Off to Los Angeles

Leaving for L.A. in about 9 hours. I'm gonna be there for a couple days playing some tournaments at Hollywood Park.

Wish me luck....

BeastVegas.net coming soon...

Been playing a shitload of poker the past 72 hours or so. The other night I won a $5 tournament on PokerStars for about 2k. It started with about 1800 people so I pretty psyched to take it down; it's been awhile since I've had a good online tourney finish.

Then on Thursday I met with with Chris at the Bellagio to play in the $540 tourney they have every Thurs/Fri/Sat, i think. I tried to satellite in but didnt make it. Chris did, but busted early on in the tournament.

There was also the last few tables of a major buyin event ($10,000) going on in the poker room. Ferguson, Gracz, Harrington, Liebert, Hanson, and a bunch of others were all there playing. It was good shit to see all those big names playing against one another, although I've seen all of them before and even played with a bunch of them in the WSOP. You shoulda seen the rail on the outside of the tournament tables, it was mayhem. T.V. made poker players into superstars, it's fuckin' hilarious.

So, while Chris played in that tournament, I sat down at the 10-20NL shortstacked with only about $600 in front of me (the minimum buyin for that game at the Bellagio). I hadn't played at this limit in over a month, but I was feeling good about my game and wanted to give it another try. Well, I sat down and soon after Mel Judah and Paul Wolfe both came to the table. These aren't two of the biggest names in poker, but Mel has been around for a while and won a WPT event; Paul has been playing great tournament poker that last few years and also has a couple major titles under his belt. So, it was a little intimidating, but after I took a $1800 pot off Judah, and got Wolfe to lay down the best hand, I was feeling pretty good. So, i went on to more than triple up and leave with about a 2k profit. Any addition to my bankroll at this point is a worthwhile addition.

So, Chris busted out of that tourney and I got up from the table a little while later to go and cheer him on at the MGM, where he was chipleader and almost in the money at a tourney there. He ended up busting out on the bubble; that sucks. I played craps for awhile at the MGM and actually made a few hundred, which was definitely sweet. I love craps, but its a fuckin' killer most of the time.

Later that night we went to the Plaza for a $100 buyin tourney. I busted on the FT right before the money but he ended up chopping 1st with another guy and so we both made out about $250 to the good. I think we're gonna continue to rape these donkfest low buyin events around vegas.

I'm probably going to L.A. on Sunday to play in the 9th Annual National Championship of Poker at the Hollywood Park Casino. I'm gonna play in the $300 NL on Monday and the $300 Limit on Tuesday, and if I do well in either of them I'm going to stay for the rest of the events including the $2,000NL championship event on the 30th. We'll see how it goes...




....Keep on keepin' on....

Back to the Tables

It's been an interesting week.....met up with a kid I've been playing poker with on Stars (N!LE). He just moved out here this past month. We've been hitting up these tournaments around town, splitting our winnings 50/50. It's been going well; we've been finishing in the money a lot of the time; we own, obv. Anyways, Chris (N!LE) is a real good shit and is defintiely a good player. We're gonna make some good money in the upcoming few months from these soft tournies.

Got back to playing NoLimit cash games as well. I've been hitting the 2-5 NL at the Wynn pretty hard. It's up and down, and I've had a few bad beats but all in all its going well. Got two outted on the river the other day for a $1000 pot, so I had to take 24 hours off the felt just to get my mind straight. A few months ago that pot wouldnt have meant anything to me, but now my bankroll is no where near as fat as it once was, so I gotta learn to avoid those 2 outers, haha....

Had a good session tonite, actually, in the 2-5 game, spiked quad sevens and raked a $1500 pot, so shit's definitely looking promising......just gonna continue to play my game at the 2-5 tables and N!LE and I will surely continue to own these tournaments.

Got my plane ticket to come back east for thanksgiving...i'll be in NY for a few days and then back in boston for a few, before heading back to vegas.


tired as fuck, gotta pass out....

chillout

soooo

brett was up this weekend with some friends from home and we raged it up on friday. it was a good time. i took them out all around vegas then we went out to the clubs and got shitfaced.

my new car has been sweet! fuckin jet black amazing!

on a sad note, my great uncle died this week, condolensces to my grandma and grandpa....

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CALI BABY, CALI

So, I'm flying to Sandiego tomorrow to go scoop my new car www.scion.com (the Tc) and bring it back to Vegas. It's gonna be sick; finally a new car with a/c AND music (my used car didnt have either!). So, it's gonna be a long drive but I may stop in L.A. for a night and chill out, maybe go over to The Bike.

Anyways, Levy's coming into town for a few days this week, hopefully I'll be back from cali. It's gonna be sick, cause it's his buddy's 21st bday and shits gonna be real hectic. Also, havent seen him in a long minute, so it's definitely gonna be a good time.

Gotta pack, pz.

MySpace

So, I joined this ridiculous facebook-like website. It's fuckin hilarious.

I think I can sum the whole website up in one quote that I found at the top of some girl's profile:
"Boom, I fucked your boyfriend!"