Well I will write tourney reports for the EPT Prague ME and the 2k Euro side event I played both with a lot of interesting hands and such but right now my minds on something else. I had a good last night in Prague ended up getting into a club it was a good time the EPT winner was there celebrating a solid player I've played with before was def who I was rooting for once timex busted. Anyways I head to the airport on no sleep planning on getting lots on my long upcoming flights. First 2 flights were a breeze got lucky no one was sitting in the middle seat so I had plenty of room to stretch during the 9 hour flight from vienna to Wahington DC I get there around 3 eastern for a flight to Albany at 5:30. I made a mistake of having half a box of cigars with me that tufat kept from our amsterdam trip.

I thought nothing off it and told customs that I had the goods had to get it checked they were habana romeo y juliets which are illegal to have in the US. I thought it was ok for personal consumption and under a small number but I was wrong they had to confiscate all of them. So anyways it ends up being less of a big deal then I feared just lost a few cigars get my bags checked head to the gate have a bit of trouble getting to the gate finally get there try to checkin I am told I can't do it because I am a different airlines. So I head to Customer service and get a boarding pass around 4 the flight was delayed until 7pm so I hung out a bit played some poker and was keeping an eye on the wafflecrushers still left in the 15k . Anyways chatting a bit some guy sits at 25/50 cap with me for 1500 and sucks a lot I hear them announce they are boarding the flight I have to quit him and don't like it close my things and go to the line to board the plane.

The attendant asks me where I am going I say Albany and try to hand him my boarding pass he says no you can't board we are full go to customer service. I am like wtf flights leaving in 5 minutes and I need to get on it there's a storm about to hit around midnight in Albany I was told. I also noticed because the flight was 2hours delayed the 9:55 flight was canceled because the plane wouldn't be ready. So I have to wait 45min to talk to a CS person they can't do much the whole terminal was understaffed and under trained and just completely lost 2 qualified people partially trained could have done more then the 10 people I had to have help me over the 4 hours/

After like another hour I finally got a hotel voucher and food voucher and a free round trip ticket. I went to the hotel took a while to find the right shuttle, stuck here without clothes as well since my baggage got on the flight I was supposed to be on. I wanted to get home there was a party being thrown at my house with everyone being home from school didn't get a chance to celebrate with my brother who turned 23 while I was in Europe. Also my flights in a few hours but theres a solid chance it gets canceled again as theres a day long storm all.
across the northeast. Also If all goes well I';ll be in vegas on monday sweating hopefully bakes and vivek going in 1 and 2 for the finaltable of the 15k.

Update

Things just keep getting worse, I stayed up all night and got blueballed in a bunch of tourneys going deep without a ft. I had about two hours to wait till my flight I am getting ready then I recheck the flight info online and as I expected it was canceled. Then I try to book a new flight for the next availble one I am on hold for 30minutes before I fall asleep because I am exhausted. I wakeup an hour or two later get a hold of my aunt who also serves as my travel agent she can't do anything from her end because every flight is booked . I finally get a hold of someone get a different flight the earliest one is 955 pm. So I try to get my hotel recovered so I could hangout in the room instead of the airport for the next 7 hours. I have trouble getting that, so they transfer me to the international department and I argue for him not to put me to them again knowing how long I would be on hold as I am waiting my phone dies. I have no charger of coursed with me or any clothes to change into.

So I can't even play a redic amazing sunday schedule because of my flights if I went deep I would have to have someone take over which I am unsure of the legality of it for getting on a plane and then having someone play on my accounts. And I would be deep in some of them by then and it would bother me on the flight the fact that I am not playing deep in a major. Also add to that that most of the mtters I know will be playing on their own anyway at the time.

I had two very similar finaltables go down and if you saw hand by hand you would think they were almost identical cept in the 100r I was winning flips. The 10r was fun had a good group in the room for sundays hgaving a lot of fun busting balls and not getting much going. I had a deep run in the mil before losing a 300k pot ith AKo vs QJo on a A63 flop he went running spades. I was angry but keep getting deeper in the 10r that had a massive 3k field and 90k prizepool fetching 17k for first. I got to two tables left nad recognized a few 2+2ers and went on a nice rush to get to 2mil chips with like 8 left I had the same stack until I got hu vs this really weak bad player and he had a 7to 1 cl to start and a 9to1 at his peak. I ran him over after that had a huge pot with AQ vs AJ 4 bets went in pre and he checkmiraised me on a KQx8 board when we had a potsized bet left before he c/minraised I called and won a bit later.
In the 100r I and went from being 20/22 to a middle stack by the time we were 12 handed in 100r. I won A10o vs KJo and then won like 3 flips to get a top 3 stack to start the finaltable. Nothing really happened early got JJ vs 10s for the only non flip and then folded a lot and raise/folded a few times ended up getting hu vs hoodin10 he had a commanding cl like 1.4mil to 300k I won a big 800k pot with A8ss vs KQcc on a Qs3x2s board I bet/called his shove after flatting pf got there on the turn. No big hands for a bit pick off a bluff or two from him then he limps like he does a lot OTB I make it 42k at 6/12k with JJ he calls flops 10 high with 2 spades I lead he raises I shove he tanks and calls with A7ss I turn a jack river bricks for all the chips. so 50k in cashes on stars last 2 days been great.

On a wafflecrushing note had some great deep runs this week at belagio events as well as a run in the 1k where fatalerror ran worse then anyone I've ever seen he didn't tilt keep playing great but just keep getting 2 outed and other fun stuff. Still it's great to watch such solid players knowing they are making me sooo much in equity longrun staking is fun for everyone. We had a running prank with thayer too that it wasn't under us but too bad he didn't get a bigger score to get him while hes playing in a belagio event.

Heading to prague on saturday prob going for tlb for the rest of the week with a 1k and 500 pt score I have a huge edge on everyone else.

Well the last few days I've been not playing much I kind of welshed on my goal for TLB early when I decided I would be heading to turningstone for their small 5 days of events. Nothing huge but a few friends heading there as well as dead time in the week prior to heading back to Europe. I had good success in the first even getting my 10k starting stack up to 35k before antees 5th level kicked in. For the levels I was there for the new structure was amazing big thanks to pete the tourney director who is probably the person responsible for the levels added. Anyway I get moved to a new table featuring randallin and a few weak players early on play a weird hand where I raise a guys turn lead when we were both very deep and he did a small 3bet in a big pot. I folded and wanted to get that guy back.

I had a terrible laggy/bad image at my table keep getting played back at with no hands to show for it. I then make it 825 in MP with A4s guy to my left instafires out 6 yellow 500 chips I get the feeling he's really weak never calling a shove so I stick it in. He asks for a count then's like whatever here it's yours I rake in the pot and notice in the corner of my eye when I show the 4c he nearly fell out of his chair. I am laughing and randall shoots me a grin as he's the 1 seat and I am in his direct view in the 6 seat. Anyways I get 0 hands and blind down raise/call a shove getting 2 to 1 and other standard hands till I have 15k at 250/500/50 awesome addition level that was there. I make it 1300 otb with AKo with 17k stack BB was tight and short at 6k SB was the guy I 4bet earlier he instasticks in his stack of bigchips like 10k enough to put me allin. I snapcall about to be saddened when he shows me 44 and luckboxed into a flip instead I am quite happy to see AQo guy just spazzed out for all my chips until the dealer feels bad for him and gives him a 3 outer on the flop so he wouldn't get short.

I then was up latenight played in a 300 max game for an orbit won 500 and then moved to a 1k max game and doubled after an hour to 2k on a hand I was totally in the blind and got called by worse on my flop shove and then bleed down to like 1k before getting in a few bad pots and this one I am unsure off. I've been opening half the pots at the table and def not playing my Agame but its 5am and I am just bored. Anyway I make it 30 with AKo and 850 stack guy flats who usually does it a guy with 204 behind squeezes to 100 he's been tight but bleed his 500 buyin down folding a lot and I felt was ready to gamble with anyone to make a good score/comeback in the game. BB tanks asks how much button has behind he said 104 BB then makes it 204 I'm like wow I could get this HU a lot and BB has to fold JJ and possible QQ/AKo for another 650 so I ship it in he quietly says I call and asks if I have Aces which means he has kings sigh I am like I have 3 outs till I see the button spread his aces across the table I flop 0 hope on a 1086 board turn a Qbut no river for anypart of the pots. I endup going to bed at like 730 and skipped the 10am starting time and slept all day.

For tomorrows event I will be sending in voicemails at each break hopefully that I'm still in and giving updates and info for a bit of love reporting

Here's a post I made on 2+2 earlier today felt like I never give you guys any real strategy I swear sometime this week I will get a PXF handhistory up of something interesting.

I spent many hours today trying to explain this stuff to a student today about the one part of tourneys I've experienced and couldn't prove because the math is too intensive. This is a lot of gigablock theory/optimal stack ideas theory included, I know many of you disagree with the block theory but it's correct in many complex ways.

Basically the jist of it is this example.

Say I have have a 15bb stack at the middle stages of a tourney and the stacks to my direct left are effectively this 20bbs,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45 , and say the player to my left is an aggro solid player who will give me fits is too my left the other players are no where as good as as him or me we are def first and 2nd in skill at the table.

Given these stack sizes if I knew I could get it in vs the guy on my left 100% of the time as a 45% dog I would take it each time without any dead money or anything. So 45% of the time I have 30bbs and 55% I bust,

I will not argue that in an ICM model my chip value would have doubled directly due to that hand we all know that.

But i will tell you my hypothetical chip accumulating per orbit amount will skyrocket from where it was in the previous example. And I will earn back the 2.5bbs or whatever edge I gave up in that 45%flip by having a much more profitable situation every time it's folded to me in any spot. In a few orbits as long as table doesn't break I will be putting myself in more and more profitable situations with my chips where I can play more hands for a larger edge. When I would of been handcuffed to playing tight without the double. Thus increasing the chances of me winning because each orbit I am gaining way more chips then I would if I didn't take that 45% flip.

Well after a great week in Boston at mikes house I finally went home for the first time in almost 6 months being home for more then a week. It's still a really short stay in a week and a half I plan on heading to turning stone on Friday to play in a few events. I also plan on finishing up my TLB goal for the week. It's been quite some time since I won weekly on stars haven't made an effort for it since the last time I won. I feel that I can easily win once I devote a full 6 days of grinding in massive multi tabling on the desktop which I haven't done since prevegas. So expect me to be playing 20+ stars tourney with 5 or so FTP ones sprinkled in.

There are many reasons for me to be doing this it should be a lot of fun as long as I win. Then I will be content even if I am down a few k or something. This should give me enough to secure yearly TLB as a few people are attempting to make late runs at me but as in a marathon they showed themselves too soon and I will get a 3k lead on them in the next 10 days and they will give up. Knowing full well that if necessary I am winning yearly if I have to play everyday I can and every tourney I can till end of year. Hopefully for my sake it doesn't get to that spot but I'm sure many of you will enjoy knowing m working my ass off in 180s even after my recent big buyin success.

Also had a lot of good wafflecrush success in the past few weeks had a solid showing in the 10k at FW where 3/9 cashed and 1 of them got as far as 19th before losing a stupid flip post flop vs the donk who ended up winning. Note he was redic lucky to be in a race given the situation but whatever he has 1.7mil and a WPT ring or whatever when the better players get screwed. Great for the game seeing a donk card rack his way to millions cuz those viewing know they prob had a better shot than him going into the tourney.

Also heading to France the 7th of December then prague the 10th for EPT with Andy should be a good time. Finaly got my yankee hat from him only took like 2months for me to be reconnected with it. I haven't seen it but my brother was commenting on how badly it smelled and I figure thats from 4 years of my fat face sweating underneath it as well as being stuck in a package box for 2 months as it gets shiped from London to Vegas to NY and a few random stops in between. So I'll stop looking like thayer thankfully and be back to my normal backwards hat ways