Update from Las Vegas

I haven't had any good results since the last update. I bricked three more live tournaments this past week to put my tally at 0-5. I built up a huge stack in the Venetian $550 on Friday only to lose massive pots when they really counted. I played online today and ran pretty bad. I have three live tournaments on the schedule for this week which are the $340 Venetian tomorrow, the $225 Venetian shootout on Tuesday, then the $550 Venetian on Wednesday. Dave and Helwig are coming out on Thursday and staying through Saturday, so I'll be taking some time off from the grind and hanging out with them for a few days. I'll be back grinding online on Sunday and I really haven't looked at the live schedule for the week after but I think its a full slate. I'll keep ya updated, hopefully with some good updates the next time I post. Take it easy, later.

Poker in Vegas

Well we rolled into Las Vegas Sunday morning around 5am local time. We got a hotel off the strip for the morning and made it into the house around 2pm the next day. It looked just as good as we seen in the pictures on the website. I picked up my first ever speeding ticket on the way in Illinois, I thought the speed limit was 70, nah it was only 65. Honestly, I haven't seen a speed limit that was 65 on an interstate since '97 or so. Oh well, back to the poker, I played in Event #5 on Monday at the WSOP, was a $1500 PLO event. Started with 4500 chips and the levels were an hour. I busted out in the first two hours losing 77A8 versus QT44 on 762 2 heart flop for a 6k pot. He had 3 hearts in his hand and I had one as well. River came 3 hearts, I was around an 80 percent favorite to win the hand. About twenty minutes later, I get AAT6 allin preflop vs AA85 and QJ99 and lose, was a 6k pot. I played in event #7, which was a $1500 WSOP NL event. Started with 4500 in chips and hour levels, same as the PLO event. I lasted a little over two hours in this one, before running TT into QQ for around a 10k stack. I never got anything going on early in this one either.

After I busted the PLO event yesterday, I came straight back and played some online MTT's. I won the 50 cubed on Stars for a little over $6k. I also took fifth in the 33 rebuy on Full Tilt for around $2k. I profited around $7k on the day playing online. This was my first full grind session online for quite sometime. I crushed last year out here online and I'm off to another great start. Tomorrow I'm playing in the $1500 WSOP NL 6 Max, this is the tourney I've looked forward to playing the most except for the main event obviously. I think 6 max fits my game really well live. On Thursday and Friday, I'm playing at the Venetian which both are $550 buyins. I'll try to update again in another few days or so, take it easy!

Getting closer to Vegas

I haven't played much other than the FTOPS events with no luck since my last update. I've played PLO(pot limit omaha) cash games a few days this week with a little bit of success. I've been over at Mattster's house a few days this week watching him play and learning from him. I plan on starting to play alot more PLO cash games than the NLHE MTT's online. We will be leaving in about eight days to start the grind in Las Vegas. I've made out a schedule for the WSOP and Venetian that I will be playing. If you want to follow updates of me you can go to www.twitter.com/k_rock2525.com

Here is the schedule I'll be playing
June 1st- $1500 WSOP PLO
June 2nd- $1500 WSOP NLHE
June 3rd- $1500 WSOP NLHE 6 max
June 4th- $550 Venetian NLHE
June 5th- $550 Venetian NLHE
June 8th- $330 Venetian NLHE
June 9th- $225 Venetian NLHE Shootout
June 10th- $550 Venetian NLHE
June 15th- $2k WSOP NLHE
June 16th- $330 Venetian NLHE
June 18th- $2k WSOP NLHE
June 19th- $550 Venetian NLHE
June 20th- $550 Venetian NLHE
June 22nd- $550 Venetian NLHE
June 23rd- $330 Venetian NLHE
June 24th- $330 Venetian NLHE
June 25th- $550 Venetian NLHE
June 27th- $1500 WSOP NLHE
June 29th- $1500 WSOP NLHE
July 3rd- $10k WSOP NLHE Main Event

I might add more tournaments or take a few away just depends on how things go and what not. I'm hoping to update on here after every live tournament I just don't know If I will have time or that I will remember. That about sums it up, take it easy!

FTOPS

I've played some FTOPS events on Full Tilt here in the last six days or so. The only one I did well in was the 300+22 on Sunday. It had right around 4200 entrants and I busted 22nd for $5500. First place was 259k, sigh. I ran 99 into a very good aggresive players AA for a huge pot, he went on to win by the way. I sucked out for huge pots all tourney deep though. I also went deep in the second chance on stars and sunday mulligan on tilt but not for any big scores. I plan on playing tonight which is turbos for the ftops. I also might play tomorrow night and most likely going to play on Sunday which is the main event for the ftops and that is a 500 buyin. After that though I'd say I will not play again until we head off to Las Vegas. It looks like we are going to leave either on the 30th or 31st, if you want to follow updates on me you can go to my twitter page http://twitter.com/K_Rock2525. I will be updating mostly at breaks or after the tournament for each day. You might have to copy and paste that as I'm not sure how to turn it into a clickable link. I'll probably update in about a week. Talk at ya later.

Been awhile.....

It's been around a month since my last update. I haven't really done a whole lot either other then hanging out and playing some golf. I went to the Kentucky Oaks on Friday and made a little money gambling it up on the ponies. I did some betting on Saturday for the Derby and lost some of it back. I bet a 5 horse tri and had the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place finishers but didn't have Mine That Bird at 50-1. It was a pretty good time down there on Friday and even had some fun watching the Derby on TV Saturday. I've only had one online session since my last update and didn't have any luck. I plan on playing this Wednesday night though since Full Tilt is hosting FTOPS(Full Tilt Online Poker Series). I'll probably play about 4-5 sessions starting this Wednesday through the next Sunday and hopefully be posting some good results. After that I'd say I'll take it easy until I hit Vegas for the summer. We're going to be driving out on either the 30th or the 31st. I plan on hitting it pretty hard this summer out there. I'm trying to get a list of events together that I want to play. I've been talking to Matt about maybe playing the Main Event at the WSOP this year so hopefully that happens. I also created an account on twitter today, if you want to get updates on how I'm doing during the summer you can follow me on this link www.twitter.com/k_rock2525. I won't do much posting until the summer I'd say. My sister is having a baby girl in June and they picked the name Mallory Paige Cockerham. I'm going to miss the birth along with my nephew's 4th birthday since I'll be in Vegas. That about sums it up, take it easy!

Online Grind

I've played three sessions or so since the last update with no good results. Mostly just played the scoop events on Stars. I've had some big stacks but couldn't put them to good use. Tomorrow is the 162 and 16 buyin heads up tournaments that I'll be participating in. Today in the 320 scoop event, I built up to around 24k early from the 10k starting stack but got rivered in a big pot to drop me down to around 18k when this hand came up. Blinds were at 125-250 with ante when I pick up A4dd in the cutoff and opened to 615, the sb called(who had rivered me in the big pot earlier and had been aggresive). The flop rolls out A84 with 2 clubs. The sb led out 750 and I made it 2555 to go and he called. The turn card was the T no club. He checked to me and I made it 3600 or so, he shoved and I called and flipped up the AT. River was a brick, good game me.

I plan on putting in a few sessions this week mostly just playing scoop events when I play. On Thursday I'm supposed to go the Reds/Mets game which should be alot of fun. Other then that my week is wide open. That's about it, take it easy.

Two Wins in One Night

Last night I did something that I had never accomplished in poker. I took down two tournaments on Pokerstars winning the $11 6 max for $2200 and winning the 50 cubed for $5k. Last night was turbo night on Stars, it was the only reason that I played. I also final tabled the $22 5 card draw turbo but it was only for $120 or so, only had 66 players. Last night was also the first time I've played since my last update. Just been taking it easy mostly. Mattster also had a good night making around 10-11k on the day. So things are starting to look up for team mattster maybe? Tomorrow is the first day of the scoop events held on Pokerstars. I plan on putting in a session tomorrow afternoon. I'm still debating on whether or not to play in the Kentuckiana Heads-up Championships at the Horseshoe in New Albany this weekend. If I play, I'll miss the scoop events on Friday and miss a benefit auction for the local golf course on Saturday if I make it to day 2. Well see how things pan out from now until then. Take it easy, later