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Ok so for the 2nd straight year I went to Vegas in August with my closest friends, aka my crew, and we had an absolute blast!!! No poker this weekend just blackjack, roulette, horses, clubs, and drinking. Here's a recap.

We made great time driving in got into vegas in 3 and a half hours and checked into our hotel NY NY. Very nice hotel one of my favorites I've stayed at in Vegas. The casino floor is riddled with NY memorabilia and buildings on the outside. We get in and I immediately hit up the roulette tables with Kristal. I brought in for 40 and tried out the system that worked pretty well last time. I put 3 bucks on 10 numbers: split the zero's, 2,5,7,12,13,20,22,23,and 34. and put 10 bucks more on one of the vertical columns. After hitting the vertical column twice, I hit #13 for 70 bucks! I tip the dealer my 2 buck bet and cashed out the 70 bucks up 30 on my buy in.

That night we went to the Cirque show KA at the MGM Grand! Great show I preferred Mystere because some of KA was painfully slow but they had some AMAZING parts so def recommend it. Before going out, I play more roulette, and bam first number is 7! 105 bucks for me and I'm 2 for 2! That night we went to ROK, the club in NY NY. The ladies got free vodka for an hour, so they loaded up on drinks and were good to go for the night. We were there till about 2 and walked around the strip before getting to bed, but not before losing 80 bucks in roulette. Lame!

The next day, I hit my 1st vegas buffet at Excalibur. It was just ok. Good selection of food, but alot of it wasn't very fresh, so some stuff was cold. Still good though. Another round of roulette loses for me before i hit up the black jack table. I buy in for 100, and get up to 150 easily. Played one deck, and kept a good track of high cards, winning both of my 25 chip bets. After one hand of 7 cards under 8, I bet 25, and get an 8 and a 3 for 11. The deal shows a 5, and I gladly double down for 50 bucks, knowing I'll cash out up 100 if I hit. Bam 9 for me 20 overall! Dealer flips a 9 for a 14. No 6 or 7 and I'm golden. 1st bad beat of the trip. 7 for a dealer 21. So lame. I go on to lose the 100. We also decided to bet some horses in Planet Hollywood. I ended up down 50, only winning one bet. Loveeee betting horses, but I have no idea whats going on. I should learn how to read the books so I'm not just betting on colors and names lol.

That night we hit up 3 clubs, tabu at MGM, Rum Jungle at Mandalay Bay, and I forget what it was called but the club at TI. All nice, TI was my favorite its half indoors half outdoors. Great night overall. During that, lost 60 bucks at BJ, but got 40 back playing roulette. I only bet on red, and vertical and horizontal 12ths. Think that might be a better way to go next time.

Saturday, Kristal, Arod, dave and I hit up our favorite place in Vegas, the Burger Bar at Mandalay Bay. I got the kobe beef burger...fantastic! Arod got a buffalo burger that I might have liked even more. Awesome stuff. Bet more horses, and was down 20 bucks. Won one bet for 24 that was cool. More roulette more losses sadly. that night we decided to take it easy mostly. That night we went to the MGM dinner buffet. Fantastic lots of great food definitely worth the 25 bucks. Good stuff. We went to the coyote ugly bar, which was actually a club. And then we mostly chilled all the girls were tired from walking around in heels, and I was down to just chill and drink in the room.

Overall, I lost all my money, and had a blast doing it. Next time I'm in vegas, I'll play some poker for sure! I'm in the black in vegas poker and in the red in everythingggg else, so it makes sense. In an online note, I chopped the 10 buck cubed on FTP Monday for 2 grand. By cubed, I mean i buy in for the original 10 bucks. In the 1st hour, I can rebuy once, and at the end of the 1st hour, I can pay 10 bucks for 2000 more tourney chips.

Had a blast with this tournament it was a big monkey off my back. I've played it over a dozen times, and had several min cashes and i really wanted to final table it. I ended up winning two huge pots with 4 or 5 tables left, both times flopping a set against top pair. Had a huge stack until the final 3 when i finally lost the chip lead. We got heads up, and we were dead even in chips. rather then play it out, we decided to chop the 1st and 2nd prize evenly to make it 2 grand for both of us.

So got my vegas money back! Sweet. This weekend I got 7 freerolls that have 10k prize pools that i got entry with from ftops sattelites and tournaments. So hopefully I can hit something there. I'll post updates. Thanks for reading guys!!

Pretty disappointed that i didn't cash in any of the ftops this time around. I was running hot in the satellites I think all and all I won 6 seats but only used 4 since I'm going to VEGAS tomorrow! So pumped. Here's a recap of the last two ftops I played, the 216 HA and the 216 turbo 6 handed.

Ok so in the HA I got into a huge hand early. With about 5800 I call a late position raise with AK and two early limpers call as well. Flop comes A98 two diamonds. I check early limper beats pot 900 I raise pot 3600 and he thinks for about 15 secs and pushes all in for 500 more I call he has A6 of diamonds. No 6 or diamond and I have over 10k 20 mins in. Turn is a K so now just no diamond river 5 of diamonds. SO LAME but still got around 2k.

I double up a couple times and am back in it with 5k when this hand happens. The button with about 2600 raises and I reraise in the bb with KK92. He calls flop comes 4 8 K with one heart. We get it all in and he shows one king with two hearts. As per usual, runner runner heart and I'm down to 2500 again could have had 7500 lol.

Then I double again to about 3000 I get all in with a 2k stack preflop in holdem my AK his QQ. Flop blanks out turn Q river obv K hit it too late. Down to 1200. I get it in after the flop with AQ high vs 33 and lose. Out in a couple hours.

So sick had two shots as a good favorite to get big stacks and bad suck out both times. Story of the ftops lol

Last event was the 216 6 handed turbo last night had a good feeling thought i could make some thin happen here. On the 3rd hand of hte tourney, I flat call a raise pre with KK and the flop comes A4J. Not a good start!! About 10 minutes in, I get the classic AA vs KK cooler and I double to about 4k. Lets goooo!

Then bad timing I call a raise in the bb with QJ flop comes A77 two diamonds. He bets 200 I raise to 620 thinkin he can only come along with an A. HE calls. not sure what to think. Turn is a K and I push him all in he has 1100 left. He time banks to two seconds and calls with KJ of diamonds. Brutal turn I doubt he's calling with a naked flush draw. No river miracle an I'm back to where I started lame!

Ok so then I get into all in or fold mode as per usual in a turbo. I get it in with 55 against AQ and hold. Then in a blind vs blind, I get it in with J10 on a J 5h 2h board against 43hh. Dodge every out in the deck to double again.

I have about 3600 blinds at 200 400 when I shove with 88 and get called in late position. Not good. He flips 99 and hits a set on the flop and I'm out.

So yea obviously disappointed in the ftops, especially when you consider that a min cash in one of these is more then most mid stakes final table finishes up to 5th place. But what can you do. Still alot of poker in the next month. The weekend of August 22nd I have at least 5 10k freerolls for ftops stuff, so hopefully I can make a deep run in those. And in September I'm in 12 min ftops rite now, but that could change depending on potential work. Tomorrow, I'm off to VEGASSS Will post a full recap on Monday. thanks for reading guys.

So today was the 256 6 handed KO ftops. 750k guaranteed started with 5k in chips.

This is a tournament that has somewhat haunted me its one that I should do well in on paper but have had two disappointing finishes in the past including the worst tournament I had ever played and I was out in 30 minutes.

It looked like it was gonna be yet another disappointing just two orbits in when my bluff got picked off by a horribleee call imo. I raised the button with KQ and the bb called. I have 4700 he had 4200. Flop comes 662 he checks I bet 120 he raises to 300 I reraise to 800 thinking if he has over cards he's folding if he has 10's or higher he's 4 betting and if he has a pair 77-99 he could call but I could get him off the hand. The turn brings a 2 and I bet 1k into the 1700 pot. He takes 20 seconds and calls at this point I'm pretty sure he has an over pair, but I figure I could get him off a 77-JJ on the river. An 8 comes and I shove he times out and flips 77!!!!! I don't know what he had me on but unless I have complete air he's losing. a "sick read" on his part, aka a donkey call, and now I'm down to 500 with blinds at 15 30.

I work my stack up to 800 when I push with 66 and get called by AJ. Double to 1500. the next hand, I decide to ride the rush and make a big shove with QQ after a standard raise. I thought that the guy would be too tempted by the bounty to fold, and figured I was riding the rush, and I was right he called with A10 and I flop a Q. Just like that up to 3k again.

I lose a few pots down to 2k when I call a min raise with 66. Flop comes Q96! I check call the flop and check raise all in on the turn he calls with AA and blanks and I'm up to 4.1k.

After getting ti up to 5.8k I'm down to 3k when this hand happens. I call a raise with 109 to see what i can flop. Flop comes A810. Check check turn brings a 7 str8 draw for me. He bets 500 and I shove thinkin he has JJ-KK. HE insta calls with 88! fuck if he just has an A I have more outs, but now I'm dead to a J or 6. River 666666!! Up to 6.2k

I get moved and have an extremelyyyy aggressive big stack to my lef.t In 5 hands I've seen, he's 4 bet pre and 3 bet pre so I know he can be really loose. I raise in early position with AQ and he three bets me to 1500. I shove for 6k and he calls and flips AK obv. HE flops a K and i'm out.

Mixed feeling about he tournament mostly what could have been if the idiot didnt' call me down with 77 but what can you do. Two more ftops on the schedule. the 216 HA tomorrow that I bubbled last time I played it, and the 216 turbo 6 handed Tuesday. Then its VEGASSSSSSSSSSS! Thanks for reading.

Last night I played the first of at least 4 ftops events. It was event one a 200 buy in with a 1 million guarantee. Started it with 5k in chips. My starting table was pretty weak and I was able to build a good stack before losing to a guy who had been playing at me all night. Here's the update.

I won a few pots early. One with AK where i flopped top pair and check raised a guy. Then had AA bust 66 for my first ko to get up to 7675 at the hour break. Got it up to 9295 when I lost a few pots, mainly to this one guy dukeblows333 I think. He was playing at me the whole nite, raising my blinds, calling my preflop raises and trying to out play me on the flop. I knew if I got a big hand I'd be able to take alot of chips from him. Once I had 99 and flopped top set, I bet reallly small praying he'd raise but he folded ughhhhh.

Then with an 8k stack, I raise with 99 in the sb. The big stack is in my bb and he 3 bets I take 2 seconds and snap push he snap calls! He flips AK and we're off to the races. Flop comes 754 two hearts. Turn 3 of hearts he has A of hearts terribleeee card! River J of clubs bam up to 16k.

Built the stack up to 19k then had it knocked down to about 13k when this hand happened. i had KK in my bb, and as per usual, duke puts in just above a min raise to 1375 blinds at 300 600. Against ANY other player at the table, I 3 bet or go all in ,but against him, I call knowing he'll play at me. The flop comes 1034 one club. I check, again against everyone else i bet, and he checks. Lame I was hoping to check raise there. The turn comes a 6 of clubs two clubs on board. I bet 2k he thinks 2 seconds and ships it in for my even stack! I think half a second and call all in he flips A3 of clubs. No A, 3, or club and I have 26k. River...3 of hearts.

Its so frustrating because i had the guy freakin pegged I KNEWWWW he was gonna play at me thats why I slowpalyed the heck out of the hand. I coulda raised preflop and taken it down there, but I wanted to get maximum value out of the hand. Oh well. LOTTT of tournaments in the near future. Here's a breakdown

Saturday: Bronze iron man
Sunday: 256 6 handed ko
Monday: 216 HA
Tuesday: turbo 6 handed

Also have 3 10k freerolls the weekend of the 22nd. And I've registered for 6 of the mini ftops events in September. Hope to hit it big soon! Thanks for reading.

So I've been grinding the FTOPS satelittes and so far I got my seat into 3 events. I'm playing the 216 regular event tomorrow with a 1.5 mil guaranteed prize pool. Then Saturday I'm playing the bronze iron man freeroll for a shot at 50k. Sunday I got the 256 6 handed ko, a tourney that has haunted me in the past because I've had several disappointing showings in a tournament that should suit me well. Lastly I have the 216 6 handed turbo next Tuesday. I'll post updates on my twitter tayke2, and I'll post recaps here. Thanks for reading.