NYC Recap
Wow I am beat...
This week in nyc was a blast. It was great hanging out with jay, chuck, ariel, emil, tubasteve, jsnipes and others throughout the week. We had a lot of fun, drank a lot of alcohol, played some poker, made some videos, and brainstormed for marketing ideas for the DeucesCracked at the WSOP. I think there are some pretty solid ideas, it will just be a matter of prioritizing and putting it into practice.
Last night was Jay's 24th birthday. He threw a birthday bash at Firefly somewhere in Soho I believe (forgive my nyc n00bness). It was roped off in the back, invite only, and open bar. The alcohol was flowing. I am typically not much of a drinker, but the last two nights here in NYC I got pretty torn up. It was pretty interesting/hilarious to meet all the different 2+2 / DC personalities when we all aren't behind the blue glow of our computer monitors. The party was pretty much a "who's who" of 2+2, including everyone's highlight when Cole South (CTS) walked in. It was pretty funny... I was standing near the bar talking to someone then the next thing I know I'm talking to myself as the whole area cleared. I turn around to see what happened and sure enough there's a flock of poker ballers turned-giddy-school-girls as they swarm Cole. It was quite a sight ahah.
Shawn (shawny_boy on 2+2/shawn on DC) was also there for Jay's party. I had met him the night before when we went out for drinks and talked to him for a while. He's a very fascinating guy who did well back in the dot-com boom, so that obviously piqued the interest of myself being a former software engineer. He brought his girlfriend who was very nice I had a good time talking to them. Unfortunately I got pulled away and by the time I was on my way back they were ready to leave.
It was also good to finally meet John, jsnipes28, after we had been talking on AIM for like 3 years now or something insane. He was very fun to talk to and we reminisced a lot about old hands and random posts on 2+2 as well as general poker bullshitting. We originally met online way back in the old party poker 2/4 days where he made a river blocking bet and i bluff jammed over him to get him to fold an overpair. He posted the hand on 2+2 and we talked via PM and AIM after that. Kind of weird how an internet post 3 years ago somehow leads to meeting up at a bar in NYC years later.
One of my students, Jason, made it over from pennsylvania and it was good to see him as well. There were tons of other great people there to talk to and meet, there's no way I could list them all.
Saturday was jay (KRANTZ's) birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY! Snipes and I got him a pair of jumpsoles to help with his basketball dunking prop bet. I tihnk at least one other person had the same idea so with all those jumpsoles he should be a lock to win the bet.
One piece of good news is I didn't lose 22k or whatever it was I lost last september when I went out there. The bad news is I still ended up in the negative for the trip. ran pretty bad in all in equity where I ran 12k below expectation. So that sorta sucks. You can see the graph below with the dark green being actual results and the light green being theoretical results. This graph just reflects my results in NYC
We got a couple mini coaching sessions in playing some 10/20. It was overall pretty good/insightful. Jay made some sick reads as always. I also played Brad Booth at 10/20nl HU. That was a fun match as Brad plays a very unconventional style. He has 3 distinct "gears" that he appeard to switch between during our match. One gear was like a small ball, minraise or limp preflop, make small stabs, control pot size. The second gear was more of a normalish/standard style. Pot sized opens and 2/3-3/4 size postflop bets. The last gear was a aggro barreling overbet style where he would open raise to $123 and then overbet the flop. I ran well at the beginning of the match when I shot up a quick 5k but after the initial rush the match bounced around between even and +3500 or so until I made a hero call with A high in a $6000 pot that was no good and things sort of unravelled from there...including my QQ being destroyed by Brad's AA for an $8300 pot all in preflop not long after. Ouch.
My month was going quite well until that disaster at 25/50nl that I blogged about before. I'm not even sure where I'm at for the month now, but probably not up very much. I'm going to continue to stick with the heads up path because I really feel like I have a very solid edge at LEAST up to 5/10nl, and with Jay's coaching I'm confident I'll be able to soon be very competitive at 10/20nl and higher too.
Aaron
p.s. Here is a funny chat snippet from when I was playing Brad Booth. There were DC railbird supporters who really had my back:
Dewey Finn (Observer): playing Wilt hu is only
slightly better game selection than playing cts hu
Dealer: Brad Booth wins the pot ($40)
Dealer: Hand #6172675899
WiltOnTilt: thats a bit of an exaggeration :-)
Dealer: WiltOnTilt wins the pot ($40)
Dealer: Hand #6172677728
Dewey Finn (Observer): i idd the math
Dewey Finn (Observer): did
Dealer: WiltOnTilt wins the pot ($80)
Dealer: Hand #6172680019
Look at all the sick math he learned from my Mathematics of NL Hold'em series :-)
This week in nyc was a blast. It was great hanging out with jay, chuck, ariel, emil, tubasteve, jsnipes and others throughout the week. We had a lot of fun, drank a lot of alcohol, played some poker, made some videos, and brainstormed for marketing ideas for the DeucesCracked at the WSOP. I think there are some pretty solid ideas, it will just be a matter of prioritizing and putting it into practice.
Last night was Jay's 24th birthday. He threw a birthday bash at Firefly somewhere in Soho I believe (forgive my nyc n00bness). It was roped off in the back, invite only, and open bar. The alcohol was flowing. I am typically not much of a drinker, but the last two nights here in NYC I got pretty torn up. It was pretty interesting/hilarious to meet all the different 2+2 / DC personalities when we all aren't behind the blue glow of our computer monitors. The party was pretty much a "who's who" of 2+2, including everyone's highlight when Cole South (CTS) walked in. It was pretty funny... I was standing near the bar talking to someone then the next thing I know I'm talking to myself as the whole area cleared. I turn around to see what happened and sure enough there's a flock of poker ballers turned-giddy-school-girls as they swarm Cole. It was quite a sight ahah.
Shawn (shawny_boy on 2+2/shawn on DC) was also there for Jay's party. I had met him the night before when we went out for drinks and talked to him for a while. He's a very fascinating guy who did well back in the dot-com boom, so that obviously piqued the interest of myself being a former software engineer. He brought his girlfriend who was very nice I had a good time talking to them. Unfortunately I got pulled away and by the time I was on my way back they were ready to leave.
It was also good to finally meet John, jsnipes28, after we had been talking on AIM for like 3 years now or something insane. He was very fun to talk to and we reminisced a lot about old hands and random posts on 2+2 as well as general poker bullshitting. We originally met online way back in the old party poker 2/4 days where he made a river blocking bet and i bluff jammed over him to get him to fold an overpair. He posted the hand on 2+2 and we talked via PM and AIM after that. Kind of weird how an internet post 3 years ago somehow leads to meeting up at a bar in NYC years later.
One of my students, Jason, made it over from pennsylvania and it was good to see him as well. There were tons of other great people there to talk to and meet, there's no way I could list them all.
Saturday was jay (KRANTZ's) birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY! Snipes and I got him a pair of jumpsoles to help with his basketball dunking prop bet. I tihnk at least one other person had the same idea so with all those jumpsoles he should be a lock to win the bet.
One piece of good news is I didn't lose 22k or whatever it was I lost last september when I went out there. The bad news is I still ended up in the negative for the trip. ran pretty bad in all in equity where I ran 12k below expectation. So that sorta sucks. You can see the graph below with the dark green being actual results and the light green being theoretical results. This graph just reflects my results in NYC
We got a couple mini coaching sessions in playing some 10/20. It was overall pretty good/insightful. Jay made some sick reads as always. I also played Brad Booth at 10/20nl HU. That was a fun match as Brad plays a very unconventional style. He has 3 distinct "gears" that he appeard to switch between during our match. One gear was like a small ball, minraise or limp preflop, make small stabs, control pot size. The second gear was more of a normalish/standard style. Pot sized opens and 2/3-3/4 size postflop bets. The last gear was a aggro barreling overbet style where he would open raise to $123 and then overbet the flop. I ran well at the beginning of the match when I shot up a quick 5k but after the initial rush the match bounced around between even and +3500 or so until I made a hero call with A high in a $6000 pot that was no good and things sort of unravelled from there...including my QQ being destroyed by Brad's AA for an $8300 pot all in preflop not long after. Ouch.
My month was going quite well until that disaster at 25/50nl that I blogged about before. I'm not even sure where I'm at for the month now, but probably not up very much. I'm going to continue to stick with the heads up path because I really feel like I have a very solid edge at LEAST up to 5/10nl, and with Jay's coaching I'm confident I'll be able to soon be very competitive at 10/20nl and higher too.
Aaron
p.s. Here is a funny chat snippet from when I was playing Brad Booth. There were DC railbird supporters who really had my back:
Dewey Finn (Observer): playing Wilt hu is only
slightly better game selection than playing cts hu
Dealer: Brad Booth wins the pot ($40)
Dealer: Hand #6172675899
WiltOnTilt: thats a bit of an exaggeration :-)
Dealer: WiltOnTilt wins the pot ($40)
Dealer: Hand #6172677728
Dewey Finn (Observer): i idd the math
Dewey Finn (Observer): did
Dealer: WiltOnTilt wins the pot ($80)
Dealer: Hand #6172680019
Look at all the sick math he learned from my Mathematics of NL Hold'em series :-)
posted by WiltOnTilt at 2:18 PM
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