WSOP TR part 7, The Never Ending Gory, Event 15 and Venetian 1k

[odellthurman]

These are some of the best trip reports and posts I have ever read on 2+2. None of the bad beats you have written about will matter after you final table the main event.

[HEK]

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while being flicked into the muck and my friend turns to me in an Al Pacinoesque moment and tells me how much I broke his heart.

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I laughed like hell at this.

Bond, I love your trip reports. Every day that I log on I hope for another one. I hope the next one I read is of you making a big score (bracelet!). You are def running bad but keep playing well...sounds like you're doing fine.

[Annulus]

bro, you are amazing at poker and writing. keep at it and it's just a matter of time. goodluck.

[jonnyd]

keep these coming. theyre pretty much the biggest reason i check MTTc regularly now

[BulldogMafia]

Are you sure you don't have a $50 dollar bill stuck in your wallet? Only reason I can see why your luck is running so bad.... Keep the reports running dude.

[gravycakes]

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Bond, I love your trip reports. Every day that I log on I hope for another one. I hope the next one I read is of you making a big score (bracelet!). You are def running bad but keep playing well...sounds like you're doing fine.

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[Amerzel]

Thank you for writing these. Very entertaining. Things will turn around.

[Highn]

Great read (again). Keep up the good work.

[ilushan]

Bond, I don't know if it is much help for you, but here in Moscow there is a group of people who is rooting for you and waiting for your reports on daily basis.

Your essays are informative, entertaining and just amazing in general. And if you somehow started to doubt it, you're very good in poker [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

You made a lot of good things for this forum, and you'll definitely have your 15 minutes of glory and big money pretty soon. It just can't be any other way.

Best wishes!

[luckychewy]

these trip reports are very awesome, u'll get there soon buddy.

as far as hands go, i think the KT fold is fine, hard to put him on a range because some live players always flat a fd, others always raise it, and some mix it up.

k7 hand i fold pf but if i choose to flat the flop i definitely donk the blank turn for 2/3. it doesnt let him pot control ax and doesnt give a free card to a fd. fwiw i like this line more than anything else. river seems v std i think 3-betting would be bad.

qt hand i fold pf, i think it's a pretty marginal call especially for you(no offense) but you seem kind of confused post flop oop when stacks are deepish. if you are suited here i am way more inclined to call however, just makes that many more flops easier to play.

the 36 hand i fold the turn, but given your read i guess a call is okay. reverse implied odds are so huge here and your 7 is such an obvious out(apparently not in live pokerz but i would have thought it was lol).

one more quick note: in the ATss hand if stacks are much deeper i think c/r'ing the flop is awful, and that you should be c/c'ing it nearly 100% of the time in a vacuum. given these stacks however i think c/r is probably closer optimal because he may fold AJ or get it in w/ lesser spades, though i think c/c is probably still fine.

gl out there bond.