mid week post *guest appearance*

alright so i usually just post once a week but some things have come up that needed to be said before sunday. on monday it snowed in washington, and when it snows like 3 inches places start to shut down (except casinos of course) well in the casino i played i noticed a couple faces that i havnt played with before and were pretty decent players so i assumed that since a couple of the bigger casions were a little ways away that the snow was stopping them from going. i was talking to one reg i played with asking him about another game at a different casino and he told me that matt probablly knew and pointed to a guy that ive never seen before then "matt" started talking about a 5/10/25 plo game that was going on at the big casino north of seattle. then he had to get up because it was at a must move game. for some reason i felt like i seen him somwhere before and had a strange feeling that he was a writet for cardplayer or somthing, i dont know why i thaught that but i did. then 2 more tags showed up that i hadnt seen before and sat on my right one of them was talking to the other about why he wasnt wearing his wsopc ring or somthing like that. then the dealer asked me if that was matt affleck on the other table and i was like who? and the guys to my right said yeah the name ran through my head and i was like oh yeah i remember that name a little bit.
before matt left he came up to the other guys on my right and were talking about the lapc this coming up week and then left. turns out i was playing with professionals the whole night.needless to say that table was the most solid table i played at the whole time ive been here, there was only one fish. i stayed for a few hours after my new found information just for the experience. when i lived in vegas ive played with pros as well jayme gold, ice man, andreas hoivald, and some online pros so playing with "pros" isnt somthing amazing but at the same time its interesting.


now the casino that i play at is running a 3 day tournament series called the winter classic. friday is a 300$ buy in saturday is a 500$ buyin and sunday is the 1000$ buyin they ran 6 satalites over the last 2 weeks for these events. 2 satalites for each event. i played the first 70$ satalite to try and get into the 300$ tourney but got sucked out on and didnt win a seat. yesterday was the last satelite and it was 210$ for the 1k event. so for every 5 players theres 1 seat awarded. i figured since there wasnt that many people probablly going to play since the snow was here that i would have a decent chance so i baught into the satalite. it turned out that 15 players signed up so 3 seats were awarded. i played pretty decently and i was getting decent cards to top it. there were only 2 tables and i was able to make it to the last table pretty easily and had good seat position. now when i was playing on stars and built up a lot of fpp's i would spend them on the sunday million satalites and i learned a really good stratgey to win those satelites so i felt pretty strongly about how i was going to play. i was able to chip up during one big pot and then put pressure on some players eventually getting down to 5 handed and i was sitting with about average chips. and by that time it was pretty much shove or fold for everyone. i had AQ and shoved the sb called with 99 and the flop came Q J 6, the turn and river missed him and we were down to 4 players. the player to my right was the shortest stack but could do dameage to somone if he doubled up through anyone. eventually the blinds picked away at him and he got snapped off when he shoved 33 and got called by AJ , an Ace hit the flop and held up and bam! i have a seat in the 1k event this sunday

so thats how my month is going. right now im up 7300$ for the month but 1000 of that is the tourney entry. im pretty escited about this tourney its got a pretty good structure. starting stack is 20k with 45 minute blinds and theres a garunteed prize pool of i think 25k or somthing anyways i feel like i should be able to do pretty well in it varriance depending and maybe ill be able to ship this tourney. btw this is the biggest event i will have ever played in so this month is turning out to be a month of mile stones for me. also since the tourney is on sunday at 10am im not going to go out this weeknd to run game from what i hear whenever they run this series the side games are pretty juicy so im going to focus on that plus i want to be prepared for sunday. i will go to that bar near where i live on friday night just to check it out after i play so we'll see how that goes.

so thats the midweek update pretty long i know but when i post again sunday or monday ill be describing how i took down the final table at the 1k event :) so untill next time cosmonauts, stay tuned