Off to Indiana

In my last blogpost I mentioned how I was going to be heading to Vegas to play the last two events at the Wynn Classic. Unfortunately, those events didn’t go so well for me.

I busted the $2k a few hours in, and the $5k main. I lasted a long time but busted well short of the money midway into Day 2.

I decided to chill in Vegas for a couple days and just fly to Indiana from there, instead of heading home first. I went out for St. Patty’s Day which was absolutely crazy. A bunch of us went to a buddy’s house and started drinking at like 11 am.

We went down to Oshea’s on the strip around 2 pm and partied down there for a while. Luckily I had a day to recover from that day of partying before having to get on a flight today.

I learned my lesson when I left Florida to come to Vegas. I somehow thought that it was a good idea to go out and party the night before my 7 am flight to. I was just going to either stay up all night or pass out for a couple hours before leaving for the airport at 5:30 am.

I ended up passing out at like 3 or 3:30 in the morning and barely making my flight. I was sooooo miserable on the flight, hungover and sick to my stomach. It was one of the worst trips ever and I definitely learned my lesson. I will not ever get on a flight with very little sleep and after drinking. That combination is too lethal.

This is the last WPT that I’ll be playing until after the World Series. I’m hoping to get a win here! After this, I’ll be home for a little bit before NAPT Mohegan Sun and then the trip for EPT San Remo and EPT Monte Carlo. Then SCOOP then WSOP!!!

Uh Oh! It’s time to put the computer away, landing in a bit. Pe@ce!

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Video of Phil Hellmuth’s Bust at Bay 101 (Crying)

A couple of days ago we got really excited about a WPT final table. Something we thought might never happen again after being forced to sit through this year’s LAPC finale.

The reason was Phil Hellmuth. He made the final six of Bay 101 and, as you’ve probably heard, had a bit of a breakdown when he took a bad beat and busted in sixth.

We had only heard accounts of the scene, and seen a few pics, but today we’ve dug up video evidence.

Some sneaky fan recorded this on his mobile device so it’s not exactly HD, but it does get the point across.

Hellmuth gets it in with queens against an ace and gets rivered. He stands up, shakes hands and then gets down on his hands and knees in the corner for five minutes.

In the past Hellmuth’s antics have been unsportsmanlike, obnoxious and just plain rude but never before has he got down on his hands and knees and wept. This final table is a great accomplishment and the fact he went out to a bad beat shouldn’t ruin that for him.

Don’t be sad. Be glad!

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Checking in from NAPT Venetian

I’m sitting here in the media room at the Venetian, after doing a few interviews over the last couple hours.

I feel like I have been really lazy lately when it comes to every aspect of my life except for poker.

Since arriving in Vegas, I have been sleeping about 10-12 hours a night, which has been great by the way. While I was in LA I was getting some of the worst sleep ever, only sleeping 4 hours or so a night.

I played the NAPT main event on Saturday and made it to Day 2 with 41k in chips which was a little bit below average stack.

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NAPT Venetian Day 1 and Video Blog Plans

Still have a few tales to tell from the road (Borgata, Biloxi, the WSOP-C Tunica final table, and the first couple Commerce prelims I played), but I wanted to get a quick update out there…

After flying from PCA back to NJ for Borgata, down to Biloxi for the WPT $10k, back to Borgata for the main event, down to Tunica for their WSOP-C event, back to Vegas to pick up my car, and driving to LA and back to Vegas last night (this is getting absurd), I played day one of the NAPT-Venetian main event today.

The tournament drew 872 players and first place is $827,648, which is why it made it worth driving back for and skipping the WPT Invitational even though it’s the first time I’ve been invited.

It was a bit rude of tournament organizers to schedule it right over some of the bigger events at the LA Poker Classic, though. That is why LAPC Tournament Director Matt Savage is a bit unhappy with the new North American Poker Tour…and rightfully so.

I started off my chipping up pretty well in the first couple levels, but lost a huge flip with Q-Q against A-K during the 150/300 and was down to 11k from the 30k starting stack. Fortunately I doubled back up with A-A against A-K and rebuilt my stack from there.

I have 38.5k going to 500/1000 tomorrow, which means there may be no Sunday Report this week…which is unfortunate since there are going to be so many especially huge Sunday donkaments tomorrow.

Also a bit of news before I go: I’ll be adding a couple video blogs to the mix every month starting pretty soon. Figured it would be fun throw in some videos from random locations to give my readers a better feel for life on the road. Should be fun.

That’s it for now. Time to rest up for day 2…

Matt Stout

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