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I have spent over $25,000 on buy-ins and expenses. I have cashed $0. I only have one 1k WPT Bellagio Cup side event and the WSOP Main Event left, after those this year's series can be officially confirmed the most disastrous thing ever.

It's absolutely fucking unbelievable how bad I've run. I just busted from the WSOP 2,5k with set over set after about 40 minutes of play. I busted out from the last 1k when a superlaggy Hungarian guy completed his SB vs me 33BB deep, I raised to 3,8xBB and he shoved for the whole 33xBB and I snapcalled with A6o. He showed K8o, flop: AQJ turn: 6 river: wait for it... yes, T of course.

We went drinking with bet-a-pot and 10 other friends a couple of days back. I was hungover for two days afterwards, it was such a good night. Can't write much about what happened though, what happens in Vegas indeed stays in Vegas.

I don't know, I've been meant to blog about all the cool stuff in Vegas but I've just been mentally crushed by my sick run that I've kind of lost the will to write. Sorry about that. I have posted a few interesting hands at 2+2 though so I guess I'll just copy-paste them here.

1) From the Venetian Deepstack $550.

I played the Venetian Deepstack $340 today. I lasted for 5 levels, I still have yet to see level 6 after seven tournaments. And I also have yet to win a pre-flop all-in... it's pretty crazy actually, I've been here for over a week playing poker non-stop and I haven't won a single pf all-in yet? So no wonder I'm down 5k with no cashes so far. Today's tournament was the same old story. Started with 12k, built it steadily to 30k. Then I lost three "flips" for 10k each and went busto: QQ vs KJ, QQ vs JJ, QQ vs AK. As I said, I run lollabad here.

A couple of interesting hands occurred during the tournament, too:

1) In which I flop the relative nuts and the worst turn card in the deck arrives.

I know I promised to write a day-to-day journal from here, but I've been really ill for this whole trip and staring at a computer screen made my head ache immensely. Therefore I'm now going have to sum up my days here so far in one post and start writing the day-to-day thing from this day on.

Tuesday the 22th: Arrived here at 7PM. Got stuck at the airport security as they couldn't find my ESTA number in their system. After an hour of investigation I finally got out. I then went to my hotel, where they couldn't find my reservation. I asked if we could do a new reservation instead, and they said "yeah sure but you won't be getting it for the internet prizes". They were trying to charge me over twice the money I had booked my room for, so I went to the nearest starbucks and booked another room. Surprisingly they again couldn't find this new reservation. At this point I was so tired from 30 hours of traveling that I told them to go fuck themselves and went to another hotel. I ended up booking a junior suite in the Planet Hollywood Westgate Towers for about $90/night (see pictures). When I finally got to my room 4 hours after landing in Vegas I just went to sleep.

Wednesday the 23rd: Played the 1,5k WSOP. Ran lollabad, lost all the flips except one, finally got knocked out AA vs 76o on 776 after 5 hours of play.

As most of you know, I just finished 3rd in the Pokerstars Baltic Festival which the Stars pro William Thorson won. As an added bonus there was an EPT Tallinn package for the best finisher wearing Stars gear. This additional bonus in the prize pool was everywhere from flyers they gave at the casino to their website: http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/prom...ival/schedule/

They also kept mentioning this to satellite qualifiers and pretty much everyone wore Stars gear for this added value. While it doesn't say anywhere exactly that the race does include their team pros, imo this campaign was made only to ensure that everyone and especially the qualifiers wear Stars clothes.

Their pros (I think the only ones in were Martin Horecki, Ville Wahlbeck and William Thorson but there could've been others, definitely not many though) all already had a package as Stars are buying them in and therefore I don't see why they should be in the promotion.

On day three I think I got a really good table draw. Both Domcee and William Thorson were at the other table and mine was clearly much softer. Directly on my left side was sitting the last woman in the tournament, who according to everyone had been playing horribly and had managed to run incredibly well. And sure enough she did open limp buttons with 20BB stacks, limp-called every single time, donkbet folded flops, etc etc. The only thing that made playing against her difficult was that I don't think she had any idea about poker at all (she once had a straight with AT on a KQJ board but didn't realise she had one) and she seemed to be just randomly pressing buttons.

In one of the first hands an Estonian guy who was 2nd in chips opened from the hijack for 2,5BB, in a spot where the woman was in the big blind. They were both about 45BB deep as was I. He looked like a young internet guy who probably had a good idea of what he was doing, so I figured she would target the lady and open a lot of hands on her BB. Therefore I decided to 3bet to 8,5BB with K6o. Again the stacks were nicely awkward so that there's not much he can do, and since he hadn't played me before the dynamics weren't there for a 4bet bluff shove. He looked a big disgusted and folded.

After six hours of night sleep I was ready for day 2, which I started with 21BB - in other words a perfect resteal stack. I looked at the table draw and recognized various pros in my table, for example Finnish PLO/MTT player Matias Knaapinen who has recently been final tabling every tournament he's played. I figured action would be quite aggressive in our table and had the plan of resteal shoving very very light when I thought the spot was right.

Nothing really went according to my plans in the beginning of day 2 either, but this time in a good way. I folded the first five or six hands. In the last one a Finnish-Vietnamese tourney regular who I think is kind of bad (tilts easily and then spazzes off chips) lost half his stack in a standard AK>QQ coinflip. The king came on the river and I could just see it in his eyes how tilted he was. In the very next hand he shoved his last 13BB from MP2 and I made a relatively standard reshove with A9s from the hijack for my 20BB. Everyone else folded. I was actually against a legitimate hand as he held KQ, but I held and lifted my stack to 30k.

A few hands later a random Finnish guy who I've never seen opens UTG for 2,5BB with a 25BB stack, I look at QQ in UTG+1 and raise to 6,5BB. Folded around to him, he thinks about it for maybe 5 seconds and 4bet shoves with 99. I snap and hold. I'm never 3-betting worse than 99 (except for AK) so I think his push was pretty bad, but then again we've never played each other before so maybe he saw the situation a bit differently. After this hand I all of a sudden had 40k and was nicely above average.

I'm writing this on my way to Vegas and I have don't have much battery life left in my crappy laptop so I'm going to split this in three to avoid having to write it all over.

The tournament had two starting days, 1A being the 16th of June and 1B being the 17th. When I contemplated playing a satellite into this tournament I was like "hmm... why do I feel like I have somewhere I need to be on the 16th?". I looked at the live tournament schedule and was confident I didn't need to be anywhere else playing that week. Then I looked at the "events" thing in Facebook and found absolutely nothing. Therefore I played the $33+r satty, kind of accidentally won a seat and that was it. I only found out next morning where I was supposed to be on the 16th. It was my first anniversary with my girlfriend. Oops! I had no choice but to inform my girlfriend that we now have a change of plans and that we are going to Tallinn for our anniversary. I'm sure it sounds exotic to people not from the Northern Europe, but I can assure you it's not. It's kind of like living in New York and going to New Jersey for your anniversary.

Anyway, the tournament director (who was phenomenally good at her job throughout the tournament) was kind enough to let me change starting days for 1B, and there I was at 1PM on thursday morning ready to rumble once again. I was on a streak of 22 consecutive live tournaments without cashing once, and my desperation for getting the monkey off my back was increasing rapidly.

We started the tournament with just 10,000 in chips which isn't much of a stack for a tourmanent of this buy-in range (1500€), but it turned out the structure later on was very good.

I totally bricked out everything in the Midnight Sun dropping over 5k in buy-ins and getting back 200€ for the only bounty I managed to get in the 600€ bounty tournament. I finished 20th in the 3k€ Main just off the money. In my last hand I shoved 77 from BB vs a loose HJ opener for 23BB and he woke up with AA. I actually wrote an entry about 5 pages long covering all tournaments I played there, but my ****** browser froze and I of course hadn't saved it. I'm quite sure I'm not going to write it again.

On a happier tone, I just got back from Estonia where I played the 1500€ PokerStars Baltic Festival. I finished third for 486 000EEK, or about 40k usd. That was a nice addition to my Vegas bankroll. I'm flying to Vegas tomorrow so I'm not sure if I have time before I get there, but I'll write an in-depth tournament report about the interesting hands during the three days of play when I have time.

Until then, good luck all!

My last seven days of online tournaments have been pretty interesting. I've gone down over 8k in buy-ins, but won live event packages worth over 10k, so I guess all in all the week was +2k.

I played a 1k mixed event in the Midnight Sun series today, I finished 42/140. I was pretty happy with my overall patience level as I had less than 20BB for SIX hours straight and was so card dead it's hilarious.

There were two really weird hands in the tournament. I don't know how to play either of the games as playing any Pot Limit game is a mystery to me. I'd have an easy solution to how I should play these were they no limit, but in PL I just have no clue and I think I just played these pretty badly.

In both hands I have an extremely spazzy/lagtard/loose cannon internet kid image.