Watch 2+2er Nick B on TV Sept 4th

[Schneids]

Awesome weekend for him.

Hopefully he'll feel compelled to expand on his weekend some more or write up a tourney report but here's the gist of it:

He flew out to Vegas this past weekend for the first weekend of the Ultimate Poker Challenge (http://www.ultimatepokerchallenge.com) , and played in two tourneys, and won them both.

I don't have all the details but I know in the first one he was the chip leader and ended up chopping with three other players, worth $23,000 to him, and in the second event he took $10,000.

The second event will be televised and gets him into a qualifier for the semifinals, to be held later in the year.

He beat out some big names such as Josh Arieh and Barry Shulman.

Awesome work Nick!

[Blarg]

Grats whoever he is and whatever that is. Must be quite a rush to score back to back like that.

[Tosh]

Grats to Nick B, I think its pretty clear he is one of the best tourney players around these parts.

[Nick B.]

Thanks for the post Schneids.

I did fly out to Vegas this weekend planning to play in the Bellagio Friday at Five (1000 buy in) and both Ultimate Poker Challenge tournaments.

The Friday at five tournament went pretty well. I felt like I had a horseshoe up my a all weekend. I either made great reads or got very lucky. One hand I was UTG+1, UTG limped, I limped with 55, and next went all in and folded around to me. He raised about 6 BB and ~2/5 of my stack. I thought and called and he had 44 and I began to accumulate chips. I really can't remember very many hands leading up to the final table. I know I was very short stacked, loose cannon raised 4xBB, I went all in for 8xBB with AK, he called with QJ. The flop was QT4, turn T and river K to keep me alive. Next hand I get KT in the sb, and Raise 3x BB. Mel Judah goes all in for 8x BB. I consider that I will still have a playable stack if I lose and call. He has QQ, uhoh. Flop 3 5 6 turn 7, and river K to knock Judah out. This was about the only time I got super lucky in the tournament. I am really not very good at remembering details about hands. At the first break I told myself that I needed to be more confident and that I could win it. I had been running so bad in tournaments that my attitude was very off. I made it to the final table, but only the top 9 got paid. I knocked out number ten and shortly after I got the chip lead. I took a major hit when I went all in with AQs against a min raiser and he called for all his chips with 55, I didn't improve and only had 3 BB. I managed to make my way back up slowly without any huge hands and managed to knock out Minneapolis Jim Meehan in 5th place with 55 vs. A6s. Then all the other players were discussing doing a deal. I really wanted to play it out as the second chip leader had about 93000, I had 95000 and the other two (who I thought were good players) had about 20000 each. I really thought I could outplay then both, but when the TD said I would be taking 23,000+, I decided that I should just take it, rather than risk it trying to win 13k more. Second was supposed to be 20k, so I got more than that.

bellagio results (without deal) (http://cardplayer.com/poker_tournaments/results.php?event_id=976)

On to the Ultimate Poker Challenge. I started at a table with John Hennigan two to my right and Cyndy Violette on my immediate right. Once again I am really bad at remembering hands, but I can remember ever hand at the final table surprisingly. When the interviewer asked me what were some big hands on day 1 I told him I couldn't remember. John Hennigan was out very quickly. Followed by Cyndy Violette a little later (which sucked, I really didn't mind looking at her, lol). Daniel Negreanu played, but I never sat with him. The play inside 28 players was all 7 handed (which helped considering my SH experience.) I got moved a lot, but with 3 tables left on, Josh Arieh was two to my right, Chad Layne was on the opposite side of the table. I managed to pick off a lot of bluffs. JA limped on the button and I checked in the BB with K2. flop was K46. I bet and JA called. turn was like T, check check, and river was not an ace and I checked and JA bet about 15% of my stack. I called and he threw his 35 in the air. I really caught him bluffing a lot. I called his flop bet with position with 22 and we checked it down and it was good. His final hand I raised with QQ to about 2300? cold call on button and he called. flop was A45 two clubs and he moved in from the BB for about 2600. I didn't put him on an ace and called, CC folded. He had 67c. I was really running well and he wiffed on all his outs. I knocked another player out with K9 vs. KT, but it was really no risk to my stack. I really started bullying people around with 10 left (I was chipleader). I moved over the top when I knew they just wanted to get around me. Gavin Smith was shortstacked on the bubble but managed to get on the TV. I was chipleader with 7 left (10 bonus points) going into the final (ultimate 7). I will leave the final table a surprise, but I am sure I will have to explain myself to all the people who said I was lucky to win. I won 10k, a $5000 cruise and a seat in the semi finals. And a tournament win which will be on nationally syndicated tv. Which is awesome.

UPC (http://cardplayer.com/poker_tournaments/results.php?event_id=977)


photo (http://community.webshots.com/s/image11/6/14/35/179761435VxQLIJ_fs.jpg)

[Schneids]

Your image link won't let any of us view the image for some reason.

Here, try this link (http://www.mtmtechnologies.net/IMG_0654.jpg)

[Ponks]

Grats man thats awesome!

Ponks

[cornell2005]

thats great. congrats. im confused which station it will be on. will i just have to look in my tv guide?

[Nick B.]

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thats great. congrats. im confused which station it will be on. will i just have to look in my tv guide?

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You will have to find out what station it is on here (http://www.ultimatepokerchallenge.com/media.html) and the go to tvguide.com and figure out when the exact time it is playing. I don't think that website has been updated for a while so the actual showing time might be changed a little bit.

[Sponger15SB]

I don't think anything matters to Nick anymore now that he has seen Bobby Bo play poker on ESPN, I bet that meant more to him than these silly wins in vegas.

[Frogger]

Are you 21 Nick B? I was just wondering cause I'm only 18 and I was wondering about the legality of playing in casino tournaments - just not drinking.

[theghost]

Great job - you make me want to play in MTTs (which is probably bad for me and good for you)

[ismisus]

Congrats Nick the Kid. LOL. It seemed to me the players didn't think you were going to win, and underestimated you. This one guy said, "he doesn't have enough experience to win". I am sure online poker has provided enough experience.

On your play. I can't believe you folded a 2nd pair heads up. You had a king, and the other guy had an ace. The flop was AK*. You guys checked the flop. Then on the turn he bet just 4k, and you folded!! Did he have a tell?

You played great overall, congrats. got a lot of praise from the 2000 WSOP champ.

[gonores]

I have a secret....

Nick made the final table of UPC tournament #2 (maybe it's 3 or later...but he's on a final table). The kid can flat out play.

[Nick B.]

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Congrats Nick the Kid. LOL. It seemed to me the players didn't think you were going to win, and underestimated you. This one guy said, "he doesn't have enough experience to win". I am sure online poker has provided enough experience.

On your play. I can't believe you folded a 2nd pair heads up. You had a king, and the other guy had an ace. The flop was AK*. You guys checked the flop. Then on the turn he bet just 4k, and you folded!! Did he have a tell?

You played great overall, congrats. got a lot of praise from the 2000 WSOP champ.

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I am in Vegas and it doesn't air for another hour (i cant wait). Luckily my room doesn't have the channel, so I will be watching it in the fitness center, lol. I don't remember the AKx flop, where I had a King and folded. I didn't have any specific tell on him, but I did have good reads on his betting patterns. The last hand I was more worried about just folding my blind to his all in raise than I was about doubling him up. I know it was an awful call with T7, but I felt like I was going to win it eventually and I might as well gamble. As for what the player said (I haven't seen it), you don't need much experience when you have luck! I hope I do well tomorrow in my second final table, I am second chip leader, but Erik Seidel, Mel Judah and Andy Bloch are all in. There were a lot of pros in the event today, so I was lucky to make it to the final 7. In the tournament, I playd with Mel Judah, Andy Bloch, Kathy Liebert, Carlos Mortensen, and I am sure I have forgotten others.

[ThePopinjay]

nice playing man. i watched it, those old guys couldn't handle you. i was laughing when that old guy was betting that weak 7500 bluff and u picked him off with sixes.

[Nottom]

On the 66 hand, you didn't really think he was slowplaying AA did you?

[fyodor]

I just saw this thread tonight so I missed the show. Congrats Nick.

See? This is why I wanted a piece of you at Turning Stone. I knew you had it in you. Keep up the good work.

[Oblivious]

What network is it on? I did a tivo search for "ultimate" and "poker" but couldnt find it. My market is denver, which isnt listed on the page you provided from what i could see.

[Big Country]

I think it is being aired in differentm arkets on different local channels. I live in southern California and got in on KCAL 9, which is a local channel with no network affiliation.

BTW, great play Nick. Looking forward to the future episodes and seeing how you fare in the semifinals.

[Nick B.]

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On the 66 hand, you didn't really think he was slowplaying AA did you?

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I really did think he had a big hand. His hand was shaking so bad when he called my bet pf, I thought he was going to slowplay. On the K54 flop, I really thought that I had the best hand, but I was afraid that I would have to lay it down if he checkraised.

[Nick B.]

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Congrats Nick the Kid. LOL. It seemed to me the players didn't think you were going to win, and underestimated you. This one guy said, "he doesn't have enough experience to win". I am sure online poker has provided enough experience.

On your play. I can't believe you folded a 2nd pair heads up. You had a king, and the other guy had an ace. The flop was AK*. You guys checked the flop. Then on the turn he bet just 4k, and you folded!! Did he have a tell?

You played great overall, congrats. got a lot of praise from the 2000 WSOP champ.

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Now that I have watched the broadcast. The AKx hand, he hadn't been raising a lot preflop, so when he did I thought he probably had an ace. His one mistake was checking the flop. That was strange for him, especially on a flop that looked like it would hit him. The turn put 3 of one suit on the board. When he bet I thought that he either had me beat, or had a lot of outs to beat me since I didn't have one of the suits. So in reality, it wasn't that good of a play at all on my part, but it did seem that way on TV>