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.

Well it's been nice being back home for a whopping 3 days, and now I am leaving again. I am heading to Cleveland to watch the Yankees dominate the Indians in the ALDS. Heading down there with fellow wafflecrushers thayer and exitonly(ray). I am unsure of what I am going to do after that prob play sundays at someones house maybe actually hit a big score. I plan on going to the Canterbury classic coming up and then Niagara after that. I really see the difference way more now being back home after being away. After college I felt like I saw different things but traveling around Europe you see how the other half lives. I am intrigued to travel more the next few years as exploring different countries is something I enjoy.

I am picking up a lot of students this week for this month. I expect to have 15-20 when it's all said and done. I love coaching and it's something that as I improve at doing it will help me understand my thought process from the basics better then prior. Also, it's great to know when you are the key component to someone being successful helps the ego etc esp if I am running bad I know my concepts and game plan will work longterm because it's working for others. I have maybe 2-3 spots left for anyone interesting to PM me here or something to discuss not sure on this sites policy yet since I am so new.

My trucks been stranded in Boston since Barcelona and I really hate not having it in NY. I been stuck driving my sisters piece of shit sonata while she's at school since that's the only free car. I tried not to use it because I didn't trust it last night oh how I found out why. I was driving doing a few hello/goodbyes before leaving again and then the radio starts shutting on and off. Seems like no big deal no one drives the car the battery just needs to get rejuiced driving around. I proceed to drive another half mile then the whole dashboard goes off no speedometer no nothing. Car stars jerking really badly I pull into a firehouse call my dad say come pick me up this car sucks. He says try to drive it home and hands the phone to a cousin of mine whose a mechanic as the lights shutoff. As I am describing what's wrong I stop at a red light at one of the busiest intersections in the area and try to accelerate and nothing. Sighhhh luckily it was from the steeper side and I rolled my way down to a stop on the other side of the intersection. Had like 3 diff state troopers stop and do different things while I was waiting for AAA. Luckily when I get back from this expedition I'll have my truck back in town.

Well I happened to goto bet and wakeup about 6 hours later then any other day this past month which at the time I had no clue it would be so beneficially for me to be on such a later schedule.\par
I head over to the gobbo suite since they get wireless and schaefers and mine room doesn't. Jeff finds some some really nice restaurant in London for us to goto they keep telling me it has 2 michelean stars I have never heard of it before but they were talking about it like it was amazing since it had 2 so I guess it's a really small grading scale. We don't even know what style of food it is but decide to go there anyway. Schaefer ends up not wanting so go so it ends up being just Actionjeff, skier, gobbo, rainkhan, boostedj, and myself. We go downstairs for some drinks as our reservation was for 9. We clean out the bar we are at inside the hotel in about 3 minutes sit down enjoy a pint of stella which has grown upon me since coming here and is def my favorite draft beer.

Boosted was going to meet up with us at the restaurant named the Imperial for anyone who is in london looking for a solid but expensive meal. So that leaves the 5 of us not so tiny guys. We flag down a cab the guy says we can all fit in one cab so we try it. For those not familiar with the black cabs in London they are like 200k US for the rolls royce. They have 2 seats way back and 2 jumper style seats against the back of the drivers area. We figure it's best to have 1 in between the jumper seats and unfortunately that ends up to be me. So I flying around the cab as he takes turns my legs are killing me from uncomfortableness. Luckily it was a short ride and we arrive and we laugh at how under dressed we are compared to everyone else at the place whose in suits with ties. While we have semi casual dress shirts and Khan is in pokerstars gear. Food was much better then I am used to and def the fanciest/nicest place I've been to. We have a good meal gobbo isn't feeling too good so just him and myself head back to the hotel.

As we are heading to his room we run into schaefer whose with empire2000, martine23, bushman, and mrsmokey. I hangout down there for a bit with them as they finish up a few worldseries episodes.then we go up stairs for a bit and talking about long sessions grinding etc. Somehow we start talking about if he could do a marathon session right now etc and then after a few moments it turns into a challenge between him and myself. Since he's a much much better player then me we had to find someway to even it out.

I bring up a grinding 180s challenge and he accepts and after 10-15 minutes of negotiating we decide to use a points system for scoring each 180, We only get anything if w get top 8 or better in any 180man that runs during our session time. We broke down the scoring as the following;. 8th:2pts 7th:4pts 6th:6pts 5th:9pts 4th:12pts 3rd:15pts 2nd:20pts 1st:30pts. Smokey wanted to have 1st even more heavy but I said no I liked the current scoring. We started playing around 12 London time, just start firing up every 180 man we both can. After like 45minutes to an hour we are both 10+ tabling and move to the lobby area of the hotel. This ended up being a bad idea where we were seated all the people entering the revolving door could see how many tables we were on and many drunks stumbling in then would feel the need to strike up a conversation with us about whatever they felt like talking about. I was getting quite annoyed at the time.

I run pretty decent and get a win and a 2nd under my belt pretty quickly and smokey just kept making final tables. He was not getting many top 3s at the time and was watching a few of his final tables and damn was he running bad. Soo many times he has top set gets it in loses in huge pots every one he was deep in. I felt very confident at this time but little did I know how bad of a streak was coming for me. It prob was around 8 or 9 am now I was getting a bit tired being up for 18 hours and usually going to bed by now. I fight thought it and am slightly behind him at this time but it's close like 50 to 84 or something. He decides to goto Nobu with some of his buddys and stops registering at like 9 so he can leave at 11. He gets back around 12 12:30, after taking a 15minute power nap asks me how I've done and I say no finaltables in a while still same pts. I can tell he's feeling super confident I try not to let him know that only like 4-5 per hour total ran as opposed to the 15-20 that he had in the beginning of the bet. I was later told that I had a 50 180 tourney streak in this timespan of not making a final table quite redic considering most of them were 4/180s and 11 turbos. 20/180s weren't running at these off hours for US players.

By this time of the day people are waking up and seeing us just posted where they last saw us when they went to sleep. I keep registering along at this point I hadn't missed one 180 that has run off during the span of the bet even played a 55/45man speed by accident and final tabled it, which sucked cuz I saw the lobby was like cool another fina ltable studied the stacks and was like wow there must be someone whose huge but I keep looking at each name then mine and then the others and no one has over 20k. Sigh I didn't know it didn't count for the bet. I start to get a bunch of stacks in a lot of 4/180s over the next few hours. I think the only words I said for 4 hours were the frequent I am cl in so and so tourney. CL going to final table etc. If I wasn't so lazy and keep track of final tables when I went to them like 16 or so in total for the bet I had CL in over 10 of them which is quite the amazing defeat. I didn't even have that many 10-12ths either during that span only in the early part of the bet. During this time smokey doesn't seem to be able to get anything going tourneys are starting to pickup in volume this is where I felt like I would gain the most edge when we got 20+ we didn't get there as often as I expected but I should of known better with the turbos you bust in them so much faster so getting to 25+ tables won't happen often or for a long period.

I keep making final tables and was getting HU in all of the final tables I made like 6 or 7 in a row losing 2 of the HUs on really standard hands. I had 3 diff opp HU vs me just open shove every other hand for 40bbs over my limps and in the SB. I just laughed and waited for a strong hand to call. I did with 10s and lost to KJs. If you are playing HU over 20bbs please don't openshove whatever you do theres my poker advice for this blog entry. I keep winning 180s seemed like 1 an hour for the last few hours smokey can't get anything I start getting more relaxing knowing I am like a 90% favorite at this time for the bet. I win 2 or 3 more while some of the guys hanging out playing head to nobu for the 2nd time that day. I stay and grind and decide to quit registering for 180s 2 hours prior to the deadline we set for the bet. I was getting tired and once I was sure I had it won I just wanted to go sleep since I had such an early flight out. Sadly for me I didn't get that wish and played for another 2 hours longer since the final 2 180s I had a 4 and a 20 I ended up final tabling both. I should of played them seriously to try to have a 9 or 10 wins day for 180s because if I set the record that high no one would ever touch it. At 7 I think someone could possibly beat it. Also for no own minraising is called clickraising some drunk scandy explained to us what clickraising was when he was wasted and we had no clue what he meant. And then he was like see the raise button click it that's a click raise. So I played the must clickraise at every chance game at my 4/180 final table blowing my CL to go out 7th or something. Mess around a bit at the 20 final table to bust too and then went to sleep for a few hours to get up for my flight home.

Smokey said he wanted a rematch at some point with a very similar bet but better planed. Since I think I understand 180 players better then anyone I def will take him up on this bet if it's better planned and not just a let's play a redic long session bet 5k so it's worthwhile to sit in a lobby having to run upstairs to piss in between hands and getting very bad service from the staff for drinks and food every 3 hours when someone who decide to come around.


stats according to sharkscope

180s since yesterday.

Both played 172(which is so odd as we were regestering for different hours when I knew I had it locked up and when he went to eat)

Shaun Deeb: ROI 160%, Total profit: $1651
Mrsmokey1: ROI 46%, Total profit: $ 310

I won 7 (2 $12, 5 $4)

I should of went for 9 wins also played 1 none 180 by accident a 55/54man and finaltabled that lol.

This has been another odd trip back to London. The things that I expected to workout have all failed miserably and anything I didn't expect to work did. I went on the Stars booze cruise two nights ago had a good time met a few stars staff and they were a lot of fun to talk to. I also talked to Lee Jones about getting in for the tourney the next day on W$. He went out of his way at the party and later on when he got home to try to get us in even though he easily could of just been like nah too late try again. So andy and myself are scrambling to find 20k W$ by the morning. We find a bunch and then send an e-mail to lee about it and then meet him outside the casino at noon. We get there and unfortunately he says theres nothing he can do it is impossible to wire money to the casino in time. Anyways I just had enough cash to buyin andy boostedj and myself and lee was able to buy the other guy in who he was trying to get in with a spare seat from rainkhan. So I decide to play the same day as I was anxious to play and just get a stack going.

My first table was very very soft, Just from outward appearances I thought 3 people were going to be good. I couldn't of been more wrong the one guy I was worried most about was the worst player at the table one of the other guys was really nitty unless it was an ace high board then he never folds the flop. And the other I find out later to be kaibuxxe a sick sick plo player but someone who a 10k buy in means nothing to him. So he was playing bad and having fun. I chip up to 26k from 10k starting stack first 2 hours with only 1 showdown over a 1k pot. I loved my table and knew it was the easiest one that will ever exist in the whole tourney. I chip down with JJ to the nitty guys AA on a 9 high board he raised utg I flatted and he bet 1k on the flop turn and river and I called him down. Another quite player dependent hand was 4 limper's to my BB completely standard at our table I have j8o I check flops j52 with 2 hears kaibuxxe is last to act and nearly always fires when checked to. He checks behind for first time ever. Turn is an offsuit8, I go for another c/r saying no way he or someone else will bet no one does. Rivers a 6 making the final board j5286, I bet 400 into 600 pot the nitty guy calls and kaibuxxe over calls. I table my J8 proudly and go to scoop the pot. But then kaibuxxe shows 74 and then the other guy rolls over his 34. I just laugh at both of them for playing so bad. Anyways my tables breaks and it stars a redic amount of table breaks. I had 8 in total was never at a table for a full level for the rest of the tourney.

Not many interesting hands from the future tables had a questionable float turned flush draw that I shoved on a guy who turned top 2 and I didn't get there. Chip back up to 20k squeezing a lot not getting good spots to open though. Move to my final table have like 20k its level 7 about halfway through blinds are 2/4 with an ante. I open 55 utg+1 guy calls sb shoves for 6k after tanking I was going to iso was so sure he was weak then the BB cold calls and I turbo muck. His QQ beats the SBs 55. Next hand I find red aces make it same 1100 middle aged guy in LP makes it 4100 I call with like 13k behind and check shove on the 882 2club board for like double his flop bet. He calls with 99 has a club gets 2 more on turn and river. Would of been 2x avg sigh.

Also this was THE WORST RUN TOURNEY EVERY. The seating movements were by paper and the dealers didn't even collect them if I saw a bad table I easily could of just went to a different open seat. They had no racks when moving players chips I had to recruit people around me to carry my chips with me. Also, they had the bright idea to not give a dinner break and serve food at the tables, so while others and myself were in big hands we occasionally got bugged by a server or something asking us if we wanted something nothing more annoying then being in a huge hand and getting bugged by some random server. Add to the fact only 1 of them was even attractive. Then when dinner came they served it randomly it was shitty, and then as soon as we were done with dinner we had a 30minute break wtfff. Anyways I really was turned off by just how badly the local staff were it's a shame the people doing things from stars were going above and beyond the call of duty while the locals treated it as if it was a freeroll. Such a joke.