Just bought into today’s $2k no-limit event #32 here at The Rio. I came to my suite afterward and played a quick heads up match on FullTilt. It was over the second hand.

Full Tilt Poker Game #12823373293: $30 + $1.50 Heads Up Sit & Go (95338789), Table 1 - 10/20 - No Limit Hold’em - 5:34:58 ET - 2009/06/15
Seat 1: ThePokerVagrant (1,510)
Seat 2: Piccolivini (1,490)
ThePokerVagrant posts the small blind of 10
Piccolivini posts the big blind of 20
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ThePokerVagrant [Kh 4h]
ThePokerVagrant raises to 50
Piccolivini calls 30
*** FLOP *** [4c 4d Ah]
Piccolivini checks
ThePokerVagrant bets 50
Piccolivini raises to 250
ThePokerVagrant raises to 450
Piccolivini raises to 1,440, and is all in
ThePokerVagrant calls 990
Piccolivini shows [4s 8s]
ThePokerVagrant shows [Kh 4h]
*** TURN *** [4c 4d Ah] [Qs]
*** RIVER *** [4c 4d Ah Qs] [5h]
Piccolivini shows three of a kind, Fours
ThePokerVagrant shows three of a kind, Fours
ThePokerVagrant wins the pot (2,980) with three of a kind, Fours
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2,980 | Rake 0
Board: [4c 4d Ah Qs 5h]
Seat 1: ThePokerVagrant (small blind) showed [Kh 4h] and won (2,980) with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 2: Piccolivini (big blind) showed [4s 8s] and lost with three of a kind, Fours

This summer has already been rollercoaster and I hope it’s only the start of what’s to come. ThePokerVagrant hasn’t gone anywhere- I’ve actually been quite busy and getting a lot of quality time on the felt. But for a couple of reasons I’ve taken a break from posting until now because I’m getting ready to take on the WSOP again this summer. I hope you will keep reading ThePokerVagrant in the coming days. I’m playing in the $2000 no-limit event at The Rio on Monday, June 15 and in the $1,500 on the 16th if I bust out early in the $2k. Depending on my standings Monday and Tuesday, I will either play in the $2k no-limit even on Thursday the 18th and or the $1,500 on Saturday the 20th.

Here are some cool vidz from Wakarusa 2009 at Mulberry Mountain Ozark, Arkansas.

Here is a hand from my session on Wednesday, just hours before I scored a hat trick in soccer.
MP bettor raises to $20, I call behind in MP with Th7h, button calls $20. Flop TTT. I’m pretty sure I just flopped quads Bettor bets $45, I call, button calls. Turn K. Bettor checks, I check, button pushes all-in for $185, bettor calls, I call. River 8, bettor checks, I bet $105, bettor calls. Button mucks, bettor shows AsKs.
I’ll tell you I had tried to bait the button on three different occasions into betting his position. It didn’t work until this pot, a significantly larger pot than any we had played. It looked like a good spot for him to take it down but unfortunately he ran into monsters. A few hands later I picked off the rest of the bettor’s stack with an overpair of queens. Board ran out: 8s5s3x 3x 6s he bet $75 on river straight/flush card and showed 64 for a pair, busted straight draw.

I’ve only had a chance to play twice in the last week, a late night Saturday session in Topeka where I lost $7 and a heftier loss Monday when I dropped $400 in a couple quick hours at Harrah’s KC.
Although I hate to admit it, cards just aren’t a priority for me right now. The past month has been filled with a lot of excitement from show promotion, concerts I’m doing and projects I’m working for my music and video. On Saturday, May 16, I’m bringing two artists, Epcot & Salva, from San Francisco for a frightful night of lazers, glitches blaps and bass. Join us. ThePokerVagrant.

I was blessed to have the chance to do a live visual performance alongside my friends’ group, Arbitor, and then for EOTO (a live improvisational elctronica-experiement with Michael Travis and Jason Hann of The String Cheese Incident), last night at The Bottleneck here in Lawrence. It was an amazing show and I wanted to share a video of it with you. ThePokerVagrant.

The spring is here and I’ve found myself everywhere but the cardroom, it seems. Poker has taken a backseat to my music and video endeavors since they have really started picking up momentum for me. I’ve been able to make some serious networking across the country and am really setting myself up for some success with the live video thing. Anyways, here is a video from edIT’s live performance in Lawrence on April 18. Until I get back in the cardroom, I will try and share some more poker content in the coming days. Thanks for reading, y’all. ThePokerVagrant.

edIT of Glitch Mob live at The Granada in Lawrence, Kansas 4.18.09 encore

I should be back in the cardroom this week but until then here is a video clip of what I’ve been up to lately on the sick visuals circuit including video from the Tipper/Ana Sia show I just did in Chicago. Holla. ThePokerVagrant.

Once again I’ve found myself having more fun and raging lately it than I have in the cardroom. After spring break last week, the opening rounds of the NCAAs, Wizard soccer and Chicago this week, I don’t know when I’ll be back. I love being on the road and sometimes poker just has to take a backseat, but I’ve come to realize that’s just how it’s gonna be and I’m fine with that because that’s the entire reason I round is so I can enjoy everything I want to in life when I want and that’s a blessing I thank God every day for.

Anyways, I did get a chance to play Monday despite my aces and kings being cracked in the same orbit. I had straddled the button and looked down to see two black aces after three limpers had called the $10 straddle. I raised to $35 and a single, UTG limper called. The flop came K47. He bet $50. (I want to highlight something that I did in this hand that I’ve never done before, from what I can remember. I took an extremely long time to do everything in this hand from shuffling chips to cutting out raises to announcing the raise to sliding the chips into the pot. I know my extreme, deliberate play made me look weak since I usually act very quickly. On the the flop and turn bets I took no less than 90 seconds to 2 minutes to make my bets.) I deliberated and stalled and then cut out a $75 raise. He looked me in the face and called. I put him on AK. The turn came a four-flush 3. He checked, I took about two minutes to bet $135 to which he called. The river came the 8s putting flush on the board. He bet all-in for $203 and I snap called only to see he had rivered his miracle two-outer with pocket 8s. His reaction is what I took from the hand though. “Wow. I had you on complete air right there,” the man said, and my deliberate play had gotten the guy to play as a 95% dog. I can’t wait to use tactic this more often against players who tend to give more action.

Exactly one round later on the button I had two kings cracked when I raised to $25 with one caller. The flop came 356 and I was check-raised $135 on top of my $55 flop bet. The turn came a 7 just as the kid turned over pocket 4s and my K on the river for a set was pointless. I lost $380 on the session after scooping a couple smaller pots.

This week I’m in Chicago doing live visuals for a friend’s monthly dub-step show at the Lava here in Chi. We went to a wicked Karl Denson show on Thursday night and are going to throw down at AnaSia and Tipper at a loft party on Saturday so shit should get real tight this weekend. The Jayhawks lost 62-67 in the Sweet 16 to Michigan State, which truly was a disappointment considering how much the team had grown since the beginning of the year, but it was a great year nonetheless and we;ll be back ready to beak ‘em again next year.

Because I had an early soccer game and since there aren’t a lot of kids in town to throw a party at the club during spring break, I found myself with an opportunity to head to Topeka for my late-night Wednesday game at Prarie Band Casino and resort.

The session ran great as I was dealt about seven pocket pairs in about two hours. The most profitable hand came with pocket 4s in the small blind when I called a $20 button raise in front of three limpers. The flop came As4d5s, I checked as did the three limpers and the button bet $20. What a weak beat, but I didn’t want to drive the other players out of the pot and I also wanted to give them a chance to raise the weak bet so I flat-called. All three limpers called as well. Yuck. Double yuck when the turn came a 7s for the straight and gutshot. I checked once again as did the limpers to another $20 button bet. The river came a 7x and I bet $75 with a single caller showing me a 7 for trips to my boat. That was definitely a nice pot.

The other hand of the night came when I got funny in middle position with Ah8h with the button and big blind calling. The flop came A85. I raised the small blind’s $20 flop bet to $45. He called and then called my $75 bet on the 3 turn. To my extreme surprise, he bet out $150 on a river 4 and I called to best his A3 two-pair with a better two-pair. I called so quickly really thinking he had AQ, AJ.

Killer session. $514 profit. It’s especially nice since I haven’t played in over a week and haven’t played the Topeka game in over two months.

My last session was actually about a week ago, last friday. I played for just over an hour and won $281 after a session that saw me take down quick pots with pocket aces twice and queens.

Since I spent the weekend at home with family, I haven’t gotten a chance to get back to the cardroom and with a lot on my plate for the weekend including a SoundTribeSectorNine show in St. Louis on Saturday, I’m probably not going to get back to the cardroom until next week, but I will hit the felt hard.