My good friend Irieguy organized another sailing trip this year and I just got back a couple days ago. The trip was unreal. We saw some amazing places and had an all around chill and good time.

He put together and amazing trip report on twoplustwo and nothing I could possibly write here could really top that. It is mainly a picture report which I think best communicates what the vacation was all about.

Feel free to ask any questions or leave any comments here that you may have.

THE TR LINK: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/79...4/#post6843048

The OP has most of the pictures but Lacky who also came along posted several others around the 40th post of the thread.

I got back home late last night after a great end to the Europe trip final tabling the EPT high roller event. Not sure when it's going to be on TV in each country but if anyone finds that info out let me know.

It was broadcast live over the internet though which was fun since I was able to call my Mom on break and she was able to watch me play. I showed up a bit late after the dinner break and got a panicked call from her asking where I was since the commentators were apparently remarking how I was late and they were starting without me.

Some random stories from the High roller:

With about 3 or 4 tables left I was in a game with Negreanu, Medic and Jason Mercier who I thought was also Canadian and I made a comment to Jason about how crazy it was that so many Canadians were at this table... he looked confused for a second and then realizing what I meant told me he was actually from Miami but people make that mistake a lot. I asked him if that bothered him that people thought he was Canadian and as he was about to reply Barry G. who was also at the table says, "Damnit I've been playing you like a Canadian this whole time"

I don't think I ever won a PF all in where I had less then 60% equity the whole tournament which is kind of crazy even in a 86 player field but I did super cooler Juanda on the final table bubble which helped me become the chip leader heading into the final table.

I was really surprised at some people's play in this event. Isabelle Mercier played about how I was expecting her to on the bubble (very tight) since I know making the televised final table is a big deal for her but I was shocked at how insanely tightly Scotty Nguyen played the entire way down from two table until his 5th place finish. His play at the final table was just insanely insanely tight. It really changed the whole game, all of us had to play much more cautiously then would usually be correct until he had been eliminated since he hung around with very few chips for a while, winning several all ins including two against me.

Scotty was also his usual jovial self having had quite a few drinks once we were several hours into the tournament. For whatever reason he seemed to take quite a liking to me and kept complimenting me on my table manners to the point of awkward excess. I like Scotty fine, I was just slightly weirded out at how insistent he was at continously saying things like, "You know baby, you are what all young guns should be act like baby" and other less sensical things on that tangent. I kind of felt like he was trying to make up for the H.O.R.S.E final table and asked me several times if I would defend myself if someone started to talk smack to me, which of course I would but I wouldn't exactly relate that hypothetical situation to the H.O.R.S.E fiasco. Anyway it just added some flavor to the whole experience and Scotty overall is a funny likable guy so no big deal.

I played with Barry for while in this event and in the EPT london event and had him covered most of the time but still no book I really really want one now, I think more people should have a similar kind of bounty/trophy/gimmick thing, maybe I should give people some kind of Leggo thing or something? It would have to be awesome though to compete with the book signing.


After I came 4th Tom (durrr) Brian (Chuddo) and my friend Kaitlin and I went out to some Arcade place that had bowling and stuff and then met up with Sorel (Imperium/Zangbezan) and some people at some random club. It was a little tough to find a good spot since it was Monday night but we ended up at a pretty good place that looked busy (can't remember the name right now). We grabbed a table there and Tom remembered that Ivey had recommended earlier we come here and just as he mentioned that Ivey walks up behind us and says hi. Ivey is a huge badass, he was wearing a white t shirt and white shoes, probably the only person in the place who can get away with it and has a couple friends with him that apparently are like his entourage and they are partying with a whole bunch of rando looking model chicks. He leaves talking to us and climbs back over into his booth and orders 5 bottles of Cristal. What a baller. The place ended up being great and it was really fun night and fitting end to the trip.

More stories to come later on this is getting a little long

-Peter Jetten

Poker in Europe is amazing.

I start the day at table 28 seat 2. Or so I thought. I arrive about 30 minutes late to find some other young euro dude playing in my seat. I say, "Ummm I think I'm suppose to be seat 2" and totally casually he turns around and says yeah I know, sorry 'I make mistake'. We get the floor over and it is explained that he sat in the wrong seat to start the day then decided not to tell anyone. I look around and the table is amazing so I offer to take what should have been his seat in 6 since nobody played a hand there anyways and that seems acceptable to the tournament director.

Some hands:

limp, I raise KK OTB to 275 both blinds and limper calls. J-10-5r checked to me I bet 750 or so, BB makes it 2k I call. Turn 8 check check river 5 BB bets 2k again, I think and make it 4200 leaving me with 3k or so. He calls and mucks.


This got me off to a great start at a great table. With Katja Thater on my right I basically get direct position on the donks to her right since an empty seat plays more hands, and the donks were fairly epic.

I busted the guy who took my seat pretty early in the day (that'll show him) and was up to 25k. Lost a couple flips and went back down to 11k or so right before dinner when I play this hand (Yes this was a real hand from an EPT event)

utg open to 850 at 150/300/25 called by limper in hand 1 and by new old man in sb with lots of chips I make it 2700 in BB and all of them call. Funny things about pf: 1. utg has K8o (found out after the hand) 2. The in position caller favors to have a worse hand then K8o 3. The Old man says to me before calling getting that sick price to close the action "Well I guess this is just giving money away"

Flop is 10s9s5h Old guy quickly leads 4k I ship the 7.5k or w/e more fold fold Old man calls. I'm pretty sure he has like some kind of decent draw here after his pf comment and flop play but nope, he's got the ooollllllll red AKo... back up to 25k

I tell Max in our room at dinner I am going to have to stack this guy.

After dinner, folded to Old man in sb (nice guy btw I feel like I'm being harsh on his play so thought I should mention that) he limps, I have Q-10o and make it 1300 more at 3/6/75 he calls. Flop Qh-3c-2c check 3k call. turn Qs check 7k, he thinks a bit and ships it for 20k or so total, I snap he's got the pocket fours and I'm up to 50k.

I lost some decent sized pots at the end of the day to finish at 36,900. I'm a bit disappointed in how I ended up considering the way the day went but very excited for today and happy to be above avg stack. Also I'm glad to be playing live still because the internet is so slow and useless that it is totally unplayable, oh yeah and cost of said internet: 75pounds per week. Day 2 starts in half an hour so I have to go get ready. holla


-Peter

I made it to Day 2 with 50,175 which starts in a few hours. Starting stack was 20k, buyin was 10kGBP. A few friends, Durrr, Raptor, and Mark Radoja (Acespade11) also made day 2.

I don't have time to talk about any hands really since I need to get ready but I will come back and write more later on this week when I have a chance. I started off playing pretty mediocre I thought but by level three was back on my game. I'm really looking forward to today. Blinds start at 300/600 75 and you can follow along at pokernews.com

Munich and Oktoberfest in general was unreal. EM2 made it into Germany and was in fine degen form. Radoja impressed me by matching him step for step. Trip report for that and for the first few days in London to follow.

Wish me luck


Peter Jetten

Disaster

My good friend Blake a.k.a the illest a.k.a Empiremaker2 was supposed to fly in to Toronto on wednesday night and party here for a few days before we both go to Munich on Monday and then on to London for some WSOPe and EPT events.

The Canadian Customs officials had other plans.

He flies in to Toronto and is stopped mere meters from the outside of the airport and held up for hours. They apparently saw his old underage drinking and evading arrest misdemeanors on his record, and even though he never did any jail time and has had them wiped off his record they decided to not let him into the country. They presented him with two pretty terrible options:

1. Go home on the next flight

2. Go to Toronto jail

Since Jail wasn't really what Blake wanted to do in Toronto (they don't serve booze there and there's no women) He had to go home.

Why you wouldn't want a full blown king of degen in your Country is beyond me but I for one know that Canada will be missing Blake this weekend.

We tried to get a hold of various lawyers and even considered trying some type of massive escape where Blake makes a run for it and I pick him and ride to freedom but nothing came to fruition.

We won't be letting this stop us of course as Germany and London are happy to let him in to their countries so we will just meet up there. We are also meeting up with Max and maybe skier and some other poker players. I'm really excited for my first Oktoberfest, I've heard so many insane things about it. Has anyone reading this been before? Any things that I must do or see? Advice?

-Peter

It's the Toronto International Film Festival this week. I haven't made it out to any movies yet but I have been to a few great parties already. Friday I went to Rosewater late night since some bars are open until 4am this week and saw Mats Sundin and some other lesser celebs there. Sadly I didn't get a chance to ask Mats about his Poker stars deal.

Saturday night I was invited by my good friend Emma to the Time Magazine party and another friend, Jim also came. I met a ton of very interesting people including a few producers, a large scale event planner, and someone who operates a private health clinic in Toronto which I had no idea even existed.

We left that party with our gift bags and a giant wheel of cheese (this is a whole separate story) around 1030 or so and headed over to Ultra, a high end bar/club/lounge kinda place on Queen street. I was concerned we may not get in easily but surprisingly we got in very quickly. I overheard the hostess or list keeper or w/e she was say to the bouncer, "We need more guys in here, it's 9 to 1 girls to guys inside right now!" I of course quickly volunteered our services and tried to hide emma behind us which was easy since she is so tiny.

I think that's the first time I have EVER been to a place where it was noticeably easier to get in as a guy. Needless to say the night was incredible.

Apparently tonight is Paris Hilton's party at that same bar which got moved from Saturday so I may have to go out again tonight even though I was planning on taking it easy.

Tough Life.




-Peter

Am I missing something huge here?

Betfair is offering a 550usd sat to win a 24kusd package. This package includes:

Each Betfair $24,000 package includes:

* $20,700 buy-in to the WSOP Europe Main Event
* $3,300 to cover Expenses (to cover accommodation and flights)
* Access to the exclusive Betfair Players Lounge
* A Betfair goody bag
* A prize pool of over £4,000,000
* VIP Ticket collection in Players Lounge


The buyin to the main event is 10,500GBP though which as of today converts to:

Live rates at 2008.09.06 17:33:56 UTC
10,500.00 GBP=18,567.15 USD
United Kingdom Pounds United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.76830 USD 1 USD = 0.565515 GBP

So where is this extra 2k and change going?





It's even worse on Poker Stars. For the high roller SNG sat it is a 20 person 2,000+100usd buyin and the prize pool only pays out one place for the 20kGBP seat. 20kGBP is only 35,365usd !!! So what is PS doing with the other 5k???


I sent an email to Stars and as of yet have had no response. Can someone help with this? I want to play some of the sats!

Just some fun hands from today's session. Was playing 10/20 and 25/50 mostly and ended up breaking even after being up about 20k which sucked a lot.


"Callbox" (Wouldn't convert for some reason)



**** Hand History for Game 7335971834 *****
$5,000 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, August 29, 19:57:23 ET 2008
Table Table 163494 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: after5LEFFE ( $14,574 USD )
Seat 1: tubsdy55222 ( $7,837 USD )
Seat 4: parsh85 ( $5,753 USD )
Seat 2: mofte ( $4,805 USD )
Seat 5: TheBlueFox ( $6,420 USD )
Seat 6: palau777 ( $3,055 USD )
TheBlueFox posts small blind [$25 USD].
palau777 posts big blind [$50 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to tubsdy55222 [ Ts Td ]
tubsdy55222 raises [$175 USD]
mofte folds
after5LEFFE calls [$175 USD]
parsh85 folds
TheBlueFox calls [$150 USD]
palau777 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 2h, As ]
TheBlueFox checks
tubsdy55222 checks
after5LEFFE checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
TheBlueFox checks
tubsdy55222 bets [$350 USD]
after5LEFFE raises [$1,150 USD]
TheBlueFox folds
tubsdy55222 calls [$800 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Js ]
tubsdy55222 checks
after5LEFFE bets [$2,600 USD]
tubsdy55222 calls [$2,600 USD]
after5LEFFE shows [ 6d, 7d ]a pair of Sixes.
tubsdy55222 shows [ Ts, Td ]a pair of Tens.
tubsdy55222 wins $8,070 USD from the main pot with a pair of Tens.



"Classic Bad beat post"

Party Poker, $10/$20 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

UTG: $2,000
MP: $10,126.41
Hero (CO): $2,000
BTN: $2,000
SB: $9,209
BB: $2,030

Pre-Flop: dealt to Hero (CO)
UTG folds, MP raises to $70, Hero raises to $220, 3 folds, MP calls $150

Flop: ($470) (2 Players)
MP checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($470) (2 Players)
MP checks, Hero bets $300, MP raises to $9,906.41 and is All-In, Hero calls $1,480 and is All-In

River: ($4,030) (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $4,030 Pot ($8,129.41 Rake)
MP showed (a flush, Ace high) and LOST (-$6,099.41 NET)
Hero showed (a pair of Queens) and LOST (-$2,000 NET)



"Nice Laydown? " Really not sure about this one... this is the same villian as the first hand and also the last hand posted in this blog.


Party Poker, $25/$50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 3 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): $13,668
BTN: $14,750
SB: $6,669

Pre-Flop: dealt to Hero (BB)
BTN raises to $155, SB folds, Hero calls $105

Flop: ($335) (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $311, Hero calls $311

Turn: ($957) (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $755, Hero calls $755

River: ($2,467) (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $2,333, Hero folds

Results: $2,467 Pot
BTN mucked and WON $4,798 (+$3,577 NET)


"Freeeeee monies"


Party Poker, $25/$50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 3 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN): $12,672
SB: $16,019
BB: $6,394

Pre-Flop: dealt to Hero (BTN)
Hero raises to $150, SB raises to $600, BB folds, Hero calls $450

Flop: ($1,250) (2 Players)
SB bets $800, Hero calls $800

Turn: ($2,850) (2 Players)
SB bets $2,333, Hero calls $2,333

River: ($7,516) (2 Players)
SB bets $4,888, Hero raises to $8,939 and is All-In, SB folds

Results: $17,292 Pot
Hero mucked and WON $21,341 (+$12,720 NET)

A few quick thoughts on the show

There were a few interesting hands that didnt get shown that I was involved in but that is inevitably going to happen. Especially when the biggest douche in poker (Hellmuth) is taking up some of the table time

The hand where Mizrachi and harroch get involved in a 4 way pot where harroch overcalls flop with the Q high flush and eric has nothing and makes trips. He is of course never thinking his hand was good as the commentators were saying. I thought Chad and mccaran were funnier then usual and did an ok job of calling the hands for people who dont play this game but they were so far off on this one its worth noting. Everyone at the table including Michael knew harroch had some non-nut flush after his flop play. The turn is of course no kind of semi bluff or w/e they called it. It was a total bluff and one I thought maaaay have worked (watching the hand I was sure harroch had a flopped flush and pretty sure michael had a bluff but I didnt know what would happen on the turn). When they show me at the end saying to grinder, "I thought you were going to do it" I was kind of trying to needle him into doubt on his check behind to make him play worse later. I actually think he picked up the same tell as I did on the turn on Harroch when he check called which led to him not following through with the bluff on the river. The way they commentate that hand it sounds like grinder thinks his hand might be good which was 100% not the case.

Boy I sure am happy Hellmuth didnt win

Its kind of crazy how they can edit reality tv and make it look like you are doing things faster or different then you actually do them. I knew this already but its especially interesting when you are the person being edited. Example: both cards on the last hand I sweated with my back to the table and came back in between cards but it looks like I only did that for the river.

I can't believe chuddo didnt get a shoutout! This Espn women even asked for his name and all this other info about him via email a few weeks ago when I told her he helped me learn the game.

It was very funny how hard the Croc got trashed. All his crazy antics and stuff didn't bother me much compared to the way some other people act but I can see how most people would find him annoying. He also was stepping it up bigtime for TV which kind of bothers me. That being said I looooove to play with the Croc and I'm coming to aussie this year crocky









This blog post can be used for discussion, comments or any questions people have about the FT or the ESPN show. I will check everything on here faster then anywhere else probably.


-Peter Jetten