Air Force One
We landed in Vegas last night not too long after Air Force One dropped off President Obama who is in town for some fundraiser and town hall meeting. We taxied right by AF1 which was pretty neat. Here was the view once we parked at our gate. Sorry for the lackluster image quality.
Vegas This Weekend
I’m going out to Vegas this weekend for a few nights. This whole trip originated after getting an offer for a few free nights at the Venetian. When I saw airfare was cheap and that a Deep Stack Extravaganza series was running at the Venetian, I was like, “why not?”
Since buying airfare, the whole trip has taken on more significance. Two friends are now meeting up out there and the Venetian altered their Deep Stack schedule by adding the $5,000 buy-in inaugural Main Event for the newly-created North American Poker Tour (NAPT). That event starts on Saturday. On Friday, I’ll be chasing a pipe-dream of participating by playing some satellites.
A few weeks ago, my friends and I booked a table at Tao, the nightclub at Venetian, for Friday night. Just today I saw that PokerStars is holding a launch party for the NAPT that same night which will be headlined by T-Pain. Apparently Tony Hawk, Christian Slater, Brad Garrett, Marlon Wayans and several others will be in attendance as well. How cool is that? Just so happen to book a table at a certain club on a certain night in Vegas and it turns out PokerStars is holding some huge launch party there!
Should be interesting. I’ve been to Tao before and the place is pretty huge, so it’s entirely possible that the launch party will be going on in a part of the club that my friends and I are unable to gain access to. That, or I’ll be standing on top of a piano singing I’m On a Boat with T-Pain.
Hey, it’s Vegas. Anything can happen!
Correction… THIS is the Most Ballin’ NBA Jersey
About a year ago I made a post about the most ballin’ NBA jersey one could buy. At the time, a friend and I concluded that Andre Iguodala met all of the criteria needed to be considered a super-baller jersey to wear.
But stop the presses!
I just saw the most baller jersey maybe ever: Jordan’s 1985 All-Star Game jersey.
Holy crap does that thing look awesome. Only 300 of them being produced which makes a $250 price tag actually seem kind of reasonable.
Rush Poker LAG Video
When I first tried out the full ring Rush Poker games at Full Tilt, I was bored. I kept thinking, “ugh, this sucks. There’s never any big pots.” It made me realize that everyone was playing too tight and too passive. With that being the case, I started playing really loose and really aggressive as I mentioned in my last post. Since doing so, I’ve been cleaning up. I decided to turn on the video tonight and record the first few hands of my session to give you an idea of exactly how loose and aggressive I’ve been getting away with. I decided not to have any commentary on the video like I normally do in the free poker videos at PokerTips and instead just focused on playing without trying to describe what I’m thinking which is something I’ve found can sometimes be a little counterproductive, especially when you’re playing tons of hands. The music is Royksopp from their album Junior. I think there’s a bit of a disparity between the audio and the video. I don’t know what made that happen and am not tech savvy enough to fix it. Sorry about that.
While I was writing this post, just played the following hand in a $10 rebuy on PokerStars. Aren’t people funny sometimes?
PokerStars Game #39458709789: Tournament #284011111, $10+$1 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level V (75/150) – 2010/02/08 21:47:07 CT [2010/02/08 22:47:07 ET]
Table ‘284011111 57′ 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: spartan44ga (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: enheda (5910 in chips)
Seat 3: magi8000 (4350 in chips)
Seat 4: Goonasabi (6120 in chips)
Seat 5: thtsjusmygam (4295 in chips)
Seat 6: McShove (6935 in chips)
Seat 7: fred535 (6375 in chips)
Seat 8: flor3nc3 (2625 in chips)
Seat 9: Ozone23 (6280 in chips)
McShove: posts small blind 75
fred535: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Ozone23 [Ad Ah]
flor3nc3: folds
Ozone23: calls 150
spartan44ga: calls 150
enheda: folds
magi8000: folds
Goonasabi: folds
thtsjusmygam: folds
McShove: folds
fred535: checks
*** FLOP *** [2s As Ac]
fred535: bets 300
Ozone23: calls 300
spartan44ga: folds
*** TURN *** [2s As Ac] [Jh]
fred535: bets 600
Ozone23: calls 600
*** RIVER *** [2s As Ac Jh] [9d]
fred535: bets 1200
Ozone23: raises 4030 to 5230 and is all-in
fred535: calls 4030
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Ozone23: shows [Ad Ah] (four of a kind, Aces)
fred535: shows [Ts 9h] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
Ozone23 collected 12785 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12785 | Rake 0
Board [2s As Ac Jh 9d]
Seat 1: spartan44ga folded on the Flop
Seat 2: enheda folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: magi8000 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: Goonasabi folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: thtsjusmygam (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 6: McShove (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: fred535 (big blind) showed [Ts 9h] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 8: flor3nc3 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: Ozone23 showed [Ad Ah] and won (12785) with four of a kind, Aces
