Yesterday was the $3k, and now I’m officially busto from everything here.

Bleh

The main event had 302 entrants, and I believe first paid around $275k. Well, that’s not too big of a concern now that I’m eliminated. I lasted about 6 hours. I never accumulated too many chips, but feel as though most of my reads were on, and that I was playing well.

We started with 15k, and I hovered between 12k-24k all day. I don’t think I played more than one 5 figure pot. It was just one of those days. I also had several aggressive players to my left, so that didn’t make life easier. I started my bust-out hand with roughly 16,600, and my opponent covered me by about 8-10k. With blinds at 150/300/25, he opened the button for 900. The small blind folded, and I pick up AKo in the BB.

Well, this opponent (BB) had played with me for a good portion of the $1k bounty on the 7th, and he had been moved to the table roughly 90 minutes ago when this hand came up. During both times we’d played together, I’d played a very solid, tight-aggressive game. Especially in the bounty.

Well, I 3-bet his button open to 3,600, and he tanked. Now, this was literally the first pot I had re-raised preflop the entire trip (In a BTN/SB/BB spot), let alone vs. a guy who’d seen me play solid the previous day.

While tanking he was counting out the chips in a similar way to when he put me all-in in a previous pot (and I folded). I thought there was a pretty good chance he was just gonna put me AIPF there (and I would’ve called).

Well, instead he flat called preflop, putting us both in a somewhat awkward spot postflop (each having 1.5 times the pot behind). The flop came down T73r.

Out of all of my options, open-shoving for 1.5x pot seemed best. The button thought for a good 3 minutes before finally calling with T9. He thought so long, I actually thought I had just made a good value bet and he was calling with AQ. I guess I gave him too much credit and didn’t consider he’d call a 4x re-raise (20% of the effective stack) with T9.

….So yea, despite the downswing, I’m feeling really good about my game. I’m just hoping to put up some results in the FTOPS series. Once I get home I plan on putting in more volume online, as well as work on PokerVT.

Speaking of PokerVT, I’ve gotten a chance to play around with the site a bit. I’m very impressed with it. Daniel’s blog mentions it’ll be open for FCP’rs on the 13th, and I’m guessing to the general public soon after. I’m extremely excited about the launch of PokerVT, and the changes it will bring. It’s nice to have an actual date set as well.

On May 14th, 8pm EST, Daniel will be on Sirius 186 (listen live at HardcorePokerShow.com) to answer all questions related to PokerVT

I'm sure I'll be linking a sign-up/referral ad or something once they're available.

Later,


-Adam J

Yup, that’s what the events here in Vancouver are being called. WPT Canada, short for “World Poker Tour: Canada”

….Right…

Well, regardless of whether or not the name makes sense, I’m having a pretty good time here. Of course, I’d be having a better time if I hadn’t been knocked out of the $1k bounty today, but oh well.

We started with 10k, and 25/50 blinds and 45min levels. A pretty good structure for a $1k, I really don’t care to grind out long levels for a $1k. But for a 2 day event (2 days, plus final table), it was great. Being a bounty was a neat experience as well. It was the first live tournament I’d played in a few months, and I think I played pretty well. I didn’t open nearly as many pots as I normally do, and just hovered between 7-13k playing pretty patiently. At 200/400/25 I got my last 11k in the middle with 99 vs Ah 2h on the Kh 9h 3x flop.

I lost btw

Jeff had busted a few minutes before I did, so we went to the electronics store to pick up a router and get some dinner. We ate at a fairly nice Korean BBQ restaurant near the mall. It seems like I always end up eating Korean BBQ on the road. For once Bond18 wasn’t ordering the meal too. I’m surprised I could figure it out myself. Bond usually knows every single person working at every single Korean BBQ restaurant, (anywhere ever). Of course, this is based on 2 dinners - but one was in LV and the other was in Melbourne. Slight exaggeration I suppose.

Tomorrow I’ll be playing a couple online tournaments, but mostly taking it easy. Big thanks to Daryl and the staff here for getting Jeff and I one of the nicer rooms at a solid rate. I think this is the first hotel room I’ve been in that has stairs….


Later,


-Adam

The last few days I’ve just been rifling through various movies, video games, and TV shows. Lots of time on the couch and by the TV - which was convenient, because Chris Lawton from the Wall Street Journal contacted me to do a quickie interview on my television installation. Not sure when it’ll be published, but I’m sure I’ll mention something once I hear word of it.

Other than laying around and doing nothing, it looks as though I’ll be going to Vancouver in less than a week to play in the Coast to Coast Championships at River Rock. Jeff and I were both invited to be bounties, so it looks like we’re gonna be making the trip (again).

That’s all for now.

Sorry for the lack of content recently. It’s been a difficult few weeks for my family and I.

I’ve actually been somewhat sick and out of it lately. I really wish that was the only bad news I have, but it isn’t.

Roughly 3-4 weeks ago, my Uncle John (my mother’s brother) was diagnosed with Leukemia. He was given 50% chance to live a year. News like this always hits hard, but John and our family seemed optimistic. About a week later, I visited him at the hospital to drop off some DVD’s and talk. He seemed to be doing alright, and I was fortunate to have a nice hour-long, “heart to heart” talk with John.

About a week after I had talked to John, I got a call from my mom informing me that John wasn’t doing well at all. His condition was rapidly worsening, and I’m deeply saddened to say that he’s no longer with us. My Uncle John (I believe 56 years old, I’ll fix later if wrong) passed away on Friday night. He will be severely missed.

I can only hope to be as good of an uncle to my niece, Anna (who’s turning 1 next month), as John was to me. She’ll be hearing stories all about my Uncle John =)

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I played a session of tournaments for the first time in a couple of weeks today, and despite not going deep in anything major, I felt great about most of the decisions I was making.

There’s a small TS series coming up from the 5th-11th in May, and depending on how I feel I might make the trip. TS is kind of mehhh, but I haven’t played a live tournament in awhile. I’ll probably decide about 2 days before it starts, haha.

Kind of a depressing blog, eh?

Thanks for reading anyways. Hope everyone’s doing well,

-Adam Junglen

World Series of Poker Europe is airing in Australia and some parts of Europe. Anyways, the episodes are available on Pokertube - which also has my EPT coverage, for those of you that missed that.

Here's a link to all of the WSOPE videos . If you're just looking for me, I'm on Episode 4, parts 1/4, 2/4 and 4/4.

While your there, check out my EPT Barcelona coverage if you haven't already. To get there, just click "EPT Season 4" on the right under "TV Poker Shows." I forget which exact episodes I'm in, but I bust out during Episode 3 part 1, so most of my hands are during episodes 1 and 2.

Oh, and for the record, my last name is pronounced just as it appears. Not "Younglen." It's Junglen....with the letter "Jay." Is it really that hard?


Later,

-Adam