Bahamas - WPT PCA...

[Talking Poker]

Hey gang...

Well, we're here (me and bdawg), so I figured I'd make a sticky thread for our updates. By "our," I of course mean "my."

This place is amazing. There wasn't much daylight left when I got here, but from what I saw, I'm amazed. The aquariums everywhere are increadible. Our room is one of the "sucky" ones, and it's pretty nice... huge too.

My flight was interesting, to say the least. I go to the airport a little over an hour before my flight, but because I was flying internationally, I got SCREWED. I couldn't check in at the kiosks, they pointed me to the wrong "short" line, and after I got through that, they told me I had to go stand in the 150 person or so huge line. No way was I going to make it. I chatted with an airline guy towards the back of the line, and he was nice enough to take me to the first class line, so I made it in time. I slipped him a $5 on the way to the gate. I know, I'm such a high roller.

Got to the waiting area and saw that Hoyt Corkins was going to be on my plane. Oh, and some other Ivey guy. Yup, that's the one. He had a WICKED laptop on his lap, and I couldn't resist, so I went to the row behind him and sat down. He was playing two tables at Full Tilt (with the Phil Ivey icon in front of him!) and one table at UB. I didn't watch or get close enough to see his UB screen name - didn't want to be annoying. But it was without a doubt the baddest laptop I've ever seen.

The flight was cool. In 5 minutes, we were almost to the coast, with KSC to my left and my house to my right. Pretty sweet view. I got friendly with the couple sitting in my aisle (Dean and Kim), and before I knew it, they offered me a ride to Atlantis in their limo. Um.... ok

Got here and hiked to the check in area, and bumped into bdawg before I even got through the line. We went and enjoyed a $50 buffet for dinner (included in his package, of course), and WHAT A BUFFET! Did I mention that they had a freaking chocolate fountain???

After that, we bumped into our friends from Aruba - the Stolzman's - and the four of us went to the welcome party. We get split up, but I bumped into my boy P0ker H0 and a number of other familiar faces (and some pros, of course).

Oh, I forgot to mention, I chatted with Hoyt on the way to baggage claim for a few minutes, mostly about Hellmuth and the TOC. hehe...

The poker room opened up at about 8:30 (they don't usualy have poker here - it's only for this), and bdawg andI played in a $100 SNG to get things started. I ended up busting out in the middle of the pack when my AQs ran into KK (from a guy who had reraised all in successfully twice already). bdawg is still in it. I've got 20% of him, so he's a lock to cash

That's all for now. bdawg plays in Flight 1 (tomorrow). I'll be playing in the $300 side tourney tomorrow night.

P.S. Sorry if I have more typos than usual - I hate typing on my laptop.

[PShabi]

You're trip reports always fucking rock. Looking forward to more. Have fun man!

[Talking Poker]

That's funny.... Just after I posted this, my boy Sdouble (Josh Sciame - 2nd place finisher in Aruba) came over to say hello. I'm in the hotel lobby right now, since the WiFi doesn't reach our room.

I like that kid. He's on his way to BUY IN to the touney right now. Pretty funny, considering the last time I saw him, he literally had $0 (yes, ZERO) and one TalkingPoker.com poker chip in his wallet. He was backed for the Aruba tourney, but even so, half a $440k (or whatever it was) is a pretty nice bankroll boost.

[Talking Poker]

bdawg just got here. And I quote, "Are you ever gong to win me money???"

hehe - thanks for the 80 bucks, sucker! (He chopped with one other guy).

[rookette22]

Seems like you're having a fab time already. Maybe you'll end up finding that SANE female you're trying so hard to find lol

Have fun and gl to you!



P.S. If you happen to read a few long threads; start from the end post and move on up. This way you won't get as stressed out or upset with me.

[Favre[4]]

Wow nice. I wish i cud be there sounds like so much fun. Where could i get one of those TP chips??

[Zybomb]

Send $5 dollars to

TheNextThing

and

PShabi

on pokerstars -- then once you reach 1000 (quality) posts you will receive the chips once payment to each of these accounts has been acknowledged

[BlibbityBlabbity]

WAIT just a minute here......

Pokerstars: TimeToWinTD

[Zybomb]

lol, yea but he actually owes me and shabi the money

but ok you are on the list also now

TimeToWinTD

[BlibbityBlabbity]

ok, I thought we were just fleecing the newbies as a new rule....

carry on

[Talking Poker]

Yeah... caue she exists Sure she does.

As for the poker chips, the TP.com store is half built now..... and I actually send out a few (and other goodies) to some peeps earlier this week. I expect tys in the next couple of days

I'm outtie for the day. Catcha later.......

[2Tone]

Thanks for the great read.

Man, I thought I was envious because I'm not at CES this year, but now I know where I really want to be. Knock 'em dead, man.

[jimmym]

TP I have just got the odds for this tourny, I think I am right in saying you are not playing (hope I am wrong) . If you were placing a few bets who would you go for. Ferguson at 100.1 ,T.J at 200 and Devilfish at 300.1 for me. I also have the odds for the wsop but your name is not mentioned I have e-mailed for a price. Gl to you both out there.

Ivey, Phil 80
James, Kenna 100
Juanda, John 100
La, Meng 100
Hollink, Rob 100
Lederer, Howard 100
Negreanu, Daniel 100
Ferguson, Chris 100
Hennigan, John 100
Fischman, Scott 100
Chan, Johnny 100
Harrington, Dan 100
Goehring, Alan 100
Seidel, Erik 125
Sjavik, Jan 125
Phan, John 125
Song, Kevin 150
Storakers, Johan 150
Sunar, Surinder 150
Sief, Mark 150
Brunson, Todd 150
Nguyen, Scotty 150
Tann, Willie 150
Roberts, Ben 150
Seed, Huck 150
Shipley, John 150
Zolotow, Steve 150
Wernick, Mickey 150
Williams, David 150
Reese, Chip 150
Violette, Cindy 150
Vaswani, Ram 150
Tomko, Dewey 150
Tsiprailidis, Chris 150
Vahedi, Amir 150
Tatalovich, Richard 150
Watkinson, Lee 150
Bonyadi, Farzad 150
Colclough, Dave 150
Pham, David 150
Esfandiari, Antonio 150
Bloom, Tony 150
Tran, An 150
Raymer, Greg 150
Appleman, Mickey 150
Bjorin, Chris 150
Jett, Chip 150
Benyamine, David 150
Nguyen, Men 150
Phillips, Paul 150
Plastik, David 150
Lindgren, Erick 150
Meehan, Jim 150
Mehrmand, David 150
Lisandro, Jeff 150
Tran, Mimi 150
Ma, Tony 150
Mckeever, George 150
Laak, Phil 200
Judah, Mel 200
Kabbaj, John 200
Johansson, Christer 200
Habib, Hasan 200
Liebert, Kathy 200
Hellmuth, Phil 200
Jacobs, Tom 200
Parkinson, Padraig 200
Roche, Peter 200
Williamson Iii, Robert 200
La, Hung 200
Perrault, Pascal 200
Maxfield, Paul 200
Luske, Marcel 200
Magee, Mike 200
Magriel, Paul 200
Liffey, Rory 200
Goldstein, Stan 200
Cloutier, T-J 200
Corkins, Hoyt 200
Cunningham, Allen 200
Clarke, Paul 200
Boston, Alan 200
Brenes, Alex 200
Brenes, Humberto 200
Brunson, Doyle 200
Arieh, Josh 200
Giang, Chau 200
Greenstein, Barry 200
Darden Jr, Paul 200
Franklin, Tom 200
Griffin, Gavin 200
Farha, Sam 200
Flack, Layne 200
Forrest, Ted 200
Duke, Annie 250
Francisco, Noli 250
Fitoussi, Bruno 250
Demetriou, Harry 250
Hansen, Gus 250
Deeb, Kassem 250
Derei, Asher 250
Kim-Hua, Can 250
Luong, Gioi 250
Boatman, Ross 250
Kollman, Erich 250
Jones, Jesse 250
Heimowitz, Jay 250
Hinchcliffe, Chris 250
Grimes, Tommy 250
De Knijff, Martin 250
Balas, Eli 250
Betson, Alan 250
Boatman, Barny 250
Awanda, Joe 250
De Haas, Ed 250
Alspach, Dan 250
Bloch, Andrew 250
Mclean, Alan 250
Cernuto, John 250
Ciaffone, Bob 250
Bonetti, John 250
Boyd, Dutch 250
Boubli, Jan 250
Bortner, Joanne 250
Hamilton, Russ 300
Harman, Jennifer 300
Johnston, Berry 300
Haller, Christophe 300
Hopkins, Greg 300
Heimiller, Dan 300
Gray, Scott 300
Gardner, Julian 300
Laing, Mike 300
Geary, George 300
Gerasimov, Kirill 300
Lee, Hon 300
Hall, Harley 300
Pescatori, Max 300
Sarkeshik, Ali 300
Salem, Lee 300
Scharf, Eddy 300
Ulliott, Dave 300
Waggoner, Marsha 300
Rokach, Lucy 300
Gallagher, Patty 300
Levi, David 300
Lester, Jim 300
Liu, Steven 300
Murphy, John 300
O Dea, Donn 300
Leonidas, Toto 300
Holland, Randy 300
Burgio, Vince 300
Brahmi, Charles 300
Mortensen, Carlos 300
Carter, Brent 300
Chiu, David 300
Channing, Neil 300
Berman, Lyle 300
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Affleck, Ben 300
Jones, Gary 300
Asmo, Louis 300
Gazes, Bill 300
Badger, Steve 300
Cohen, Claude 300
Besnaimou, Angelo 300
Earle, Phil 300
Duvall, Jeff 300
Esposito, John 300
Esquerra, Mario 300
Callaghan, Frank 300
Donev, Ivo 300
Feduniak, Maureen 300
Callaghan, Don 300
Cousineau, Tony 300
Cordovez, Diego 300
Dang, Danny 300
Daugherty, Brad 300
Dollison, Nani 300
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Costa, Peter 350
Chapman, Tony 350
O Connell, Kevin 400
Nirjan, Sonny 400
Ng, Evelyn 400
Meyers, Phyllis 400
Moneymaker, Chris 400
Reyes, Cecelia 400
Rosenblum, Russell 400
Mcevoy, Tom 400
Pham, Xuyen 400
Varkonyi, Robert 400
Shoten, Charlie 400
Schoenfeld, Adam 400
Rose, Ron 400
Bruel, Patrick 400
Gosler, Marcus 400
Gowan, Clonie 400
Gordon, Phil 400
Stern, Max 400
Brindley, Roy The Boy 400
Hayden, Melissa 400
Enright, Barbara 400
Johnson, Linda 400
Stern, Maria 400
Marmorstein, Philippe 400
Gazes, Kristy 400
Keston, Robin 400
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Maguire, Toby 500
Miller, Andy 500
Brenes, Eric 500
Atkinson, Bruce 500
Arama, Jac 500
Shulman, Barry 500
Baxter, Derek 500
Coren, Victoria 500
each-way terms 4
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[Talking Poker]

My day has been pretty annoying. Poker-wise, anyway. Atlantis rules

The tourney started at noon, and bdawg has hovered around the starting 10k mark all day. He was down to 7200ish at one point and up in the 11 or 12k range too. That;s more than a lot of people can say. The last time I walked past Daniel Negreanu, he was pushing in for his remaining 1500 chips (the blinds are 300-600 now).

Anyway, I decided to play in a some cash games. I wanted 2/4 NL, but the 5/10 opened up first, so I figured, why not? I bought in for $600, and promptly lost in with KK. I reloaded for another $600 and promptly lost it, ALSO with KK (not 5 minutes later). I bought in for $600 more, and guess what? This time it was with QQ, at least. All three hands had me pushing in with an overpair, and not once did I actually have the best hand when the money went in. You've gotta love that. Am I a donkey? Am I unlucky? Maybe a bit of both, if you ask me.

Hand #1: 2 callers in front of me, so I bump it to $60, figuring that will be enough. SEVEN people take the flop of T97. Not a bad flop for my hand, but pretty scary. It checks to the player to my right who bets $300 of the $500 or so he has left in front of him. I put him on a draw, but think I have the best hand, so I push in for my remaining $485, hoping to take him heads up with me having the lead. What I wasn't expecting was one of the EP checkers to call as well. He turned over T7 and the better turned over 88. A 6 came on the turn and the 88 tripled up. This guy (the 88) is a very solid player, btw, and I wasn't surprised to see a MOUNTAIN of hips sitting in front of him when I walked by a bit ago.

Hand #2: This time I have the KK in the BB. One limper and the SB completes. We had been joking about how you needed to make a big raise to get anyone to fold, so I jacked it up $50 more. The limper called and the SB folded. Hey - at least I got it down to HU. The flop comes 789 - same deal as before, pretty much. I bet $100 and he min raises me to $200. Sure, he could have JT, but I think MHIG, so I call. I even check the blank turn to him (I'll give him his free card) and he bets again. This time I check raise all in, and he calls an turns over T6. Yes, that's right - T6. I have to admit, I didn't see that coming.

Hand #3. That same donk limps and the donk to his left raises to $30 (he raised a LOT with junk), so I reraised to $90 with my QQ. One other players called and Donk #2 (the raiser) called as well, after MUCH thought - I knew he had his usual junk. The flop comes 889. I say "that's a good flop for my hand" and they check to me. I bet $300 of the $305 I have left in front of me, saying I wanted to save $5 so I could fold in case I got check raised. The caller folds and Donk #2 calls. He turns over J8. W... T..... F....???

So long $1800.

I know I could have gotten off those or played them differently - more OR less aggressively preflop - whatever.... but for God's sake... I have to think KK vs T7/88, T6, and QQ vs. J8 are good matchups for me. Must I get outflopped on ALL OF THEM? *sigh*

Signing up for today's $30 tourney was a mess (I can explain later), but it starts in a few minutes, and I THINK I'm going to get it, so I need to bolt. Here's hoping my luck changes a bit, ASAP... but I'm not holding my breath.

P.S. My connection (from the room) sucks ass... hopefully this will go through.

[ChipFish]

What is Bdawgs name so we can see who we're cheering on.

[Talking Poker]

I wrote that just before 6:00... just got back now.

First, bdawg is out. I haven't seen him since he busted, and I think he's probably regretting how he played his final hand. A mid position player made a standard raise to 1800 (300/600 blinds) and bdawg pushed in from the BB for over 10k with AQ. The guy thought forever and finally called with AK and it held up. He had 20some thousand, so it ws about half of his stack to call.

Meanwhile, my tourney was interesting. I decided to splash around a lot in the beginning (25-25 blinds to start), and doubled myself up with a bunch of small pots in no time. I had an above average stack for a long time until two interesting hands came up. In one of them, a good player raised from LP and I called from the BB with 77. You know how much I "love" 77. The flop came down 955, and I checked (thinking I had the best hand). He surprised me with a check behind me. The turn was a 4, and put 3 diamonds on the board. One of my 7s was a diamond, btw. I decided to fire out a nice sized be here and he went into the tank. After thinking for a while, he pushed in. I was pretty sure he had high cards, like AJ or AT with a diamond, bu then I talked myself out of it and really thought he had TT with a diamond for some reason. Maybe 88 with a diamond. I couldn't figure out why he checked the flop with eiher of those hands though, but I knew if I called and he did have one of those hands, I'd be in really bad shape. I had him outchipped, but decided to fold anyway. He told me later he had AJ with the Ad. Eh.... I folded the best hand, but he had a LOT of outs.

Not much later, an EP donkey limped in (I saw this guy LIMP-RERAISE all in with AQo, ATs, and I think 44 or something equally insane - and he kept winning, even when he was getting in against AK with his AT (he made a flush), etc. I saw AKs and wanted to isolate (and hopefully set him up to reraise all in on me), so I made a healthy reraise. Well, the BB pushed in. Donk thinks for a minute and CALLS. Dammit. I put the BB on a pair, but not AA or KK and the donl could have anything, but I was hoping I had him dominated. I decided to call. The BB had 88 and the donk had JTo (????). The flop brought a Jack... and an 8 of course.... and I didn't get the runner runner straight I called for. This put a huge dent in my stack, and all of a siddne I was short.

I hung on forever, picking up a couple of pots here and there, but with the blinds and antes, my stack was headed south. After losing yet another coinflip, the dealer started pushing my stack to the other player, and I said "Hold up. Count that." The table all though he had me covered too, but I said "Settle down. I've got him." I had 275 chips left After posting my 75 chip ante the next hand, I went all in with KQ (the best hand I had seen in ages) and actualy doubled up (and then some) against A3. Then my A8 held up against 22, and before I knew it, I was over 4000 chips again. When I was down to 200 (1/2 of a B), there were 28 players left and only 20 made the money.

I ended up bubbling, but not in the 21 spot. I finished 11th (one spot off the final table and a money increase). All in all, I can't complain. $485 gross on a $300 buy in. It's nothing compared to the mess from earlier today, but it felt good to play well in a tourney. Tomorrow is a $500...

I'm starving, so that's all for now.

[Talking Poker]

I don't think he wants me to say, so I won't. That will be up to him to reveal, if he chooses to do so... Plus, he's out anyway

[MathBabe]

Aw, that's too bad! I missed the middle post at first, and thought he was just out of the $100 SNG.

Enjoy the rest of the Bahamas now the pressure's off, Dawg!

[Talking Poker]

I'm in the lobby right now... this is insane. There are at lest a dozen other laptops, all with people playing online poker. The best part is that people are railing each other. JohnnyBax just got a round of pplause when he took down a tourney, "leggy" made $9000 in tourneys right here today, P0ker H0, SassyTexas, Shawn Rice, etc, etc - all here. Not to mention a bunch of people I don't really know.

Oh, and that Daniel Negreanu guy is sitting right there (*looks 25 feet in 1:00 direction*) playing what looks to me to be Gin Rummy with someone I don't recognize.

Freaking crazy, isn't it?

One thing I may not have mentioned yet - we all have meal plans included with our stay. Breakfast, lunch and dinner... $50 buffets, nice restaurants - Appetizer, Salad, Main Course, Desert all included. Are you kidding me? If I ONLY gain 10 pounds by the time I get home, it will be a miracle.

[Zybomb]

MAN I need to get to one of these events FAST

[Talking Poker]

TP video sighting:


LOL. It's like a bad "Where's Waldo?"

[Robbr25]

Nice Red shirt, what is on the front?
Did you get any gear to where from the site that you won your entry from?

[Talking Poker]

Nothing on the front of the shirt. Didn't win an entry, so no gear for me. bdawg's gift bag was SICK though. Made me jealous. I'm gonna have to try to get my hands on one

[Gordogg]

You have gotta be the unluckiest guy with KK that I know. That's just sick! Have fun man!

[Talking Poker]

I just chatted with Daniel to see what game he was playing. It's called "Mille," and looks to be a version of Rummy. He pointed me to his web site for the rules, which are here: