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#22
07-22-2005, 08:51 PM
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Re: How did Granny do at WSOP?
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[ QUOTE ] kind of like overplaying pocket 3's, but no miracle river saved me. [/ QUOTE ] who????? me???? it was heads-up. Dan Harrington said it was okay to over play my pocket-pairs!!!! [/ QUOTE ] rofl i left out the a-6 because the 33 was actually a better play and i was, as i hope you know, playing around. i make no bones about my performance. it sucked. but i had a great time and a profitable trip. finally, i present to you that many people would never have taken on 125 investors if they could afford it themselves. that adds lots of pressure that i did not need. had i been on my own, i bet i would not have overplayed there at all. i wanted to pile on the chips because i had so many people who kicked in, and the thought of winning $12,500 just did not interest me in the situation i faced this year. next year i will be there and hopefully it will be a drive, not a flight. i will play some early events and play the sidegames. it is only the ME that i will avoid. i have no regrets. this trip will probably result in my moving out there, so obviously i had a GREAT time. 
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#23
07-22-2005, 08:56 PM
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Re: How did Granny do at WSOP?
wow. moving out there?!?! didn't realize.
Vegas just didn't have as much appeal to me to think about moving there (yet). I can definitely see how playing for over 100 people would affect your outlook and give unwanted pressure. Also - it was an A-5...not an A-6 you senile old hag!!!!
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#25
07-22-2005, 09:04 PM
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Re: How did Granny do at WSOP?
Also - it was an A-5...not an A-6 you senile old hag!!!
i coulda sworn it was a6, but you would know. actually, i was closing the client and was so excited to see that it was not over that i easily could have mistaken it. you got the ace on the hand i am talking about. and as far as moving there... yep. i fell in love with it and we are going house hunting in 2 weeks. i have to convince the other half, but that won't be a problem cuz' there are relatives in phoenix and no family here. forget retirement in florida, been there done that. we are tired of CT, and as long as that dam keeps pumping power for a/c, i can't think of a better place to be.
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#27
07-22-2005, 09:12 PM
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Re: How did Granny do at WSOP?
I thought you were referring to the hand where I bowed-out in the WSOP main-event (which I posted in the MTT forum...and maybe on here...not sure).
I might have had an A6 or A8 hand or something when I was heads-up in the shoot-out but I don't remember. The 33 was obviously the one that I'm NEVER forgetting. Don't know if you saw that my heads-up opponent in the shoot-out, JC Tran, did VERY well in the main-event. Think he finished in the top 10o or even the top 60. Also made at least one final-table in the prelims. So it was certainly HE who had the last laugh. The kid's a good player. But I was better at sucking-out I guess. That's obviously a skill you need to work on Granny!!! I could envision a day when I move to Vegas for at least a few months. It's possible. My GF is very close to her family and they all only speak Spanish so the large hispanic population there (23% of Vegas residents are hispanic I read) would get us part-way there I suppose. But she and I are more attracted to New Orleans and will likely be moving there first. A stop-over in Vegas for a few months at some point wouldn't be out of the question though (she hasn't been there yet so we have to see whether or not she digs it or not...she doesn't gamble). She's pretty scared of those 115-degree days that she was hearing about though.
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#28
07-22-2005, 09:45 PM
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Re: How did Granny do at WSOP?
But she and I are more attracted to New Orleans and will likely be moving there first.
i spent alot of time in new orleans. during college i went there for a couple of sugar bowls, then when i lived in biloxi, i went there many times. i could not imagine living there. this is just where people differ i guess. as i see it, vegas has it all and with some of my medical issues i'm gonna be indoors basically for the rest of my life. however, summer days in new orlean's can suck the very life out of you due to the near 100% humidity. during the wsop, as you know, they had record or near record highs. i only was subjected to this at the wynn taxi stand every day. it made me realize that the cliche "low humidity" is a huge factor. i would venture to guess that if vegas was humid, vegas would never have been develpoed. 115 degrees was more comfortable than the 90's in new orleans. new orleans? what attracts you there? to me, it is like living in orlando or key west (which i have). seeming paradise, but got old quick.
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#29
07-22-2005, 09:48 PM
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Re: How did Granny do at WSOP?
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" The defenless old lady image is stuck in my head. " Try this: Imagine a sweet old lady that spends a lot of time thinking with her d+ck. [/ QUOTE ] zzzzz you are not even funny. i wish you were funny so it would hold my attention. that's my fault tho. i have very high expectations for my trolls, so i encourage you to keep at it! zzzzzzzz
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#30
07-22-2005, 10:54 PM
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Re: How did Granny do at WSOP?
There's a certain comfortability that we both feel there.
I've been to Orlando (used to live in Florida) and pretty much hate it. There's a history there and we both dig it. Not just the french q. btw. For whatever reason, we love it. I always felt very comfortable and 'at home' in New Orleans. When I took the GF there for the first time she immediately fell in love with it too. She thinks it may have to do with all the old spanish architecture which reminds her of growing up in Lima, Peru. But I didn't grow up in South America yet I too feel very much in tune with the city and 'at home' there. In Vegas I just walked around and thought "well..they've got a lot of casinos and other stuff here." It just isn't 'all that' for me for whatever reason. I cam see where the appeal would be for everyone else though. Obviously everybody has different tastes. I'm VERY not attracted to the poker there. I play primarily on the internet anyway so the fact that the Bellagio and Wynn has good live poker is barely an issue. I completely agree about the humidity in Vegas even though it is a cliche. never thought I would hear myself say "but it's a 'dry-heat' so it's not as bad." 115 there feels like 95 here in Memphis. 95 here in Memphis feels like 115. The official heat-index numbers confirms this as well. I would struggle in the heat in Vegas....but I felt like I could play with my rec-league soccer team even in that extreme heat if I had to. In the meanwhile, my team here in Memphis has a game this Sunday afternoon at 1. The high is supposed to be 103 freaking degrees and the humidity will be really humid too. It's possible none of us will make it out of that game alive.
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