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I feel like an old school poker player. The reason is I have been "fading the white line" as Doyle Brunson has said. Traveling from tournament to tournament recently.

I first went to New York for a $1650 Heartland poker tour main event at Turning Stone. I busted on day 1 after playing 9 hours.

Next, I played the Indiana State poker championship at Hollywood Casino. 240 players entered the $1600 main event. I final tabled that tournament finishing 10th for $6614. I went into the final table second in chips. I lost a flip with JJ vs AQo for the chip lead and was out just like that.

I'm playing my first day of the Main Event today! I feel excited and ready to go. It has been a great series for me already so if it goes well in this tournament it will just be icing on the cake.

I will post updates when I get a chance.

Good luck guys and girls

So I'm currently on dinner break of the final table of $1,000 Wsop nl holdem event 34. I have the chip lead at 2.2 million to start! Im very excited and will post how I do later. I'm playing in the espn final table arena of the Rio. I'm gauranteed $28,000 now but obv gunning for a braclet!!!

So day 1 of the wsop for me was super amazing! We started with 3,000 chips and I ended day 1 with over 60,000. I'm currently 5th in chips of event 8.

I made some sick calls on people trying to bluff me. I feel like I'm getting really good at reading people playing live now. As I get more experience with it, I'm doing it much better than before.

I received a cool email recently. If you have a similar story you can email me but posting it on this site is even better! Here is a copy of the email:

So I have been playing cash games here in Vegas almost every day (2/5 and 5/10). The cash games are really profitable but I estimate a good hourly rate for 2/5 to be around $20-$40 per hour.

I used to make way more than that online so it has been a big pay cut for me! Also, with only playing 30hands/hr the swings day to day are bigger.

So Black Friday caught me completely by surprise. I had 65% of my bankroll on stars/ftp. Looking back that was pretty stupid. I guess stars said today that US players will be able to withdraw soon, which is a big relief to me and many US players.

I have been in Vegas for about a week now. I have played 3 wsop circuit events at Caesar's Palace so far and cashed in 1 today. I finished in 22nd out of 500 on a sick beat again. The hand went down like this:

Since my last blog post I have played 3 more tournaments and cashed in 1. I cashed in probably the toughest 1 of the 3, with it being a 6 max $565 tournament. It was another 21st place for $1076.

My thoughts on these live wsop circuit events thus far after 5 tournaments are as follows. The fields are very weak for the buyin level compared to online tournaments. There are a lot of recreational players at casinos that don't play online but like to play in person with real chips.

So I'm in St Louis right now for the wsop circuit. I'm currently in my second tournament so far. Both have been ring events for $355 buyin.

I played yesterday from noon until 2am. It is draining playing for about 14 hours but I made it to the money in this one. I currently have 133k in chips which is about average with 55ish people left. It is only 13 effective big blinds though. So I will have to shove soon.

I final tabled the $50 unlimited rebuy tournament on poker stars on Sunday! The prize pool was over $200k with over 1100 players.

I finished 3rd for $21,860. Guess who recorded the final table? You can check out the video soon if you want to see all the action.

I have been playing a few more mtts lately. I have come to the conclusion I just can't stick with one type of poker for very long. I play sngs, cash and tournaments. I will get tired of playing the same type of games and move to a different form of poker. It keeps it more interesting for me I think.

You can now purchase the Hud you see me use in the videos on this site!

We are going to start out offering the Poker Tracker 3 Hud you have probably seen in many videos for only 1 credit.

We are going to offer a much more advanced Hud for Hold'em Manager users for only 2 credits.

Both Hud files come with a short video showing step by step instructions to get the Hud working on your computer.

Also, I will be posting another free video showing how I use all the stats to find weaknesses in my opponents play. There are many new stats I am using now.