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Frustrating Day
by A_Junglen on 01/17/08
Day 2 of the Aussie Millions Main Event ended up being an extremely frustrating day of poker.I didn’t play any particular large pots, just lost every single small pot. Every continuation bet raised, my sole 3-bet pf of the day was 4-bet on (folded 99, shown QQ), etc. I just couldn’t get anything going, or catch a break. I dwindled down from 60k to 20k, then during the third level of the day (600/1200/200) I got my stack in with a 7 high flush draw vs. durrr’s king high flush draw to bust out.
Bleh, so much for that.
There’s still the $5k Heads up tournament I’m playing tomorrow (Day 1B), and if I don’t make the finals I’ll probably play the $2k shorthanded too. Hopefully I can salvage a cash and not whiff the Aussie Series. Ugh.
Still have some good friends doing well in the main event, and having a good time overall.
-Adam
Aussie Millions Day 1
by A_Junglen on 01/15/08
Just a quick note from Australia.
Ended day 1 with 60.4k. High point being near 90k, but spewed some off/ran kinda crappy during the last level. I ended day 1 last year with around 40k, so I'm feeling good about my chances. I'm on a nice little run in these major events - this being my 4th consecutive day 2, all of which I've been able to build stacks in.
I continue tomorrow (I believe 7:30pm EST), blinds will be 400/800/100, average stack being around 45k. We'll likely play down to the money. For a number of reasons, some more obvious than others, I'd really like to go deep in this one. It's going to be the last major I play for awhile, and it was also the first major event I'd ever cashed in. Besides WSOPE, this is probably the biggest event an < 21 year old can win, as far as prestige and such. Pretty much whoever wins becomes the Poker icon of the continent for the year.
Well, that's it from Australia.
-Adam
Ended day 1 with 60.4k. High point being near 90k, but spewed some off/ran kinda crappy during the last level. I ended day 1 last year with around 40k, so I'm feeling good about my chances. I'm on a nice little run in these major events - this being my 4th consecutive day 2, all of which I've been able to build stacks in.
I continue tomorrow (I believe 7:30pm EST), blinds will be 400/800/100, average stack being around 45k. We'll likely play down to the money. For a number of reasons, some more obvious than others, I'd really like to go deep in this one. It's going to be the last major I play for awhile, and it was also the first major event I'd ever cashed in. Besides WSOPE, this is probably the biggest event an < 21 year old can win, as far as prestige and such. Pretty much whoever wins becomes the Poker icon of the continent for the year.
Well, that's it from Australia.
-Adam
Good Times in Australia
Lots of funny anecdotes coming from Australia the last few days.
Guess I’ll start with my roommates antics. Jeff played the $100k buyin tournament here, and with 7 left, (5 paid), and a 1st place finish worth over $1.2mil he was holding the chiplead and playing great. Through an extremely unfortunate turn of events, Jeff ended up busting out in 7th, despite playing great, and not making any clear mistakes.
Well, I haven’t decided if it was a good thing or not, but I wasn’t in the room when he got back from the tournament area. I was hanging out with some friends and came back a few hours after reading that Jeff had went apeshit on the room. So, I walked in, noticed a hole in the wall, a cracked television, and Jeff trying to restore a painting that he’d knocked off the wall.
It’s difficult to justify these action’s, but Jeff’s more than willing to pay for the damages, and considering the circumstances, if there’d ever be a time to go berserk on a hotel room, it’d be after busting out of the biggest tournament/oppourtunity to date. Especially after being in such a commanding position.
Sorry Jeff
Tomorrow’s Day 1A of the Main Event, but I’m playing the 2nd flight. There’s 3 total, so assuming I make it through to Day 2, I’ll have a day off during Day 1C.
On a side note, apparently they’ve released the betting line for the Aussie Millions and I’m picked 8th to win overall, which is kind of cool (Note: There was a link to the sports betting site, but it was taken down once the tournament started. I was picked 125:1 to win). Obviously betting on a single player in a field of 900 - 1000 entrants is ridiculous. I just thought it was cool to be near the top of the line =)
Today I hung out with Paul Wasicka, his girlfriend, Amber, and friend Truman. We donked around a bit at 2/3NL, which was refreshing. Since the stakes were so low, I obviously wasn’t my usual “serious self” at the table, and just had a good time. It’d been a long time since I really played “just for fun” and it helped me remember why I play poker.
Anyways, supposedly Paul’s going to be writing a blog about the numerous, humerous, baffling rules they enforced while we were playing. It seemed like any kind of string bet or drink order was at the discretion of the dealer/waiter, which are constantly changing in the casino environment. Oh well, it should be a good read.
After donking around at 2/3NL (where I booked a $350 profit, so I’m only stuck like $4.7k now, lol), we headed to the Meat and Wine Co. It was just Paul, Amber and myself and as we headed to the bar, while our seating was being arranged, I noticed something….I knew every single person in the bar. I introduced Paul and Amber to a bunch of my friends and then we decided to join their party. There must’ve been 25+ people at the table when we were seated. Some people took some pictures, I’m sure they’ll surface and will be posted later.
The total bill was only $1,200 so we decided to flip for it. I suppose a better term would be, played credit card roulette for the bill. About 7-8 people decided to just pay for the bill and leave, but why pay and leave when you can gamble and get a free meal? I believe 12-13 of us tossed our credit cards in a hat, and we pulled a single card out at a time until the last card in the hat was the unfortunate “benefactor” of the $1,200 bill.
Sorry JCarver, but thanks for dinner.
That’s it for now,
Again, I’ll be playing Day 1B, and if I bust out, I’ll be playing the $5k heads up and $2k 6max NLH that are on later dates.
Thanks for reading,
Adam Junglen
Guess I’ll start with my roommates antics. Jeff played the $100k buyin tournament here, and with 7 left, (5 paid), and a 1st place finish worth over $1.2mil he was holding the chiplead and playing great. Through an extremely unfortunate turn of events, Jeff ended up busting out in 7th, despite playing great, and not making any clear mistakes.
Well, I haven’t decided if it was a good thing or not, but I wasn’t in the room when he got back from the tournament area. I was hanging out with some friends and came back a few hours after reading that Jeff had went apeshit on the room. So, I walked in, noticed a hole in the wall, a cracked television, and Jeff trying to restore a painting that he’d knocked off the wall.
It’s difficult to justify these action’s, but Jeff’s more than willing to pay for the damages, and considering the circumstances, if there’d ever be a time to go berserk on a hotel room, it’d be after busting out of the biggest tournament/oppourtunity to date. Especially after being in such a commanding position.
Sorry Jeff
Tomorrow’s Day 1A of the Main Event, but I’m playing the 2nd flight. There’s 3 total, so assuming I make it through to Day 2, I’ll have a day off during Day 1C.
On a side note, apparently they’ve released the betting line for the Aussie Millions and I’m picked 8th to win overall, which is kind of cool (Note: There was a link to the sports betting site, but it was taken down once the tournament started. I was picked 125:1 to win). Obviously betting on a single player in a field of 900 - 1000 entrants is ridiculous. I just thought it was cool to be near the top of the line =)
Today I hung out with Paul Wasicka, his girlfriend, Amber, and friend Truman. We donked around a bit at 2/3NL, which was refreshing. Since the stakes were so low, I obviously wasn’t my usual “serious self” at the table, and just had a good time. It’d been a long time since I really played “just for fun” and it helped me remember why I play poker.
Anyways, supposedly Paul’s going to be writing a blog about the numerous, humerous, baffling rules they enforced while we were playing. It seemed like any kind of string bet or drink order was at the discretion of the dealer/waiter, which are constantly changing in the casino environment. Oh well, it should be a good read.
After donking around at 2/3NL (where I booked a $350 profit, so I’m only stuck like $4.7k now, lol), we headed to the Meat and Wine Co. It was just Paul, Amber and myself and as we headed to the bar, while our seating was being arranged, I noticed something….I knew every single person in the bar. I introduced Paul and Amber to a bunch of my friends and then we decided to join their party. There must’ve been 25+ people at the table when we were seated. Some people took some pictures, I’m sure they’ll surface and will be posted later.
The total bill was only $1,200 so we decided to flip for it. I suppose a better term would be, played credit card roulette for the bill. About 7-8 people decided to just pay for the bill and leave, but why pay and leave when you can gamble and get a free meal? I believe 12-13 of us tossed our credit cards in a hat, and we pulled a single card out at a time until the last card in the hat was the unfortunate “benefactor” of the $1,200 bill.
Sorry JCarver, but thanks for dinner.
That’s it for now,
Again, I’ll be playing Day 1B, and if I bust out, I’ll be playing the $5k heads up and $2k 6max NLH that are on later dates.
Thanks for reading,
Adam Junglen
Quick and Painless
Today I played my first event here in Melbourne, a $1,500 event - and it was quick and painless, which was just fine by me.
I ended up getting QQ vs my friend Carl's (colson10) AK AIPF for a around 9,500 at 50/100. EP opened for 300, Carl made it 900 from MP, I picked up QQ in the BB. I normally would've taken a bit more time, but there was a max of 20 seconds to act on your hand. I probably gave away my hand when they started counting down the clock briefly after I mentally counted down my stack to decide how I wanted to play my hand. I came to the conclusion shoving couldn't be bad, so I shoved, Carl made the call with AK and I lost the race.
No biggie, I'd much rather lose a race early in the tournament, than get semi-deep and bust out after several hours. The 20-second clock was annoying though.
Besides the tournament, I've hung out at an FTP party, and just spent some time with a lot of poker friends I haven't seen in a long time.
That's it for now, here's a pic from today's event.
I ended up getting QQ vs my friend Carl's (colson10) AK AIPF for a around 9,500 at 50/100. EP opened for 300, Carl made it 900 from MP, I picked up QQ in the BB. I normally would've taken a bit more time, but there was a max of 20 seconds to act on your hand. I probably gave away my hand when they started counting down the clock briefly after I mentally counted down my stack to decide how I wanted to play my hand. I came to the conclusion shoving couldn't be bad, so I shoved, Carl made the call with AK and I lost the race.
No biggie, I'd much rather lose a race early in the tournament, than get semi-deep and bust out after several hours. The 20-second clock was annoying though.
Besides the tournament, I've hung out at an FTP party, and just spent some time with a lot of poker friends I haven't seen in a long time.
That's it for now, here's a pic from today's event.
Finally at the Crown
After 20+ hours of either being in an airport, or in the air, I've finally made it to the Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia.
Several of my good friends have already put up some good results in the prelim's, including a chop in the $1k by Timex (I believe he won around $110k), and gobboboy won the $500 Stud/Stud8/Razz event for around $15k.
Congratulations to both.
At the moment I'm registered for the $1,500 event (tomorrow) and the $10k Main Event. There's a few other prelim's in between, I'll be sure to let you guys know if I play any of the other one's. I think I might get some cash sessions in as well.
That's about all I've got for now - it's great to be back in Melbourne.
-Adam Junglen
Several of my good friends have already put up some good results in the prelim's, including a chop in the $1k by Timex (I believe he won around $110k), and gobboboy won the $500 Stud/Stud8/Razz event for around $15k.
Congratulations to both.
At the moment I'm registered for the $1,500 event (tomorrow) and the $10k Main Event. There's a few other prelim's in between, I'll be sure to let you guys know if I play any of the other one's. I think I might get some cash sessions in as well.
That's about all I've got for now - it's great to be back in Melbourne.
-Adam Junglen
