Barcelona might be the nicest town that i couldn’t enjoy. i was jetlagged, tired, hungry, and sick the whole time there. i went with kirk morrison and nam le, and i pretty much think we all got sick there. but the worst thing about the trip for me was that there weren’t much food i could eat.
ever since i was young i had this allergic, but mostly psychological, reaction to different types of food…one type that i cannot eat is dairy and EVERYTHING in spain has some type of dairy product in it…so i was left with eating those dried pork crap all week…but what i was most fascinated about spain was the fact that i could hardly notice an overweight person! every motherfucker there was fit…so insane!
anyways, i think i played a really good 3 days of poker and 1 not so great day of poker…i was definitely cold decked twice at the final table of the WPT Barcelona…first being flopped bottom two on a limped blind vs. blind pot against top pair of chris johanssen but him turning top 2…and then i busted with KK vs. AA 4 handed and getting 4th (118k euros aka 166k usd)…
however, the funny thing about the bust hand is that i actually thought about mucking KK preflop as sick as that sounds…the thing was it was mucked to me on the button and i had approx. 9 BBs b4 the hand. i’ve been limping in a lot so they couldn’t particularly put me on a big hand if i limped again and i wanted to gamble, so i limped in on the button with two blacks Ks for 30k.
SB completes and the BB, who was a tight but predictable player that played pretty much an all-in or fold poker, raised just 60k more…i analyzed when he did that and came to a conclusion that the only possible hand he could have was ACES…but since i can’t lay down anything, i ended up going all in and getting insta-called by his red aces…the funny thing was the i turned a K but he rivered a 1 card flush…gg…
i mean i was very disappointed at the fact that i wanted to win sooooo bad and couldn’t but at the same time, i was able to play at a castle and was blessed with having so much support…everything happens for a reason! i guess…
so that was that and i played the pokerbowl last night with my team CLEVLAND CROWS(they spelled cleveland wrong on our jackets!)…it was possibly the worst structured sit and go i’ve EVER played in…i think my grandma that knows nothing about poker could’ve made a better structure than that! i ended up getting crippled with AK vs. A8 preflop and busting 2 hands after…danny wong busted before me at the same table…jc alvarado and jared hamby busted at the other table on the same fucking hand! how crazy is that and how bad does our team run!…carl olson busted at zeejustin’s table but unfortunately, zeejustin is still in as the 2nd shortest stack at the final table; thus, forcing me to be unable to play the 10k caesars event which will take place tomorrow…
enough poker talk! so last night was pretty fun…went to tao with jc tran, quinn do, and amnon filippi to meet up with alot of people in a row of 3 tables on the dance floor…we celebrated my friend ed moncada’s birthday…he must be around 50 years old now…lol jk…anyways, it was good times, but enough of that and time to focus, so that i can finish the year off strong!