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So I went to the bank with the money I made from mig the other day. I was carrying about 255k in cash to deposit.

The teller ran the money through one of those little bill counters and it only took about 10 minutes to get all of it counted and wrapped in 10k markers. Before I could leave she had to fill out some info on me. Here is what transpired:





As for poker, I've been running really well lately. I'm on about a 70k upswing at 10/20 and 25/50 the past 2-3 weeks, and feel I can play better than I have been. I'm probably going to play a lot in the upcoming weeks at all levels between 3/6 and 25/50 and really grind hard.

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I feel within the last 2-3 weeks my game has improved a ton. There are a bunch of little things i have realized and applied into my game to make me both tougher to play against and a much bigger winner. Most of the stuff are some little things i have picked up from watching snap and genius play and talking things over with them.

I'm really interested in grinding and taking more shots at bigger games. I was thinking about how ive done so far this year and here are what i think my results are in online cash games (not positive cause ive missed a ton of hands on PT):

-5k at 2/4 nl
+40k at 3/6 nl
+5k at 5/10 nl
+15k at 10/20 nl (somehow erased all of the debt and won some, have been killing this on ftp lately, on like a 45k upswing there)
+110k at 25/50
+5k at 50/100 nl
-30k at 200/400 nl (horrible shot gone wrong, splitting action 3 ways)
-10k in limit holdem
-50k in plo
+0k in mtt/sng combined

overall i estimate im up about 80k in online this year. obviously i could be up a lot more if i hadnt played plo, limit holdem or taken a shot.


The shot at 200/400 was the worst ive ever run short term. Snap, yellowsub and i saw an insanely good game going with noataima, stilltippin, juanda, a shorty and cts (who would be on our right) so we sat and proceeded to lose JJ v AQ, 88 v AQ, top pair+flushdraw vs top pair better kicker and KK v AA to lose 85k overall. I'm convinced that in the softer games i would be a huge winner and im really interested in running up my online br to like 800k and taking shots.


PLO i started off really hot then started running bad and getting run over. I think i was a bit too tight and made some mistakes here and there. After i really cement my NL game im going to pull a brian townsend and play 3/6 and 5/10 plo for like 40k hands until im really confident im killing it and then do the same at 10/20 and 25/50 before moving to higher stakes.


Limit hold em i watched one of schneids video and watched my roommate steve play day in and day out but it still hasnt clicked for me yet. i really feel as if ive been running bad in it and playing a style that should be winning but isnt optimal, but i am going to put this on hold also until i really feel great about my nl game and am beating the higher games.


online MTT im really disappointed in myself. i really feel as if there arent 15 better online mtt players than myself but i have the worst db of all time. Im down 31k in mtt on stars and im probably about even on ftp. I am going to work really hard on my mtt game in the next few months for the wcoop and to get my profits in the black. i think what ill try and do is really work on my abc tournament game and when i get my desktop working ill 4 table cash on one screen and 4 table mtt mindlessly on the other screen.


in live mtt this summer i feel as if i ran horribly and really performed almost up to the best of my ability at the time, but im positive that i can improve and force better results even through running bad. im going to do a lot of thinking on what happened in the tournaments this summer and ill probably read the read em and reap book by hellmuth and the cia guy on live reads to try and pick up everything and anything i can on that.


im going to restart my PT database from august 1 out and really spend a lot of time studying each day after i play. im so motivated to be one of the best after being in vegas the last 2 months and watching all the big games and watching genius play. he is the most impressive player ive ever played against, talked with and sweated and i really feel as if the things ive seen have had a huge impact on what i can become as a player.


had to vent all this out, have an interesting story from the bank to tell, ill post that in a couple days

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yesterday, mig won a bracelet in the 5k nl event in the biggest steamroll of a final table ive ever seen. with the exception of one hand, he won every single pot he voluntarily put a chip into the pot. he totally destroyed the entire ft.



what a hero.

its sad in a sense because i wont be backing him anymore, hes made enough to go out on his own, it would have been nice to have him through the main event cause he gonna destroy some more peoples, but i couldnt be happier for him.

2 of my friends have won bracelets now, i need to get my ass moving. at least ill get in a ton of bracelet winning pictures as my friends own the poker world.

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It's an extremely rare occurence when i show up with a totally random hand that nobody expects and end up looking like a total fish, but today it happened.

so im sitting playing a few tables of 25/50 on stars and i notice that on 2 of the tables adz raises utg and then sits out after taking the pot down and leaves the next hand. so i see him raise on the 3rd table utg and realize hes about to leave the game.

i quickly call smokey over and tell him whats happening and we decide its time to start shitting on the about to leave the table player.


http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/211022

misread his raise for less preflop so my reraise was small. smokey told me he would take half my action on the hand because its a pretty funnys pot, so i felt like i was freerolling on the flop and went with it.

probably one of the only times anyone will ever see me look like a total fish in a hand. it helped though, i ended up winning 2 buyins after that just getting paid because everyone thought i was monkeying. i like this new image i have fostered, brian townsend style.

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So me and a bunch of guys got 2 houses for the summer. if we combined the players in them, it's a really sick collection of players.

The first house is bushman, smokey, ozzy, zeejustin, roman, and the second house is xTBCx (100/200 200/400 limit player), beatiful man, genius28, martine23, reddog, ahhh snap, and me.

In the first event of the WSOP, 3 of the 5 of us who played it made the final 2 tables. martine23 got 12th, steve (xTBCx) got 11th, and smokey is a total hero and won the event.

im gonna go out on a huge limb but i think smokey is the best NL tournament player in the world, especially live. He just plays every hand to the best of his ability and nothing ever makes him lose focus. He's inspired me to play better and I have played extremely well since day 1 of mandalay bay main event when he was at my table.

anyway, everyone from the houses went out to the FT to rail it. When it got down to hu a few guys made some bets with FBT's crew on who would win. Hu starts and FBT had a slight chip lead. Thankfully for smokey, hu started out in NL.

First hand, Smokey raised the button and FBT reraised from the bb. Then the following transpires:



Basically smokey sits there thinking for 2-3 minutes before deciding to call preflop. The deliberate actions out of smokey are literally the scariest things in poker. Imagine sitting there for 2-3 minutes getting stared down by an unflinching extremely focused opponent and then he just calls PREFLOP.

No offense to greg, because he seemed to play really well at times, but smokeys presence at the table is really scary.

anyway, it was a pretty good hu match and bounced back and forth, and it seemed like smokey really had control of the NL portion of the hu match while the cards really controlled the limit part, whoever was running better at the time seemed to win, however, it did seem like greg had an edge on smokey during the limit periods. Fortunately he was able to win a few big pots during limit and come out on top.

its really great for the image of online players that everyone is doing so well lately. we're really taking over all the major tournaments, and have won the last few big ones, including mandalay and mirage.

im really happy for smokey and hope its a good start to the summer for all of us. here's a really cool picture taken after the win:



back row: nat arem, me, pbdrunks, brandon schaefar and a beautiful man (hiding in the back right)

middle row: roman (empire2000), ozzy, buko, zeejustin, ahhh snap

bottom row: bushman, smokey, martine



As for me, so far this summer im doing alright. have broken even online basically, which stinks, but ive done alright in tourneys so far. I cashed for 35k in the mandalay main event, which was pretty disappointing considering the steep payout structure, and i got 159th in the 1500 nl event for 4700 or so. im playing the 1k rebuy tomorrow and i am really pumped to play it.

i have a funny story which ill post next week i think, me and ahh snap got totally owned.

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Just flew into vegas. Experienced one of the worse beats i've taken in a while.

until I can move into the house im staying this summer, I booked a room in the palace station hotel. It's this little shithole about a mile off the strip. Anyway, they run some shuttles to and from the airport and the strip. The shuttles leave from the airport every hour on the half hour.

So my flight lands at 2:55 vegas time and things are looking good that i will be able to make the 3:30 shuttle. I get off the plane, get a quick bite to eat, then go to the baggage claim. The following suckout transpires:



i didnt get my luggage until 335 and missed the shuttle. So instead of riding a free shuttle I had to go to my LEAST favorite place in the world. The vegas airport taxi line.

for those of you who have been to the vegas airport, you know how awful the taxi line is. It's a 1/4-1/2 mile long line full of retired degenerations, reeking of desperation, ready and eager to drop every dime from their last pension check down a slot machine.

Look at this shit:


an hour later, wanting to kill myself, i finally got in a taxi and came over to the shithole palace station.

DIE VEGAS TAXI LINE DIE.

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Rodeoblue obv.

2nd place to heath:



too bad 2nd place gets nothing!


here's rodeo's masterpiece:



go blow it and more chunks at strip clubs (inside joke that i should definitely write up as a blog entry because rodeo has literally the funniest strip club story ive ever heard)


I have 2 articles in bluff magazine. one is written by me, its basically about putting people on hand ranges and making logical actions, that was in the may issue, and the second is a WSOP preview article in june centered on me and a few other young players (eric froelich, johnny lodden and a couple other guys) who a lot of people dont know about.

ive yet to see either one yet, ill try to pick up a bluff magazine when i get to vegas.

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Being at home always reminds me that I'm sort of an asshole. I went over to my friends house today and three of us sat around with his dad who is the most hilarous person of all time and just told stories. I know im a pretty nice guy but I always say the most assholish things of all time. Two stories that I forgot about but came up tonight:


The first:
So I'm in the airport in vegas and you have to take a little train from where you get off the plane to the baggage claim area. So I walk on the little tram and its totally packed, so I squeeze into a little area and hold on to the bar in the center so I dont fall over like a jackass.

Right before the door closes this smoking hot girl walks on the tram and squeezes into a little area, but she doesnt have anything to hold on to. Before saying something I just have to check her out because I cant take my eyes off her body. she obviously sees me because im probably gawking, and i realize it would be gentlemanly to help her out, so i speak up and say "So you want some pole?"

she was about 2 seconds away from punching me in the face but i think she realized what I meant. However, she probably thought i was creepy and declined my invitation to hang out on the bar. smooth operator huh?


second story:
My last day at school, 6 of us go out to a waffle shop to get some breakfast. On my right is georger, who is a really big dude, like 6'1 330, and he obviously orders a ton of food. On my left is steve, who is a pretty funny guy, but is basically a meathead, and when the food arrives, he makes some comment about how much georger ordered, I wish I remembered what it exactly cause it was pretty funny.

Georger replies "yeah yeah, blow me". The waitress was standing next to him and probably felt a little uncomfortable, but was cool enough to make a funny retort saying "oh not here, maybe later". she didnt really mean it, but it was a nice little funny moment. So asshole me goes "OH SWEET GEORGERS GETTING A BJ LATER". I dont think she really found that funny but whatever it was ok she let it slide.

so we finish eating, and on the other side of the table, my buddy rhett, who is extremely hungover, has his head down on the table and is just looking like total shit. so I go "hey i know what will make you feel better, you want me to get the waitress to blow you instead of georger?"

Immediately after I say that I see a look of horror come across my 3 friends on the other side of the table. the waitress was standing over my right shoulder ready to ask us if we wanted anything else or wanted the check. she obviously heard me and was obviously not pleased about it. oops.


oh well, i heard some good stories on their part too, but mine were doozies.


and not to leave you guys sitting there with a woody, ill finish you off. i have a picture i drew today. there was a contest in the pocketfives off topic forum to photoshop a picture of actionjeff on a swing hanging out with gobboboy.

well, as we all know I am the mike matusow of computer drawing, I'm not really the most talented guy around but I definitely have the most heart. Photoshop is for the professionals who know what theyre doing, mspaint is for the guys who are all heart.



i would have liked to do some more work on it, but i didnt really play magic and am really bad at this lol.


and now a contest. take a picture you find of me online and put it in a magic card. post the picture and your name on stars in a comment on this post, and the best one gets 50 bucks. ill be crossposting this on LP/cardrunners, so ill choose the best one within the next few days.

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Went out with my law school buddies tonight cause they just finished their last final and are done with their first year. They were pretty pumped because it's basically the last summer they will ever have to do what they want. When I was sitting there listening to them talk about how it's all downhill after this summer I just felt so lucky. I get to do the thing I enjoy the most for the rest of my life and whatever else I want.

I think im heading home tomorrow. I'll probably spend the next 10 days relaxing, reading, working out, playing some poker, and hanging out with friends. I'm heading to vegas on the 21st to play in the mandalay bay WPT event and prelims, then pretty much every wsop event I can.

I have pretty modest goals for the summer, just want to make at least 1 final table and make an overall profit playing in tournaments at the WSOP. Hopefully all goes well.

Oh by the way, if you havent seen it, i highly suggest renting crank. One of the most awesomely bad movies ive ever seen in my life. Basically this dude gets injected with a Chinese super virus called the Beijing Cocktail, and the only way to extend his life is to keep his adrenaline levels high, so basically its just an awesome excuse to work in gratuitous action scenes.

One spoiler, jason statham gets to bang his girlfriend in public, and during it, screams I FEEL ALIVE. After all he needs to keep his adrenaline going, so what better way to do it than exhibitional coitus. There are a whole bunch of crazy asian people watching it and going bonkers. It's an awesome scene in an awesome movie. I'd draw a picture but I just cant do it justice.

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Elky is the first supernova elite on stars. Not really a surprise because elky has more stamina when it comes to poker than Peter North on crystal meth, but still a sick sick accomplishment in just over 4 months, especially when he is traveling to WPT and EPT events.

Anyone who knows elky knows that his favorite place in the world is the Spearmint Rhino. I, along with many others, hope that one day elky can win the main event of the WSOP so he can buy the rhino and lead it to more glory than it has ever had.

What most people haven't realized is that elky has an odd resemblance with his friend the rhino.

If you dont believe me, check out the following photo shoot:















Only 2 more weeks till I'm in vegas. The rhino gang is waiting.

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