It's been raining all night like a bitchfist, but when I leave the pad it has cleared up slightly. There's no traffic on the 10 because it's Presidents Day. Shitty weather plus a holiday equals not much traffic. Yay for me.
Then I get to interstate 5 and things slow down a bit. Then I get to the Washington exit and the line of cars stretch back onto the freeway. Ick. Can all these people be going to the Commerce to play a $300 tournament on a Monday?
Yup.
They're not going to have a problem getting the guarantee. Valet was full and I had to park about 1 mile away from the casino. Lucky for me it had stopped raining.
I run upstairs to get in line. In a line that runs back through a part of the commerce I didn't even know existed! There's more elevators back here.
There are about 500 people in line ahead of me. Damn it. I should have had Bobo buy me in. He's already playing. Bad planning on my part.
1:18pm
I see Chris Ferguson buying in. Times are rough.
1:24pm
The line hasn't progressed much. Looks like I'm gonna miss the 1st 3 levels. Minimum.
1:36pm
I can see the entrance to the tournament room. Looks like there is an equally long alternate line that follows the buy in line. Man, I need a beer.
1:45pm
First level has ended. Good news, the blinds were only 25/25.
1:59pm
I buy in. I'm alternate 293. Cocktails!
2:20pm alternate line
I run into Jeremiah Smith. After a lengthy chat, I'm still 200 deep in the alternate line.
2:28pm alternate line
Looks like they're putting people in the tent. There's a mofo'ing hurricane outside!
2:36pm alternate line
I have decided that this is the worst tournament experience of my life.
2:44pm alternate line
The old guy in front of me is wearing those ughhs boots. Dude, you're too old and you're a dude!!!
2:50pm alternate line
I make it back into the tournament room.
2:56pm
I take my seat at table 13 seat 6. 7 minutes left in level 3.
And I'm out.
I pick up queens on my second hand and get it all in on the turn of a board reading 6 7 9 T. The ole A8 has me drawing dead. GG.
What a waste of fricken time!
Fuck this shit I'm going back to Vegas.
JDN
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2.20.2009
8.24.2008
The Legends of Poker at the Bike Main Event and something about WPT
No funny intros here. Its go time at the Bike. Until I run into Gavin. We chat for a few, catching up on the last few weeks while I miss the first orbit.
Ok! Now its go time!
Table 15 seat 5
Table draw:
Seat 1: the quiet Asian. Definately non-sag
Seat 2: rwg
Seat 3: surfer dude with Patrick Swazye Point Break high lights
Seat 4: rpg
Seat 5: jdn
Seat 6: Kyle "krisqueen or Queenkris" Wilson. A Canadian.
Seat 7: rpg
Seat 8: rag non-sag
Seat 9: Jean-Robert "I was on surviver and I have a French sounding name" Bellande
I make the first break without winning a hand but retain a chip count of 28K. How boring.
Finally win my first pot of the day with an hour left in the 2nd level.
I take 6K from Jean-Robert when I call him down with 99 on a board of 2 2 4 3 4. Up to 34K.
Daniel Negreanu is involved in a heavy flirt session with Amanda Leatherman. Kinda creepy. Does she know that he's Canadian? He's also apparently on the same Olympic team as Ali Nejad. They're both wearing Jamaica jerseys. Daniel has matching head phones and Ali has the matching shoes. I wonder if they do the two man luge. That should be the sequel to Cool Runnings. Aliwood and Kid Poker in the winter Olympics representing Jamaica. Oh the calamity.
I asked Kyle is he was embarrassed that Daniel was a Canadian too and he said, "He's French Canadian. This is expected."
Apparently there was some sort of unknown bounty on Jean-Robert. The RPG in seat 7 just called Bobby's all in of 6500 with A5 off. Bobby has JJ and I know I don't really have to finish the story. Bye bye Jean-Robert.
I smell a shipment of fail on the horizon. Wait for it. Waaaait for it. Ahhh there it is.
Going into the hand I have 40K. Coming out, I got 6K.
With blinds at 75/150 it's limped 3 ways to me in the small blind. I look down at 2 red jacks (my best preflop hand in 3 tourneys) and I raise to 650.
Two callers and the flop falls 6h Qh 8h. I bet 1500 and the sagish rag in seat reraises to 4500. I call. The turn is the Ah. I really like this card (famous last words). It gives me the 2nd nut flush and I don't think he's got Kh. Cause who raises with the 2nd nut flush draw? SAGs that's who.
He bets 8000. I'm thinking he's either got a small flush or a set. Smaller flush makes more sense since he limped preflop. I had also played with him for a couple of hours with the day before in the satellite. So my read was that he was a retarded player. And I still think it's the correct read. Just not on that hand.
So I call the turn bet. The river is some lame card of no consequence. And I check again to him. He stands up. Shakes his head. Does Hollywood thing before moving in. I can't help but call off the 17K and he shows me the KhQs. Bah.
6K going into the 2nd break. I guess that's still 30 big blinds. Short stack ninja time.
At break I get roped into singing "I fucked Erick Lindgren" with 15 other players. We were anchored by The Chainsaw. Very odd.
Jesus was also there, so I heard Jesus say fuck. Awesome. I don't think I've ever heard Chris Ferguson cuss. I was sandwiched between Scott Clements and Danny Wong. Guess it could have been worse.
I guess its for EDog's Bday. It should be on RAWvegas sometime this week. Nothing like the internets keep a 6 month old joke going. Very Niiiice.
In the 3rd level I fold till I see AK. I shove and get called by QQ. No help and I'm out.
At least there's not much traffic on Sundays.
JDN
Ok! Now its go time!
Table 15 seat 5
Table draw:
Seat 1: the quiet Asian. Definately non-sag
Seat 2: rwg
Seat 3: surfer dude with Patrick Swazye Point Break high lights
Seat 4: rpg
Seat 5: jdn
Seat 6: Kyle "krisqueen or Queenkris" Wilson. A Canadian.
Seat 7: rpg
Seat 8: rag non-sag
Seat 9: Jean-Robert "I was on surviver and I have a French sounding name" Bellande
I make the first break without winning a hand but retain a chip count of 28K. How boring.
Finally win my first pot of the day with an hour left in the 2nd level.
I take 6K from Jean-Robert when I call him down with 99 on a board of 2 2 4 3 4. Up to 34K.
Daniel Negreanu is involved in a heavy flirt session with Amanda Leatherman. Kinda creepy. Does she know that he's Canadian? He's also apparently on the same Olympic team as Ali Nejad. They're both wearing Jamaica jerseys. Daniel has matching head phones and Ali has the matching shoes. I wonder if they do the two man luge. That should be the sequel to Cool Runnings. Aliwood and Kid Poker in the winter Olympics representing Jamaica. Oh the calamity.
I asked Kyle is he was embarrassed that Daniel was a Canadian too and he said, "He's French Canadian. This is expected."
Apparently there was some sort of unknown bounty on Jean-Robert. The RPG in seat 7 just called Bobby's all in of 6500 with A5 off. Bobby has JJ and I know I don't really have to finish the story. Bye bye Jean-Robert.
I smell a shipment of fail on the horizon. Wait for it. Waaaait for it. Ahhh there it is.
Going into the hand I have 40K. Coming out, I got 6K.
With blinds at 75/150 it's limped 3 ways to me in the small blind. I look down at 2 red jacks (my best preflop hand in 3 tourneys) and I raise to 650.
Two callers and the flop falls 6h Qh 8h. I bet 1500 and the sagish rag in seat reraises to 4500. I call. The turn is the Ah. I really like this card (famous last words). It gives me the 2nd nut flush and I don't think he's got Kh. Cause who raises with the 2nd nut flush draw? SAGs that's who.
He bets 8000. I'm thinking he's either got a small flush or a set. Smaller flush makes more sense since he limped preflop. I had also played with him for a couple of hours with the day before in the satellite. So my read was that he was a retarded player. And I still think it's the correct read. Just not on that hand.
So I call the turn bet. The river is some lame card of no consequence. And I check again to him. He stands up. Shakes his head. Does Hollywood thing before moving in. I can't help but call off the 17K and he shows me the KhQs. Bah.
6K going into the 2nd break. I guess that's still 30 big blinds. Short stack ninja time.
At break I get roped into singing "I fucked Erick Lindgren" with 15 other players. We were anchored by The Chainsaw. Very odd.
Jesus was also there, so I heard Jesus say fuck. Awesome. I don't think I've ever heard Chris Ferguson cuss. I was sandwiched between Scott Clements and Danny Wong. Guess it could have been worse.
I guess its for EDog's Bday. It should be on RAWvegas sometime this week. Nothing like the internets keep a 6 month old joke going. Very Niiiice.
In the 3rd level I fold till I see AK. I shove and get called by QQ. No help and I'm out.
At least there's not much traffic on Sundays.
JDN
6.27.2008
WSOP Event #43 $1500 PLO8
Table draw:
Seat 1: rog. Looks like Mario from Super Nintendo
Seat 2: the lovely ms Clonie Gowen
Seat 3: rowg. I've seem him around a lot he always wears a suit and a baseball cap. Def a euro.
Seat 4: rywg
Seat 5: Sam-e-nole
Seat 6: jdn
Seat 7: random... Oh he's out already
Seat 8: rwg. Looks euroish
Seat 9: rywg with a Mohawk and a sportscenter shirt. Someone should teach these kids how to dress.
3k at first break. I'm treading water. Gavin Smith is sitting at the table next to mine and he has 22k at first break.
After break I'm moved to table 23 seat 7 and I'm the shortest stack at the table. I don't recognize anyone so I'm not going to do a table draw description.
Gavin is out.
Oh Lee Markholt is in seat 5.
Love my new table. I get it all in with A 2 K 9 vs A 3 4 Q on a board of 4 8 T K. The river is a 3 and we chop. Poor!
Very next hand I get it all in with A 2 3 K vs A 3 8 9 on a board of 4 8 k. The turn is a J river an ace. Snap. Double up to 8k.
7k at 2nd break. This is the deepest I've gotten except for the horse.
Paul "The Truth" Darden makes 3 hand appearance before he busts. Grand opening. Grand closing.
Table redraw:
Seat 1: Chad Moore
Seat 3: rywg than kinds looks like a shorter fatter version. Of my brother. He has a dragonball z chip protector. Nerd alert!
Seat 6: random Russian from my first table
Seat 7: jdn
The rest are non descript honkies. I only play a few hands before the dinner break and I don't win a single one. 8500 at dinner.
A special shout out goes to Chris Ferguson for buying Layne Flack, Chris... Bell and myself dinner at the loud Italian cafe above the Wine Cellar.
After dinner the theme of not winning any hands continues until my big blind. Limped 3 ways into a flop of Ks 4c Ac. Holding Qc 2c 2s Ts, I check raise all in on. I'm against a donk that flopped bottom set. And I whiff.
JDN
Seat 1: rog. Looks like Mario from Super Nintendo
Seat 2: the lovely ms Clonie Gowen
Seat 3: rowg. I've seem him around a lot he always wears a suit and a baseball cap. Def a euro.
Seat 4: rywg
Seat 5: Sam-e-nole
Seat 6: jdn
Seat 7: random... Oh he's out already
Seat 8: rwg. Looks euroish
Seat 9: rywg with a Mohawk and a sportscenter shirt. Someone should teach these kids how to dress.
3k at first break. I'm treading water. Gavin Smith is sitting at the table next to mine and he has 22k at first break.
After break I'm moved to table 23 seat 7 and I'm the shortest stack at the table. I don't recognize anyone so I'm not going to do a table draw description.
Gavin is out.
Oh Lee Markholt is in seat 5.
Love my new table. I get it all in with A 2 K 9 vs A 3 4 Q on a board of 4 8 T K. The river is a 3 and we chop. Poor!
Very next hand I get it all in with A 2 3 K vs A 3 8 9 on a board of 4 8 k. The turn is a J river an ace. Snap. Double up to 8k.
7k at 2nd break. This is the deepest I've gotten except for the horse.
Paul "The Truth" Darden makes 3 hand appearance before he busts. Grand opening. Grand closing.
Table redraw:
Seat 1: Chad Moore
Seat 3: rywg than kinds looks like a shorter fatter version. Of my brother. He has a dragonball z chip protector. Nerd alert!
Seat 6: random Russian from my first table
Seat 7: jdn
The rest are non descript honkies. I only play a few hands before the dinner break and I don't win a single one. 8500 at dinner.
A special shout out goes to Chris Ferguson for buying Layne Flack, Chris... Bell and myself dinner at the loud Italian cafe above the Wine Cellar.
After dinner the theme of not winning any hands continues until my big blind. Limped 3 ways into a flop of Ks 4c Ac. Holding Qc 2c 2s Ts, I check raise all in on. I'm against a donk that flopped bottom set. And I whiff.
JDN
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