Well, it's over. Around 11am EST yesterday I earned my last VPP needed to make Supernova Elite. I actually timed it perfectly and finished my normal 24 tabling session with < 1 VPP to go, and then got a few friends together for a $50 flip to earn the final point. Unfortunately, I lost the flip, but I can't complain as I effectively made about $30,000 by playing the hand!
It feels amazing to be done, knowing how much work I've put in achieving this goal. I certainly made things difficult on myself by taking so much time off during the summer, and if I decide to do SNE again, I'll be infinitely better prepared. As of right now, I'm about 50/50 on whether or not I'll do it again. The 50,000 free VPP's I'll have for playing the World Series of Poker Main Event is nice, but still only accounts for 5% of the year's play that I'll be able to skip.
In terms of how poker went during the final month, it was really a complete mess. I managed to play less when my head wasn't in it, which definitely helped and I avoided multiple $10,000+ downswings as had been occurring in the previous couple of months. I actually had one of my best sessions ever on the last day, making close to $5,000 in about 2 hours, which got me almost exactly even on the month. Combined with the fact that I ran worse this month then I ever have (over $10k under expectation), I'm going to consider it a pretty successful month. I think I'm down around $200 on the month, so I'll likely put in another session to keep the winning streak alive. Hopefully, it doesn't turn into a marathon "grind till even session", as I feel I've deserved a nice break.
Besides that, I'm done with poker for about 2 weeks, which will be the longest break I've taken in close to 2 years now. I don't plan on playing online the first week of next year, and then I headed down to the Bahamas for PCA. It should be a blast, and I'm taking some friends down with me as well so hopefully I'll have some people cheering me on if I make a deep run.
I have a couple more blogs planned for the upcoming days, with advice for future SNE grinders, as well as my goals and plans for 2011, but I wanted to finish off this blog by saying thanks to a ton of people for being there for me this year when I've been going through some tough times. SNE truly is a grind, and what most who go for it don't understand is the mental toll it will take on you over the course of the year. So with that, thanks a million to: Dad, Mom, Louise, Michael, Mark, Pat, Amy, Marissa, Nate, Becca, Alex, Horstman, Greg, Tom, Speedle, Joop, Mike, Bailey, Rob, Amrit, Joe, Chris. Ya'll mean a ton to me, and i'm infinitely thankful that most of you stuck with me this year!
And I can't forget the online crew, most of whom I only met briefly this summer, but talked to nearly everyday at the tables. Zep, Biggie, natisfinest, vini, nolan, Swtwtr, joeingram, that fortress guy, brtn, lydia, tcarr, bigd, and even good ol' Sandhop who let me beat him up in backgammon every now and then.
Well I think that's it for now. Sorry if I forgot to mention you, my brain still isn't working at 100% yet :)
Last weekend I headed up to Cataloochee ski area with Nate and Evelyn to get some snowboarding in. It was a cold weekend up in North Carolina and they had been making snow all week, so there actually were some decent conditions. It felt pretty nice to take a day off from poker and hit the slopes. Unfortunately, my car didn't do to well on the ice on the trip up there. I pulled a full 360 on an exit ramp and then we got stuck for a while on another hill, before we found the right route to the ski area. So, it's looking now that I won't drive to Tahoe and I'll just fly out instead and maybe rent a car for a few months.
The SNE grind is coming along really well. As I write this I'm just shy of 935k VPP's so only about 65k more to go before I'm done for the year. With 19 days left it's under 4k per day and I've been averaging closer to 5k for the past 2 months. Hopefully I'll be done a couple days early and get to take a few days off before the new year. Then it's down to the Bahamas for the PCA. Last year's winner got a bit over $2,000,000 which would be a nice start to the year.
After a really good start to the month I hit another big downer, mostly due to life stuff getting in the way of poker. This seems to be the theme throughout the last couple of months, but once I'm out to Tahoe hopefully things will all be better. After a good weekend I'm only down a bit on the month now, and historically the games are very soft around Christmas time, so with any luck I'll end the year on a high note.
A bunch of mid-high stakes player on Stars/FTP got together and donated a ton of money to Toys for Kids. It's always nice when a bunch of guys who make more money then they know what to do with, and have a habit of blowing it on dumb things, get together and do something to make a difference. Overall we raised about $6,000 for the charity in the US, Canada, and the UK.
One of the guys from UK made it out to the toy store and got to go on a huge toy shopping spree and managed to get some pictures of the whole ordeal. Lets just say a lot of kids will be getting a lot of toys this x-mas.
Not sure if I'll get another post in before X-mas, so happy holidays everyone.
I can say that November was certainly the swingy-est month of the year, and probably my life. A ton of bad shit is going on in my life outside of poker, and it's definitely affecting my play pretty negatively. Unfortunately I have to play a ton to keep on my SNE pace, and it led to some horrible days last month. In fact I think I had my worst day ever, 3 separate times. Here's some pretty looking graphs that sum up the month...
Hands from my desktop:
And hands from my laptop:
I had 3 separate $10k+ downswings, and another $8k downer. All of them except for the last one (which was just a pretty terrible week-long run of cards) was just due to playing when my mind was elsewhere. I was literally just handing away money at times to whoever wanted it the most. I'm hoping to get my head together for December and finish off Supernova Elite with a nice winning month.
The good news about November is that I collected about 135k VPP's and finished off the month with almost exactly 880,000 VPP's for the year. I need 1,000,000 to make SNE meaning I only need to get 120k in December, which I proved wasn't much of a problem at all last month.
Ok, but enough about poker. There are people who read this blog that just don't give a crap that I'm making/losing mad money they are just interested in my awesome life. Or at least I hope this is the case.
I got a big shipment from PUMA in today, totaling 6 new pairs of shoes and 1 tracksuit. Unfortunately the other tracksuit I ordered along with a pair of shoes were on back ordered, so hopefully I'll get them before I go away in January. Yeah, I took a picture because I like pictures and I thought all of you interested readers should see what's gonna be on my feet for the next few months.
Our place is Tahoe is officially booked from Jan 20 - April 20, so when I get back from the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure poker tournament in the Bahamas on Jan 16th, I'll likely be packing up all my important stuff and driving out west. I'm headed up to a mountain close to Atlanta this weekend to get some boarding in, so hopefully there's some snow. I'll snap some pictures and include them in the next update of the notorious N.I.T.'s life.
Yep it's finally happened. The hustler has been hustled. My buddy Dan (GT30 on 2p2) had been talking some trash about racquetball for a while so I finally accepted his challenge a few days ago. Now I knew that Dan had been the punter at Georgia Tech a few years before I was there, so he had to be reasonably athletic, but I didn't expect anything like the force that hit me on the court.
Basically he cheated as he neglected to tell me he plays 3 times a week, actually leaves his house more than once a week, and probably eats like a normal person so he doesn't nearly pass out on the court 5 times per game. Yeah I kinda need to work on being a normal human being. We played a warm up game for $100, and Dan won 15-3. It was even more embarrassing as I had a few friends at the gym seeing me get my ass handed to me in a racket sport, which just doesn't happen.
The next 2 games Dan gave me 8 and 9.5 points, and still won both of those games handily. It's ok though, because I got a free dinner out of it so I only lost about $300 on the day. Hopefully he gets his ass out to PCA so we can have a rematch at the ping pong table where I will take back my crown. Oh and Pettey ur going down too you clown. And I don't wanna hear all these excuses about what paddle I'm using. Just watch the ball go by and applaud my awesomeness.
Yep, some things have happened in the last week or so. And I have lots of pictures to prove it. I mentioned last time that I was about to play in the ALTA city championships (a huge tennis league in Atlanta) at one of the highest levels. Well, i think this picture sums up the day pretty well...
Yeahhhhh, we won, and it was an awesome day of tennis, drinking, and racket smashing. The way ALTA works (well, playoffs) is there are 5 doubles matches and it's simply first to win 3 of them. I was playing line 2 with the guy on the far left bottom... oh wait more picture time
Anyway, by the time we got on the court, line 1 was down a set and not looking too good, which was surprising as one of the guys on our line 1 is hands down one of the best players in the city. He played D1 at Michigan State, and actually was a poker player before he inevitably found blackjack. Ah, how that story resonates. But back to our story.
My partner played, for lack of a better word, reallyfuckinshitty. It happens, people have off days, and we still kept it close, but we ended up losing our first match of the year in the finals 6-3, 6-3. After the match, I took a racket to a concrete walll and created a good amount of destruction, scaring the women and children in attendance. However, line 1 came back and won in 3 sets, so it was all square at 1 match a piece headed into lines 3 and 4.
Action shot...
Line 3 ended up playing pretty bad as well, and went down in straight sets, and line 4 ended up losing the first set. Things weren't going very well as line 5's took the court. It turned out one of the guys playing line 5 for the other team was someone I used to play juniors with, and remember him being pretty good, so at this point I though we were pretty much a lost cause. To make things worse, 4's went down a break in the second set. However, they got it back and went on to win the set 7-5. And 5's scooped up the first set easily as well, so it was all coming down to the 3rd set of line 4.
Now, you may be wondering what the rest of the team is doing while all of these matches are going on. Since we only get 2 courts, and most of the matches went pretty long, we ended up being there for about 7 hours. That's a lot of time spent drinking in the hot sun yelling at the other team. Needless to say, we were all pretty much gone by this time and children were starting to cry as the volume level and profanity level had gone through the roof.
The 3rd set of 4's was incredible. It's a few days out of memory now, but I believe it was on serve to around 3-3, until we got a break, and then had one of our biggest servers serving for the match at 5-4. Well, needless to say that went poorly and then it was 5-5. We ended up getting another break there (and racket of opponent was smashed), and then held at 6-5 to take the match. A couple minutes later line 5's won their 2nd set and clinched the title. And the champagne was flowin', and the plates were ours.
PLO:
I started dabbling in some PLO (pot limit omaha) recently as the holdem games have been pretty bad in the morning time and I don't want to have to drop down limits or play shortstack tables to fill up the 24 table queue. Naturally, I jumped right into 24 tabling the game with little experience, and have had some decent success. The best part about it is my hands/hour and vpp's/hand are slightly higher playing a mix of .5/1 and 1/2 plo then playing 2-4/10-20 holdem so I get closer to SNE faster. The downside is I definitely make more $$$ playing holdem, but PLO is a nice change.
The game is definitely very much more exciting then holdem, as you get it all in a lot more, and will rarely be too far behind when you do. This is great for the weaker players as they don't realize the significant edge they give up until much further down the road, which keep the games going longer. However, the game does come with an extremely high variance level, so it's easy to get frustrated if you lose 10 all-in's in a row. I played for about 3 days or so while on my holdem break, and ended up slightly positive, while running slighly below EV. I also managed to figure out how to not get absolutely murdered in non-showdown winnings, which is really important.
Although, it does take some getting used to (coming from a holdem background) that aces are more or less trash, and hands like below are the moneymakers.
TAHOE:
I'm all but booked to move to Tahoe for the first 3 months of next year. I don't wanna post pics until we've actually signed the contract just in case one of you aholes decides to scoop up the place from me. It should be a blast. The group as of now is ryanmack, speedle, blaabar, and myself, so I'll be the only american in the house amongst 2 euros and a candian. Drluck might end up coming out if we stay longer, but it's still up in the air. I purchased my season pass for heavenly, and I'm ready to buy a board and hit slopes almost every day while I'm out there.
I still need to decide what I'm doing after Tahoe though. Vegas for the summer is still definitely going to happen, although I'd like to go for a considerably shorter amount of time than this past year. So, I'll either keep the place in Tahoe for an extra couple of months until the series or do some traveling around the world.
Well, Zenyata lost the Breeder's cup, so much for perfection. But that's not what this blog's gonna be about. After today there are 49 days left in the year, and I'm at 792,000 VPP's. I need 1,000,000 by the end of year to get there, and something pretty crazy would have to happen for me to not get there. I have to average a bit over 4,000 a day which is only a bit more than 6,000 hands, or about 5 hours a day.
Speaking of something crazy happening, it almost did a few days ago. I lost it and just started open shipping on every table for a few minutes. Ended up blowing through about $5k, before some awesome regs got a hold of Zep who called me up and talked me off the ledge. Thanks a lot to Marc, Klaaric, kaki, and Zep in no particular order. There was actually some interesting aftermath to the whole ordeal. Prahlad Friedman was at a bunch of the tables with me, and blew up at some of the regs in chat after I quit. It sparked a pretty interesting discussion of whether or not to let someone play in that state, and while both sides have perfectly valid arguments, I definitely lean toward the side of not letting someone in that state dump their livelihood in a matter of minutes.
For the record, I was just completely stressed out, was running pretty bad at poker, and just hit a breaking point and decided I didn't want money any more. Weird huh, that most people my age would do anything to have a bit more $$$ in their pockets, and here I was trying to give it all away. I'll probably make a big post on this at the end of the year, but having seemingly unlimited money at a pretty young age is definitely a recipe for disaster if you don't balance it well.
Bleh, but enough about poker, it's the last thing I want to write or think about so we'll move on to more interesting topics.
My tennis season is coming to an end. I ended up dropping out of my singles league as my shoulder is starting to flare up again, and I wanna save it for my doubles league. That league actually ends tomorrow when we play for the city championships. We have an insanely strong lineup, and definitely should be able to pull out a win. I haven't lost all year in that league and don't plan on making the finals loss number 1. It's gonna be a blast either way with tons of drinking and cheering, stuff that just never was a part of junior tennis.
I've also been playing a bit of golf. My short game's an absolute mess, and is killing me, because everything else seems to be working right. I shot 79 last week with 40 putts, which is just downright ridiculous. The next day I got invited to play in a scramble by one of the alumni from my fraternity. I had no idea what the outing was for until I got there, and ended up recognizing a ton of people. It turned out to be a golf outing for ASHRAE which is short for something really long I don't feel like typing, but is basically a big society of engineers headquartered in Atlanta. I had to join while at Georgia Tech, and the company I worked for in college was a big part of the group as well.
So anyway, I get the practice range, and see all of guys I worked with in college. I had actually told most of them what I'd be doing when I got done with school (poker of course), so they were pretty interested to hear how that was going. I may have left out a zero when they asked how much I was making though :) . Back to the golf portion, we end up shooting 52 in a hilariously easy scramble where we were basically given 8 shots. It was good enough to tie for first, but we lost a tiebreaker and had to settle for the silver.
Well, that's about all that's going on in my life at the current moment. I'm getting ready to book a place in Tahoe for the first 3 months of next year with ryanmack, BLAABAR, and speedle, which should be an absolute blast. After that I think I'll probably go and travel through Europe for a while before heading back to Vegas for the series. Oh, and if anyone wants to live it my place in ATL super cheap for the first couple month of next year let me know, I'd like to hold on to it.
I will leave you with something I posted on another forum a while back, but is still rather interesting. I think I'm in love with this girl, hopefully I'm rich enough / attractive enough to meet her low standards for men. You should read the whole thing, it's worth it.
Ahhh it's fall again, definitely my favorite time of the year for sports. Football's back and my Jackets are looking like utter trash through 4 games. Embarrassing loss to Kansas and really just got outplayed by NCST this past weekend. Standing outside in 100+ degree heat while shitfaced is definitely ok if Tech is going to win, but it's just that much worse when we're getting owned.
The Falcons look really good through 3 weeks, and Sunday's game vs. the Saints was probably the best football game I've watched in a long time.
But, fall also means that all of my tennis league kick back into action. I played 0 times the two months I was in Vegas and came back completely out of shape and couldn't play at all. Well 2 months later I'm still completely out of shape, but I'm playing better than I ever have.
My singles league started last week. It's a 6.0 rating USTA league, so just about everyone I play is either a teaching professional or played collegiate tennis somewhere. My first match was no exception, and the guy was really solid. He definitely had better strokes than me, but ultimately my laziness just got the better of me. At 3-3 in the first set I just couldn't move around the court anymore and he picked up on it rather quickly. I actually had 2 break points at 4-3 in the 1st set which probably would have locked up the set for me, but I ran kind of bad and lost both. I fought back to 5-5, but was just completely out of gas by then and didn't win another game, losing 7-5, 6-0.
My doubles league started a couple of weeks ago as well. My partner Adam played 1 doubles at Michigan State and is an absolute monster (and ex-poker player as well) on the court, which makes playing with him ridiculously fun. I haven't been the weaker player on a doubles team since I was 12 years old or so, and was the #1 doubles team in the state with my buddy Ryan.
Anyways, Adam and I head out to our first match, expecting a complete blowout. We're playing in a league decently far below our actual skill levels, so we planned on tuning it down a little bit for the first match. Unfortunately, we find out that the two guys we are playing are on the Antigua and Barbados Davis Cup team. Both of them played college tennis in the states, and they throw on their Davis Cup shirts right before we start the match.
Luckily Adam and I played super solid together and won the match 6-4, 6-1, but these were probably two of the most athletic people I've ever played against in my life, and the match was infinitely closer than the score suggested.
Last Saturday was our second match, and I played with my partner Ricky from last year as Adam was out of town. We played pretty horribly and ended up winning in 3 sets, but were definitely in danger of throwing this one away. Luckily I came up with 2 monster aces on the last two points of the match to put it away.
Allrighty I should probably stop blogging and get to work...
I've been running bad. Real bad. I'm never really one to complain as I'm still running about at expectation on the year, but this month has been pretty brutal. I've stopped playing anything below 2/4 when enough games are available, which is really helping with the SNE grind, but it means the swings are larger and the runbad seems that much worse. But enough about that, I hate seeing other people complain about this kind of stuff, so I won't bore anyone here with it. (And if you are for some reason interested, I've included a lot of fun hands from just the last couple of days at the end of this post)
A week or so ago, someone made a post on 2+2 about a new Heads-Up Poker game, which supposedly brought some fun into the game. The game is played exactly like a normal heads up match, with a few slight rules changes.
1) The two players must be in the same room, as to see each other's faces, taunt each other, and generally just increase the overall animosity towards the opponent.
2) Heavy drinking is absolutely necessary.
3) Any time a pot is won with the following hands (72, 83, 94, T5, J6) and the winning player shows, the other player is forced to go all in the next hand, and the original player has the option of whether or not to call. This creates so many interesting situations especially as the stacks get ridiculously deep and we have to decided just how far we're going to go to win a hand with a bounty attached.
Anyway, Pat and I gave the game a shot one morning, and decided to keep the stakes friendly and played 25c/50c HU. Needless to say, things got ugly quick! Nothing like running $2200 under EV at $50nl in the span of about an hour.
Yeahhhhhh, things didn't go to well there. About 2/3rds of the way into the match I finally clawed back to winning for the first time, but I lost just about every single hand for the rest of the match, including multiple $2k bounty hands. Lets just say alot of people on the rail were very confused at what was going on, and much fun was had.
Pat is actually the 6th biggest winner at 50nl online this month just due to this 400 hand session.
What else, what else...
The SNE grind is coming along, and I crossed the 600k VPP milestone a few days ago and currently sit a bit over 620k. Current pace is somewhere around 740k VPP, so I'm well behind, but I think I should be able to make it relatively easily. Starting today, I need exactly 4k VPP per day the rest of the year, and now that I'm playing midstakes entirely, it comes out to a bit over 6k hands per day or 5 hours. My goal is to grind hard in October and November (Vegas and Barcelona trips might hurt here) and be done with a week or two left in the year and go out west for a ski trip.
Definitely looking forward to the Ryder Cup this weekend, as I didn't get a chance to make it out to East Lake to see any of the Tour Championship which I had planned on doing.
- NOOOOOOOOOO TILT
as promised here's some fun hands from the last 24 hours or so (sadface)
And here's one just for fun... Guys like this are the reason the game will never die.
Well August is done and is was probably the wildest month of my life. Lots of stuff changed, I fell way short of some goals but I'm not too unhappy with how everything turned out. My original goal for the month was to play about 300k hands and pick up some ground on SNE. Well that was an epic fail as I got only 160k hands in, so now the last four months of the year are going to have to be around 250k hands each to make it. Considering I'm still planning a Eurotrip for EPT Barcelona, and a ski trip out west at the end of the year, it's going to be a battle.
There's definitely a few good reasons why I failed hard at playing this month. I was AC-less, internetless, and homeless for a decent portion of the month. My AC in Atlanta had been out for most of the summer, and the maintenance crew could not figure out wtf was going wrong, so it was in the upper 80's every day in the apartment. Always nice to work in a sweltering hot place. Then the internet started going out, more on this later. And then I was homeless for a few days, as I had to be out of my 90 degree apartment and hadn't set up another place to live yet. I ended up grabbing another apartment in the same complex with DrLuck, which is turning out pretty well.
At one point during the month I was all ready to move to Miami with DrLuck and Nolan. We were halfway there in Daytona when Nolan decided he'd rather live in Austin, TX, and had bought a place there during his cross country drive from Vegas, so Miami was put on hold for a while. The plan now is to wait till the end of the year, and then have Speedle meet us down in Miami for the new year to find a place. I was pretty excited for Miami, but was going to lose probably another week of playing, so maybe it's for the best that it didn't work out right away.
Back to this lack of internet ordeal. Comcast is, without a doubt, the worst excuse for a business in this country. Their customer support is garbage, their technicians are garbage, and they charge about 2x more than AT&T for comparable services. Upon moving into the new apartment, we told them we needed 2 separate internet connections. No problem they said, and a technician came and installed 2 modems from the same jack using a splitter. The connection worked for a few minutes, and he left. However, we couldn't both use our connections at the same time as the connection would bounce back and forth between the two modems. This was pretty unfortunate as we were both trying to play, and probably lost about 5k combined due to this garbage.
After about 10 phone calls to comcast, and navigating through their horrid answering machine system, we were told that it's impossible to have 2 modems from the same jack. Oh sweet, thanks for charging us for 2 lines, and installing them before you tell us it's impossible. Eventually we went down to one modem and set up another network, but that one constantly crashed as well. Comcast tells us everything is fine, but the internet was in and out every session we played and it was nearly impossible to hold connection for over an hour. More technicians came out, of course it was working fine when they were here, so it appears we are just SOL. Eventually we had enough and switched everything over to AT&T, so hopefully that'll work better for us when it all gets installed this weekend.
September should be a pretty intense month. I've got a few tennis leagues starting so that'll definitely keep me busy, and I'll have to put in about 7 hours a day online to stay on pace for the end of the year. Oh, and Amybug is attempting to win the UGL at 25nl, and she's set up a little grind station in our apartment so good luck, run good, be like notilt, portion control, take vitamin, etc.
However, we now have a pretty awesome apartment to relax in while not playing, and it has working AC which is always nice. I'll post some pics of the apartment in the next post.
Awesome August graph things:
Hands from the desktop:
Hands from laptop:
Also made about 8k in bonuses, a little over 1k on my new laptop (Dell studio xps, seems awesome so far), and played once live and this happened...
So all in all, my best month ever in terms of profit, a pretty bad month in terms of volume, and a pretty hectic month in terms of life. Hopefully things settle down in September, I don't have anything big planned, so likely I'll be able to get into a good routine and crank out 250k hands or so and maybe make some money while we're at it.
Ok folks it's time for some more Vegas stories. We've been through the trip out, and people, and food, and there's still a blog on nightlife which will hit stores soon, but this one is gonna be about makin' paper. You know, the whole poker thing I do way too much and really am not that good at. But I did drop off the face of the planet for a whole summer to go live this ridiculous pipedream in the fabulous city that is Las Vegas.
Now the poker people reading this will understand what I'm talking about, but I might need to do a bit more explaining to the regular folk who have someone stumbled upon the ridiculousness that is the life of notilt. Summer in Vegas is the center of the poker world. Everybody is there, everybody wants to be the next (insert name of person who luckboxed the Main Event and likely would be a loser in any tough game online), and nearly everybody loses it all. And who's gonna be there to collect all of their losses, well that was our goal.
Unfortunately, goals are made to be broken and no one really made any money this summer. I'm fairly certain that our house made more money combined on the World Cup then we all did combined for the summer in poker. But, since everybody has been asking since I got back, and I haven't really told the full story to anyone, I'll talk about some of the poker tournaments I played over the summer.
Now, something you non-poker people should understand is that tournament poker is about as much poker as Panda Express is fine Chinese cuisine. Sure, all the ingredients are there, but inevitably something is just a bit off.
But this is what's on TV, this is what everyone wants to play, and damn these things are ridiculously addictive. I wasn't even planning on playing many tourneys over the summer. Sure I was going to play the WSOP Main Event, but had only planned on a couple side events. The rest of the time was to be spent grinding out cash online... Yeah, I failed pretty hard on this one.
So without further unnecessary ado (I feel like I used that word completely incorrectly), here's a break down of some of the more memorable tourneys from the summer.
$1,000 WSOP (No-limit-holdem)
I woke up, showered, put on some GT gear (this would become a standard for the summer), and headed to the Rio. I was about to play my first World Series of Poker event of my life. Last year, they decided to add these $1k "stimulus" events to attract a ton of people and hopefully get some more money flowing into the poker economy. I figured it would be a decent place to start, even though the structure was terrible.
As per usual I arrived about 10 minutes late, and found out that there was about 30 minutes of paperwork necessary to even compete in any WSOP event. So 45 minutes after the noon start time of the event I walked to my seat ready to go. Unfortunately, there was a guy in my seat... I was informed by the tournament director that all of the late arrivals would be starting at 2pm in a second wave. This seemed odd to me, but whatever I was here to collect the 600k first prize and a 2 hour delay wouldn't stop me.
When we finally got started at 2pm, I looked down at 3,000 tournament chips. The first level was to be 25/25, so there was still a decent amount of play in the early stages. The dealer shuffled up the cards and announced the blinds were 50/100. What... the... fuck? What they failed to mention to us about the late arrivals is we'd be starting on level 3. Now, this is most unfortunate as starting a tournament with 30 big blinds is about the same as playing the lotto. In fact, the lotto is probably more fun.
I folded my first hand. On hand 2 I opened from the small blind with 86o and the big blind called. The flop came 752 with 2 clubs, and immediately I was in a terrible spot. I decided to check with the intention of check raising, but the stack sizes were so terrible due to the blind level, that my check raise ended up being all in. The big blind snap called with queens, I turned a flush draw and a pair, but bricked the 19 outer on the river.
First WSOP event of my life... busto on hand 2.
The Venetian Deepstack Side Events
The Venetian runs a tournament series at the same time as the WSOP is going on, which is a bit strange. The V tournaments don't get many entrants, and the prize pools are significantly smaller. However, there's something about the place that makes we want to play there, and 2 day tourneys are much better than 3 or 4 days at the Rio.
I played 8ish of the Venetian side events with buyins ranging from $350 to $1050. I believe I spent about 5k total on these events. There was a constant theme in these events, I didn't cash any of them. There was another theme, I busted 5 of them in the first level. Inevitably I would do something stupid, or get bored after 30 minutes, and decide that I really didn't want to be there that day. Then I would get up the next day and do the same.
I actually did go semi-deep twice. In a $350 event I was about 30 spots off of the money and near the chip lead when I lost two big consecutive pots with 33 < AK and then AK < 66 (both all in preflop) and was out. In the other tourney I went deep in (a $550) buy in, I was in the top 10 in chips with about 100 left and the top 40 were paid. Then something went off in my head, I decided I was bored, and I just jammed all my chips in there with nothing and was out.
In fact, our house played a lot of these events, probably 20 in total, and no one cashed a single one. Even the day we all wore suits to the tournament ended up a failure. Oh well, we looked sharp. Amy actually cashed one of the $350's that I had some of her action in, so that was the only positive note of the V side events.
The worst part about these events, is that after I would bust, I would go play 5/10 or 10/20 cash games at Venetian. Still tilted from busting out of the tourney, I lost lots-o-paper in these side games. Worst of all, I wasn't grinding online and falling further off of SNE pace every day.
WSOP Event #56 ($2,500 No Limit Holdem)
This one took place on the 2nd of July and I was not in good spirits. I was coming off June, which was one of my worst months ever as a pro, and on the actual day of the event, I had my worst day ever online losing about 5k. I laid on a raft in my pool, and decided whether of not I wanted to play the 2.5k WSOP event that afternoon.
I decided that I wanted to play, but I didn't want to put up the entire $2,500, so I called up a friend Jim who has backed me before and he decided to buy 60% of my action. Horstman came over before the event and gave me a little pep-talk about how I'm notilt and all these other busto ass clowns are inferior to me, and I was in good spirits heading to the Rio. Pat was also playing this event, so I had someone to hang out with on breaks and discuss the absurdity that is live tournament poker.
Day 1 went extremely well. Everyone started with 7,500 chips and by the time my first table broke I was up to around 20k and feeling good. I was moved to a new table with a bunch of old guys (good sign) and a couple young guys, one of which was wearing a Team Pro patch for PokerStars. He looked vaguely familiar and I finally placed him as Juan Macieras, who I actually play against on a daily basis. Anyway this table went very well, I got a bunch of chips from the old dudes, and eventually busted Juan. It was nearing the end of the night and I was moved to my final table of the night which included another Stars pro Andre Akkari. We played one significant pot which I won, but not much exciting happened and I ended the day with 70k in chips, good enough to be in the top 20 of the 250 or so remaining.
My day 2 table was really bad. Everyone was around my age and understood tournament poker. This was most unfortunate as there were multiple soft spots still left in the tourney and I happened to draw a table full of internet pros. I swung up, swung down, was basically never outside of the 50k-90k range of chips and nothing super exciting was happening. With about 5 people to go until the money bubble burst I looked down at two black kings and reshoved my last 40k or so over someones initial raise. He called rather quickly with red queens. The flop came King high and all hearts, so he actually picked up a ton of extra equity, but the turn and river bricked and I was over 100k for the first time of the whole tournament. Unforunately, that would be the last pot of the tournament I would win.
The bubble burst and we were all $5,000 richer, and I was completely card dead. A couple friends showed up to rail, but I literally folded for an entire level or 2 and was down to about 80k in chips. An older dude got moved to our table with a massive stack of around 300k, and a few minutes in he opened from somewhere in the middle to 11k and a shorter stack on the button moved in for around 40k. I looked down at two jacks in the big blind and decided it was go time. I moved in for my last 80k and the chip leader went into the tank for about 2 minutes. I was feeling pretty good after all this time, surely he would have called instantly with a better hand. After about 2 minutes I look at him and say, "if you're taking this long, I'm feeling pretty confident" to which he replies, "well, you shouldn't." And then he calls with Aces.
Awesome feeling, getting slowrolled this deep in a WSOP event with an 800k first prize. Anyway the entire table is rooting for a jack after this d-bag's antics, but karma doesn't do it for me and I bust in 103rd place for a little over $6,000.
If you see this man, do something bad to him.
Well this is getting really long, so I'll leave it here. I still have 2 tournaments to write about (the WSOP $10k main event and the Venetian Deepstack $5k Main Event), so those will have to be for next time.
Well today is the last day of July, which means tomorrow is August. This is definitely going to be an interesting month for me. The goal is to play 300k hands and pick up close to a month on SNE pace as I fell nearly 2 months behind with the whole Vegas trip. With any luck I can also make some money so I don't go busto and have to get a job at Publix. Although that wouldn't be too bad I really like Publix.
Don't worry, I'll be writing a few more posts about Vegas when I get the chance, but I'm feeling the need to make this post so I'll be inspired to hit my goal next month, or something like that.
Atlanta has been kinda weird since I got back from Vegas. My apartment has been without AC for about a month now, so we're pretty much getting free rent, and they take us out to dinner occasionally which is nice.
I ended up going out last night for the first time since I've gotten back and had a pretty good time. Started the night at Chi Phi catching up with the guys, before Wild Will decided that the night had to end at a strip club. Naturally I tried to hire a limo to take us around town and then drop us at Tattletales, but the they were out of limos (wtf, how do you run a limo service and not have enough limos to pick up a bunch of drunken idiots with paper to burn). After the limo failed we tried a cab service, and after 10 minutes of holding we just gave up the dream and walked to Cheetah.
Apparently I got spoiled in Vegas because Cheetah sucked, although I did make some kids night. It was his first time so I bought him some dances and such and now apparently I have a new friend. After close we stumbled back to the tech area where I had to try out the new Georgia Tech Waffle House. Wild Will and Nate were a bit too hammered to eat so they went home and I went in for some fine southern dining. Highlights of the meal include having a long conversation with a drunken lady about bacon, and the two guys next to me telling me "Yes, were homos and we have sex with each other!" Cool story bro.
Oh I also met up with Mike and TennePenne (who I'm still trying to convince to let me buy her name) for a few drinks as well as a couple other people who I'm forgetting. I finally met the legendary Alfie, and the new dog ironically named August.
Where was I going with all of this??? Aw hell who knows, anyway I'm locking myself in my apartment for the entire month so you'll have to come visit me if you want Weinman time.
I'll leave you with my poker graph for August, the big uptick is the Venetian 5k main event, and the big downer at the end is my estimate of Vegas "expenditures"
All right well I've put this off long enough, and I'm sure you people want to hear about some of the trouble we've gotten into in Vegas thus far so I'll start telling some of these stories (or at least what I remember of them). My car got picked up today and my flight back to Atlanta leaves at 11pm Vegas time tonight so I've got a whole day to do basically nothing but chill by the pool and write a blog or two.
Food!
I'm a big food junkie. I love eating good food, and really don't care what it costs if the experience is worth it. That said, Vegas is just packed with amazing restaurants, and although we didn't go to too many of them in the 6 weeks we spent here, we definitely had some good meals.
Nobu (Hard Rock)
The night at Nobu was definitely one of my favorite nights of the entire summer. Early on in the day I get a call from my friend Ryan from Atlanta who is in Vegas for a few days. Ryan works with Pokernews Strategy which I think will definitely take off in the near future as they have some amazing names doing content for their site (hey, I might even make a video or 2 for them in the near future!). Ryan tells me that he's meeting up with a bunch of the poker players from Pokernews Strategy at Nobu that night and asks if I want to tag along. I'm always down for good food and good company so I tell him that I'm in.
Then Ryan asks if I can do him a favor and pick someone up at the airport for him. I'm a bit reluctant picking up a stranger at the airport, but I ask him who it is and he tells me "oh, it's nanonoko."
Now, all the poker people reading this will know who that is, but for you non-poker followers let me use an analogy to help you understand a bit more about the legend that is nanonoko.
online poker : nanonoko :: tennis : Rafael Nadal
Yep, he's basically just the boss. He runs the streets, and all fear nanonoko. Luckily for me I'm up lifetime on nano, by about $20. Unfortunately for me, he probably just rolls around in piles of cash all day.
Anyway, Ryan and I pick Nano up at the airport and head over to the Hard Rock for dinner at Nobu. Besides the 3 of us, we meet 5 or 6 others there including a couple other online poker legends. Among the group are Kane (nascar_1949), and Josh (LitleBstrd). Kane is one of the best Heads Up specialists in the world and also plays some of the biggest 6max games on the planet. Josh is a pot limit omaha specialist who had also won a WSOP bracelet in holdem just a few days before this dinner.
There we also a bunch of tourney players who I don't really remember, and Nolan (probably the best player that plays the same games I do, and is also moving to Miami with me) ended up joining us as well.
No one really knew what to order, so we ordered the Omakase which was just the chef's choice of enough food to pretty much make all 10 of us never want to eat again. It was probably the best meal I've ever had as sushi, oysters, steak, and other types of seafood were just pouring out of the kitchen and onto our table. We also had bottles of orange sake flowing which were actually pretty good even though I've never had a thing for sake.
Some pictures from dinner... Unfortunately I think these were iPhone pictures, so the quality is a little poor.
a few types of oysters
some sort of filet that was cooked at the table on piping hot rocks
more of the filet and an MTT pro in amazement
one of the many plates of sushi
All in all it was an amazing dinner. For 10 people we spent a little over $2k, and all but 3 of us bought out of the credit card roulette. In the end, Josh ended up paying for the 3 of us that played, so it was a free night at Nobu for me.
Afterwards I took Nano back to his suite at Vdara. He's an insanely nice and modest guy which is just awesome given how well he does. I kind of expected most high stakes pros to flaunt it, but he seemed completely down to earth and we talked for a good half hour about poker and life in general.
The rest of us ended up at O'Sheas where we played some high stakes beer pong (Josh and I got up about $600 each on Kane and Ryan before losing it back in the double or nothing game). Kane and I then played some heads up poker on one of these electronic heads up machines. The best part about this was we layed about 5k in cash across the table as well as Josh's WSOP bracelet so passerby's would just stop in awe of what was going on.
Somehow the night continued with a bunch of us getting a private 1/2 poker game at Hard Rock and playing/drinking there for a few hours. Of course, nano won all the money, although I'm pretty sure I was just handing it away by the end.
From left to right we have Kane, Me (ok I might have been a little drunk by this point, keeping the eyes open was difficult), ChicagoJoey, nanonoko, Ryan, Josh.
Craftsteak (MGM)
A few nights later was ChicagoJoey's birthday so a bunch of us went out to Craftsteak to celebrate with him. I think he turned 25 which means he's an old man in our world. I'm not a huge steak fan, but the meal we had was excellent. We did something similar to Nobu where they ended up just bringing us tons of different cuts of steak and some amazing sides.
The steak was out of this world and they had some interesting deserts which we tried after. Everything was pretty excellent except for the bacon ice cream (yes, I said BACON ICE CREAM). Unsurprisingly, it tasted just like bacon and ice cream. Separately, these are two of my favorite foods on the planet. Together, they taste like utter garbage.
Amy was out here for this dinner so the two of us went as well as my roommate Greg and his brother. Kane also joined us as well as internet poker legend Ariolis30. Joey and his gf were of course there and Ryanmack ended up coming later in the night for a few shots.
From left to right we have: (Ariolis, Kane, Amy, Me, Joey's gf, Joey, Ryanmack). I guess by this point Greg and brother had left to do weird things.
Naked Fish:
Now I had been to Vegas 7 times in the last year and a half before this trip, and had been told everytime that I had to go to Naked Fish if I wanted great sushi. We actually went there pretty early in the trip. My friend Alex from Atlanta and his friend Stewart came along as well as Horstman. For those that don't know Horstman he was a senior at Tech when I was a freshman and we met somehow most likely involving a random poker game. Eventually, he dropped out of tech with one class left and moved to Vegas where he still lives.
Naked fish was very good, but the sushi at Nobu was probably a little bit better. Definitely a place to check out though if sushi is your thing as they have plates signed by tons of famous people that have eaten there.
Here's one of the rolls, I believe the WSOP roll, which was probably my favorite of the night. By this point, I have no clue what was in it, but I definitely remember it being pretty tasty.
Afterwards, we made a trip to Rhino which actually turned out to be pretty epic. We dared Stewart to get undressed and start giving random guys lap dances and see how much she could make (no, Stewart is not a guy). I thought there was 0 chance this would actually happen. However, a few drinks later, I looked around and noticed the 2 of them were missing. A few minutes later I had a text from Stewart...
"Got kicked out, headed to Sapphire... but I made $80!"
N9NE(Palms)
I figured I might as well save the best for last, so we're ending this foodblog with N9NE steakhouse. We've actually been to N9NE three separate times now, and everything I've had was amazing each time.
Trip 1 to N9NE was made with a bunch of online players who I play against nearly every day. Among the group were Petteytheft, Blggiesmalls, Marccus85, ZepHendrix, FatDan44, and dankness. I might be leaving someone out but I think I covered it all.
This trip I had the lobster bisque and the Surf and Turf which were both amazing.
It was without a doubt the best steak I've ever had, and the lobster on top wasn't half bad either. Oh, and it was served on a bed of lobster mashed potatoes. Dankness ended up losing the credit card roulette and got stuck with the $800ish bill.
Trip 2 to N9NE was probably the most memorable. This time I went with the roomates from the house, and well as two of Tom's friends from UMD and Horstman. The drinks were flowing and one of Tom's friends (Tails?) was completely shitfaced throughout dinner. This kid was drunk beyond anything I've ever seen. I'm pretty sure he broke 2 or 3 water glasses, and he definitely ordered a vodka tonic from every single person in the restaurant. Oh no, not just the staff, I mean everyone.
I had the sashimi appetizer and the lamb for my entree this time and once again N9NE delivered. Unfortunately I don't think I have a picture of this one. Tails ended up asking the waiter for the bill, which gave everyone a good laugh, but I'm pretty sure he was serious. We ended up rouletting for this one as well and Horstman got stuck for $1.1k or so. Unfortunately for me, I had to cover it.
Trip 3 was pretty recently when Nate and Chris were out for a few days. I'm not entirely sure who else was with us, as I was pretty drunk for this one, but I think it was most of my roomates and Dan from Canada. We ordered all of the appetizers to share as well as tons of oysters, some sushi, and pretty much everything else. I did the surf and turf again and it was still very good. Most people ended up buying out of this roulette but 3 of us ending up going at it, and I got stuck for $500 or so.
All in all we ate some amazing food in Vegas, and definitely had great times with great people at all of these dinners. A lot of restaurants didn't make the list, but a few more definitely stuck out as being very solid.
1. The Aria Buffet - This is still the only buffet I've been to in Vegas and I don't think I'll go anywhere else. $30 gets you all you can eat and the highlight is probably Alaskan King Crab Legs which are already pre opened for you.
2. Little Buddha at Palms - This was our last big dinner of the trip, and was definitely good all around. Speedle offered to pay the bill if we all snorted a line of wasabi, but to his disappointment it didn't happen.
3. Exreme Sushi - An all you can eat sushi place similar to RuSan's back home, but the quality is amazing.
Aaaaaand that's about it. I'm trying to scope out one more restaurant to go to tonight before my flight, but most people seem to have left town already so it might be a problem finding a crowd to go out with.
Ok here's the deal, I've been out here for over a month now, and I could probably write 10 blogs on all of the crazy shit that's gone down, but first I guess I should introduce the players in this story. We started the summer with 5 roommates, which is now up to 6, so lets get cracking.
We'll start with the most normal and work our way from there.
Me: Well, you know me already so I won't go into much detail here. I sit around a lot, play poker during the day, piss money all over the city at night. Look, I even got iced... For those of you unaware of the history of icing, I'm not gonna explain, but google "bros icing bros", and you'll get a clearer picture.
Tom: On to roommate number 2. Tom's the young one of the group, recently turned 21 and ready to party it up in Vegas for a summer. He goes to University of Maryland so clearly we were gonna have some ACC rivalry problems in the house, but after a few icings and re-icings all was good. Unlike the rest of us, Tom has actually been making money, which raises the morale of the rest of us a little bit. Yeah, not much though.
Tom's interests include throwing Gatorade bottles through the living room window, winning insane amounts of paper at blackjack, and $2k conversations with strippers at the Rhino.
Unfortunately I somehow do not have a picture of Tom readily available for your viewing pleasure, so we will steal something from Tom's Facebook that I believe sums up this worthy human being.
And now we move farther away from normalcy....
Rens (Joopjan): Now, it's very interesting when you decide to live for an entire summer with 5 other people that you've never met before. In our case it was a bit different because we all "know" each other from online poker. But there you just know a guys screen name, and maybe you talk to him a bit outside the game. Trust me, I'm getting somewhere with all of this.
Rens' online name is Joopjan. Us Americantards all believed it was pronounced (Joop-Jan), imagine our surprise when Joop showed up and told us it's really (Yoop-Yan). Those crazy Euros and their pronunciations. Oh well, Joop's been here the shortest as he didn't come out for June, but we're still calling him Joop with a J.
Joop is quite the interesting character, mostly due to the fact that he hails from Europe and they are all interesting characters over there. He basically just takes everyone's money during the day and travels the world with it. Although this could be because he plays on the absurdity that is Full Tilt Poker (how many millions would I have if I were an FTP guy???) He was a bit disappointed when his native Netherlands lost the World Cup final to Spain (I might have made $5k on this game oh trueee), but somehow he shipped some other fuuutbol prop bet for 10k so now Joop is a legend.
You can always pick out Joop in our group, he's inevitably dressed the nicest.
Greg: It's strange that I'm putting Greg as the 3rd least normal person in the house, because he's definitely an interesting character. It just goes to show you how out of the world the last 2 are. I had actually met Greg before this summer, during a Vegas trip during last years series. Highlights of that meetup were Greg disappearing for 8 hours one night, complaining about the difficulty of 1/2 live poker, and waking us up at 5 in the morning to inform us of his mom buying him a plane ticket home.
Anyway, enough ragging on the kid he's a good guy. Besides the whining and stuff, yeah he whines alot.
Greg is really into the whole PUA thing. For those of you unaware of this phenomenon PUA is short for pick up artist. I'm not really sure about the whole thing but I know it somehow involves manipulating girls into banging you through some proven scientific method. I dunno, but it seems to work for the guy he's pulling tons of females every time we go out. Unfortunately for my friend Greg, I think he forgot to read the PUA chapter on closing (ohhhhhh sick burn!)
Before we leave I'm going to teach Greg my pick up strategy. I call it the BFH line, which clearly stands for Big Faced Hundos.
Oh yeah, Greg also enjoys making peace signs in photos and looking like a goofball. Evidence is posted below.
Greg does weird shit sometimes like trying to drown himself in the hot tub after a particularly bad session of poker. Tom aided in his efforts.
Others are aware of the phenomenon that is Greg. Below we have a true internet poker legend Ariolis30. This guy just knows whats up, he plays billions of hands and has more FPP's than most of the free world combined. But, this is the section about Greg, so we had Ariolis do the classic Greg pose...
Greg's brother even made it out to visit one week. He pounded a quarter of a handle of Cuervo, started puking blood and was rushed to the hospital. Probably the best part of the story was we followed behind him to the hospital in a limo we had rented for the night.
Pat(DrLuck): Now Pat might get mad that I'm putting him as the second craziest person in this house, because in reality I'm fairly certain that he's a pretty laid back and normal dude. I'm actually going to be moving to Miami with him later on in this year, so I'm really hoping he's not secretly an ax murderer after nice young Jewish lads.
So then you might be asking yourself "Daniel, why is Pat near the top of the crazy list?" To which I will obviously respond, "Just continue reading you assclown."
Speaking of assclown, what a fantastic word. Pat's actually the one that got me started on this and now pretty much everyone we meet is instantly renamed to some variety of this verbage.
Where were we? Oh the insanity of one DrLuck.
Now before we came to Vegas, DrLuck (DRL from now on) was playing midstakes on stars (2/4 -5/10) for you non-poker following junkies. Now that I think about it, you probably still don't know what the hell I'm talking about so you may just wanna skip down to Speedle (but enjoy the pictures). Anyway DRL played midstakes for probably the year or so before we decided to get this place in Vegas. The two of us played a ton together as that's what I play hooooray! Unfortunately for me, he's really good at this game and I'm just meh, so he has all the paper.
For some reason, DRL decided he was just going to be the boss this summer. He's been playing some of the biggest games online while the rest of the house sits around and watches in amazement. Things started poorly with a -20k day (if we include the Rhino consolation trip afterwards) the majority of which was lost in a 20k pot where DRL's KK lost to AK all in before the flop. Oh well, can't win em all, although that might have been a good one to win.
I thought this might be it for DRL's high stakes adventure, but it was only beginning. The best part of this story is that after the first terrible day, he was nearly blackout drunk for the next 7 days. Every waking hour was spent boozing, and there wasn't much sleep going on. While in this state he continued to play the highest games that were running. People were lining up to play as he was openly declaring his drunkenness to the world and basically just trash talking everyone until he got action.
Oh yeah and he made something like 30k over those 7 days. Not bad for a guy who could be found lying around the house like the picture below in between sessions.
Whether its playing 25/50 against internet legends, passing out in clubs, trying to negotiate a happy ending massage, or parading around the house in a sombrero and insisting he be called "sombrero boy", DrLuck makes our list at number 2.
Which brings us to numero uno...
SPEEDLE (Mario de Ruiz de Ganador de Troooo):
Speedle is by far one of the 10 most interesting people on the planet. He might even make the top 5. He hails from Portugal (where I'm 94% certain his dad is the king) and this summer is his first time in the United States. Being his first trip here, he's decided to let it all hang out and show us boorish Americans how they do it across the pond.
I could write 20 blogs describing stuff he's done this summer, but in the sake of keeping this readable we'll condense.
But first another picture...
My first night in town we went to a strip club. I'm fairly certain this was Speedle's first experience at one of these fine establishments. We went to the Rhino which is Vegas' famous club blah blah blah, waste of money, basically just paying for blueballs. Speedle enjoyed himself to say the least. Enough so that we've been back... a lot... ok a bit more than a lot.
At least 5 times in the last month the following exact situation has occurred. The Busto Ass Clowns (oh yeah this is what we are referred to as a whole entity) return home somewhere in the vicinity of 6-10am from Rhino or Sapphire, or normal clubs. Speedle tells me to make sure he never goes out again, how were all way too degenerate, how pissing money is bad, etc. When we wake up some hours later Speedle comes thundering down the stairs usually saying ("Wake up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy"). Unfortunately you readers can't hear him saying this in the awesome Portuguese accent.
Speedle then finds out that he has spent all his money the previous night, so he comes to me for a loan. When I refuse he will usually scream "I BEG YOU RHINO ONE TIME!" until I cave and fund the next night of degeneracy.
Rinse and repeat...
When were home at the house Speedle can usually be found chugging beer until he blacks out... "GIVE ME ANOTHER BREWWWWSKIIIII" can usually be heard at all hours of the day.
He's also become quite fond of the following youtube video.
He enjoys this video on levels beyond what you could imagine. "What the fuck is that.... SHEEEIIIIT" can be heard usually 10 times per day whenever something slightly out of the ordinary happens. This is usually followed by "IM DYIN IN THIS COUNTRY ASS SHIT" and then Speedle will run and watch the video a few more times.
I could go on, but I think you get the point... he's a crazy guy from Portugal, but definitely a great guy and I'm hoping he comes down to Miami with us.
Classic Speedle moments from the summer...
5) "How bout we just sit out here and pound some fucking brewwwskiiiiiis"
4) "I just lost 4k today I really don't want to do anything but sit out here and pound some fucking brewwwsskiiiiis"
3) "Yo NoT (my nickname), I'm at Sapphire in a strip club last longer bet and have run out of money. Please deliver 2k."
2) He refuses to call a strip clubs by their real names. Instead he refers to them as whorehouses. This is probably true though.
1) "What's your name baby?"
"MY NAME IS IRRELEAVANT, AND I THINK YOU ARE VERY HOT, BUT I CANNOT AFFORD A DANCE FROM YOU."
