Here's a post I made on 2+2 earlier today felt like I never give you guys any real strategy I swear sometime this week I will get a PXF handhistory up of something interesting.

I spent many hours today trying to explain this stuff to a student today about the one part of tourneys I've experienced and couldn't prove because the math is too intensive. This is a lot of gigablock theory/optimal stack ideas theory included, I know many of you disagree with the block theory but it's correct in many complex ways.

Basically the jist of it is this example.

Say I have have a 15bb stack at the middle stages of a tourney and the stacks to my direct left are effectively this 20bbs,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45 , and say the player to my left is an aggro solid player who will give me fits is too my left the other players are no where as good as as him or me we are def first and 2nd in skill at the table.

Given these stack sizes if I knew I could get it in vs the guy on my left 100% of the time as a 45% dog I would take it each time without any dead money or anything. So 45% of the time I have 30bbs and 55% I bust,

I will not argue that in an ICM model my chip value would have doubled directly due to that hand we all know that.

But i will tell you my hypothetical chip accumulating per orbit amount will skyrocket from where it was in the previous example. And I will earn back the 2.5bbs or whatever edge I gave up in that 45%flip by having a much more profitable situation every time it's folded to me in any spot. In a few orbits as long as table doesn't break I will be putting myself in more and more profitable situations with my chips where I can play more hands for a larger edge. When I would of been handcuffed to playing tight without the double. Thus increasing the chances of me winning because each orbit I am gaining way more chips then I would if I didn't take that 45% flip.

Well after a great week in Boston at mikes house I finally went home for the first time in almost 6 months being home for more then a week. It's still a really short stay in a week and a half I plan on heading to turning stone on Friday to play in a few events. I also plan on finishing up my TLB goal for the week. It's been quite some time since I won weekly on stars haven't made an effort for it since the last time I won. I feel that I can easily win once I devote a full 6 days of grinding in massive multi tabling on the desktop which I haven't done since prevegas. So expect me to be playing 20+ stars tourney with 5 or so FTP ones sprinkled in.

There are many reasons for me to be doing this it should be a lot of fun as long as I win. Then I will be content even if I am down a few k or something. This should give me enough to secure yearly TLB as a few people are attempting to make late runs at me but as in a marathon they showed themselves too soon and I will get a 3k lead on them in the next 10 days and they will give up. Knowing full well that if necessary I am winning yearly if I have to play everyday I can and every tourney I can till end of year. Hopefully for my sake it doesn't get to that spot but I'm sure many of you will enjoy knowing m working my ass off in 180s even after my recent big buyin success.

Also had a lot of good wafflecrush success in the past few weeks had a solid showing in the 10k at FW where 3/9 cashed and 1 of them got as far as 19th before losing a stupid flip post flop vs the donk who ended up winning. Note he was redic lucky to be in a race given the situation but whatever he has 1.7mil and a WPT ring or whatever when the better players get screwed. Great for the game seeing a donk card rack his way to millions cuz those viewing know they prob had a better shot than him going into the tourney.

Also heading to France the 7th of December then prague the 10th for EPT with Andy should be a good time. Finaly got my yankee hat from him only took like 2months for me to be reconnected with it. I haven't seen it but my brother was commenting on how badly it smelled and I figure thats from 4 years of my fat face sweating underneath it as well as being stuck in a package box for 2 months as it gets shiped from London to Vegas to NY and a few random stops in between. So I'll stop looking like thayer thankfully and be back to my normal backwards hat ways

Well sorry for being so delayed in updates I had some problems with getting the HH from stars so I maybe using a different tourney for a hand history in the near future. Have a lot of things to bring up but I'll be brief in most of them.

Wafflecrush has been going great now this last week raking up close to 300k in cashes from our horses in some huge runs that didn't even get up to potential. Feels great to be winning money and giving close friends/sick players the chance to play the highest buyins with 0 fear at any point. I expect to be picking up more horses soon but don't PM me or bug me at the table or any wafflecrusher. I got my eye on the next batch and in talks with a few as it is.

I spent the week at Foxwoods did nothing in any of the tourneys build stacks then went card dead when it mattered in every tourney. Got ugly but I did well online since then.

I've made a bunch of FTs lately 100fo which I took down for 12k. AP 1k where I got 3rd for 12k 20r stars a few middle buyin ft tourneys with a win and a few middle finishes.

I'm in Boston for the week at my buddy Mike's house who just got 5th in FTOPS last night. His prior best score was like 2500 so 55k is quite the jump.

I am heading to France the 7th of December then going to Prague for the EPT the 10th. Anyone got good ideas what to do leave a comment.

Just got to the final table of tonight's FTP $1k. For a change, I'm going to write this report as I play. Wish me luck!

I had the CL going into 2 tables a really bad laggy player to my left hit vs me every pot for 4 straight pots to knock me down. I had to nit it up cuz I got 0 real hands after that. Anyways came to final table 9/9, and started to write this up with some interesting hands.

I had 40k at break with blinds going upto 2500/5000/600 folded 84o in SB after it got raised then had this really interesting hand. I think this is a great spot to sng.

Full Tilt (9 handed)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, 6. Hero posts a blind of 2500.
6 folds, Button raises to 15000, Hero (poster) calls, 1 fold.

Flop: 5, Q, 2 (2 players)
Hero bets 18069 (All-In), Button folds.

Final Pot:

No showdown. Hero wins


I fold a few more hands someone else gets knocked out so 8 remaining. I shove KJs with 11bbs in the HJ and 2 hands later fold A10s with my 13bb stack.

A few more folds I shove 88 with 14bbs UTG+2 pretty standard.

Here was a really interesting spot I considered squeezing but changed my mind last second:

3k/6k, 750 ante... I'm in SB with A J

Seat 1: BLAKE39 (102,614)
Seat 2: RAZER2007 (89,464) BUTTON
Seat 3: tedsfishfry (89,469)
Seat 5: DEEEPANL (245,709)
Seat 6: reena97 (53,582)
Seat 7: allinsi (194,622)
Seat 8: U_2Good4_Me (235,540)

allinsi raises to 17,500
U_2Good4_Me calls 17,500
tedsfishfry folds


Folded to me OTB with 70k at 3/6k/750 I shoved KJo next hand with a bit over 82k I shoved A7o got folds both times

Fold an orbit shove OTB with KJs for 84k at same blind level.

Guy got knocked out in a blind battle 6 left gaurenteed 16.8k which means this is my largest online score to date.

Blinds went up to 4k/8k/1000, I shove AQo utg with 90k

Fold a few hands get 77 in the BB CO opens to 3x I shove for 12x bbs at same blind level he calls with AQs 1063J6 board.

UTG opens for 22k with 130k behind I shove with 44 he tanks and folds
next hand utg opens for 3x with 17x behind I fold55.

Button has been getting more active and he opens 3x otb with 21x stack I reshove with Q10s to gain the CL

Not getting much whole tabling shoving a lot with 10-15bbs I am CL with 21bbs I open 99 in CO everyone folds.

Lot's of folding for me still CL with 21bbs not getting much to open and I am not opening lite in these spots

umm lol been on such a high not from drugs last 15minutes forgot to do updates I 500k 3 handed 2nd has 300k other guy has 180k

On break again 434k to 318k and 257k got 40k locked up

I was asked on break whether or not I wanted to chop I said no thank you. I am going to win by coolering one of you, sucking out on the other because I'm running too good today to lose.

KK>1010 a little while later we both had sets/rivered boats too. Then after a grueling HU match I won with j10>KJo AIPF when I had a 4 to 1 CL and he had 9bbs.

Won almost 85k in the tourney that is bigger then my next 4 scores combined!!!

Well, the ALDS really sucked being such a die hard Yankee fan. As soon as I got to Cleveland the bad run continued. The first flight I had booked got canceled so I had to book a non direct flight through philly. My frst flight was about an hour delayed and myself and a few others on that plane were all going to Cleveland. So I figured we would get our luggage. They did I didn't, I headed to the hotel and met up with ray and thayer was a perfect location 2 minutes walking distance from Jacob's Field. We play the nightlys all run bad and my suitcase gets there at like 1am. We getup drive to Adam Junglens house like 30minute away because thats where ray had the tickets shipped and he forgot them there when leaving the day before. We drink a few beers get to the game not sure what to expect being all decked out in Yankee gear. We get to our seats which are upper deck but 2nd row of seats and in between home plate and 3rd base so a great view. Anyways a few Yankee fans are splattered around our section and I notice 2 of the 4guys directly in front of us are Yankee fans while their buddy's aren't. Anyways this one little 4 foot 8 Guido type guy is cheering etc and that's fine but after the first inning home run initially got called off he started saying sit down etc to the cheering Yankee fans. Then the call gets reversed and we cheer and high five some and then he stars saying shit to the guy to his left whose a Yankee fan. They are first row right on the railing no less and the Yankee fan and his brother as we findout later whose an Indians fan almost get into it right there. At this time I am expecting to be hit with beer get into 3 fights and be kicked out before the relievers get in the game.

But, the next 2 games besides the Yanks loosing the Indian fans were quite friendly and got to know a few people seated around us. As always they find our lives so exciting how we travel the world do fun things and basically live life to the fullest. We then headed to Pittsburgh to hangout with Luke who happened to be the guy who busted first hand of WSOP ME with AA to AKs AIPF. It was nicer there then I expected first night in we went to the home opener for the Penguins was a lot of fun, we then headed back and I got my first experience of the new Halo 3 sick sick game can't wait to get my copy of it. We stayed there for a few days played the Sundays then headed to New Jersey to goto Rays house. We were planning on going to Turningstone for the October poker weekend or whatever but I couldn't convince them to get in the car even though I was willing to do the driving. So for now today we are heading to my house for a week I think before I head to Vegas for the Pokerbowl.

I am really looking forward to this tourney have a very strong team featuring; Alex Jacob, Jordan Morgan, Nordberg, Jhub3000, Thayer, and myself. The structure is very similar to WCP so I am excited with this structure that I am familiar with. The event is going to be Televised on Fox Sports Net in the near future so I'll be sure to let you guys know a few days in advance when you want to be sure you are watching our team San Diego Players. Not my choice on location or team name but whatever we are going to win and def have the strongest team in our conference. I'll try not to be so slow on next update always get lazy at end of sessions when I want to write a blog.