Yeh my father is viet and my mother is italian and polish. Ill be 19 in september.
First time i played in a casino i believe was at the taj mahal in atlantic city(used to live 2 blocks away). I was 16!! lol. I was there with my bro and his friend. I used a fake id to get in but never got carded at the table. I dressed up very nicely with a leather jacket and a kangol hat to look older. Of course i was extremely nervous playing underage against people who were drinking beer and commenting on how young i looked. The game was a 2-4 limit game. I actually only played about 2 hours and won around 40 bucks, but not sure exactly. I just played really tight and must have been lucky because i was a poor player with no live experience at that time. I felt so nervous that after that day i only went to the casino 2 other times in atlantic city before moving to sd.
Also im probably gonna be at sycuan this tuesday to play some 4-8 or no limit. Ill be there for prolly 6 to 10 hours since i dont have to work at my other job.
at Hawaiian Gardens in Long Beach, they have 1-2 limit and 20 NL with blinds at 1-1ā¦
so if you have a small bankroll of only $50, you can have some fun thereā¦
Lowest limit at morongo is 2-4ā¦ although 3-6 is where all the money is atā¦
so i just got back from vegasā¦
lowest limit games they have is 1-3 at the excalibur and at tropicanaā¦ theres always full tables at excalibur, but HELLLA fishesā¦
i came up $200 playing mostly 3-6ā¦ but i was getting quite a few bad beats coz fuckers would be calling my bets (me having top pair or two pair) with bottom pair, only to pick up bullshit on the river. I also had a guy raise PREFLOP every time to $6 even though he had shit like 5 7 suited, or 8 9 offā¦ and if someone raised before him, he would reraise to 9-12, making me throw away semi-decent hands coz i didnt want to pay $12 to see a flop.
Bellagio has FUCKING crazy ass $4000-$8000 limit game for you ballersā¦ watching that for a while made me wish i was rich.
I stopped by the Rio to check out some WSOP eventsā¦ the atmosphere there is nutsā¦ Like you walk in and all you can hear is chip sounds, but amplified times a millionā¦ like you couldnt even hear people talk unless you yelledā¦
saw a couple of facesā¦ greg raymerā¦ johnny chanā¦ phil hellmuthā¦ men nguyenā¦
interesting enoughā¦ greg raymer who is undoubetly a millionaire sat around a 2-4 table and play for like 30 minā¦ although i think it was a publicity stunt more than anything elseā¦
wow u started playing at the age of 16??? dayyyyam u have some good experiences i suppose. i understand how u felt when u played for the first time cuhz when i looked in the poker room, all i see are chips just diving into the pot constantly. and i heard Live is really CRAZy when it comes to players who puts in chips like crazy. GOOD SHIT!
iām not in SD, but iām planning to come this weekend though. weāll see
what kind of style do u prefer? loose or tight? i like being tight, but loose can be intimidating? ehhe ur opinions are appreciated.
Strider Hiryu: is the Hawaiian Gardens 18+? iāve driven by it to visit my grandmaās grave once in a while. wow u saw the pros in Vegas? good shit. Phil Hellmuth is my hero
Playing loose means your obviously going to see more flops, so there will always be actionā¦ but in the long run, it will fuck you overā¦ But it also depends if youre playing limit or NLā¦ coz if you were the chip leader in NL, you could afford to play loose.
You know how the commercial says to shock em with your aces??
It should say ādonāt be shocked when your aces lose to 2 pair on the river every single time you get themā
LOL i read on Card Player that someone did wear a sesame street mask! good pic there DaFlipMast hahaha
Jennifer Harman, who was seated at the table on the ESPN stage, has been eliminated from this year's main event. She had taken an unbelievable hit in round one, when she flopped a set of queens against an opponent's straight, and then turned a full house on the same card that made her opponent a straight flush.
āIāve never had this happen to me before in my life,ā is how Jennifer Harmanās 2005 WSOP championship starts. It begins with her picking up Q-Q. The board comes Qd-Jd-10c-10d-7d, a full house for Harman, but unfortunately for her, her opponent flips over 8d-9d. A runner-runner straight flush puts one of the fieldās toughest players on the ropes.
I really like how you totally misquoted that hand but still wrote it as if it would be in a magazineā¦ Because no one wrote āa runner-runner straight flush puts one of the fieldās toughest players on the ropesā
LOl i copy and pasted from Cardplayer.com Live Updates. i wish my grammar and writing skills were up to that level. but anyway, Johnny Chan, Barry Greenstein, Jennifer Tilly got eliminated from the 1st round. Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie) had 3 times the chips Johnny Chan had at one point.
Lee Watkinson is owning up. I can see him making heads upā¦and then totally blowing it because he never believes his opponent has a hand.
To add to the list, Unabomber is gone, Arieh gone. We get to see more raymer as he was on the feature table, as was the straight flush hand. And Donaldās post was directly from Cardplayer.com so it wasnāt like he wrote it himself. Cardplayer also has some of the worst and funniest puns (which is great news if youāre in to that stuff).
Date / Time: 2005-07-08 01:02:00
Title: Josh Arieh-Vederci
Date / Time: 2005-07-08 00:23:00
Title: Gone-berto Brenes
Title: David āGoner Fishā Ulliott
Date / Time: 2005-07-07 22:40:00
Title: Mike Caro Hits the Rail-O
Date / Time: 2005-07-07 21:09:00
Title: Johnny Chan - Gone-y Chan
:lovin: all good. are u by any chance, Vietnamese?
check out this huge laydown by Phil Hellmuth Jrā¦
-------copy and paste from Cardplayer.com-------
Date / Time: 2005-07-09 00:38:00
Title: Phil Hellmuth Dodges a Bullet
Log: After a hand at the featured table, Phil Hellmuth jumped out of his chair and pointed at his wife in the stands.
āHoney! Honey! That was the hand! I should have gone broke on the hand!ā
He then described how he had A-K, the flop came out A-A-4, and restated that he should have gone broke.
āExcept you forgot one thing ā I can dodge bullets, baby. I knew he had a full house!ā
Expect to see this hand (and the exchange with his wife) on ESPN.
he freakinā layed down TRIP ACES on the flop with BIG SLICK. i wouldnāt have laid this hand down in a million years, but damn, if his opponent did have the boat, Phil will be THE GREATEST POKR PLAYER EVER!
