more passport bullshit

I've had a redic week of running around while trying to fit in some grinding in between. It sucks too because I've been playing really good and getting a lot of deep finishes not as many wins as usual but they will obv come. Anyways I've had to change my flight 4 times already within this week for Barcelona, had to miss EPT and if stars doesn't move back my heat by a day I will miss my WCP match as well.

Yesterday I woke up after 90minutes of sleep at 830 to drive to Boston to get my passport hand carried and expedited. All seemed to go well the guy said if I had came a few hours earlier he could of had it done before friday sigh another flight changed. I then set up a flight for monday goto the post office around the corner and get it done with what I had to do there. I have a nice 10-15minute chat with the employee there. I make my usual mistake of snickering when she says how the guy must be charging me an arm and a leg I go why how much is he going to charge me and she says a hundred all emphaticly. I laugh and then apologize cuz that just comes off as a rich prick. We talk about poker I toss out a low expectation for me yearly and she's amazed. She then tells me that Mon is a fed holiday so I need to rebook my flights a day later because I won't get my passport till tues. I am now frustrated and decide to skip seeing my cousin and head home.

I get home meetup with an old student of my mothers and watch the yankee game that was fun, go home pass out for 14 hours wakeup see a few missed calls from Massachusetts, get all happy because the guy said if he can get it to me by dfriday he will call me around 11 the phonecalls were at 1120. I call him back and he wasn't in the store at the time talk to one of his employees. He calls me back 30minutes to inform me the nice friendly post office worker didn't seal my application just the envelope therefore it's invalid. Now I need to drive to boston again by tomorow at 9am to get it done by tuesday. This fucking sucks and if I knew I had this much bullshit I would of just blown off my WCP matches.

getting a passport sucks

I procrastinate as always and now get royally fucked by the US gov and the stupid ass expediating services who don't make it clear on their website everything that you need to qualify for using their 24 hour services.

So that means I can't make it in time for EPT Barcelona and going to be hopefully there for WCP tentative flight is next saturday. I really am going to make an effort for EPT London if I can't do that prob end up at Borgata with Ray and Thayer.

Final 24hours

Well I just got home from another great TS trip. I am sure that no future one will be as much fun as this one with all the bullshit that happened between poker players and hotel staff. It was a complete joke how badly they treated us all, it was like we weren't even paying customers. Basically complete harassment of multiple people in many rooms. Constantly barging into the room even when we said no etc. Then making us clean up our room every day it was a joke my mother never gave me that hard of a time about cleaning. Also, I had some very good friends of mine banned from the hotel and/or the whole reservation.

It sucks soo much because everyone there had a great time had a great time playing kickball, seeing superbad, going out for naths bday, and the usual ts rodizio and low limit live cashgames. Also the staff in the poker room are always great to us. I can't say it enough how great of a job Pete, Pete, and Danny did putting together a great tourney series that was a great success for both ends. I had some friends who hit big there as well. Gobbo chopped HU with a TS regular zach for 22.5k, Mlagoo took 2nd in an event for like 22k, and Randall crushed the 5k making a sick day 2 comeback for 105k in a 4way chop with some other good players.

Now that I am home this week getting ready for Barcelona I need to do something I really am not looking forward to doing. Out pet cat has been around a long time 16.5 years, he's gone through soo many odd problems throughout his life. He's had lime disease, lost one eye to glaucoma, had to be quarantined for 6 months due to possibility of rabies. Also has had failing liver and kideneys and about a dozen fights with other animals which he lost pretty much all. Now it's upto me to put him down because no one else in my family will bother. So the last 12 hours I've been back from TS for its just soo weird to be around him knowing I am giving him his last meal etc. Anyways gotta do that sometime today then head to Boston for finalizing my passport.

5th at TS 300

Sigh really pissed off had 900k which was 40% of the chips 9 handed table was really weak. I was redic ahead. Lost a bunch of races and other gay hands which were Open AQs, 2.5x younger guy shoves OTB we are 7 handed for 16x I obv snap call he has AKo. Few hands later open Q9s he denfends BB KJ10 2d 1 heart, I have hearts I bet 30k he c/r I stick it in for 175k more AQ good. Then cripling hand guy opens UTG for for 36k I make it 106k He has 275 total he calls A76r flop I shove he instacalls with A7 sigh soo gay.

WCP winner I'm going to SPAIN

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A few exerpts my team beat out 4 other teams for the right to represent the US at the upcoming WCP. I am very pumped to do this. I was going to be in Barcelona anywhere for the EPT event now it's even easier. I ended up getting 4th in my WCP match I was outplayed by Belowabove the best indiviual player prob on all of the teams. He drew the seat directly on my left and abused me. My teamates stepped it up and I got very anxious when the last tourney our member got down to 3 handed and was shortest and me and tnetter estimated we needed a 2nd to garuntee the win. We had some really close calls was down to 1200 when BB was 600 and Avg stack was like 9k. Made a nice comeback got HU when down but came back to take the lead briefly. Was a good hu match but soon noticed it didn't matter we had it locked up.

As for other poker another big 50fo ft bubble, bubbled some other important shit did a propbet with thayer too where we cross booked 10% on cashes and I think I won I have 1 thing left and he has a few things going.

Running bad at life

Well, at my sisters birthday party I happened to find out my uncle had 4 tickets to the Yankee game. I have yet to go this year so I was happy to be able to go as well as possible see Arod's
s 500th homerun. Anyways a lot of people were heading to the track for beerfest or something and so I found a few friends to go with and we didn't commit ourselves to going till like 9:30 so we finally get everything going and leave at 10:45. We decided to listen to the game on the radio on the way there and obv his first at bat of the day he hits it while we are still driving there.

As for poker haven't been on a good sleep schedule for tourneys trying to fix that. Been playing some HU cash on stars new tables and only down like a buyin or two over a small sample. Here's a funny hand that happened at the first time I plat 3/6 HU and first opp who sat down with an odd 123/7 so we know that that meant. 4th hand we played is the HH below.

PokerStars Game #11319827915: Hold'em No Limit ($3/$6) - 2007/08/05 - 08:10:53 (ET)
Table 'Phoinix' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: loz007 ($126.15 in chips)
Seat 2: shaundeeb ($597 in chips)
loz007: posts small blind $3
shaundeeb: posts big blind $6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to shaundeeb [Jc Qh]
loz007: calls $3
shaundeeb: raises $18 to $24
loz007: calls $18
*** FLOP *** [2d Ah Td]
shaundeeb: bets $30
loz007: calls $30
*** TURN *** [2d Ah Td] [6c]
shaundeeb: bets $78
loz007: calls $72.15 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [2d Ah Td 6c] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
shaundeeb: shows [Jc Qh] (high card Ace)
loz007: mucks hand
shaundeeb collected $251.80 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $252.30 | Rake $0.50
Board [2d Ah Td 6c 4c]
Seat 1: loz007 (button) (small blind) mucked [5d 7d]
Seat 2: shaundeeb (big blind) showed [Jc Qh] and won ($251.80) with high card Ace

Chat after

PokerStars Game #11319827915: Hold'em No Limit ($3/$6) - 2007/08/05 - 08:10:53 (ET)
Table 'Phoinix' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: loz007 ($126.15 in chips)
Seat 2: shaundeeb ($597 in chips)
loz007: posts small blind $3
shaundeeb: posts big blind $6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to shaundeeb [Jc Qh]
loz007: calls $3
shaundeeb: raises $18 to $24
loz007: calls $18
*** FLOP *** [2d Ah Td]
shaundeeb: bets $30
loz007: calls $30
*** TURN *** [2d Ah Td] [6c]
shaundeeb: bets $78
loz007: calls $72.15 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [2d Ah Td 6c] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
shaundeeb: shows [Jc Qh] (high card Ace)
loz007: mucks hand
shaundeeb collected $251.80 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $252.30 | Rake $0.50
Board [2d Ah Td 6c 4c]
Seat 1: loz007 (button) (small blind) mucked [5d 7d]
Seat 2: shaundeeb (big blind) showed [Jc Qh] and won ($251.80) with high card Ace

Back home

Finally back home a lot has changed my sisters getting ready to goto college, my eldest brother got engaged right before I left for Vegas and now has canceled it. Other brother has a new gf she seems nice in the brief time I've spent around here. I wasn't going to do the P5 monthly PLB challenge because I was enjoying the lax plkay schedule I had while in Vegas. Now that I am home I am feeling more motivated to focus on tourneys for they next month instead of cash games like I've been doing for last 2 months.

I was lucky enough to stumble upon prob the best possible partner lilholdem. We make a sick combo of volume with his sick skills and my running goodness hopefully. I think we are a 25-30% edge to win even with a really sick field. Chad has other prop bets going and he knows I'll carry my weight and I fully expect him to outdo me. I wouldn't be surprised if we both ended top 5 for the month on all of p5. So expect to see me at every tourney that matters for PLB in the next month even while I am at TS for Aug 11-20. Which for anyone undecided about attending I recommend it I was able to help lobby for some of the different tourneys that are being held which are a 6max, 200r, and bounty. Which will be a lot of fun as well as a nice 5k ME too bad it's same day as FTOPS ME but I'll try to bust fast or be CL before ftops stars.