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The title is a play of the poker show 2 months 2 million Its a fun show I like it. So I just posted my recap from the 30 buck with rebuys mini ftops. Well the next day was pretty exciting. I played the 14 buck super turbo omaha and the 10 buck heads up in the morning. I play these virtually every day, and I had made it to the final two tables of the omaha and final 4 of heads up a bunch of times. But yesterday was different. I built a stack in omaha, and then crushed from 24 players on. Was very aggressive, hit some draws, and was a dominant cl going into the final table. After more aggressive played, I ship it for 497.

On to the heads up, I played a few easy matches, all the way leading up to the final 4, which lasted....2 hands. First hand I 3 bet preflop with AJ and he folded. 2nd hand I raise to 90 with KQ and he 3 bet to 270. I call and the flop comes Q33, I check, he bets 390, I shove, and he SNAP calls with...AJ. LOL. I hold, and move to the finals. In the finals I ask if he wants to chop for 420 each. He says "not confident enough?" and declines. He gets an early lead, when I limp with 42. Flop comes 853. He bets I call. Turn is a 9 and he checks I bet 200 leaving me 900 he calls pot is 740. River is a 7. No flushes and I shove with 4 high. He thinks for a few seconds and folds I gladly show my 42. At this point I'm at 1750 to his 1250. He asks if I want to chop and I say I want 40 more bucks he declines and we continue. I win a couple more pots to get up to 2000 to 1000. Then he's down to 850 and raises preflop I go all in with KQ he snap calls with K10. I hold, say "shoulda chopped" and collect my 535.

Last thing to talk about is the 22 buck pot limit omaha heads up. Before I talk about it, this was a great tournament and Full Tilt realllly needs to add a regular heads up mtt for omaha, along with a daily shootout. So I play the first round and with with ease the guy sucks. We were down to 1 match for about 10 minutes when I pull it up to see that the match has both people sitting out! That means that their hands are auto folded, meaning we had to wait till the blinds got up to 1000 2000 for the match to end! That means about 45 minutes of waiting. Poorly played by full tilt should noticed and tried to end the match quickly. Well one of the positives was that my next opponent, full tilt pro Artie Cobb, didn't show up! Maybe he was tired of waiting. Hello next round, free 20 bucks, and my 5th full tilt shirt! The bubble round was another easy round I got up to 4200 real quick when the big hand occurred. I raised with KJ(forget my other cards) and he called. Flop J42 I bet he calls turn is a K I pot bet 1300 he has 1420 and just calls! River K Yahtzee nuts for me. I put him in he calls shows a hugeee wrap that missed AQJ10. On to the money!

I win my next match to get to the 128 and am happy though there is a problem. I'm going to the blink 182 concert at 4:30 and it is 3:30 now! I knew this could be a problem but I joined it just to try to register another cash, and realized that the chances of me making to 4:30 were slim. But it happened. I win again and am on to the round of 64. Its 4:15 at this point, so I run to verizon wireless store to see if I can get a wireless card. As it turns out, I either need to pay a monthly plan, or buy it full price at 200 bucks! No thanks. So I suck it up, and am forced to sit out the round of 64. Ehh I knew it would happen if I got that far, and I won 1k that morning, so I wasn't too bummed. Missed opportunity, but its no one's fault but my own. Woulda been a sick triple crown on FTP lol.

So a great day yesterday, got a grand coming in the mail. Think I'm gonna buy beatles rock band with that. Not playing the 256 2 day event tomorrow which kills, but the Trojans get priority and I'm meeting up with a bunch of friends for the game b4 going to a party. Sunday, go the 12 buck ko, following by the big one, the 55 buck mini ftops main event! I'll post updates as they come. Thanks for reading guys.

So alot has happened since my last post. I cashed in my last two mini ftops tournaments to put mo on the board in my team competition. The standings are here. if my team wins I win 200 bucks! sweet.

So Weds nite I played the 30 buck with rebuys 6 handed tournament. It was a realllly soft 1st table. I think there were only 6 rebuys in the first hour, and I think I had 3 of them lol. I don't remember the big first hour hands, but I remember building it up early then losing on a big hand. I also established a couple enemies at the table, and I knew they'd be after me. Throughout the first hour, I was EXTREMELY aggressive. Every hand I played I raise, and I was constantly continuation betting, playing fast and well. I was the leader at the table at 1 hour, with a whopping 9555 lol. Just a few hands after the break, I pick up AA and make a standard raise. A calling station to my left calls, and the button 3 bets to 1600. My main enemy reraised all in for 5k. I thought for a bit, and reraise to put the 3 better all in. He thought for 20 seconds and folded QQ. My enemy says u owe me 2k( referring to an early hand where my 54 busted his kings)and shows KK and the station called all in with Q5 lol. I hold and get up to 17k. After the hand, the enemy goes crazy on the rail, screaming "How does the most aggressive fucker pick up AA" lol. Haha hilarious that he said I owed him 2k and I still beat him!

I get moved and I do more of the same raising alot making good plays like 3 betting with QJ and bluffing on draw light boards. I steadily increase to about 40k when I finally get moved to a table with a couple big stacks who are aggressive, including an ftops champ on my left. With the money bubble coming, I had to tighten up and got bullied around alittle. We get to the money, and I win a couple huge hands with JJ. First I reraise all in for 38k with blinds at 600 1200 after the crazy big stack raised. He called with A3 suited and I held. About 10 minutes later, I call an utg all in for 23k with JJ he flips 43 off! The flop: A24!! so sick, but I hold. Up to 100k!

I get moved again, and this table is really aggressive, as to be expected deep in a rebuy. After two hands of calling raises and folding, I raise with KQ blinds at 1k 2k to 5575. Good big stack flats on the button, and a stack of 65k raises to 20k. He had squeezed a couple times, and I thought I had a good shot of either being live if I was called all in or taking it down if he was kind of weak. So I push, and he snaps off with AA. Lame. Terrible play by me, especially after all my good play before. Knocked me down to 35k, and I went all in 3 straight hands 20 mins later. 88 and 88 with no callers. Then with 99 I push, and get snap called by QQ. No luck. out in 168th for 230.

I was so bummed after this tournament. I played some of the best poker of my life for 5 hours, and I pretty much threw it all away with one bad play. Oh well if he folds I'm a genius thats what poker is all about. Thanks for reading

I said in a previous post that at the end of every mtt I don't win, I feel either disappointed or upset. Today, I feel a different feeling. Disheartened. This is so because I feel like I played nearly at the top of my game, only to fall very hard just before the money in my two biggest events of the day: the 50 50 and the 109 mini ftops, along with losing a HUGEEEE pot early that would have put me in control in the 22 ha Mini ftops. Cue the tiny violins lol.

22 ha mini ftops. Start with 5k in chips. I thought it mite be another 30 minute knock out when I got into a huge pot in the 1st session of omaha. I raised preflop with AQ107 with the AQ of diamonds. The flop comes a monster J92 with two diamonds. I bet and get min raised. I decided to just call to keep the pot small. The turn is gin 8 for the nut straight. The guy bets and I raise pot to 3200 he almost immediately moves all in. Expecting a freerol chop, he flips not Q10 but top set JJ. Gotta dodge the board pairing, and I do just that to jump to 11k very early!

I make a good play with 66 in the holdem section to get up to 15k. I get knocked back down to 10k in omaha when the fateful hand comes up. I raise standard in ep with AAQ10. I get two callers, and the flop comes A76. I decide to bet out and I get raised pot. Praying for a under set, I shove all in and he calls with the absolute worst possible hand ever in this spot. 10985 for a hugeeee straight draw. I need to dodge 10,9,8,5, or 4. Q on the turn and I'm one card from 20k with blinds at 25 50. River...8. Sick. down to 700 lol. I bust two hands later with AA preflop my opponent flops a flush. Yet another early ko, so sick cause I almost had 200 bbs.

Moving on to the 50 50. I'll keep this short. I played really solid and tite aggressive the whole tournament. I was in the top 20% for a good portion before getting knocked down to about 200th with 300 left. 180 get paid. I raised with A8 blinds at 200 400 I had 5k. The flop came A34 two hearts. I bet 1200 guy raised me all in and I snap call he shows KQ of hearts. So no heart and I have 12k. Turn blank river 4 of hearts. Another river loss. Knocked out 100 from money. Oh well.

Most disheartening was the big tourney tonite the 109 mini ftops event. We started out with 6k in chips and I was down to 3800 after literally 5 hands lol. One missed bluff and one tough river that hit both of us. But I got it back over 6k in a few hands and managed to get it up to about 8k when a big hand comes up. I raise with AQ of spades. I get 3 bet by a very aggressive big stack. I flat call flop comes J92 two spades. I get 2k leaving 4 behind and he shoves all in. He shows...107 of spades. No 10, 8, 7 and I get 15k. I dodge them and win the big pot. I get down to 10k when the same guy doubled me with KK vs Q10. I work it up to about 30k mostly raise and take it preflops. I make a good play with QJ I 3 bet preflop on the button with QJ and he calls. I bet half the pot on a 9 high flop and he folds. Whewwww.

With about 20k, I raise pre with KJ with blinds at 250 500 I raise to 1500. The same aggressive guy shoves for 10k. Against anyone else I fold, but I decided to call and he flips 33. He wins the coin flip though woulda loved to have gotten that one. Later on, I raise with AJ and get 3 bet all in and I got alittle frustrated admittedly and called. I'm pretty sure the guy was an online regular and hadn't gotten out of line the entire time. Its a call I should never make, but I did and he flipped up AK. I got lucky and flopped a J and survived but I defintely wasn't proud.

Then the bustout hand. I get knocked down to about 14k blinds at 500 1000. A stack with 500 more chips then me raises to 2850. I shove with 88, and the guy goes into the tank. At this point my guess is 77 or AJ. He tanks for 30 seconds and calls with...A9?! I mean there's really nothin he ever beats there, especially for his entire stack. There's a small chance I'm doing it with KQ but still. Lame. Well the flop comes J high. Turn is a blank. River....9. Worst way to lose tha crappy coin flip. Out in 700th, 300 from the money in a 3700 person field

I feel like except for a few exceptions, I really played close to my A game. And to get knocked out the way i did in the last two was pretty lame. I woudla rather lost with the AJ and lose on a mistake then to lose to a bad call with A9 but what can you do. I still got alot of events coming up. Tomorrow was the 22 buck 6 handed turbo and a 55 buck horse tomorrow. Hope my luck can turn around. I'm definitely due.

Well The title sums it up I have had absolutely 0 luck in my first three mini ftops events. In Event #1 22 buy in 5k in starting chips. 30 minutes in and not much luck when I call a raise in the bb with 22. Flop comes A82 yahtzee! I check call a bet of 300. Turn was 5 two diamonds on board I check again he checks was hoping to check raise there. Then river brings a 7 of diamonds. I bet 600 he raises to 1800. Ugh runner runner flush? Thats about all it could be but I can't fold. I call he flips A9 of diamonds. Lame. That knocked me down to 2k blinds at 50 100. I raise with A10 and after being 3 bet I pushed all in he called with 66 and held. Out in about 10,000. Lame

Event 2 was the 33 buck 6 handed shootout I really thought that I had a good shot to at least win the first table and go from there. My table turned out very interesting, as two people sat out. There was an early ko when two players rivered flushes, with the higher winner obviously. Then I ran a bluff with a K high flush draw into turned trip 10's. Then after another bluff the same guy knocks out the last player at the table when they both flop a flush. So now I have 1k, the other has 11k, and there are two sitters. Understandably, the guy raises every single hand. I double to 1800 with A3 against K4. Then after more folding, I get it in with A8 against 55 for a shot at 3600 and maybe a shot at taking down the juggernaut. Flop comes A79. Yahtzee!! Turn was an 8. River 6. Straight for him. Out in 20 minutes. LAME

Event 3 the 22 buck 1 rebuy 1 add on. I was hoping to get a double up early and save the rebuy. And I thought I would do just that. After a mid position limper, I check in the bb with 62. The flop comes Q62 yahtzee! I bet 40. The limper raises to 190. At this point, I'm 1000% sure he has KQ, QJ, or Q10. Raising with a set makes no sense, and doubt he's limping with K6 or K2. So I repop it to 600. He thinks for a few seconds and min raises to pretty much go all in. I know I'm ahead, snap call, and he flips KQ. Turn is a blank river.....Q. Figures. Guy puts 100 bbs in there with top pair and gets rewarded. Oh well. I rebuy. I raise with AJ bb calls. Flop comes AQ2. I bet he calls. Turn J I bet he raises. Only hand that has me beat as play is K10 but wouldn't think he woulda called on an A high flop. I reraise all in. I was wrong. K10. Out 20 minutes in lol.

The losses aren't a hit to my bankroll but still disappointing especially since i'm on a team repoping Cali. hopefully next week goes better. It'll start monday with the 22 buck HA and I'm gonna play the 109 holdem Monday night. I also won a 26 ko last nite for 600, so the roll is doing fine. Hopefully next week goes well. Thanks for reading.

Ok alot of big tournaments coming up on Full Tilt starting this wednesday. Gonna play in 10 mini ftops events I think I'm part of a 4 man team representing California so hopefulyl that goes well. Here is a link tho the schedule: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/mini-full-tilt-online-poker-series/schedule

And here's the events I will be playing in.

Weds Sept. 9th- Event #1 22 buy in 200k guaranteed
Thurs Sept 10th- event #2 33 buy in 6 handed shootout 30k guaranteed
Fri Sept 11th- event #4 22 1R1A 150k guaranteed
Monday Sept 14th- event #11 22 HA 30k guaranteed
Tuesday Sept 15th- Event #15 22 turbo 6 handed 100k guaranteed
Weds Sept 16th- Event #16 26 pl omaha 8/b KO 50k guaranteed
Thurs Sept 17th- Event #18 22 pl omaha heads up 30k guaranteed
Fri Sept 18th- 22 buck 6 handed 100k guaranteed
Sunday Sept 20th- 12 buck KO 100k guaranteed
Sunday Sept 20th- 55 buck Main Event 500k guaranteed.

Thats what i got for now 10 events mite add more or take some off as the time comes. As always I'll be posting twitter updates just look for my name tayke2 to follow along. Thanks for reading.

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.