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| GG Australia |
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Well, this trip's sucked.
The 5k HU event went poorly (to say the least). I won game 1 (best 2 of 3), and dropped 2 and 3. Pretty much summarizes the trip. I decided to skip the $2k 6max event (going on right now), and just relax.
I fly out on the 21st around 12:30pm (Australian time), and arrive in LA at 7:30am....on the 21st (lol @ time changes). I'm hangin out in LA for a day, then flying back to CLE on the 22nd.
When I get back home, I'll be pretty busy. I get the key to my new place on the 31st, and haven't bought any furniture yet - so I'll have to get that done. I also have a lot of work to do on the PokerVT. I need to finish up some instructional video's (Most notably is the Sunday Million win), as well as fly out to Vegas to do some work in the studio. The site is on schedule to go live this spring, and I'm very excited to be apart of it.
-Adam
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| Frustrating Day |
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Day 2 of the Aussie Millions Main Event ended up being an extremely frustrating day of poker.
I didn’t play any particular large pots, just lost every single small pot. Every continuation bet raised, my sole 3-bet pf of the day was 4-bet on (folded 99, shown QQ), etc. I just couldn’t get anything going, or catch a break. I dwindled down from 60k to 20k, then during the third level of the day (600/1200/200) I got my stack in with a 7 high flush draw vs. durrr’s king high flush draw to bust out.
Bleh, so much for that.
There’s still the $5k Heads up tournament I’m playing tomorrow (Day 1B), and if I don’t make the finals I’ll probably play the $2k shorthanded too. Hopefully I can salvage a cash and not whiff the Aussie Series. Ugh.
Still have some good friends doing well in the main event, and having a good time overall.
-Adam
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| Aussie Millions Day 1 |
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Just a quick note from Australia.
Ended day 1 with 60.4k. High point being near 90k, but spewed some off/ran kinda crappy during the last level. I ended day 1 last year with around 40k, so I'm feeling good about my chances. I'm on a nice little run in these major events - this being my 4th consecutive day 2, all of which I've been able to build stacks in.
I continue tomorrow (I believe 7:30pm EST), blinds will be 400/800/100, average stack being around 45k. We'll likely play down to the money. For a number of reasons, some more obvious than others, I'd really like to go deep in this one. It's going to be the last major I play for awhile, and it was also the first major event I'd ever cashed in. Besides WSOPE, this is probably the biggest event an < 21 year old can win, as far as prestige and such. Pretty much whoever wins becomes the Poker icon of the continent for the year.
Well, that's it from Australia.
-Adam
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| Good Times in Australia |
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Lots of funny anecdotes coming from Australia the last few days.
Guess I’ll start with my roommates antics. Jeff played the $100k buyin tournament here, and with 7 left, (5 paid), and a 1st place finish worth over $1.2mil he was holding the chiplead and playing great. Through an extremely unfortunate turn of events, Jeff ended up busting out in 7th, despite playing great, and not making any clear mistakes.
Well, I haven’t decided if it was a good thing or not, but I wasn’t in the room when he got back from the tournament area. I was hanging out with some friends and came back a few hours after reading that Jeff had went apeshit on the room. So, I walked in, noticed a hole in the wall, a cracked television, and Jeff trying to restore a painting that he’d knocked off the wall.
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| Quick and Painless |
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Today I played my first event here in Melbourne, a $1,500 event - and it was quick and painless, which was just fine by me.
I ended up getting QQ vs my friend Carl's (colson10) AK AIPF for a around 9,500 at 50/100. EP opened for 300, Carl made it 900 from MP, I picked up QQ in the BB. I normally would've taken a bit more time, but there was a max of 20 seconds to act on your hand. I probably gave away my hand when they started counting down the clock briefly after I mentally counted down my stack to decide how I wanted to play my hand. I came to the conclusion shoving couldn't be bad, so I shoved, Carl made the call with AK and I lost the race.
No biggie, I'd much rather lose a race early in the tournament, than get semi-deep and bust out after several hours. The 20-second clock was annoying though.
Besides the tournament, I've hung out at an FTP party, and just spent some time with a lot of poker friends I haven't seen in a long time.
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| Finally at the Crown |
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After 20+ hours of either being in an airport, or in the air, I've finally made it to the Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia.
Several of my good friends have already put up some good results in the prelim's, including a chop in the $1k by Timex (I believe he won around $110k), and gobboboy won the $500 Stud/Stud8/Razz event for around $15k.
Congratulations to both.
At the moment I'm registered for the $1,500 event (tomorrow) and the $10k Main Event. There's a few other prelim's in between, I'll be sure to let you guys know if I play any of the other one's. I think I might get some cash sessions in as well.
That's about all I've got for now - it's great to be back in Melbourne.
-Adam Junglen
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| 2007 Ends on a Good Note |
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It could’ve been a better Sunday, but I certainly can’t complain.
Just skimming through my blog I really haven’t played much online poker the last few months. Most of the entries past September (WSOPE) are just about how I got into poker, and my life away from poker. I’ve played a few Sundays and cash sessions, but not anywhere close to the volume I did earlier this year.
Well, as I mentioned in my previous post, I did play the Sunday major’s. I wanted to get in the poker mindset to prepare for Australia, plus it was the $1k Sunday Million. I ended up playing the 2:30PM EST $5k, 20 man (2 tables), winner-take-all tournament on Stars, and that ended up being the highlight of my day.
When we were 3 handed we agreed on a chop. With 100k in the prize pool, you have to leave 25k to the winner, so with 3 left (ADZ124, Dariominieri, and myself) we agreed on splitting the remaining 75k based on chip count.
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| Just Chillin’ |
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Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I feel somewhat obligated to update since it’s been so long since my last post.
I had a nice Christmas, spending time with my growing family. I’ve also been spending time with my friends that are home from school for the holidays.
I plan on playing the Sunday majors unless something big comes up. It’s the quarterly $1k Sunday Million, meaning a better structure and much larger first place. I’d also like to get some play in before the Aussie Millions. Speaking of which, I’ll be flying to LA with my good friend Ryan on the 6th, be staying over at his place for the night, and then I’ll be catching the FTP flight from LAX to Melbourne around 11pm on the 7th. I know I’ve said it before, but I’m really looking forward to finally playing some live tournaments.
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas, and has a great New Year.
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| Well That Sucked |
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The most recent batch of Sunday tourney’s was pretty sick. UB had their UBOC final, a $1k with a 750k guarantee, and FTP had their monthly million guarantee ($535 buyin). That’s in addition to the standard PS Sunday Million, 2nd chance/mulligan’s, 100r’s, etc.
Well, it simply wasn’t my day. The tournament I went the deepest in was the Bodog $109 30k guarantee. I took 19th (ITM). Funny side note, I ran into AA (in an AIPF situation) FIVE times during this tournament. I cracked them once, but I’m not going to win a tournament anytime soon if I’m running into AA each time I resteal.
Well, I’m not going to continue explaining every single cooler/bad beat I encountered over the course of the day, but needless to say it was an extremely frustrating session.
The weather here in Ohio is really starting to get crappy. I hate the snow, it’s all the more reason to head to Melbourne in January, where it’s nice and sunny.
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| Good Times to Come |
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Hey guys,
My new blog is up at my main site: AdamJunglen.com, so I forgot to cross-post here. Anyways, here's my latest post:
"I really haven’t been doing anything too productive lately. I need to finish some paper work and other end of the year errands, but besides that I’m mostly just looking forward to the Aussie Millions.
It’ll be really nice to finally play some live tournaments again. If you can’t tell by now, I definitely enjoy playing live more than online. I plan on playing a few of the preliminary events, and am really looking forward to the main event. I also really enjoyed my time in Melbourne when I visited last year. It’s one of my favorite cities and I’m looking forward to having a lot of fun away from the tables, as well.
After the Aussie Millions, in February I’ll be moving out. I found a nice, brand new, “Apartment Home,” that’s close to home.
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