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• Vacation In Orlando...

  By Cre8ive - Sep 28 2009, 03:25 AM

  I've been on a little vacation for about the past week. I have been in Orlando hanging out with a bunch of my friends and just taking some time away from poker and the other stressful things in life. I haven't spent too much time on the Internet and I don't think I've played a hand of poker since last Sunday after I busted the $5k buyin WCOOP. I will be getting back down to South Florida in the morning and I heard there are two live tournaments coming up at the Isle casino. I will most definitely be playing these tournaments on Wednesday and this weekend. They aren't huge tournaments but I have been desperately wanting to play some live tournaments lately. I am really excited and am looking forward to Wednesday. I will log my hands so I can write up some good tournament reports when I have won/busted. I'm excited to get back to playing poker online too. A week break was nice. I got to relax and not really think about poker too much. Some of my buddies came up this weekend to Orlando and I celebrated a couple of birthdays. Went out to downtown Orlando and then another club in West Orlando last night. I had a good time but I've been a bit bored going out lately. I'm still NOT DRINKING. It's been over 2 months now with no liquor and it's not bad at all. It's only bad when it's time to go out or other people around me are drinking. Hopefully I don't come off sounding like an alcoholic lol. I definitely can live without drinking but if you are in a social environment where all your friends are drinking then it can get boring. I have my doctors appointment at the end of October to see if my liver function levels have decreased due to no liquor consumption. It will be interesting to see what the next step is in the process if liquor/diet had nothing to do with it. I'm pretty sure they don't have anything to do with it but only time will tell. I also got to play some basketball this weekend with the UCF team. They have a new practice facility and I have been in there almost everyday since I have been in Orlando shooting and working out with one of my buddies who used to play for them and now plays overseas. Michael Jordan's son plays on the UCF team. MJ was actually at their practice and watched them play on Monday but unfortunately I wasn't in there that day. That would of been crazy to play in front or actually play with Michael Jordan haha. I saw MJ my first or second year I was in Vegas for the WSOP. We were eating at FIX at the Bellagio and he was eating a couple tables behind us with friends. I didn't go up to him or anything. He was eating and I am not really one of those people who get starstruck (after all he is just famous for throwing a ball in a hoop, right? =)..) He's just human and I wouldn't want to invade his space like that. It was crazy to see everyone attack him and run up to him as soon as he left the restaurant. He is by far one of the best, if not the best basketball player to have ever played. His son wasn't playing in the runs the other day so I can't comment on his play although I've heard some nice things about him. I watched some of his high school games and he looked good. Hopefully the UCF team does well this year. I will update Wednesday or Thursday hopefully I will have some good news about the Isle tournaments! Night. 3 Comments on this post. Click here to post a comment.




• Double C's...

  By Cre8ive - Sep 17 2009, 04:14 AM

  The double C's... Congratulations and Coaching. Congrats to one of my first students that I've been coaching. His name is Eugene. He final tabled a $500 Borgata tournament that had roughly 1000 players. He busted 10th but he was very short stacked and card dead. He did a great job. He emailed me today and told me the good news and I was really excited about it. I just started coaching and taking on students. I had some people approach me about it. I figured since there was enough interest I would try it out and see how it went. This really makes me feel good that someone I have been helping out in poker has had some immediate success already. Eugene is already a good player so I don't know how much I contributed but I am very happy for him none the less. I have a couple other students and people that I've been coaching and it's pretty fun. I take for granted some of the things I know in poker that come second nature to me. Even the basics of the game can be forgotten and coaching helps me get back to the basics and refine my game. If anyone is interested in coaching email me at "Cre8iveCoach -AT- gmail.com" (Replace the -AT- with @ of course.) Aside from that I had a decent day today. Had a couple bubbles, a final table, and almost a final table. I got deep in the 100r 6max on Full Tilt and got pretty unlucky in two big pots, then lost a huge flip AK vs JJ in the end for almost 100bb pot with 10 left or so. This was the worst beat I took with 3 tables left. It was a huge pot at the time. Full Tilt Poker Game #14750692360: $100,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) (105271463), Table 43 - 1200/2400 Ante 300 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:20:24 ET - 2009/09/17 Seat 1: elanor (51,983) Seat 2: gboro780 (171,960) Seat 3: einstein007 (23,550) Seat 5: Cre8ive (233,572) Seat 6: THE_GOLDMINE (90,241) elanor antes 300 gboro780 antes 300 einstein007 antes 300 Cre8ive antes 300 THE_GOLDMINE antes 300 Cre8ive posts the small blind of 1,200 THE_GOLDMINE posts the big blind of 2,400 The button is in seat #3 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Cre8ive [2h 2d] elanor folds gboro780 folds einstein007 has 15 seconds left to act einstein007 folds Cre8ive raises to 7,200 THE_GOLDMINE calls 4,800 *** FLOP *** [9s 6c 2s] Cre8ive checks THE_GOLDMINE bets 7,999 Cre8ive has 15 seconds left to act Cre8ive raises to 18,465 THE_GOLDMINE has 15 seconds left to act THE_GOLDMINE raises to 82,741, and is all in Cre8ive calls 64,276 THE_GOLDMINE shows [9c Td] Cre8ive shows [2h 2d] *** TURN *** [9s 6c 2s] [7c] *** RIVER *** [9s 6c 2s 7c] [8d] THE_GOLDMINE shows a straight, Ten high Cre8ive shows three of a kind, Twos THE_GOLDMINE wins the pot (181,382) with a straight, Ten high ROUGH! I also lost AKcc vs his A3o for a 40bb pot before this hand took place. I came back from it though and really liked how I played this tournament/felt I played really well. I have actually been staying at my buddy Jason Mercier's condo the last couple of days grinding WCOOP with him. He won the WCOOP 2nd Chance PLO 6max tournament yesterday, so congrats to him on that! We've had some decent results the last couple of days and I think I might stay one more day and play here until I head back home. He only lives about 40 minutes away from my house so he's not that far away. It's a pretty comfortable poker environment and I have a nice setup to play on. We've just been playing poker all day everyday and haven't really done anything else. I need to workout again cause I've already missed two/three days. I have been doing push ups and stretching in between breaks but I miss hitting the gym and the basketball court. I'll see how I feel in the morning if I decide to stay another day. I guess that's all for now... Goodnight guys.   No Comments on this post. Click here to post a comment.




• Bloody Sundays...

  By Cre8ive - Sep 14 2009, 04:39 AM

  I awoke from my sleep this morning surrounded by fog and loud gunfire. I could hear screams of horror, moans of death. I couldn't see anything. I stayed low to the ground to avoid the stray bullets. I was unharmed at the present time but still feared for my life. I couldn't see three feet in front of me. "Where am I?" I asked myself. I crawled through the grass while bullets whizzed by my ears. I could hear people around me. They were everywhere. I was on the battlefield.  I made my way over to a wounded soldier. I don't know what they were fighting for or who they were fighting against, but it was a massacre. I grabbed his gun and started firing at the enemy. BAM. BAM. BAM. I let shots unload out the rifle without knowing who I was aiming at or what we were fighting for. All I knew was I was fighting for my life. I had to get out of there immediately. The next thing I knew... I was hit. A bullet cut through my flesh right into my abdomen. I couldn't move, I could hardly breathe. It was the most excruciating pain I have ever experienced. At this point I just wanted the pain to go away. I wanted to be back in my bed, asleep. Welcome to the game of poker and welcome to my Sunday.  Haha.. guess I was a little bored and felt like that little story would appropriately fit my Sunday today. I felt like I got beat up. Well I did get beat up. I probably didn't play so well and the deck was not favoring me either for the most part. I still am probably playing too many tables on Sundays. It's hard not to play all these good tournaments but it definitely has to be hurting me in the long run, hell even short run. Who knows. What I do know is that I did horrible today. I probably played bad too. I am going to look over some hands but I know I wasn't playing my best for the most part. I had the life sucked out of me in a couple tournaments.  Early on in the 1k this hand came up.. PokerStars Game #32807554662: Tournament #200909028, $1000+$50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level II (30/60) - 2009/09/13 18:05:03 ET Table '200909028 102' 9-max Seat #7 is the button Seat 1: TheProphesy1 (14425 in chips) Seat 2: KKgeoroAA (31527 in chips) Seat 3: SOXFAN83 (13574 in chips) Seat 4: GotURead (17615 in chips) Seat 5: marmoottin (15115 in chips) Seat 6: qjuice14 (15925 in chips) Seat 7: Cre8ive (12370 in chips) Seat 8: TimDawg888 (15909 in chips) Seat 9: CPT CRUX (13540 in chips) TimDawg888: posts small blind 30 CPT CRUX: posts big blind 60 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Cre8ive [Kd 9d] TheProphesy1: folds KKgeoroAA: folds SOXFAN83: folds GotURead: folds marmoottin: folds qjuice14: raises 120 to 180 Cre8ive: raises 300 to 480 TimDawg888: folds CPT CRUX: folds qjuice14: calls 300 *** FLOP *** [Qh Tc Jd] qjuice14: checks Cre8ive: bets 650 qjuice14: raises 1125 to 1775 Cre8ive: calls 1125 *** TURN *** [Qh Tc Jd] [Qs] qjuice14: bets 2895 Cre8ive: calls 2895 *** RIVER *** [Qh Tc Jd Qs] [4c] qjuice14: checks Cre8ive: bets 2220 qjuice14: calls 2220 *** SHOW DOWN *** Cre8ive: shows [Kd 9d] (a straight, Nine to King) qjuice14: shows [As Kc] (a straight, Ten to Ace) qjuice14 collected 14830 from pot  I probably played the river bad. I had 7220 and there was about 10k or so in the pot. I definitely didn't think he would check river with full houses or better than K9. But it was hard to put together a hand he would c/r the flop with and fire the turn and then check the river. I think QK still bets any Qx combo bets still so I was thinking he might of had like JK or JT and the turn counterfeited his two pair so I decided to throw a small bet out there for value. I definitely didn't think he would flat a button 3bet with AK. After this pot I lost the last of my chips with AA all in pre. I wasn't running real good today but no complaints, that's just how it goes.  Tomorrow is another day and another WCOOP event. The WCOOP has been draining me out but I'm going to try to refocus and play better. For those who saw the hand in the last blog I will copy/paste some stuff that I posted on pocketfives about the hand. Here are the results (taken from pocketfives blog post): -- See "I Got Crushed..." post.  That's all I got for now. Goodnight guys. 4 Comments on this post. Click here to post a comment.




• I Got Crushed...

  By Cre8ive - Sep 08 2009, 04:46 PM

  I got crushed on Sunday for the most part. The whole first 2/3s of my day I was getting demolished. Just losing, getting coolered, getting put in tough spots, all around it was a typical Sunday where nothing was going right. I was down probably 5-6k at one point because there were a lot of big tournaments going on and such. The best thing was I didn't give up. Poker has it's ups and downs and you cant stop fighting. There is luck and you have to be able to control your emotions and try to play every hand perfectly. Luckily I kept fighting and made a run in the 1k second chance and got 27th, and I also had a 20 something in the 200r. So I ended up making some money back but it still was a pretty rough Sunday. I played some real crazy pots throughout the day. I will show you a pot vs. Moorman1. He's a real good player and real tough to play against. This is a hand from the 1k second chance WCOOP. $1000+$50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/09/06 19:22:05 Table '192210576 13' 9-max Seat #3 is the button Seat 1: The-Toilet 0 (20862 in chips) Seat 2: Slambamiel (3262 in chips) Seat 3: Pokerccini (5349 in chips) Seat 4: Cre8ive (17580 in chips) Seat 5: MONSTER_DONG (10360 in chips) Seat 6: Moorman1 (21206 in chips) Seat 7: bonya37 (12835 in chips) Seat 8: WestMenlo92 (4315 in chips) Seat 9: sunf204 (18331 in chips) The-Toilet 0: posts the ante 20 Slambamiel: posts the ante 20 Pokerccini: posts the ante 20 Cre8ive: posts the ante 20 MONSTER_DONG: posts the ante 20 Moorman1: posts the ante 20 bonya37: posts the ante 20 WestMenlo92: posts the ante 20 sunf204: posts the ante 20 Cre8ive: posts small blind 75 MONSTER_DONG: posts big blind 150 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Cre8ive [Kd Ac] Moorman1: raises 300 to 450 bonya37: folds WestMenlo92: folds sunf204: folds The-Toilet 0: folds Slambamiel: folds Pokerccini: folds Cre8ive: calls 375 MONSTER_DONG: folds *** FLOP *** [5h 5d 8h] Cre8ive: checks Moorman1: bets 800 Cre8ive: calls 800 *** TURN *** [5h 5d 8h] [5s] Cre8ive: checks Moorman1: bets 1800 Cre8ive: calls 1800 *** RIVER *** [5h 5d 8h 5s] [7c] Cre8ive: checks Moorman1: bets 9000 Cre8ive: ?? So basically I just flatted his UTG raise with AKo from the small blind. We are really deep and I decided I would play a pot out of position with him. The flop he cbet, the turn he fired again, and on the river he bets about 3k more than the pot which is about 6k. Maybe I could have folded the turn, maybe I didn't have to call. What do you guys think about the hand so far and what do you think of his river bet? Is it always the nuts and a nice value bet? Let me know your opinions and I'll tell you what I think. I took yesterday off. There were only a couple of good tournaments and I was real tired from a good workout I had earlier in the morning. I worked out this morning again and am feeling really good. My knee is probably 100% I just need to strengthen the muscles around it, which I have been doing lately. I started jumping a lot more and trying to dunk again. I almost got a couple down today so hopefully by the end of the month I can have some more leg strength. Other than that I'm just at home trying to do something in the WCOOPS. Today hasn't been going so well either. I tried to play real aggressive in the WCOOP 6 handed mix and it bit me in the butt in two hands. I had KJdd on a K78hhh flop and check/called a bet from the table nit and on the Kc turn he bet again and I either had to shove/fold. I could have called since I think its highly unlikely he bombs the river again as a bluff, but I shoved the turn and he had 77. I think I played this hand real bad and if anything should just call the turn. I don't know. My hand is pretty disguised but I just don't think hes bluffing the turn too often, but I could be wrong if he has the Ah or something. Oh well. I will be playing a session tonight if I don't last in my afternoon tournaments. Everyone should also go buy the Jay-Z CD Blueprint 3. It's a little different style but I really enjoy it. There's a lot of hidden stuff in the lyrics so you might have to listen to it a couple times. I didn't like some of the songs but the whole album has really grown on me and I really like it overall. I think it's some of his best work. I'll leave you guys with a quote from a new Drake song called Fear, that is also an amazing song he did... "But yall the reason for a lot of my devotion. You know I spend money because spendin time is hopeless. And know I pop bottles cause I bottle my emotions. At least I put it all in the open..." Drake's new song - Fear It's a song about his friends and his life. It's pretty deep and the song is really good in my opinion. Check it out here. 17 Comments on this post. Click here to post a comment.