Wow, it feels great to be home.
I left for Ithaca 2 weeks ago after work on Monday. The decision to go to Turning Stone wasn't planned for. After a boring day at the Rosen Group office I realized i couldn't do this all week and needed to go away somewhere to play poker. Originally, i was just going to stay at Turning Stone for a week but then Alex said i could crash at her place too.
The first week i didn't play much. Only made 2 trips; broke even on the first and +$300 the 2nd.
The rest of the week was just spent chillin in Ithaca with brauner and her new pet hamster Larry David.
The second week was more eventful. I headed out to Turning Stone on Monday afternoon with the intentions of staying over if I could afford it. I started playing at 3:30 pm at 100 max and after 10 hours or so I was up $300. The lowest room was $110 + tax at the Inn and i didn't feel like dishing out 1/3 of my winnings on a few hours of sleep so I drove back to Ithaca and stayed there for the night.
The next day I drove out to T-stone again and decided I would play 200 max. Got there at around 3:30 again and sat at the 200 max game. I was up $250 after about 3 or 4 hours and then the game broke. The only other game was 500 max and 100 max and i wasn't ready to take that much of a gamble with my br at the 500 max game. I only had around $1500, so i sat at the 100 max and tried grinding that out. After 2 hours of very little action i was down 150 and getting extremely impatient so i'm sure you can guess what happened.
I took an open seat at the 500 max and within an hour i doubled up. This was the hand.
Folds to me in the cutoff and i limp with A5c. Button limps and blinds r in. Flop comes T 5 3, 2 clubs. checks to me, i bet 15. Button smoothcalls and blinds fold. Turn is a 4c. I bet 15, he raises to 40. I re-raise to 120. He thinks about it for a few second and goes all in so i instacall and he's drawing dead with KK.
After that pot i played one more half and grabbed some dinner at the Emerald. I didn't feel like stayin over again for some reason so I headed back to Ithaca that night.
By now it had been Wednesday and Brauner was back from a morning class. After some eggs, we took her friend Chloe to the dentist because she needed an emergency root canal. I felt really bad for her, she was in a lot of pain. After dropping her off, alex and i got some lunch and chilled back at her dorm for a few hours.
My plan was to spend the rest of the week at T-stone and come back to Ithaca for the weekend since Jeremy and Adam were actually coming up here.
I got to T-stone around 10pm and played until midnight or so finishing +$160. I decided i'd get a room and get a good nights sleep so i could be good to go for the next day.
After a nice western omlette breakfast i headed into the poker room. The only games going were 100 max and 500 max so i got on the list for 500 max and played 100 max in the mean time. Less than half an hour went by and a seat opened up. The stacks were pretty good ranging from 300 to 1500 and the players were generally weak. I had a ridiculous cold string of cards but after 2 or 3 hours the following hand came up.
i had 24h and called a raise to 15 with 7 ppl in the hand. The flop came 2 2 8 and i checked. It went checks around to the button who bet 30. Folds around to me and i smooth called. Turn was a 6 and i checked as did he. River was an A and i bet 50. He minraised to 100 making me think he thought his ace or pair was good. I hollywooded for a little bit and then put him all in for 200 more and he called with AJ. A few hours later, no action and I ended up bluffing off alot of chips leaving me with only 400, and being in for 600. The table was breaking down and we played a few hands 4 handed after i busted some guy and the game broke leaving me completely even.
I went over to a 200 max game and wasn't really feeling it. Played for 4 hours or so and decided to quit and get a room at around 1:00.
The next day was Friday and I went over to the Diner for some breakfast. At around noon i walked into the poker room and heard someone call my name. My friend Max and his friend were sitting at a 2/4 limit game. Max is 20 and deals cards in the city, that's how we met. I haven't seen him since Fairview got shutdown so it was good to run into him. We caught up for a bit and he told me City Limit on 5th ave ended up getting robbed this weekend....but there's more. Apparently one of the robber's dropped a shotgun and when he went to go pick it up it went off killing Frank Desena.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11032007/news/regionalnews/poker_room_murder_3800.htm I played with Frank a few times but never really knew him. He was a really nice guy though and it's so fucked up how this happened. The scary part is that I could've easily been there and it could've just as easily happened to me.
Max said the cops went on a rampage and raided 7 clubs in long island. He now works at Genoa but he doesn't know what the status is since they might be closing too.
Anyways, that day I played 200 max for the afternoon and finished +$680 giving me an overall win for those two weeks of +$1780.
I finished off my trip with a great weekend with Dan Jeremy Adam and Brauner. It was really good seeing everyone again and in less than 2 weeks its already going to be Thanksgiving.
It feels so good to be in my own house again....
PEBBLES!!!
I left for Ithaca 2 weeks ago after work on Monday. The decision to go to Turning Stone wasn't planned for. After a boring day at the Rosen Group office I realized i couldn't do this all week and needed to go away somewhere to play poker. Originally, i was just going to stay at Turning Stone for a week but then Alex said i could crash at her place too.
The first week i didn't play much. Only made 2 trips; broke even on the first and +$300 the 2nd.
The rest of the week was just spent chillin in Ithaca with brauner and her new pet hamster Larry David.
The second week was more eventful. I headed out to Turning Stone on Monday afternoon with the intentions of staying over if I could afford it. I started playing at 3:30 pm at 100 max and after 10 hours or so I was up $300. The lowest room was $110 + tax at the Inn and i didn't feel like dishing out 1/3 of my winnings on a few hours of sleep so I drove back to Ithaca and stayed there for the night.
The next day I drove out to T-stone again and decided I would play 200 max. Got there at around 3:30 again and sat at the 200 max game. I was up $250 after about 3 or 4 hours and then the game broke. The only other game was 500 max and 100 max and i wasn't ready to take that much of a gamble with my br at the 500 max game. I only had around $1500, so i sat at the 100 max and tried grinding that out. After 2 hours of very little action i was down 150 and getting extremely impatient so i'm sure you can guess what happened.
I took an open seat at the 500 max and within an hour i doubled up. This was the hand.
Folds to me in the cutoff and i limp with A5c. Button limps and blinds r in. Flop comes T 5 3, 2 clubs. checks to me, i bet 15. Button smoothcalls and blinds fold. Turn is a 4c. I bet 15, he raises to 40. I re-raise to 120. He thinks about it for a few second and goes all in so i instacall and he's drawing dead with KK.
After that pot i played one more half and grabbed some dinner at the Emerald. I didn't feel like stayin over again for some reason so I headed back to Ithaca that night.
By now it had been Wednesday and Brauner was back from a morning class. After some eggs, we took her friend Chloe to the dentist because she needed an emergency root canal. I felt really bad for her, she was in a lot of pain. After dropping her off, alex and i got some lunch and chilled back at her dorm for a few hours.
My plan was to spend the rest of the week at T-stone and come back to Ithaca for the weekend since Jeremy and Adam were actually coming up here.
I got to T-stone around 10pm and played until midnight or so finishing +$160. I decided i'd get a room and get a good nights sleep so i could be good to go for the next day.
After a nice western omlette breakfast i headed into the poker room. The only games going were 100 max and 500 max so i got on the list for 500 max and played 100 max in the mean time. Less than half an hour went by and a seat opened up. The stacks were pretty good ranging from 300 to 1500 and the players were generally weak. I had a ridiculous cold string of cards but after 2 or 3 hours the following hand came up.
i had 24h and called a raise to 15 with 7 ppl in the hand. The flop came 2 2 8 and i checked. It went checks around to the button who bet 30. Folds around to me and i smooth called. Turn was a 6 and i checked as did he. River was an A and i bet 50. He minraised to 100 making me think he thought his ace or pair was good. I hollywooded for a little bit and then put him all in for 200 more and he called with AJ. A few hours later, no action and I ended up bluffing off alot of chips leaving me with only 400, and being in for 600. The table was breaking down and we played a few hands 4 handed after i busted some guy and the game broke leaving me completely even.
I went over to a 200 max game and wasn't really feeling it. Played for 4 hours or so and decided to quit and get a room at around 1:00.
The next day was Friday and I went over to the Diner for some breakfast. At around noon i walked into the poker room and heard someone call my name. My friend Max and his friend were sitting at a 2/4 limit game. Max is 20 and deals cards in the city, that's how we met. I haven't seen him since Fairview got shutdown so it was good to run into him. We caught up for a bit and he told me City Limit on 5th ave ended up getting robbed this weekend....but there's more. Apparently one of the robber's dropped a shotgun and when he went to go pick it up it went off killing Frank Desena.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11032007/news/regionalnews/poker_room_murder_3800.htm I played with Frank a few times but never really knew him. He was a really nice guy though and it's so fucked up how this happened. The scary part is that I could've easily been there and it could've just as easily happened to me.
Max said the cops went on a rampage and raided 7 clubs in long island. He now works at Genoa but he doesn't know what the status is since they might be closing too.
Anyways, that day I played 200 max for the afternoon and finished +$680 giving me an overall win for those two weeks of +$1780.
I finished off my trip with a great weekend with Dan Jeremy Adam and Brauner. It was really good seeing everyone again and in less than 2 weeks its already going to be Thanksgiving.
It feels so good to be in my own house again....
PEBBLES!!!
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