Well, I apoligize for the few of you who keep checking back for updates I never felt like I had much good to write about. Had a really bad sickness in San Remo a great Amsterdam trip, then a disappointing day2 after a massive climb of chip stack on day1. I basically been resting up since my 2nd amsterdam trip. I ended up going to AC for their 2k event last weekend but I got shutout in redic gay fashion. The staff there really messed up in how they ran the registration and alternate list for that tourney was a shame looked like a good field to play.

On the poker side of things haven't had much to write about thayer's been kicking my ass in our 5 figure prop bet I was down a whopping 16-10 because I went nearly 5 weeks without a 10k score that wasn't a wsop seat. Earlier this week I played a pot 4 handed for about 80% of the chips in play in a decent 100r ended up losing and getting 4th a little while later which was on the 5figure score bubble. Later that same night I also took down the fulltilt 50/50 for 9555 so again just short. Still a really solid +20k day but I'm always disappointed a bit because theres more money to win and probably a tourney I made a mistake with.

Anyways I went for a few days with doylestown to do some coaching sessions I am quite impressed with his current knowledge and his willpower to improve. I'm doing quite different style coaching with him which is a lot more natural to me then what I used to do on AIM. As is it now I'm prob going to add 1 student every month or two and go through the same stuff I'm doing with him hopefully I can find someone as motivated and with the right about of time to devote to learning and crushing the beast that is online poker.

After that I headed to my fav casino Turningstone. Great staff good tourneys and solid structures unfortunately the field sizes were vastly smaller then I was expecting, but it was nice to see the old staff I used to be friendly with before I got in to online seriously. Been coming here for over 5 years now every so often and each trip improves in quality. I ended up rooming with Aspoker8 and geoffras thayer's younger but cooler little brother. We had a good time I got them addicted to chinese poker and we had a good time even though in all the live events i never even doubled up my starting stack. Still I was happy with my play in the 3 events I played and wouldnt change many hands. I ended up taking sat night off from tourneys and napping which was nice. I wokeup well rested after a nap after my nap and began with the stars Sunday warmup.

We had to change rooms first so I had to miss first 10min of it and once we got situated it was all go. I doubled pretty early then lost my double back to get under starting stack I grinded for a long time never getting anything going. I had under 20bbs for most of the 2nd-3rd hour. It wasn't until the 4th hour and the 2500/5k blinds I started going. I went from 42k in the SB to nearly 325k in less then 10 hands with just 2 showdowns. Thanks victorramdin for the chips. After that I coasted my comfortable stack for most of the way and only got under avg stack once we were down to 11 handed. I made a marginal call with 88 and was shown 10s for CL at the time of the ft bubble. I was down and luckily we had a break I got relaxed and doubled first hand back from break with A10s vs 66 I ran good after that for a while until at the ft 8 handed this setup set my path to gold.

I raise AA utg to 288,888 at 70k/130k blinds after I raised prev hand and stole blinds BB defends and leads a 1032r flop for like 380,000. I raised him to 999,999 and he shoved really quickly for nearly 4million effective. At the time I was 2nd in chips and he was the CL I called quickly and he showed JJ and I held for easily the biggest pot by almost 2x all tounrney. From there I just stole blinds knocked out a shorty or two with the best hand. I got 3 handed we talked chop and I denied it because I was sure I had the skill edge and knowledge to outplay both my oppenants. I got unlucky when the button raised with 30bbs and I 3bet to 10bbs with A10o he shoved quickly and I was getting the right price vs his range so I call and he has AKs and holds vs me for a 12mil pot. For first time since the AA hand I was now not CL and any hand I could bust and lose this huge finaltable. Luckily a few hands later I got the guy covered again and he raised the button with 4mil at 100k/200k and I shoved 44 he called me quickly with Ac10x and the flop was 9 high 3 clubs with no 4 on board I didn't have 4c either. Somehow the board bricked out and now I was hu with almost even stacks at 14mil to 15mil. After a few hands we discussed a chop which the chat was quite hilarious to. My oppenant was quite aggro PF with intiative but redic tight and passive out of position so I was confident I could grind him down but was still willing to discuss a deal. The chat transcript is really funny so here's the better excerpts.

"shaundeeb: I dunno stacks are really deep
shaundeeb: I like my edge
shaundeeb: either accept 78
shaundeeb: or lets play it out
shaundeeb: sorry that your tired
milldollbaby: 74 k or we play..
shaundeeb: play
milldollbaby: then lets play
shaundeeb: unpause support
milldollbaby: gl
HostRandy [Support]: Ok players, I am going to restart. Good luck to both of you.
HostRandy [Support]: Are you ready?
milldollbaby: yah
shaundeeb: yup"

We were 15mil deep at 100/200k blinds hu was over in less then 6 hands I raped him really hard and he just spewed off his stack to me it was great. So ship the 102k score first 6fig yet. I also happened to win another WSOP seat on ftp during this time so it was a great night obv my best by about 40k. Expect some more frequent updates as I may have better news to post about soon since I'm going to win weekly TLB and get atop yearly once and forall.

brad2002tj says

I watched from the final two tables. It was a thing of beauty. Congrats.

05/12/08

lakeoffire says

Good to have u back. Great score, Shaun.

05/14/08

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