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This is bound to be a long post with lots of pictures. Let me get the poker stuff out of the way first.
This month I won a big Sunday major, cashed in the WCOOP main event, cashed in a WCOOP 1k, and took down and placed in the 2-7 single draw, with maybe a couple other minor cashes for a total of about +105k in tournaments, then I had a pretty decent cash game month as well. I took on a more full time roll at the 10/20 and 25/50 6max games (game selecting of course) and for the first time I had really good results. I even took a shot at 40/80 NLHE, selling a piece of my action but lost bigtime in this hand (below) that I don't think I could have played any differently. I am going to make it a big goal to put up a bunch of hands on high stakes where i had questions about but I won't bore you with them here.
This is by far the biggest pot I have ever lost. I meant to buy in for only 8k but accidentally auto bought in full and still decided to play. I do think I have a small edge in this game but not sure if its worth the variance. I do think its helpful to play this high in preparing myself for the nosebleeds. Most importantly I wasn't pissed at all after I lost the hand, I still had a whole day of work ahead of me and kept my head on straight.
Seat 1: actionDJ ($16,271 in chips) - 
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Seat 2: Suic1de_K1ng ($23,556 in chips) - 
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| Seat 4: gdluck ($5,339 in chips) |
| Seat 5: Alexonmoon ($16,956 in chips) |
Seat 6: Jas11 ($19,704.50 in chips) - 
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| PRE-FLOP: |
| actionDJ posts small blind $40 |
| Suic1de_K1ng posts big blind $80 |
| Dealt To: actionDJ |
 
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| FOLD gdluck |
| FOLD Alexonmoon |
| RAISE Jas11 ($240) |
| RAISE actionDJ ($880) |
| FOLD Suic1de_K1ng |
| CALL Jas11 ($640) |
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| FLOP: |
| Pot: $1840 |
  
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| BET actionDJ ($1334) |
| CALL Jas11 ($1334) |
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| TURN: |
| Pot: $4508 |
 
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| BET actionDJ ($3567) |
| RAISE Jas11 ($17490.50) - All in |
| CALL actionDJ ($10490) - All in (Pot Odds: 2.44) |
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| UNCALLED Jas11 ($3433.50) |
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| RIVER: |
| Pot: $32622 |
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| SHOWDOWN: |
| Jas11: |
 
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| actionDJ: |
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| Jas11 collected $32619 from main pot with two pair, Tens and Sevens |
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| SUMMARY: |
| Total pot: $32622 |
| Rake: $3 |
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| Final Board: |
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| Seat 1: actionDJ small blind showed [Ac As] and lost with a pair of Aces - Net Gain/Loss: ($-16271.00) |
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| Seat 2: Suic1de_K1ng big blind folded before the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($ -80.00) |
| Seat 4: gdluck didnt bet folded - Net Gain/Loss: ($ 0.00) |
| Seat 5: Alexonmoon didnt bet folded - Net Gain/Loss: ($ 0.00) |
| Seat 6: Jas11 button showed [7d Td] and won 32,619 with two pair, Tens and Sevens - Net Gain/Loss: ($ 16348.00) |
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This graph is kinda funny. It doesn't reflect each day correctly because of the 3 hour time difference between importing FTP hands and importing PS hands, usually that doesn't matter, but when I lost this 32k (the 20k downward needle drop) pot it was the beginning of the day, right around the 40k mark, then I skyrocketed up 25k at 25/50 in about 3.5 hours. Really my runbad triggerred a really awesome rungood, which is something that is rare in poker. Something also important to note is that the last 6k hands were played on vacation. W00t vacation.
Overall in September I would say I made around 145k which quadrupled my online bankroll and really gave me nice padding to find myself in good shape to play 25/50 nearly fulltime (I still sell a small piece of my action). My game has improved immensely and while I am not the best, I am ready for even some tough games.
Chicago
So the vacation was awesome. We went to Chicago, for no real reason other than to sight see and drink with nutedawg. We did tons of both. We got to eat at a variety of nice restaurants including a Brazilian meat buffet type thing, and Joe's Stone Crab, which had great seafood and the best Havana Cream Pie ever. We did a walking food tour of some places and had some Chicago style pizza. Personally I don't think it is all its talked up to be. We went to Millennium Park, Sears tower, the Field Museum, a Cubs game at Wrigley Field, and to various bars. Here are some pics:
Shana in front of some buildings near Millennium Park
Some weird sculptures in Millennium Park
This is like a TV screen behind a waterfall that is also imitating a waterfall, pretty cool
This one was a picture of Benjamin Franklins face (I think), which smiled and winked at you if you looked at it long enough... creepy, I don't get it
Some bad pictures of the front of the original Playboy Mansion
A cool pic of the river and some surrounding buildings
A night view from the John Handcock's Sky Bar
Our bottle of champagne at the Sky Bar
Me in front of the Cardrunners office, Making the trip an Official Tax Right Off (That and I worked and made a grip of $ thanks to nute's tutelage)
Me at Sears Tower in the Sky Deck, this was really scary for me as I am slightly afraid of heights, my heart got a little racing just sitting down on this thing. We are 103 stories up
Shana in front of the Field Museum
Some real life imported hieroglyphics inside a recreated tomb in the Field Museum
Wrigley Field and the Cubs game, nutedawg and I placed a small wager on the Cubs and we won
The Game from our seats, we were pretty close
We didn't get a lot of pics of the bars (where we spent most of our time), or nutes house, as we were usually pretty intoxicated. All in all a very fun and safe trip, we got it in just before the weather began to cool down.
After Chicago we went to Sacramento to a friend's wedding, then kicked it around there and headed back home. Its good to be home and I am looking forward to working on a few projects in the next couple months that will branch me slightly further away from being only a poker pro. However, a couple of poker player friends are coming into town in a couple days and I know the debauchery will continue.
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