Babying 613 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 yipeeeee (thats just a general, im here and I love it kind of thing) I also get that feeling when the plane lands at LAS Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 extending my Vegas trip by a couple days. Was booked to come home on the 17th, but have a Mazda meeting to attend in Toronto on the 20th, so I'm just flying right out of Vegas to Toronto on the 19th. I would have had to change my flight anyway when I final table the main event, so this works out better. Door to door travel Vegas to Lethbridge including 2.5 hour drive to Lethbridge at the end and customs etc.. is like 8 hours, so didn't make sense to go all the way home for a 24 hour turnaround and 10 hours travel to Toronto. Especially since my wife and kid are visiting her parents and won't be home till the 19th anyway, may as well spend those extra days in Vegas! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Babying 613 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 extending my Vegas trip by a couple days. Was booked to come home on the 17th, but have a Mazda meeting to attend in Toronto on the 20th, so I'm just flying right out of Vegas to Toronto on the 19th. I would have had to change my flight anyway when I final table the main event, so this works out better. Door to door travel Vegas to Lethbridge including 2.5 hour drive to Lethbridge at the end and customs etc.. is like 8 hours, so didn't make sense to go all the way home for a 24 hour turnaround and 10 hours travel to Toronto. Especially since my wife and kid are visiting her parents and won't be home till the 19th anyway, may as well spend those extra days in Vegas! . If you want to play a round of golf or hit the poker establishments let me know Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I'd love to and thanks for the offer, but I think it's going to be a quick turnaround. fly in the evening of the 19th, dinner with some Mazda execs and Service Managers form around the country, meeting on the 20th, fly out evening of the 20th. Link to post Share on other sites
MapleLeafpoker 1,462 Posted June 16, 2016 Author Share Posted June 16, 2016 Too bad! I would have loved to meet up for some beers/maybe a Jays game if you had time. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Got myself into the winning mindset before Vegas. Took my dad to the local casino tournament last night. 41 runners and I took it down for $670. It's a crapshoot with the blinds pretty much doubling every 20 minutes, but the final table was so weak tight that I took my stack from 17k to 100k (2k-4k, then 4k-8k blinds)and dominant chip lead with 4 left by just shoving all in 3 times per orbit and never seeing a flop or getting called. Then busted the last 3 players in consecutive hands, with the worst hand each time All in preflop, but never had more than about 1/3 of my stack at risk. A8 > TT, A4 > 99, 8T > A7 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MapleLeafpoker 1,462 Posted July 5, 2016 Author Share Posted July 5, 2016 dave, when do you leave? I guess its soon, so good luck buddy! when should we fly in, when its down to 50, or are you cool if we show up at the 100 person left mark??? #nojinx 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I fly on Friday night. You guys are welcome anytime haha Link to post Share on other sites
Babying 613 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I fly on Friday night. You guys are welcome anytime haha This is the perfect excuse to go. I got the green light to go Link to post Share on other sites
iBeaver 409 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 I fly on Friday night. You guys are welcome anytime haha You should do Twitter updates! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MapleLeafpoker 1,462 Posted July 6, 2016 Author Share Posted July 6, 2016 You should do Twitter updates! snapchat...groupme....anything, anything at all. keep us in the loop buddy! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Babying 613 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 snapchat...groupme....anything, anything at all. keep us in the loop buddy! I say group chat on imessage Link to post Share on other sites
digitalmonkey 929 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Or just post here Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 You should do Twitter updates! I will Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 I'll do updates after every level on Twitter and probably post here at the end of the day or on breaks 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Planning on playing day 1 on Sunday July 10th 2 Link to post Share on other sites
gruven 530 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 Best of luck, Dave. Make sure you take a minute to savour the surroundings. It's pretty awesome. And don't miss shuffle up and deal on day one. Cool moment! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Good start. Westjet computer glitch resulted in me getting upgraded to plus for no charge 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Zach6668 513 Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Good luck Dubes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
mrdannyg 274 Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 Woooot go dubestar Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 So, had some complications with a wire transfer at the rio for my Main event buy in. Long story short, ended up meeting Jason Zucker outside the T mobile arena before the UFC fight to borrow 10k from him. Anyway, I'm in for tomorrow at 11 AM. Updates on Twitter 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 John Hennigan on my direct right Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 Day 1 was a grind. John Hennigan put me in some tough spots early, had to fold a K high flush on a paired board to a river check raise to 20k. Seeing how he played after that hand makes me think I made a bad fold. He spewed off most of his chips and was out at the beginning of level 2. I cracked his AA with AK later when we both checked the turn for pot control on a KJ34 board. River was a K. That was the only big hand I had all day. No sets, straights, flushes, 2-pairs. Built a decent stack in the first few levels just picking my spots and winning small pots. In the last 2 levels, 2 guys on my right were running good and accumulating a lot of chips and they started raising a lot of pots. It was tough for me to get anything going. Pretty much lost every pot I entered, nothing huge, just slowly chipped away. There were definitely a few spots I played more passively than I'm used to to preserve my stack. Probably would have gone broke a few times otherwise, as a few combo draws missed and my aggressive opponents ended up having hands that would have called a shove. I got down to 25k with an hour to play and went completely card dead. I decided not to force the issue. I was a bit tilted, I wasn't happy with my table image or my seat, so I decided to just make it to day 2 and get a fresh start with new opponents unless a really good opportunity presented itself. No such opportunities arose so here we are. Need 1 double up to have a workable stack. I'll be playing pretty aggressively early on day 2 and I suspect I'll either double or bust in the first level. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
FCP Bob 1,312 Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 get some Tim Horton's pots Dubey, Double Double 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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