Stout’s Sunday Report: June 20, 2010

After getting a few massages at the Rio during the World Series of Poker, I started to ponder how great it would be to get them at home during Sunday sessions. It didn’t take long to find one of the massage girls who’d be willing to do it, either!

It was a madhouse here on Sunday, as it often is during the WSOP. Aside from the residents (Paul Wasicka, Jon “sketchy1″ Eaton, and myself), we were hosting: Rohn “herbs23″ Schutsky, Bryan “KUSH OR DIE/APPLEBUD” Berc, Steve “Zugie” Kusturiss, and three of my good buddies from Brooklyn.

With lots of good friends, plenty of good bud, and massages on call, you’d think we were allllllll set to use up all the rungoodsauce my IP address had to offer, right?

Well, you might be right, but if so the IP address had VERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY little to offer after how well it treated me last week! I’m pretty sure no one in the house had a winning session. Not one person.  EPIC FAIL!!!

I did make one final table … kind of. I finished 7th of just 81 players in the Cake $162, whose tournament fields have been hurt significantly by two different but related facts:

1) Lock Poker has moved from the Cake Network to the Merge Network, so Cake has lost the traffic of many Lock customers.

2) Cake Poker lowered the guaranteed prize pools of their tournaments, which happened shortly before Lock was leaving the network.

My closest shot of making a profit for the day came when I finished 14th in the Stars $204 hyper-turbo, which had an average stack of about six big blinds and is more of a random distribution of the prize pool than an actual poker tournament. 

Apparently I couldn’t even rely on luck this week, which is strange since I’m usually such a lucksack.

Total tournaments played: 37

Total amount of buy-ins: $9,115

Total number of cashes: 5

- 21/319 in Cake $109, $292

- 52/1380 in Stars $109, $386.40

- 72/934 in Tilt $163, $308.22

- 7/81 in Cake $162, $675

- 14/463 in Stars $204 hyper-turbo, $926

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $2,717.62

Length of session: 12:18

Net win/loss for the day: -$6,397.38

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$98,707.72

- Matt Stout

 

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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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