and then to Stillwater tomorrow for the Nebraska game. Also booked my trip for LA for the NAPT in November, going to be staying with Alee24 and Neal so hopefully we can run good out there. Also looking at going to KC next weekend and a trip to the PCA in january. Needing some advice for the PCA though so holding off before booking it.

GLAI

Gardyone