Sorry for not putting something up over the past 2 weeks I was busy losing money in funny ways for all the live events. I had a nice 0fer for this series even though I got a stack in a few different tourneys. I was really happy with my play on all days and I really just got totally setup in hands I don't want to get away from being way ahead as they should be but never winning those crucial late pots. The structures were pretty good the staff was really friendly the dealers weren't bad some were really good though. Overall I would prob pick crown as my home casino if I was forced to pick one and stay there just for the fact the locals play sooo bad and predictable. I was never uncomfortable at any table and always got an image I could work with.

I think I got above a double stack in all but 1 tourney which is quite a good thing for me because I used to bust a lot early and I made a conscious effort to be a bit more patient live its soo hard when Im used to 15table grinding. I was able to adjust to the timezone well as always being a part time polar bear helps a lot when it comes to that side of traveling the world playing poker. I didn't do that many touristy things after the first week just got in a lazy rut and there were some great cashgames online that I've been grinding. I wasn't able to play online tourney session on most days got maybe 4 days in and all were half days for me since I had to start with the later things since the time was soo early for afternoon tourneys back home.

Again WC came redic close to a huge score having 2 horses with 30 left and both were gone within 5 minutes of each other. I know no one would believe me but I really hate seeing horses lose more for themselves then for me, because me personally am happy just when they put a solid showing and I know it was a good investment and it showed a small profit anyway but then the horse seems to feel like they let us down when they did more then enough trying to make us money etc. Also one of them ended up being mugged after the fact with 30k on him. It is sick story and locals say how rare it is but he just got noticed by the wrong guy with a sick and twisted mentality. I hope the guy gets caught but I really doubt anything will ever come of it which sucks for him because it was a fun trip for everyone aussie is a great area to visit has something for everyone.

I would probably live here in melbourne if it wasn't for the awful timezone for a high volume tourney player. The weather here was better then the bahamas for me last year at this same time. I really liked how friendly the locals were in aussie compared to europe places. The just are more friendly and its a very unique society where tipping is seen as an insult to most people. I also had a really fun group of mtters who I hung out with always a good time with these guys kickball game was hilarious my team lost to lukes team again even though on paper we had the best team drafted then leo shows up and again fucks over my team by hitting some bombs to propel the other team to victory.

Also, I did a bunch of interviews for diff poker medias while there and I am really feeling comfortable in front of the camera and look forward to all of them so far. I am probably just heading home for a short time and heading to borgata the next day to play the 5k and 10k first trip to AC kind of excited but still dreading the 36+hours I have coming of flights and airports on a good nights sleep so that means going asleep on my flights is going to be really hard this time so it's prob going to suck a lot more.

Also, I can officially announce myself becoming a guest pro on pokersavyplus.com I think I am the first guest pro added to their site which is also tied into cardplayer I believe. I enjoy making videos so far and I am quite excited I made a video playing 25/50 6max with hellmuth with some commentary and I think ansky sicko cash game player for those who don't read is going to do commentary as well for the session on mistakes etc so basically some free coaching from someone way better then me at cash so I am looking forward to the leaks he notices in a short session where I ran pretty badly.

Also I think a good 83% of the things on the room service menu here had a fried egg as some part of it. It's amazing how many meals they find a way to include a fried egg. I think there must be something with how many eggs are consumed by those here. Unfortunately I wasn't able to head to an Australian open game the few times people had tickets I was busy with live tourneys or grinding some online cash. Sucks I was looking forward to that. I didn't go out much latenight as I had to get up for a tourney most days but the few times we went out to eat and such the food was redic good. I really like the variety in melbourne it's def a melting pot city but takes more of the good traits from the cultures. Also, the taxis were actually helpful and not 1 guy tried to rip me off or deny me service etc. So +2 shaun deeb stars for that fact.

I think this may become my favorite yearly destination the 3 weeks here are like the perfect amount of time. Vegas for 2 months for wsop is a bit too long while most trips that are week long tourney series are a little too short usually too much poker not enough mischievousness.

I don't have any really good degen stories either from this trip just lost a few hundred in a few arcade propbets vs people better then me at the games we were playing. Nothing really highstakes no huge CC roulette bill. Also for the first time traveling I kind of felt like I was actually at a place instead of visiting which may have been a cause in why I didn't go out everyday like I have some other places.

Also I recommend anyone going to aussie be sure to try to kangaroo steak it was def in my top 3 meals this trip tied with nobu and this awesome peeking dunk place.

Alright now Sunday couldn't have started off worse then I had planned, I was reg for the Sunday brawl on ftp and hoped to be up for the warmup. I just got a new blackberry so I can get use it internationally so anyways at like 7am I am toying with it's alarm making sure I get up in about 5 hours. Set it for 12:20AM then pass out. I wakeup not from my alarm get a bit worried think maybe I just got up before it so I check to see what time it is and see it's already 3:15 I am angry I missed a bunch of good tourneys and whatever I wait for the dead time on sunday and get in a few things. I had a great table draw in the mil get upto 50k pretty easily early then 75k then I play a really goofy hand. A p5er who I met in prague raises in EP which over the last 3 orbits hes played close to 45/35 going from a shortstack to now a 70k stack himself he raises and I have A4s in the BB and 3bet his 2.4x whatever raise to 7x he 4bets me to like 1/3rd of his stack I know if I shove pf he's commited I get the feeling he just is like shauns been watching me raise and win everyhand showing down some super marginal hands so he 3bet me wide and has to fold like everything to my 4bet. If he has AA KK QQ Ak whatever. so I call and decide to go stop go and shove almost anyflop i get what looks like a good one for me 997 with a fd and I put him in for 50k he types in chat about how gay etc I get happy thinking hes folding a better ace or something until he calls with QQ. I got there on the river. Anyways I played really aggro since then and actually didn't even cash no big deal happens a lot.

During this time and my reg other tourneys I decide to play a little 25/50 on UB since I have so few tables. Some guy sits with like 3500 plays pretty bad I get him down to 1500 and then he goes on a sick run to like 12k we battle a lot end up getting about 11k deep. I raise Q3s otb he calls Q96r flop he checks I pot he calls turn Q he checks I pot he calls. River 10x he checks I pot he then shoves. I get really confused he had been calling down a lot I've been spewing a lot and his few river c/r have all been minraises and 2 of them I called and was shown the nuts when he shoved here I was pretty sure I was ahead called but lost to his KJo. I quit right after that quite angry I was now stuck like 20k. I was now tilted pretty bad had a few tourneys left at like 7pm I decided to quite reg for anything new as I would be out of the few I had left soon prob cuz I wasn't playing well. So anyways I start building a stack in the ftp 750k I got really lucky AKs>Ako I went running clubs and another early suckout I couldn't remember. I wasn't playing well but whatever I was going to bubble this tourney and go smoke.

I couldn't bust no matter how hard I tried for the next few hours stack fluctuated a lot had some tough players at my tables. It keep grinding down and I keep my 20-30bb stack then I went on a sick hour where I won like 1 pot i was left with 30k at 2500/5k I shove a hand in CO get the blinds and antees which is huge next hand I shove 7s for 43k bb has AK I fold. I raise/fold next hand and get down to 85k guy opens with 70k stack I find kk and shove he has QQ I hold 150k. Had another huge hand which I forget and a few resteals etc and soon I have 600k and a CL with 4 tables left. I raise AK guy 3bets I jam for aout 30bbs he calls with 10s wins the race for 650k chips I would have had 1mil with 2nd having 450k, but whatever I grind my stack until 2 tables left go card dead again get down to 10bbs. Shoved K10o in HJ with 11.5bbs button with 10bbs has JJ I turn a K get upto 1mil. Now for the gayest hand in the history of tourney poker. utg whose been active opens for like 80k at some weird ftp blind level next guy shoves 210k I have AA otb and 1.1mil effective with first guy. As I am deciding what to raise I click like 350k as I am giving some reasoning for the video I was making. Then I get the whitebox of death. I lose connection on ftp for a few moments by the time I get back my aces were folded and utg had QQ and utg+1 had AJs I would have had 2.5mil chips with 2nd having under 1.5mil with 14 left. That same QQ guy a few hands later has AKo>a fellow wafflercrushers AA which was redic gross. Adam sends me a weeks worth of gross beats for me each sunday it seems in everything huge. This was just one of those days. I coast to ft with same mil chip stack fold for a bit guy shoves 900k in HJ I have KK otb and slightly cover reship and beat his QQ. steal some blinds a few resteals. have like 1.5mil after raising folding folded to sb he shoves about the same amount I have AKo and call and beat his 105o. THat guy busts a little while later. I am cl for abit till rizen gets knocked out vs a guy who flopped top 2 when rizen had an OESD. I get 3 handed with 2 players I know I am better than with a good cl.

I start to really lag it up 3 handed get to like 5.5 6mil chips with about 10mil in play. Sb opens with 30bb bb shoves for 1.7mil which is 15bbs I reshove AQo. Guy has JJ and it holds or else I get hu with 7 to 1 CL or something redic. Anyways a few hand goes by same guy as JJ opens in sb to 2.5x I call in bb wiht 910o flopds A87 with 2 d he bets I raise pretty big and then the whole rail goes wild about saying I have 910 or diamonds or some other draw. It's really redic how they can talk about ranges and such while someones making a decision not sure if it effected the kids dec but after he timed down his whole timebank he stuck it in with QQ no d and it holds for a 6mil pot. I am down to 1.4mil and shove my 14bbs otb with A4s and run into that same guys Ajo 257 flop with 1 of my suit turn 6 river blank and Im out 3rd for like 52500 I was really pissed off at the time I was 2-3 flips away from a huge CL HU . I will look back and be happy I got 3rd but I really just got fucked. The AA timeout hand was awful so much equity from 15% of the chips in play I would of had more. I prob could of raped the ft bubble too with that stack whatever.

Anyways there were also a lot of people crashing at the house due to the xmas party at my dads place so I had to ward off them as I got a 100 questions at first about what I am doing and 4 people over my shoulder watching. Eventually I cleared em out after 20min but the loud drunk talk was still something I would have preferred not to have to deal with.

So I went from my worst sunday ever down like 20-25k on buyins and cashgames to up nearly 30k I was quite happy but sooo close to my first 6figure score. At least I win a propbet with thayer now for yearly rankings on p5.

Well I will write tourney reports for the EPT Prague ME and the 2k Euro side event I played both with a lot of interesting hands and such but right now my minds on something else. I had a good last night in Prague ended up getting into a club it was a good time the EPT winner was there celebrating a solid player I've played with before was def who I was rooting for once timex busted. Anyways I head to the airport on no sleep planning on getting lots on my long upcoming flights. First 2 flights were a breeze got lucky no one was sitting in the middle seat so I had plenty of room to stretch during the 9 hour flight from vienna to Wahington DC I get there around 3 eastern for a flight to Albany at 5:30. I made a mistake of having half a box of cigars with me that tufat kept from our amsterdam trip.

I thought nothing off it and told customs that I had the goods had to get it checked they were habana romeo y juliets which are illegal to have in the US. I thought it was ok for personal consumption and under a small number but I was wrong they had to confiscate all of them. So anyways it ends up being less of a big deal then I feared just lost a few cigars get my bags checked head to the gate have a bit of trouble getting to the gate finally get there try to checkin I am told I can't do it because I am a different airlines. So I head to Customer service and get a boarding pass around 4 the flight was delayed until 7pm so I hung out a bit played some poker and was keeping an eye on the wafflecrushers still left in the 15k . Anyways chatting a bit some guy sits at 25/50 cap with me for 1500 and sucks a lot I hear them announce they are boarding the flight I have to quit him and don't like it close my things and go to the line to board the plane.

The attendant asks me where I am going I say Albany and try to hand him my boarding pass he says no you can't board we are full go to customer service. I am like wtf flights leaving in 5 minutes and I need to get on it there's a storm about to hit around midnight in Albany I was told. I also noticed because the flight was 2hours delayed the 9:55 flight was canceled because the plane wouldn't be ready. So I have to wait 45min to talk to a CS person they can't do much the whole terminal was understaffed and under trained and just completely lost 2 qualified people partially trained could have done more then the 10 people I had to have help me over the 4 hours/

After like another hour I finally got a hotel voucher and food voucher and a free round trip ticket. I went to the hotel took a while to find the right shuttle, stuck here without clothes as well since my baggage got on the flight I was supposed to be on. I wanted to get home there was a party being thrown at my house with everyone being home from school didn't get a chance to celebrate with my brother who turned 23 while I was in Europe. Also my flights in a few hours but theres a solid chance it gets canceled again as theres a day long storm all.
across the northeast. Also If all goes well I';ll be in vegas on monday sweating hopefully bakes and vivek going in 1 and 2 for the finaltable of the 15k.

Update

Things just keep getting worse, I stayed up all night and got blueballed in a bunch of tourneys going deep without a ft. I had about two hours to wait till my flight I am getting ready then I recheck the flight info online and as I expected it was canceled. Then I try to book a new flight for the next availble one I am on hold for 30minutes before I fall asleep because I am exhausted. I wakeup an hour or two later get a hold of my aunt who also serves as my travel agent she can't do anything from her end because every flight is booked . I finally get a hold of someone get a different flight the earliest one is 955 pm. So I try to get my hotel recovered so I could hangout in the room instead of the airport for the next 7 hours. I have trouble getting that, so they transfer me to the international department and I argue for him not to put me to them again knowing how long I would be on hold as I am waiting my phone dies. I have no charger of coursed with me or any clothes to change into.

So I can't even play a redic amazing sunday schedule because of my flights if I went deep I would have to have someone take over which I am unsure of the legality of it for getting on a plane and then having someone play on my accounts. And I would be deep in some of them by then and it would bother me on the flight the fact that I am not playing deep in a major. Also add to that that most of the mtters I know will be playing on their own anyway at the time.

I had two very similar finaltables go down and if you saw hand by hand you would think they were almost identical cept in the 100r I was winning flips. The 10r was fun had a good group in the room for sundays hgaving a lot of fun busting balls and not getting much going. I had a deep run in the mil before losing a 300k pot ith AKo vs QJo on a A63 flop he went running spades. I was angry but keep getting deeper in the 10r that had a massive 3k field and 90k prizepool fetching 17k for first. I got to two tables left nad recognized a few 2+2ers and went on a nice rush to get to 2mil chips with like 8 left I had the same stack until I got hu vs this really weak bad player and he had a 7to 1 cl to start and a 9to1 at his peak. I ran him over after that had a huge pot with AQ vs AJ 4 bets went in pre and he checkmiraised me on a KQx8 board when we had a potsized bet left before he c/minraised I called and won a bit later.
In the 100r I and went from being 20/22 to a middle stack by the time we were 12 handed in 100r. I won A10o vs KJo and then won like 3 flips to get a top 3 stack to start the finaltable. Nothing really happened early got JJ vs 10s for the only non flip and then folded a lot and raise/folded a few times ended up getting hu vs hoodin10 he had a commanding cl like 1.4mil to 300k I won a big 800k pot with A8ss vs KQcc on a Qs3x2s board I bet/called his shove after flatting pf got there on the turn. No big hands for a bit pick off a bluff or two from him then he limps like he does a lot OTB I make it 42k at 6/12k with JJ he calls flops 10 high with 2 spades I lead he raises I shove he tanks and calls with A7ss I turn a jack river bricks for all the chips. so 50k in cashes on stars last 2 days been great.

On a wafflecrushing note had some great deep runs this week at belagio events as well as a run in the 1k where fatalerror ran worse then anyone I've ever seen he didn't tilt keep playing great but just keep getting 2 outed and other fun stuff. Still it's great to watch such solid players knowing they are making me sooo much in equity longrun staking is fun for everyone. We had a running prank with thayer too that it wasn't under us but too bad he didn't get a bigger score to get him while hes playing in a belagio event.

Heading to prague on saturday prob going for tlb for the rest of the week with a 1k and 500 pt score I have a huge edge on everyone else.

Well the last few days I've been not playing much I kind of welshed on my goal for TLB early when I decided I would be heading to turningstone for their small 5 days of events. Nothing huge but a few friends heading there as well as dead time in the week prior to heading back to Europe. I had good success in the first even getting my 10k starting stack up to 35k before antees 5th level kicked in. For the levels I was there for the new structure was amazing big thanks to pete the tourney director who is probably the person responsible for the levels added. Anyway I get moved to a new table featuring randallin and a few weak players early on play a weird hand where I raise a guys turn lead when we were both very deep and he did a small 3bet in a big pot. I folded and wanted to get that guy back.

I had a terrible laggy/bad image at my table keep getting played back at with no hands to show for it. I then make it 825 in MP with A4s guy to my left instafires out 6 yellow 500 chips I get the feeling he's really weak never calling a shove so I stick it in. He asks for a count then's like whatever here it's yours I rake in the pot and notice in the corner of my eye when I show the 4c he nearly fell out of his chair. I am laughing and randall shoots me a grin as he's the 1 seat and I am in his direct view in the 6 seat. Anyways I get 0 hands and blind down raise/call a shove getting 2 to 1 and other standard hands till I have 15k at 250/500/50 awesome addition level that was there. I make it 1300 otb with AKo with 17k stack BB was tight and short at 6k SB was the guy I 4bet earlier he instasticks in his stack of bigchips like 10k enough to put me allin. I snapcall about to be saddened when he shows me 44 and luckboxed into a flip instead I am quite happy to see AQo guy just spazzed out for all my chips until the dealer feels bad for him and gives him a 3 outer on the flop so he wouldn't get short.

I then was up latenight played in a 300 max game for an orbit won 500 and then moved to a 1k max game and doubled after an hour to 2k on a hand I was totally in the blind and got called by worse on my flop shove and then bleed down to like 1k before getting in a few bad pots and this one I am unsure off. I've been opening half the pots at the table and def not playing my Agame but its 5am and I am just bored. Anyway I make it 30 with AKo and 850 stack guy flats who usually does it a guy with 204 behind squeezes to 100 he's been tight but bleed his 500 buyin down folding a lot and I felt was ready to gamble with anyone to make a good score/comeback in the game. BB tanks asks how much button has behind he said 104 BB then makes it 204 I'm like wow I could get this HU a lot and BB has to fold JJ and possible QQ/AKo for another 650 so I ship it in he quietly says I call and asks if I have Aces which means he has kings sigh I am like I have 3 outs till I see the button spread his aces across the table I flop 0 hope on a 1086 board turn a Qbut no river for anypart of the pots. I endup going to bed at like 730 and skipped the 10am starting time and slept all day.

For tomorrows event I will be sending in voicemails at each break hopefully that I'm still in and giving updates and info for a bit of love reporting