It's slow.

This is the only other entry. It was tons of fun. I suggest going to the WSOP at least once if you play poker.

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June 18, 2007


Where do I begin?

I started yesterday by waking up in a new hotel room that I bought for the night just for the wifi. Seriously it pisses me off that I don't have it in this room. Anyway I played the $1,500 RAZZ event yesterdday and made it about halfway through the field before I was knocked out. It was crazy. Humberto Brenes was at my table AGAIN for nearly 8 hours and Ted Forrest was 2 to my right for around 6 hours (until he busted out). Once again Humberto was very nice BUT I seriously was not to impressed with his play. Ted Forrest was actually scary as hell to play a pot with at first but I adjusted. He was super quiet and I sat with him long enough to play many many pots with him. EASILY the best player I have ever sat with by a mile.

Not many hands to talk about but I did have one against Forrest. Blinds are at 50 ante, 75 bring in, 200/400 (I am pretty sure the ante and bring in were this but I know it was 200/400). I pick up A7(2) and a guy to Ted's right brings it in. Ted has a 7 showing so I know I am best and at the VERY best he could have me tied but I am sure he was a weak 8. Ted completes too 200 and I raise another 200 and another player (named Mickey, he obviously was known by all of the pros) called the 400 with a 6 showing. the bring in folded before calling any bets. Forrest re-popped it and I capped it and Mickey called the additional 400. this was the first pot at our table I had seen capped since it started and we were at least 5 hours in. Well Mickey gets a 3 (for 63 up) Forrest pulls a 2 (for 72 up) and I pull an ace (for A7(2A). Forrest checks as he had been a lot when he looks ahead or close too it. I decide to bet as all of the up card other than mine, Mickeys, and Teds, were huge before the flop and I figure any of these guys could have paired. If I can win this pot now great and if I can get it heads up that is great too as I could just run down one guy instead of 2 OR get called and have it cheap on 5th if I brick or they do. miceky folds (I am asuming his hole cards were something like j3(63) as he had been calling raises with crap like that all day. Forrest Calls. Next card is an A for Ted giving him a board of XX72A and a 7 ( I now have A7(2A7) giving us the same board! Forrest checks to me again and I bet 400 and he folds.

It was really cool to outplay a pro and it wasn't like I was gunning for him it was more like I knew that if I bet he folds. I had a read, trusted it, and beat him out. I'm thinking he capped with air and he ws the only player at the table capable of this, why he didn't follow through on the bluff is beyond me. He actually sat there and went in the tank too deciding if he was beat or not, thought about it, and released his hand. Pretty cool to put ted Forrest in the tank while bluffing and have him fold! I am thinking he had either 2 pair like me (unlikely) but most likley a pair and a big card in the hole but I am positive he was ahead or at least even with me. He STILL folded to me in a very big pot at that point but I wasn't that surprised. I also had my back to the rail and some guy had been trying to tell his wife how the game worked and half the time I could hear him whispering about my play. I kinda flashed him my hole cards this time and hear him pull his wife aside and I coulda sworn he told her really quietly "that kid just outplayed the hell outta Forrest." Fucking awesome as I can't think of many pros whos game I have always respected more than Forrests but I had a play, I tried it, and it worked. This was hardly the first pot we played and not the first I took by playing his board or mine and not really having anything but this one was a pretty large pot at this point and it criplled him down to about 1200 chips. it really made me feel good about my game.

On a bad note I am now out of the tourney. About an hour and a half after Ted busted I was back down to a low stack after some horrible cards (well good hands that ended badly) and picked up 84(2). the bring in was on my left (Paul Wolfe, Full Tilt pro) and everyone folded to the guy directly on my right who completed with a 7. I have around 1600 chips and raise. Wolfe folds and the raiser calls. He pulls a 10, I pull a four and he bets! I raise all-in and he calls. We open our cards and he shows A8(710) and I have 84(24). i get a king and he pairs his 7 and I paired again and in the end had I had 8424K89 for a 2489k low and he had something like a87106 and I am sent home. Humberto looked at me and tapped the table as if to say "you played well, good game" wich felt great as he hadn't done that for anyone to this point. Awesome tourney and i couldn't be happier even though I lost (well I would be happier if I had cashed or won it).

Afterwards I went to check on a guy from my poker forum in the 3k buy-in bracelet event and ran into another guy from my forum (aces713). He said there were other guys from my forum on the rail so I went and met them. Tdizzle, ZaiGezunt, and Mag. Pretty cool guys. About 5 minutes after I met them stoners (sean the one in the 3k) tourney broke for the night and we went to a bar/resturaunt in the Rio. Shawn was in the money for this tourney and it should have resumed an hour ago. Go Shawn!!! GL MAN! Anyway me and Josh (mag) start drinking and we move to another bar at the Rio (just one of those ones with video poker in front of them). I am getting really drunk and talking with shawn and mag is hanging out with some of his friends from south carolina and tdizz and zai are hanging out talking when I see Todd Brunson on the other end of the bar. I tell Josh I am going to get him to buy me a drink and he laughs. I go over to Todd and tell him I will buy the first round. This night would get crazy.

Well i am talking with Todd and getting wasted (andrew black was running around too and I talked to him also) and some other kids came over and we were all getting tanked when i hear todd say "he's a fucking asshole." I was talking to Andy Black at this point and turn to Todd and say "who's an asshole" and he says "Sammy Farha, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and thats the worst thing I can say about someone." ha ha! he goes on to say how noone likes sammy. I told him to be careful what he says because it could end up on some internet forum and he says"post this shit, seriously, please do" so i guess I am now . He was talking about a hand where he cheated him out of 100k pot by shooting an angle when the dealer read the hand wrong and mucked his cards and how much he absoloutley hated him. I actually have his rant recorded on my voice recorder on my phone because he told me to Actually a fucking cool guy to hang out with and was a really fucking cool person. It was funny when he said "yeah, Farha cheats everyone, me, other players, MY DAD." The way he said "my dad" was awesome because Todd is one of the highest stakes cash game players in the world and "his dad" is THE undisputed living legend of poker Doyle Brunson.

Well Andy decided to go gamble 10k on blackjack (and I guess ended up losing a lot more than that) and me and todd hung out for like 2 hours getting wasted when he had to go to bed. I sat at 3 card poker. I will never do that again. I don't want to talk about it but lets jsut say my wallet is nearly empty now. $1,700 gone in about 2 hours. Seriously I am kicking myself for that but still last night was awesome! I think I am going to hit an atm and play some 1/2 and try to make up some losses. I love vegas.

Oh yeah I almost forgot! I showed up early at the Rio yesterday to see if there were any RAZZ cash games and there weren't but I hear over the loud speaker "sattelites to the 1500 RAZZ tournament are filling, $215 buy-in, come to the podium to sign up." So I did. I was already in the event but decided at the very least it would be a warm up and get me use to the format. I won it for $1500 in tournament buy-in chips! I just stood by the buy-in window and sold them to people who were buying into events that day. All the money is gone because of Danielle (my 3 card dealer for half the night). I was tipping like 25$ on some hands. I am so pissed. Thats all.