Been awhile since i updated the blog, so heres what i've been up to since then....
I'm glad pokerstars didnt let me unregister from the prague package and made me go. I had a great time there and met up with a lot of other regs from a variety of games. When I first arrived I met up with Palinca (from 2p2) and we instantly became freinds. We went out to a few bars that night and hung out pretty much all trip. I also met up with some sicko cash players, justforfunds and wpr101. Also met up with sick mtt players like breakribs and uhhmee. I told Matt Afleck my sn was pistons87, and this guy next to him yelled out "ftpballerstatus" (my ftp sn). He ended up being riycc225 and I met him also. Although the food was terrible, the nightlife and poker atmosphere in prague made it all worth while.
The first couple days I was there I hardly played online, and only saw my bankroll dwindle from buying into live events in the EPT side events. I made it to day 2 of the main event with 20 BB, but lost 3 mins in when my AJ<QQ. I was amazed at the level of play at this EPT. Compared to LA, the field was ridiculously bad. I noticed 5-6 fish per table while in LA it was about 8 either live pros or young internet kids and (maybe) one fish. I met and talked to Matt Afleck who agreed that the EPT was pretty much the softest feild ever, and have made plans to go back to as many as we can.
The next day I busted the main event was the 3.2k euro heads up event (which i bought in online). I won my first round vs a total fish who would blind raise and was obviously there just to donate. The second round I drew a kid from california who played probably the most tilting style of poker ever. He would literally time down every hand, and take at least 1 minute per decision even preflop! It was ridiculous and I wanted to call the floor but I didnt really have much of an argument. Anyway, he was horrible when the blinds got high at push/fold and he sucked out a bunch and ended up beating me.
After this I decided not to play any more events or live cash. I turned my focust to just having a good time, experiencing the culture and playing online. As predicted, I played higher than 550s and had to pay out the $200 bounty to old time gin who called me out about 11 seconds after I was in the 1k lobby. I'm glad I did this however, because I hit an epic heater. Finally running close to expectation in november and december! (and maybe a little above). I made about 30k the first night was really grinding online (played all night obv) and the next afternoon I made another 15k. This was really big for me because August-mid november was really depressing with no profits and just grinding away for rakeback.
We went out the night after i made all this money and met up with some people that palinca knew through couchsurfing.com. I had never heard of this website but its awesome. Random people just meet up in random cities. Anyway, we got to know some girls pretty well there that were teaching english temporarily. One was from Jersey and one from the UK. They were awesome and basically gave us a chance to tour the city because they knew where everything was already. We went to a Beatles museum, walked over charles bridge, and one of the girls ended up working for the bar crawl so we went on this one night. This was an awesome experience, and we met up a lot of people from different places like australia, scotland, chile etc. It was a really different experience than being in the US in terms of strangers meeting eachother and hanging out randomly which was cool.
I kept my heater going when I got back into the states, and finished with a really nice December. I just took a family trip to Biloxi, MS for a few days and played some live FR cash 1/2and 2/5 which didnt go so well. Its hard to adjust from playing 1k cap nl and 1k husngs to grinding 30 hands an hour with a 500-1.5k stack. I ended up losing around 3500.
Plans for new years are in ATL with college freinds, and then off to PCA on Jan 7th. I'm currently working out some numbers and will be selling some of my main event, so if you are interested you can contact me via AIM or MSN
AIM=detwings871
MSN=Akredandblack@hotmail.com
Looking forward to meeting a lot of regs up there and taking down the main...
Will try to update this blog more often with shorter posts lol
GL
I'll often watch the 1k+ games going on and the other night I saw you playing some retard named "fava" or something, and I couldn't believe how lucky he was getting.
ReplyDeleteI dont know how you handle that kind of sh*t when you're losing game after game to someone you shouldn't be.
riycc seems like a total chodeball btw I really wouldn't be too nice to him
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