Well I had a pretty sleepy 13 hours worth of flights to get over there wasn't so bad Im kind of getting used to this whole pond hopping traveling. Getting a few tricks of the trade down as I am no small man and getting comfortable in such small spaces for long times can be tough. Anyways I get to the hotel pretty easily try to check in need to wait a few hours. Hangout in the lobby with the wireless until timex happens to walk buy we chat for a bit I can check in now since he just did it and we end up near each other and get some breakfast.

Food was decent could tell on a hangover it would taste delicious. We hangout the hotel for a bit meeting up with skier_5 . We head to the stars welcome party and a few of the staff I hung out with in Barcelona/London are there really fun to drink with as stars employees know how to let loose and have a great time. We head to the darling caberet after meeting up with jovial gent and bikocruz at the party. Dances sucked It was getting to be about 10pm Local time which is 4 eastern. Biko, Gent, and myself head back to the hotel to attempt to play the mil. We miss it by a few minutes I reg for a bunch of things which some didn't pop up to the front so I was sitting out for a bit in the 215hu on stars. I finally remembered about it a few minutes after it started see I have been blinded down a bit card rack it up before sucking out on an overpair with top pair. During this break I head to bbbb and some #s room to hangout and grind sundays we end up getting hu in the 215 hu on the money bubble where he owns me when my 22 can't beat his AA AIPF, anyways do shitty in all the tourneys end up stopping at like 5am get some sleep before my ept starts in like 5 hours. Get my seating assignment table looks very weak I am quite happy. I recognize seat 10 as a decent player with solid results later find out its mark karam a fellow lebanese guy we chat for a bit he def ran the table I was a bit card dead to play back at him early but we both were chipping up well.

I got up to 15k before first break on some hands I can't recall lose a lot of my stack hero calling a guy who had it and 3barreling mark on a dry board thinking he'd put me on top 2. First hand back from break a really weak player opens in MP I flat OTB J9s like 60bbs deep 9 high flop he bets like 700 into 1200 I call turn 9x he bets 3500 I shove for less then a minraise he snapcalls with KK and almost cried when he saw he wasn't ahead. I chip up some more valuetowning mark when he raises Co which is almost any2 I call in SB with QJo like 15k deep at 100/200. flops 987 with a fd I have the bd with my Q. he bets 1k into 2k I call turns 10x check check river blank I c/r his 1k to 4500. I think this hand is very interesting I know by his turn check he has a pretty marginal hand but he likes the bet/check/bet line a lot and will bluff sometimes on this river. Also he likes to make hero calls on the river a lot because he is a table captain who is lag and always thinks people are bluffing him whenever he can't have the nuts. Anyways I am up to like 30k now from the 10k starting stack a french female who c/folds in wayyy too many spots with intiative raises in EP to 1k at 150/300 I call OTB with K10s we have like 22k effective BB calls with 6k stack. flopds Qx 10c 7c she bets 2k I float knowing I am prob behind now but 20 turn cards I win the pot. BB folds turn is a pretty Kc she bets like 5500 with 12k behind I shove pretty quickly she tanks and tanks I am getting more confident each second thinking she has Ac and some pair or another ace with it and thinks shes getting the right price. Eventually she calls and tables 1010 :(. I don't hit a sick 2 outer in a huge pot. Get short double up limpshoving 10s utg getting called by the BB with 8s. I got a bit sick when the doorcard was an 8 but it was followed up by a 10. I was upto like 15k now starting to loosen up as blinds get bigger and end of day approaches. I open 78s in EP to 1025 folded to mark in the BB who goes to reraise 2k but decides to throw a 500 chip out there as well making it 3525, I immediately take that as weakness and instashove knowing that even if called I have a great hand vs his range equity wise. He says ugh I have to call and tables AKo. I am not too saddened by this flop is AcKc6x looking not so bad turn 4x yahhh more outs river blank and I milk a micro stack for 7 orbits before busting.

I also played a 2k Euro side event a few days after,

As I was walking up to my table I see annette_15 sitting there I know this will end up being an interesting table with some wild PF play and solid poker thereafter. Little did I know 2 such well known online players wouldn't even be in the top 5 of most aggro players at the table. I notice this quickly how fast everyones playing and decide to nit it up until I get something to play back at them. I find what I need a few hands later,

The guy to my immediate right goes to raise to 200 at 25/50 (7k starting stacks 40min blinds this is 2nd level) but as hes doing that the young kid to his right goes to raise to 200 so the guy opts to call after contemplating 3 betting for a few seconds. I find KK and make it 1k to go a few folds first raiser basically instashoves I recheck to make sure I have KK and call quickly he has AKs and I hold. Win a few more pots get to about 22k when we go on break. I talk to a friend of mine Nicolas levi who is talking to this big scandy guy I findout is konsgaurd. We chat for a bit and Im telling Nicolas about how aggro our table is and that konsgaurd would know who they are findout one is a 100/200 nl player sick guy and he has a 6k USD last longer with him for this tourney. I tuck that away and he tells me 200euro bounty on his head as well. So I play a few pots he limps utg with his 19k stack at 100/200 no antee I cover and overlimp otb with 78ss blinds both suck and they check. J54 flop with a spade he bets 600 when checked too I call. turns 10s he bets 2k into 2k I am like whatever he needs a set to call me with his last longer and he doesn't know I know about it yet. He calls after 15 seconds with bot set. I get there on the river and get upto over 40k. I cooler some more people own an old guy who was really bad he limps utg which means a lot of hands few others limp I complete J8dd in sb. J97 flop 1 diamond. Checked to old guy he bets 1k into 1200 I call I am quite sure now he has a huge hand because everyother time he would bet 500 500 500 on every street with marginal hands and would bet same amount on turn and river with a boart. Turn is a low blank he bets 2k when I check to him with 9k behind I cover by lots. I decide to call cuz he will pay me off when I improve. River 10x I openshove for a bit overpot he beats me into the pot with AA lol. I get upto about 50k. Win a few more small pots before antes kick into play. At one point before the antees I had the whole table covered by like 5-10k I didn't think that would ever happen in a none rebuy tourney.

Anyways the table breaks I get moved to a table feturing Jovial gent and a bunch of 20 something scandys def going to be a tough table. I win a pot when really laggy bad guy makes it 850 in CO at 200/400/50 jovial makes it 2550 otb I make it 7k with like 25k effective behind with AKo jovial tanks for like a minute before folding he def wanted to shove knowing I could be and prob was close to 4betting any2 there. Table is redic nutty people going wild one PLO guy who really sucks at NLH tourneys opening any ace in any spot and who knows what else garbage. He gets a big stack blows it on hero calls ends up getting down to 12k at 300/600 raises utg+1 which means nothing I find AKo in sb 3bet him to like 4600 he shoves I snapcall he has KK sigh. I raise/fold KJo in CO to his same button before he shoves like 45bbs effective in the BB I fold and he shows AJo. He's really spewy. Anyways he opens utg a little while later to 1700 after just raising utg+1 which means like 40% of hands another bad player calls and a really active 3bettor also calls in CO It's a great spot to squeeze I find K9s and make it 6k to go with 30k behind. Folded to PLO guy who shoves after he says alright let's gamble stands up and shoves. It's like 20k more to call in a 37k pot. A few hands prior the first flatcaller in this hand who was awful had said the same thing in a BvB spot vs a young scandy who raise/4bet in the SB and called the awful guys reshove with k10o and was shown KK after he made that comment. The kid to the right of me said wow what did you think he was making a move after that comment? Goes on to say how obv it was because of that comment the guy had it. The plo guy was listening to this and since he said that I was 100% sure he was super weak and reading me for a squeeze and I prob gave off some live tells of weakness as well. So I call getting close to 2 to 1 and show my K9s hes shocked that hes ahead with A8o. My read was right my call was right just wish I chose a diff 3bet size. I flop overs and a gutshot to his pair of 8s but never get there. I bust shortly after pushbotting for a few orbits.

Sorry for the blurr and long paragraphs so hard to do live poker writeups and include the important details.

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

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.