ADZ124: LA to Las Vegas Trip Report

Hello, hello. Just wanted to give you guys an update on the weekend’s activities.

I believe we last left off with me running super bad at the LAPC and losing the high-roller to a one-outer on the river, the main event kings to aces in the first level like a fish, losing to a free roll in PLO for $50k nuts vs nuts and losing a $45k pot with a wrap and a flush draw to middle set which we ran twice.

So basically, I needed to get out of LA.

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ADZ124: LA to Las Vegas Trip Report

Hello, hello. Just wanted to give you guys an update on the weekend’s activities.

I believe we last left off with me running super bad at the LAPC and losing the high-roller to a one-outer on the river, the main event kings to aces in the first level like a fish, losing to a free roll in PLO for $50k nuts vs nuts and losing a $45k pot with a wrap and a flush draw to middle set which we ran twice.

So basically, I needed to get out of LA.

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Stout’s Sunday Report: March 7, 2010

Poker pro Matt Stout is back with another installment of The Sunday Report. Stout will track all his results for his full online MTT Sunday schedule, complete with profits and losses.

Keep track right here on the PokerListings Blog.

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Snapshot: Ivey Goes Vegetarian

Though there were basically no big hands of note on Episode 4 of GSN’s High Stakes Poker last night, there was at least one interesting twist.

After some haggling, Tom Dwan bet Phil Ivey $1 million that he couldn’t go vegetarian for an entire year.

Now chances are this bet doesn’t go an entire year, either one side or the other will buy out before the year is up. But it got me to thinking what would your price be?

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High Stakes Poker Snapshot: Ivey Goes Vegetarian

Though there were basically no big hands of note on Episode Four of GSN’s High Stakes Poker there was at least one interesting twist.

After some haggling Tom Dwan bet Phil Ivey $1 million that he couldn’t go vegetarian for an entire year.

Now chances are this bet doesn’t go an entire year, either one side or the other will buy out before the year is up but it got me to thinking what would your price be?

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On to Round 2 of the NBC Heads-Up Championship

After my 3^rd place finish at the High Roller event in LA, I knew I needed to make my way back to Las Vegas. I had an invitation to play in the NBC Heads Up Championship, how could I say no to that? 

I came back that same night after the finish of the High Roller event. I rode back with a couple buddies crammed in their tiny 2 door car… I rode in the back seat! 

We left around 2 am and arrived in Vegas around six. It was a miserable drive, but I was happy to finally get here. 

I chilled out the first day I was here, just hanging with friends, drinking some beers and having a good time. The next day was the drawing party for the event. It was pretty cool, I was able to bring two of my good buddies, Andy and the one and only- Daniel O’Brien, and two of his friends as well. 

We all had a great time there and I found out who I was matched up against, Daniel Negreanu.

He’s not exactly my first choice from the field, as there are plenty of much weaker opponents. However, I was not totally opposed to the thought of playing him as I knew there would be a good chance our match would be the featured one. 

I have also played a lot against Daniel and feel like I have a good read on how he plays. 

Our match did end up being on the featured table, and also the fastest one. I knocked him out of what I would guess to be around the 10^th hand of the match. 

I got all the money in on a board of J-3-3-2 holding QQ vs his 55 in a 3-bet pot. The structure of these matches are fairly fast paced, as they are made for TV.  

Saturday, I will be playing Pieter De Korver in my first match. If I win this match, I will be in the money and down to the final 16. Hopefully I can win both matches tomorrow and be on the final day on Sunday when only 8 players are left. 

First place in this tournament is a cool half million.  Not bad eh?

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Olympics, Spring Training, Pokers

About a week ago now the Olympics wrapped up with a Canadian Gold in Hockey. It was a story book ending to a pretty amazing Olympics.

Kind of sad to see the Olympics go, Vancouver was an amazing place for those 17 days.

You could go downtown at any time of day, any day of the week and it was a party, and the typical Vancouver douchebags were nowhere to be found.

It was just people from Vancouver and around the world partying and having a good time.

I didn’t get to take in many events first hand but I did watch almost everything on TV.

The two events I did see were Men’s skicross, which we bubbled the podium, and USA vs Finland semifinals.

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Slowrolling at the LAPC $5k

My 7th place finish in the $3k six-max event at the LA Poker Classic left me with two more events to play for the series: the final preliminary event ($5,100 NL) and the LAPC World Poker Tour $10k event.

The $5,100 event was relatively small with 130 entrants, but still paid $201,730 for first … which doesn’t suck.

I got off to a good start, flopping top two pair and getting paid on the very first hand when I sat down. Then after Kevin “belowabove” Saul had lost a couple big pots in the first level, he four-bet jammed with nines when I had aces.

Now the best part is that Kevin and I have bad blood that goes back a while, and there’s good reason for him to be one of my least favorite people in poker.

I’m not a big fan of the slowroll, but this situation warranted…nay, required it in my opinion. I decided on the brief, thirty second slowroll so as to not waste too much of the other players’ time.

Part of me wanted to wait until the clock had been called, though…

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How to Play Poker with Your Rock Band Drum Kit

About five months ago I taught you how to use your Rock Band guitar for playing online poker, after it launched I received an abundance of feedback and requests for a similar article using the drum kit. So naturally, I did just that.

The Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) instruments are basically just large controllers with unusual buttons. Instead of pressing the X button, you hit the big green drum. Since these controllers are conveniently compatible with your Windows PC, it’s easy to use them for just about anything you want.

Play Poker with Your Rock Band Drum Kit

It’s not hard to do, and should take you less than 30 minutes from start to finish. If you just want to see how well it works and already know (or don’t care) how to set it up, save yourself a couple of minutes and watch the video at the bottom of the blog.

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Cash Game Tales and Tournament Analysis from ADZ124

This week in LA has been rough in terms of poker, as it has in the past for me. First I want to make a correction to my last post. I had said that blinds were 4k/8k but they were actually 8k/16k in the Venetian 5k.

Now, I just want to say something to all of you haters out there.

First of all, when you are a figure in the media it is natural that not everyone is going to agree with things you say or opinions you may have, but when I post on this blog I want to express my feelings to you, talk about poker, and also let you know what kind of day to day activity I have been up to.

Yes, last week I bought some LV luggage, some glasses, some clothes, and got driven in a rolls, and I plan on doing more of that for the next 3 weeks, and yes, I guess it’s natural for me to enjoy that.

If you want to hear strictly about poker when I am blogging and no humor that’s fine with me, but I know for a fact that all of you who complained about not wanting to read the bullshit I wrote are going to hop back on that blog and wait for a new post because you don’t have much better to do.

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