It's currently 6:30 AM EST. I got up about 45 minutes ago. Big day today!

5:45 - 8:15 AM -- Study for the 2 finals and 1 ten minute performance piece that I have memorized
9 AM - Final 1
12 PM - Final 2
2 PM - Final 3
4:15 PM - Go to airport in car
6 PM - Take flight from Greensboro to Charlotte to Vegas. While on flight finish writing paper which is due on Saturday.
12 AM EST / 9 PM PST - Arrive in Las Vegas and go to party
?? AM EST / ?? AM PST - Party it up like Kenny Powers (minus the E)!

It happened! Three blog posts in one day!

I decided that I would play HU because only one person could hit the nuts all the time



Hero (BB): $11209.00
BTN/SB: $6529.00

Pre Flop: ($75.00) Hero is BB with A K
BTN/SB raises to $150, Hero raises to $550, BTN/SB calls $400

Flop: ($1100.00) K 9 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $500.00, BTN/SB raises to $1295, Hero raises to $2150, BTN/SB raises to $5954, Hero calls $3804

Turn: ($13008.00) 3 (2 players)

River: ($13008.00) 3 (2 players)

Final Pot: $13008.00
BTN/SB shows 9 9
BTN/SB wins $13007.00
(Rake: $1.00)




Hero (BTN/SB): $12915.00
BB: $4828.00

Pre Flop: ($75.00) Hero is BTN/SB with K A
Hero raises to $150, BB raises to $475, Hero raises to $1150, BB raises to $4778, Hero calls $3628

Flop: ($9556.00) 5 9 3 (2 players)

Turn: ($9556.00) 6 (2 players)

River: ($9556.00) T (2 players)

Final Pot: $9556.00
BB shows 6 5
BB wins $9555.00
(Rake: $1.00)



Hero (BB): $7931.00
BTN/SB: $9799.00

Pre Flop: ($75.00) Hero is BB with 6 8
BTN/SB raises to $150, Hero calls $100

Flop: ($300.00) 2 J 6 (2 players)
Hero bets $200.00, BTN/SB raises to $600, Hero raises to $1850, BTN/SB calls $1250

Turn: ($4000.00) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets $2700.00, Hero raises to $5881, BTN/SB calls $3181

River: ($15762.00) 4 (2 players)

Final Pot: $15762.00
Hero shows 6 8
BTN/SB shows 7 5
BTN/SB wins $15761.00
(Rake: $1.00)

OK now I am done for the day

Two blog posts in a single day -- and both before noon? And a challenge re: current rap music? (And a series of 5/10 FTP ante/deep tables coming out?)

Vitas has $10 of mine because the Lakers outlasted the Cavs, but god damn it I will have redemption!


Jay-Z just KILLS this song.


I really like Jadakiss, as do all rap fans from the New York area.

Had a couple rough sessions today. It is annoying when everyone always makes the nuts vs you. It is further annoying when it is the same person. It is further annoying that, when people do not have the nuts against you, and you get all in as a significant favorite, you lose the hand regardless.

School tomorrow, packing up my apartment mon-wed, finals wed/thurs, vegas thurs, leggo party thurs, main event sunday.

I'm probably going to take the week off from poker and accomplish things with my life

I was making a video today and played this hand without even realizing this actually happened (ie what I had) until I was randomly reviewing hands at the end of the day:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $10.00 BB (4 handed)

saw flop | saw showdown

BB ($2418)
UTG ($2452.05)
Hero (Button) ($4595.60)
SB ($1264.90)

Preflop: Hero is Button with K, 9
1 fold, Hero bets $30, SB calls $25, BB calls $20

Flop: ($96) 8, 5, J (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets $60, SB calls $60, 1 fold

Turn: ($216) 10 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $160, SB raises to $1173.40 (All-In), Hero calls $1013.40

River: ($2562.80) K (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $2562.80 | Rake: $2

Results:
Hero had K, 9 (one pair, Kings).
SB had 9, Q (straight, King high).
Outcome: SB won $2560.80

I thought we split when he got lucky and hit the king. >.<


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But I made 21 buyins playing the 5/10 ante despite clicking all in randomly.

Stolen directly from Scooot's blog:

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Goes to the only page you need

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This is the funniest poker blog on the internet. I know there are a few people that pimp their friends' blogs as the funniest, but this is actually the funniest . Go read all the entries and then tell him to post more!


http://www.leggopoker.com/blogs/K_Man42/

Now you wanna run around and talk about guns like I ain't got none; what you think I sold 'em all?

Hit Platinum Star this month, woo. Continue to extract dollars from everyone else. Over 60 worth. Whatever. Let's talk about Vegas!

So I busted my perfect attendance record by taking last Friday off and going out to Vegas. I got in around 1 and was picked up by Craig at the airport. Our house was only like 5 minutes away. Living in the house at the time was Craig, Derek (5/10 10/20 player), Ryan (Fees), and Reid (shootaa). Gordo was there but had gone home because he became incredibly sick.

Also visiting for the weekend was our friend from school, Dana, and two of her friends, Stef and Ani. We had met Ani last year. Anyway, on Friday night the girls bake me a birthday cake, and Derek cooks this ridiculously good dinner. He made Tbones, Halibut, Tuna, and Swordfish, while creating a red pepper sauce made from scratch and cooking up some corn on the cob as well as asparagus. Side note: he asked me like five times if I liked brussel sprouts, and I thought that was a funny enough oddity to mention. <3 Derek!

We also had six bottles of wine which we wound up demolishing. It was funny because all the guys in the house were doing the cooking -- Reid was assisting Derek, I was creating some appetizers, and Craig was running around setting things up like the grill and the table. I joked about it and the girls said they would clean up, which we instantly agreed upon.

Here is a candid camera shot of Craig and myself:



So we ate the dinner and then we had cake:





After dinner we had some drinks and made our way out to Jet at the mirage. Last year we went there, but two of the three rooms were closed. This time, I had reserved a table in the best spot in the club, and all three rooms were going to be open, so the stage was set for a pretty good time.

We needed to take two cab rides over there, and myself, Reid, and Derek were in the second one. Our cab driver was a self proclaimed low stakes live grinder who came over to Las Vegas years ago to be a consultant for MGM and now just drives cabs(?). I actually recorded five minutes of the conversation because it was the funniest thing in the world, and he was egged on when we would erupt in laughter at the ridiculous things he was saying. Let me see if I can get some good quotes:

He says "I can tell a lot about a poker player by the way he plays his middle pocket pairs." Derek asks what he would do "pocket eights under the gun" and the guy replies "in early position I just fold." But, right as he says "fold," Derek goes "shove?" and Reid and I burst out in laughter. Derek then goes on to explain that you would have to fold pocket tens against an EP shove, so shoving eights is good there.

The guy (remember that all of this conversation is unprovoked and we literally did not bring up poker and he hasn't asked us anything about it yet) starts ripping online players (standard) and then asks us if we play at all. We all answer simultaneously -- I say no, Reid says yes, and Derek says a little.

The guy talks about how he stacked someone when he flopped quad sixes and "checked them fuckers all the way." Reid asks, "So the turn was an Ace?" The guy then tells the story again and Reid goes "Yea I guess it balances well for the times you have pocket eights and don't want to bet." The guy pauses for a second, says "What?" and then continues on, ignoring Reid's comment. Eventually, we made it to the club.

We wound up taking a lot of pictures, but this was the only one I could find with the whole group. I made sure the girls didn't mind if I posted it (Ryan didn't come out because he was sick and had woken up at like 8:30 PM):


I don't know if you can tell, but at this point I am being held up by the others in the picture .

I met up with a friend of mine from my freshmen year at Wake as well. She moved to Colorado University after my freshmen year to play soccer, so this was the first time I saw her in like three years.

We were all hanging out at our table, and all the sudden I hear "Greg!" It was Jay! He happened to be at Jet as well with some of his Australian friends (they had a table elsewhere, in the hip hop room, which was actually very cool). After coming up and hanging out for a bit, I went back with Jay to hang around his friends for a little. It was nice to meet them all and they seem like cool guys. Also, one of my friends, Joe, and his girlfriend came out later and chilled.

Coincidentally enough, one of my friends from New Jersey happened to be there also and had a table as well. Small world.

So we get back home and hang out more before going to bed. Ryan had been sick and sleeping in the bed I was going to stay in, so I scored bigtime when I convinced the girls to wash my sheets and they obliged.

The next day, we hang out in the pool, and Derek, Reid, Craig, and I go by this outdoor mall while everyone else recovers/naps. We do some shopping and see "Year One" which was an ok movie. It was what I expected -- humorous at times, but no Hangover.

We picked up our friend Kyle at the airport around nine and then headed over to PF Changs for dinner. It took ridiculously long because we got caught in Saturday night Strip traffic, the service was pathetic, etc. (I lost CCR obv.), and we got back to the house around 11:45. The girls were already ready to go, so I made the game time decision to go to Tabu at the MGM. We wound up going and had a really good time. Incidentally, I got out of hand, but it happens. This is the only picture taken of me the second night:



Kyle and I were playing a game where you had to approach a group of girls and open with one of two lines: Are you wearing spacepants because your ass is out of this world; or, Is your dad a butcher because I love your rack. Incidentally, most of the girls liked the second one better (I thought the first one is miles better but w/e). It's actually not that bad if you make it obvious the line isn't serious.

I am under the impression that this only happened a few times at the beginning of the night, but honestly I can't really provide a TR for the rest of the night . I remember vomiting at a light out the open door of our cab. I feel like it wasn't as epic as a cab ride we had last year (I'm not doing to post it now but I might have written about it in the past).

Then I went home. I'm going back July 2nd, after finals are done, and I plan on partying it up at the...

It's my birthday today. I decided to fly out to LV. I'll be at Jet tonight, so if you are in town and wanna say hi drop by (or stay and party ).

So I was exhausted last night and went to bed, planning on seeing what happened, at 9:30. I fell asleep sometime before 10 because I don't remember my TV shutting off (I put it on a 30 minute sleep cycle). When I woke up, I was 6:50 AM.

I've done a pretty good job of being on a real life time schedule during the summer semester thus far. I've gone to bed in between 12 and 2 most nights, and get up in between 8 and 9. My class attendance is at an all time high, haha, so I feel like I don't even need to study for tests because I am actually there in class to learn the material the first time around. I actually have a test in a few hours and am currently applying that theory...

Poker has been going smoothly. I actually grinded (like, playing every day) for the first 9 days of the month. Ignoring an epic $1k session while over at my friend's house (Reid/shootaa) in 8-game 10/20, I am up around 36 in slightly less than 10k hands (3k at 5/10, 7k at 10/20). I don't know how many of the 5/10 hands were HU, but I would estimate over 2k of them. It was funny because the first couple days I could tell that people were playing back at me a lot and putting a lot of pressure on me, I assume testing me to see whether or not I could still play. Unfortunately, now I have the unfun adjustment of having to fold sometimes since I have a fucking huge calling station image:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $20.00 BB (6 handed)

MP ($2775)
CO ($12525.50)
Hero (Button) ($2214.50)
SB ($3766)
BB ($2000)
UTG ($2197)

Preflop: Hero is Button with A, Q
2 folds, CO bets $60, Hero calls $60, 2 folds

Flop: ($150) 9, 6, 3 (2 players)
CO bets $120, Hero calls $120

Turn: ($390) 9 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero checks

River: ($390) 6 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $260, CO raises to $1000, Hero calls $740

Total pot: $2390 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero had A, Q (two pair, nines and sixes).
CO had 5, 5 (two pair, nines and sixes).
Outcome: Hero won $2387

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $20.00 BB (5 handed)

Button ($1000)
SB ($2401)
BB ($2427.95)
Hero (UTG) ($3797)
MP ($1980)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 8, A
Hero bets $60, 2 folds, SB raises to $220, 1 fold, Hero calls $160

Flop: ($460) 7, 9, 5 (2 players)
SB bets $300, Hero calls $300

Turn: ($1060) 2 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks

River: ($1060) 2 (2 players)
SB bets $1881 (All-In), Hero calls $1881

Total pot: $4822 | Rake: $2

Results:
SB had A, 6 (one pair, twos).
Hero had 8, A (one pair, twos).
Outcome: Hero won $4820

I was satisfied with both of these hands because they were both against two of most likely the biggest winners at the 10/20 level.

I haven't really played at all since then because I've been busy with school and had a pretty epic weekend that will be the topic of my next blog post. My birthday is on Friday as well.

Shout out to Adam001 for owning me in a hand . Also, my next set of videos is going to be a 4-5 part series of 6tables of 6max 5/10 NL.

Until next time,
Greg

So I went to a bar with my friends tonight because every Thursday is Trivia which basically means get into teams and try to answer the most questions correctly. We were there for about 3 hours and I had exactly 2 beers during this time period.

On the way home, I made a left on a one way street (where you could only go left, meaning I was at an intersection and the crossing street is one way r to l) on a red light because I saw a sign that had a no left turn sign and hours listed below. New Jersey has lots of "no turns on reds" expect outside of these hours... signs, so I figured this was one of those signs and since we were outside of the hours I could go. I did, and was pulled over about a half mile later.

I pull into a parking lot, and a cop car pulls in behind me. The guy gets out and tells me immediately why I was pulled over, and I get frustrated at myself because it was my fault and a misunderstanding. He asks where I was coming from and I tell him the name of the bar. He asks how many drinks I had and I tell him 2, which is of course the answer that everyone always says, even though my response happened to be truthful. He gets back into his car and 10 minutes later another squad car rolls into the parking lot which means... I'm about to take a DUI road test.

10 minutes after that, he finally returns, and asks me the same questions again. We then go through the "I just want to do some tests quickly" routine, and I'm out of the car and he's trying to get my eyes to shutter with his flashlight as I'm following his finger. There is no way I am drunk or my BAC is above the legal limit, and I can tell he's getting frustrated because he's holding my gaze at the sides for a really long time, and obviously not seeing whatever he would if I'm drunk.

He then asks me to step, toe to hell, 9 times on a parking lot line, then rotate (pivoting perfectly) and walk back 9 steps. I know my rights and I tell the officer that I would rather just take a breathalyzer or blood test because I am nervous and not the most coordinated person in the world. He says we can skip this stuff now and do that but he will just let me go after the tests if I do ok. I shrug and execute the test (on uneven parking lot ground, in the pouring rain) as well as I can.

He then asks me to hold my foot 6 inches off the ground, look at my foot, and count "one-one thousand, two-one thousand" etc. until he stops me. I do this flawlessly to 30, and then he goes and gets the breathalyzer. He comes and says "Per your request..." and I stop him and say "Actually you said if you thought I was fine we wouln't do this." Then he says that oops! It's actually standard operating procedure. I roll my eyes at him and blow a 0.00 on that motherfucker. Surprise..........

Obviously he's aggitated, pretends to say thank you to me for "knowing my limits," and still gives me the ticket for the red light.

Honestly, go fucking fight some crime.