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So late last May I decided to go out to Las Vegas and take my shot. I had around 5k. Well as you can tell from the title I lost it all in about a month. It was towards the end of June and I was stuck out in Las Vegas with no money and no where to stay. No one I knew was out there at the time either. So I took out a cash advance from one of those internet sites for $1000. It was my last shot. If I lost that I would go back home to wisconsin. I started grinding away at the 1-2 tables only to take a couple horrible beats. Down to my last hundred dollars or so I buy in at the flamingo 1-2 game for all of it. Some drunk European guy is seated directly to my right with about $1500 in front of him, and he is spewing chips. I build up to about $400 pretty easily in an hour or so when I pick up pockets 8's on the button. A random under the gun raises and drunk european guy re raises. I flat on the button. Guy under the gun calls. Flop comes 10 8 4 rainbow. Under the gun checks Euro bets I raise guy under the gun goes all in for $200, Euro goes all in and I call. Euro has JJ. Under the gun has 44 for bottom set and I have 88 for middle set. Turn Blank. River Blank. My roll back up to $1200 after that hand and I leave the table not long after.
After that I walk over to the roulette wheel and take a hundred bucks and put $20 each on 4 7 17 0 00. I smack a 17 for $700. So I do it again. This time putting $50 on each of the numbers and a 0 comes up for $1750. I do it again this time putting $100 on each of the numbers and SMACK 17 comes up for $3500. I do it one more time and miss. So I leave the flamingo with about a 6k roll. Over the course of the next week I am absolutely the luckiest guy in Las Vegas. I can't miss on the roulette table, and am betting $50-100 on numbers 4 7 17 0 00. Even smacking a $200 4 for $7000 once. I run my roll up to about $50,000 in a week.
I decide to play some $1000 satelites for the main event. I think I played 3 and I missed on all of them. By this time day 1 of the main event had already began and were through 1a and 1b. I played another satelite on day 1c and missed. Thats when I decided I would just buy in to the main event. I figured there must be a reason for me to have all of this money at this time. So I took a shot.
I played day 1d and was stuck at a tough table with Glen Chorny on my right, and a few other really great players who I didn't know. I grinded the whole day picking up nothing and was down to about 10k with the blinds at about 100-200 when I got pocket 4's in middle position and raised up to 600. I got one caller which I believe was the small blind. The flop came A 4 10 when I bet out again got raised and went all in and he called with a10. Turn Blank River Blank. I double up and have over 20k now. I ended up day 1 with about 50k after flopping a full house with pocket tens, and getting paid off.
Day 2 would be one of the most amazing days of my life as I couldn't miss anything and have never seen a run of cards like it before in my life. On one hand I had kq of hearts. Flop came q83 with two hearts and we got it all in. The guy had a set of 8's but I spiked a flush on the river for about a 100k pot. Another hand was just sick where I picked up pocket kings. A guy raised I reraised and he called. Flop comes q 10 3. I bet he calls. Turn 7. I bet, he raises, I reraise, he goes all in. I think think think and finally call leaving myself only about 60k behind. He turns over qq for a set of queens. Oh Fuck! "I need a king" I say. River KING! Around a 350k pot! I end day 2b as the chip leader with 530k chips, and the chip leader of the largest day 2 restart in poker history.
Needless to say I don't sleep well that night. Would have loved some xanax. Day 3 was pretty much a stalemate for me as I wanted to cash real bad and didn't want to do anything stupid. I ended the day with about 480k which was above average. That night I slept terrible again, and woke up feeling like absolute shit. Day 4 would be a day that nothing could go right and would lead to many hours of lost sleep over what could have been and how I played hands poorly. The very first hand of the day I pick up AQ off. Some euro raises from under the gun to 14k. I think the blinds were 2.5-5k. I flat from the hijack and everyone else folds. At this point I feel the euro has a huge hand for some reason like ak or kk. The flop comes Q82. He bets 25k and I just called (I should have raised). Turn k. He bets 65k I think for a bit and call. River 6. He bets out 130k!! Oh fuck I think I am beat. I think for about 2 min before laying down AQ. He flips over QJ! to what would lead me into a spiral of tilting off the rest of my chips over the next 3 hours including getting my aces cracked all in preflop vs. JJ with a J on the river to Marco Marcon (some donk from brazil but the name sticks with me very well and will forver). Anyways I went out in 273 place.
Over the next few months I went back and finished school, as I only had one class left to take. At the same time I was doing a lot of drugs and not sleeping as I couldn't understand what happen to me on that final day of the WSOP. After months of restless nights I finally relise it just wasn't meant to be, and I am content with that. Anyways here I am back in Las Vegas, and headed over to the Venetian to play some 2-5, content once again with my life.
And btw, I did not go broke again for everyone who thinks I did. Thanks
After that I walk over to the roulette wheel and take a hundred bucks and put $20 each on 4 7 17 0 00. I smack a 17 for $700. So I do it again. This time putting $50 on each of the numbers and a 0 comes up for $1750. I do it again this time putting $100 on each of the numbers and SMACK 17 comes up for $3500. I do it one more time and miss. So I leave the flamingo with about a 6k roll. Over the course of the next week I am absolutely the luckiest guy in Las Vegas. I can't miss on the roulette table, and am betting $50-100 on numbers 4 7 17 0 00. Even smacking a $200 4 for $7000 once. I run my roll up to about $50,000 in a week.
I decide to play some $1000 satelites for the main event. I think I played 3 and I missed on all of them. By this time day 1 of the main event had already began and were through 1a and 1b. I played another satelite on day 1c and missed. Thats when I decided I would just buy in to the main event. I figured there must be a reason for me to have all of this money at this time. So I took a shot.
I played day 1d and was stuck at a tough table with Glen Chorny on my right, and a few other really great players who I didn't know. I grinded the whole day picking up nothing and was down to about 10k with the blinds at about 100-200 when I got pocket 4's in middle position and raised up to 600. I got one caller which I believe was the small blind. The flop came A 4 10 when I bet out again got raised and went all in and he called with a10. Turn Blank River Blank. I double up and have over 20k now. I ended up day 1 with about 50k after flopping a full house with pocket tens, and getting paid off.
Day 2 would be one of the most amazing days of my life as I couldn't miss anything and have never seen a run of cards like it before in my life. On one hand I had kq of hearts. Flop came q83 with two hearts and we got it all in. The guy had a set of 8's but I spiked a flush on the river for about a 100k pot. Another hand was just sick where I picked up pocket kings. A guy raised I reraised and he called. Flop comes q 10 3. I bet he calls. Turn 7. I bet, he raises, I reraise, he goes all in. I think think think and finally call leaving myself only about 60k behind. He turns over qq for a set of queens. Oh Fuck! "I need a king" I say. River KING! Around a 350k pot! I end day 2b as the chip leader with 530k chips, and the chip leader of the largest day 2 restart in poker history.
Needless to say I don't sleep well that night. Would have loved some xanax. Day 3 was pretty much a stalemate for me as I wanted to cash real bad and didn't want to do anything stupid. I ended the day with about 480k which was above average. That night I slept terrible again, and woke up feeling like absolute shit. Day 4 would be a day that nothing could go right and would lead to many hours of lost sleep over what could have been and how I played hands poorly. The very first hand of the day I pick up AQ off. Some euro raises from under the gun to 14k. I think the blinds were 2.5-5k. I flat from the hijack and everyone else folds. At this point I feel the euro has a huge hand for some reason like ak or kk. The flop comes Q82. He bets 25k and I just called (I should have raised). Turn k. He bets 65k I think for a bit and call. River 6. He bets out 130k!! Oh fuck I think I am beat. I think for about 2 min before laying down AQ. He flips over QJ! to what would lead me into a spiral of tilting off the rest of my chips over the next 3 hours including getting my aces cracked all in preflop vs. JJ with a J on the river to Marco Marcon (some donk from brazil but the name sticks with me very well and will forver). Anyways I went out in 273 place.
Over the next few months I went back and finished school, as I only had one class left to take. At the same time I was doing a lot of drugs and not sleeping as I couldn't understand what happen to me on that final day of the WSOP. After months of restless nights I finally relise it just wasn't meant to be, and I am content with that. Anyways here I am back in Las Vegas, and headed over to the Venetian to play some 2-5, content once again with my life.
And btw, I did not go broke again for everyone who thinks I did. Thanks
Originally Posted by DoubleS00ted
