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So I decided to play today.  Here’s the overall graph including last night’s hands:

So, +$7k in my first day of only 2/4.  That went well.

We left off with me final tabling a big tournament, and making 6 figures on the year.  Wellllllll, things aren’t so cheerful right now.  Lets begin.

Things kick off with me getting seasons 1-3 of Entourage in the mail on Tuesday.  I watched all of season 1 while I grinded, and won $1k.  I was kinda tired, but was talking to my boy Pete (the one that went to the MTT with me, and my new potential manager) and decided to begin season 2 and see how games were.  Well, I found a 68/32 at nl2k, and was on top of the world.  So I sit down, and 2 more fish are there!  Shippp.  Then I lost set under set, TP vs a rivered 2 pair and QQ v JJ that hits a set in a 6k pot.  Mehhh.  I end approximately -$5k.  I never realized Entourage Season 2 cost so much. I lay down and try to sleep but to no avail.

I eventually fall asleep, and wake up at 1pm on Wednesday.  I tried to go back to sleep at like 3, but Kayte and 2 of her friends walked in the door.  She whined about me getting her a car.. I laughed a bit, and then decided to look for cars for me.  After calling my buddy Brett, I got talks of a loan started.  The car I found was like $3k overpriced, so I looked again.. after a bunch of us went to the Maumee River to check out the scenery.  It was a fun walk and was nice to get outside.  We get home, I get back on autotrader, and found a used car with 30k miles for $20k after taxes.  So, as of Wednesday, say hello to my new baby.  A 2006 Nissan 350Z:

So we get home, and I go to Pete’s at 9:30 or so.. and grind a mixture of 2/4-5/10, and win $100 or something.  We play in our homegame, I win another $180 at .5/1, and we watch the WSOP stuff.  It sucked seeing Dean bust, because I met him at the HPT event and he final tabled it with me, so seeing him lose the pot to Marquis was sick.  I decided to 2-table 2/4 HU and got rocked.  KJ allin against K9 on a K234, river 9.. all that stuff.  I dropped $2400, but grinded back to -$1k and called it a night.

This run bad/play bad thing has caused me to make a goal (or punishment) for myself.  I’m playing 2/4 and only 2/4 6-max until I win $10,000; I’ll keep the blog updated daily if I can, and after day 1, I found myself up $2,500.  Maybe this goal won’t be so bad after all…

I’m busy this weekend, Chelsi and Trina are coming up for a Halloween party and I can’t wait.  Trina and I are going as Adam and Eve, and I can’t wait.  She’s absolutely gorgeous, it’s gonna be amazing.  I’ll try to get pics up, I dunno if I want her on my blog with a bunch of horny poker players though

Peace.

Look out Krantz, you’re not the only one getting on TV (although you’ll be on longer than me for sure)!

Four of us went up to Greektown Casino in Detroit on Wednesday to play a qualifier to the $1,650 Main Event of the Heartland Poker Tour.  None of us qualified though, so we figured we weren’t going.  The next night, Pete and I decided that we wanted to wake up really early on Friday and play the last qualifier they had — We overslept.

Waking up at 11:30 (the qualifier started at 11, with a 1.5 hour drive) ruined all chances of us getting into the event.  I grinded online for a bit, dropped a grand and texted Pete saying I think we should go.  He said if I stake him half, he’d go.  I agreed and we were on the road.

Day 1 started with me at the same table as Pete, along with a couple guys I played with in the qualifier, and a guy that seemed like a high-stakes internet pro.  First hand he raises, I flat with JJ, and 3 others call.  Flop T52, he bets 1100, I call, another caller.  Turn J, he bets 2200, I raise to 6100, he calls.  River K, I bet 10.5k, he calls with what I later find out is JT.  Wish I would’ve busted him as he turned out to be a huge pain in my side.  He doubled up a few times and had folded to one 3bet already and was showing down good hands.  He raised, I 3b AQo to 2100 at 100/200.  Flop was AK2r, I bet 3k and he raised to like 9500.. I felt ill and folded?  After that hand he seemed to never fold a hand.. he turned into a complete LAG, it sucked.  Eventually I find out that he won the 1k rebuy event at WSOP this year (why can’t I have knocked him out, amirite?).

So we move tables, and I just kinda survive.  We play until 4k/8k blinds, and I ended the day with 127k.  We drove back home for a day and drove back to Detroit on Saturday night.  Sunday morning came around and I got to the casino.  Turned out I was like 33/64 with my 13bb.. the structure was really bad.  We got to sit down and it turns out that the second flights of day 1 played to the 5k/10k level.. so we had to break off all the flight 1 qualifiers and play the 5k/10k level before we even started.  I got through that only losing 1500 chips.  Got to 7k/14k blinds, and I basically just grinded.  I never really got above 10bb and made it to the money bubble with like 180k at 10k/20k.  I got 99 on the bubble and thought I was gonna run into a monster, but shoved and took down the blinds.

Eventually we got past the bubble, and a guy shoved UTG with 98s, I woke up with AA in the blinds.  I chipped up to like 400k there.  Our table broke soon after and we were down to 30 people.  I stole a few blinds, and I had to call off a shove for 2bb when I was in the bb with K3s.. lost to aces.  So I was down to 300k or so and the same guy shoved again, another guy reraised, and I looked down at aces and shoved and held against TT and QQ.  That got me up to around 750k, and I stole a lot of blinds since I had a stack (13bb lol) now.

We went on break and when we came back, blinds were 50k/100k?!  Average stack was 721k, how the hell could we do this?  Meh.  I fold a couple hands, and UTG I get aces with 5bb and shove with no callers.  I shove AQs, and ATo and get no callers again.  I get UTG and get KK and shove my 850k stack.. the BB (who was the other big stack at the table) called with QQ and I held.  We soon broke to the FT and I was chipleader with this guy Dean who finished 10th in this year’s WSOP ME not far behind me.  He played better than me and ran better than me at the FT and we finished the FT (stopped at 6 handed for the TV final table) with me having 1.25million, being in 4th place (they bumped blinds down to 30k/60k).

We got interviews set up and got ready for the TV FT, and it was really a cool experience.  I was wearing my DeucesCracked hoodie throughout the day, but they wouldn’t let me wear it for the FT because CardRunners is their main sponsor.  Meh.  The FT started, and everyone was playing pretty tight, me included.  I played a couple hands and took down the blinds, and a guy asked how long before blinds went up when he was UTG.  He shoved, I called with AK, and he had aces.  NH sir.  That put me down to around 600k or so, and blinds were going up to 75k/150k soon, so I shoved 75o with 5bb or something.. got called by QQ and didn’t get there.

So I finished 6th for $27k before taxes.. $18.5 or something after taxes… $9275 after paying Mike because he’s a luckbox at staking.  So that puts my month up to around +$15k or something, which ALSO sets another milestone: I’m up 6 figures for the year!  That was my goal when I was still grinding 1/2 at a mediocre winrate.. and I got there yesterday.  Ship itttt!

That’s all for now, have a good one

So my last update talked about going to Vegas.. well we did.

On the plane:

(From Left to Right: Me, Megan, Ian)

We left Wednesday evening and upon arriving to McCarran airport, I almost lost my luggage when I walked off without it.  Oops.  When we got there we played a little bit of poker and stuff, but nothing serious.

(From Left to Right: Joe, Megan, Me, Ian)

On Thursday, we played the $130 tournament at Caesar’s and I got 12th, 9 places paid.  I met chaucerchick from 2+2 there, and she’s pretty freaking sweet, like I thought she’d be.  I obviously busted with 77 against A5, but whatever.  3 people from our group made the final table and got like 9th, 7th and 2nd.. we pretty much dominated it.  That night we celebrated a bit and played a bit of blackjack and stuff.. I dropped $300 there. I forget what we did after that, but I couldn’t sleep at night, and I went down to Caesar’s to play 2/5 and made like $1200.  I decided at like 8am that I was gonna go back to the room and take a nap before the 12pm tournament, and I took a shower and decided that I wasn’t sleepy.

Went to play blackjack and get breakfast with Dyssard, and I won $175 at BJ cause I’m a champ.  Had a hamburger and fries for breakfast (lol) and went to play the $340 tournament at Caesar’s.  I had a shitty run of cards and figured I was gonna get spewy, so I got a massage instead.  I folded every hand for the 45 minutes of my massage.  That was an amazing massage and I ended up getting two more from her (her name was Joy, and she definitely was one), and got 21st in the tournament.. 9 paid again.  Sigh.

After that I was pretty pissed, and decided I was gonna go to the Venetian.  Joy told me to ask for Rachel, and so I found her and she was an amazing masseuse too.  I ended up dropping like $600 at 5/10, and just racked up and got a massage at an empty table.  She worked my back so well that I finally had a good sleep and felt really well — apparently I have a curved spine and it’s causing my muscles to be unaligned.  But yeah, if anyone gets a massage in Vegas, ask for Joy at Caesar’s or Rachel at Venetian - tell them Trevor sent you :).

So Saturday comes and we got up at like 10:50 and had to check out by 11.. so I packed all my stuff really fast and checked out.  I went to Caesar’s while they went to New York, New York, and I got a final massage from Joy.  I played 1/3 and won $200, and got a call from Pete to head to the Bellagio.  Played 2/5 there with Pete, Andy and Dyssard.. and an asian guy recognized my face from 2+2 (I assume from all the photoshops of my facebook picture), so that was really exciting that I’m semi-famous.  I lost like $600 overall there, but had fun anyways.

I had plans to meet chaucerchick for dinner, and so I walked to the Mirage to meet her, and we went back to her house to see her dogs, and they’re pretty sweet.  Here I am getting attacked by Killer (I think).

After seeing the dogs, we went to a bar and got a bite to eat.  I had probably the best BBQ wings ever, and after all that, we played pool.  I kicked her ass 2-0 and had to get back to the Venetian so she drove me back there.  I got a decent picture of the Rio and Palms while we were in the car.

So after that, I get to the Venetian and get on the list for 2/5.  After getting sat down for the final massage with Rachel, I decide I don’t want the seat after all.  I end up getting a 90ish minute massage, and just really enjoyed it.  I need a personal masseuse here, that’d be amaaazing.  My back is still messed up but it’s not so bad anymore thanks to Joy and Rachel.  When it was time to go, we got our luggage and headed to the airport.. and I realized I didn’t have my car keys.. because I left them on the stand in the hotel room when I rushed to check out.

I tried to get a cab back to the airport but I was like the 9th party in line and decided that I couldn’t make it in time, so I just gave up. I called Skyler (my roommate) and she didn’t pick up.  So I called her little sister and tried to get my spare set of keys up to the airport.  She talked to her mom and we were texting and my phone died.  I had no idea what to do so I just got on the plane and slept.  We got to Minneapolis for our layover and plugged my phone in and got a text from Skyler saying her friend was gonna bring my keys to the airport.  We got to Detroit at like 9:30 and Brittany got there at like 10 and I gave her $100 for bringing my keys, and we headed home.

After getting home, I’ve basically been sleeping most of the time, and trying to get back to playing online.  That’s basically the update, so in about a week or two I’ll update again. 

T.

It’s 7:30am, I’m about to head to bed, but I just wanted to update that I’ll be touching down in Vegas at 8:30pm tomorrow night.  Going with 7 other people from my town, I can’t wait. I’ll try to get a trip report but I doubt I will, I’ll take pictures though.

Poker has been decent this month, I think I’m up $4k so far in not many hands.. I’ve been really busy with an upper respiratory infection that I finally recovered from and have been working with Chloe trying to train her and get her in a “good dog” mode and trying to get her to stop biting and jumping and stuff.

Don’t really have too much to say here, just wanted to say that I’ll be in Vegas, so my internet time will be limited and stuff.

Have a good one