Bubble Boy, WSOP ME, and Bob Preston

I have not posted in awhile, mainly because I have been so busy playing poker. Bob came out to Vegas on Friday and has been tearing it up from the minute he arrived. He has already final tabled the Venetian 1k event and unfortunately only got 9th, but he still got a nice $2800 pay day and a lot of momentum going into the Main Event on Sunday. He moved on to day 2 and in a very healthy manner. He currently has 83k in chips, with the average being only about 55k so he is in great shape. Hopefully he can make a deep run and really get Team New Castle on the radar.

As for me, I have been bubbling everything under the sun lately. I played the $2500 Bellagio event on Thursday and just absolutely crushed it for the first 6 or 7 hours. I was only all in once and that was with quads, and I kept taking out these moronic short stacks that were trying to push over my raises with junk when they had no fold equity. I made it down to the final 4 tables without much trouble and then I went absolutely card dead. This is the worst time to go card dead as you can't raise light because of all the short stacks pushing. I played zero pots until we were down to three tables and I was forced into push/fold mode with less than ten big blinds. I ended up shoving over a button raiser with my A7cc and he called with A3, so I was in great shape. That ended when the flop cam 33x and I was sent packing in 26th place, with top 18 paying. Next day I played the same Venetian event as Bob (the one he FT'ed) and once again built my stack up very nicely in the early stages of the tournament. I managed to cruise down to the final four tables again and was just waiting for a spot to bust one of the morons with chips at our table. I ended button raising with 55 and one of those morons shoved for like 3x more and I ended up calling. He turned over KJ and we were off to the races. The guy to his left said he folded KJ as well so I loved hearing that. The flop came 569 and I tapped the table for flopping my set and basically acknowledging that he was less than 5% to win the hand. The turn was the awful 10 giving him a few outs and the river was the Q and he hit runner-runner to knock me down to about 10k with blinds 400/800 and about bout to be 500/1k. I ended up shoving quite a few times to maintain but ended up shoving my K4 and got called by A10 and lost. I busted in 24th place, and once again only top 18 paid, so I stayed and watched Bob for a little.
The main event was pretty bad for me and its almost painful to talk about. I built my 20k starting stack to 27k by the first break, but that was my high point. I had to lay down Aces to this Swedish kid who I'm pretty sure had a set, and I had a flopped boat get counterfeited and lose. I went so card dead after the first break that I almost killed myself. My table was so full of bad calling stations who would limp/call any raise, so that took all speculative plays out of the picture. I needed to have value because I knew they would pay me off, but I ended up folding for like 5 hours straight with no cards to work with. In the end, I got it in with AQ vs. 77 with a lot of dead money but couldn't win the race. Oh, well there is always next year...

I am playing the 10k Bellagio WPT event tomorrow, so that my last chance to cash in something before I head home...