Poker from last night

I decided to play one last time before I left for vegas last night. I built up some pretty good stacks in the 22 rebuy 6 max at tilt. I ended up busting out 7th with AJ vs KK all in preflop. First place was around 3k to win, I ended up gettin 350 or so for seventh. I also had a really good stack in the tilt 35k the entire tourney but ended up busting out around 27th. A good player raised utg and I had 33k at 1500-3k and shipped it in with AQ only to have a player snap call behind with AA. I also got JJ all in vs AK on a 432 flop in this tourney with around 45 left for a ton of chips. The guy made a horrible play and has made horrible plays against me in the past. I ended up losing around 400 on the night despite having a couple of deep runs.

I leave for Vegas on Sunday and don't return til the 18th. I have high expectations and lofty goals but I think they are attainable as long as I play the poker I know I'm capable of. Also, I'm hoping the poker gods will be my side for the trip. I think if I can run "decent" and play good fundamental poker I can get a couple of big scores. Well I let ya go, later.

More Poker

I decided to play tonight and things have gone pretty bad. I'm not playing 100 percent focused and have decided to quit until WSOP. I don't know how much I'll play online out there. I want to take the time off to get focused and prepare for the live events. I have a good feeling I'm going to ship something. I am still playing right now but only have the stars 22 rebuy left. I leave for Vegas June 1st and will be coming home June 18th. I'll be playing mostly at the Venetian. Well that about sums it up, peace!

Random

I haven't played a whole lot of poker here recently as I hate the game. Last Sunday, I played in the FTOPS 322 in which I lost a flip with 104 left AQ vs JJ to bust for an 8th place stack. That tourney was 263k to win obv. Be nice to catch a break one time deep in a big tourney like that. Most of the week I helped my buddy Dave put down wood flooring and I really don't miss the physical work grind at all. I played some today and built some stacks but nothing every happened that was noteworthy. Well I'm going to run but I'll leave ya with a hand history from the 500+35 FTOPS today.......
SJMIN posts the small blind of 60
K-Rock2525 posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #8
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to K-Rock2525 [Ad Ac]
talv folds
ShizelReturns folds
IBPROPHIN calls 120
nomoballer folds
tedsfishfry has 15 seconds left to act
geeforce1 sits down
geeforce1 adds 4,675
tedsfishfry folds
pepochino folds
SJMIN has 15 seconds left to act
SJMIN calls 60
K-Rock2525 raises to 420
IBPROPHIN has 15 seconds left to act
IBPROPHIN raises to 2,890, and is all in
SJMIN folds
K-Rock2525 calls 2,470
IBPROPHIN shows [3h 3c]
K-Rock2525 shows [Ad Ac]
*** FLOP *** [3d Js 5d]
*** TURN *** [3d Js 5d] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [3d Js 5d 7s] [8d]
IBPROPHIN shows three of a kind, Threes
K-Rock2525 shows a pair of Aces
IBPROPHIN wins the pot (5,900) with three of a kind, Threes
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5,900 | Rake 0
Board: [3d Js 5d 7s 8d]
Seat 1: K-Rock2525 (big blind) showed [Ad Ac] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: talv didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: ShizelReturns didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: IBPROPHIN showed [3h 3c] and won (5,900) with three of a kind, Threes
Seat 6: nomoballer didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: tedsfishfry didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: pepochino (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: SJMIN (small blind) folded before the Flop

Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby

I went to the Kentucky Oaks on Friday and it was fantastic. We got into the track around 10:30. That gave us time to set up shop and start looking at the racing forums. Me and my friend Matt Rohr had a really solid day. We picked the winner in six out of the first seven races. We also hit back to back trifectas in the 7th and 8th races. I have to give credit to my uncle on the 8th for supplying me with the winner in the trifecta. I got a voicemail with 2 minutes to post from him telling me to take the tri, I did and it payed around $395 on a 2 dollar bet. I ended up winning around $1070. Not too bad of a day for really having no clue of what your doing. The weather was the only bad part of the day. It poured most of the day, but it didn't really matter as we were pouring in the money. Me and Rohr also made our annual TV appearance again...HA. I haven't gotten the oppurtunity to watch it yet, but one of rohr's friends has it taped and I'm supposed to get a copy sometime.

I think I posted earlier in one of my blogs that I was supposed to be going to the Derby also. Well it didn't pan out and I ended up not making the trip. I bet the 9th and the Derby and whiffed my bets and lost around $80. I was really impressed by Big Brown and this is the first time in a long time I've thought a horse would win the Triple Crown. I just don't really see this horse getting beat. He will for sure go off as the 1-9 favorite in the Preakness. So there won't be any value in betting him. I don't even know if I'll even wager any bets for that race. It was a pretty good weekend though on the betting front.

I'm not real sure right now when I'll play poker again online. It could be later tonight or sometime in two weeks. I really have no urge to play anytime soon, but who knows. I plan on playing alot of golf from now until I leave for Vegas in June. I plan on buying a new driver with my winnings from the track this past weekend. On a side note, Tom Crean keeps landing recruit after recruit and I couldn't be more happier with the direction he is taking the team. Well I'll let ya go, take it easy.