Well, I apoligize for the few of you who keep checking back for updates I never felt like I had much good to write about. Had a really bad sickness in San Remo a great Amsterdam trip, then a disappointing day2 after a massive climb of chip stack on day1. I basically been resting up since my 2nd amsterdam trip. I ended up going to AC for their 2k event last weekend but I got shutout in redic gay fashion. The staff there really messed up in how they ran the registration and alternate list for that tourney was a shame looked like a good field to play.

On the poker side of things haven't had much to write about thayer's been kicking my ass in our 5 figure prop bet I was down a whopping 16-10 because I went nearly 5 weeks without a 10k score that wasn't a wsop seat. Earlier this week I played a pot 4 handed for about 80% of the chips in play in a decent 100r ended up losing and getting 4th a little while later which was on the 5figure score bubble. Later that same night I also took down the fulltilt 50/50 for 9555 so again just short. Still a really solid +20k day but I'm always disappointed a bit because theres more money to win and probably a tourney I made a mistake with.

Anyways I went for a few days with doylestown to do some coaching sessions I am quite impressed with his current knowledge and his willpower to improve. I'm doing quite different style coaching with him which is a lot more natural to me then what I used to do on AIM. As is it now I'm prob going to add 1 student every month or two and go through the same stuff I'm doing with him hopefully I can find someone as motivated and with the right about of time to devote to learning and crushing the beast that is online poker.

After that I headed to my fav casino Turningstone. Great staff good tourneys and solid structures unfortunately the field sizes were vastly smaller then I was expecting, but it was nice to see the old staff I used to be friendly with before I got in to online seriously. Been coming here for over 5 years now every so often and each trip improves in quality. I ended up rooming with Aspoker8 and geoffras thayer's younger but cooler little brother. We had a good time I got them addicted to chinese poker and we had a good time even though in all the live events i never even doubled up my starting stack. Still I was happy with my play in the 3 events I played and wouldnt change many hands. I ended up taking sat night off from tourneys and napping which was nice. I wokeup well rested after a nap after my nap and began with the stars Sunday warmup.

We had to change rooms first so I had to miss first 10min of it and once we got situated it was all go. I doubled pretty early then lost my double back to get under starting stack I grinded for a long time never getting anything going. I had under 20bbs for most of the 2nd-3rd hour. It wasn't until the 4th hour and the 2500/5k blinds I started going. I went from 42k in the SB to nearly 325k in less then 10 hands with just 2 showdowns. Thanks victorramdin for the chips. After that I coasted my comfortable stack for most of the way and only got under avg stack once we were down to 11 handed. I made a marginal call with 88 and was shown 10s for CL at the time of the ft bubble. I was down and luckily we had a break I got relaxed and doubled first hand back from break with A10s vs 66 I ran good after that for a while until at the ft 8 handed this setup set my path to gold.

I raise AA utg to 288,888 at 70k/130k blinds after I raised prev hand and stole blinds BB defends and leads a 1032r flop for like 380,000. I raised him to 999,999 and he shoved really quickly for nearly 4million effective. At the time I was 2nd in chips and he was the CL I called quickly and he showed JJ and I held for easily the biggest pot by almost 2x all tounrney. From there I just stole blinds knocked out a shorty or two with the best hand. I got 3 handed we talked chop and I denied it because I was sure I had the skill edge and knowledge to outplay both my oppenants. I got unlucky when the button raised with 30bbs and I 3bet to 10bbs with A10o he shoved quickly and I was getting the right price vs his range so I call and he has AKs and holds vs me for a 12mil pot. For first time since the AA hand I was now not CL and any hand I could bust and lose this huge finaltable. Luckily a few hands later I got the guy covered again and he raised the button with 4mil at 100k/200k and I shoved 44 he called me quickly with Ac10x and the flop was 9 high 3 clubs with no 4 on board I didn't have 4c either. Somehow the board bricked out and now I was hu with almost even stacks at 14mil to 15mil. After a few hands we discussed a chop which the chat was quite hilarious to. My oppenant was quite aggro PF with intiative but redic tight and passive out of position so I was confident I could grind him down but was still willing to discuss a deal. The chat transcript is really funny so here's the better excerpts.

"shaundeeb: I dunno stacks are really deep
shaundeeb: I like my edge
shaundeeb: either accept 78
shaundeeb: or lets play it out
shaundeeb: sorry that your tired
milldollbaby: 74 k or we play..
shaundeeb: play
milldollbaby: then lets play
shaundeeb: unpause support
milldollbaby: gl
HostRandy [Support]: Ok players, I am going to restart. Good luck to both of you.
HostRandy [Support]: Are you ready?
milldollbaby: yah
shaundeeb: yup"

We were 15mil deep at 100/200k blinds hu was over in less then 6 hands I raped him really hard and he just spewed off his stack to me it was great. So ship the 102k score first 6fig yet. I also happened to win another WSOP seat on ftp during this time so it was a great night obv my best by about 40k. Expect some more frequent updates as I may have better news to post about soon since I'm going to win weekly TLB and get atop yearly once and forall.

Well the internet has turned me quite tilted right now as I got into amsterdam it went down at some redic key points for me when I was shortstacked in a bunch of tourneys. Note this will be the most rambliest blog I've ever made as its been almost 6 days of this sickness along with a bunch of travling lack of sleep good food and actually nutrients. I'm sorry for being so long actually been some great stuff to write about I just hate writing because I'm so bad at it and the great stories get missed in the awful grammer lack of punctuation. Quick recaps which I promise sometime at the end of the week I'll expand on.

Reno:

High points'
lot of guys I don't get to grind/hangout with much were there had some fun in the 500r plo with devo.

Devo and JP both played sick good and made the TV fts so well deserved.

Oakplayer is the prob the most clutch person ever when traveling to have around

Cking is much cooler as a wafflecrusher then a random I barely knew from online at TS

Low Points.

Everytime I played live poker

Being in reno where I think is the only place that staying in your hotel is the cool thing to do

Annoying want to be poker reality stars who were god awful from all acconts cept theirs ldo.

Tampa,

wow what a trip had a great time lot of laughs some things which will never happen again in my life

High points'

Getting wasted with tnetter and john

Rollercoasters are redic fun when no lines

Being stuck on balcony that is smaller then most showers with 5 people at 4am.

Metting minithayer and all the good punches that came his way literally thanks to big biker dude

hangingout with my favorite sister and her friends

3/5 having 5fig scores on sunday session when the 2 who didnt hardly played

going undefeated in ruit

Lowpoints,

everyone puking not I said the big white guy

Only being there for a weekend

Forced to sleep on small recliner while sister and friends occupied whole bed

lugging my massive luggage everywhere

Reno

Highpoints

Met a cool canadien up and coming pokerplayer as suplimental income

NOTHING

Lowpoints.

Being sick

Not being able to leave hotel much due to being sick

Not ever getting better

Getting an additional symptom/sickness every other day

Error in booking which was never figured out why.

Redic small town that never seems to be open

Amsterdam (incomplete)

Highpoints

hign is a great tourguide

Having the 2nd best person to be in amsterdam with andy (1st ray)

Watching ray remind me why he's prob gottin better then me again.

Lowpoints

Still being sick

Wireless going out a bunch

COLDDD not good with cold

Anyways as for the title I'm going to have fun tom I had a bunch of shitty dreams when I was sick about poker I've felt quite burned out I figure what better day to show that pokers still a game and that it'll be fun and profitable then turing the most profitable day into my minraise day. So it's going to be fun.

Also get to play on some eurosites I cant at home so get to play a lot more valueable majors maybe cuting out smaller stuff.



Also, big congrats to all of WC lately a bunch of people had scores this week for us def the most sucessful week by far keep it up at bel guys etc.

Well this is a thing I have had happen to me early in my poker multitabling career but for over a year it has stayed away. Until 2 nights ago session it popped it's ugly head. I am quite sure I know why it happened new laptop getting used to diff touchpad speed sites don't have my preferences saved I don't have my allsnap and pt and pahud if I want to turn them on. Usually don't but I think knowing they weren't there effected my mindset. Once i got over 16 tables I started getting annoyed I start late sessions here down in florida. Usually start with 200 turbo at 6 and not many things till the 7pms and on. I happened to only bust out of 1 tourney from 7pm to the 50/50s at 930 I had something like 21 tables going on taking to a possible agent chatting on 2+2 and aim while smoking a black and mild. I then realized I was doing wayyyy too much shit at once and that was partially why I didn't bust. I was expecting to examine my stack sizes and be like 7-20bbs on all tables but I had stacks a bunch of places it was sad I couldn't even recall how I won chips knew I shoved had no idea if I was called or not. And that shit really bothered me I always pride myslef on my memory while playing I can tell you hands vs so many diff players from 2 years ago. I just always was good with that.

But I couldnt for the life of me recall anything about anytable it was like a drunk blackout of poker playing. I tried so hard to recount things that happened reread handhistories and keep drawing complete blanks it was as if I was truely autoplioting not looking at names stacksizes anything. that worried me a bunch so I tried to stop it and actually made an effort to bust in a few of the smaller things that I had no chips in. But, I keep winning those flips and then had stacks in them as well. So I actually got frustrated that I couldn't bust in a tourney. I know it makes no sense but it bothered me the whole session how come I couldn't go out. Then I start taking the tourney serious because they are getting itm I fted some decent sized 24 on FTP and had 15 other tables going busted the ft was even more tilted and then started dropping tourneys like flies. Then I try to nit it up because I know I was tilted/spewy but that didn't work got strong hands into stronger or got big hands cracked sounds like broken record but it was baddd.

So bad that in my next session last night I played under 20 tourneys I haven't done that for a long long time maybe 6months+ of playing a session of reg for over a 4+ hour period and being under 20 tourneys. I did decent got some stacks got deep in another wsop sat but tilt took over and I spewed. I hate when I spew I feel like I went back a few levels in poker devolpment and losing my edge bothers me. It's so weird just 2 weeks ago I was bragging about having no tilt in my game I took 2 sick equity beats in freerolled pots where I shouldn't ever be getting freerolled and that didn't bother me. but not being able to bust the 10$ fo on stars tilted the fuck out of me.

This is an anger post so i'm leaving all the intial mistakes in this thread to show myself that mistakes just get worse if you don't fix em.

Well after getting done with the LAPC I got home it was cold and snowy def not the environment I felt like being in. So I decided to book a flight to florida for a nice little vacation. Anyways I'm here with my dad and gram and lots of relatives who are down here for the winter. I happened to fly down the day before my 22nd bday so I went out with my dad to his fav bar down here cheers had some drinks was a bit tired from traveling so we headed home a bit early before the crowd came. Woke up went to this awesome italien restaurant trato fragolio or something if any of you are in the lauderdale area and want a place to eat I'll find the actual name out for you I cant think of it and its something similar to that but my fam just calls it tutty fruity because its easier to say and remember. I then played sundays at lilholdems house was a lot of fun to grind with a few new people and watch him from behind the screen. Was lucky to watch him ft 100r that exitonly was also at chad finished 5th ray ended up winning it for close to 50k.

During this time another wafflecrusher had a deep run fellow tworags blogger cking had his sickening end in the mil for 7th place. I was def more angry of the beat them him which is funny because I never get mad when I lose really but was honestly pissed when he lost even though he wasn't. I guess its because I know he deserved that 6fig score and didn't get it. On monday I woke up and was asked if I wanted to go to the harness track. They have a newly built casino and poker room. I knew they had slightly higher games then the last time I was here which was up to 2/2 lhe and some mid to higher stakes sngs. Now they have decent sizes cashgames but goofy buyins. I go to the desk and ask them what the biggest game being spread cuz Im so baller like that. They say theres seats open at a 5/10 100max game opening up. Yup you heard that correctly the max buyin for the game is 10bbs. If there every was a cash game made for someone like me it would be this. Which is way better then a cap game because people are even worse with 10bbs,

Anyway I run up my first buyin fat to like 350 had a few pots 4-5 people would limp all with like 100-150 I would shove in blinds for like 200 without looking they all fold. Then they started calling and once 1 called they all called. So we had like 5 4-7 person allins preflop. And they had such bad hands for mutliway allins. So I lost my 350 back bought in a few times more was in for like 400 then get a stack to 900 running hot in lots of uninteresting pots. I move seats to get pos on the other two deep stacks and by deep I mean 400-700 they both sucked a lot and no one else at the table had any clue how to beat .25/.50fr nl online. I lost a bunch tilted because the play was so bad and I couldnt win a pot or make a pair. Had to rebuy a few times. Got bored and started shoving pf had like 2 times get it in with 6 high hu and lose. After the 3rd time I had J10o I shove I some how get 6 callers they all check it down on a JJ583 board I hold and only had to fade 2 outs because I was against 4 Ax hands and K10 and 77. Anyways I cruise for a bit after that have a really fun and interesting hand.
Not the stack sizes are in (xx) and are in relation to the first person talked about
The villians in this hand are hard to desrcibe because they were so bad anyways 2 guys limp in EP (70) and (100) I have Q8hh and overlimp (800)because raises pf were usually by me 2 young kids on my left most important people in this hand are both awful 2 buddies with 400$ glasses on that prob are knockoffs that they paid 20$ for and they both told me they been into poker for a few months and been crushing. I laugh cuz they are so bad but may even be profitable in the lineup I was against. Anyways one limps to my left with (600) other one(750) raises to 50 sb (60) goes allin bb calls (62) both limpers call I ask dealer if the pfr can reopen betting dealer says no so I call. Often I wouldnt give away this info but these guys dont know how to interpret that. Also knowing both of them would call and see a flop they often soft played when in a pot regardless of who else was in the pot. So I basically get to run it out multiway if I want and get free turns and rivers or value bet them when I hit. PFR says something about how he wants a good flop and hes been semi honest about what he needs pf but lies a lot at showdown. So anyway flop comes down 8c 4h 3c bb goes allin for 2$ first limper folds????? 2nd limper calls I make it 102. Guy to my left keeps going I like my pair its prob ahead you got nothing etc. While hes talking to himself and deciding his buddy to his left announces raise and says 202. He gets all confused when dealer says its not on him. Eventually his buddy decides to call the bet. The kid now tries to fold????? I get really confused and now am sure I have him beat I dunno why he would try to bluff a small sidepot in protect pot but hes just retarded. Anyways floor is ruled as he tries to muck his hand and not raise floor says he has to raise. So its folded to me and I shove hoping to make them both fold at the time I thought kid to my left had A8 and the plan was to make him fold and me to pick up the 300$ sidepot while still having a 3 way allin for the almost $450 main pot. While the middle kid is tanking he ends up showing his cards to his buddy still left to act and folding. I go wtf how can he do that when theres still action to be made. I try to get them both penalized or something but the dealer is a friend of theirs and lets it slide Im pissed now. This is all taking nearly 10 minutes to complete the hand as we had to wait for floor and other live slowdowns of the game. The guy to my right gets all angry stars saying he wants to see all hands Im like wtf its clear he thinks cheating is going on and then says how he thinks all 3 of us are cheating Im thinking how can he think we are cheating when we are all pushing each other out of sidepots not effecting anyone else. Anyways guy tanks and guy to my right then calls clock on him this is the guy who wanted to fold but was forced to make it 202 I'm thinking he has a small overpair now and just begging for him to fold. He finally obliges what he tells me later was kqo I go wtf took you so long he said I think I had you I laugh as I show my tp. The turn card is finally show and its Kx and he goes nuts that he was right about his read Im so confused now. SB ends up having 88 for top set and bb had AKo. I then ask kid to my left what he folded and he says A8. I just laugh since all 4 8s were accounted for and he just likes to ave face. So Im now at about 1100 until this next memorable hand.

The kid from the 202 betsize is in for about 1300 and had to hit up the atm already today so hes on case money. Hes built it upto about 900 playing bad and getting there. I raise over a guy who limps every hand (250) with 76s to 55 hopeing to get it hu and watch this guy c/fold to my flop cbet like 80% of the time. kid to my left calls everyone else folds including limper. Flop is a nice 954r with 1 of my suit. I bet 80 he says 280 pretty quickly. I thought this was the same as his bluff I knew if I called which Id do vs a smarter player who would fear my flat and check most/all 1 pair hands behind on turn so I get 2 free cards but this guy would shove turn with his 2nd pair not even realizing hes turning it into a bluff. No one else had over 300 at the table at this time so me getting into a big pot vs him wouldnt hurt me in stacking other guys for what they had in front of them. So I decide to make it 780 with like 350 behind he tanks and calls Im like ugh then turns 3x and rivers a 10x so I proudly say nuts and table my hand whole table is in shock the only half way decent player one who spoke up about collusion to my right says nh to me knowing what I was doing and why and saying how kid should have only called with a set and didnt. Kid then tries to claim he had 44 as he fires his hand into the muck. He had shown everytime he took a sick beat or had a big hand so Im quite sure he had tp or less and made a hero call. Anyways I stack up the pot have like 2100 in for about 800. Win a few more pots until this fun hand comes up.

Utg limper is same buddy of guy the one who folded and showed his cards to buddy hand prior he limps(350) button is a guy who got in for like 1k within his first 25 hands raising everything shoving a lot and raising to 25 then shoving the flop a lot well actually not taking a bad strag to get deeper at these tables since so many call PFR and then fold flop so raising 25$ and shoving flop can be profitable but hes not even that clever to realize why what hes doing is working sometimes. He then raises to 100 (200) I find aces in the BB and make it 400 in green chips utg then says I think I have you and calls and old guy calls quickly. Board is Q9789 when the turn came Im like damn I am going to lose river I was a bit happy about. I show my aces utg shows KJs and button has AKo This puts me to a bit over 2500 for my stack and I rack up 30min later to get some food.

Was a lot of fun if I could ever play 4 tables of this game at once I'd become a live pro and make about 250k a month. I knew it was a great table a few hours in when I knew there was no one to worry about at table talked a bit about online poker and my names there. Not 1 person had any clue who I was and then I sat back smiled and knew what a good game I was in.

Ended up doing an online session tonite did well got 5th in 100r keep running into hands by ray who had pos on me and was obv also at the ft he finished 3rd after getting back to his runbad having KK lose to A9o allin pre vs same size stack 3 handed. I also got 2nd in the big double so about 10k profit on the night


Also sorry for this being longer then I planned its like 6am and I prob made a shitload of errors

Well I ended day1 of the LAPC 10k with 50k well above avg after playing really aggro getting a nice suck out in 1 big pot and losing 10k chips last hand of the day playing well. I had a semi tough starting table recognizing fellow online player xthestienx, eric cajelous no idea how to spell his last name,kristy gazes, and humberto I'm a douchebag brenes. Anyways I had one of the larger stacks at the table and def expected some interesting hands. I chipped up in first 2 orbits another 10k chips stealing a few blinds and winning a few other pots. It's my BB now I notice youngish female raised to 1200 utg at 200400 notice shes shaking a bit first hand she's played too so Im like wow she has a big hand here. Folded to me in the BB I peel the Ad and think wow great spot for aces shitty spot for AQ etc. So I find another red ace behind and make it 5500 a bigger 3bet then I would usually make but I knew she wasnt folding nad since we both had 55k stacks at the time I wanted good effective stacks for postflop getting it in.

So the flop comes Kx 9x 5c not the best flop but better then KQ10 I lead for 9k she makes it 26k I shove pretty quickly. When she didn't instacall I was so happy knowing I had best hand she ends up calling and showing me the other 2 aces. I'm like sigh getting freerolled in a pot I should never be freerolled in. Anyways board runs off clubs so I lose the 110k pot and I am left with 1050 chips bust next hand with A9o to QQ obv.

So the only good news about my quick bustout was I had 15min until the pokerstars million started up. I then got into online grind mode went deepish in a few things that mattered the best run coming in the stars 200r. I ended up fting that with a solid 2nd place stack was a good lineup but no one I was that worried about based on seat position and stack sizes. Anyways play solid for a bit guy limps whose limped a few hands at ft shown diff hand strengths

He limps CO I am otb with KK and like 300k stack at 5k/10k I make it 38k he makes it 80k I ship it in he calls with the other 2 KK. obv flop has 2 diamonds which he has Kd for and I obv get freerolled again for a massive stack in biggest equity spot.

The best that came out of this day was the fact that even with those 2 beats in spots where I shouldn't be getting freerolled stung a bit but I didn't tilt as bad as I have in the past for hands that had far less of an impact on the future. Yah I would be so happy to still be in the 10k with my 55k stack at that point or get a top3 in the 200r but whatever another day to grind coming up.