Just my 2 cents here bro so take it for what it's worth.

Take the Foxwoods WPT offer if the buyin for that is anywhere near the 10k that the WSOP ME is. I mean it'd be PRICELESS to have ol' Vinny VanPatten make some stupid ass comment about you on the air! That'd be something to talk to friends about for YEARS! He may even come off with somethin so good (stupid) that it lasts in the poker circles for a decade. You won't get that at the WSOP unless you get into a shouting match with Matesow or Hellmuth on camera. Not to mention the fact that there won't be 10,000 entrants in the WPT event to wade through.

You would also get to play in 2 big tourneys instead of just one. Unless you were planning on using the proceeds from the sale to buy into an earlier event or two at the WSOP.

You have no idea how jealous we all are of you right now man. Best of luck and all but we ALL wish we were in your shoes. I'm still gonna be there to root you on though.

You probably should take 'roids.

MVP, why do you need Shamrocks testicles?

Molina

Well I figure I'm short 2 marbles for my collection, and since HE obivously ain't usin em... Quality over quantity my ASS!!!!!!!!

We sorry suh... Please don't whip us no mo suh...

Been too lazy to update this bastard....

So Poker...poker's been good. I did what 3 months ago would have been unthinkable to me. I've switched to the 5-max tables at the Dise..the reason for this, I guess, is that since the first WSOP seat win, my FR game was in a giant rut, just status quo. I have been playing over-rolled for some time and with the cash influx of 4k (2k in expenses for each), I finally moved up. Initially I was killing the 1/2 game at the dise, then had a bad run, mixed some beats with some awful play and before I knew it, I had played about 6k hands of breakeven poker at the 200s. OK, so I moved back down temporarily to see whats up...another 2k hands of breakeven poker - cant even explain it, the spark wasnt there, I was playing a card game. It seemed every time I CB'ed, I was called or raised - this was my biggest leak, I wasnt losing huge pots, just alot of mid-tange pots.

So, this breakeven shit was killing me, over the previous 130k hands, my WR is about 8PTBB/100...so with some considerable trepidation, I idecided to give it a few thousand hands at the 5-max tables, which IK've heard were frought with variance and idiots...

Anyway, the spark is back. I've played about 3500 hands this weekend to some outstanding results. I'm playing at 33/11/4 (my FR stats were 23/6/4). But many of the basic FR rules still apply...
*dont go nuts with 1 pair hands
*dont bluff a CS

etc etc

Its nuts what these people will throw their money away with. YThe shorties will call raises with anything, then dump the rest of their chips with any piece of the board, like 3rd pair, no kicker. No joke.

With a hand, I am betting the pot at every street. Why the fvck not? They call anything anyway. If anyone wants to discuss some key differe3nces bw FR and SH, lets have at it, because if it stays like this, I aint going back. Plus, 3 tabling, I can get like twice as many hands in per hr then when I was 4 tabling FR. It was definitley time for something new after about 140k hands of FR. Thanks FR, my BR thanks you, but it looks like we wont be seeing each other for a while...its not you, its me.

So a bit of news on the WSOp front...the Dise came back and offered me the 10k in cash, seems they changed their policy...I took it. If Vegas goes well, I can go to Foxwoods directly and buy in.

the main reason I took it is because the wife is due in september and I'd feel pretty bad leaving her alone with a 2 yr old and a 1 month old baby in nov when the wpt championship at foxwoods is being played. there will be other poker tourneys.so keeping the cash puts a nice chunk into the BR, even after giving up a nice bit to the wife.

Ongoing cash games are good..running over 8ptbb/100 at the new 5 max experiment over the first 7 k hands. I never realized how much faster the hands go at 5 max, i'm getting a ton of hands in.

so all in all not bad. will stick to 1/2 for now, even though the BR is over 25k, all won since 8/2005. o if I can just finish ITM in the WSOP, things will be just right.

lol rarely...

i was afraid of an exploding pm from mr chance unabomber artanis in there. hold on, i'll go check.

I just played like 450 hands at the 1/2 nl 5 max and won at least 5 buy ins...definitely over a grand. not quite sure because im drunker'n mvp on ladies night.

Its confirmed over a G. prolly like 1100 - argh cant add. hittin the sack.