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.

So I woke up today played a few online steps and a few mtts said if I bust everything quick I'll play the 1500 live mtt here so I busted everything said fuck it let's go donk off money live. So I end up playing in it get a decent table draw recognize fellow online mtter ely cash and omaha guru sirens. I know sirens can and will gamble early and often he's made that clear. I get my awful 3500 starting stack at 25/50 blinds to 5k without anything all that interesting raising a bunch and hitting boards. Then I raise AQo utg+1 9 handed table to 125 2 people call who have called a bunch before sirens in CO makes it 600 with 2k behind often I snapfold this but I was quite sure he was squeezing wide and folding a bunch to 4 bet and AQ has equity and less likely QQ AK AA etc. So he tanks and folds. A few hands later he opens ep guy calls Im otb find JJ squeeze he shoves his 2k I call quickly and bam upto 9k in first 30min. I coast for a bit play a fun hand vs a guy who limp/calls in LP to me to his left when I raise his 100 limp to 425 with Q4o he calls KxQd5d flop check through turn 9d I have no d he c/calls my 600 bet. River is a 3o he checks I confidently through a vbet of 1250 out there and he tanks and calls and mucks when I show. Such sick value imo.

Anyways lose a lot of chips next few hands get down to 8k. Have a really tight BB and bad players to my left raise K8cc in the HJ to 375 at 75/150 sb calls nit folds bb. HU to flop Ac10x3x he c/calls my 400 turn 3c he check/calls my 1200. River 6c he checks I bet 3k he snapshoves for 4500 more I call obv and he has AsQc I dunno if he thought he had the fd or what.
So Im at like 18k now massive cl still no antees. I bleed down to 7k before anything decent happens to me at a new tougher table get a stack when Im at about 14k tight lady opens utg+1 to 700 pretty tight range I call otb with 99 flops Q73r she bets 800 weird bet I float cuz she plays faceup on turn. She leads 2500 now Im quite sure she thinks she has the nuts I then notice its the 9d putting a fd out there with the Q but she never has the fd if she had AKdd she check/calls turn. Anyways turns a low blank she bets 2500 again with 6kish behind I slightly cover shove she tanks for 25sec and calls with AQ lol.

Im at 25k now coast for a long time till I get KK when a old guy open shoves 44 11.5k utg at 400/800 Im in MP. Most interesting hand/me getting owned was 3 tables left have some history with joe tehan I think he respected my play up until this hand anyways he opens in EP to 3200 at 600/1200/200 could be a wide range he was looser earlier. I have 78dd in sb and 80k stack to his 75k and rays in BB so I call flops Kh9h6x I check planning on c/calling then leading turn but he checks behind and makes a comment so I think he had a piece or something turns Ad. I check he bets 4k I decide to try to semibluff the turn and raise him to 11k. He tanks for 2 minutes before 3betting me to 22k total. We have 50k behind if I called which would be about a potsized shove so I think I can call and shove when I get there regardless of heart and always get paid by his big hand. Unfortunatly I missed and the river was Kx and he checked behind and showed Ah10x him having the Ah is what made him able to make this play and for value/pot control. Anyways I felt owned 3bet/folded once later and raised and won a bunch of blinds to end the day with 64,400 which is about avg.

WC ran decent rays in with a shortstack obv and tufat got 19th getting setup in LP

Well sorry I've been really active lately playing and usually playing till I fall asleep sometimes while still in a few tourneys oops. I haven't traveled since aussie until taking a flight out last minute decision to the LAPC. Flew out of albany at 6am and was able to get to la around noon. I hung out for a bit met up with kyle fellow tworager not sure how else to describe him. Pretty much he's the way I'll be in 20 years if successful.
Anyways we grab some lunch before the 1k that stars at 3:30. I have a really good table draw but structure sucks 3k starting stacks 25/50 blinds hour levels. Anyways chip up a bit my usual ways getting there vs people or getting them to fold. I get some chips to like 8k we go on dinner break come back first hand guy opens to 700 sb makes it 2250 I shove for 8k with AA he has aces Im saddened. I misread the board and stack sizes and get it in with A3hh on a Ks6s3x board vs 810s I laugh table thinks Im nuts their prob right. I grind a long make some hands to get paid from people with tp. I have like avg stack for itm with 70 left but decide to stop winning pots. Bleed down to a short stack on bubble play some really weird hands that I only played because of live poker. I squeak into the money with a 15k blinds are 600/1200 utg shoves for 2900 sb calls I reshove 89o trying to iso sb tanks and calls with K9 I was expecting A9 to fold etc shows how off I was.

I chat with the guy for a few minutes find out he's a 2+2er and recognized me ahead of time I really hate that sometimes it gives opp so much of an edge. Can be realted well to the multiaccounting thing. It wasn't like I would ever guess from his appearance anyway.

So I am looking primed to get 27th as utg guy shows QJs vs my 89o and sbs K9o flop is AQ7 so Im so far behind nad like 90% to get 27th turn is an 8 I am ahead for side pot river 9 scooop. I get it allin a bunch next few orbits suckout a few times get sucked out on a few others. End up getting 22nd. During this whole tourney I was running back and forth from my table and the ft of the 2500 fellow big bossman of Wafflecrush vivek was crushing the ft and ended up winning for over 100k his first 6fig score.

I played online next day ended up winning the 10r 55k again I really love that tourney a bunch and the structure fits my strenghts very well and helps me exploit the weaknesses of the players at my table. I'll try to get that HH on PXF.

For now I am going to play the 2500 here and hopefully have another ft for wafflecrush coming up here at lapc got the whole group of horses out here now so time for some fun and some more run good.

Sorry for not putting something up over the past 2 weeks I was busy losing money in funny ways for all the live events. I had a nice 0fer for this series even though I got a stack in a few different tourneys. I was really happy with my play on all days and I really just got totally setup in hands I don't want to get away from being way ahead as they should be but never winning those crucial late pots. The structures were pretty good the staff was really friendly the dealers weren't bad some were really good though. Overall I would prob pick crown as my home casino if I was forced to pick one and stay there just for the fact the locals play sooo bad and predictable. I was never uncomfortable at any table and always got an image I could work with.

I think I got above a double stack in all but 1 tourney which is quite a good thing for me because I used to bust a lot early and I made a conscious effort to be a bit more patient live its soo hard when Im used to 15table grinding. I was able to adjust to the timezone well as always being a part time polar bear helps a lot when it comes to that side of traveling the world playing poker. I didn't do that many touristy things after the first week just got in a lazy rut and there were some great cashgames online that I've been grinding. I wasn't able to play online tourney session on most days got maybe 4 days in and all were half days for me since I had to start with the later things since the time was soo early for afternoon tourneys back home.

Again WC came redic close to a huge score having 2 horses with 30 left and both were gone within 5 minutes of each other. I know no one would believe me but I really hate seeing horses lose more for themselves then for me, because me personally am happy just when they put a solid showing and I know it was a good investment and it showed a small profit anyway but then the horse seems to feel like they let us down when they did more then enough trying to make us money etc. Also one of them ended up being mugged after the fact with 30k on him. It is sick story and locals say how rare it is but he just got noticed by the wrong guy with a sick and twisted mentality. I hope the guy gets caught but I really doubt anything will ever come of it which sucks for him because it was a fun trip for everyone aussie is a great area to visit has something for everyone.

I would probably live here in melbourne if it wasn't for the awful timezone for a high volume tourney player. The weather here was better then the bahamas for me last year at this same time. I really liked how friendly the locals were in aussie compared to europe places. The just are more friendly and its a very unique society where tipping is seen as an insult to most people. I also had a really fun group of mtters who I hung out with always a good time with these guys kickball game was hilarious my team lost to lukes team again even though on paper we had the best team drafted then leo shows up and again fucks over my team by hitting some bombs to propel the other team to victory.

Also, I did a bunch of interviews for diff poker medias while there and I am really feeling comfortable in front of the camera and look forward to all of them so far. I am probably just heading home for a short time and heading to borgata the next day to play the 5k and 10k first trip to AC kind of excited but still dreading the 36+hours I have coming of flights and airports on a good nights sleep so that means going asleep on my flights is going to be really hard this time so it's prob going to suck a lot more.

Also, I can officially announce myself becoming a guest pro on pokersavyplus.com I think I am the first guest pro added to their site which is also tied into cardplayer I believe. I enjoy making videos so far and I am quite excited I made a video playing 25/50 6max with hellmuth with some commentary and I think ansky sicko cash game player for those who don't read is going to do commentary as well for the session on mistakes etc so basically some free coaching from someone way better then me at cash so I am looking forward to the leaks he notices in a short session where I ran pretty badly.

Also I think a good 83% of the things on the room service menu here had a fried egg as some part of it. It's amazing how many meals they find a way to include a fried egg. I think there must be something with how many eggs are consumed by those here. Unfortunately I wasn't able to head to an Australian open game the few times people had tickets I was busy with live tourneys or grinding some online cash. Sucks I was looking forward to that. I didn't go out much latenight as I had to get up for a tourney most days but the few times we went out to eat and such the food was redic good. I really like the variety in melbourne it's def a melting pot city but takes more of the good traits from the cultures. Also, the taxis were actually helpful and not 1 guy tried to rip me off or deny me service etc. So +2 shaun deeb stars for that fact.

I think this may become my favorite yearly destination the 3 weeks here are like the perfect amount of time. Vegas for 2 months for wsop is a bit too long while most trips that are week long tourney series are a little too short usually too much poker not enough mischievousness.

I don't have any really good degen stories either from this trip just lost a few hundred in a few arcade propbets vs people better then me at the games we were playing. Nothing really highstakes no huge CC roulette bill. Also for the first time traveling I kind of felt like I was actually at a place instead of visiting which may have been a cause in why I didn't go out everyday like I have some other places.

Also I recommend anyone going to aussie be sure to try to kangaroo steak it was def in my top 3 meals this trip tied with nobu and this awesome peeking dunk place.