Well, it took a long time, but I finally found the EPT Barcelona produced coverage online. The final table isn’t uploaded yet, but the first 2 episodes are on Pokertube right now.

Here’s the link to the first episode. If you scroll down you’ll be able to see the following episodes (so far there are 2 uploaded, each into quarters).

I’m only involved in 2 big hands, but it’s interesting to watch the entire thing, because you’ll be able to see that my opponent was really tilting when he 4-bet me AIPF with QJo and I made the call with ATo. The other hand I’m involved in was the huge value bet I made on the river with QQ on the KJxxx board. I made a huge pot sized river bet vs the perfect opponent and he paid it off. Be sure to check it out.

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I’ve been making a lot of videos for PokerVT, and am flying Vegas to work in the VT studio on March 4th. I might extend my trip out on the west coast for a few extra days, but I’ll be there to do some interviews, as well as some instructional work.

I guess that’s about it for now. Ray’s currently in LA, so I have the place to myself. Tomorrow there’s a bunch of big MTT’s, including a 2 day event on FTP, the FTOPS $2,500 - so assuming I’m awake (I swear to god if I sleep through….), I’ll be in there.

Good luck at the tables everyone and thanks for reading,

-Adam Junglen

Today I grinded out a TON of tournaments.

I was actually running horribly in all of the bigger buy-in tournaments. I won’t bore you with specific details, but I was extremely frustrated with how the day was going. Despite all the horrible beats, I played almost every tournament with a buy-in > $50 that was registering from 4pm - 12am. I felt as though I was playing well and the fields were extra big today, making the prize pools even juicer.

Well, I did end up taking 2nd place in the PokerStars $50+5 50k Guarantee. I’m still really frustrated that I lost the heads-up match, as I had my opponent down several times, and then the final hand got the money in as a slight favorite (Overs + FD vs pair), and I couldn’t win the flip. I did make some mistakes HU and was able to recover, but in the end my opponent prevailed. $10k is still a nice payday.

I’ve made quite a bit of money the last few days, so I certainly can’t complain. I’ve also truly earned the scores - as I’ve been grinding out a ton of tournaments. February 6th and 10th combined I’ve played over 50 multi-table tournaments, which is more than I played in December and January combined.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned it in a previous post, but moving out has obviously increased my motivation to crush online tournaments. I’m feeling really great about my game and hope to take down a big score real soon.

Later,

-Adam Junglen

Well, here they are - pictures of my new pad. The pictures might be a little sloppy, but I really wasn’t too concerned with quality when I was taking the pictures. Keep in mind that the TV in the pictures is just a temporary, until I get my new 50in mounted. I turned the sunroom into an office that's big enough for both my setup and Ray's as well. It also came with very nice walk-in closets, and all the big appliances - including a washer/dryer.

Let me know what you think.

Enjoy.

Well, I’m just about all settled in my new apartment.

Today I got a ton of furniture delivered. My apartment is nearly completely furnished, and I’m loving it. The only thing I’m waiting on is the new TV I recently purchased. It’s the Pioneer Kuro 50in flat panel plasma HDTV. It was on backorder, and will be in stock in about 10 days. From all of the reviews I’ve read, many consider it to be the best television on the market. I’m having the Best Buy Geek Squad come by and mount the TV on the wall, as well as hide the speaker wire through the wall. It’s going to look great.

I played most of the online tournaments that started between 6pm - 11pm. I ended up going deep in many of the tournaments, including multiple final table bubbles and multiple final tables. The biggest cash of the day was when I took 2nd in the FTP $109 6max. Second place is always extremely brutal, and I ran atrocious heads-up.

Other notable finishes include:

8th in the UB 11pm ($400)
Final 2 tables in the AP $1k ($1.6k)
Final 2 tables in the UB $150+12 ($255)
Final 2 tables in the PS $300+20 ($2,250)

I believe there are a few other cashes I didn’t note.

All in all it was a fairly profitable day (made around $8k), but it was still frustrating. In the PS $300 (1st was $65k) I constantly ran into my opponents big hands. I couldn’t catch a break in the $1k, and again the $109 6max where I got 2nd for $5k, I really feel like I should’ve won. That was really disappointing. It’d been a long time since I put in an online MTT session. I love my new desk that’s in my new office and I really enjoyed playing poker on my new setup.

While I’m not going to start playing MTT’s 7 day a week like some grinders, as long as I continue to enjoy playing MTT’s like I did today then you can expect to see me playing the nightly tourneys 3-4 days a week.

I’m taking a break from tournaments tomorrow but, but might work on some PokerVT material, and I’ll also post some pictures of my new pad.

Later,

Adam Junglen

Sorry for the lack of updates, I've been keeping busy preparing to move out lately. I get the key to my new place tomorrow, and couldn't be more ready.

I still have a lot of things I need to buy, but I've setup the utilities, and got my own cable guy to hook up my internet and TV the day I move in. I also bought a really nice sofa, some kitchenware and other little things. I'm still debating over whether or not to get a new TV, and there's still a lot of other things I need to buy. It's kind of stressful, but not having money restrictions helps make the process a little more fun.

I'll be sure to post some pictures when I'm all settled.

I've been playing some cash games on some smaller sites lately and have done pretty well. Mostly been playing 2/4 - 5/10NL, and 10/20, 25/50 Capped NL games on FTP. I'm actually unstuck from Australia and have booked a solid winning month. Not exactly how I pictured January, but money's money.


I guess that's it for now.


-Adam

Well, this trip's sucked.

The 5k HU event went poorly (to say the least). I won game 1 (best 2 of 3), and dropped 2 and 3. Pretty much summarizes the trip. I decided to skip the $2k 6max event (going on right now), and just relax.

I fly out on the 21st around 12:30pm (Australian time), and arrive in LA at 7:30am....on the 21st (lol @ time changes). I'm hangin out in LA for a day, then flying back to CLE on the 22nd.

When I get back home, I'll be pretty busy. I get the key to my new place on the 31st, and haven't bought any furniture yet - so I'll have to get that done. I also have a lot of work to do on the PokerVT. I need to finish up some instructional video's (Most notably is the Sunday Million win), as well as fly out to Vegas to do some work in the studio. The site is on schedule to go live this spring, and I'm very excited to be apart of it.



-Adam

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

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

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

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.