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Last year, I logged my biggest cash ever when I took 4th in the 100 buck 6 handed for 2700 bucks. Since then, I've logged several 4 figure scores. Ironically, many of them have been tantalizing close, but haven't surpassed the 2700 mark. A 4th in the turbo hundo for 2640. A 4th in the turbo fiddy for 2200. A 3rd in the 5 buck rebuy for 1500. The list goes on. Last night ,I thought I would finally break through the barrier, but alas, I ended up again just short, finishing 3rd in the turbo fiddy for 2555.

As is necessary in this tourney, I logged a quick double up I think it was AK vs AJ preflop. I lost some more back to my starting stack, before chipping up to about 3200 when a hugeee hand played out. I was dealt KK in the bb. The utg+2 shoves all in blinds at 150 300 for 3k. Two positions later a guys same stack goes all in. I snap call, and the bb goes all in! 12k in the pot. The hands: A8,99, and of course AA. But the flop comes a sick KQ9, and I hold to take a big pot down. From there, I log a couple big pots, and just like that I'm chip leader with 88 to go. Just a couple weeks ago, I got 8th in the turbo 50, with a very similar story. Huge stack that dwindled as the money bubble hit. I got caught a few times, and ended up getting to the money, the top 45, in about 20th place. After getting down to about 13 bbs, I double with KK vs 88. We get down to two tables, and I make a couple bad call offs with 33 and A7 and suddenly, I'm 12th wit 13 left.

However, I double with AK to KQ, and win a few more pots. Next thing I know I'm chip leader at the final table. IT was quite a roller coaster to the top 5. I would double a guy up with a loose call, then ko someone AJ vs 88. Then I double a guy up, then o a guy with 55 vs AJ. I end up getting to be 3rd with 3 left. I have 200k, other guy has 220k, and leader had 425k. With blinds at 10k 20k I need to make a move soon. Dealt A8 in the bb, I shove when the big stack limps in the SB. He thinks for a few seconds and calls and shows....Q8 of clubs?!? For half his stack? If I Can hold I'm the chip leader 3 handed. As you can guess, it didn't Flop comes QKQ and I'm out in 3rd for 2555.

First got 5.5k. I was pretty disgusted after, but today i'm pretty stoked about it. I have 1.3k in the bankroll, with a 216 seat in the turbo 6 handed ftops in a few weeks. With a 2000 dollar check comin in the mail, I have some vegas money to work wit! Probably gonna bring 600-700 to gamble with. Going to vegas the weekend of Aug. 15. Meeting up with my crew again for a sick reunion I'm really excited. Will post updates on that and any other cashes as they come. thanks for reading.

Bet on Phil Ivey. Its pretty simple. The man is for sure the greatest poker player alive and arguably of all time this summer has cemented his legacy. Two bracelets and now he's gotten a big monkey off his back and finally final tabled the main event after getting 10th in 2003 and 20th in 2005. So here is a full recap of all of the bets platt and I made last week.

Going into the main event, I was up 70 bucks, mainly because of the 100 buck bonus we got for any of our overall players winning a bracelet. Mr. Ivey won 2, hence 200 bucks. Other then that, platt was kicking my ass in the last longers before that. We made 5 last longers on the main event. In all matchups, the guy I picked is hte first one: Mike Matusow vs Phil Hellmuth- Hellmuth wins. Scotty Nguyen vs Erick Lindgren: Nguyen wins. Ylon Swartz vs Ivan Demidov: Swartz wins. And lastly, Ivey vs Lunkin: Ivey wins. So after the last longers, I'm up 4-1 and up 120 more bucks. 190 overall

Here's where the bonuses come in. We have a 50 buck bonus for the top 100 players. Ivey is the only one eligible for it, and gets top 100. 50 more for me. 240 overall. After that, we have a 100 buck bonus for making the final table. After starting the day at 4th with 27 to go, Ivedy was knocked down to 17th with 19 to go. But he was able to ride the short stack an dstay aggressive, and he is now sitting 8th in cihps with 9 to go in the November 9! 100 bucks more to me. 340 overall

Lastly, after needing 200k from my players going into the main event, Ivey has given me that and more, winning me the overall bet, and 40 more bucks. Up 380.

Now, its a waiting game. In November, the final 9 come back, and if ivey ships the main event, it will give me a cool 400 more bucks! 300 for the winner bonus, and 100 for the 3rd bracelet in the overall bets. 4 months and counting!

Got both of my checks from FTP today one for 500 other for 300. So rent and alittle spending money! I won 500 on PS last nite and requested another small check form them just 200 there. WSOP updated Platt has two horses left Hellmuth and Lunkin I have one in Ivey so we'll see how that goes. I can't update much here so I've added the twitter feature since I usually post my daily updates there. You can check them out there at tayke2. Not much for live poker a couple series events but nothin that catches my eye. Goin to vegas in august so could play some there. And then FTP ftops comin up in August and PS WCOOP comin up in September along with the Mini ftops. I'll post my schedule for those as they come.

Playin the MSOP main event, the 750k, the double deuce, and a handful of 26 mtts. Will be posting updates on my twitter "tayke2". Find me if you care to follow!

Ok so on Sunday I decided to try to play alot of poker it had been a long time since I had played on Sunday and all the big tourneys are on that day. I dropped about 50 bucks trying to satellite into the 750k and just gave up after a while. Played the double deuce with no result and played a couple other tournaments with nothing. After w while i registered for the 5 buck with rebuys on a whim. The main reason I decided to register for this was because it was a handed tournament, which are by far my favorite tournaments.

The first hour produced little pots for me I chipped up to about 6k before losing 4k of it back I forget the hand. I end up doubling up late with AK I believe and add on to give me about 6500 which isn't much at all when u consider that a person can go broke on the last hand before rebuys end, rebuy twice and add on, and have 5k. I wasn't very worried however considering the 3 buck rebuy tournament I won I didn't double once and had that 5k stack going into the 2nd hour.

Ok so it was a few days ago I don't really remember too many pots. The main thing was I was always the preflop aggressor. I prob won about 100 hands with preflop raises its so important to have preflop aggression in 6 handed play. I managed to work my way up to a huge stack 2nd in chips at around 100k with about 150 people left. Unfortunately the number one stack was obviously two spots to my left. However, he was being overly aggressive and I knew I could trap him for a huge pot. That happened when I picked up the 22, a hand that actually was my favorite hand in this tournament lol. I limped and called his raise and the flop cane KQ2 rainbow. YAHTZEEE!!! I decide to just check call the flop. The turn brings a 9 he bets huge I put in a smallish raise and he goes all in. Despite his aggression, I was ready to curse the gods when he flipped up J10 but instead he just had AK and was drawing dead. From there I was in a zone. On three separate occasions, I three bet post flop on complete air one of them being against a guy half my stack I bet and reraised him with K high on a J high board. I was just feeling it and for once people were folding!

So I get up to about 250k when I get moved and wouldn't' u know it I got the big stack again at my table. Things go by until about 27 people are left i have about 9th in chips but am going card dead. Then the biggest hand of the tournament happens we are at 14 people I have like 7th in chips. I raise with JJ and a guy who barely has me covered three bets to 100k we both have about 350k. I had a feeling I was beat but certainly wasn't folding. I push and he snap calls with KK! I yell FUCK! Until the flop comes AJ2!! COME ON! turn and river blank and I double to third in chips. Down to two tables I raise with 33 guy for about 25% of my stack pushes I cal I have him dominated he has 22!! I hold and am chip leader with 11 to go.

I chip down to about 4th in chips with 7 to go. I have the leader and by far most aggressive player at my table he's three betting alot and I try to avoid him. On the final table bubble he raises my bb I have 1010 and three bet he thinks for about 2.1 seconds and puts me all in. I didn't think I had him dominated and didn't' wanna race when I could sit at 3rd in chips with 6 to go so I fold. I kinda regret that fold now given his aggressive play but what can you do.

The final table was sadly fairly anti climatic. With the guy to my left(he went on to win) it was tough to steal blinds he three bet me three times and only once could I look him up. We get to three handed, and I'm the short stack with 500k blinds 25k 50k. He raises and I have AK and insta shove he insta calls with AA! Just my luck. No huge suckout and I get 3rd for 1500. I was upset at first but then realized i shoulda been out in 13th with the JJ hand so I couldn't' complain.

Last night i got 8th in the turbo fiddy. Had 99 vs AJ in a race for the chip lead with 18 to go and he rivered a J. Chipped back up before calling a late position all in with A10 he had AJ gg to me. 8th for 500 first got 5k so alittle disappointed.

On Sunday, I revisit one of my poker demons. Sunday is the msop main event. Last year, I was 3rd in chips with 45 to play when I got in a race with 55 for half my stack against AK. The board bricks out till the river when he spikes a K. I woulda been the chip leader. I end up losing another flip on the turn and get KOed in 29th for 1500 bucks, First got 73k. It still haunts me today. I can try to exercise the demons on Sunday. Wish me luck!

I'll prob post details tomorrow. I got 3rd place in the 5 buck wit rebuys 6 handed 10k guaranteed event on full tilt today. 3rd paid out 1500 bucks. I cashed out 500 to pay for July rent. Sweet. Full day of action tomorrow hopefully I can keep it up.

On Monday night I won my first ever heads up multi. I had probably played in about 150 of these things ranging from 2 bucks to 50 bucks and had made it to the final 4 or 8 at least 15 times but I finally broke through and won the 20 buck for 658 just hours after reaching the finals in the 2 buck only to fall just short here's a recap.

Ok tournament got 94 players and I had a first round bye. In the round of 64 I jumped out to an early two to one chip lead but let him back in and actually had to suck out to survive sadly I don't remember the hand.

The round of 32 was a rare occurrence in that my opponent was a no show, even though he had clearly won his first round match to get there. My guess is maybe he had a sudden errand to run? In general, I tend to be content with raising blinds and chipping away if my opponent isn't there, save for a few exceptions. If the player has a disconnect, I will give them 5 minutes to come back, especially if we are in the money. I feel like then, they've earned the right to play it out. However, if it becomes a consistent disconnect, I tend not to be so kind. But no disconnect here, just a plain no show and I'm on to the sweet 16.

The round before the money is always a tense one. I do my best to not tighten u i nthis round, though pulling that bluff is definitely alittle harder. However, I had to do alot of that in the next match, and it was by far the best I've ever played. It was one of those matches where I had to sit on my hands and wait for a big hand as my opponent min raised and continuation bet everytime he had the button. Sadly though, I didn't hit a freakin flop for 10 minutes, so I had to bluff like crazy to simply survive. Finally I hit a couple flops, and had the guy short drawing to 2 outs after the flop and I held. To the elite 8 we go!

Don't remember much about the elite 8. I know I had to battle from behind, and I remember on the big hand I flopped top pair and bet aggressively, and he stuck around with a flush draw. I shoved the turn and he stuck around and he missed so I got to the final 4.

Being that this was a non turbo, the last two matches flew by! After begging to flop a pocket pair set all tournament I finally got it with 22 on a 652 flop. I check and he pot bet I called. River Q made 3 spades on board. He pot bet and I pushed and he insta called I thought for sure I was dead but he flipped 65! And I held and went to the finals.

In the finals I was down early but battled it up to even when I called a raise with 106 suited. The flop was 1096 yahtzee! I check called his bet. The turn was a King and we get it in he shows KQ. No K,Q,J, or 9 and the title mind. River is a 3!!

Ship the 658 and the first great feeling the big breakthrough I needed to get my bankroll rolling again. A very long weekend but very rewarding. Kinda tired haven't played poker in two days and am pretty content. More updates coming.