tahoe rapup
I managed to learn lots of lessons on this trip for a fairly cheap price that im sure will save/make me a lot of money in the future. Lesson 1...dont gambool for lots of money in -ev casino games. Lesson 2, dont go broke in a poker tourney with crap. Lesson 3, dont gambool for lots of money in -ev casino games.
Basically, i got drunkn one night and lost $4500, all the cash I had on me in blackjack...so, im never going to get drunk or play blackjack again. Im fairly confident I can stick to that. considering I only took $6000 in cash on this trip and I had already lost $1500 of it in poker, I had to borrow some money from shannon since he had taken 2nd in a mtt for 25k. I ended up taking 10th in the $1500 mtt yesterday which won me a nice $0. 9th was $4500 and 1st was $50,000. I made a horrible play when we were down to 11 people. I had about 22000 chips, which was a little less than average. I had been fairly tight simply because I never had a chance to steal. So...we were 5 handed, I opened for 2.75 the bb, 2200 or so (400/800 blinds) from 1st with AJ, the button, a total idiot that I have seen reraise with AT about an hur earlier and just lose a huge pot to a guy reraised about 8000, or 1/2 of his chips. I started the hand with. This would normally be an easy fold but for some reason I thought he might be on tilt so I went all in and his AK pwned me. I managed to double up and maker the final table with 10,000 chips. Their final table had 10 people but only 9 got money. I guess I wasnt really thinking about sneaking into the money even thought therte were two other people with similar stacks to me. I got 88 from mp and pushed for 10bbs and a guy got AA and let me take 10th. So...I also learned that when you are basically guarenteed to get itm, you should. I knew this but for some reason I wasnt thinking clearly. Oh well...lesosn learned.
I went back to the hotel room very depressed because I was down $10,000 on this trip all due to my own stupidity. Me and Nate both owed shannon money, so he came up with the bright idea of flipping coins for money. I dont know how, but I ended up being up $6,000 from coin flips before I contently stopped, happily taking a $4,000 oss on the trip instead of a 10k one. For a full description of the coin flips, check out shannon shorrs blog.
Anyways, Heres what our little team racked up on this trip
Shannon: 2nd in $1000 nlhe mtt for $25,000
3rd in $1000 nlhe mtt for $12,000
Dave: 1st in $500 pot limit holdem mtt for $16,000
Nate: 2nd in $200 2nd chance mtt for a little
$10,000 main event seat in lake tahoe for a $200 investment
Reed: chopped $200 2nd chance mtt for a little
Me: lots of lessons learned for $4000
Fwiw, I also got the $10,000 wsop main event seat for playing a zillion sngs in 2 days, which is basically going to force me to stay in vegas for the whole 6 weeks because I have to see ufc and some shows at the start of the trip and play the main event at the end. I also made about $7000 from sngs on the trip. All in all, it was as good as a trip as it could be, considering I got pwned pretty hard in most everything I touched, besides coin flips. Im the coin flippinh master. Simple as that. Ok...im going to get on a plane soon. I'll post again after I get home and play some more sngs. This next week is going to be a hardcore woek week. Im looking foreward to it.
Basically, i got drunkn one night and lost $4500, all the cash I had on me in blackjack...so, im never going to get drunk or play blackjack again. Im fairly confident I can stick to that. considering I only took $6000 in cash on this trip and I had already lost $1500 of it in poker, I had to borrow some money from shannon since he had taken 2nd in a mtt for 25k. I ended up taking 10th in the $1500 mtt yesterday which won me a nice $0. 9th was $4500 and 1st was $50,000. I made a horrible play when we were down to 11 people. I had about 22000 chips, which was a little less than average. I had been fairly tight simply because I never had a chance to steal. So...we were 5 handed, I opened for 2.75 the bb, 2200 or so (400/800 blinds) from 1st with AJ, the button, a total idiot that I have seen reraise with AT about an hur earlier and just lose a huge pot to a guy reraised about 8000, or 1/2 of his chips. I started the hand with. This would normally be an easy fold but for some reason I thought he might be on tilt so I went all in and his AK pwned me. I managed to double up and maker the final table with 10,000 chips. Their final table had 10 people but only 9 got money. I guess I wasnt really thinking about sneaking into the money even thought therte were two other people with similar stacks to me. I got 88 from mp and pushed for 10bbs and a guy got AA and let me take 10th. So...I also learned that when you are basically guarenteed to get itm, you should. I knew this but for some reason I wasnt thinking clearly. Oh well...lesosn learned.
I went back to the hotel room very depressed because I was down $10,000 on this trip all due to my own stupidity. Me and Nate both owed shannon money, so he came up with the bright idea of flipping coins for money. I dont know how, but I ended up being up $6,000 from coin flips before I contently stopped, happily taking a $4,000 oss on the trip instead of a 10k one. For a full description of the coin flips, check out shannon shorrs blog.
Anyways, Heres what our little team racked up on this trip
Shannon: 2nd in $1000 nlhe mtt for $25,000
3rd in $1000 nlhe mtt for $12,000
Dave: 1st in $500 pot limit holdem mtt for $16,000
Nate: 2nd in $200 2nd chance mtt for a little
$10,000 main event seat in lake tahoe for a $200 investment
Reed: chopped $200 2nd chance mtt for a little
Me: lots of lessons learned for $4000
Fwiw, I also got the $10,000 wsop main event seat for playing a zillion sngs in 2 days, which is basically going to force me to stay in vegas for the whole 6 weeks because I have to see ufc and some shows at the start of the trip and play the main event at the end. I also made about $7000 from sngs on the trip. All in all, it was as good as a trip as it could be, considering I got pwned pretty hard in most everything I touched, besides coin flips. Im the coin flippinh master. Simple as that. Ok...im going to get on a plane soon. I'll post again after I get home and play some more sngs. This next week is going to be a hardcore woek week. Im looking foreward to it.
posted by Jonathan at 10:20 AM
1 Comments:
Jon, I just wantted to say that it was great getting to meet you finally and wanted to wish you the best of luck down the road. Take care and have a great time in vegas!
Scott Shorr
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