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How I turned $80 into $16,567

So as I mentioned in a previous post, I was heading to Vegas for a week to play in the WSOP. Well things didn’t go according to plans and that was a very good thing. My buddy and I and our significant others who were with us for the weekend had dinner plans at Lavo in the Palazzo on Saturday night. Before dinner my buddy and I decided to try a $80 satellite at the Venetian for entry into a $340 Deep stack event that Monday. Top 2 got seats and I was one of them after being shortstack and hitting a miracle turn card with 4 left when my KK ran into A5 all in pre flop and the board came 553 bu the turn came a miracle K. I win my seat, chop the last longer and go and play Monday. We start with 12k in chips and 40 min levels. I am up to about 17k when the following hands happens during the 2nd level. I open UTG with AA to 650 (blinds 100/200). BB raises me to 2100 and I make it 7k to go. He goes all in and I call and he has KK. Flop comes K high and I hit a the miracle case ace on the river. Same dealer who dealt me my KK inthe satty…this felt like destiny to me.  From their I play pretty much solid poker and keep getting big hand after big hand. At dinner break I was about 35-40K after taking some hits though. However, by the end of the night I have 635,000 in chips and in 2nd place with 39 left. Going into day 2 I was feeling really at ease and confident. On the 2nd hand of the day I win over a 300K pot (AK vs 1010 and my 10′s hold up) and am almost at a million in chips. I now enter the final table 3rd in chips and guaranteed over 4K. We are now 4 handed and I am last in chips. I ask the tournament director for chop amounts based on chip equity. He runs the numbers and 4th was worth 26k while first was 50k. If we played it out 1st gets 64k. The chip leader was a young kid who had about 50% of the chips in play. He states that he will not accept anything below $60k. After the TD and the rest of tell him what a deal he is getting, he still refuses and we play 4 handed for about 1.5 hours. At that point I am third in chips and the young kid is severe shortstack after doubling up almost all the players. I am then dealt KK in the BB and raise the chip leader who opened on the button. I have about $1.8 million and he makes it 275k to go. I make it about 850k and he pushes all in and I snap call. He has AJ and a Ace hits the flop and I am going home in 4th place. The kid finished 3rd for just over 18k. He cost me at minimum $10k and himself $32k. What a greedy donkey. The 2 guys left chopped up 1st and 2nd since they were close in chips for $48k apiece. I can’t complain too much since I ran like God pretty much (39 pocket pairs in 2 days) and outlasted 815 players. My biggest score by far ever amd just in time as I need to pay some debt down and help with a down payment on a house.

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On the road again…

This city, man. This “love-hate relationship” city, man. This “play with your emotions until you can’t take it” city, man. I’m there again. Staring at the strip, at the flashing lights, at the scores of drunken people staggering through Tropicana Avenue as I try to cross the freeway to the In&Out.

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I like this much more…

I was wandering around the Cafeteria today at work. It being a geek university, there were lots of stereotypical images of 20-something geeks wandering around. It then came as a surprise to me that I stared at a guy for like 10 seconds, because he reminded me of somebody I know from 2+2 that earns his living playing online poker. No, that couldn’t be him, he’s in Vegas right now, crushing the cash games, not worrying about stupid donkaments, even if he will play 2-3.

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How can this happen?

I’m usually a very level headed person! At the poker tables I shrug off the bad beats easily and can maintain my focus very well. It’s then only even more discomforting that every now and then (about 3 times a year), I have those days where EVERYTHING becomes unhinged. And I don’t know why. It’s like a pendulum that is swinging very little, but every now and then it just goes off. Like an earthquake – disastrous.

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Just an Update

I haven’t blogged here in awhile.. but when I stopped by and read about Bellatrix’s dilemma I wanted to update on somethings.. I was laid off from my apparel design job 2 days before my 29th bday. Working 9-6 used to kill me. I hated it. Also, for some reason I always ended up in the least inspiring work spaces.. dark corners. Makes us creative types just want to explode.. Well, the whole time I was trapped in my salary job dreaming of playing poker, pursing my own creative venture and just seeing daylight.. I guess I finally got my wish.

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Amazing May!

Since I wrote the post about thinking of doing this for a living, I have been on an amazingly sick heater. I am scared of course that it’ll all come crashing down like a house of… mhmm… uh.. cards. But on the other hand, I’ve been playing so focused it’s really amazing, b/f like a champ and being right about it. Actually smiling when I get bad beat, because the villaing didn’t extract most value out of me, etc.

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Of course

Thanks Stars, 2nd hand of final table, top 4 paid, I eventually bust 6

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one of Those Nights

Had one of Those Nights last night.  The games were insanely good on Pokerstars, I had at least one 65/4 superfish on every table and two had guys with VPIP > 90.  Obviously I dropped 7 buy-ins with all the usual beats like losing every pre-flop allin, losing a 300BB pot with Q9 on a KJT flop, that sort of thing.

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May so far

I think being motivated to play is one of the biggest boosts you can have. Playing for the fun of it, you know, not being nervous about having a bad beat or downswing, just enjoying the moment. I was reading Shamus’ blog “Play the game” (linky) and all I can say that it’s true! You should enjoy the game and not be so uptight, why else are you playing this?

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