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Catching Up

November 20th, 2009

I haven’t posted for a while so I figured I’d write a quick update on how the WSOP went. I only managed to play 2 World Series of Poker events: the $1000 No limit and the $1500 no limit 6 handed. I busted day 1 of the $1000 event about 100 places outside of the money which was frustrating. I played quite well and then had 2 big hands cracked by JC Tran right at the end of the day.

For the $1500 6 max event I managed my to get my first World Series of Poker cash. I managed to finish 52nd out of just under 1500 entrants. I got through day 1 with a good stack but eventually busted bet / 3 betting all in with a flush draw + open ended straight draw into my opponents 2 pair and not getting there.

Aside from those 2 events I played in only a few other smaller tournaments and spent the rest of the time playing the sit and go satellites at the Rio and 1/2 and 2/5 no limit games which were quite profitable.

It was a lot of fun spending almost 6 weeks in Las Vegas and I look forward to doing it again next year. Hopefully I will be able to cut back a little bit when it comes to spending and I’ll be able to come way ahead instead of a little. I managed to see a couple shows, the finale of the Ultimate Fighter and spent way too many nights out buying bottles at Pure, LAX and XS.

Since coming back home I’ve managed to hit the worst downswing in my 6 years of online poker. I’ve now reached over 1000+ Sit & Goes of Break even & Downswing on Pokerstars.

In my latest attempt to change up my luck I’ve been branching out and playing on a few different sites instead of strictly pokerstars. One of the main hassles I’ve come across in spreading out my play is having to download all the sites software on all my computers which can be a real pain. Lately I’ve been playing on no download poker sites which lets me play poker in my web browser which is far easier and quicker.

So far the change has gone well and my luck may be changing!

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Gettin Ready

May 25th, 2009

Things have been a bit hectic lately trying to take care of all my work and real life obligations before my trip.

I’ve got a hotel room booked for thursday night in Vancouver near the airport which will make things easier so I don’t have to get up as early to drive out their before my 10:00am flight friday morning. I’ll probably kill time in Vancouver thursday night by heading over to the River Rock casino poker room and splash around a bit in a 1/2 or 2/5 game for a few hours.

I should arrive in Vegas friday around 1pm which should give me plenty of time to get settled in to my house and get registered for Event #4 on saturday which is a $1000 buyin world series of poker no limit hold’em. Once I have that taken care of I’ll probably check out some cash games for a while or single table sattelites before meeting up with my vegas roommates and fellow vancouver poker players for dinner at Joe’s in Caesars.

From there… it all depends on how much success I am having. Here is a rough list of events I am planning on playing unless I go deep in an event and run in to conflicts.

Saturday, May 30th WSOP $1,000
Sunday, May 31st Caesars $330
Monday, June 1st Caesars $540
Wednesday, June 3rd WSOP $1,500 (6max)
Thursday, June 4th WSOP $2,000
Sunday, June 7th Venetian $1,070

Not sure what other tournaments I plan on playing. Alot depends on how I do in those and how I do in the side cash games at the rio.

I will do my best to update this blog every few days with my progress. I’ll also be regularly posting tournament updates on my twitter account located here: http://www.twitter.com/accordingtojosh.

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