DANGERLION

I’ll preface this by saying that yes I went busto but I made it to the dinner break!!! and that the Main Event is by far the softest field (filled with awful players) each and every year since Moneymaker won and that I got really unlucky with my table draw (Paul Wasicka and Lee Markholt, and a bunch of other tight players) and didn’t play ANY funny hands to amuse myself.

Here are some hands I did play, though:

Huge nit, v bad player opens UTG to 600 at 100/200 blinds. This is most definitely an overpair - I saw him limp AK and AQ earlier so an open raise from early position is huge. We’re like 20k effective, all fold to me on the BTN and I call 57o. Flop is Td3d4x and he cbets 1200 and I raise to 3100 and he calls pretty quick. Turn Jo, check/check. River 4d, he bets 5k relatively quickly. I ask him if he has a flush and he says “If I told you that would give you an unfair advantage” so I ship all-in and he folds.

I raise and Lee Markholt reraises. I fold.

I raise, everyone calls, I miss and check/fold.

Paul Wasicka raises, two callers, I think about squeezing with any two cards, but the CO beats me to it and I fold.

I get Aces and win a small pot.

One hour and thirty minutes were spent getting a massage while I chipped up 4k.

After dinner I get AI with AK to Wasicka’s AK and we chop the pot. I’m down to about 7500-8k.

Final hand: Wasicka opens in LP, I mean to reraise KTo to 2100 but accidentally just call. Flop is Q97r and I check and Paul asks me what I have left and bets 900 into 1800ish. I think this is a pretty easy tell that he’s weak because if he had a big hand he’d likely just try to get a look at my chips himself and make a standard bet rather than basing his bet size based on my stack size. So I auto-ship and he hems and haws and talks about how he played the hand bad and finally crying calls with JJ. I turn an 8 but get no help on the river and he shakes my hand and now I am free from these damn tournaments.

Ariel almost got me to make a bet with him in the car ride home that we can’t play any 10k or under live tournaments ever again besides HU events. But I kind of wanna play some PLO events next year and also just wanted to drive the car off a cliff, but I didn’t and now we’re home and tomorrow is the 4th of July!

PS I think the ME is going to hit bigger numbers than last year. The scene at the Rio is pretty encouraging for poker, there are a lot more foreign players playing now, and Wayne Newton managed to even come on down to singy-say “shuffle up and deal.” And I kinda wanna see this poker musical this weekend.

Patrik is on so I’m going to play some RailHeaven right now. Hopefully I run OK.

PPS Well that didn’t go so well, lost 1.5 deep BI and lost my biggest pot ever value-cutting myself.  Not sure how I feel about the hand, not going to post it here b/c I don’t have the PT patch for the 500/1k games…  I talked to a cpl ppl who have played with Patrik and the opinion is mixed.  Too bad he didn’t call w worse :-/  Fortunately I’ve been crushing LarsLuzak so he is paying for my shots against Patrik, who now unfortunately is prolly up small on me lifetime

There he was, by himself, beautiful and bald, wearing a red velour jumpsuit, with a few hundred k spread across the craps table.  He gripped the dice and Ariel cried tears of joy.  A 7.  Crapped out.  And Ivey smiled, and Ariel did too, and Ivey just kept on being Ivey.

And that was the first and not the last time Ariel met Phil Ivey.

PS Main Event tomorrow what up

As Vanessa has said, we’ve got little elves hiding in our drawers and cupboards stealing our treats.  They look like this:

I think they’re looking for more ingredients for their stew.  If you have any idea how to get rid of them, please email me.

I’m on a fantastic heater right now.  My A+ game is on all the time.  Some people might chastise my ego, but I love challenges and right now I’ll play anyone on the damn planet.  Patrik, I thought you were waiting?  I’m not dodging you and I’m damn well up for it, so where you at?  Lars, where are you?

Funny conversation from this morning.  Chef Robert, our big, teddy bear Kansas City chef, called Vanessa and I over to look at a little family of ducklings waddling around right outside our backdoor.

Us:  Aww, how cute!

Chef: Yeah, I was thinkin’ about catchin’ one of them and cookin’ him for y’all tomorrow.

Us (petrified): Umm…

Chef (laughing): Yum yum!

And taking a page from Ariel’s “Awesome hands that didn’t work…”:

25/50 6k effective stacks.  Folded to Stinger in the sb who raises to 150, I reraise to 300 with 47o, Stinger calls.
Flop Qd9×3d.  Check, I bet 1200 into 600, he calls quickly.  Turn Q, he check/calls a minbet.  River Ko, Stinger checks, I type “I smell a tarp” in chat and change the clown face to smiling and ship all-in.  And he almost folded QJ!  (I think, he timed down).

The Main Event is next week.  There’s a chance I ride my rush and play the 10k PLO tomorrow (I’ve been learning how to play over the past cpl weeks), but if not, I’m going to head down to the Rio and register for Day 1 of the ME.  Plan is either to bust out and be free of these retarded tournaments for the rest of the summer or build a ton of chips and chase hopeless dreams of final tabling and becoming the first actually talented ME Champion ever.

Oh yah, last night Neon told me that Traheho bought an M5 and his license plate reads “TYPERKY.”  Bajunky.

50K HORSE is today, Joe and Chuck are my horses.  I hope Chuck can recapture some of that FTOPS magic and cash.  It’s a 5-day event so it’ll give me something to sweat while I play online over the next cpl days.

Tomorrow is the 5k 6max.  It’ll be my last chance to win a bracelet before the ME.   Go me.  And so on and so forth.

Started doing plyometrics with Jamie today, finally.  We had held off because my knees were weak and buckling inwards when I loaded up with weights, but I’m finally coordinated enough to start.  I can dunk a tennis ball right now, so I’m probably only a few months away from reverse tomahawking the shit out of someone.  Ya heard?
That’s it for right now - only a brief update, I’m heading down to the Rio to meet some people/play some live cash.  Remember the Railbirds premieres next week!