Busto

In a 4bet pot I jammed 1.2mil into a 700k pot with 56s on 589 one of my suit and this guy made a shocking call with AKo (average stack was 1.7m with 107 people left); turn 9 river ace. Game over. Pretty devastating. Cashed for 40k. Such a joke.

Day 6

table:

Seat 1 Brian Hansen 549,000
Seat 2 John Martin 673,000 50k in cashes from smaller buy in events
Seat 3 Bolivar Palacios (panama)444,000 47k from two 7th place finishes
Seat 4 Ian Woodley (UK) 1,005,000 1mil in cashes, plays a ton
Seat 5 Ludavic Lacay (paris) 1,817,000 Word is he is super agro pre/solid
Seat 6 Adam Blizerian 1,056,000
Seat 7 empty
Seat 8 Joel Patchell (me) 1,701,000
Seat 9 Hamid Nourafchan (USA) 1,664,000 16k in cashes past 5 years

Don't forget you can follow me here: www.twitter.com/jpatche

Vegas Upday

Rolling on to day 5 of the main event tomorrow with 762k chips, which puts me about 70th of the remaining 407. Also ran hot again tonight in craps. Nick is the most talented dice controller I've seen my entire career. Up about 14k on the craps table this trip. Going to be hard to stop this gravy train.

Pedestrian

http://www.walkscore.com/get-score.php?street=decatur%2C+ga&go=Go

Living in a walkable neighborhood has always been a high priority of mine. Just stumbled on this website and my hood scored 86/100. Can anyone beat that?

Gambling Update

Another great craps sessions. Up 1759 there this trip. I believe I have learned how to control the dice. Also on a sick credit card roulette heater; I believe my streak is nearing 25 meals without losing with average of 4.3 people and 328 dollars a ticket.

WSOP Day 2

Won a big pot to start the day then took a nose dive into dinner break. Rallied after some food and won two medium pots that were flips. Chipped up nicely after that and finished up with 101,600; tad over average. Play starts back up Friday. Keep up with me on twitter.

Vegas Update from my iPhone

I start back up on Wednesday for day 2B with 50k (tad above average). I also looked up the odds for craps this morning. Betting the pass line with max back up odds the house edge is roughly .35%. What a game. Drunk 1/2 profits: -2700; drunk craps profits: 1059. Megaman get equipped with... Day 2 pro.

Big One Updates

I play day 1C tomorrow of the WSOP main event. I am going to try and keep regular updates here: www.Twitter.com/jpatche

Super Fun Game Time

Rules: I will show you pictures of cars and you have to decide which one is lilholdem's (pictured above). Limited to one guess per lifetime (answer in the comments). Game expires in 72 hours.
Prize: My kick ass beer can flashlight that projects poker chips on the wall (pictured above).

A Modest Proposal

I am a bit strapped for greenbacks on this upcoming WSOP adventure. Anyone interested in swapping me 15k cash for 15k on Full Tilt with the added bonus of 5% of my WSOP Main Event action? July 2-4 is my window.

No Title

I play a lot of games. I own 8 video game consoles and regularly play them all. I play a game for a living. I play a ton of board games. When I'm on my computer and not playing poker I'm usually playing Catan or Starcraft. When I poop I play games on my iPhone. And every night before I go to bed I do a crossoword puzzle. I was going to go somewhere with this post and talk about overall related themes between mastering all the games or draw some analogy to the game of life, but that's just dumb.

HHs

the power of playing reckless...

just_t.he_nuts posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
rya.nwelch posts big blind [$50.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to gamblegambel [ 6d 6s ]
gamblegambel raises [$100.00 USD]
jus.t_the_nuts folds
ryan.welch calls [$50.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4c, Qd, 2d ]
ry.anwelch checks
gamblegambel bets [$131.00 USD]
ry.anwelch raises [$462.00 USD]
gamblegambel calls [$331.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9h ]
rya.nwelch bets [$450.00 USD]
gamblegambel calls [$450.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Kc ]
ryanw.elch bets [$488.00 USD]
gamblegambel calls [$488.00 USD]
ryanw.elch shows [Jc, 8s ]
gamblegambel shows [6d, 6s ]
gamblegambel wins $3024.00 USD from main pot

l Scub.ba l posts small blind [$25.00 USD].
marc.opolo28 posts big blind [$50.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to gamblegambel [ 5d Kd ]
hello.puppy folds
shxl.fxm folds
gamblegambel raises [$100.00 USD]
l Scu.bba l folds
marc.opolo28 calls [$50.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, 8h, 3c ]
marc.opolo28 checks
gamblegambel checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4d ]
marc.opolo28 bets [$150.00 USD]
gamblegambel calls [$150.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Jd ]
marc.opolo28 bets [$450.00 USD]
gamblegambel raises [$1250.00 USD]
marc.opolo28 folds
gamblegambel wins $1422.00 USD from main pot

Bullets

• my girlfriend moved to chicago indefinitely
• i got a mustard stain on my favorite polo
• i bought an iphone
• themasterj nearly won a wsop bracelet
• i wish i had some feather pillows
  

New Hobby

Recently, partly inspired by the White House garden and by my gf's family garden, I've started to cultivate some greens of my own. Personally it makes the most sense to grow plants you can eat. So far I have tomato plants, oregano, basil (yes, I am Italian), a few carrots, and a pomegranate tree.