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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Gavin Griffin was the first to pull it off in 2008, and last year Roland de Wolfe jointed this most exclusive club. Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "Gene Bromberg" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(3740) "So far only two players have won poker’s Triple Crown–a World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, and European Poker Tour title. Gavin Griffin was the first to pull it off in 2008, and last year Roland de Wolfe jointed this most exclusive club. Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. But the third card the dealer revealed was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9h.gif" alt="9h" border="0">, and that card and that hand signaled Brandon’s doom.You need a little luck to win a poker tournament, and sometimes a little luck conspires to keep you from winning. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. But the third card the dealer revealed was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9h.gif" alt="9h" border="0">, and that card and that hand signaled Brandon’s doom.You need a little luck to win a poker tournament, and sometimes a little luck conspires to keep you from winning. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. But the third card the dealer revealed was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9h.gif" alt="9h" border="0">, and that card and that hand signaled Brandon’s doom.You need a little luck to win a poker tournament, and sometimes a little luck conspires to keep you from winning. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. But the third card the dealer revealed was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9h.gif" alt="9h" border="0">, and that card and that hand signaled Brandon’s doom.You need a little luck to win a poker tournament, and sometimes a little luck conspires to keep you from winning. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. But the third card the dealer revealed was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9h.gif" alt="9h" border="0">, and that card and that hand signaled Brandon’s doom.You need a little luck to win a poker tournament, and sometimes a little luck conspires to keep you from winning. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. But the third card the dealer revealed was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9h.gif" alt="9h" border="0">, and that card and that hand signaled Brandon’s doom.You need a little luck to win a poker tournament, and sometimes a little luck conspires to keep you from winning. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(16) "Bryan Devonshire" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(5045) "Business around the ranch has slowed down a bunch in the last few weeks. We had two afternoon rides on Saturday afternoon but I wasn’t on either and didn’t exactly feel like saddling up either. The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good today. Tomorrow we’re heading up to the high country for an overnight pack trip. I’m pretty excited. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(13) "PAPAGEORGIOOO" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(2842) "Let me give my thoughts on UBOC and a summary of my games in UBOC15. First, let me say that UBOC is a winning idea for both players and UB/AP. Having these tournament series creates large prize pools and large fields which are both things that we players like. For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. 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Brandon Cantu already has two WSOP bracelets and a WPT title to his name and on Day 3 of the EPT’s Vilamoura event Brandon was making a serious charge toward completing his Triple Crown.But sometimes the Poker Gods conspire against you and that’s what happened to Brandon today, as he suffered through a day that he described on Twitter as “the most frustrating day I’ve ever had an undescribable feeling actually”. It started off well–he won a big pot with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, then he boosted his stack to 965K when his pocket fours held against Ace-King to burst the money bubble.But from there, things rapidly went downhill. And in especially gut-kicking fashion to boot. The first hand that went awry came when Brandon was holding 9-3 and he turned a well-disguised two pair. Unfortunately his opponent had turned the nut straight and that sent him spiraling down to 580K.That paled compared to the next pot Cantu lost, as he was holding <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qd.gif" alt="Qd" border="0"> to his opponent’s <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9c.gif" alt="9c" border="0"> and the flop came <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Qh.gif" alt="Qh" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/8h.gif" alt="8h" border="0"><IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/4h.gif" alt="4h" border="0">. So that’s a lock, right? Wrong–the turn brought the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/9d.gif" alt="9d" border="0"> and as an additional kick to the sternum the river was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ac.gif" alt="Ac" border="0">. On Twitter Brandon said it was the “worst beat i have ever taken”.Brandon managed to double up with pocket nines of all hands, making a four-flush to beat Ace-King (the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0"> on the turn gave Brandon the flush and the pot). But that hand would not arrest the slide–he lost pots holding pocket Queens to King-Ten (King on the flop) and King-Nine to pocket Tens. And then, down to around 100K, Brandon moved in and was called by a player holding…pocket Nines. Brandon held Ace-King and when the flop was spread the door card was the <IMG SRC="http://blog.ub.com/wp-content/plugins/cards-poker/cartes/Ah.gif" alt="Ah" border="0">. 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For the Cereus network it brings in a lot of players that are probably not regulars to the site and it attracts a bevy of media attention. With more players coming to the site and seeing what Cereus is all about.. great support staff.. and excellent player benefits, its likely these players will come back and play more on the site. So from my point of view having two UBOC’s in the same year is certainly a good move for Cereus and I hope to see many more UBOC’s in the future. I played UBOC 15, the $320 Sniper tournament and Mini UBOC 15 the $30 sniper which is the smaller buy in version. I played for about 2 hours in the $320 not really getting any hands or able to accumulate many chips. So with about 2800 in chips left and 2 hours in, I shoved w AQ and was called by a bigger stack w 88, board ran out and my AQ did not hit giving the 88 $30 for knocking me out. Now on to the Mini UBOC 15, a $30 buy in with $5 set aside for sniping . In this tourney I had success from the start accumulating a large stack early and maintaining this stack throughout. My stack went from 3000 chips to about 15,000 in the first hour when I hit a few sets and my AK won a three way vs AQ and QQ with the A hitting. The next two hours I had one big hand where i got dealt 88 in mid pos. and the guy to my left called my small raise with 22 and the BB also called. Flop hit Ks 7s 2h . I lead a small bet and the 22 calls, BB folds and turn card comes a Qd. I checked and the set of 2′s bets about 1/3rd the pot. I decided to call putting him on a possible small pair, set, or flush draw. The bet is so small that I figure if he does have a set and I hit my 8 he will pay me a huge pot, also there is a possibility that he has a pair of 33,44,55,66, or flush draw and he will just check the river if a blank hits. River hits the best card in the deck 8c and I set up with 888 v 222. Pot suddenly turns into a monster when he bets and I shove all in thinking he’s been slow playing a lower set or even KQ. This vaults me to over 36 k in chips and through the next few hours I continue to win small pots keeping me near the chip leaders 4 hours in and even touching 1st briefly. In the end it wasn’t meant to be because with 19 players left I raised mid pos w KJ and a player flats me w K 10 flopping a straight and me hitting my J. It would have been nice to win this event but I feel good about my game right now and hope to have some big cashes in the very near future." 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Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling [...]" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"]=> array(1) { ["creator"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(8) "Roothlus" ["attribs"]=> array(0) { } ["xml_base"]=> string(0) "" ["xml_base_explicit"]=> bool(false) ["xml_lang"]=> string(0) "" } } } ["http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"]=> array(1) { ["encoded"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(5) { ["data"]=> string(7796) "I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament.Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blindsI started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too. My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blindsHope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through." 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The Colorado State Fair started a day or two earlier and Blake Shelton was playing that night, so that’s where I was going to go. A bunch of people claimed that they would be going at some point or another, I was going by myself until Sarah (April’s daughter, the two of them work sometimes on the ranch when they’re needed) pulled up as I was replacing a headlight on my truck and I asked if she wanted to go see Blake Shelton that night. She accepted, said she intended on already going to the fair with her friend Lindsey. Sweet. From solo to two chicks in thirty seconds. Sarah lives at the Abbey in Canon City where I went wine tasting last month. She works with the horses there, but since the owners haven’t put any money into the place nobody’s boarding their horses there, so she lives for free and boards her horses for free and don’t have to do much work. We waited around a bit for Lindsey who never showed up and said she’d meet us there, so we headed to the fair. Very good times. I’d never been to any state fair and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I felt like a genius tweeting that I was checking out award winning cocks (roosters, obv) in the small animals building, and then we got kicked out for having beer because apparently people have given beer to the rabbits which kills them. I didn’t know that you could buy animals at the fair. I really wanted to come home with a prize winning duck, or rabbit, or some silly critter, but I think fortunately that plan never reached fruition. We headed into the arena to see Blake Shelton after the rodeo which we didn’t make it into because it was sold out. We got close, watched an amazing show, and then were thrilled to see Miranda Lambert show up for the second verse of “Home”. She left the stage at the end of the song and came back at the encore. It was an awesome show. Nobody ever showed up to join us, I drove Sarah back to Canon, and then headed to the dirt road back to the ranch.It’s a bit difficult to find Oak Creek Grade out of Canon City, you basically gotta catch the bridge between third and fourth street across the river which doesn’t have a light, so naturally I missed it. I flipped a youey at 3rd street and turned South headed out of town. Just before hitting the dirt road I was reaching behind my seat for a beer, looked in the rear view and saw a cop, and decided that I probably shouldn’t crack the beer yet. He immediately turned on his lights, I pulled over, and he asked me why I missed the turn. I’m not from here and Oak Creek Grade is hard to find? He left with my license and registration, came back and told me that he couldn’t find my stuff in the system, said I should call somebody about that, and then he let me go. He also, like Court, thought that my registration expired in 2006, since the sticker says “6″. It’s for June, and says 2011 on the side. I drove away, hit the dirt road, cracked that beer, and drove the twenty miles of dirt road back to the ranch. Sunday we had an erection party. One of the tall posts between the main corral and holding pen that the gate was attached to broke off at the ground. We had to pull the post and replace it with an old telephone pole we had sitting around. That took most of the morning, and then I worked online that afternoon and evening. I made a deep run in the UBOC Main Event, ended up finishing 72nd after I bluffed off some chips and then lost with AQ to J4 and K9. Sigh is how I felt. Monday there also wasn’t anything going on, and it felt like winter showed up that day. I left the ranch around noon thirty in warm clothes and a beanie heading to Colorado Springs to pick up Karri. Since I didn’t go to Malibu with a pretty girl I talked her into coming out here before her trip to Aspen this weekend. She’s still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. We had a good evening, watching the sun set over the ranch and drinking Jack and Coke, dinner in town, and we ended up having beers with an old timer here in town known as Mountain Bob. There’s a signed poster of him in the office at the ranch. Today was a slow day, slept in, and then went to ridin some fence. I took Karri for a ride about the ranch, showed her some of the old mines and homesteads, and did some running of the horses. Such a nice day on the ranch. Came back, and now we’re sittin in front of the Penthouse (my cabin) sippin cocktails out of tin mugs watchin the wind blow by. Life is good to