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Posts - Juni 2009

• 1500 LHE shootout

  Juni 27, 2009

  Had a decent table draw in the 1500 LHE shootout. One player never showed up and got blinded out and some Asian kid that played like he had sold %400 of himself gave me a lot of chips early. Also 3 internet limit holdem specialists including IanJ who is at my table in every single LHE tourney I play always. When it got down to 3 handed there was an Italian guy who was playing very tight and was very short and seemed to be a nonfactor as he only had a few k, internet guy who was hyper aggressive with a slight chiplead over me, and myself. The shortstack really went off and kept winning pots off bigstack and I kept up and the Italian guy and I somehow got to HU pretty quickly and evenish in chips. Seemed like a pretty ideal match up as he was letting me steal way too much.. but I called him down too light when he always showed up w the nuts. At some point he tells me he didn't know the tourney was limit and would have never played if he knew as he hadn't ever played LHE. We somehow go back and forth multiple times until I win after 3am when he 3 bets when I button raise my 2d7d (raising 99% of hands) at 1500-3k (800-1500 blinds). flop 239 dd, riv offfsuit 7 and I raise him allin and beat his QQ.
  Anyways.. dunno why I ended up writing a novel. Not many tourneys left, plan on playing events 52, 53, 54, 56 and of course the main. Drawing dead in the POTY race but whatever.. happy to get my 6th cash tonight.

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• yer bussshted

  Juni 21, 2009

  Feeling a little under the weather lately and running/playing bad combo catching up to me, probably taking a few days off this week to regroup. Lost the 10k plo early after getting unlucky in a big pot then playing my short stack terribly. Just busted the 5k shootout in about 5 minutes and am back at the apt. for a quick nap before 5pm tourney+ Steve Cowley(Rabscuttle) final table rail.
  5k SO hand I lost most my chips, I feel I kinda fudged the bet sizing in this hand but dunno how much it mattered.. Marco Trainello with like 13.5k raises utg.. MP flats.. I raise 2100 from sb w KK, Marco calls, MP folds. Flop T23 rainbow, I bet 2600 he calls. Turn A.. i chk, he shoves 9k instantly. Don't really feel like I have the best hand.. but also don't see him doing that with a set, or how the A can improve his hand. Never really played w him so don't know what kind of hands hes calling me with preflop but I figure a lot of medium pairs and I just gave him a big opening. I tend to call a lot in big pots when stuff doesn't addup and am right most of the time, but this wasnt one of them as he had AK and I was crippled. Wish I had folded now even more as Efro (who was at my table along w Mark Seif and Aaron Been) txtd me to tell me Mark and Aaron were going at it loudly about AP/cheating/etc.. sounded amusing.
  Also congrats to Jeffrey Lisandro for winning a 2nd bracelet this yr also, I'm going to have to win 3 to even make the POTY race interesting I guess.

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• My first blog of all time

  Juni 17, 2009

  You can read about me online in a bunch of places now, since I think I did about 500 interviews the past week. Short version: I go by tsoprano/bobcards online and won b2b bracelets and now at least a couple people wanted to hear me blog so here it goes..

  Been pretty disappointing since the two wins but feel great obviously and on a freeroll for awhile at least. Only Rhino'd one night since I've been here to celebrate but been playing hard and taking it easy in my sparse time off. Have a couple good friends/roomates coming out over next week or so and that should be fun.

  Todays tourney was 5k PLO, which I play a lot in cash game format but never 9 handed. Do decent in online tourneys but always seem to be playing day 2 or something in past yrs when they are going on, so only played 1 or 2 times @wsop. Bustout hand I limp AsJsK8 in EP, Ted "Aces w/ the flush" Lawson calls button, both blinds see flop. K8Thhc flop I lead 1400 into 1600, Ted calls, blinds fold. Turn gin, Qs.. I lead 4k with 22k behind. He minraises to 8k, I push. he tank calls JJ79hhdd, riv 4h gg.

  Prob playing 1500 NL tommorow, 2k limit fri.. will try and update every week or so unless I go on an epic bender and have to pawn my laptop.

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