Alright, since every other Pokerspacer that attended the OFC Live a few days ago already put up a personal blog already, I guess it is my turn to do so as well. Please keep in mind though that "at a glance" in zed-ish means less than 5.000 words ... lol!
The trip itself started pretty creepy with my flight being cancelled and losing a whole day at the airport at Frankfurt, I finally arrived at Vegas one day later than planned and Steve, Chris and Lesley already been waiting for me with a bottle of Scotch lol ... Steve was supposed to play in a WSOP tourney though the next day! We might have been a bit tipsy and went for a drink on the Freemont Street ... well we tried but every bar was already closed at Downtown Vegas around 3am lol. So when we tried to get in the room, we didn't succeed (and yes, all 3 tried lmao) and decided to go to the Venetian and just fall to sleep there. Lesley didn't even manage to get off the couch and was just fallen asleep right next to me ... Chris was still pretty sleepy and after 4 hours Lesley and I decided to go for breakfast and it was just really smooth to talk to her in real life for 2 hours rather than typing through yahoo. We than went for some shopping while Chris was still sleeping (lazy bastard!) and I returned to the Golden Nugget and obviously managed to get in the room straight.
I pretty much completed all my shopping in the first two days after arriving at Vegas and also met up with the lovely Vger, first thing we have done was getting lost in Margaritaville hehe. On the Sunday before the meet and greet I was a bit late from shopping and on the way back to the elevators, I met John and we knew each other from the first second, even though it was the first time we met in real life. It was nice to see all Pokerspacers and we also managed to take a small group photo as well:
I guess everybody has already seen the pictures on various other blogs about the wild party at the Gold Diggers, I won't mention any details though but it was definitely a blast ... that's all I can say :P Again, Steve was doing the same preparation for his WSOP tourney the other day hehehe. On the Sunday morning I met up with John and his awesome family for breakfast, it turned out that we were a bit late and headed to the lunch ... if you really want to see a great buffet, just go to the Main Street Station hotel at downtown ... it was like 8 bucks and they had such a great variety of food.
Before the warm up we decided to bring Steve over to the RIO's for his WSOP tourney so he doesn't fall asleep and when we just been heading out, I heard someone yelling at me from the check in waiting line ... you should have seen the smile on my face though, because Tracy finally arrived ;) She also had some heavy issues with her flight and lost a whole day, but finally made it to Sin City. We stayed at the Rio's for just about 45 minutes and also seen Daniel Negreanu taking out Dan Harrington with pocket rockets, Steve was doing ok in his tourney and he also cashed later on but unfortunately didn't go deep.
You can pretty much sum up my 2 tourneys at the OFC Live with one word: gawd. I was pretty much carddead and tried to pick some spots on the table against weaker opponents, but never been able to build up my stack and various suckouts kept my stack pretty much on where we started. The blinds moved up and I was getting desperate in the warm up, made one tricky resteal against a limper with pocket Kings and wanted to get him in ... by leaving 100 chips behind on the reraise. Unfortunately he folded and I just picked up the blinds and ante + his limp. I got moved to another table just when the blinds moved up and from being on the button as smallstack, I went straight into the BigBlind and was obviously pissed off. I was waiting a few more hands and finally got a playable hand with pocket tens and ran straight into Kings ... thanks lol. If I remember correctly, we had 5 Pokerspacers busting with 10s that day and in the most spectacular hand of the day, 10s also been involved in a 4way all in with TT vs TT vs AK vs AK:
Poolshooter and SuperrSam bubbled straight before the money and Cory was hanging in as one of the shortstacks, he made a helluva a game and a comeback on the Final Table, just to miss out on the added WSOP seat by one place and getting second.
The next day, Tracy and I went for breakfast / lunch / brunch ... I don't remember lol - the OFC Main Event was not more fortunate and it was pretty much a déjà vu. An isolation on blinds 50-100 for example against a weaker player on the table who raised in EP to 300 shrunk my stack, I raised to 900 out of the Button with JJ to get rid of the blinds and get called, flop is KQ low and she instant shoves ... I open muck my Jacks and get proudly shown KJ, well played. Same again, I never got to build up my stack and on blinds 200-400 I look down on AJ from the button, the SB is pretty passive and the BB is almost even stacked. I raise and almost commit myself, BB shoves and I take the flip vs TT (what else lol) - flop T 4 4 and headshot, thanks a bunch sigh. I mean I am not unhappy about my play, it was maybe a bit passive but I never had a spot to float against a raise in front of me and highly doubt I would been successful at this table.
We did have a few Pokerspacers in the top 30, but just BartyUK got to the final table and came in 5th, overall we took 3rd place though and gonna have a private Freeroll at FeltStars. Tracy had to leave at 5 in the morning the next day and I met up with Lee and Amanda for lunch, it is quite interesting at times though how long women need to dress up hehe. In the following 2 pics you can see the difference between typical American / British lunch (Lee) and my healthy asian food:
We went for the Strip because they both wanted to see the water show at the Bellagio later that day and also go for a bit of shopping, we been walking around in the heat and after 2 hours or so I went for the MnM shop to find a lil prezzie for Tino. Would you believe that they have thousands of toys and w/e but all just in the friggin 4 main stream colors and not purple? Grrrrrrr - ah well, at least I got something and will ship it to the Toon early next week ;)
The time just went by too fast and I tried not to get drunk on the pub crawl on Wednesday, because I still had some work ahead and also the 24h trip back to Germany on early Thursday as well. I pretty much pulled an all nighter, was fallen asleep once but the wake up call saved me and I met up with Vger before I left to the airport. The trip back home almost turned into a nightmare again, because the flight to Philly was slightly delayed and the flight to Frankfurt was overbooked, I got my seat as second last of the standby list yuck. But than, all went smooth and we even managed to get to Germany 50 minutes faster than expected and I caught an earlier train - the whole trip was pretty short though, I didn't even lose a whole day on the way back home ... just 23 hours lmfao!
I would just like to thank the OFC, Ace Jones begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Feltstars and of course also Vger for putting up such an event and organizing all at Vegas, it was the perfect opportunity to meet all the Pokerspacers and even though I wasn't successful at the tables, it still was a blast. I also have to thank Steve for sorting out my trip and let me go there for a week, he knew exactly how much it meant to me to be there.
I got to meet my favourite online divas Vger, Tracy, Sadie and nutbreaker and also brought over some german wine and chocolate along with some pet toys ... you just gotta know how to treat the ladies ;)
It was great to see John and his family, you were actually exactly what I expected and just let me know the next time and I will of course take care of your daughter hehe.
My british gang, Lee, Amanda, Spiersey and Barty ... gawd I just love the English accent and it was just nice to meet up, I knew Spiersey and Barty before from some live events at the UK.
Amanda is just a cracker, just don't let her have a lot of drinks or she may go nuts hehe:
Chris and Lesley ... oh my gosh what a fun couple and I am pretty sure to know where the online nicknames come from haha. FlyingKOP and your family ... oh lord, what a cutie your daughter is and she will surely be a heartbreaker in the future and I just hope Lesley didn't teach her too well at Vegas ;)
Chad ... well what shall I say - we all know your online personality but you screwed that up with being a really nice guy at Vegas that everybody can get along with ... let's see if you can actually establish the bad boy image again after all said that you are a good guy. Mainervill ... Rick, you are just a lovely big and friendly teddy bear and it was a pleasure to meet ya
Cory ... it was a pity that we could not talk more, but from what I have seen at the tables is that you made a helluva showing and got what it takes to be really successful ... looking forward to the next time and we will surely catch up online as well via skype or IM
I know I have been missing out on a lot of people and just wish the whole trip would have been much longer, but after waiting for so long for this to happen, it just wasn't enough time at Vegas and I hope that the next one will even be more fabulous.
I will also upload the best pictures and create a slideshow and post the link here on the blog, I may also create an album at the Pokerspace Facebook page and if you are not a member there yet, hurry up and get there!
Link to the picture slideshow on Photobucket: Vegas OFC Live
So now, I need to finish up in style and there is no better way than to post my fav picture of the trip:
The trip itself started pretty creepy with my flight being cancelled and losing a whole day at the airport at Frankfurt, I finally arrived at Vegas one day later than planned and Steve, Chris and Lesley already been waiting for me with a bottle of Scotch lol ... Steve was supposed to play in a WSOP tourney though the next day! We might have been a bit tipsy and went for a drink on the Freemont Street ... well we tried but every bar was already closed at Downtown Vegas around 3am lol. So when we tried to get in the room, we didn't succeed (and yes, all 3 tried lmao) and decided to go to the Venetian and just fall to sleep there. Lesley didn't even manage to get off the couch and was just fallen asleep right next to me ... Chris was still pretty sleepy and after 4 hours Lesley and I decided to go for breakfast and it was just really smooth to talk to her in real life for 2 hours rather than typing through yahoo. We than went for some shopping while Chris was still sleeping (lazy bastard!) and I returned to the Golden Nugget and obviously managed to get in the room straight.
I pretty much completed all my shopping in the first two days after arriving at Vegas and also met up with the lovely Vger, first thing we have done was getting lost in Margaritaville hehe. On the Sunday before the meet and greet I was a bit late from shopping and on the way back to the elevators, I met John and we knew each other from the first second, even though it was the first time we met in real life. It was nice to see all Pokerspacers and we also managed to take a small group photo as well:
I guess everybody has already seen the pictures on various other blogs about the wild party at the Gold Diggers, I won't mention any details though but it was definitely a blast ... that's all I can say :P Again, Steve was doing the same preparation for his WSOP tourney the other day hehehe. On the Sunday morning I met up with John and his awesome family for breakfast, it turned out that we were a bit late and headed to the lunch ... if you really want to see a great buffet, just go to the Main Street Station hotel at downtown ... it was like 8 bucks and they had such a great variety of food.
Before the warm up we decided to bring Steve over to the RIO's for his WSOP tourney so he doesn't fall asleep and when we just been heading out, I heard someone yelling at me from the check in waiting line ... you should have seen the smile on my face though, because Tracy finally arrived ;) She also had some heavy issues with her flight and lost a whole day, but finally made it to Sin City. We stayed at the Rio's for just about 45 minutes and also seen Daniel Negreanu taking out Dan Harrington with pocket rockets, Steve was doing ok in his tourney and he also cashed later on but unfortunately didn't go deep.
You can pretty much sum up my 2 tourneys at the OFC Live with one word: gawd. I was pretty much carddead and tried to pick some spots on the table against weaker opponents, but never been able to build up my stack and various suckouts kept my stack pretty much on where we started. The blinds moved up and I was getting desperate in the warm up, made one tricky resteal against a limper with pocket Kings and wanted to get him in ... by leaving 100 chips behind on the reraise. Unfortunately he folded and I just picked up the blinds and ante + his limp. I got moved to another table just when the blinds moved up and from being on the button as smallstack, I went straight into the BigBlind and was obviously pissed off. I was waiting a few more hands and finally got a playable hand with pocket tens and ran straight into Kings ... thanks lol. If I remember correctly, we had 5 Pokerspacers busting with 10s that day and in the most spectacular hand of the day, 10s also been involved in a 4way all in with TT vs TT vs AK vs AK:
Poolshooter and SuperrSam bubbled straight before the money and Cory was hanging in as one of the shortstacks, he made a helluva a game and a comeback on the Final Table, just to miss out on the added WSOP seat by one place and getting second.
The next day, Tracy and I went for breakfast / lunch / brunch ... I don't remember lol - the OFC Main Event was not more fortunate and it was pretty much a déjà vu. An isolation on blinds 50-100 for example against a weaker player on the table who raised in EP to 300 shrunk my stack, I raised to 900 out of the Button with JJ to get rid of the blinds and get called, flop is KQ low and she instant shoves ... I open muck my Jacks and get proudly shown KJ, well played. Same again, I never got to build up my stack and on blinds 200-400 I look down on AJ from the button, the SB is pretty passive and the BB is almost even stacked. I raise and almost commit myself, BB shoves and I take the flip vs TT (what else lol) - flop T 4 4 and headshot, thanks a bunch sigh. I mean I am not unhappy about my play, it was maybe a bit passive but I never had a spot to float against a raise in front of me and highly doubt I would been successful at this table.
We did have a few Pokerspacers in the top 30, but just BartyUK got to the final table and came in 5th, overall we took 3rd place though and gonna have a private Freeroll at FeltStars. Tracy had to leave at 5 in the morning the next day and I met up with Lee and Amanda for lunch, it is quite interesting at times though how long women need to dress up hehe. In the following 2 pics you can see the difference between typical American / British lunch (Lee) and my healthy asian food:
We went for the Strip because they both wanted to see the water show at the Bellagio later that day and also go for a bit of shopping, we been walking around in the heat and after 2 hours or so I went for the MnM shop to find a lil prezzie for Tino. Would you believe that they have thousands of toys and w/e but all just in the friggin 4 main stream colors and not purple? Grrrrrrr - ah well, at least I got something and will ship it to the Toon early next week ;)
The time just went by too fast and I tried not to get drunk on the pub crawl on Wednesday, because I still had some work ahead and also the 24h trip back to Germany on early Thursday as well. I pretty much pulled an all nighter, was fallen asleep once but the wake up call saved me and I met up with Vger before I left to the airport. The trip back home almost turned into a nightmare again, because the flight to Philly was slightly delayed and the flight to Frankfurt was overbooked, I got my seat as second last of the standby list yuck. But than, all went smooth and we even managed to get to Germany 50 minutes faster than expected and I caught an earlier train - the whole trip was pretty short though, I didn't even lose a whole day on the way back home ... just 23 hours lmfao!
I would just like to thank the OFC, Ace Jones begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Feltstars and of course also Vger for putting up such an event and organizing all at Vegas, it was the perfect opportunity to meet all the Pokerspacers and even though I wasn't successful at the tables, it still was a blast. I also have to thank Steve for sorting out my trip and let me go there for a week, he knew exactly how much it meant to me to be there.
I got to meet my favourite online divas Vger, Tracy, Sadie and nutbreaker and also brought over some german wine and chocolate along with some pet toys ... you just gotta know how to treat the ladies ;)
It was great to see John and his family, you were actually exactly what I expected and just let me know the next time and I will of course take care of your daughter hehe.
My british gang, Lee, Amanda, Spiersey and Barty ... gawd I just love the English accent and it was just nice to meet up, I knew Spiersey and Barty before from some live events at the UK.
Amanda is just a cracker, just don't let her have a lot of drinks or she may go nuts hehe:
Chris and Lesley ... oh my gosh what a fun couple and I am pretty sure to know where the online nicknames come from haha. FlyingKOP and your family ... oh lord, what a cutie your daughter is and she will surely be a heartbreaker in the future and I just hope Lesley didn't teach her too well at Vegas ;)
Chad ... well what shall I say - we all know your online personality but you screwed that up with being a really nice guy at Vegas that everybody can get along with ... let's see if you can actually establish the bad boy image again after all said that you are a good guy. Mainervill ... Rick, you are just a lovely big and friendly teddy bear and it was a pleasure to meet ya
Cory ... it was a pity that we could not talk more, but from what I have seen at the tables is that you made a helluva showing and got what it takes to be really successful ... looking forward to the next time and we will surely catch up online as well via skype or IM
I know I have been missing out on a lot of people and just wish the whole trip would have been much longer, but after waiting for so long for this to happen, it just wasn't enough time at Vegas and I hope that the next one will even be more fabulous.
I will also upload the best pictures and create a slideshow and post the link here on the blog, I may also create an album at the Pokerspace Facebook page and if you are not a member there yet, hurry up and get there!
Link to the picture slideshow on Photobucket: Vegas OFC Live
So now, I need to finish up in style and there is no better way than to post my fav picture of the trip:
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