Update

Ok so instead of re-writing how my last AC trip went i'm just gonna copy and paste the convo from James.


VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:36:08 PM): well i was supposed to go during the day when i IMed u but kids from seton hall backed out. so later that night i convinced eng to go with me

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:36:29 PM): i only had $600 and he only had $500 in his bank account so he took all of it out and we got to borgata around 11pm

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:36:37 PM): played at the same table till about 6am and then left

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:36:55 PM): firs thand i had KK, A flopped but i cont. bet and took it down

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:05 PM): next hand

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:08 PM): there'sa raise utg to 15

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:15 PM): folds to me in sb i have AA i re-raise to 40

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:30 PM): BB re-raises to 100

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:33 PM): other guy folds

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:37 PM): i push for 150 more

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:39 PM): he calls with 99

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:39 PM): i win

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:44 PM): so i'm up to like 600

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:46 PM): then this hand comes up

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:37:53 PM): lmiped pot i'm on button wtih A3d

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:38:40 PM): flop comes 4 2 6, 2 diamonds

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:39:07 PM): guy bets 11, 2 callers, i raise to 35, he re-raises to 112 folds around to me. he has 245 left so i call

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:39:12 PM): turn is an A

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:39:16 PM): he pushes

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:39:33 PM): so now its 245 to win 500 but its too much so i fold and he shows K4d

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:39:35 PM): = /

unEn Erg iz Ed (2:39:50 PM): =/

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:39:54 PM): so a few hands later i get AK and i raise to 12 and it goes 3 or 4 way

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:39:57 PM): flop comes A 7 3

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:02 PM): i'm first to act i check

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:10 PM): guy bets 20, same guy i beat with AA to 99

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:13 PM): i raise to 60

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:14 PM): he calls

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:16 PM): turn is an A

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:18 PM): i mean T

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:20 PM): turn is a T

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:36 PM): i ahve a really bad feeling that T made him 2 pair but i have to bet anyway so i bet 100

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:40 PM): he insta pushes for 95 more

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:52 PM): and i'm like OMG wtf i KNOW u have AT ur SO lucky blah blah

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:54 PM): so finally i call

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:40:55 PM): he has AT

unEn Erg iz Ed (2:41:24 PM): ok

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:41:45 PM): so then i'm down to like 200

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:41:50 PM): grind back up to 350

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:41:55 PM): oh and then this one hand

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:42:09 PM): i have a straight to the 5 with A3 and guy has 36 and has higher straight

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:42:11 PM): so i lose that

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:42:16 PM): it was pretty rough in the beginning

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:42:41 PM): so then i win a few more pots and get back up to like 350 again

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:42:49 PM): and then this hand comes up

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:42:53 PM): i limp early with 47h

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:43:10 PM): guy who had the K4d against me raises to 12 and goes multiway

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:43:17 PM): flop comes K 4 7, 2 spades

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:43:20 PM): i bet 20

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:43:25 PM): he raises to 70

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:43:40 PM): i re-raise 100 on top of that

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:44:25 PM): he like insta pushes so ic all but he doesn't show

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:44:28 PM): turn T river J

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:44:36 PM): he has ATs so i win

unEn Erg iz Ed (2:44:48 PM): good

VaNiLLa ChAoS 01 (2:44:55 PM): then from that pot i just grinded up to like 1k and then we left at 6am

Eng was able to pay me back some so now i have a solid BR again to play 1/2 with. I gotta cough up 1k for my mom for this month's credit card bill + a little extra for "rent".
I guess I don't mind really paying for rent since 1. that will prove to her i'm ready to be on my own and 2. If i need her to cover a month or 2 of real rent in the future when i'm living somewhere, i'm sure she'd do that for me.

I found a game in Fort Lee that me and Joe checked out last week. We played 1/2 and i finished +$386. Joe got pretty unlucky and busted out. It's a house game and seems pretty safe. They mainly do a 2/5 and higher but it seems like a good connection so i'm happy i found that. I also found a small 1/2 game in SoHo that gets together a couple times a week. I'm not worried about that place getting robbed or busted since it's only 1 table. Hopefully i'll be able to get in a few more sessions before 2008.

Peace.

Turning Stone Tournies

A nice winning streak comes to an end.
I went to T-stone last week to do some tournaments and ended up busting in two as well as losing at 5/5 for an overall loss of -$1,100 total.

I headed over to Ithaca on Tuesday night and stayed at Brauner's. The tournament was at 10am so I left Ithaca around 8 so i'd have some time to eat breakfast. When i got to the registration there was a line of about 20 people and it was already 10:00 but that didn't make a difference since it was so deep stacked. The room was packed with like 30+ tables and i was feeling really good since it was 40 minute rounds.
I had a little bit less than 10k and was playing my normal game when blinds doubled to 50/100 and this hand comes up.
1 player limps and i look down at KK. I make it 325 to go, 1 guy calls and button re-raises pretty quickly to 1150. The other guy folds to me and I try and decide how I'm gonna play it. I re-raised to 4k to find out where he was at and if he pushed i'd have to make a decision. He thought for about 30 seconds and then just called. I figured he either had to have QQ AA or possibly KK too.
The flop came A 6 3 and i pushed for my remaining 5k. He insta called with AA and that was the end of that. I don't think it was worth going broke over but it's a tough situation. If i check he can push with QQ and get me off of it so I figured i'd push first. I guess in retrospect i should've just shut down.
After that disappointing finish i went over to 100 max and played till around noon finishing +$130. I really had no motivation to play so I just went back to Ithaca.

I got a good nights sleep and was good to go for the $300 event the next day. I showed up after they dealt the first hand and was feeling really good. For about the first 3 hours I wasn't getting many hands and just picked up a few pots. My peak was at 11k-ish and my lowest was 8k-ish. I was moved to another table with a few online pros and then came the 45 min lunch break. There were alot of online players there and the field was filled with some pretty decent players.
After I got back I was really desperate to double up and just kept focus. I knew that it would come and finally after not seeing anything i get AA and there's a raise and a re-raise coming my way so i pushed for about 6k and ended up doubling up off of KK. Up to 14k when I went on a mini rush up to 22k. From there i got moved to another table and my first hand i get QQ. I raise to 2200 with 300/600 blinds. 1 guy was looking like he wanted to re-raise but he just called and it went heads up. Flop came low like T high and i checked trying to get a bet out of him. He checked as well and the turn peeled off a 7 or something and i bet. I can't remember how much i bet but it was probably about 3/4 of the pot and he called fairly quickly. River brought a 2 and i was sure i had best. I decided to overbet and put him all in for his remaining $4500 and he ended up calling with JJ.
blinds got to 500/1000 and i grinded my way up to 47k. That didn't last long though and I got myself involved in a pot i shouldn't have been in and got down to 37k when another cold streak hit. I hovered between 24k and 32k for a while and then we got a dinner break at 7pm.
There were 41 players left and top 20 got paid. 1st was $19.6k. I wasn't feeling too great for some reason since i figured i had only 20 BBs left and thought i was really pressured to double up. When i got back from the break the short stacks were pushing preflop and it was getting me frustrated so i made a call for 16k with AQ. The guy had 88 and i ended up being left with like 15k after losing that coinflip. I got involved in another pot and ended up pushing with 77 and a guy had AK. I held up and doubled back up to 32k.
37 left and blinds were 800/1600 when the following hand came up. There was a limp and an aggressive guy raised to 5k. I looked down at 44 and figured i could pick up this pot or go in a coinflip situation since the guy didn't really wanna gamble and if he actually did have a hand then so be it. It went folds to the guy who limped, he called pretty quickly and the original raiser folded. I hoped for 2 overs but he had JJ and it held up. I played for 11 hours and didn't even get paid...gg.

I chilled in Ithaca for the weekend and with my remaining $700 br i figured i could grind out some cash this week. On Monday I went to T-stone and played $200 max. I was up to $550 and in for $320 when a seat opened up at 500 max. I figured i'd play for a few more hours and then call it a day. The table was pretty aggressive with raises to 25-30 almost every hand. I got hit by the deck really cold and reloaded $300 more after about 2 hours of not hitting a single flop. Finally I flop a set with 88 and it goes multiway. Flop came A 8 3 with 2 spades. 1 guy bet 35 and another called when i raised to 85 more. The raiser like instantly called and the other guy called too. Turn was a 9s and the 2 guys just went at it so i shut down. The one guy ended up putting all his money in with AT and was drawing dead to his opponent's flush. After that hand i picked up QQ and an A flopped yadda yadda yadda...and i just left with $140. I put $40 on roullette and quickly lost that too.
I was feeling pretty shitty and then I got outside...and felt a lot more shitty. It was snowing and an hour later i was moving 30 mph on the highway with snow and ice covered roads. It got so bad that at one point i was goin 5 mph because i couldn't see anything and there was no one infront or behind me. Pretty ridiculous weather.

Today I had lunch with Eng and he gave me $1200. I negotiated with my mom to give her $600 now and $300 on Monday so i would have a little to work with at AC. I don't even know if i'm still goin to AC because i haven't talked to Ant La, since he was planning on doing some tournies and actually got a room up at Harrah's...Soooo hopefully we'll go.

I was pretty bummed at first about the loss but I got over it pretty quickly. I realized there's nothing i can do now and can only look forward. That's all for now I guess, hopefully I'll have good news to report about soon.


Peace