Made Day 2 of Borgata 1k…

Posted by Cre8ive on January 18, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

“Treat my first like my last and my last like my first and my thirst is the same as when I came.” Jay-Z – My First song.

Hey guys I am pooped. It’s 2:30 am right now and I just got back to the room after playing for 15 hours. I wrote down all the hands from today and I might as well do my best to type them up. I ended the day with 142k and the blinds will be 2k/4k 400a when I go back. Average is 100k and we have 62 people left with 54 people getting paid. First is around 150k I believe.

Start with 12k chips, 60 min levels; I liked my first table originally. Steve was also at the table. Out of 550 person tournament we had the lucky draw to be at the same table. I hate playing against friends but you gotta do what you gotta do. No mercy in poker. So I was splashing around early everyone is pretty transparent. We have been playing for about 30-40 minutes and a guy in early position limps for 50 and I limp for 50 with 73hh in late position. This Asian lady to my left makes it 250. The guy calls and I call. The flop comes 735dd. We check to her and she bets 450. I make it 1350 and she calls. The turn comes the Kc. I tanked it for about a minute deciding what to do here. I really didn’t like the turn card, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought. I was just worried about her having KK. I also thought that I probably wouldn’t get anymore action from QQ. She will probably still call with AA and AKdd she will be in there still. I made it 2150 and she made it 6k. Wow. I thought about it for a couple minutes and figured she could still think I am drawing since the diamond bricked and I thought she would still play AA this way or AKdd. I thought about this hand for a while and then put in the rest of my chips and she called with AA and I was up to about 22k.

The blinds are now 50/100 and the lady from above moves all in for her last 425 utg. I am in the bb and blind call. I have 82h she has 66 and I turn an 8 on a 56hhJ8hx board vs. her black sixes to knock her out.

The table gets a little tougher with some players who showed up late and I didn’t realize how much I actually hated this table in the end. I was at this same table for about 8-10 hours probably and nobody was really out of hand. There was one guy who was action but besides that it was pretty tough actually.

An internet kid who I was told is soggyvag but I am not sure makes it 275 preflop. The hijack calls and I call on the button with QKss, bb calls and we go 4 to the flop. It comes T63ss and they all check to me. Normally I bet here but I switched it up and checked. The turn came the Ah and internet kid bet 675 and it folded to me and I called with the flush draw and gutter. The river bricked 7c and he bet 1100 and I mucked.

I raise 66 in mid position and the button calls and the bb action guy calls. The flop comes 559ss and I bet 550. The action guy called and the turn came 8c. We checked and the river came 9d. He said he missed everything and he had ace high. He told the truth about 2 previous hands so I called his 1300 bet on the river and he had a9. I probably should muck the river but the guy had been telling the truth in 2-3 previous spots but after thinking about it I don’t think he bets the river with an ace, so I screwed up there.

I raise T7ss in middle position and get 3 callers. The flop comes J42ss and I lead for 725. A tighter guy calls and the turn comes the 6d. We both knuckle and the river bricks for me, the 9c. I decided to fire praying he would fold and I bet 1400 and he called with a J. I am definitely spewing off my stack at this point. I mean it wasn’t the worst but I played some hands bad.

I get 88 in middle position and raise it. One player calls. It comes K82 and I bet 500 after making it 300 preflop. He calls the flop and the turn is the 3s putting two spades on board. I’m praying he has a K or something and I check to him. He checks quickly. The river comes another K and I bet 1225 and he mucks and I’m back up to 16k. (Yes I had lost 6k just splashing around being stupid missing hands/etc.)

Blinds are now 75/150 and the internet kid calls my 2nd position raise to 450 with ATo. He is on the button. The flop comes AJ8r and I check and he checks. The turn is the Td putting two diamonds up and I check again and he checks. The river is another Ace giving me a full house and I bet 675 and he calls showing KK. 17k stack now.

I raise ATo and the action bb defends for 450. The flop comes Q83dd and he checks and I bet 675. He calls. The turn is the 6c and he checks again. I really felt he was weak here on a flush draw and fired a bigger second bullet. I made it 1450 and he called again. The river comes the Td. I didn’t want a diamond what so ever but I have showdown value now but that honestly didn’t matter because I really felt flush draw. He checks, I check and he’s like ahhh ahh I wanted you to bet the river I have the flush! And he’s all bothered that I didn’t bet the river for him. I told him he was pretty upset even though he won the hand. lol…

Another hand I raise AThh the internet kid defends his bb. Flop comes QJ2 we check check. Turn is 6, check check, river bricks, check check, he defended with A6dd and won the pot. I am now down to 12.5k Jeez.

Internet kid raises to 525 at 100/200. I call with QKhh on the button. The flop comes QT3ddd and the small blind, bb, and internet kid check to me. I bet 1225. The internet kid calls. Turn is the Ts we check check. River is the 8s he checks and I check. I figured he wouldn’t call with worse. He had AKd and I’m up to 14.5k.

I open 68dd to 800 at 150/300. Tight guy calls I get another caller. Flop comes K24dd and I continue 1350. The tight guy calls. The turn is the Qs and I check to him he bets 2200. There’s about 5k in the pot and I am pretty sure he has QK here. I decide that if I peel a diamond he is paying me off 100% of the time as long as it’s not the Kd or Qd to boat him up. I decided I was getting a good price and called. River came the 3d and I tank shoved in 9500 about the pot. He thought for a while and folded. He said he had QK but I can’t be sure. Up to 19k.

I tightened up pretty considerably since I realized I would not be able to give much action at this table I was at. I was also extremely card dead. I have about 18k at this point and the most active player at the table makes it 1600 at 200/400. Tight guy flats in late position and I flat with 99 in the small blind. The flop comes 882ss and I check. The first guy bets 7k, the flatter folds and I tank and fold and he shows QQ. Down to 16k.

Now the blinds are 300/600 75a. I have been pretty tight as of late not doing anything to crazy. I raise UTG with TT and a short stack moves all in over my 1600 preflop raise for 6k. I call. He has 99 and I win the hand and go up to 23k. Tight amateur limps UTG I have JTo on the button and make it 2600, now up to 26k after he folded.

Here’s a pretty interesting hand. Al Krux had just been moved to the table with a lot of chips along with another older guy. I make it 2100 preflop at 400/800 with QJo. 3 People call including the aggressive guy who was in tons and tons of pots. It gets to the big blind who was a tight older guy but who only had 5k behind and he thinks about folding.. and comments “this could be a 30k pot.” He thinks a little more, thinks about just calling, and then moves in. I thought he was really weak here, and I figured I could shove and nobody could call behind me. Typical online spot putting in 5k to win 20k but you never know, some of these live guys just flat with big hands. I decide to move in for 22k more on top and it folds to the aggressive guy who tanks forever and he said he mucked AK. I made this play because I felt like I could get away with it and I had tightened up considerably so I thought it would merit some folds. The internet kid and another good player both thought I had QQ or JJ and were shocked I turned up QJ lol. The old guy turns up J5o and the board runs out A2467 and I am up to 39k.

They finally break the old table. We had like 6-7 of the original 10 at the table for like 6-8 hours it was crazy. When they broke it I still think 5 of us were original table. At the new table UTG makes it 3k at 400/800 and 2 people call in front of me. I look down at 22 and think it’s a good spot to set mine. One guy calls behind me as well in the small blind. The flop comes Q23d. UTG checks, first caller shoves in about 15k and I reshove my 22. He has QKdd and I pray for no diamond on the turn. It comes 6s on the turn 9h on the river and I go up to 66k.

I’m still new to this table and trying to figure it out. There’s a lot of chips but this one Asian guy was splashing around and in almost every pot. He would limp or raise every hand it seemed. He made it 5k UTG at 500/1k and it folds to me in the bb with AQo. I decided to just muck since he hadn’t made a big raise like that before I gave him more credit and really didn’t want to get myself in a tricky spot. He showed a K after I showed my AQ. He might of had AK or KK because all of his other raises were smaller -shrug- The new table I was at everyone was making huge preflop raises. It was crazy. I kept telling myself If I can pick up some hands I would get to pick up a lot of chips preflop without showdowns. I hadn’t picked up AA-QQ and only AK once to this point. I was really card dead and just folding a bunch.

***Here’s a hand I need some input from some math guys. Let me know what the math is behind this hand if it makes it a call or what.***

I raise 2600 UTG with 88. Blinds 500/1000 100a. Donkish guy makes it 10k with 8k behind and a tight old guy reshoves 17k. So basically its 16k to win like 42k in the pot. I knew I was beat for sure by the 2nd shover but I knew the first shover would raise any pair, AT suited, QK, maybe QJ. He was pretty bad. The 2nd shover’s range is like TT+, AQ+. If any of you guys can crunch those numbers and let me know if I should call in that spot getting over 2-1 let me know. I mucked the 88. The guy who raised me to 10k had 77 and the 2nd shover had KK and it came J87xx. I am not trying to be results oriented just curious about the math since I thought about it during the hand.

Two hands later this kid on the cutoff makes it 3k. He was raising bigger like 4k+ with big hands he was showing. A 9d was exposed during the deal and I looked down at 95o in the small blind. Perfect hand to reraise here. =) I make it 9400. While I was counting chips he was telling me “be careful.” The flop comes KQ5dd and I bet 12800 and he thinks for a while saying he knows he has me beat yada yada and mucks. He claimed JJ but throughout the time I was at the table he talked a lot. He’s one of those guys that wants to appear tighter than he is I think. I have a sick hand with him coming up too. He was putting in a ton of chips preflop as well. 4x raises and like 4-5x reraises and also just shoving in 60k all in into 10k pots lol. I am now at 73k

I FINALLY PICK UP A REAL HAND and get KK utg and make it 3200 at 600/1200. The Asian station I talked about above calls. The flop comes JT6hh and I bet 5800 and he mucks. 79k. Guy to my right makes it 4200 at 600/1200 I have AQo he has about 30k behind I call. Flop 662dd and he bets 9500 with 20k behind and I mucked. Somehow I felt like I was ahead here but I don’t know. The guy ended up being fishier than I imagined but I didn’t know any better at the time.

We are now 8 handed and a tight guy to my right makes it 4600 at 800/1600. He’s the guy from the AQo hand above. I felt like his smaller raises were weak since he was 4x and 5xing as well. I had A4o and repopped him to 12.6k He showed AJ and instamucked. 71k Stack now.

Tight guy limps in 2nd position. I have JJ in middle position and make it 7500. He limped for 2k. Flop comes 445ss and he checks. I bet 8800 and he mucked. 80k stack.

The next two hands I raise AJo. This tight guy I know from Florida that I play with at the casino down there shoved in over my 5200 raise (at 1k/2k) for like 40k. He showed TT. I folded. Then I raise next hand again and the button repopped me to 15k. So I mucked again. Oh well. Back down to 70k.

Here’s the craziest hand of the tournament so far. Well not really but it was a good spot for me. This active younger guy is raising and playing a ton of pots. He makes it 6k preflop. The kid I was talking about before who said he had the JJ makes it 28k. He has 50k behind and the first raiser has like 70k total too. We all are about the same. I start asking god to give me aces lol. I say please god can I look down at two aces here. I peel the first card, the ace of spades! I say it again “Please let me have aces here..” I squeeze the second card, the ace of hearts!! I can’t believe it lol. Aces for the first time today what a great spot! I find out the stack sizes of everyone. There is already almost 40k dead money in the pot. I count my stack, Hollywood a while. Take my time and declare that I’m all in for 43.6k more on top of the 28k. The first guy wants an exact count. He finds out and mucks saying he mucked KK but there is absolutely 0 shot he had KK there. I believe I saw an ace when he was mucking. But there’s no way he folds KK there. He would of snap called 100000%. The second guy who put in 28k and only has 50k behind mucks pretty quickly. I tell them I had QQ and the guy who made it 28k said he had QQ too and I didn’t have QQ. I kept telling them I had QQ because I wanted to tilt them lol. After the hand the guy who said he folded KK was like you put in 28k reraise and don’t call that? He also thought the guy called him a scrub and the guy flipped, got up, and wanted to fight. So after all the commotion I told them I had QQ to rub it in a little lol. I am now up to 115k.

I raise to 5200 with JJ and the tight guy from the casino in Florida insta shoves 47k next to act. Folds to the BB who moves all in for 50k. I muck JJ and they show AKss and QQ. The K flops and the Florida guy doubles up. I don’t know if I would of called him. He just showed me TT in a shove but he plays pretty solid so I think I would of mucked.

Next hand the aggressive guy raising a lot min raises it. The small blind who only has 3k folds and I call with T7o 2k more. Flop comes 764 and I check. He bets 5k and I call. The turn is the 3 completing one card straight and I check again. He bets 13k. I really didn’t think he had the straight but I didn’t think he would fire again with AA here. But maybe he would. Anyway I tank for a minute and he shows an Ace saying he had a7. He probably did but jeez it’s like free money if I have anything lol. Down to 100k.

I raise to 7800 at 1.5k/3k and the kid from above defends his BB. The flop comes KJ9r and we both check. The turn is the 9h putting two hearts up and he bets 10k. I thought he was full of it here and had absolutely nothing. I still have outs anyways but I was floating to take away on river assuming I didn’t improve. The river comes the Qc giving me broadway and also completing a one card straight with the ten. He bet 10k again. So I have the nut straight on a paired board with no flush out there. I tanked for a minute as to whether or raise or not and figured it would be stupid to raise (REFER TO JJ HAND VS 56o for all you guys who hate my play there lol) and I just called his 10k bet. He said Ace high and showed a8 and I won the pot. 127k in chips now.

We are about 10 away from the money and play is nearing end for the night. There was already an Asian guy at the table who tried to angle shoot when he was utg and he said the dealer told him he was the big blind. So he put out 1600 but said he wanted to raise cause he thought he was the big blind and didn’t know he was UTG. I picked up on what he was doing and told him he had to keep his 1600 in there and he didn’t have an option to raise. One guy limps and I limp K9ss on the button. Blinds are in the hand and we go 5 to the flop. It comes Q23ccc and the sb moves in for 20k or something. The Asian guy who “thought he was the big blind” calls and turns over KKc. He turns the Ac nuts no problem and cracks the guys Q2hh.

So we are now 10 away from the money (sorry this is referring to the paragraph I started above) and I make it 7800 in middle position with A7o. The kid who is in every hand (the Asian guy who was in every hand had the Q2hh and busted) it folds to his small blind and he says “I raise ten on top.” He puts out 13k and the big blind folded. I told him his raise wasn’t enough I made it 7800. He’s like “OHH I DIDNT SEE YOU RAISED, ETC ETC.” The dealer claims he announced it, they call the floor and they make him put in 17800. At this point the dealer deals the flop and shows the 5c before I decided my action with the raise. We stop the hand and the floor tells him to put the cards down and let me act. I wasn’t sure if this kid was angle shooting me or not. I tank it for a minute, try to read him and how he really feels about the situation, whether he’s genuine or just angle shooting. He has about 45k behind on top of the 18k and I have about 120k or so. I decide that if it was folded to him in the sb he was raising like that 99/100 and decide it’s a sick spot regardless near the bubble. I shoved on him and he tanked and folded. I might of had the best hand there anyways but still there was a lot of commotion and people surrounded the table and everything. It was a crazy hand because the night was about to end.

I ended the night with 142k in chips. Average is 100k. We come back tomorrow at 2pm to finish. 62 Players left 54 paid. Hopefully I can win the whole thing for 150k. I played pretty good, got in a couple nice spots (like with the AA and 40k pre in already) but I also avoided some situations and made some good folds. Hopefully I can cooler the hell out of some people tomorrow and run the tourney over. Just AA vs. AK every hand or something till it’s over =). After playing from 11am to 2am I am pooped and my body is drained. I did pushups and stretched during breaks but I am dead. If anyone sees some kid doing pushups or stretching his legs it’s definitely me, come say hi lol. I’m so tired. Gotta sleep. Can’t believe I just pumped this blog out lol…Goodnight 3:45am now. Writing takes a while, jeez.

Atlantic City/Borgata Tournament…

Posted by Cre8ive on January 16, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

“Don’t listen to anybody that knew me. Cause who have known me would mean that there’s a new me and if you think Ive changed in the slightest could’ve fooled me…” Drake – Say What’s Real.

Okay. I have a lot to write about. I just busted from my first Borgata Winter Open tournament. I will discuss the hand below but I am still shocked and can’t comprehend what just happened. Anyways, I have a lot to talk about so let me get started.

In the beginning of January I played some local tournaments at a casino and they didn’t go so well. I have the hand histories from them saved to my phone. They aren’t too interesting so I probably will not post about them. Let me know if you want me to post them anyways. I plan on writing about every tournament I play over the next two weeks while I am at Borgata playing here.

Let me first talk about my exciting journey to actually get to Atlantic City (Yesterday.) The plan was to meet my buddy Steve at the Fort Lauderdale airport at around 10:30am to catch our flight at noon. I got there around 10:45am and Steve showed up a couple minutes later. He said that the flight was at 1:40pm and we weren’t on it. What?? He booked the flight for us so I had no involvement in any of this. We get on his laptop real quick and find out that the flight was actually at 9:30am. GOOD JOB STEVE. So he starts talking to Spirit (the airline we were flying on) and they basically say they can’t help us unless we want to leave the next night. No thank you. We end up finding a flight on Delta.

Instead of flying directly to Atlantic City, we now have tickets to fly to Ohio, then fly to Philly, and from Philly we need to get to Atlantic city. Atlantic City is about an hour away from Philly. So we have our new agenda and we rush to security to make our 1pm flight to Ohio. We ended up getting screened and had to wait in a separate line and get patted down and all our carry on bags got checked. That took about thirty minutes and we ran to our gate. The guy said we made the flight by 2 minutes, perfect. We finally get on the plane and are on our way to Ohio.

We land in Ohio and we find our gate for the flight to Philly. It was supposed to leave at 4:35 (it was about 3:45 now) and then they pushed it back to 5pm. Me and Steve hung out in a little coffee shop for a while then 4:45 rolled around and we figured we should go to the gate and see if they are boarding. Nobody is around and the ladies ask us if we are flying to Philly? We scream “YES!” and shes like we were about to close the gate in 2 seconds. First two minutes, now two seconds, jeez. She said the plane was supposed to leave at 5pm not board at 5pm. Oh well lol. We get on this little 60 person plane or something and end up making it to Philly.

We get our bags and we are trying to decide if we want to take a cab to downtown Philly and then take the bus to Atlantic city. We decided that a town car/cab is the best idea and we take a town car. We stopped at Famous Philly Cheese steak place Geno’s on the way which was pretty good but I wish I could of spent a little more time there. We rushed our way to order and get back in the car and to Atlantic City.

We finally make it to Borgata Hotel and Casino and check in and get to our room. Steve and I are sharing a room. We went down and registered for the tournament the next morning an $810 buyin tournament. We went back to the room, I took a shower, we chatted a bit and then we ended up going to sleep.

I woke up at about 9:00am this morning and took a shower and woke up for the tournament at 11am. Steve and I got a bite to eat and then went to our tournament tables. Levels are 50 minutes long and the starting stacks are 10k. Nobody at my table was recognizable and they were mostly middle/older aged gentlemen. One guy was trying to take over the table, he was in about 75% of hands for the first couple orbits til about the first break. I realized immediately this guy didn’t want to give up any pots and he was going to be making a lot of plays on pots and play a lot of hands. Some people didn’t pick up on this as quickly. One hand UTG made it 250 at 25/50 with 2500 behind. It got two callers then one new guy who just sat down (younger kid) made it 1250. It folded to the maniac guy who then made it like 6k. UTG obviously wasn’t folding and called off with AKss and the kid who made it 1250 mucked QQ face up. The maniac guy turned up 44 and lost the race. So my read was right on the guy about how he was going to be in a lot of pots and try to take them down. The blinds were either 25-50 or 50-100 but anyway the point is this guy put in a ton of chips preflop with 44 just because he thought he could take the pot away etc.

Instead of mixing it up early like I normally do, I decided to just relax and see everything that’s going on and figure out how everyone is playing. I folded an orbit or so and picked up AKo and raised to 150. I got 4 callers, bricked the flop and gave up. I also pick up AJo and there is a late raise, the sb calls, and I call in the bb and brick and give up as well. I lost a couple other small pots as well. The first interesting hand comes up when I raise AQo to 300 preflop and the maniac I talked about above calls from the small blind. The flop Comes K85ss and he checks to me. I bet 450 and he calls. The turn is the 5d it puts up two spades, two diamonds. I decided he wasn’t too strong and fired another bullet of 800. I figured with my image I could get credit for at least a king. He called again. The river came the 4h and he checked. I figured I had enough showdown value or that he had a King at this point and also checked. He turned over 67 for the rivered straight. I started with 8600 and now am down to 7k.

I’m not worried or anything, just waiting for a hand I can win some chips with. It comes when a new player limps for 100 UTG and an active player who was tight but aggressive made it 450 in 2nd position. I had TT on the button and decided to just call. The limper folded, we went to the flop heads up. The flop came T82ss and I flopped the nuts. He bet 900. I had seen him stab at flops continuation betting and folding previously so I decided he could have air and just called. The turn was the 9h putting two hearts up as well and he asked how much I had behind. I had 5500 behind and he bet 2k. I really felt like this card helped him in his mind. Either with JJ or QQ or maybe he had like AQhh or something. I shoved it in and he called with QQ and I held up and doubled to 14k.

This guy who was a little fishy limped the hijack and I completed the small blind with QTss for 150. The flop came AJ5s and the hijack limper bet 300. I decided to float here and maybe take away on turn or river. The turn came the Kh and I turned the nuts. I checked and he checked. The river came the 9d, I still had the nuts, and I bet 1200 on the river. A little more than the pot and he called and I won the pot and was up to 16k.

Three limpers before me I limp with QJo for 150 one guy limps behind then tight guy makes it 500 on button. We all call 5 to the flop. It comes JJ9hh and it checks to me. I don’t think the tight guy would bet AA on the flop or anything so I decide to stab here even if it looks transparent. It folds back to the first limper and he moves in 5k or 6k (the guy i beat in the pot above) and I call. He has 45hh and he bricks and I am now up to 24k.

**WARNING SICK HAND** — Also any input is appreciated on this hand. I would like to see what others think.

THE VERY NEXT HAND I get JJ and make it 400 preflop. Now I have only shown basically the nuts in 3 showdowns. I haven’t shown any other hands. My image has to be tight but I think just given how people perceive me they think I am going to mix it up, especially since I have chips now. The crazy maniac guy defends his bb which his range is literally any 2 cards.

The flop comes J9dd4s. I flop the nuts once again. He checks and I bet 600. He looks at me like he thinks I’m just trying to outplay him and start running over the table and hes not having it. I know he thinks I’m full of it. Like I said, this is the guy who is in every hand and doesn’t want to give up any pots ever. He calls.

The turn comes the J9dd4s 7h. Now T8 makes the nuts. He checks and I bet 1500. He doesn’t think very long and he just calls again. Now I know he doesn’t have T8 because I am 99.9999% sure he would raise the turn here with T8. I’m pretty confident and looking at him and everything it seems like hes still waiting to make his play on the pot.

The river comes J9dd4s7h 3c. It seems like a pretty safe river and the action is on him. He ends up betting 4500, which is about the pot. Now in my mind I know for sure he doesn’t have T8 here. Other than that 56 beats me. Now he could have 56dd for the flush draw then turned the open ended straight draw on the turn. I also think that he would make this bet with any set 33,44,99,77 maybe waiting for the river to see a non over card come or a non diamond. He might also make this play with some kind of two pair like 93 suited or maybe 34 suited. With all this information and the previous history and things I have seen I decide to raise and get a lot of money out of him. I make it 14.5k, 10k more. He thinks and is like “man this is so sick, jeez this is so sick, blah blah blah.” I only have like 5k behind and he has me covered by a couple thousand. After his little speeches hes like I’m all in. I snap call and he says straight. He turns over 56o and scoops the 50k pot.

I’m still stunned while I type this in the hotel room. I really felt like if I didn’t raise the river I was losing value. I thought for sure he had 77 or 33 and he was going to pay it off. Once I make the big raise I don’t think I can ever fold for getting 10-1 on my money when this guy could think J7 or some other two pair is nutted. I thought there was an outside shot he could have 56dd but given everything I felt like I had to raise the river. I’m honestly sickened by this hand. I had only shown the nuts and I played super tight in the three hours I played. For him to float the flop with absolutely nothing and hit perfect perfect to stack me is really frustrating. I don’t really know what else to say about this hand. Steve is trying to say to just call the river, what does he ever call a raise with I beat, but I completely disagree. The only hand he can ever logically have that beats me is 56dd. I really felt like I had this player pinned all day. I knew from the start that he was going to be really active and try to win pots and not give up many pots. I guess that’s why I played as tight as I did.

If anyone has any comments let me know. If I would of just called his river bet I probably would of had 16k or so in chips. But like I said, I think just calling is bad. I know a lot of live players with their big hands try to wait for the river to see safe cards. If he had 99 or any other set like 77 I think he might play it similarly. It’s just really frustrating to lose a 50k pot at 75/150 in that fashion, in that way, to that player, etc. The tournament today got about 500 players and was over 100k to first. I will be playing tomorrows 1k tournament. Hopefully it goes better.

Hopefully all the bad luck so far in this trip has run its course and things will turn around. I will be updating the blog probably everyday with how things are going here at Borgata. I will be here for the whole Borgata Winter open series. I am definitely playing really good poker and plan on having a big score within the next two weeks. Hopefully everything works out in one of these tournaments and I take one down. I’ll keep you guys updated.

Live Final Table Bubble (HH too)…

Posted by Cre8ive on December 30, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

“All that adversity never worried me. If anything it feeds me, It’ll nourish me.” Joe Budden – Check Me Out.

It’s currently Monday night. Didn’t play any poker today. Spent just about all day fixing stu’s computer since he has a pretty horrific virus on it. Luckily I was able to save all of his files and now we’re going to reformat. Anyways, I didn’t play that much poker on Sunday, just a couple tournaments. Didn’t start off too well so I decided to not play that much.

On Saturday I played a $1100 buy-in tournament at the Hollywood Hard Rock Casino. It had about 90-100 players I think. You start with 10k in chips and there is an optional $10 addon for 1k more, so 11k in chips. The blinds start at 25/50, 50 minute levels. Not bad. There is an upstairs to the small poker room and a downstairs. Normally the tournament is held upstairs and cash games downstairs. I guess since they had a decent field I was forced to start downstairs and my table was the first to break. I recognized one guy at my table who I have played with a lot and I know he’s pretty nitty. The other guys I didn’t really know. One guy looked like an Internet kid and one guy gave away half his stack in his first hand. Seemed like typical Hard Rock play.

I started out pretty aggressive as usual. Sometimes I sit back and wait to see whats going on but I decided to just jump in on Saturday. I open a couple pots, take a couple pots down, I’m sure people are already getting weary as to what my actual holdings are since I wasn’t involved in any showdowns. A couple orbits into the tournament a guy limps for 50 in early position and I raise the button with Q9o to 250. He calls and the flop comes KQcc4h he checks to me and I bet 300. He calls. Turn is Kd and he leads for 450. This guy hasn’t played many hands but this line is always one of two things, K or nothing, so I call again. The river comes the 4s and he bets 900 and I think for a bit and decide I most likely am good and call. He mucks his hand and I muck my hand without showing.

The next interesting hand was a pretty sticky but easy fold given the player. There are 4 limpers and I check 79o in the big blind. Flop comes 789 and I check. UTG Tight player I mentioned I played with before bets 225 and the button calls. I decide to call and see what happens on the turn as well. Turn is the Ks putting two spades up and the nit bets 550 now. Button tanks for a while and it comes back to me. I decide if this guy fires two bullets I can never be ahead here, and muck. The river comes T I believe and both check and the tight guy showed a flopped set of eights, good lay down Tristan. It’s easy to get involved in these kinds of spots early in a tournament when you are deep but I am trying to improve on the aspect of folding in my game. Sometimes I know I’m beat and still call.

I am still trying to be aggressive at this point although it was probably a bad idea considering my table was going to be the first to break. The (who I think is) a tight Internet player opens for 150 in early/mid position. I flat on the button with 79o. I later found out this guy was someone who I played with quite a bit online, the player “dfish” The flop comes AQ5r and he continuation bets 225. I decide to try to pick up the pot here and make it 650. He thinks about it for quite a while. A good minute. I didn’t think he was that strong but I definitely thought that he thought I was bluffing. We later discussed the hand when he found out who I was as well. He ended up folding 75hh or something. He just didn’t think I would be raising that type of flop unless it was a bluff. -Shrug- I mix it up often.

This next hand I played really badly. UTG limps and the 2nd guy makes it 450 at 50/100. I am in 3rd position and call with T8cc and the utg limper folded. The raiser had been really active early but I noticed he was starting to tighten up. The flop came Q94dd and he bet 700. I decide to float here with the gutter. The turn comes the 4h. The guy is pretty nervous and this is a normal tell I have figured out when trying to read body language. Some players give off the normal nervous tell when they are bluffing, some give it off when they have it and are unsure. So it’s hard to distinguish what is what off the bat. After the turn he leads for 1300. I see how nervous he is and I decide to peel one more. This was my mistake. I don’t think he is firing here again bluffing, even if he thinks I’m on a draw. The river comes the Ts and he bets 2k with just a 5k chip behind and i debate and debate and make a crying call because I am a station. He shows KK and I go down to about 9k. Live and learn.

I get moved to a new table. I recognize a couple people including Fred Goldberg, who bubbled main event final table when Gold won it I think. He’s a hard rock regular. I have I think an Internet kid to my direct right and then a bunch of other older people I don’t recognize at the table. I raise 56hh within my first couple of hands at the table to 300. I get 3 callers and the flop comes KhQd8c everyone checks around. The turn comes the Qh and I decide to fire 800. Everyone mucks and I am back up to 10.5k

I am grinding my stack but get AK a couple times and AQ and whiff every time and eventually get down to 7.5k at a new table. The cutoff is tilted I believe and raises to 800 at 100/200. I am not too deep at this point but I figured to play the button here with 79cc. I call and the big blind calls. Flop comes QT5c and they check to me. I bet 1275 and the big blind calls. The turn comes the T and he checks. He has 3100 chips behind, I don’t think hes too strong here. So I decide to check behind and see the river and make sure he doesn’t commit his hands with a draw on the turn. The river is a 4 and he checks quickly again. I move in and he mucks. I am back up to 10.5k again.

I am grinding my 8k stack. I can’t get ANYTHING going. Blinds get up to 200/400. I am card dead and changing gears to tight to wait for a good spot. The button makes it 1500 and I have QJo in the big blind. He has been fairly tight but still active and I figure I can shove here and get a fold a lot of times. I moved in 9k and he mucked pretty quickly. A couple hands later 3 players limp and I limp the button with 89dd. The small blind makes it 1600 and everyone calls in front of me. I call as well. The flop comes 844d and they all check to me. There’s like 7k or so in the pot at this point and I decide to bet 2500. It’s a pretty weak bet but I feel like the sb missed or he would have bet and the other limpers don’t have the best of it. The small blind folds, the first limper makes me sweat (whom was very active I would of snap called) and the second limper also tanks. I guess my bet size made them wonder since I only had 6k behind. They both end up folding and I get up to about 17-18k. It’s a start.

An aggressive loose player limps under the gun and I make it 1600 in 2nd position with KK. A lady calls on the button and the limper calls. The flop comes T52ss and the UTG limper bets 2200. I think he has a piece here and he has already shown the capability to call light if he thinks someone is on a draw. I decide to move in for 14k more. He thinks for a while and shows a T (saying he had KT) and mucks. I move up to 25k now. Finally getting some chips.

At 300/600 I raise to 1550 on the button with AKss and the big blind defends. Older gentleman who had been pretty tight but kind of fishy. Flop comes AT9ccc and he checks and I bet 2k. He calls. The turn is the 6s and he checks to me and I check for pot control. The river comes the 7d and he fires out 4k. I feel like he can’t really have an 8 here unless he has A8 or he flopped a flush with maybe KJcc or KQcc or some hand. But lots of draws missed like dry Kc. I call and he shows QcJd and I am up to ~32k.

Folds around to the sb donkish guy who limps for 800. I look down at A8o and decide to knuckle and just play the pot with position and keep it small. The flop comes K84r and he bets 1k. I call. The turn is another K and he bets 1k again. I feel like the same bet on two streets is pretty weak almost all the time but my hand is good to get a lot of value out of his hands so I decide to just call here again. If he fires again on the river I can just call if he does have a king and if he checks the river I can figure out what to do. The river is a 6 and he checks. I bet 2300 and he calls with J8ss and loses. Very next hand aggressive Internet kid makes it 1650 in mid position, button calls, and I squeeze with AKo to 6800 and move up to 40k.

The older donkish player I talked about earlier from the AKss hand makes it 3500 under the gun at 400/800. He just won a pot the hand before where he had just moved in on the flop after he was getting short. It folds to me in the small blind and i have AKdd. He has about 13k behind. I decide to move in and he calls instantly with QQ. I lose the big flip and go down to roughly 18k. I probably should have just called this hand since I don’t think his advantage is too great post flop even with position. It’s just tough because these guys will make raises like this and muck instantly too. I have no problem getting it in there actually. Oh well.

So I lost a little momentum but I try to stay positive. We are now down to 3 tables. Let me mention that before our table broke, one of the unknown (who I believe is) an Internet kid ran a bluff with 53cc when he raised preflop, got called by the small blind, the flop came J9Tc and he bet 2700 the guy made it 7700 and he shoved in 25k and the guy had 21k and called with AJ after thinking for a while. So obviously this guy is not scared to put his chips in or make a move.

Anyways, 3 tables left, brand new table. I have 18k in chips at 400/800. A tight player raises to 2200 on the hijack and I am in the small blind with AA. I decided to just call. I think this was a mistake. If I think he is tight then he is more or less likely to have a hand he will call a shove with. He also had chips (60-70k or more) so he could afford to put in 18k. I just tried to get too tricky here. The flop comes 865. I check he checks. The turn is another 8 we both check again. The river is a J and I bet 3k and he mucks.

I try to pick up the aggression at the table because we are getting closer to the final table and it seems like my table is pretty tight. I open 95cc and pick up the blinds/antes. Guy limps 2nd position I limp 3rd position with 45ss. Flop comes 23Ks he bets 2100 with 12k behind and I call. The turn is the Js and he checks and I bet out 8k and he mucks. I go up to 28k. I’m still trying to stay aggressive we are 8 handed now and I raise 57cc UTG to 2200. I get 4 callers. The flop comes A84cc and I bet 8k with the intentions to never fold here in my life. Everyone mucks and I chip up a little more.

I get back down to around 28k and the blinds are now 600/1200. The tight guy from my AA hand above makes it 2500 on the cutoff. I immediately know this guys bet sizing is a bluff/weak and decide I am going to take it away. Unexpectedly the small blind calls with about 15k behind or so. I look down at Q2o (not that it mattered) and decide to shove in my 28k. The cutoff folds and then.. to my surprise… the small blind SNAP CALLS ME WITH QTo. Saying he is ready to go home and its his favorite hand. I wonder if he saw me look at my cards or something. I do a good job sweating them I thought. The flop comes 456 and I have hope! The turn is an A and the river is a 3! I hit a straight and go up to 48.5k. Everyone hears/comes over to see the hand and laughs at me lol. Oh well, it was good to win that one.

I try to stay aggressive with 3 tables left but just end up hurting myself and get to the final two tables (20 left) with about 38k. I pick up JJ for the first time of the day and raise to 3100. Goldberg defends his BB. The flop comes K45dd and he checks. Normally I check here but Goldberg is pretty straightforward and I decided to either pick up the pot here or figure out if I’m good. I bet 3600 he makes it 9600 and tells me he has me beat for sure. I tank for a little while and fold. He shows KQdd. Nice hand. He is a tough player he definitely mixes it up and he had the best of it there. The next hand is probably the most interesting hand in the whole tournament.

The bluffer Internet kid I talked about earlier chipped up from 4k to about 35k now. He is across the table from me and seems to have tightened up somewhat. The blinds are 800/1600 and I make it 3900 UTG with QKo. It folds to him on the hijack and he throws out 6k. It’s not enough for a raise. The dealer makes him raise to 6200. I asked him if he meant to raise and he said yes. We are about even stacks. I remembered a couple hands earlier in the tournament, one where he reraised an early position raiser to 5k (he made same type of even number/even chip raise there too.) Obviously I am too priced in to ever fold here, and I tank for a little while more and decide to call. The flop comes K73ss and I check to him. He starts thinking for a while before he acts. He tanked it for at least 1 minute, maybe two before he decided what to do. It got to the point where I thought he didn’t know the action was on him. This stall was actually good for me because I feel like I was able to get inside his head a little. He gave me a little more time to think about the dynamics of the hand, my table image, his table image, etc. I didn’t think he would be tanking this long if he had a real hand here and I felt like with his stall he was worried about me slow playing a real hand here. Like I said I really felt like I knew what he was thinking at this point. He then moved all in for 30k. Wow. I think back at everything I’ve seen throughout the day. His 53cc bluff. His reraise of the early position raise earlier to 5k when he couldn’t beat the guys KK. This hand is really easy though because it comes down to he either has AA or he doesn’t. I am either ahead here or he has AA. It’s that simple. He never has AK here or 77 or 33. I can obviously rule out KK as well. So its either AA or some type of like Ax blocker. I also thought he was very capable of doing this play with an Ax blocker because I was UTG and raised, and he reraised me. Basically for him to feel like I don’t have AA he needs at least one ace in his hand to increase his odds of me not having AA. I tanked for three minutes or so and ran everything through my head. I also felt like he wouldn’t shut me down on the flop if he had AA to give me the option of only folding or calling and not being able to make a shove move on the flop. I called. He turned over A9 and I ended up winning the pot and knocking him out. I had him covered by 600 chips. I am now up to 70k with 16-15 players left.

One guy who is a hard rock regular who I’ve played with a ton is poking fun at me about how I have chips and he needs to double and only has 16k and I can afford to double him, blah blah blah. He ends up getting his wish when I make it 3800 in the cutoff with KJ and he shoves in 18k. I know how light he is capable of shoving (any pair, almost all Axs, etc.) and I call. He turns over AA. I flop a King but don’t improve and double him up. I am now down to about 42k at 1k/2k. I lost some more small pots during that time from 70k to 42k.

I now have about 42-43k and another Hard Rock regular makes it 7k 7 handed from the cutoff. I move in with TT and he snap calls with AKss. I have him covered by 8k. Board runs out K8826. He screams and he scoops the pot. I love it when the scream after they beat me in pots (sarcasm.) Luckily he was across the table from me so my body isn’t capable to react lol. I fold a couple hands and try not to panic. I still have enough to maybe make someone fold.. lol. A blessing in disguise comes when an old gentleman is moved to the table in the big blind. He doesn’t seem aware of much and he was fairly old and took a while to get seated. I don’t think he notices I only have 7k. I decide I’m making it 6k here regardless if it folds to me, since he most likely won’t know my stack. The guy in front of me makes it 11k preflop (1/2k) and I look down and squeeze an ace, and another ace! Wow. I call. He turns over AK and I win and go up to 18k. If only I won TT vs AK and then get AA vs AK I would of been up to 160k — if it still goes down like that. Enough dreaming.

A couple hands later UTG limps, cutoff limps, and the small blind (same AK guy) makes it 11k. I have 99 in the big blind 7 handed and move in. UTG tanks and mucks, cutoff mucks. Small blind calls with AT. UTG mucked AJ another player mucked AT. Good. I win while the board runs out 35627 and I am not up to 42k. The AKss player makes it 7k preflop from 2nd position and I shove AJhh from the cutoff and he mucks and I am not around 60k.

Next orbit the hijack limps for 2k. I had played with this guy all day and he limped his mediocre hands. I had QKo and decided to limp the cutoff. The flop comes K45cc and the old man who was just moved to the table leads for 5k. I decide I might be behind here and I just call. I haven’t played with him at all. The turn is gin coming the Qd. He bets 10k. I tank for a while and decide he has to have at least a king here and will most likely call me. Firing two bullets in that situation is pretty strong. I move in 38k more and he tanks for a while and calls with KJ, drawing dead. In a matter of about 15 minutes I am back from 7k to 115k with 14 left.

Now this is where it gets kind of interesting. We are 6 handed and there are 3 players at the table not playing against each other. The other table 6 handed and they are all regulars and haven’t busted anyone yet since we have gotten down to 2 tables I believe. I realize why I hate this place now. I stay aggressive and try to pound them and win the tournament. These players try to make the final 9 so they can all just chop the money and take home their 10k profit or whatever. UTG guy makes it 7k at 1200/2400 and I look down at 22 on the button. Against this player I would probably call here and outplay flops (since I have position) even though we both aren’t too deep stacked, but given the table dynamics I decide to raise. He has about 50k total. I make it 21200 and he moves in for 26k more. Dang. I immediately regret playing the hand how I did but realize I can’t fold. I call. He turns over AK again. I tell him I have a pair lol and I turn over my deuces. It’s 100k flip and I will have a great stack and will knock out one of the regulars if I win. I don’t sweat the board. I look away and don’t hear anything. This is the same guy who screamed before. I must be good. I look back at the board and see the turn card. The board reads Q765, yes, one card away from a huge pot. The river comes the K! He screams in excitement, probably his loudest scream ever and I lose the 100k pot and go down to ~65k. Oh well.

There is a hard rock regular lady who is the most blessed individual in the world. She moves in 5 times in a row for 120k at 1200/2400 with no callers. She moved all in from the small blind into my big blind when I had about 60k. I looked down at KJ and opted to fold. She showed me an Ace (after telling me she would show me both) and told me the other one was really big!! I’ve played with this lady enough and know how she plays and how she donkey shoves a ton and somehow still does well in this tournament. People just fold to her thinking she is incapable of not having a hand. And she will show a good hand every now and then when she does have it. Anyway she beats me out of some pots like she limps sb I raise bb with 89ss she calls. Flop k62r and she moves in 100k when i had 50k behind. So not much I can do.

I try to get my stack back up but if I picked up a hand I got no action, or I had no hand when I raised and had to muck. I get grinded down to 40k at 1500/3000 and Goldberg limps for 3k in 2nd position, the lady makes it 16k on the cutoff and I shove 40k on the button with AQdd. She calls with AJcc (this was the first time she actually made a real raise and didnt move in — probably because the other player she stays away from limped for 3k) and she says “wow I didnt think you had that good of a hand!” Well obvioulsy lady you can’t fold for 24k after putting in 16k but that’s just what I’m dealing with. She flops the Jack no problem and I bust in 11th or 12th place with 9 being paid and about 30k to first.

Pretty frustrating given how the whole tournament went. One flip here or there and I might be 30k richer. I made some good plays, made some bad plays. I think I need to be a little more patient sometimes live but its tough when I know exactly what I’m up against. Not actually patient but maybe just tighter. It’s not like I got my chips in bad in any big pots but the 22 vs AK was a blessing I wasn’t crushed. That hand a lot went through my mind and I was basically bluffing preflop but knew I had to call a shove. I could talk more about that hand but I will spare the details. It wasn’t my tournament. I didnt hit a set all day which was an interesting statistic after I thought about the tournament. I kept thinking why couldn’t I hit a set of deuces vs the AK =). Some situations didn’t work out for me when they could have. It’s frustrating but I will be playing in a couple more live tournaments coming up so I am glad that I got to shake off a little rust and get deep and realize some of my mistakes. Goodnight guys.

Weekend Poker…

Posted by Cre8ive on December 23, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

“Ask for a better hand? I tried colliding with my problems, yeah I never ran. That’ll make me less a man. I ain’t go from not havin’ it to being arrogant. I dreamt, went grabbin’ it, just being passionate.” – Joe Budden – Better Me

I didn’t play poker for a little while because of my birthday festivities last week. My girlfriend came into town and some other friends and I spent time with them. I didn’t play at all last weekend which was a little frustrating since I had been pretty hot on Sundays having a couple shots every week. Oh well. With all that said I was back in action on Saturday. I played the typical Saturday schedule which involves almost every big tournament and got lucky enough to win the 100r on Full Tilt.

There is a hand from the final table that I think I played wrong that I will post here and discuss.

Okay basically the history is this: The table is very weak and intervention is really the only person who is showing aggression. Rich is playing super tight and fox is playing passive tight. Intervention is to my left and it is obviously me vs him for the table aggression. I would imagine hes calling preflop with a huge range and floating the flop a big percentage of the time here. I figured he would float the flop and try to put pressure on me since there is one real short stack and both opponents are really weak. I wanted to check shove the turn because of the table dynamics but the board paired and he made a good bet. I decided against it because I knew I could get my chips in better, in case he did have it…

What do you guys think or what do you guys do here? Thanks in advance.

Full Tilt Poker Game #9601505278: $60,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) (70052022), Table 14 – 5000/10000 Ante 1000 – No Limit Hold’em – 22:11:45 ET – 2008/12/20
Seat 2: Intervention (547,126)
Seat 5: foxjizzle (287,811)
Seat 7: Rich taste1 (99,404)
Seat 8: Cre8ive (376,659)
Intervention antes 1,000
foxjizzle antes 1,000
Rich taste1 antes 1,000
Cre8ive antes 1,000
Cre8ive posts the small blind of 5,000
Intervention posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #7
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Cre8ive [Ac 5c]
foxjizzle folds
Rich taste1 folds
Cre8ive raises to 28,500
Intervention calls 18,500
*** FLOP *** [Jd 7c 3c]
Cre8ive has 15 seconds left to act
Cre8ive bets 32,000
Intervention calls 32,000
*** TURN *** [Jd 7c 3c] [3h]
Cre8ive has 15 seconds left to act
Cre8ive checks
Intervention has 15 seconds left to act
Intervention bets 80,000
Cre8ive has 15 seconds left to act
Cre8ive has requested TIME
Cre8ive folds
Uncalled bet of 80,000 returned to Intervention
Intervention mucks
Intervention wins the pot (125,000)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 125,000 | Rake 0
Board: [Jd 7c 3c 3h]
Seat 2: Intervention (big blind) collected (125,000), mucked
Seat 5: foxjizzle folded before the Flop
Seat 7: Rich taste1 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: Cre8ive (small blind) folded on the Turn

(Taken from PocketFives Thread – Hand From 100r Final Table)

I ended up not shoving the turn when I should of shoved it. Basically I know the shove is “+EV” (I’m not really an ev guy but I guess I need to learn some of the principles and math behind it all) but given the table and how everything was going I felt I could fold here and pick a better spot. Everything I said above about how I know its a high probability I’m getting floated and everything gives me more of a reason to shove. People in the thread where I posted the hand said he most likely raises a Jack on the flop and probably wouldn’t bet a 7. So it’s possible he has a 3 or air, but who knows. Anyway I thought I played the hand bad since I didn’t shove the turn but luckily I still took down the tournament.

Yesterday (Sunday) went horribly for me. I got deep in a couple tournaments and lost a couple huge pots to some sick beats. Sundays are just those days where sometimes you give sick beats and sometimes you take them, yesterday was my day to take them. Hopefully I can have a shot at a big Sunday tournament win before the year is over. One more week to do that lol.

Other than poker things have been pretty quiet. Stu, Brian, Tim (cane3418), Hans (miamihans), Steve, and I went to the Heat vs. Lakers game on Friday. It was a good game and the Heat pulled it out. Kobe’s buzzer beater to tie the game rattled in and then out. We hung out in Miami a little bit and saw Tim’s new condo that is in the same condo place as Hans’ condo, directly across the street from American Airlines arena. Pretty sick places they have.

Also Congratulations to my sister and her Husband for having their child. His name is Jeffrey and I am an uncle! It’s pretty neat and everyone is excited that we have a new member in the family. Someone told me he came out of the womb holding K8o but I don’t know who can verify that. Maybe one of the nurses, I’ll have to ask around. =)

I will stop slacking and update some more. I don’t know if I am going to go to the PCA tournament in the Bahamas like I went last year. Probably not. I think I might end up going to Biloxi for the WPT in early January instead. I have never played a WPT tournament so it would be exciting to play one. I’ve just played the side events for the most part never a 10k+. Expect some more blogs more frequently and I still have that big news approaching. Also I am writing an article for pocketfives. I have a pretty good topic I am going to write about that hopefully people enjoy. Goodnight guys.

What Is A Blog…?

Posted by Cre8ive on December 8, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

“And my motto is when you get inside the end zone, act like you been there before. Says something about your character to always brag, so if you never had, act like you always have, for real…” – Joe Budden – Goto Hell.

It seems like every time I get in the red zone I can’t ever get that touchdown. I know I haven’t blogged in a while. I sort of forgot about it. Not really forgot, I just never got around to updating it. Let me first give you guys a little poker tidbits then I will talk about what I have been up to.

It’s currently Sunday night entering Monday morning. I just got 7th in the 200r on Pokerstars and 11th in the $500 500k Guaranteed. I feel like I played pretty well in both and it just didn’t go my way. The last 4 times I have played the $500 NL on stars I have gotten 14th (11/09), 16th (11/30) and 11th tonight (12/7) WOW. Last Sunday I came in 16th and then this Sunday 11th. Jeez. It really is frustrating. Welcome to the life of poker. I lost 14th with 66 vs AQ, 16th AA vs AdJ on Q45ddd board (called pre with AA to trap) and tonight lost JJ vs AK in the end. The pot that hurt me the most tonight was this:

Aggressive/bad player from Paris raises to 73k at 15/30k he has about 800k. He raised the hijack 6 handed. This guy had been raising a lot and I think he had betting tells with this type of raise being weaker and his 3x being stronger. Anyway it folds to the sb who has about 700k and has been a tight player. The player has been tight but is also not scared to get it in. Earlier the small blind raised the cutoff with 88 and the bb reraised and he shoved it in with 88 and won vs the big blinds AK. So anyway I am the chip leader with about 1.3m. The small blind moves in for 700k and i have AQo in the Big blind. My instincts initially told me to fold. Considering how tight this guy had been the last 2 hours I have played with him and just everything about the hand initially my instincts were saying fold fold fold. And I almost folded pretty quickly. INSTEAD… I clicked timebank and thought about it. The blinds were not 15/30k and he only has about 20bbs. This other guy has been very aggressive and the blinds are going up he can’t stay so tight forever. I came to the conclusion in my head that he would shove AJ or weaker hands than AQ and I reshoved all in. The initial 73k raiser folded and the guy turned over AK and won. I went down to 600k.

I have been telling myself to listen to my first initial instinct lately but I keep forgetting that I tell myself this after the fact and never put it to use. I wish I would of here. I just didn’t feel right about the hand but after thinking over and over about it I think I have to reshove, but I just wish in this instance I would of folded because I would of been right (to listen to my instincts, etc.) The table I was at was pretty easy and I was playing pretty tight because I had Jovial Gent to my left reraising me. I didn’t want to get into any big pots like that without a dominating hand but I guess I couldn’t help it there. Any comments appreciated.

So yeah, the $500 NL and the $200r are my unicorns. I guess any major Sunday tournament is my unicorn because I haven’t won any of them lol. I have had some pretty close shots at the 200r lately too. I don’t want to make myself more depressed than I already am so I wont look those stats up.

I had a good month overall last month but still am not grinding like I said I would. I am not putting in the hours I keep talking about putting in and my friends are getting on my case about it. It’s hard to balance out your life if you’re playing poker 10-12 hours a day. So let me get into what I have been doing instead.

Last weekend I went down to Miami to visit Miamihans and cane3418 (Hans and Tim.) Hans has a condo right in the middle of the city of Miami and cane just got a place in the same condo building. The first night we went out to a party that had an open bar and all got pretty drunk. We got back to Hans’ condo at about 3am and went in his hot tub. It was me, Hans, Tim, Hans’ girlfriend, and our other friend John. We were playing some drinking games in the hot tub and then decided to play volleyball. John kept talking about how he is the best in the world at volleyball. John and Hans decide they will play volleyball vs me and Tim. Hans’ girlfriend ended up leaving and we went over to the beach volleyball court. (Now when Hans and John went to get the ball I told Tim that I have played volleyball since 7th grade and was first team all state, etc. Tim also told me he knew how to play so our chances looked good.)

John and Hans wanted to bet so we ended up betting $500 the first game. We did best of 3 series. Me and Tim killed John and Hans 15-3 15-2 or something like that. Easy $500. Then they said they wanted a rematch! Hahahaha. So we scooped another $500 again after we beat them another best of 3. Remember earlier when John said he was the best? Yeah, well he was the absolute worst. He was kicking the ball and absolutely clueless as to how to play volleyball. I guess it was just the liquor talking. We switched teams on the third game to me and John vs Tim and Hans to make it more even. Since I had money riding on the game I didn’t want to lose and I was trying to tell John what to do and how to play, but he wasn’t listening. John had a BIG bet on the last series as well to get even. He wasn’t taking it seriously or listening to what I had to say though. At one point I wanted to lose just because he was being such a moron. Kicking his serves and kicking the ball. All they would do is serve to him and he would just screw up every ball. I told him to just go up to the net and I would get every first ball but he wasn’t listening. We ended up going to the third game and then I shut it down serving. Started off 7-0 and I think we won 15-3. John is a complete idiot on the volleyball court and I will never be his partner again if we are playing for money, lol. So $1500 scoop at the volleyball courts down in Miami.

The next night I went out again and it was pretty uneventful. Miami/South Beach has a lot of stuck up clubs and places and I really don’t enjoy or appreciate that. One club tried to tell us it was $80 to get in and $1500 for a table and a bottle. LOL. Ridiculous. I did get to eat some arepas and I love them.

If you don’t know what it is, look it up, cause I’m not really sure lol. I guess they can be made different ways but the ones I had were with cheese and it was delicious. I wish I had some right now!

So down in Miami I had some close shots and almost final tabled the $500 NL when I got 16th and Hans almost won the FTP tourney getting 30th place. I ended up coming home Tuesday afternoon after bubbling the 1k on FTP Monday Night. It was fun down there but it’s a lazy environment and I don’t get to workout and get everything done.

My Birthday is coming up in a week (December 15th.) Send any presents to.. Just kidding lol. I am going to be 24. It is pretty crazy that I am turning 24. I definitely don’t feel that old and feel like I should be turning 18. I just don’t feel old. I guess that’s a good thing. Time flies honestly. I feel like I haven’t accomplished enough yet at my age but then people remind me of things I have done; like graduate college, etc. I feel like I have goals and visions of where I want to be and I am not there yet. I don’t worry about how old I am or what I have accomplished at so and so age (ex: I want to be a billionaire by 25.) I know some people do this and try to plan out their life in relation to their age but age is just a number and life is just a game. You can’t rush things or plan things. Aside from all of that it is amazing how it feels like just yesterday I turned 21. We’ll see what I decide to do for my birthday. I know some friends will be coming into town.

I guess that’s enough rambling for now. I have had complaints about blogging about my personal life and not strictly sticking to poker so I better shut up! Whoever said that should realize that poker is a part of my life and my life is much greater than poker (but I understand poker content is more entertaining =]) Goodnight guys.

P.S. I also played at a fun live cash game the other night and got involved in a sick cooler with a guy I had a tell on which is pretty interesting I will probably blog about the next time.

Follow Up Post/FTOPS Frustration…

Posted by Cre8ive on November 20, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

“Its hard to do when you’ve got nothing to prove. Everybody knows you better, you’re in a lose lose. Cause even when you win, ultimately you lose. Real dudes like, ‘Why Hov talking to Dude?'” Jay-Z – Dig A Hole

Okay, Okay, Okay! I guess my last blog was a little outside the box and over some heads. I know it was pretty crazy in itself. Haha. It’s pretty funny to see the responses from some people on the Internet and some at the poker tables. I just posted that hand and explained the situation because I had seen that situation played before and knew what would likely happen in the hand. I am not saying I am 3 betting light and calling 4 bet shoves light all the time in my poker game. It just so happened I did that in that specific example. When push comes to shove that is a way a hand might play out.

In the hand K8 is the absolute worst I would probably ever call with there. Obviously I wish I had AT or QK or a hand that plays better but I still called and gambled. I am not advocating calling 4 bet shoves with K8 or anything like that. All I wanted to show you in the blog was taking previous situations and using them in the future, and not being scared to do it. I wasn’t bragging that I was ahead with K8 vs JT or trying to make any other implications like that. Simple stating I knew that the player I was up against was capable of 4bet shoving really light there which I could be a favorite in the hand and gamble. It’s a gamble from both ends. The shover is hoping the 3 bettor doesn’t have a real hand and the caller is hoping the shover doesn’t have a real hand. It’s a big gamble regardless but there is obviously way more to the hand if you want to get into that, but I am not going to. That’s all I will say about that topic I guess. So to all those eThugs and Internet Gangsters who hide behind their computers and forum posts, enjoy. Call the play stupid, call the blog stupid, call me stupid. It’s fine. No worries here lol. Come back and read the next blog!

On to some other poker talk. The FTOPS just finished and I am probably the biggest FTOPS failure ever. I got 7th in the PLO 6max Event, 11th in the 300 NL 9 handed, and 9th in the PLO 9 handed Event. I had a couple other cashes in the FTOPS and ended up 2nd overall on the FTOPS Leaderboard. I think the winner of the leaderboard got a custom avatar, which would of been… interesting lol. I’ve seen other avatars and maybe its better I got 2nd! Haha Just kidding. It’s just pretty frustrating to get close in a couple big tournaments and end up where I did. I don’t think I necessarily did anything wrong (except in the PLO 9 handed bustout hand.) I’ve analyzed the hands and situations in the tournaments and didn’t find anything that cost me the tournaments, I don’t believe. I don’t know what else to look forward to in poker in the near future. Every Sunday is fun, but aside from that I guess I will get excited for whatever big live tournament I play next.

Tonight I had my semifinals YMCA basketball game. We played the gold team two weeks ago and we lost by two points. The final play of the game I had the ball and drove past my man and got double teamed, leaving another player wide open under the basket for a layup. He missed the layup and we ended losing. I now know why some people don’t give the ball up at the end of the game. =) We played the same team we lost to two weeks ago and smashed them by 30 points this time. The Championship game will be on Friday. If we win I will be 1 for 1 in YMCA Championships (Which doesn’t say much lol.) It’s been about a year since I had ACL surgery and my knee is feeling pretty good. It will take a couple more months before it doesn’t bother me at all but at least I can play once again, even if im not 100%.

I guess that’s all I really have to say. I will post a couple more interesting hands in the future to give some more insight on how I view poker. I also would like to say that poker is not a science. You can never ALWAYS be right when you play poker. You can never be the best. Anyone who thinks they are the best or thinks that they are that much better than Player A, B, and C are completely ignorant. There are plenty of ways to view this game and there are different ways to succeed. Goodnight guys.

P.S. – Although I don’t post a whole lot on either site, I am a member of pocketfives and twoplustwo for anyone who cares =)

Is This What Poker Will Come To?…

Posted by Cre8ive on November 13, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

“I’m searchin Victory, she keeps eluding me. If only we could be together momentarily. We could make love and make history. Why won’t you visit me?” – Jay-Z – History

I decided I am going to start all my blog posts with a quote or a line that has a lot of meaning from a song of my choice. I guess I might use lines from the same songs on different days but I figured it would be interesting none the less. For anyone who knows me and talks to me on AIM, I have always used lines from songs in my away messages for years and years now, so I decided to incorporate it into my blog. Hopefully I don’t have to explain any quotes to everyone but some of them are pretty deep and have hidden meanings so I guess I’ll explain if needed.

Anyways, today’s post is actually going to be a hand I played last night in the $100 1Rebuy 1Addon Tournament on Full Tilt. It’s a pretty crazy hand and I might get some flack for it because I immediately got flack after the hand. Here’s the hand and I’ll explain.

Full Tilt Poker Game #8944346342: $33,000 Guarantee (1r+1a) (67523634), Table 12 – 400/800 Ante 100 – No Limit Hold’em – 23:05:48 ET – 2008/11/12
Seat 1: charder30 (16,030)
Seat 2: McNallyville (16,831)
Seat 3: pokerarg (48,835)
Seat 4: sampson724 (20,901)
Seat 5: tedsfishfry (36,311)
Seat 6: Cre8ive (64,880)
Seat 7: Sleepy_Hippo (27,487)
Seat 8: zestfulyclean (18,850)
Seat 9: kenaw (18,758)
charder30 antes 100
McNallyville antes 100
pokerarg antes 100
sampson724 antes 100
tedsfishfry antes 100
Cre8ive antes 100
Sleepy_Hippo antes 100
zestfulyclean antes 100
kenaw antes 100
Sleepy_Hippo posts the small blind of 400
zestfulyclean posts the big blind of 800
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Cre8ive [Kh 8c]
kenaw folds
charder30 folds
McNallyville folds
pokerarg has 15 seconds left to act
pokerarg folds
sampson724 folds
tedsfishfry raises to 2,000
Cre8ive raises to 5,950
Sleepy_Hippo folds
zestfulyclean folds
tedsfishfry raises to 36,211, and is all in
Cre8ive calls 30,261
tedsfishfry shows [Tc Jc]
Cre8ive shows [Kh 8c]
*** FLOP *** [5d Jd 9h]
*** TURN *** [5d Jd 9h] [As]
*** RIVER *** [5d Jd 9h As] [7h]
tedsfishfry shows a pair of Jacks
Cre8ive shows Ace King high
tedsfishfry wins the pot (74,522) with a pair of Jacks
tedsfishfry: sick call
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 74,522 | Rake 0
Board: [5d Jd 9h As 7h]
Seat 1: charder30 folded before the Flop
Seat 2: McNallyville folded before the Flop
Seat 3: pokerarg folded before the Flop
Seat 4: sampson724 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: tedsfishfry showed [Tc Jc] and won (74,522) with a pair of Jacks
Seat 6: Cre8ive (button) showed [Kh 8c] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 7: Sleepy_Hippo (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: zestfulyclean (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: kenaw folded before the Flop

Let me give you some background information before you immediately look at this hand and think I’m an idiot or a monkey or just lucky he had JT suited and not had me dominated. I had played this tournament very good up until this point. I gained chips by waiting for good hands and taking advantage of position and players when I got my stack. I just got moved to this table 2-3 hands prior. I know tedfishfry is Shaun Deeb and I know how Shaun Deeb plays. I also know that with me coming to a new table with chips, people automatically assume I’m going to put pressure on them. Since I was to the immediate left of Shaun Deeb, I knew he would think the same. I have seen Shaun Deeb shove really light in this spot before. I have a pretty good memory so I realized when he led out his raise. He had raise one of the first couple hands I was at the table so I knew he was being aggressive as well. He opens to 2k (we are about 20-30 away from the money and I’m top 3 in chips probably) and I look down at K8o. He’s on the cutoff and I’m on the button. I reminded myself about the earlier statement where I know he’s most likely going to shove if I reraise and I told myself that if I do 3bet him I know he will shove lighter than K8 so I am going to call him. I know it’s probably bad to automatically dictate what you are going to do in a hand before the action happens but I had reasoning behind it. I make it 5950 and he thinks about it for a second and shoves. With the timing and everything of his shove I was pretty sure that this was his 4bet reshove move and I snap called. He turns over JT and he wins the pot.

After the board ran out and the hand had played he said “sick call” as you can see in the chat but I think it was more sarcasm than anything. People at the table assumed I misclick called and then tried to take credit for making a call where I was ahead (I wont say good call — but I was ahead lol.) I wouldn’t ever do that. If I misclicked I would have said I misclicked, but I already knew what he was going to do before he did it and therefore called. There was some discussion after the hand and people kept saying I misclicked, blah blah blah, and then Shaun stated that his range for reshoving there isn’t as light as I tried to make out. He said I beat 4 hands and race with 7 others and dominated by everything else (he said something like that.) But I figure his range is more open than that.

So what I want to talk about here is stubborn poker. I am a stubborn person, and sometimes a stubborn poker player. This is what case of when push comes to shove and I am going to shove you right back. He opens light, I reraise light, and he thinks I am re-raising light so he 4bet shoves light. Since I know that he knows this I decide to call his shove light with my hand (K8) because I assume that it is ahead of the hands he is going to shove on me. I normally don’t play 100bb flip at this stage in the tournament (flip as in how this hand played out) but like I said, if people are going to start playing poker where they 4bet shove light, then sometimes you’re going to have to take a stand and call light. I’m not scared to call with K high if I think I am right. I know I might be crazy for playing a pot like this and thinking “yeah I am ahead and I am going to combat 4bet light shoving with calling with marginal hands that I think beat their range” but I might have to sometimes.

Learn this lesson. I finally am. Poker is always evolving and you can’t be scared to try to do different things or be the person that is doing something everyone is not doing. If I was going to play poker like everyone else then what would set me apart from the rest of the world? How would I beat players if we play identical? I wouldn’t. It would come down to who wins the coin flip or is on the right side of the cooler or runs better every time. I don’t want to have to base my livelihood off of winning a coin flip. I am going to keep experimenting with my game and keep adjusting to how others play and try to make drastic jumps ahead of the pack. So call me stupid, call me an idiot, and call me a misclicker (lol)… But if this is what poker will come to we better watch out =)

Now for some more evidence… To back up everything I said. This hand was about one hour after the hand with me and Deeb. Same exact scenario. We are now in the money and down to 2 tables. We have just gotten to the new tables and Deeb has a stack on his immediate left again. Here’s the hand history.

Full Tilt Poker Game #8945353332: $33,000 Guarantee (1r+1a) (67523634), Table 3 – 1200/2400 Ante 300 – No Limit Hold’em – 0:11:03 ET – 2008/11/13
Seat 1: blizair (99,876)
Seat 2: dswdo (43,230)
Seat 3: 9InchRich (32,502)
Seat 4: thatcher1979 (68,753)
Seat 6: a_zuzolo (70,741)
Seat 7: tedsfishfry (117,069)
Seat 8: paddiewaddie (123,135)
Seat 9: LURCH PAPA (45,708)
blizair antes 300
dswdo antes 300
9InchRich antes 300
thatcher1979 antes 300
a_zuzolo antes 300
tedsfishfry antes 300
paddiewaddie antes 300
LURCH PAPA antes 300
blizair posts the small blind of 1,200
dswdo posts the big blind of 2,400
The button is in seat #9
*** HOLE CARDS ***
9InchRich folds
thatcher1979 folds
a_zuzolo has 15 seconds left to act
a_zuzolo folds
tedsfishfry raises to 5,555
paddiewaddie has 15 seconds left to act
paddiewaddie raises to 15,555
LURCH PAPA folds
blizair folds
dswdo folds
tedsfishfry has 15 seconds left to act
tedsfishfry raises to 116,769, and is all in
paddiewaddie has 15 seconds left to act
paddiewaddie folds
Uncalled bet of 101,214 returned to tedsfishfry
tedsfishfry shows [Jd Qh] Queen Jack high
tedsfishfry wins the pot (37,110)
9InchRich stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 37,110 | Rake 0
Seat 1: blizair (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: dswdo (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: 9InchRich folded before the Flop
Seat 4: thatcher1979 folded before the Flop
Seat 6: a_zuzolo folded before the Flop
Seat 7: tedsfishfry collected (37,110)
Seat 8: paddiewaddie folded before the Flop
Seat 9: LURCH PAPA (button) folded before the Flop

Look familiar?

So many I’m not as crazy as I think after all. I did end up coming back from the 100bb pot loss and losing a big flip on the bubble of the final table and finished in 9th when I was last in chips going into the final table. At least I outlasted tedfishfry, lol. =)

Back To Back FTOPS Final Table Bubbles…

Posted by Cre8ive on November 10, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

It’s 4:30am and I just got 11th in the $300 NL FTOPS. It was 278k to first place. I received 15k for my 11th place finish but I am very disappointed. It’s not often where you get so close to a large amount of money like that. I missed the 6max bounty in the morning, so technically my last 2 FTOPS Events I have played I bubbled both final tables, pretty sick. I also got 6th in the 100r 1+a 6max tournament and then 14th in the $500 NL on stars. Man tonight is crazy. I had three shots. The 6max was only 19k to first, but the $500 NL was 92k and the FTOPS was 278k. Jeez. I am really devastated. I lost AK vs 99 to bust tonight. I had no shot, it came JJ9 flop. I played really good and was really short after losing KK vs AQ and battled back from only about 3 big blinds. In the end I got involved with the chip leader in a couple pots (bigdogpckt5s) and he was really loose and aggressive and he got the best of me in a couple of pots so I regret going up against him. It looked like he was getting smacked by the deck though. Oh well.

Sorry guys for sounding so depressed and disappointed. I have had such a great week from last Sunday to this Sunday. I am up a LOT of money in tournaments, but no huge wins. I guess everything is clicking and as soon as everything falls into place I will have a big win. My money is getting in good and I am seeing the game differently than I did in the past. I’m not too upset because I played good in all my tournaments just a little disappointed that I was so close to so much money. I guess there is always tomorrow where I can go for my third FTOPS final table bubble in a row.

Oh wait, I didn’t bubble the 100r FTOPS that my buddy cane won, but still.. back to back days of bubbling a FTOPS final table hurts. But guess what, It’s done with. Time to move on and get ready to play tomorrow. Night everyone.

FTOPS Final Table Bubble And A Win!…

Posted by Cre8ive on November 9, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Earlier in the day I got 7th in the 6-max PLO FTOPS tournament. It was very very very disappointing to get so close and lose. First place was 75k and I was the chip leader, or close to the chip lead for almost the whole end of the tournament until I busted. I got unlucky, or didn’t get lucky, in the end. Obviously there were some hands where I got lucky along the way but in the end it wasn’t my day. I lost AAA9ss vs AKT3hh all in preflop for 300k (to knock a player out) and then lost a big coinflip with AA75cc vs JTQ6 on a JTcc5 board. I am about 45% to win that hand and that was a huge pot. That hand was basically my tournament. I lost another 300k pot where I was a favorite and then a couple other pots could of went my way. I think I played very well and hopefully I can continue to play well. There was one hand on the bubble that I would like to talk about though.

85 get paid or something like that. We are only a couple people away from the money. I have about 15k or 20k and I have AT24dd in the big blind. The blinds are 300/600 or 400/800. I’m not exactly sure. It folds to the button and he raised it to lets say 2k. Now my hand is garbage, but I like bubble play, especially in a field like the FTOPS where people really want to make the money. This guy was an unknown so I assumed that he wanted to make the money as well. I also assumed that he could only continue with AA or KK (whatever plo combos) and that would be it. I decided to 3bet him to 6k roughly, and if he shoved in his last 12k I would fold. Again, I only thought he would continue with made AA or KK here or a huge hand like AQJKds — double suited — etc… He ended up just calling! I definitely didn’t expect that to happen. The flop came 886 I believe. I had him covered by about 200 chips and decided again that I had to go with it and keep the pressure on the bubble. He ended up thinking about it for a second and called with KKxx. I turned the Ace and won the pot. I don’t know if he was trapping me preflop or what. I don’t think he was trapping me. If he was then I think he played his hand perfectly, but I think he wanted to see a safe flop and then decide to continue or not. This is really the only hand that I feel I played questionably and I was very happy with how I played today.

Now on to the FTOPS WINNER!!!! CANE3418!!! My buddy TIM! Congratulations man!!!! I was getting ready to go out tonight when Stu texted me and told me cane was chip leader with 7 left in the 100r FTOPS. I decided to turn on my laptop and sweat him a little before I went out. Fifteen minutes later he was three handed with the chip lead and then heads up. I watched the heads up battle in excitement and anticipation of what could be a 6 figure score for my friend. He battled back and forth with the guy keeping the chip lead for the most part and then ended up finally beating him on the river to a pretty sick beat =). BUT… I am not here to talk about a bad beat he put on someone so congratulations again man and I am glad you won!

Cane won his jersey now it is my time to win my jersey and a 6 figure score. I was only 6 people away today from a jersey and 75k so hopefully I can have another chance again, which I’m sure I will.

I am kind of offended that someone said my BLOG USED TO BE GOOD AND NOW IT SUCKS. Actually, I’m not offended at all. Haha. I constantly say to whomever reads this blog if you have ideas and topics that you want me to talk about or things you like that I talk about, let me know. And if you don’t like my blog then don’t read it. Period. =) But I’d rather have constructive criticism than someone just telling me “Oh your blog used to be good now it sucks and you suck too.”

I don’t know if I told you guys but go buy JOE BUDDEN’s CD at http://www.amalgamdigital.com/ Joe Budden is one of the most underrated hip hop artists and he is a genius. Honestly. This guy says some of the craziest things but anyone who has ever gone through some problems can relate and Joe is just so smooth and creative and man. I definitely want to get this guy into my studio when I get a studio and I can’t wait to see what we work out and what kind of record we make. Anyway, I’m gonna let you guys watch another documentary from Jay-Z which is good and then a new song from Jay-Z. Jay-z is another rapper who is unique as well. These guys are honestly geniuses. People look at rap music and rappers as thugs and hoodlums, etc etc.. but I am telling you these people are Sui generis individuals. Someone set me up with a dinner with these guys, thanks. A&Rs I hope you read my blog!! Haha. Alright, enough of me dreaming but music is amazing and I will most definitely be talking more about these guys in future blogs and for the rest of my life. This whole last paragraph sounds really corny but I will leave it anyway. Oh well =)

JAY-Z — History (I don’t think its necessarily about Obama.. but I guess some people are trying to make it out to be)

Below is a link for a video from the BBC. They did a documentary on Jay-Z. Basically anyone who is a Jay-z fan should check it out. You kind of get more of a view into his life and everything. You actually have to go to this site to watch the videos. Its called “He came. He saw. He conquered.” So anyone can look it up since the video I watched previously isn’t working. Here is the link. http://fatlacemagazine.uproxx.com/?p=2999

P.S. On a side note I am really excited that Barack Obama was elected President and I think he will do a great job. I just think anyone who is in situation is made to succeed. He has everyone counting on him and I don’t think he will fail. I think everyone is coming together at this point and realizing we need to make lots of changes in the United States. Hopefully Obama will have all the right people around him and the world can be a better place. We will see what happens but I am excited to see where the United States is heading. I am glad we have had a change like this. Okay, enough politics. Goodnight.

ALSO — Check out my buddy Brian’s (who lives with me) blog. Apparently he just started one and I’m gonna send him some hits. He doesn’t play poker or anything but his blog should be interesting in general. Him and I think alike and our minds are constantly thinking so I’m sure he’ll have some interesting blogs. http://luckyme5.blogspot.com/

With so many plugs in my blog maybe Joe Budden or Jay-Z will see how I’m adding to their success and come down to South Florida. =)

Much Needed Update…

Posted by Cre8ive on November 4, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

It’s been a while since I updated everyone. I still am not finished with my project yet to reveal what I have been working on. Soon I will be able to let everyone know what the “BIG NEWS” is. I beat thedonator in the October PLB bet. He made a run in the end but I had to put the nail in the coffin towards the end of the month. I didn’t play as much as I should have the whole month so I am planning on changing that in the month of November. I am going to play a lot this month, like I stated before.

My Halloween was pretty uneventful as well. I went out with some friends and my girlfriend to a club in Delray Beach on Atlantic Avenue. There were a bunch of people dressed up in costumes getting drunk and having a good time. I didn’t partake in the costume festivities this year. I have had some great costumes in the past though.

This costume was from my Sophomore year in college. I took a costume made for 8-12 year olds and tailored it to my fitting. Lol. Here’s what its supposed to look like:

Haha. Pretty funny costume I thought. I had fun with it. I had so much fun with the costume that I decided to do the same thing the next year.

I had to buy some girl’s velvet material like pants from Walmart that were green to match and then I wore one of my dark green button up shirts to make the costume complete. Hahaha. Its supposed to look more like this:

This costume takes the cake. I feel like Tom Hanks in the movie BIG when he goes from a child to an adult. Except I transformed while I was wearing the costumes on Halloween! Too bad none of my friends were into wearing costumes this year or I would of had to try and top my last costume from two years ago (above.)

I just busted from all my tournaments tonight (bubbled like three big nightly’s.) I think I am about to go to the gym and workout a little bit and then get ready to play some more tomorrow. Hopefully I can share my big news soon with everyone. I want everyone to be as excited about it as I am, so I guess its not bad to have a little hype and delay to the announcement. Don’t let the suspense kill you! Goodnight.