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Had my 18th bday, got owned by Jamie Gold, went to a gay bar with Mark Vos, heres my post about WSOPe, crossposted from MTTC


Live poker is AWESOME, people are so bad, and I feel I pick up so much that I can use for the future. My table had Roland De Wolfe in seat 3, BrynKenny in seat 4(he folded AK to me, but it wasn't on the bubble), and Howard Lederer in seat 8, I was seat 9.

I was at like 29 at blinds 100/200 when this happened. I'm SB, BB sucks, UTG sucks too, and they are carbon copies of each other, so along with the empty seat, I have 6 to worry about rather than 8. UTG+3 limps, someone else limps, I call with 42o in the SB, which may be marginal, and I fold it, but call with 43o or 53o in an online tourney, but against this field, I think its fine.

Flop: A53cc, I check because people like bet-calling top pair. UTG bets 600, UTG+3 calls(he is tilty/bad/calls barrels with AK on QJ9xx board), I squeeze to 2600, UTG folds, UTG+3 makes it 8600. I don't fold this ever, but I was kind of disappointed with myself on this hand, because I normally (over)think every decision to try to get as good of an idea of peoples range as possible. Here I more or less fistpumped while shouting nuts gogogo, rather than thinking about what he could have, the fact I'm behind 6c4c etc. I obv. played it fine, but I play poker to be the best I can be, not to flop the nuts and bust euroclowns. Anyways, he has 42cc and ships the straight flush on the river, meh.

Now I win some pots, lose some pots, get "owned" by Howard Lederer(by owned, I mean, he opened HJ-1 to 600, I repopped to 2k in the HJ with 87o because thats what the cool kids are doing these days, he calls pretty quickly, and I think he often has like AK or something like that given the speed of his call, maybe hes a set mining clown, iono. Flop: KK4, he checks, I bet 2500, he calls, I have like 16k back. Turn: 5, I plan to check behind, because hes always checkraising AK, now he bets 6k. I think for a while just because I don't know whether he'll fold like 99 to a shove given my image. I think he bluffs here a lot(I don't mean theres lots of hands he bluffs, I just mean his hand and bet sizing doesn't really make sense for any real hands), I end up folding, and he tables AQ, nh.)

I'm down to like 17 when I get moved to the feature table, fun.

The table looks pretty sick, seat 1 is jamie gold, seat 4 is like 70 years old, and overall, no one seems overly scary. I chat a fair bit with seat 8(I'm seat 7) which is kind of nice to help me get relaxed since my last table was quiet on my side. I later found out hes Kenny Tran who I should apparently know of, but he seemed competent(seat 4 was very impressed when he folded to his top set, I guess hes the live equivalent of p5s).

Anyways, I cardrack this table, I get AK on like the 4th hand here, 3bet someone, they fold, now like the ~12th hand, Jamie limps UTG CO who I knew nothing about but seemed to friendly to have bought in directly limps, I raise JJ on the button to 1k, blinds fold. I'm like 18k deep, Jamie asks "are you button or SB" I tell him button and he raises to 3k. Maybe he is that bad, or maybe he is giving off reverse tells, iono, I just know that I'm never putting him on a tight range because hes a clown. CO folds, I call largely to induce him to do something dumb, I probably fold lots of Axx flops, but I think I stack off most flops.

Flop: T74dd, he checks. I hate being exploitable when I play, and often do unnecessary things for balance, but here I said [censored] that [censored] and bet only 2.5 at 6.7k because he will probably shove like AQ, maybe even like AJ if I'm lucky. He shoves, I ask him for his online name(largely to see if I've played with him in my shortstacking days, but also to know if he reads like 2+2 and may have some idea that 98 is better than AK here). Anyways, I call, hes like "nice call" flips up the 33(no d IIRC), I'm laughing looking at Watts and ch0ppy because he really is that bad, and by the time I look back, I'm drawing to 2 outs and soon out of the tourney. He doesn't shake my hand and tells the table "thats what you get for playing with jacks", meh.

Anyways, I go do some interviews, which despite being awful at interviews, were pretty decent, then go to supper with Watts, ch0ppy, mark vos, and 2 of his friends. Mark then takes us to a gay bar, and encourages us to order drinks with him, we ended up going to a (straight) club, and now I'm back here.

Happy 18th Timex

[x] Teh Gay
[x] lol donkaments
[x] lol jamiegoldaments

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wait, you're 18?

what?

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Jaime's new thing is giving off reverse tells.

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Happy BDay dude. GL @ owning live donkaments!

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Wait, you were shorting 200/400 NL and made 250k when you were 17 [censored] years old? I think it was 250k if I am remembering correctly from the graph you posted. Wow, how long have you been playing online? Thats a sick amount of money to make at that age, congrats

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Have been playing almost 3 years, will be playing like ~7 10ks withing the next 4 months, so if my tables are anything like they were today, things could be good.

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Have been playing almost 3 years, will be playing like ~7 10ks withing the next 4 months, so if my tables are anything like they were today, things could be good.

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<333

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did you extend your hand to shake his or what?

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nice post, but who are you? (not being rude. genuinely intrigued)

also link to short-stacking graph much appreciated.

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did you extend your hand to shake his or what?

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It wasn't that dramatic, but the people who interviewed me seem to make a big deal about things like this, to be honest, I didn't even know he was supposed to shake my hand since I'm a huge live fish(it could be coincidence, but Howard Lederer once called one of my bets within like 0.5seconds of me swallowing(I was thirsty etc., I'm not really attached to poker hands or anything)).

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nice post, but who are you? (not being rude. genuinely intrigued)

also link to short-stacking graph much appreciated.

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hit21hit on most sites
and staking monster.

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nh timex... just sent u a PM

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nice post, but who are you? (not being rude. genuinely intrigued)

also link to short-stacking graph much appreciated.

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Its cool, I've tried to keep some anonymity outside of MTTC.

I started out grinding limit at like 2/4, then met stevepa and pacmann who taught me stuff, and told me I should be less of a nit(ie. not playing with a 3kBB roll), and started improving, then moved to tournaments, ran sick hot(made like 150ish between Mar 06 and July 06 without being very good at the time), from running good in donkaments, I got entry into a winner take all 1m prize pool SNG, which I chopped 3 handed for 330, from there, I started staking lots of v. good players, who have done pretty well since, and I've also been playing lots of cash on other networks as well as shortstacking the big games on FTP(I'm super -EV fullstacking, but when Watts and I got into it, no one could adapt well to short stackers and they all just spite called us etc.)

Heres the shortstacking thread

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...ue#Post10269655

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Dude, seriously. Post a thread about your entire story.

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Dude, seriously. Post a thread about your entire story.

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requests have been made for a Timex well.

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I thought he came from a very very very rich family, no?

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timex welcome to the world of misery... it begins..

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Had my 18th bday

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what the [censored]

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I thought he came from a very very very rich family, no?

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My parents have above average jobs(probably about average for people with university degrees), and are good at saving money, but are certainly far from rich, and because they save everything, they seem poorer than most people with equivalent salaries and worse spending habbits. I've never used my parents money to gamble, and the initial $100 I put online through their credit card, I payed them cash before I made a desposit.

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Wait, you were shorting 200/400 NL and made 250k when you were 17 [censored] years old? I think it was 250k if I am remembering correctly from the graph you posted. Wow, how long have you been playing online? Thats a sick amount of money to make at that age, congrats

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lol at thinking 250k is like the high point of Timex's profits.

Oh, and [censored] Timex. Happy birthday.

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Oh, ok. You seem like a humble dude considering your achievements up to this point. That probably has a lot to do with people thinking you are a lot older than you are.

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Happy birthday Timex!! May the poker gods be very kind to you -- you seem to be a nice guy with a good head on your shoulders poker wise -- Congrats!! Oh yeah, and invest wisely for your future please. . . . .

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Timex you are my idol.

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happy bday mang, gl in your live events. jealous.

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One second you live in Waterloo and don't go to school there?

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Hey Timex,

How did you cash out your massive amounts of earnings from online sites prior to your 18th birthday? Was igm-pay still around?

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Timex you are my idol.

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wait, so you didn't know who kenny tran was?

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I do go to school at UW, I took my 2a term this summer so I can take the fall off.

Cashed out by cheque.

Aren't there like 15 live pros with the name xxnny xxan? Maybe I'm crazy

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yea, but if there's one you should know it's kenny....but maybe it's just cuz i'm a KT fanboi

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Have gotten a ton of PMs about me, so I made a well

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...c=#Post12046328

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Today, Timex discovered first hand why he backed all those guys in live donkaments.

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Happy being 18th Timex.

It's sometimes easy for people to get caught up figuring out ways to hate on young guys making good/ridiculous amounts of money.

You make a good case for people rethinking that stereotype.

Peace.

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Today, Timex discovered first hand why he backed all those guys in live donkaments.

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hey timex, remember when you were talking about how I always say that everyone else is terrible? good times

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Live poker is AWESOME

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so true. people who have only played online have no idea how fishy poker can be.

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wow, did you graduate high school?

that was a horrible read... [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

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Anyways, I go do some interviews, which despite being awful at interviews, were pretty decent, then go to supper with Watts, ch0ppy, mark vos, and 2 of his friends. Mark then takes us to a gay bar, and encourages us to order drinks with him, we ended up going to a (straight) club, and now I'm back here.


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this (straight) club was called stringfellows...

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Terrible suckout.

Happy birthday!

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Must be great to be 18 and a millionaire.

Good times ahead now. Travelling the poker circuit all over the world and partying.

Gl in the future.

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is it pronounced 'tim'-'ex' or 'time'-'x'?

also, congrats.