Hey guys, it's been a while! I've been busy WSOPing and getting shit on by donkaments, yay summer time! I'm out in Vegas until after the main event, so I'm just settling in and getting into the grind a bit more. There have already been 3 birthdays in our house (there are 6 of us total) and more to come, so the night life isn't not not lacking to say the most.

I don't want to chat too much about tournaments, but I will take you guys through my heads up $10,000 experience because it was just too much fun and pain to not revisit. I walk into the Rio with Greg (mynmsgreg, guido express, etc) and he's like oh man, what if you draw Farha? And I'm like ew... I think it would be like getting that feeling that you're going to lose CCR and then you lose, but don't really care because CCR is fun. He shrugs and laughs, we move on and after they resat us and I'm sitting down waiting for my opponent to arrive. It was pretty surreal seeing all the big names in poker. Usually, it's pretty laughable, but surrounded by all those guys, even Lederer, it was pretty cool. Then...



I feel like Christmas came early and it was pretty cool because we were chatting and Sammy seemed like a pretty fun dude. He was fishing for some information before the match, but I obviously just releveled with nonsense. I also forgot to say raisy daisy... fml.

He check-raises a lot of my cbets with mixed results and he's 3-bet me about 30% of the time to start off, which brings me to my first hand.

Hand 1: I raise KJo, he calls and it comes QsTh9s. I cbet and know what's coming. He raises, I call. Turn 9d, he bets I call. River is somehow the 5h and he checks, basically saying, GL sir, I have KQ/AQ. I bet 6500 into 9000 and he calls pretty quickly, saying he had AQ. I'm up to about 42k from my 30k starting stack.

Hand 2: I raise Kh5c, he calls. KcJh7c. He check-raises. Turn 8c, check check. River Qs, check-check. He confidently turns over J9o, which was funny because I now know he's open for range mergification all over the place.

Hand 3: I raise AKo, he calls. Ks6h2s, he check-raises to 2500, I make it 5300, he shoves, I call. He has 75ss, turn 4s, so I'm down to about 17k. We were playing right beside the rail, so about 40 people saw how stone cold I was when he binked and I like to think that scares people.

Hand 4: I raise AA, he calls. T96r. He check calls.. Turn J. He leads pot I call. River 5. Pot I call q8 good. 14.5k... obv felt gross calling a psb, but whatever, I think it's mehhhh.

Hand 5: I raise red 77, he calls. 7c8c9d, he check-raises and I decide to ship it in and his JT holds. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

That's basically how the series has been going. I feel like I have a huge edge on 99% of these guys and then it's just the same old. I'm still having lots of fun playing and my soul is relatively together still. Hope you guys are well <3 Time for a lazy day of coconut water (top one hangover cure if you're interested in trying it), ordering pizza (pepperoni and pineapple, son!), satting into the main and lazying by the pool after failing satting into the main.

-Reid