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EdmondDantes says
Looking forward to all of it!07/18/07
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great blog. Looking forward to reading more!08/09/07
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Vegas Recollections, part 1 of...a lot
by Pechorin on 07/17/07
So, I totally neglected the blog during my World Series of Poker trip. My bad. Many a time I would think of something marginally interesting to write, then just not do it for one reason or another. Well, I guess now I will begin to recap this most awesome 5 (or was it 6?) week experience.First, I have to give congratulations to all the people who met with great success while I was in Vegas and neglecting the ol' blog...
-Matt "mlagoo" Lagarde for taking down the Sunday Million while in Vegas. Such a sick score, and such a sick time at the Rhino afterwards.
-Nath for taking down a rebuy and that nightly 100k we weren't even planning on playing. Yet another sick score and another sick time at the Rhino.
-Jason "JCarver" Somerville for winning the FTP 500k and breaking out of his hellacious downswing in style. He made one of the best calls I've seen at a final table, and pretty much owned at least two very good players.
-Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer for winning a FTP nightly tournament and having a profitable WSOP overall.
-Adam Junglen for winning this week's Sunday Million; few people deserve it more than him, he's flat out sick at tournaments.
-Hevad "Rain" Khan for final tabling the main event and taking home almost a mil. Funny, when I ate dinner with him and some others, he expressed envy at us "cash game guys" for having a lot of money, unlike tournament/sng guys. Well, um, I guess he doesn't have that problem anymore (if he even had it before).
-Others I'm probably neglecting due to not remembering how deep they went in various tournaments...Ike, Scott, Alex, people in the goon house, and others.
Funny enough, Vegas was supposed to be a business trip. I was going to play a ton of poker, win a bunch of money in the super-soft live cash games (if not in the super-soft WSOP donkaments), play online with several good players around to learn from (and seriously, our house had a lot of good players with Nath, Nate, Ben, Thomas, Serge, Matt, and other people like Vivek, Alex and Jeff coming over from the other house to play donkaments), and I was going to have the best month of my poker career. Well, June was my winningest non-staking month ever, but I played very, very little poker while I was in Vegas. Well, less than I expected to. I played fewer WSOP events than I had planned, and only put in 3 cash game sessions, all at stakes lower than those I normally play online.
How could this happen? There are myriad reasons!
First, I'm lazy. Second, I'm really lazy. I treated this time in Vegas as an overall vacation. No poker, no worries, no stress. Sit around all day, drink at night, occasionally play a live tournament. Get sick, get better, sit around, turn off my mind. Or at least the part of it that plays poker at any sort of respectable level. There are probably other excuses, like the house being somewhat far away from the strip, or my fear of playing like a donkey in front of people whose opinions i respect. Whatever it was, I just didn't feel like playing poker all that often. Still, I had a great time with everyone, met a lot of great people, and somehow prevented myself from getting burned out on poker permanently.
Anyway, this is long and rambling, so here are a few topics that will grace future entries:
-Winning a 'stars 100r and the lessons I learned by donking off most of my stack then winning anyway.
-Cashing 3 WSOP events (and blasting off my stack in all of them).
-Playing with OMG POKER CELEBRITIES OMG (and even a couple real life celebs)
-Live cash games and why they piss me off
-Pit degeneracy
-The rungood bowl (three for three!)
-Being the undefeated world champion of credit card roulette
-More stuff I'm forgetting
Hopefully I'll update this sooner rather than later!
