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I’ve been tempted in the past to order some badass custom chips with my name on them but I can never seem to pull the trigger.

They also sell poker tables. I’d give my left nut to have this badboy in my basement

In addition to the poker chips and poker tables they’ve got pretty much every other poker accessory you could ask for including plastic cards, tournament dealer buttons, and even custom made poker plaques.

If you get a chance head over to www.nevadajacks.net and take a look around.

I'm back

All moved in to a new city and a brand new house. New job is going well. My 401k sucks. I'm playing no online poker but I am playing weekly with friends. I now live about 10 min from Seneca Niagara casino and about 20 min from Fallsview casino. There was a WPT event here a week or 2 ago. I was tempted to stop by and see who was playing but I've just been too busy.

I haven't watched a single minute of WSOP coverage on ESPN. Not sure why, there's just too much other TV to watch that poker is about the last thing on my mind when I sit down to watch TV.

Kicked in the nuts

Step 4 tourney ($200+$15 buy in)

3 left and I'm the chip leader, I have 2x as many chips as 2nd and 3rd.

3rd in chips pushes with AK sooted, I call with AA

I lose.

2 hands later I'm out in 3rd, 1st and 2nd advance to a step 5.

I love poker

I blew it

Got a SWEET blackjack bonus from a sportsbook where I've dumped a bunch of money.

Deposit $100 get $100...ran it up to $1100 and then blew it all betting $250 a hand trying to go for a big score. This was probably a bad idea because

1) I lost $1000 in profit
2) I'm at the end of my worst month of gambling ever

Here's the cool thing. I've got the $100 for $100 bonus offer twice a day every day from today til July 15th. So I redeposited and lost another $100($200 with their free money) but I'll be back tomorrow and the next day and I'm going to grind it out oldschool. $10 bets, no varying and just pound out the 20x rollover. So I'll grind out 8k a day playing blackjack for the next few weeks. This is easily one of the best bonuses I've ever received even going back to the golden days of BJ whoring.

Maybe I'll keep a running tally...

Day 1 -$200

Still running like shit

I'm getting it in good, I'm semi-confident that things will turn around.

these mother fu$#in turbo tournaments

I just don't know when to push. Sooted Ace, shove...BB has QQ. Get it all in with KK vs K9...flop 99xxx. Terribly frustrating. Between the turbo's and the WSOP qualifiers I'm eating about $600 so I can get......wait for it.....$600 in gift cards. Just feel like I'm wasting my time.

Flopped royal flush

first time I've ever flopped one. Tried to get a screen capture but it didn't work.

AQ of hearts

Flop was KJT of hearts, I checked it down(beginning of a tourney) and got no action.

I'm done with steps

0-16 in step 1's tonight....not even a 3rd place to get my money back. Just when I think I can handle variance I get on a streak like this that seems almost impossible.

Spoiled by my early success

I can't even win a ticket to a step 2 now. Guess I didn't realize how hot I was running last week. Now into these steps for $340(and that's all at the $7 level step 1's)

Need to get to the cash games and try and win some of that back.

Done with the steps

Step experiment is over. I'm blowing through money like crazy and I just bowed out of a step 4 when I got KK all in vs 99 and lost to a river straight. It happens but I have no unused tickets left so it's time to play games where I may see a profit. Spent about $300 playing the steps but cleared a $120 bonus in the process so not to bad.

Just getting owned now, AA vs 33, flopped a 3. AQ vs KJ on a Q high flop, runner runner flush....brutal night tonight.

heater is OVER

Got slaughtered tonight. Couldn't win any races. Oh well. I've ended the last couple of nights with 3 or 4 tickets at the various steps. Tonight I'm cleaned out. I'm currently playing in a step 4 and a step 2 and if I don't place in those I'm starting all over at step 1.

These steps are tough. A player buying in at step 1 has to run hot like fire to get any money out of these. I'm plowing through VPP's but I'm also plowing through my bankroll. I've dropped $250 on these tourney's and I've racked up about 2300 VPP's. The problem is the only way to cash is to get to Step 6 and then place in the top 6. If I could have I definitely would have bailed on the Step 5 and taken the $700 into my stars account so I could keep pounding away on these things.

another step 5

Ended up 5th so I get a step 4 ticket. Couldn't get lucky when I needed it. Got all in with AJ and was called by TT. Nothing I can do there, just need to win that coin flip and I double up. At least I come away with a Step 4 ticket which is another 150 VPP's. I officially made Silverstar tonight on Stars so I'm on pace to get to Gold by the end of the month and then I can cash in my VPP's and get some gift cards to get a new TV.

Damn I wanted to win that coin flip. I'd probably be quite nervous playing in a step 6 tourney knowing 1st place is a trip to the main event.

Running hotter than fire

Won another step 4 tonight which involved Ax sucking out on KK not on the flop but on the gut wrenching turn. A few hands later I called this same players all in, he had Qx I had Ax, he flopped a Q and yet again I turned an A. Poor Bastard.

Another table saw this hand with 3 of us all in.

KK(not me), KT(not me) and TT(helloooooo)

For those of you keeping score at home I have 1 out....I decided to take it easy on the guy with KK and hit the T right on the flop. THAT is how you hit a 1 outer!

$700 tourney

Played in the step 5 tourney tonight. Nothing exciting to report. I played like a scared little girl and people picked up on it pretty quick. Tried to steal the blinds with 89 sooted and got looked up by QQ. Flopped a 9 but none of my suit and nothing else came so I went home in 6th. At least I get a step 4 ticket out of it with another shot at a step 5. I also got 300 VPP's which is money. At about 1k for the month and I have a step 3 and step 4 ticket to use which will get me another few hundred VPP's and I'll be a Silverstar and well on my way to Gold. Hell just getting to a step 6 tourney somehow would net me 1000 VPP's.

HELL YEAH!

Got lucky again...AT diamonds and I pushed, got called by AQos. Flop had an Ace, turn was the beautiful T of spades. 2 hands later it was over(My AK vs A8) and I received this email.

Dear lumpy19,

You finished the tournament in 1st place.

You have won an admission ticket to 'WSOP Step 5'. This ticket allows you
to participate only in a tournament of this type. Tickets are not redeemable
for cash or Tournament Dollars (T$); if you register and then unregister from
the tournament, your ticket will be returned.

To view your available tournament tickets, go to Requests > Tournament Tickets
in the main lobby.

And now I'm headed to NYC to see the Yankee game on Saturday so I probably won't use up that ticket til Sunday night. Spent $6 tonight on tourney's and earned about 300VPP. I need to make gold by the end of this month!!

suck......RESUCK!!!

Step 4 - $215 SNG

Summary

Bought in to 7 Step 1's plus had a freebie from last night, 0-4 in the first 4 and then 3 wins in the second 4. Played the 3 Step 2's and went out 6th(sonofbitch) 3rd(so I get another step 2 shot) and won.

Right now I have a step 3 ticket and a step 2 ticket. I've spent somewhere around $125-$130 on this. I'm hoping I can build up enough tickets to keep playing the steps without buying in at the 1st level but that means I have to finish top 5 or 6 in every tourney I play which isn't happening. Either way I'm enjoying this and I'm accumulating double VPP's so I'm content with that. If it weren't for the 2xVPP's I probably wouldn't be playing these tournies so nice job Stars.

Stars WSOP Step Tourneys

I'm addicted....I mean really addicted. I friggin love these things but I'm burning through money. I guess I don't have a master plan but I probably should. The only way I'll get cash is to make it to a Step 6. A couple more days of these crack inducing tournies and we'll see how I do.

Here's the stars steps setup

http://www.pokerstars.com/wsop/qualify/steps/