tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22419316832561172982024-03-13T23:12:40.084+00:00Full Trett PokerWelcome to Full Trett Poker Created by Newcastle Upon Tyne based poker brothers Daniel & Mark Trett. We will endeavour to keep it updated with our poker exploits & both hope you enjoy our website, Please register & feel free to comment.Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-90960442173059972822015-03-02T18:52:00.001+00:002015-03-02T18:59:58.383+00:00Trett’s Genting Tournament #2 Announcement<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;">Contrary to my last FTP post I
decided to organize my next tournament a lot earlier than expected. There was a
number of reasons behind this decision but it was predominantly down to the
positive feedback, customer demand and my view that success follows solid
preparation. So my thoughts were the earlier I get working hard gives me the
best opportunity to accomplish another fantastic event locally here in Newcastle for North East based players.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Date: Saturday 29<sup>th</sup> August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Buy-In: £150 (+£15)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Time: 12:00 </span><i><span style="color: red; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*unlimited re-entries and late registrations until 17:00</span></span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Venue: Genting Casino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Some notable changes include five
additional levels, bringing it forward two hours to a
12:00 noon start, keeping late registration open an extra hour until the eighth
level, making tables nine handed, longer clock on final table and guaranteeing
the prize pool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">1) Bringing in an additional five
levels was the upshot of player feedback and suggested by my champion, Jack
Ellwood. He’s played more WSOP and EPT events than anybody else in the field,
so I naturally took on board his thoughts regarding the structure. So with the
initial structure suggested to me by Dave Collins along with Jack’s small
input, I’m perfectly happy where I’m at now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">2) Again down to player demand I’ve
brought the start time forward to 12:00 noon. I asked my players if they preferred
a 12:00, 13:00 or 14:00 start time and it was voted 62% (12:00), 24% (13:00)
and 14% (14:00). I’ve listened to my players and went with the majority. If
you don’t like the change and </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">didn't</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> cast a vote then you only have yourself
to blame, but I’m sure it’ll be popular with the majority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">3) I’m keeping registration open an
hour longer, this is an up shot of starting at noon and the additional levels. So
now the itinerary will involve a 12:00 noon start, four half an hour levels,
ten minute break, another four half an hour levels and then a fifty minute
buffet break. The end of the buffet break will be 5:00pm and this will be the
last available time for late and re-entrants. Once level nine commences players
will be locked out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">4) I’ve decided to make my next
tournament nine handed rather than full ring. This again was down to player
comfort and I’m inclined to agree with the majority, whilst I don’t care too
much either way I definitely feel more space gives you more comfort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">5) I will be increasing the clock
from thirty minutes to forty minutes for the final table. Everybody agrees it’s impossible to prevent well attended one day tournaments from becoming
a </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">crap shoot</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> towards the later stages. But the extra ten minutes added to the clock
for the final table coupled with the other small tweaks above will go some way
to ensuring it’s the best possible one day structure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">6) I’ve included a safe £10,000
guarantee on the prize pool for this event. Anybody that attended the first
event will know this has no real value with the last event generating £14,400
and with much less preparation time. However the purpose of it is to increase
participation from a little further afield like Teesside and Edinburgh.
Understandably guys didn’t want to travel one to two hours to arrive in
Newcastle and see it was poorly attended, this safe guarantee should dispel any
doubters and encourage them to make the trip. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">So yeah that’s all the small changes
that I hope will be beneficial, of course it’s trial and error so if things
don’t work out then I won’t be ashamed to admit it and change things back for
my #3 tournament. But I think we all agreed it was a fantastic event and as
such many of the things will be staying the same including my amazing team. I’m
hoping and optimistic to bring them all back including Scotty, Chris,
Phil, Louis and Janine. I’m sure so long as they’re not busy
they’ll happily join me on this second venture and help provide exceptional
dealing, service, updates and photos.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Other possible inclusions which I’m
flirting with the idea of include a live stream, will speak to my technical guy
Scotty Hocking regarding this closer to the time. Hiring an external masseuse
company to freelance a couple of massage girls for the day and looking into
hiring a professional interviewer who will catch up with some of the players
during the breaks and either me or Janine will post the clips onto the Facebook
updates page. Whilst beginning preparation for this event this quote below </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">immediately</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> came
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Which I think perfectly sums up how important it is to me to make this event absolutely perfect. But for now,
guys, that’s the date. Put it in your diary, put holidays in at work, start
saving now, book your flights to Newcastle but whatever you do don’t miss out
on this as it’s going to be another amazing event which all local players
deserve. Thanks for reading everybody, any further questions and/or queries don’t
hesitate to contact me directly on 07463-243-783 or Facebook private
message, I’ll pick both up pretty promptly.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: red;">Dan Trett</span></b></span></div>
Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-68200840259027293332015-02-03T12:35:00.000+00:002015-02-04T04:40:08.184+00:00Trett’s Genting Tournament<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="line-height: 107%;">Welcome back to FTP, team. It’s been
seven months since my last update and to be honest I had no intention of
updating this place anytime soon. But I wanted to write up and summarise my
inaugural tournament. I’m very vocal at the tables (and online during the NPF
days) about the state of poker locally, especially lately with all three
casinos scrapping £100+ buy-in’s and the best monthly game being a £50
self-dealt crap shoot at Genting. I’ve been playing poker since early 2001, so
almost 15 years and I can say confidently poker in Newcastle is at an all-time
low. I decided to turn my persistent whinging and complaining into something
more proactive and attempt to organise a tournament myself.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Fast forward to the beginning of January
2015 and I approached the Genting CRM Craig Cavanagh about running my own tournament
in their card room. After consulting with the casino deputy manager Jim Brown,
I suggested a £150 (+£15) buy-in on Saturday 31<sup>st</sup> January. After
ironing out the finer details I was given the go ahead. I was determined to make
it a success and with no real need to do any market research (I already know
the local scene as well as anybody), I began advertising immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Whilst at first I just wanted to spread
a decent tournament, play in it myself and prove a point to the three Newcastle
based casino’s that with the right advertising and marketing it can be done. It
very quickly become more important to me than that, it consumed all my thoughts
every day from the moment it got the green light until my champion was
crowned and the dust had settled. I decided not to play and just oversee things
on the day to ensure the smooth running of the tournament and the day itself.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">To head my marketing campaign I first
took to Facebook and promoted the game on my status and in the Geordie Poker
Forum page. I posted on several UK forums including NEPF, Blonde, AWOP and Blue
Blood Facebook page. I printed off some flyers and structure sheets which I
displayed around Genting card room and posted online. Then I took to getting in
touch with all my poker associates individually including text message,
iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, phone calls and speaking to people in
person. I created an event’s page where people could select ‘Going, Maybe or
Decline’ to help give me an idea on numbers to expect on the day. I encouraged
all my friends to share the event and invite there poker friends too. My friend
Simon Pham also ran a satellite and several daily super satellites on
PokerStars to give the guys with a slightly smaller bankroll the opportunity to
get in cheap. I felt I left no stone unturned and in the event it failed, it
certainly would not be down to lack of advertising, promoting or marketing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">I billed my tournament as a £150
(+£15) buy-in with a 12,000 starting stack and 30 minute clock. Starting at
2:00pm with late registration until 5:40pm (after the buffet break). A few
newer players questioned that 12,000 chips wasn’t enough for such a big buy-in,
but I explained it was an exceptional one day structure with all levels including
75/150 and 150/300 which are commonly skipped on one day structures. Thanks to
Dave Collins for suggesting the structure, which worked perfectly for the day.
I had it fully dealer dealt with a complimentary high standard hot and cold
buffet. I was going to run live in-running updates including player photos and
interviews on my events page, for people not playing to follow the action.
Finally the winner was going to receive a commemorative trophy as well as
celebratory champagne and chocolates.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">So the day finally arrived and I felt
a combination of excitement and nerves, but really pumped full of adrenaline
and whatever the turnout I was just going to put on a smile and make the most
of what I had worked so hard to put on. I arrived for 1:00pm to get things set
up and meet/greet all my players as they filtered through the doors. We started
maybe 10/15 minutes late but when the cards we’re finally in the air I had 49
people take their seat and with late registration until after the buffet break
it finished with almost double that on 96 to generate a £14,400 prize pool.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">8<sup>th</sup>) £400<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">9<sup>th</sup>) £300<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">The field was packed with talented local
players on every table particularly table 1 which by all accounts would have
been my feature table if I was to do a live stream it included Jamie
Rutherford, both Ellwoods, Ben Dixon and Ben Russell. Featuring on table 2 was
Sean McGuigan, John Devlin, Dave Collins and Ben Jenkins. Over table 3 had
Robert Richardson, Dan Patterson and Craig Simpson. The 4 table had Darren
Knaggs, Jonathan Prested and Dominic Mahoney. Table 5 hosted Abbie Louthan,
Alex Jobling and James Howard and finally table 6 had seated Marc Foggin, Neil
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Everything went as smooth as I could
have hoped for and I had so many people coming up to me and thanking me for my
efforts. As scheduled the dinner buffet break was after the sixth level, this
was a delicious spread of hot and cold food followed by strawberries dipped in
chocolate for desert. It included delicious margarita pizza, tasty chicken
dippers, crispy fried chips and yummy chicken curry with rice on the hot
counter. Then a selection of sandwiches, delectable hog roast pate and creamy
tuna pasta mayonnaise in the cold banquet. The photos below don’t really do the
buffet justice, but I had a lot of good feedback from everybody.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">After the buffet break it
meant the players were now locked out if they bust with no option to re-enter.
The play was fast and extremely skilled across the entire card room for five
hours until Full Tilt Poker Tour Ambassador and Red Pro Ben Jenkins bust in 11</span><sup style="line-height: 107%;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 107%;">
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">1)</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Jason Williams 80,000<br />
2)</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Nick Ramsay 70,000<br />
3)</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #141823; line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Neil Pickering 100,000</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">4) Dave Collins 109,000</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">5) Daniel Patterson 106,000</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">6) Xenophon Constantinou 288,000</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">7) Ben Russell 114,500</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">8) Mohammed Ranger 143,000</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">9) Jack Ellwood 135,000</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">10) Dominic Mahoney 64,500</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">The blinds began at 3,000/6,000/500
so it meant every pot was important and valuable to our players. A bubble prize
was briefly discussed but dismissed and the unfortunate bubble boy was Jason
Williams when his AT failed to improve vs. Neil Pickering’s KK. I’ll not go
into detail of the hands on the final table, these can all be found over my
Facebook event’s page where I reported every exit hand as and when they
happened. The final table lasted around two and half hours before wrapping up
around 1:30am. See the results;</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">1<sup>st</sup>) Jack Ellwood £4,000 <i><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">*</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">2<sup>nd</sup>) Xenophon Constantinou
£3,000 <i><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">*</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">3<sup>rd</sup>) Mohammed Ranger
£2,250 <span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><i>*</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">4<sup>th</sup>) Daniel Patterson
£2,250 <span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><i>*</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">5<sup>th</sup>) Dave Collins £1,000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">7<sup>th</sup>) Ben Russell £500<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">9<sup>th</sup>) Dominic Mahoney £300</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=280296">Hendob Mob: Trett’s Genting Tournament</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">It was quite fitting that Jack
Ellwood was crowned champion as along with Brett Angell he was the most
decorated and accomplished player in the field. I’ve known Jack for a number of
years and he’s always worked hard on his game, discussing strategy with a
number of top UK players and despite his success has no grounds for
complacency. For those interested I actually had Jack as a guest here on FTP in
March 2010 for an interview during my ‘In The Tank With…’ series, check it out linked below;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://full-trett-poker.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/interview-wjack-ellwood.html">Interview w/Jack Ellwood</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Looking forward and I’ve had a number
of people message me and ask in person when I’ll be doing the next one. I’ve
been saying quarterly or seasonally as a standard response but the truth is I’m
not interested in being Newcastle’s next poker promoter. I spread the game for
the benefit of the North East community, to prove to all three local casinos
with the right advertising that there is a market for £100+ buy-in events and
to get some self-satisfaction in seeing everybody having a great day. I would
like to have been playing and if I was to do a future event I would never play
in any of my own tournaments, I would just oversee the smooth running of the
event and day. My perfect outcome from this event is it will lay the groundwork
for an overhaul of poker in Newcastle and the three CRM’s will all look at
spreading some similar games in the future.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">If a few month down the line after
the 25/25 Series, GPS Newcastle, WPT Aspers and when everybody is home from the
WSOP out in Las Vegas. I’ll reassess and if there is still no sign of an
improvement in poker locally to the North East I’ll start preparation for
another tournament. I do have idea’s to improve any future tournaments I have
by employing a poker commentator/interviewer, setting up a live stream for my
feature table and subcontracting a masseuse to work the floor. But there all
just thoughts/ideas and as I mentioned earlier in a perfect world the local CRM’s
will take the reign now and I can just participate as a player rather than a tournament
director.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">On that note I guess I just have one
final thing to say and that’s a huge thank you to everybody involved. All the
staff at Genting we’re amazing including the management, dealers, valets and
catering team. My personal team Phil Cannell, Louis Armstrong, Scotty Hocking,
Chris Leckie and Janine Hocking were all first class. Thanks to Simon Pham and
Dave Collins for their help in designing and helping promote the game. But most
of all the guys that made it all happen, thank you to each and every one of my players
for their support and making it all happen. Without you guys all my efforts
would have been in vain and amounted to nothing. I’ve received so many kind and
heart-warming messages congratulating me on a great tournament but everybody
should all be proud of themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: red;">Thanks all for reading, guys.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">This update
will be relatively short and sweet, mainly because although I haven’t done a
huge amount in May it’s still been pleasant. When I last left you guys the WPT
was visiting Newcastle and was around the corner, this although was a great
opportunity to catch up with old friends and see some familiar faces didn’t
work out too well as I bricked out early into day two. </span><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">#worldpokertour</span></i></div>
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That along
with maybe one or two monthly tournaments was pretty much the extent of my time
spent on the felt this last month or so. That’ll all change next week when I
fly out to Las Vegas for a month and I have my foot on the gas with quite a big
schedule of events to look forward too. Speaking of Las Vegas I’m pretty stoked
for this now with so many of my good friends (easily 20+) out at some point
during my stay and I have so many sick nights out and excursions planned. So be
sure to check out my <span style="color: red;">Las Vegas 2014 Trip Report
“Summer”</span> to enjoy the ride with me. <i><span style="color: red;">#summerinlasvegas</span></i></div>
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I would
describe May 2014 for me personally as my darkest month in poker with the
closure of the NPF, it had and still does have a special place in my heart. I
said time and time again how fortunate we were here in Newcastle to have such a
good platform for players to make friends, find out relevant information and
countless other things it purposed. Despite several failed buy-outs all of
which I agreed to support and back financially, on the 9<sup>th</sup> May Scott
Collins decided to close the doors. Looking forward and Dan McSkelly agreed to
help out and create the NEPF which hopefully will be better than the failed
attempt by Gaz Walker. For now it’s not too user friendly and although I’m
signed up, I personally still haven’t quite warmed to the place yet. I will
persevere with it though and give it a chance.</div>
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Away from
poker I’ve been trying my upmost to be the best Uncle possible to Mark’s kids
Lauryn and Zach, that’s what’s important to me right now and I want to make
sure they grow up knowing I think the world of them. They’re amazing kids and
deserve to be showered with love and gifts in my opinion, I have to be careful
not to spoil them too much though and they end up taking things for granted.</div>
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That just
about wraps things up for now, my next update will be reporting my Summer antics
out in Las Vegas, this will be visit #19 and I’m showing no signs of letting up
or taking my foot off the gas.</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red;">#livelife #lovelife<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-30963487643036763012014-04-27T04:30:00.000+01:002014-04-28T05:40:14.024+01:00Trett Digest Volume 22<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’ve been
back in the UK now over half a year after returning from my eighteen month trip
traveling Australia and the USA. Since being back I’ve moved to Dunston with
poker friends Mark Mealyeah, Scotty Hocking and now Chris Leckie and our house
is affectionately known as ‘HHH Ranch’ by our NPF friends. Being back in the UK
has been a lot of fun and I’ve benefited from having this bunch of friends
along for the ride, and although we’ve had our differences I think we’ll all
agree we have a hell of a good time and all enjoy our living arrangements. I’m
also fortunate to have family and all my childhood boys just twenty minutes up
the A1 in Cramlington, I love traveling and all the adventures that come with
travel but I’m finding this home time and the opportunity to hang out with
lifelong friends every weekend so much fun. I love getting together with these
boys and heading out to Newcastle, I feel so comfortable with
them all. I guess the morale to this story is there is <i><span style="color: red;">“no place like home”</span></i>.</div>
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Looking
forward to June and I’m heading back to Las Vegas for my nineteenth visit in
nine years since 2005. If I didn’t blog all my visit’s on FTP it’s at a point
now where I genuinely would have lost count about the amount of times I’ve
been. I’m staying a month this summer from June 8<sup>th</sup> through to July
6<sup>th</sup> staying with Chris Leckie the first fortnight over at Aria
Resort & Casino and then the final fortnight with Mark Nicholas at Palms
Resort & Casino. Despite being fortunate to have been so often this shit
just doesn’t get old, I love the city especially the people I go with and meet
there. The experiences are embedded in my memory and will last a lifetime. This
will feel like two different trips as the first fortnight will be spent with
the NPF guys and then the second when I move hotels I’ll be spending time with
Dave Maudlin and the sports trading boys.</div>
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I plan on
playing and selling a rather large poker package (with a small 1.1425 mark-up)
while out there throughout the summer. I'll add that the first quarter of 2014 was profitable, although
very little volume I won the Aspers monthly for £2,370. Then in February unforgettably,
I made a deep run in a Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza event, narrowly missing
out on victory finishing 3<sup>rd</sup> of 130 entrants for $5,525. So with
that in mind, and there being absolutely no feeling I’ve experienced in my life
like being deep in a major poker tournament. Take a look below at my Vegas schedule;</div>
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Wednesday 11<sup>th</sup> June $1,100 VDSE
#30<o:p></o:p></div>
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Friday 13<sup>th</sup> June $600 Wynn
Summer Classic<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wednesday 18<sup>th</sup> June $1,000
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Saturday 21<sup>st</sup> June $300 PHamous
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Thursday 26<sup>th</sup> June $1,500 WSOP
#51<o:p></o:p></div>
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Saturday 28<sup>th</sup> June $400 VDSE
#49<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tuesday 1<sup>st</sup> July $565 WPT500
Aria<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wednesday 2<sup>nd</sup> July $1,100
Golden Nugget<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ll be so focused physically
and mentally for the summer and I’m enjoying competing more so now than ever. <i><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">#letsplay #spin</span></i></div>
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Away from
the poker tables and I mentioned in my last digest that I was going to
undertake an Insanity program for the duration of April. This was ran by my
main man Gaz and was Monday-Saturday (6:45-7:30) for four weeks straight. This
was perhaps the toughest physical challenge I’ve ever taken on, but I’m
delighted to report that I finished the course without missing a single session
and with a very positive outcome. <i><span style="color: red;">#focus #beastmode </span></i><o:p></o:p><i style="color: red;">#garysidneyfitness</i></div>
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Weight:
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Waist: 41”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hip: 42”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Switch
Kicks: 35<o:p></o:p></div>
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Power Jacks:
21<o:p></o:p></div>
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Power Knees
(left): 25<o:p></o:p></div>
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Power Knees
(right): 30<o:p></o:p></div>
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Squat Tuck
Jumps: 15<o:p></o:p></div>
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Around The
World Jumps: 5<o:p></o:p></div>
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Burpees: 6<o:p></o:p></div>
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Push Up
Jacks: 7.5<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oblique Plank:
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<b>Date: 14</b><sup style="font-weight: bold;">th</sup><b> April 2014 </b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">(Midway
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Weight:
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Waist: 38”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hip: 43”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Switch
Kicks: 116<o:p></o:p></div>
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Power Jacks:
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Power Knees
(left): 35<o:p></o:p></div>
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Power Knees
(right): 44<o:p></o:p></div>
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Squat Tuck
Jumps: 28<o:p></o:p></div>
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Around The
World Jumps: 6<o:p></o:p></div>
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Burpees: 13<o:p></o:p></div>
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Push Up
Jacks: 14<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oblique
Plank: 23<o:p></o:p></div>
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Weight:
14.3st<o:p></o:p></div>
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Waist: 38”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hip: 42”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Fit Test<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></div>
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Switch
Kicks: 120<o:p></o:p></div>
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Power Jacks:
41<o:p></o:p></div>
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Power Knees
(left): 49<o:p></o:p></div>
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Power Knees
(right): 55<o:p></o:p></div>
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Squat Tuck
Jumps: 37<o:p></o:p></div>
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Around The
World Jumps: 7<o:p></o:p></div>
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Burpees: 15<o:p></o:p></div>
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Push Up
Jacks: 20<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oblique
Plank: 33<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m
absolutely delighted with my progress and to go from 14.11st to 14.3st in a
month is just fantastic. Like everybody I would like to lose a few pounds but
in all honesty the main drive for me to sign up to this course was just as a
platform to lead a more healthy and active lifestyle. Seeing my fit tests
improve so dramatically is more important to me than losing weight. I’ve now
signed up to a few PT sessions with Gaz during May and up to June 8<sup>th</sup>
before I fly to Las Vegas for the summer. Back in July 2012 I was up over 16st
and that’s when I started to do something about it, I had some PT sessions with
Gaz and then joined his boot camp. I’ve been down to 12st but the diet/exercise
required to get there wasn’t sustainable in my opinion. Right now my weight is
of small concern to me, I’m just pleased I’m playing football 4/5 times per a
week, going to boot camp sessions 2/3 times per a week, eating reasonably
healthier and just generally leading a more healthy/active lifestyle. I owe it
all to Gaz and I’m so grateful, I’ve said it numerous times before but he’s
such an amazing person to have in my life. <i><span style="color: red;">#mancrush</span></i></div>
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Aside from
poker, Las Vegas and Insanity perhaps the most important aspect in my life
right now is being an Uncle to my gorgeous niece and nephew, Lauryn and Zach.
They’re adorable kids whom I just love to spend time with, play with and shower
with love and gifts. Lauryn has just turned eight and Zach is five in the
summer, so they’re both at fantastic ages and are both so caring and so loving.
The polar opposite to the little toerag I was during my early school years. I
try to see them at least once a week usually at the weekend and during their
May break from school I’m taking them to Diggerland in Durham for the day. <i><span style="color: red;">#prouduncle #cutekid
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Looking a
bit closer in the future and to next weekend I’m playing the £200 (x3) WPT
event over at Aspers, this carries a £50,000 guarantee and is widely expected
to exceed that guarantee. I’m really excited about it and hoping for some run
good. I’ll close things out here for now, but check back in the beginning of
June and I’ll let you all know how I got on in the WPT and how I’ve been in May.</div>
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Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-8377227664315450942014-03-28T12:38:00.002+00:002014-03-28T16:55:14.688+00:00Trett Digest Volume 21<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once again I’ve left it too long since my last update. I
guess that’s partly down to nothing hugely exciting happening here in my life
but more so down to a lack of motivation that all bloggers suffer with from
time to time. I’m now into my sixth year running FTP though and I’m determined
to keep updates going on some level and not let all the hard work just get lost
in cyberspace.</div>
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When I made my last update (21<sup>st</sup> February
2014) I was at McCarran International Airport preparing to fly back to the UK,
but I made a last minute decision to reschedule my flight until Monday 24<sup>th</sup>
February and spend the weekend with Martin Amer and his mackem stag-do boys.
This was a decision I’m very pleased I made as I subsequently went on to meet a
number of top class boys who I now consider to be good friends. The highlight
of the weekend was heading to Marquee Nightclub over at Cosmopolitan on the
Friday night, getting VIP bottle service and relaxin’ in a good vibe with good
people. The rest of it was made up of playing poker in Caesars Palace, eating some
nice food and shopping for presents for family.</div>
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I've now
been back from Vegas for a little over a month, so I’ll give all my fans a
quick rundown of what’s been happening this side of the Atlantic. A common
theme I’m sure readers have picked up on is I often discuss openly that I’m
trying to get in shape. In Sydney I was down to around twelve stone and felt
fantastic but the exercise and diet required for that was never sustainable.
I’m now a little shy of fifteen stone but still feel pretty good, I’m getting
to boot camp once/twice a week and playing football two/three times a week, so
I have my exercise in line but my diet needs a lot of work. I’m constantly
eating Greggs or McDonalds for lunch and takeaways for dinner, no amount of
exercise can counter a terrible diet. Overall I’m kind of okay with where I’m
at right now fitness wise and I’ve just took on a ridiculous challenge for
April. I’m doing a four week Insanity program starting Monday 31<sup>st</sup>
March with my boy Gaz, which is six mornings per week (Monday – Saturday) 6:45-7:30
of high intensity workouts. It’s going to be so tough but the fruits will be so
rewarding. Love the challenge and love the pain. <i><span style="color: red;">#garysidneyfitness</span></i></div>
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I’m also staying dry throughout all of March and April
which I’m hoping will go a long way towards helping maintain my fitness and
more importantly my commitment to this Insanity program. Poker will also be
taking a back seat while I really concentrate on Insanity during April and my
next game will be when the WPT visits Newcastle in Aspers on the 1<sup>st</sup>
May. It’s effectively a £660 buy-in as I will be playing all three start days.
I’m excited about this and with a top prize expected to be around £30,000 it’s
definitely enough to get the adrenaline going. <i><span style="color: red;">#worldpokertour #letsplay #spin</span></i></div>
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Speaking of poker and I’m always surprised at how quick
tournament poker is evolving in such a short time, it’s taking me a bit of time
to adjust. Poker is certainly becoming less and less attractive as a means for
making any money if you consider how just about everybody’s hourly rates have
been undeniably affected over the last few years. I am a firm believer that with
the current state of the industry, it would be a very poor decision for anybody
young and unestablished to try to take poker really seriously. The variance is
just so incredibly remarkable. Myself and other players from my generation were
so fortunate with the timing of our entry into poker. 2002/2003 was a time when
the economy was good and people were uneducated about the game. From talking
with other friends and players around the world including UK, Australia and the
USA recently, almost all agree that it would be a most daunting task to try to
build from the ground up right now. <i><span style="color: red;">#hardwaytomakeaneasyliving</span></i></div>
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Away from the poker table as I mentioned last October
I’ve been sports trading. This is something I’m taking seriously and really
enjoying. Like poker it comes with its challenges as trading conditions seem to
be evolving rapidly. I struggle to motivate myself to trade alone so usually
out on the road I pair up with Steve Brennan, Mark Nicholas, Dan McSkelly and
on occasions Andy Blair. All of which are good crack and help the day go
easier.</div>
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I’ll wrap things up with that and I’m likely to report
back around the beginning of May to let you all know if I’m ultra-toned/ripped
from Insanity and how I got on when the WPT visits Newcastle.</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That’s all for now. #lifeofdantrett</span></i></b>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-80989484189846709792014-02-21T19:35:00.000+00:002014-02-21T19:45:24.975+00:00Las Vegas 2014 Trip Report "February" II<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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I write this I’m sitting relaxing in my room at The Quad, it’s around noon and
I’m just about ready to check out. So following straight on from LV2014TR
“February” #1. That evening we decide to have a break away from the tables and
treat ourselves to see ‘Zarcana at Aria’, this is a Cirque du Soleil
performance and like the rest of them very impressive. I’ve now seen 7/8 of the
Cirque du Soleil shows in Las Vegas with only ‘Beatles Love at Mirage’ left to
see, I’m hoping to get over and see that sometime this summer. We also had
dinner at Pampas Churrascaria in Planet Hollywood, this is a steak house and
again I was suitably impressed. Overall a great and enjoyable evening.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The
following morning (Monday 17<sup>th</sup>) we checked out of The Flamingo and
moved next door to The Quad for our final four nights, we booked The Quad for
£12 per night (£6 per person) just so cheap. Especially considering it’s been
completely renovated now, I’m guessing once the rooms are all sorted that The
Quad will QUADruple its prices. We then took a walk down The Wynn to play the
$140 tournament, I got stacked relatively early so jumped on the 300nl tables.
Shortly after Stuey bust out so we decide to walk down to Stratosphere because
he wanted to do the SkyJump. I already did it in February 2012 or would have
got involved too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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now it was around 7:00pm and we headed back to the room to relax for a bit. We
had planned on going back out for the evening but just couldn’t be arsed, so we
ordered a pizza from room service and watched Runner Runner movie with Ben
Affleck and Justin Timberlake. The next morning (Tuesday 18<sup>th</sup>) we
headed over Caesars Palace to relax and rejuvenate at Qua Baths & Spa, this
is just the nut best way to get away from the hustle and bustle of the casino
floor. <i><span style="color: red;">#sauna #jacuzzi #steamroom #iceroom</span></i></div>
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revitalised we then had lunch at PF Changs before heading to the Aria for the
daily 1:00pm $125 tournament, this didn’t work out for me so I chilled at the
300nl before then entering the 7:00pm $125 tournament. Again I got stacked
relatively early so went back on the cash tables until about midnight, losing
more cash before deciding to head back to the room to retire for the evening.
The next morning was a very early rise for what was to be the highlight of my
trip, we were getting picked up at the bus depot at 6:45am for a tour of Death
Valley National Park. Words can’t begin to describe how much I loved it here,
it has so much history and our tour guide Jerry was so informative. I would
100% recommend and push everybody visiting Las Vegas to check this out, however
the tour doesn't run during the summer months because it gets too hot in Death
Valley. Its home to the officially recorded hottest temperature the planet has
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decided to get on it and head down to O’Sheas Casino to play some beer pong,
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my good friend Martin Amer had just won the $645,000 jackpot in a slot machine over
at Flamingo. They had been upgraded to the penthouse suite and were giving
endless amounts of complimentary food and drink. So I took a walk over to see
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series, this was a $400 buy-in with a $65,000 guarantee which they smashed with
well over 300 runners. I fired two bullets after getting my first one in with
45s vs. 99 on a 239ss flop for about a 25,000 chip pot and then got brutally
unlucky with my second one as I got it in on a AxJr flop holding AK vs. AQ and
he turned a queen. That was for 130,000 chip pot and all but guaranteed to make
the money at that point. C’est la vie and I then camped out on the 300nl tables
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brings me to right now, we’ve been down Hash House a go go for breakfast this
morning and now walking over Flamingo to catch up with the $645,000 dollar man
Martin Amer and have lunch this afternoon at Treasure Island before heading to McCarran airport to fly
home this evening. I’ve had an amazing trip as I always do and ticked a few
more of my Vegas to do list boxes. I’m considering coming back on March 13<sup>th</sup>
for a week with the Teesside guys, I’ve visited with these lot back in November
2011 and they’re such great company. That’s still up in the air, I’ll decide
about that over the next fortnight. But one thing is for sure, I’m back in the
summer for the annual NPF trip and with the crowd going this year it has the
potential to be the best yet. <i><span style="color: red;">#goodtimes #goodmemories</span></i></div>
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Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-87432750310261497162014-02-17T01:19:00.000+00:002014-02-17T01:31:25.410+00:00Las Vegas 2014 Trip Report “February” I<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As
I write this entry I’m sitting in Starbucks at the newly opened Linq on Las
Vegas Boulevard having just bust the Venetian $400DSE in third for $5,525. So
my eighteenth visit to the bright lights started off with a cluster of errors,
I was traveling with my boy Stuey Robinson and before we even left Newcastle we
had problems. We were both chillin’ in the Servisair Lounge at Newcastle
airport and left it a bit late to proceed to our departure gate, we then went
to gate 24 when we actually should have flew from gate 3 (24 was my seat
number). So after standing in a queue at gate 24 for Alicante for 20 minutes,
we were told we were at the wrong gate and proceeded to gate 3. By now though
the gate had closed and we had unfortunately missed our flight to Heathrow,
which due to time restrictions meant there was no way we could get to Vegas
today. So we did the only logical thing at this point and went to Newcastle
city to get absolute mortal, this was a great night but admittedly a right
mess. One good thing to come from the night was we uploaded an ARKnomination
onto Facebook which picked up quite a few likes and kind comments. Check it out
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following day (Tuesday 11<sup>th</sup>) went a little smoother, although
hungover we comfortably made our flight to Newcastle and I took the ten hour
transatlantic flight relaxin’ in BA club world. I try not to take for granted how
lucky I am to fly with my feet up sippin’ on champagne while everyone in
economy is no doubt very uncomfortable. <span style="color: red;"><i>#lifeofdantrett</i></span></span></div>
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arrived on schedule around 6:30pm and checked in to Flamingo Hotel &
Casino, we were both delighted with the room, location and view for a bargain
price of £292 for the room for the week. Our view was Caesars Palace directly
in front of us and The Mirage if you looked to the right. Check out a few
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our first night we just walked over the road to Caesars to have dinner at
Munchbar and play a little 300nl where I recorded a small $200 winning session
over a couple of hours. I was exhausted by this point and we were both
conscious we had to be up early so headed back home to our room to bed around
midnight. So the following morning we were up at 6:00am for a hot air balloon
ride I had booked us on, this was a case of not third but fourth time lucky as
I had on three previous occasions tried to do this hot air balloon excursion
only for it to be cancelled the evening before due to weather restrictions.
Well all I can say is WOW about this experience, it was an absolute pleasure to
fly with <span style="color: red;"><i>“Vegas Balloon Rides”</i></span>. The entire morning was just breathtaking with
exceptional tour guides giving us such amazing service, I would for sure
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at Riviera to watch the Man Utd vs. Arsenal match while having a few beers and
finger food. This propelled into an all-day session where we visited Garden Bar
in Flamingo, Carnaval Court, Minus5 Ice Bar over at Mandalay Bay and eventually
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following day I was suffering so bad, I’m twenty nine now and these hangovers
aren’t getting any easier. As a result of this hangover today (Thursday 13<sup>th</sup>)
was pretty much a write off, we were both in bed pretty much all day until
eventually getting up late evening for some dinner and heading over Caesars to
play a little 300nl. I ran really well and ended up staying until 6:30am when
the table broke and recorded a $1,000+ winning session. Then after a couple of
hours sleep both Stuey and I decided to head over Venetian for the $300DSE,
this was naturally full of males but even more so today because of course it
was Valentine’s day. I stacked off relatively early when my AK failed to
improve vs. 88, I didn’t bother re-entering instead I dived in a 500nl game.
This was to be a brutal session as I lost $500 with QQ vs. KK on a 55QxK board
getting it in on the flop and then lost my second $500 bullet with A9s vs. 57s
when the river completed my nut flush and gave him straight flush which I
couldn’t get away from. So that was enough for me to throw in the towel and
head back to the room to relax for the evening. I got a pizza delivered to the
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and good rest and ready to play the $400DSE, I both ran and played really well
here and held the chip leader from like the second level right up until the
final table. We eventually bagged up at 2:00am after fourteen hours of play
with four remaining and I was second in chips with 547,000. At this point I had
$4,133 locked but was only interested in the top prize of $12,376. I then
joined my good friend Matt <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">‘Denver’</span></i> Manes who features in my <span style="color: red;">Las Vegas 2009 Trip Report “January” </span>where my brother
Mark and I met him at a 300nl game in the Wynn. This was Mark’s first night in
Las Vegas and all of us had such an amazing night drinking vodka red bull all
night playing cards, so it was great to finally meet him again five years down
the line. The power of social media makes this kind of stuff possible, I
sometimes wonder how we all lived without it. So yeah Matt, Stuey and I all
took a walk over O’Shea’s to have a beer and catch up on all times. <span style="color: red;"><i>#goodtimes
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after Matt took a cab back to Tropicana where he was staying I turned in for
the evening to make sure I was suitably rested for the second and final day of
the $400DSE. I went back the following day feeling extremely positive and optimistic
and really felt I had complete control of the final table, unfortunately a bad
run of cards and I ended getting stacked in third for $5,525. I was admittedly
disappointed but like I’ve said several times its first world problems when you
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door to The Quad for our final four nights, we booked The Quad for £12 per
night (£6 per person) just so cheap. Especially considering it’s been
completely renovated now, I’m guessing once the rooms are all sorted that The
Quad will quadruple its prices. I’ll sign off here for now but stay tuned
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up fans! I hope everyone had a nice holiday season with family, friends and
loved ones. Mine was absolute brilliant as I shared it predominantly with Mam in
my hometown of Cramlington. My niece and nephew Lauryn and Zach are now six and
four respectively, and I'm enjoying uncle-hood much more than I could have ever
imagined. I always find myself so happy and relaxed when spending time with
family. I’ve also been catching up with a lot of friends and spending a bunch
of time celebrating the festive season over a few beers. I feel so lucky to
have the most amazing group of friends: Gary Sidney, Steesh Lee, Dean
Struthers, Adam Bailey, Alex Inness, Kevin Giblin and so many more. I had so
much fun bringing in the new year and value every minute I spend with these
guys. When we get together, we have fun no matter what we do. It’s always great
recounting old stories and creating new ones.<span style="color: red;"><i> #foreverfriends</i></span></span>
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been relatively quite as far as poker is concerned. I travelled to DTD,
Nottingham on Friday 10<sup>th</sup> January for GPS. This was the biggest
event of the series with 935 entries, DTD continually prove why they are the
best venue in the UK for poker. I then proudly wore the captains armband down
in Stoke on Saturday 1<sup>st</sup> February representing the NPF in the 2014
APAT Team Championship, despite our poor performance on the felt this was a
position I took very seriously and was so proud, humbled and honoured to have
been asked to undertake the role from NPF owner, administrator, moderator and good friend Dave
Collins. <i><span style="color: red;">#teamknob</span></i></span></div>
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Being asked gave me some validation to the countless hours
I’ve spent taking care of all the things necessary to take on this kind of job.
I’ve said several times how I hate the road and all the traveling that comes
with tournament poker and I guess it isn’t as easy as it may seem. But looking
back, I wouldn’t change it one bit. All the travel booking, all the missed and
delayed flights, all the nights alone in hotels, all the nights sleeping on
hotel floors, all the big scores, all the bubbles, all the miracle river cards,
all the bad beats, all the nights partying, all the nights chillin’, all the
people from all walks of life, all the cities, all the countries, all the
experiences. It's been quite the journey. I've loved it and can't wait for some
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the guys on the NPF and in the Newcastle area to enjoy. I’m aiming for this to be
for some Saturday in late March or early April, it’s something I will definitely
put in place but it’s on hold right now while I deal with some other issues. I’m
sure it will be well supported and attended and I'm equally sure everybody that
goes will have a fantastic day win, lose or draw. <span style="color: red;"><i>#letsplay #spin</i></span></span></div>
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on from reciting all the good and bad times from spending several hours, days,
weeks, months and even years in my case on the road. I’m heading off to Las
Vegas for my eighteenth visit on Monday, it’s been quite a ride since my first
visit for my twenty first birthday in December 2005. I still love the city, the
people I meet there and the memories that last a lifetime created there. I’m
visiting with my friend Stuart Robinson who’s a great guy (I actually went with
his brother Simon in September 2008). Poker will most definitely take a back
seat during this trip and the emphasis will be hugely on having fun. Traditionally
I always like to stay somewhere different and this trip is no different, so I’ve
booked us into The Flamingo for a bargain price of £292 per a room for a week (£146
each). This website <a href="http://www.lowcostusa.co.uk/lasvegas">http://www.lowcostusa.co.uk/lasvegas</a>
is truly the nuts when it comes to Las Vegas accommodation, I use it almost
every time nowadays. <span style="color: red;"><i>#valuetown #bargainhunters</i></span></span></div>
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Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-10848024107326471882013-12-19T15:38:00.002+00:002013-12-19T16:37:59.061+00:002013 Review<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Merry
Christmas everyone! I’m rolling up my final digest of the year and my 2013
annual review in to one entry. This entry comes from Newcastle upon Tyne, I
still have strong attachments to this city where I was born as my mam, dad,
brothers Mark and Steven and my gorgeous niece/nephew Lauryn/Zach all live
here. My mams dog and adorable member of the family Oscar, has taken unwell
with heart failure and been given approximately two months to live by the vets.
I’m finding it really difficult to accept as he means so much to me, my mam and
the rest of our family. I’m thankful though that I am around to love and care
for him during his retirement months, I’m spending every spare minute in his
company and I intend to cherish every single second. So right now I really don’t
want to be anywhere in the world but here at home. I have the most amazing
friends both on and off the felt who all mean so much to me in this city. It is
a perfect spot for breaks between trips as it gives me a chance to see
everyone, catch my breath and get back on my diet and fitness grind. I'm at my
happiest when spending time with family, and this last few months has been no
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this year I returned from an ineffaceable year long trip split between Australia
and America. So I’ve once again returned to the UK extremely inspired and
happy. My time over this last year has been spent on a journey of personal
development. I strongly feel that being abroad facilitates the ride. I
attribute it to staying very active, meeting people from different backgrounds,
and having some incredibly different experiences from those I have here in the
UK. I can feel a sort of personal growth of which, admittedly, I am proud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span>Traveling
I spent the majority of my time in Sydney whilst also visiting almost every
major city in Australia either playing poker tournaments or going out partying
with friends. Then as is an annual tradition of mine I left Australia to take
the super long-haul flight from Sydney to Los Angeles and spent the summer in
Las Vegas. Breaking this up with a visit back home to England and a week in
Spain with my boys. Then heading back to the USA for my first visit to Florida
including Miami and Orlando. Chronologically,
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Of
the aforementioned, it's a very close call between Miami and Sydney as to which
is my favourite. Miami is extremely liveable in that the weather, food,
beaches, boardwalk, architecture and nightlife are awesome. I find the
overall ambience of Sydney to be the best of any city I've visited. The Australian
people are incredibly friendly, tolerant and open-minded. I've been fortunate
to make some very good friends in the city which really helped too. I spent
almost a month in Melbourne and would be doing it a disservice if I didn't
mention how much I loved it. I found the city progressive, clean, health-conscience
and convenient. Los Angeles is really growing on me. If you can't find
something you like in LA, you're doing it wrong. It is unmatched culturally,
the food is out of this world, and there is something incredibly cool about the
anonymity that comes with residing in that city. My time in Orlando, Brisbane,
Gold Coast and Perth has been brief, so I'm not qualified to comment on those
cities. I will spend the Christmas holidays with family and friends here in Newcastle
upon Tyne, so my travelling for 2013 are now just treasured memories. Memories which will last a lifetime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">It
has been a somewhat successful year for me with poker, so I had half a mind to
take an extended holiday once returning to the UK. I’ve had a bunch of success
during 2013 including five figure tournament scores in Australia, USA and the
UK. It's important that I explain that results do not necessarily define tournament
poker skill. By no means am I a great tournament player. At least, that isn't
determinable simply by bragging about my tournament accomplishments. In fact,
there is so much variance in tournament poker that it is impossible to measure.
It would be foolish and unprofessional to blame one's personal downswings on
the variance in tournament poker and then hail oneself the greatest when I’m
running well. It's important for me not to be too results orientated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">As
I've said before, I am for the most part not motivated by my actual tournament
poker results, I am much more concerned with my level of focus while competing,
my preparation, and the decisions I make. However, I feel it is in my best interest
to sort of go after these titles. I really love playing tournament poker right
now, so it is a nice excuse to play some more. I think that the live tournament
poker arena is in a really cool place. It is extremely competitive and
ever-evolving. The leading personalities, for the most part, are young,
inspired, healthy, friendly, well-rounded and great role models. I feel honoured
to be around them. While I haven't made many plans for 2014 aside from leading
the NPF in to battle in the APAT Team Challenge at Stoke in February, I expect
I will continue to spend a lot of time playing live tournament poker. A friend
told me something recently that resonated: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">"To give up something you love would be a
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Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-36829625441761493602013-11-03T00:15:00.000+00:002013-11-03T00:20:00.429+00:00Trett Digest Volume 19I’ve bought a car, partly as a matter of necessity to work for Dave sports trading, but
predominantly because I’ve had a car since I was seventeen and felt handcuffed without
one. Despite living only a £5 taxi fare into Newcastle city centre, I still
felt I had my freedom restricted not being on the road. So I got a 54 plate
Ford Focus Flight and it runs pretty well, also in the process of transferring
my private T2 ETT plate over to hide the age a little.<br />
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So yeah this
helps out a lot when sports trading, obviously makes it a lot of easier to
get around the bookmakers to get the bets on. Another bonus of being on the
road is I can now commute to Cramlington and back pretty easily, it’s just
15/30 minutes down the A1 depending on traffic. So I’m back getting involved in
my good friend Gary Sidney’s boot camp, this is three times a week and then
five a side football twice a week should help heaps with my fitness. I’m determine
to get this part of my life corrected and finally beginning to get everything
in place, just need to be strict with my diet. I’m currently 94kg and hoping to
get that down to around 75kg ideally, although I won’t be doing anything in a hurry
and just taking one step at a time. I’ll continue to check in here and over at
the <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.newcastlepoker.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16314">NPF Health & Fitness Tips Blog</a> </span>with my
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relatively early, if I’m honest with myself I didn’t play very good and
couldn’t get my head right. The journey to Nottingham was not to no avail
though, as I had a pretty wild night out with ‘Howard/Dixon Stable’ and also
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the green felt I’ve been partying pretty hard, having several nights out with
my non-poker friends. Then of course with the poker boy’s we here at HHH hosted
a Halloween Party on 31<sup>st</sup> October, this was a whole lot of fun with
everybody seemingly having a wonderful night. <span style="color: red;"><i>#delboy #halloween #scary #spooky</i></span></div>
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Night out, this is going to be on either Saturday 30<sup>th</sup> November or
Saturday 21<sup>st</sup> December. Any NPF affiliates interested in going check
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get this all finalized by tomorrow evening. That’s all for now folks, thanks as
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weekend</span></b></div>
Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-24033157502747023252013-10-16T05:59:00.001+01:002013-10-16T06:11:27.565+01:00Trett Digest Volume 18In typical baller fashion I only blog when I’m winning. When I last checked in I was leaving Miami and heading to Las Vegas for a month, things didn’t work out and after a brutal few days and losing what felt like an insurmountable amount of money I came home early. I spent some of my short time in the city with my cousin and his beautiful fiancé, David and Laura. Where together we enjoyed a pretty wild night out over at Ghostbar in The Rio.<br />
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Since being back here in the UK I’ve been reasonably busy playing a little bit of poker, I've attempted twice to win a GPS main event title. Once down Stoke and again up Edinburgh, both ultimately ending in failure, but rewarding failures nonetheless, with a 21st and a 3rd for £1,160 and £17,460 respectively.<br />
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Whilst discussing poker I’d like to mention my good friend Tom Middleton, who won the €5,000 EPT Barcelona main event for €942,000. I met Tom almost ten years ago when he was studying in Newcastle and more often than not we both ignored studying in favour of playing the local bowls. I regularly ask him for advice and he promptly responds, his guidance is invaluable to me. He’s my mentor but more importantly my friend and I owe lots of my success in poker to this guy. I was absolutely delighted to see him take down this major event and I’m sure he will continue to write his name into the poker history books. Quite simply an all-round brilliant guy and absolutely nobody has a bad word to say about him.<br />
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Away from the felt I’ve moved in to HHH, which as it happens is no longer HHH. Marc moved out as he found it difficult to deal with our banter, there may or may not have been something else behind his decision. But all here in this household wish him all the best and I’m sure he knows our door is always open. Marc moving out comes with a bonus though, I quickly upgraded to a bigger room with a balcony overlooking the Tyne. I’m having lots of fun but pretty conscious not to pick up their bad habits, mainly there diet and I’m making a big effort not to order a takeaway every night whilst also playing a couple of games of five a side football every week.<br />
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On the subject of healthy eating and exercise. I’ve been disappointed after making such good progress that I lost focus and now put a lot of my weight back on. Which is why I’m now affectionately known as fatty or fatboy notably by my speccy senile Dobba friend. But it is important to me and I do consciously eat healthier now. My good friend and personal trainer Gary Sidney has put me on this Juice+ program, which I’m enjoying and kind of feeling the benefits. Long way to go, but confident I will put things right.<br />
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I’ve spent heaps of time with friends and family since being back in the UK. I’ve visited Alton Towers for the first time in about eight years with Mark Mealyeah and John Kirsopp. We had a great day and there was heaps of new rides I’d never even rode. Also had a couple of wild Dan Trett-esk nights out with both my poker friends and friends away from the felt. Notably the NPF Team Bowl event, which was one of the best nights out I've had with the NPF boys. At 28 (29 in December) I’m finding it more and more difficult to party like I used too, but still love my boys and getting on it on a night out.<br />
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It’s not all play though and just yesterday I started working for Dave Maudlin and his betting syndicate, it’s early days yet but it seems okay and relatively easy with short hours which fits the lifestyle I’ve been accustomed these last few years. Looking forward and I have a friend’s birthday this weekend which I’m stoked about and should be lots of fun as a bunch of us are hitting Newcastle. Then on the poker front I will be heading down Blackpool with Knaggsy, Waspy and Dan Fatpants for the GUKPT on Friday 8th November. So watch this space for a staking thread coming soon. Thanks as always for reading and sorry for the lack of updates these last few months, I’ve just had a lot of other things to take care of and lacked a bit of motivation.<br />
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</b></span>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-43523554620243033272013-08-30T19:18:00.000+01:002013-08-30T19:29:22.080+01:00American Digest Volume 09I’m back guys and here to wrap up the most amazing fortnight
in Miami. Following on from ADV08, Last Sunday I didn’t end up going to play
cash in the end and just relaxed watching television after supper. The next day
(Monday 26<sup>th</sup>) I spent the morning chilling by the swimming pool with
my boy Bunzer and then headed to Hooters for lunch and to watch Man Utd vs.
Chelsea.<br />
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Reasonably pleased to get a point even though it was at Old
Trafford, it was always going to be a tough game with Jose Mourinho back in the
hot seat at Chelsea. Although, I did think they kind of parked the bus and
showed a lack of heart but it’s very early days in the title race. Anyway,
after lunch and the football I headed back to the casino and got involved in
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Open. This was a smart choice as eight hours later I bagged up T105,900 which
was just above average to go back for day two on Wednesday. By now it was
around 01:00am, so I caught a taxi with Lynne and Michelle back to the
apartment. The following day we all had a fun filled packed day ahead of us
which included a Miami city bus tour in the morning and a Biscayne Bay cruise
in the afternoon. These were okay I guess, but I will admit to being a little
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better later in the afternoon, where we jumped on a coach to the Everglades
National Park. This was just simply a breathtaking and amazing experience,
riding an airboat over the tropical wetlands and alligator spotting. Then even
got a photo opportunity with a baby alligator which was fun but a
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Michelle whilst Steve and Lynne headed off to the casino to grind another shot
at the $150 event #25. The next morning I relaxed by the swimming pool again
with my boy Bunzer and started watching WSOP 2013 footage on YouTube for the
most part of the afternoon. Then at 5:00pm I was back over the casino for day
two of the $150 event #25, I was really happy with how things went that day and
felt I was captain on all of my tables. I feel I played almost perfect all day
and was rewarded bagging up T2,000,025 with seven remaining which was enough
for the chip lead. By this time I had $2,716 locked and went back on Thursday
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The next day I again spent the morning and early afternoon
just chilling out by the swimming pool and watching some more of the WSOP 2013
on YouTube. Then reported back to the casino for the 2:00pm restart, this by
all accounts was a disaster. I ended up busting in seventh after losing a plethora
of all-in preflop confrontations. I lost A5 vs. QT, KT vs. T8, JJ vs. 66, QJ
vs. A8, KJs vs. 22 and finally despite all that run bad I still had 1.5 million
from all the small uncontested pots I took down and that went in again preflop
with AT vs. 88 and I lost that one too which stacked me. I ran terribly to be
fair but I’m okay about that and in life I run pretty damn good and I don’t
forget that too easy. Like I’ve said many times and I’m happy to repeat,
tournament variance is brutal and doesn’t owe anybody anything. Finally, I
would like to congratulate the six remaining guys. They’re all thoroughly nice
people and were great company during my time at the final. From here in true
degenerate style I jumped straight into the $125 event #32 ante only, this
didn’t work out and I went broke relatively early with JJ vs. AQs. This was a
really small tournament though and both Steve and Lynne made the final table
with only forty runners, so I stuck around and got on the beers. It was pretty
funny actually, I was going wild when they won really small pots. Then Sam
arrived for the very end, so I had a fellow nuisance on the rail.
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Eventually they ended up splitting it six ways for $850 each
or something like that. Then we all went to Council Oak Steak House in the
casino, this was a pretty expensive restaurant but a real nice way to enjoy our
last night in Miami. We also happened to be sitting next to Blair Hinkle and
his mom, who if you didn’t know won the main event here at the Hard Rock for
$1.5 million. We congratulated him and all managed to get a photo with the
champ, really nice guy.
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We then headed back to the apartment and I was in bed for
around 11:00pm whilst the others stayed awake and drank a bottle of wine
together. I was up at 5:30am to take Steve and Sam to the airport as they had
an earlier flight to Lynne and I, then once I got back I went back to bed for
another couple of hours. Then during our last day we spent the afternoon
chilling by the swimming pool and went to Eighteen Sauces for lunch, which was
a sandwich shop next to the casino recommended by a bunch of the poker players.
This brings me to right now, it’s like 2:30pm here in Miami and I’m just
finishing off some packing and getting ready to leave for the airport and catch
my flight to Las Vegas. Pretty pumped to catch up with my cousin David who is
in town and is newly engaged to his beautiful fiancé Laura, so I have reserved
bottle service at Voodoo lounge and a limousine to get us to and from the The
Rio. Should be a pretty epic night and way to start my month in Las Vegas. So
that’ll just about wrap things up for now guys, check back next week to see how
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<![endif]-->Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-1944496348975744932013-08-26T00:56:00.000+01:002013-08-26T00:56:56.078+01:00American Digest Volume 08When I was last writing it was very early morning on
Wednesday 21<sup>st</sup> August, me and the rest of the guys were up and ready
for the four hour road trip to Tampa visiting Busch Gardens. This was an
absolute fantastic day from start to finish riding <span class="usercontent">SheiKra,
Kumba, SandSerpent, Stanley Falls Flume, and Cheetah Hunt amongst the other
attractions. <span style="color: red;"><i>#buschgardens #thirllseeker #whatarush</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="usercontent">I felt like a big kid at Christmas
and really did enjoy reliving my youth. That evening we spent the night at
Sailport Waterfront Suites on the beautiful coast of Tampa. We had dinner Lee
Roy Selmon’s Sports Bar before all retiring to bed just before midnight. Then another
early morning as we hit the road and headed to Universal Studios & Islands
Of Adventures in Orlando. This again was another absolute fantastic day in one
of the world’s best theme parks, this I would say was even more magical than
Busch Gardens and it really feels like you’re involved in a story book. Here I
got involved with all the best attractions including </span><span class="textexposedshow">Incredible Hulk Coaster, The Wizarding World Of Harry
Potter, Jurassic Park River Adventure, The Amazing Adventures Of Spider-Man and
Dudley Do-Right’s Rip Saw Falls.</span><br />
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We got back to Miami a little before midnight on Thursday 22<sup>nd</sup>
and all pretty much collapsed to bed after two fun packed but very tiring days.
The next day I just relaxed by the swimming pool and played taxi driver for the
rest of the guys who were going to either the casino or the beach. Then that
evening Alex Rizek and Jake Cody invited Steve, Sam and I to dinner at Casa
D’Angelo Ristorante which is a really nice and posh restaurant in Fort
Lauderdale. The food, service and company were all exceptional here and it was
great to meet and chat with Jake who by all accounts is a thoroughly nice guy.<br />
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We then went to the Royal Pig bar for a nightcap left the
guys around 11:00pm, heading to the casino to play some cash but not long after
arriving I started to feel sluggish and tired so clocked off pretty early and
went back to bed for like 1:00am. Then I woke up and had this overwhelming
feeling to get involved in 1C <span class="usercontent">Seminole Hard Rock 2013
Poker Open Championship Event, so maybe a little foolishly I put up the $5,000
buy-in and took my seat. Things didn’t work out as I lost a big portion of my
stack with a queen high flush vs. the nut flush then eventually piled ten
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After the tournament I played cash for a few hours until
about 7:00pm before deciding to call it a day. I went food shopping with Sam to
pick up some bits and bobs for the apartment before then heading back to relax
for the evening and watch some television. Sunday 25<sup>th</sup> we had all agreed
to head to Miami Zoo, so we were all up by midmorning and out the apartment for
10:00am on the road. This was a nice chilled out relaxing day, although we did
get caught in the rain a little which damped things somewhat. But we kept our
spirits high and visited a bunch of beautiful and interesting animals whilst
also feeding the giraffes and birds which was for sure the highlight of the
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After leaving the zoo we all headed back to the apartment
and picked up a Chinese takeaway for dinner. This brings me to now, it’s like
8:00pm on Sunday evening and I’m contemplating whether or not to head to the
casino and play some cash. For now, I’ll clock out and will check back in
probably Thursday which will be my last day here in Miami before flying to Las
Vegas for the month.<br />
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Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-52445982674664134182013-08-21T07:37:00.000+01:002013-08-28T20:29:47.299+01:00American Digest Volume 07<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I left the UK for the USA on 14<sup>th</sup>
August, I went from Newcastle > London (Gatwick) > Tampa > Miami. The
journey up until I reached the USA was very relaxing and pleasant, I checked
into the executive lounges at both Newcastle and Gatwick and then flew in Club
World for the transatlantic leg of the flight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">However upon arriving in Tampa the journey
became a pain in the arse, I was delayed due to the extreme thunder and
lightning. Then when I finally did leave for Miami around two hours late, my
luggage ended up on a flight to Fort Myers on the other coast of Florida. So I
spent the first day and night with no clothes and chilling in my boy Bunzer’s
gear. I was absolutely exhausted after a long day so once I arrived back at
the apartment Sam made me supper and I was tucked up in bed by around 11:00pm.
This worked out okay and helped me beat the jetlag as I woke up around 7:00am
very refreshed and excited to get out and explore Miami, although we didn’t do
much just had brunch at Hard Rock Café, grocery shopping at Walmart, dinner
with the guys at the apartment and then down the Seminole Hard Rock Casino to
play some poker on the evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I got beat up pretty bad during the first
session but still woke up the following day full of optimism and ready to enjoy life in Miami. We all headed to South Beach and Ocean Drive for the day where
we enjoyed the sun, went jet-skiing, relaxed at Loews Miami Beach Hotel
swimming pool and had lunch at Liquid Lounge in West Palm Beach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Then we headed to Miami International Airport
to collect Lynne’s friend Michelle Sheils which completed our party of five for
this Miami adventure. From here I got dropped off at the casino to play #7 $560
NLH event but didn’t stay long as I got stacked twice losing $1,120 within an
hour. So I took a taxi back to the apartment and watched TED with Sam before
falling asleep around 11:00pm. The following day Lynne and Michelle were off to
the casino to play poker whilst Steve, Sam and myself met one of Steve’s friend
Alex Rizek. Alex lives here in Miami and is actually Jake Cody’s girlfriend,
she was a very cool girl and great to meet. She took us to Las Olas and we had
lunch at a great little mexican before taking a late afternoon cruise around
the riverfront. Here we enjoyed a couple of beers whilst seeing some of Miami’s
most expensive real estate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Then Alex dropped us back off at our
Apartment and we all began to get ready for a night on the town. This in
typical Dan Trett style was stupidly messy with beers, vodka redbulls,
jagerbombs, Sambuca, wine and various other drinks. We ended up in Mansion
Nightclub until around 4:00am. <span style="color: red;"><i>#doublevodkaredbulls #jagerbombs</i></span></span><br />
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The result of this night was an absolute
banging headache and hangover the following day, I just lay around the
apartment and swimming pool until around 4:00pm. Then we eventually made a move
and the five of us decided to enjoy a couple of hours by the beach, doing a
little bit of swimming in the sea and catching some rays. From here we all took
a shower and then headed out for the evening to Sparez bowling alley where we
had a go at bowling. This was fun and for added interest we all played for $5
per man, which Lynne managed to take down and hit her biggest score since
arriving in the USA. Then we had supper at TGI Friday’s before heading back to
the apartment for around 1:00am and we all retired to bed. Then the next two
day’s Monday 19<sup>th</sup> and Tuesday 20<sup>th</sup> was just spent
relaxing by the swimming pool during the day time and playing cash over the
casino on the evening. I’ve had a pretty brutal first week losing almost
$15,000 since arriving, but I’m okay about it and still feeling very lucky and
blessed. It’s like 3:00am right now here in Miami and we’re all up very early
to head to Busch Gardens which I’m mega stoked about and I think will be heaps
and heaps of fun. So stay tuned for American Digest 08 next week where I’ll let
all you guys know how it went.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 10.0pt;">Thanks for reading</span></b>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-77334186330288757812013-08-13T07:06:00.000+01:002013-08-13T07:06:41.518+01:00Trett Digest Volume 17<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">What's up guys? When I checked out my last
digest I was enjoying my last morning in Las Vegas before my flight back into
Newcastle that same afternoon. I arrived in the UK on the evening of 31<sup>st</sup>
July, then spent the night relaxing with my Mom before flying to Benidorm with
the boys the following day. This like all lads holiday’s was just a week of
drinking and sunbathing with a couple of nice meals thrown in for some balance,
in summary it was awesome to catch up with my boys.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">After a wild week in Spain I arrived back in
the UK on Friday 9<sup>th</sup> August around 01:00am which wasn’t ideal ahead
of my 11:00 arranged meeting time with the NPF boys in Newcastle for some white
water rafting. However, I got a little bit of rest and made my way into town to
catch up with the NPF crew. It was great to see a lot of the old faces again,
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The night had a little bit of everything
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Cramlington to do the wild thing. Then the following day I spent it with my
adorable niece and nephew, Lauryn and Zach giving them presents from Australia and taking them
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just yesterday Monday 12<sup>th</sup> August,
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Then as I was leaving the buffet I headed to the cage to see what rate they would sell me some euro's in preparation for my trip to Benidorm next week. I was told they don't normally sell them but they had bought some earlier in the day and I could take those, it meant I had to take the full amount which was €1,000. This was awesome though as they sold them to me at the rate they bought them which was 0.787 and XE is trading at 0.756, so I'm easily pleased and that made my day. So yeah, $1,270 for €1,000 and I'm all set for Benidorm. From here I headed over Bellagio to play some 500nl (Caesars didn't have a game running), here I sat to the right of Huckleberry Seed who was a great guy and really nice win or lose. I got the impression he was coaching the young girl to his left, which I guess explains why he was playing such small stakes.<br />
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I cashed out after around four hours, playing a shorter session than usual as I was still a little hungover. Another profitable session as I recorded $2,600 profit, so I'm pretty pleased with how I'm running and playing right now. Safe to say I've been on a bit of heater this last week. The following day I joined the guys over the MGM Grand as we had lunch at Rainforest Cafe, this is a restaurant themed around a jungle and the animals interactive as well as an earthquake every half an hour. The food was nice and the service was okay too.<br />
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Then we headed back to the Vdara and kicked it by the pool for a few hours during the afternoon, I then left the love birds alone as they had romantic dinner reservations booked at <span style="color: red;">Gordon Ramsay Steak</span> restaurant in <span style="color: red;">Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino</span> for there final evening in Las Vegas. That evening I headed to Wynn to play some 500nl, I ended up having a rough session as I lost $1,300. Which I'm okay with and it's just the variance involved playing 500nl, but perhaps what I was most annoyed about was I didn't really play too well. I stacked off with QQ when it was just clear to everyman and his dog that the villain had KK or AA. So that kind of sucked, but whatever I'm not going to lose any sleep. The following morning I went to meet the guys for there final few hours in Las Vegas, we had brunch at McDonalds before heading to <span style="color: red;">World of Coca-Cola</span> down next to MGM Grand. Despite being right there on the strip it's the first time I've been inside, we got our photo taken with the polar bear mascot and had a coke slush puppy.<br />
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Then we took a quick look in the Hard Rock Cafe before they left for the airport and there honeymoon was over, by now it was around noon and I headed back to The Quad to catch a few hours by the swimming pool. Then that evening I walked over Bellagio to play some 500nl, however there was a really sweet and fast 1000nl game running so I took a seat here. I wouldn't normally bother taking shots but it was playing just stupidly fast and I knew it would be profitable. Here I played with Freddy Deeb, making him the fourth mini famous poker player I played with during this trip. As predicted this worked out well for me as I recorded $2,400 profit after getting out of a $2,000 hole losing my first buy-in with KK all in preflop vs. A7o.<br />
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Friday 26th morning I woke up and spent an hour by the swimming pool, then headed back to my room and freshened up and headed to <span style="color: red;">Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant</span> for brunch. Here I enjoyed a grilled fish sandwich with french fries. I then made a very unusual decision for me to go to the <span style="color: red;">South Las Vegas Premium Outlets</span> as I wanted to pick up some new holiday clothes for Benidorm, I was there probably less than an hour and managed to pick up three new polo shirts and three new dress shorts. I got a Nike, Adidas and Ralph Lauren design in both the polo shirts and dress shorts and all for under $500. So I was pretty pleased with my work and I'm all set for Benidorm next week, I then took a taxi back to The Quad and relaxed by the swimming pool for the remainder of the afternoon.<br />
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This took me until around 8:00pm and I headed to Caesars Palace to play some 500nl, I ended up cashing with $280 profit. This could have been a lot more if I didn't get dealt JJ vs. KK and get it in on a 7JK flop for $1,300 pot. Here I bumped into Steve Heron who was playing some 300nl, we had a bit craic and arranged to have dinner and see Michael Jackson ONE show over at Mandalay Bay on Sunday night. It was good to see him and meet his beautiful girlfriend Sam. I headed back to my room around 2:00am and watched a bit television as I drifted off to sleep. Now Saturday 27th and I had reserved a VIP cabana with my boy Henry Lau over at Wet Republic Pool Party, MGM Grand. He knows the concierge over at MGM Grand very well so we get it for a fraction of the cost, so yeah although it was clouded over we still enjoyed the weather, DJ Fergie and all the sexy girls whilst getting fucked up on vodka redbull. That evening after freshening up we hit the brand new world class nightclub Hakkasan to see DJ Danny Avila, which again is located in MGM Grand so with Henry's contact we got a VIP table and bottle service for ridiculously cheap.<br />
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This was just a super sick night where I partied until around 7:00am the next morning. What I was most devastated about though was I got some immense photo's from the pool party and the nightclub, before losing my camera right at the end of the night. Everybody knows I'm all about photos and memories, so needless to say that upset me somewhat but that's just the way it goes. I slept until Monday afternoon and woke up pretty hungover, so headed down to the swimming pool in an effort to recover and recuperate. Then I decided to walk to Planet Hollywood and have lunch at Planet Dailies, which I had a 50% off coupon for so got spicy chicken pasta for $7.<br />
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That evening I met Steve <span style="color: red;"><i>"Bunzer"</i></span> Heron and his girlfriend Sam Sadler over at Caesars Palace at 5:00pm. As mentioned earlier we had 7:00pm dinner reservations at <span style="color: red;">Lupo by Wolfgang Puck</span> and show tickets booked to see <span style="color: red;">Michael Jackson ONE by Cirque du Soleil</span> both located in Mandalay Bay. The restaurant was very good with Wolfgang Puck taking an Italian innovative approach to the authentic tastes of Italy. The performance, like all Cirque du Soleil's shows I guess was a really well thought out production and ode to Michael Jackson. It focuses on music and dancing with modern techniques and effects, it showed an evolution in vision and captured the spirit of Michael well. Again hats off to Cirque du Soleil, I have absolute loved every show I have seen that they perform. Then well the night got ridiculously messy, we ended in various bars around Mandalay Bay, Luxor, MGM Grand, New York New York and The Quad. Making a second trip to Hakkasan in as many days, luckily I didn't lose my camera this time so check out the photos below.<br />
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That brings me to right now, it's like 10:30am here in Las Vegas on Tuesday 30th July. I'm all packed and just finishing up this digest before an hour by the swimming pool and then to Hash House a-Go-Go for some lunch. My taxi is booked for 1:00pm and my journey back to the UK after ten months away begins at 3:40pm. I have bitch of a route home Las Vegas > Dallas > London Heathrow > Newcastle, which gets me home tomorrow evening at 5:40pm. I won't be in the UK too long though as I'm going on holiday the next day (1st August) with my boys for a messy week in Benidorm, so as much as I'm disappointed to leave Vegas I'm mega stoked to see my boys and have a week of partying.<br />
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I left you guys last Thursday (18th July) morning and after finishing up I caught a few hours sleep before heading to the swimming pool to relax for the afternoon. That evening I took my first night off from the tables and went to meet newlyweds Paul & Kayleigh at Bar Vdara. They're staying at Vdara, which obviously made Bar Vdara the ideal meeting point. I got them a bottle Moët & Chandon champagne to toast there marriage and we had a great night. We played some blackjack over at Bellagio, had a few drinks at Carnaval Court and finished up in Mirage for some more blackjack and drinks.<br /><br />
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The next morning I took the guys to <span style="color: red;">The Cafe at Monte Carlo</span> for breakfast, then we hired a daybed around the Vdara swimming pool for $75 and chilled there all day. That evening I headed to Caesars Palace to play some 500nl and had a pretty good session recording almost $2,400 profit. It was a sick game with almost $40,000 on the table, I felt I could have won a lot more in the game too if it didn't break around 5:00am. But I was obviously delighted and headed back to my room to catch up on some sleep. The following day I just lounged around, I was down the swimming pool for a little bit but not as much as I would have liked as I over did it at the Vdara and was a little red from the day before. That evening I met the guys and we got tickets for Zumanity at New York New York, we started with dinner at The Sporting House Bar & Grill before taking our seats. Zumanity is an adults only show containing nudity. It's the Sensual Side of Cirque du Soleil, is a seductive twist on reality, making the provocative playful and the forbidden electrifying! we left all our inhibitions at the door and let loose at this adult-themed production. It took us on a sexy thrill ride full of sensational acrobatics and naughty fun. With a mixture of burlesque and cabaret, it was a great show and made for a great night. I actually love all Cirque du Soleil shows I've seen and really excited about seeing other performances.<br />
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After the performance we had a nightcap at Coyote Ugly before taking a slow walk back up the strip, I left the love birds around 1:00am and headed to bed for an early night. The following morning at 10:00am I had qualified for <span style="color: red;">"THE 20 FOR 20 FREE ROLL"</span> at Caesars Palace, this is basically a $20,000 free roll which you qualify for by playing twenty hours of live cash action in any Harrahs property over the previous fortnight. It pay's first through to fortieth $500 each, so in theory it should be a pretty easy $500 so long as you just knit it up. But I'm a dick head and played as such, I bust after half an hour. So I was up and around pretty early and decide to fill my day heading to the National Geographic Exhibit over at <span style="color: red;">The Venetian</span>. This showcases fifty of the most-remembered and celebrated photographs in history, including the story and background behind the photo. It was okay I guess and helped kill a few hours during late morning and early afternoon.<br />
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I then spent an hour relaxing by the swimming pool before having a small late afternoon snooze. I woke up around 7:00pm and got ready and headed over Caesars Palace around 8:00pm to play some 500nl. I had a really profitable session recording $2,800 profit when I left, a large part was due to this kind of crazy move when I turned TT into a bluff on a board of QQ456sss and managed to move AA off a $1,000 pot. I was pretty pleased with that, but in general I try not to get out of line playing the live 500nl here as it's just so profitable to wait for your hands and get paid off, it just looked a super good spot. I actually cut my session short four hours as some hero sat down to my direct left with $5,000 (It's uncapped over at Caesars Palace) and started 3BETTING me every hand, so I was like whatever I can't be arsed to get put in these shitty spots all night especially considering I had $4,800 so effective stacks were almost 1,000BB. So yeah cutting my session short meant I was back in the room a little after midnight and ordered <span style="color: red;">Knocked Up</span> the movie from my in-room entertainment and watched that as I slowly fell asleep.<br /><br />
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The following day (Monday 22nd July) I spent the day chilling with the newlyweds. We headed to <span style="color: red;">The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace</span> so Kayleigh could do some shopping and we had luncheon at <span style="color: red;">The Cheesecake Factory</span>, from here we headed to Macy's at the Fashion Show Mall to do some more shopping. I picked up a nice white Lacoste polo shirt for $125 which I love. Then we took a walk over <span style="color: red;">The Venetian</span> to ride the gondola, I kind of gate crashed there romantic moment but whatever.<br /><br />
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Then after a couple of hours relaxing in my room I headed over there suite at Vdara to play some drinking games and enjoy the beautiful view of <span style="color: red;">The Bellagio</span> fountains. From here we headed to Mandalay Bay where we hit up the Minus5 Ice Bar and played some blackjack, heading back through Luxor and Excalibur where we continued to drink, gamble and have lots of fun.<br /><br />
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Then I took a taxi back to The Quad around 2:00am where I collapsed for the night, which brings me to now. It's like 5:30pm Tuesday evening and I've just wasted the day lounging around my room feeling hungover and sorry for myself. I had half an hour by the swimming pool which has helped a little bit and I'm just about fit enough to face the world now. So I'll wrap this up for now, I have seven nights left here before flying back to the UK. So check back next week when I'll digest my final week here in Sin City.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>#vivalasvegas #brightlightcity</b></span>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-35300157703684357162013-07-18T14:35:00.000+01:002013-07-18T14:44:47.884+01:00American Digest Volume 04As mentioned in my last and final Australian Digest I've now left Sydney for good and currently relaxing in Las Vegas until the 30th July. I flew in on Thursday 11th July and checked into <span style="color: red;">The Quad Resort & Casino</span> for nineteen nights. The first night I ate dinner at Hash House a-Go-Go and played a small 500nl session at Caesars Palace before heading to bed for an early night to beat the jet lag.<br />
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The following morning I relaxed by the swimming pool for a couple of hours before heading back to Caesars Palace. Here I met Jack Ellwood for lunch at Munchbar and traded some dollars for pounds so we both got a better rate than through the travel agent. It was great to see Jack again and catch up with him, I hadn't really seen much of him since his rise to pokers elite. We chatted a fair amount and I learned some interesting stuff about a lot of the young Brits.<br />
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Jack had to leave to catch his flight back to the UK shortly after so we said our goodbyes and I headed in to Caesars Palace poker room again to play some 500nl. This was an interesting table including 2006 main event winner Jamie Gold. I had played for around eight hours and had a small $200 profitable session which after getting 99 vs. KK on a 49Kr flop for a $1,400 pot I was pretty pleased about. The following day was much of the same, I relaxed by swimming pool throughout the day and hit up Caesars in the evening for some 500nl. I recorded a $1,200 losing session after a mixture of bad beats, set-ups and some tilting towards the end.<br />
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The next morning (Sunday 14th July) I decided to head over The Rio for the $365 closing event of their 2013 Carnivale of Poker, things didn't work out as I bust with QJ vs. TT getting it in on a x9T flop. I sat next to a an American guy named Josh Atkinson, who I'm familiar with from playing cash at The Wynn back in April. So it was nice to see him again and catch up, he's a good guy and really nice company. I'm now friends with him on Facebook and hope to see a bit more of him during my time spent in Las Vegas.<br />
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That evening I headed over Bellagio as Caesars had no 500nl game running. Another interesting table this time including 2006 LA Poker Classic champion Kenna James. This was a sweet session as I was already winning pretty big when I scooped a $8,000 pot with JJ vs. 88 getting three streets and finally shoved the river as the board ran out AJ822. I've actually had three huge set-ups since I've arrived in Vegas, two which I lost 99 vs. KK (49Kr flop) as mentioned above at Caesars and KK vs. AA all in preflop over at Wynn which I'll come to later. But I can't really complain too much about those as the JJ vs. 88 (AJ822 board) was worth twice as much as they other two combined. The following day I took things easy and kicked it by the swimming pool all day before heading to Wynn to play some 500nl on the evening. I was having a sweet $1,200 profit session when I picked up KK and got it in preflop vs. AA, I had $2,200 vs. villains $1,500 stack so that dropped me down to $800 and I cashed out straight afterwards recording a $200 losing session.<br />
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The next day (Tuesday 16th June) I headed over The Venetian to get involved with the $400 DeepStack Extravaganza III event, although it was actually held in there sister property The Palazzo. I played this tournament like a complete dick head and ended up calling off with QJ high on a 2KKK4 board vs. some guy who was just never bluffing. After this I decided to take a step back from poker and booked tickets to Illusions show over at <span style="color: red;">Riviera Hotel & Casino</span> from Tix4Tonight. This show is headlined by German magician Jan Rouven and I really enjoyed it, I love magicians and especially seeing them live. I've seen all the top magicians in Las Vegas (David Copperfield, Criss Angell and Penn & Teller) and all those three mentioned have tickets north of $100. I paid $60 for front row tickets to Illusions and Jan was just as good as the other guys, definitely worth checking out as a cheap option in my opinion.<br />
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The following day (Wednesday 17th June) I relaxed by the swimming pool. My good friend Paul Armstrong got married at the weekend and he's flying into Vegas on Thursday 18th for his honeymoon, he's asked me to kind of be his tour guide and I'm really stoked about seeing them both tonight. In preparation I decided to head to the <span style="color: red;">Salon at The Quad</span> and get my hair cut, styled and coloured all for $195. I'm really pleased with my new do and have some natural blonde looking streaks, so ready for tonight and the blue blazer will be coming out to play. That brings me to right now, it's 7:30am Thursday morning here in Las Vegas and I'm just finishing this off before heading to bed. I've been playing 500nl over at Wynn all night, I had quite a few swings during this session but ended with a small $150 profit. Check back next week for American Digest Volume 05 to see how I've been getting on with the cash sessions and what I got up to with Paul and Kayleigh whilst they honeymooned here in Las Vegas.<br />
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The following evening (Wednesday 26th) I was out on a man date with my boy Steesh Lee, we had dinner at Star Bar and watched World War Z at Event Cinemas. I'm open minded about World War Z, Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is called out of retirement by the United Nations to fight against a pandemic that threatens to destroy humanity. I didn't love it to be honest, average at best in my opinion. Couple of days later (Friday 28th) the weather was very wet and windy which restricted my options so I again was back over the cinema so as to take shelter from the bad weather. This time choosing to watch Man Of Steel, which again for me wasn't hugely impressive but still good entertainment for a couple of hours.<br /><br />
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On Saturday 29th I was over The Star playing my first tournament since arriving back in Australia. They were hosting a "Rounders Classic" event, which had a $360 buy-in and attracted fifty runners. I both ran and played pretty well here and held over half the chips in play (500,000) with five remaining, then lost 350,000 with Q9 vs. 9T getting it all-in on a 29Q flop and the same guy bust me the same orbit when I got all in preflop with 88 vs. 66 vs. 89s and the board ran AAQQ5 to counterfeit me and the nine played. I bust in fourth for $1,570 which was pretty disappointing and I really liked my chances to take the $6,300 first place and the trophy.<br />
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Wednesday 3rd July the weather cleared up somewhat so I took the oppurtunity to press the tourist button, I headed down Circular Quay and booked a cruise to Shark Island. This was a brilliant, relaxing and stress-free day where I enjoyed a nice picnic and breathtaking views of both the Opera House and Harbour Bridge.<br />
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On Friday 6th sticking with the relaxing theme I decided to pamper myself in the luxurious and modern spa at Four Seasons Hotel. It's a design-led spa with a stunning lounge and six treatment rooms, as well as change facilities designed to reflect Sydney’s effortless and cool sophistication. Featuring a double whirlpool, gym, sauna and pool facilities. Expertly trained therapists met my skin’s every need with cutting-edge treatments from around the world, and I underwent a body and wellness therapy to relieve my overworked muscles and mind. <span style="color: red;"><i>#sochilledout #relaxandrevive</i></span><br />
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This was ideal preparation for my friends home game the same evening. I went along to Victor Teng's and Brendan Cahill's 200NL home game, which I absolute loved. It's an ideal platform for me to meet new poker friends in Sydney and it was extremely well ran. Fully dealer dealt, rake is 10% capped at $6, complimentary food and drinks, dinner break for Domino's pizza and two tables running. It plays really deep too, at one point during the evening there was $10,000+ on my eight handed table and the same on the second table. This is on every Friday evening and I will make a big effort to get over more often, I had a thoroughly great evening and also profited a modest $625 to make things even sweeter. On Saturday 6th July I was aboard Sydney's Showboat, enjoying there spectacular dinner and show cruise. The entertaining show was a risqué showgirls performance and the innovative three course dinner menu was delicious. All this whilst taking in the beautiful enchanting Sydney Harbour skyline and views. <span style="color: red;"><i>#cruisingdarlingharbour </i></span><br />
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Right now, I've left Sydney and I'm back in Las Vegas. My visa was due to expire on 1st October 2013 and I made no provisions to renew it. I'm okay with it though and really feel like I made the most of my time in Australia. It's in the past now and I'll look back on my time spent there with fond memories, warm feelings and a special place in my heart. So that brings me to here, I priced up flights to go home to the UK and it was only an extra $1,000 to fly via Las Vegas. So I flew here on Thursday 11th July and I'm spending nineteen nights here at <span style="color: red;">The Quad Resort & Casino</span>. I'm flying back to the UK Tuesday 30th July which arrives on Wednesday 31st July, whilst I'll be excited to be back home in England I'll have no time to enjoy it as I'm going to Benidorm for a lads holiday the following day on Thursday 1st August. So lots of exciting times ahead and I'm really stoked about seeing all my friends and family.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><b><i>#lifeissofuckingawesome</i></b></span>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-79885688977115278792013-06-26T09:07:00.000+01:002013-07-03T00:37:21.497+01:00Las Vegas 2013 Trip Report "June"Thursday 13th June I headed back to Las Vegas after a little over a month in Sydney, I was pretty stoked about this visit as I was looking forward to catching up with my Newcastle home boys Dave and Darren. I again had the pleasure of flying BusinessElite which is ridiculously good, it actually makes the super long-haul flight enjoyable. I arrived at Monte Carlo Resort & Casino around 11:00 and at check-in paid $300 ($30 per night) to have a roll away bed added to the room. This was to be affectionately named <span style="color: red;"><i>"Dan's Tramp Bed"</i></span> by Dave upon arriving, which was just the beginning of the endless and non-stop piss-taking the entire trip. I had a couple of hours by myself to freshen up and iron my clothes before the boys arrived around 15:00 in the afternoon. Check out our room and view below;<br />
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After the boys arrived we took a walk over Caesars Palace so I could exchange some cash at the cage before heading to Bally's to catch the complimentary shuttle to The Rio. Dave pre-registered for the $1,000 WSOP Seniors Championship Event #26 the following day and we then took a walk over Gold Coast to have dinner at T.G.I Fridays. This took us until around 22:00 and they were tired from the flight so headed off to bed, while I had a little energy left so spent a few hours playing cash at Aria until around 01:00 the following morning. I had the pleasure of playing with the beautiful, charming and interesting PokerNews reporter Kristy Arnett (Moreno).<br />
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The following morning the three of us had breakfast together at The Café at Monte Carlo before Dave headed to The Rio for the Seniors whilst Knaggsy and I were off to The Encore for the $400 Wynn Summer Classic event #5. We grabbed a strawberry smoothie from the bar and took our seats, neither of us had much success and were both bust relatively early before heading back towards centre strip.<br />
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Knaggsy suggested we visit the wildlife habitat at the Flamingo which I was down for as I'd never been before, whilst looking around we received a text from Dave who had bust the Seniors and was on his way back over to the strip. Meanwhile I'm a sucker for photo's and memories so paid $35 to get mine and Darren's photo taken with a few of the habitats parrots. <span style="color: red;"><i>#photosformemories</i></span><br />
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From here we met Dave next to the Flamingo poker room before heading to P.F. Chang's China Bistro at Planet Hollywood for an early dinner. This is a fan favorite of Dave's and represents good value for money. After dinner we all played the Aria $125 Nightly tournament with no success, I played 160,000 huge chip leader pot with open ended straight draw and flush draw vs. flopped straight and bricked out. So then Dave and I got on the rail of Knaggsy who was deep in the $60 Monte Carlo Classic, he managed to go all the way with a great rail and together we took the roof of the card room when he collected his $555.00 first place prize money. We had some awesome football style chants and songs going;<br />
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I had an early start the following morning as I had booked up with Flightlinez to do some zip-lining through the red mountains in Bootleg Canyon just outside Boulder City. This was a true adventure, I was exposed to the real thrill of flight. Over the course of the one and a half miles of zip-lines, I descend thousands of feet down the mountain and reached speeds of up to sixty five miles per hour. I beheld beautiful scenery, and breathed in fresh mountain air. Even got a little hike in to boot! It sure was an experience that will last me a lifetime. I'll let the pictures take over now, which as they say are worth a thousand words. <span style="color: red;"><i>#greatexperience</i></span><br />
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I paid $50 for the above photo's and after it was done the guys dropped us all off at Excalibur, when walking through I decided to get my photo taken with a couple of sexy girls dressed in medieval character. Again, because I'm sure I have MUG tattooed on my forehead I paid $65 for three different prints. So I managed to spend $150 on photo's in two days, pretty ridiculous in hindsight.<br />
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Upon getting back to Monte Carlo I rang Jimmy (another Newcastle lad who was in town) and joined him and his boys Jonny Stobbs and both Paul's around the swimming pool for an hour. I had a chicken sandwich for lunch by the pool before they headed over Planet Hollywood and I got freshened up in my room. I then took the deuce to Fremont Street to sweat Dave playing the $235 Seniors Championship of the Golden Nuggets Grand Poker Series and play some cash. He made it through the day with a little less than average and after chatting to James Browning and Lynne Beaumont (other poker friends from the UK) for an hour or so we took a taxi back to Monte Carlo around 01:30 to get some sleep. Dave and I were up early and off to the gym, leaving Knaggsy in the room alone to surf the internet and enjoy some private time with Tube Galore. We had a run and a light workout generally just taking the piss out each other but also offering each other motivation, before relaxing in the sauna for twenty minutes before heading back to the room.<br />
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We needn't have bothered with the exercise as no less than an hour later we went to New York-New York for chicken, fish, fries and a large Pepsi at Fulton Fish Market, which I'm sure had considerably more calories than we had just burned off at the gym. Dave then took a taxi downtown for day two of the Seniors at Golden Nugget whilst Knaggsy and I took a slow walk over to Bellagio for the weekly Sunday $300 tournament. We arrived a little early so used the spare half an hour to meander around the famous Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. See photo below;<br />
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We had only just took our seats when Dave walked in the card room after busting the Seniors and he too bought in, with the small field we all ended up on the same starting table. Shortly after the first break our table broke and not long after that I went broke after getting 7,500 in at 150/300 with KK vs. 99 on a 49T flop and receiving no help. I played cash for a few hours while both the boys made a charge for the final table, with Dave busting in fifth for a $500 bubble prize and Knaggsy splitting it three ways for $3,500 each. Peter and Karen Newton (more commonly known as Mr. & Mrs. Stumpy for all my NPF readers) also flew in that afternoon and came over for a couple of beers and to rail the final table, so it was great to catch up with those guys again. With a bit of peer pressure from Dave and I, we convinced Knaggsy to get us a late supper from Snacks using his winnings before taking the tram back to Monte Carlo to bed. The following morning (Monday 17th June) we were all playing the $1,000 main event of the Binions Poker Classic. So we all met in Monte Carlo reception and took a taxi down to Fremont Street, first enjoying breakfast at Carson Street Café in Golden Nugget before walking over the road to Binions. We were joined by David Vamplew and Chris Moneymaker, amongst a good mix of talented and inexperienced players in the field. We got some photo's together with David and Chris holding a<span style="color: red;"><i> "THIS TIME NEXT YEAR JAMIE!"</i></span> sign, while we all wore our <span style="color: red;"><i>"JAMIE RUTHERFORD NPF LEGEND: LAS VEGAS INVASION 2013: PAID IN FULL" </i></span>yellow signature t-shirts. <br />
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Dave and Peter were showered early while Knaggsy and I made relatively deep runs, but neither of us made it out of the first day. I bust around 20:00 and played some cash over at Golden Nugget until around midnight receiving a brutal beat for a $3,000 pot, so eventually threw in the towel and took the deuce back to Monte Carlo and headed to bed around 01:00. The next morning we headed down to the casino floor to have brunch at The Café at Monte Carlo, before walking next door to play event #3 of the 2013 Aria Classic a $340 no limit hold'em tournament. Lots of familiar faces in the field including Marc Foggin, Steve Heron, James Browning and Lynne Beaumont. Celia Liu and her new boyfriend also stopped by to say hi, it was great to see her after so long so I gave her a big cuddle and had a good chat for ten minutes before she headed off. In the tournament I was short after losing AA vs. QQ all in pre-flop so squeezed ATo and ran into QQ which held. As I bust I caught up with Peter and Karen on the rail who were off to Jean Philippe Patisserie for high tea, I decided to join them and enjoyed a beautiful roasted chicken panini, double chocolate cheesecake and extra thick hot chocolate. Peter and Karen very kindly picked up the bill too so I freerolled, although a little expensive this tasted very good and worth checking out.<br />
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I then registered for the next event #4 of the Aria Classic which was a $150 freezeout at 19:00 the same evening, before heading back to my room to catch up with Dave and Darren. Taking to the felt again I made a deep run as I had my stack to around 60,000 then I turned two pair vs. villain who had top set T8 vs. KK K8xT and couldn't get away. It was around midnight when I bust and I considered playing cash, but the list was pretty long and I expected it would be a minimum of half an hour before I got a seat so instead just went back to sleep for the night. The next day we all (Dave, Darren, Peter, Karen and I) took a day off from the felt as we headed to the <span style="color: red;">North Las Vegas Premium Outlet</span> for some shopping, we had lunch at the food court before going our separate ways to get some new clothes. I personally bought a faux leather jacket ($40) and a checkered baby blue blazer ($240) which I love and you'll see later in this trip report, with two designer jackets for under $300 I was pretty pleased with my work. Then Knaggsy and I had to wait almost an hour while Dave inspect every corner of the Adidas outlet, we later joked how we watched a movie and had a round of golf whilst waiting.<br />
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The show was aquatic tapestry of artistry, surrealism and theatrical romance in the timeless production, "O™." It had an international cast of world-class acrobats, synchronized swimmers, divers and characters perform in, on, and above water to create a breathtaking experience in a magnificent theatre reminiscent of the Sydney Opera House which I'm all too familiar with. We all agreed it was a brilliant show and I would thoroughly recommended this to anybody, simply breathtaking. From here we took the tram back to Aria to sweat Knaggsy in event #6 the $150 evening event and have a few beers on the rail with Dave. I was tired and didn't hang around long, deciding to go to bed for early night around 23:00. The next morning we all had brunch again at The Café at Monte Carlo before heading next door to Aria for $340 Event #7 of the Aria Classic. This turned out to be a very frustrating day on the felt as I ended up spending $1,130 on buy-ins and re-entries, playing the $340 #7 twice and the $150 #8 three times. I eventually bust my final buy-in of #8 around 23:00 and decided to cut-off my losses and head to bed for the evening. For those interested, all my exit hands can be found on post #77 of my staking thread over the NPF.<br />
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Dave, Knaggsy and I all had a long over due lie-in this morning, after several nights of broken sleep which we all blamed on each other saying Knaggsy kept us up with his snoring, Dave and his endless time spent on the NPF and finally I took some of the blame due to my Facebook addiction. All good craic really, but we were all pleased to get a good ten hours sleep. We took a stroll up the strip to Bally's and had lunch at Nosh where I enjoyed a sandwich and a fruit yogurt, they then headed to the Fashion Show Mall to get some gifts but I couldn't be bothered with more shopping so instead went to camp in Bellagio poker room for a few hours. I left a small loser at 16:30 heading back to Monte Carlo to get freshened up and changed for the night. The evening had come of the <span style="color: red;">NPF Las Vegas Night Out</span>, which I had organised and was pretty stoked about. Unfortunately a couple of people didn't show up, but I understand in Las Vegas people can get carried away and lose track of time so it's all good. Me and all the guys that did come all agreed we had an amazing evening, starting off in <span style="color: red;">The Chandelier at Cosmopolitan</span> before walking over <span style="color: red;">Eiffel Tower Restaurant at Paris Las Vegas</span> for our dinner reservations. Then watching the Fountains of Bellagio before having a couple more drinks in <span style="color: red;">Club Prive at Bellagio</span> and finally finishing off at <span style="color: red;">The Deuce Lounge in Aria</span>. This for me was the highlight of the holiday, and I would like to extended my thanks to all that made it such a special and memorable evening. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves as much as me, check out all the photo's below of a very special night. <span style="color: red;"><i>#goodtimes #goodpeople #goodmemories #deliciousfood #signaturecocktails #excellentambience #onlyinlasvegas</i></span><br />
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I woke up the following morning with a little headache from the alcohol, but nothing a morning trip to the swimming pool with my surrogate dad Davey couldn't fix. After an hour by the pool split between sunbathing, the jacuzzi and swimming I was feeling a lot better. Peter and Karen were over The Rio already as Peter was playing the $1,500 WSOP Event #40, so Dave, Knaggsy, Paul, Karen and I took a taxi over to join them and get on the rail. We had lunch in the poker kitchen before registering for the $240 15:00 daily deepstack. This got 1,200+ runners and I finally had a bit of run good making a deep run eventually busting in 14th for $2,070. As much as I was stoked with the deep run I was pretty disappointed to go so deep in a huge field and at one point hold the chip lead with sixteen remaining to bomb out in 14th. That was the nature and structure of the tournament though and I put myself in a position to win when I could easily have folded down to 6th/7th for $10,000ish. Anything other than first would have been a failure so I'm pleased with my approach and my for the win attitude, $45,000 would have been nice but that's the variance I have come to accept as part of the wonderful game and move on. This run lasted over twelve hours as I eventually bust around 3:00am after starting 15:00 the afternoon before, we were all pretty exhausted and took a taxi back to the strip heading to bed. Big thanks to Dave, Darren, Peter and Karen who despite all busting pretty early hung around all night to show me support on the rail. As you can see it all got a bit much for Dave in his old age.<br />
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My journey home was of course very relaxing and I just hit the Cristal Champagne and enjoyed the fine gourmet meals throughout the flight. That just about brings a close to my fifteenth visit to this magical city and I can say confidently that was one of my best trips yet. The company made it a laugh a minute, it speaks volumes when you can lose $3,000 playing cash and the lads can still get you smiling and not caring the next day. I absolute loved this entire trip from start to finish and would like to pass on my thanks to all the guys who made it extra special, you all know who you are and I love you all. Thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoyed guys.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><i>#summerinlasvegas #lifetimememories</i></b></span>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-50856216600395622942013-06-11T22:35:00.000+01:002013-06-11T22:35:09.014+01:00Australian Digest Volume 14I'll wrap this past month up here in Australia in one digest. I landed in Sydney on Wednesday 15th May around 06:00, after picking up a breakfast from McDonald's I headed straight home to relax, watch some television, surf the internet and catch some sleep. Then in true degenerate style I headed over to The Star to get involved in the weekly $300 and unbelievably despite the jetlag I managed to close it out for $7,900. I thought I played pretty well, but there's no hiding I'm obviously running absolutely amazing right now and bang on the upswing of variance. <span style="color: red;"><i>#longmayitcontinue</i></span><br />
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On Tuesday 21st May I took a cruise out to Fort Denison in the heart of Darling Harbour, here I took the opportunity to have a guided tour where I learned the history and colourful past of the island. For example I now know since 1857 it's been a fishing spot, defence structure, navigational guide, tide gauge station, weather station, time marker and now a restaurant. Before departing I enjoyed a roast chicken lunch and glass of wine followed by a sticky date pudding at the island restaurant. A thoroughly relaxing, enjoyable and delicious way to spend the afternoon.<br /><br />
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Through out the month I've also been smashing the trips to the cinema, clicking up nine visits since I've been back in Australia. My mobile contract is with Optus and they have a reward scheme with Hoyts cinema to get half price tickets, which I guess goes someway towards explaining my frequent visits. I've been alone, with my home boy Steven Lee, with my friend Kerry Miller and also with my sexy ex-housemate Lisa Glanville. Throughout the month in no particular order I've seen The Hangover Part III, Fast & Furious 6, Snitch, The Big Wedding, The Place Beyond The Pines, The Internship, Dead Man Down, The Call and finally Iron Man 3. These all varied in quality from okay to very good, I didn't think any were really bad and the highlight which was to be expect was The Hangover Part III.<br /><br />
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As much as I'm loving and cherishing every day of my life right now, I can't help but think about activities over the UK which I'm missing out on at the minute. Over the next month or so I'm going to miss three of my friends weddings, which as you all know means I'm also missing three epic bachelor parties, another friends engagement party and finally my Dad, brother Steven and both uncles are off to Dublin for a weekend on the drink. I'm usually all over these special occasions and events, so it goes without saying I'm gutted to miss them all.<br />
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You may have noticed I haven't been mentioning my diet and exercise regime so much lately, this is largely down to the fact that I've been neglecting it somewhat which I'm admittedly very disappointed in myself about. I mean not so much my diet, I still feel although not perfect that I have that right and I'm content with where it's at for now. But I've done no exercise in over a month and I can make excuses like I've been over the USA and stuff, but the truth is everywhere had a gym and I've just been lazy. I'm hoping to get my motivation back soon and I can feel it coming, I know the benefits of working out and how much better you feel about yourself inside. It's a great feeling and one I want back. Because I've still been eating reasonably well I haven't actually put on any weight, as of 12th June 2013 I'm 81.1kg but I don't feel anywhere near as good as a month ago. <span style="color: red;"><i>#stopwishingstartdoing</i></span><br /><br />
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I've also done a bunch of others things during this month here in Sydney which I'll congest as I'm conscious this is getting a little long, I've been out for dinner to Zaaffran on Darling Harbour with Steesh which is widely considered the best Indian restaurant in Sydney. As well as my weekly schedule of games I've played the $1,000 Super Sunday event, $500 Queens Birthday event and headed to a private home game with my Sydney based poker buddies all of which were unrewarding adventures. I took a two hour drive south of Sydney to Kangaroo Valley for two nights, spending my time relaxing with some horse riding and fishing. Then finally booked a cruise with my friend Kerry Miller to watch the Vivid Sydney, which is basically a festival of lights around Darling Harbour and Circular Quay. This was also Kerry's birthday and the weekend before she left Sydney, so it was a great final night to spend with someone who has had a real net positive on my time here in Australia.<br /><br />
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I had a bitch of night yesterday as I came home to find my apartment had been screwed, I can say quite confidently I have never felt so violated and pissed off in my entire adult life. I was completely overcome by anger. I had some cash in both USD and AUD too ready for my imminent trip to Vegas, which was taken and left me rushing about spending most of my time on the phone to the UK and USA to put something in place. Looking forward and on a more positive note I'm flying back out to Las Vegas tomorrow to catch up with all my very good friends from the NPF, I'm mega stoked to see the guys and enjoy what I'm sure will be a fantastic trip.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>#summerinlasvegas</b></span>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-28940793470148984812013-05-19T12:41:00.001+01:002014-02-07T07:07:13.469+00:00American Digest Volume 03I'm currently sitting in my bedroom back at my apartment in Sydney, after almost a month over the USA I'm pleased to slow things down a bit and have some home comforts that are omitted whilst living out of hotels for so long. First thing I noticed was just how much colder it is here in Sydney compared to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, although it is Winter here in the southern hemisphere so it's to be expected really. I can only imagine how cold and miserable it'll be back in the UK right now. To pick up where I left ADV02 I left Las Vegas on Sunday 6th May in the morning, flying into Los Angeles and checked into Hollywod Roosevelt Hotel for three nights. I actually ended up staying eight nights waiting on my passport, so towards the end I was just paying for each night in the morning once I had checked the mail and I knew my passport hadn't arrived.<br />
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Once I arrived I didn't really do much to be honest, I had lunch at Palms Thai Restaurant and then just settled in my room and watched Scary Movie 5. The following day I wanted to check out the Commerce Casino and ideally they had there 2013 California State Poker Championship running so I got involved in the $200 evening event they had running. Keeping my amazing run of good fortune going I beat off 72 runners to close it out for $4,750. I was delighted with how I played and to introduce myself to Los Angeles. Much of the same on Tuesday and Wednesday as I was back over playing both the afternoon and evening events on both days, no luck in all four events and I was stuck around $900.<br />
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By Thursday I was worn out of poker so thought I would enjoy the entertainment on offer here in Los Angeles. I went to the place where imagination was the destination, for young and old, big and small it was the happiest place on earth! I build memories to last a lifetime and discovered the wonder of this magical, fantastical world. I entered one of the lands that comprise Disneyland Park, stories came to life around me, and I immersed myself in tales from some of my favorite Disney films.<br />
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The following day I had lunch and wrote up ADV01 over at Hard Rock Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard, I'm sure everybody is familiar with the Hard Rock Cafe brand and the menu they have on offer. Then I just enjoyed the nice afternoon walking around Hollywood and enjoying the sights particularly <span style="color: red;">The Hollywood Sign</span>, it really is a wonderful city full of beautiful houses and buildings. Then I headed back to Commerce to play the $500 PLO Championship Event, where I made a deep run but bust in 10th for $1,500.<br />
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Much of the same on Saturday as I had a relaxing morning chilling in my hotel room but making a move and heading back to Commerce Casino to play the $300 NLH side event in the afternoon, again a deep run in a three figure field but falling short of the big money as I bust in 13th for $600 getting 88 beat vs. 66 after getting it in on a x78 flop for 160,000 chip pot. I then ordered myself a banquet for one and enjoyed supper at Wood Dragon Restaurant before turning in for the evening. The following morning I was glued to my laptop as my very good friend and NPF owner Dave Collins had made the final table of the £500 GUKPT Stockton main event, unfortunately he fell just short finishing in second which by all accounts is still a great achievement but I know the guy well and he would have been so disappointed not to close. Still awesome effort and display, congratulations and commiserations mate.<br />
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After sweating out Dave I decided to get out and push the tourist button hard hiring a BMW 3 Series Convertible for the day and with my GPS on hand I headed off to Orange County and Laguna Beach. It was a great day as I worked on my tan in the 28°C by the beach and cruised along the seafront with the top down. I got full use of this as I drove around for the best part of five hours before heading to Commerce to play some cash until the early hours of Monday morning. After leaving the Commerce and arriving back at my hotel I was delighted to find my passport had arrived and I could make preparations to head back to Sydney, I rang Monette and asked to be listed for the Monday evening flight.<br />
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I paid for late check-out and relaxed in the room until around 18:00, then after dropping the hire car off I headed to <span style="color: red;">Los Angeles International Airport</span> around 20:00 for my 22:30 flight. As I've come to appreciate and maybe take for granted, I enjoyed the ultimate in comfort and dining flying in BusinessElite for the fourteen hour ultra long-haul non-stop flight from Los Angeles > Sydney. I'll close things up now as I'm heading off to <span style="color: red;">24/7 Sports Bar at The Star</span> to watch West Bromwich Albion vs. Man Utd in Sir Alex Ferguson's emotional last game in charge. <span style="color: red;"><i>#thankyousiralex</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>It's Dan Trett's world and everybody else is just living in it.</b></span>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-16393727534736515572013-05-13T11:34:00.002+01:002014-02-07T07:07:13.466+00:00American Digest Volume 02Lying in bed at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel a little after 3:00 for my 23rd night here in the USA split between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, whilst I'm definitely not complaining I'm optimistic my passport will arrive later this morning and if it does I'll be flying to Sydney this evening. Following straight on where I left ADV01. On Monday 29th April after finishing up at Caesars Palace I met Paul Richmond, the way his flights fell meant he was staying an extra night so we shared a room at Hooters Casino Hotel. We had a slow walk up the boulevard and caught The Fountains at Bellagio, which as always was very pretty and impressive. Then had a couple of drinks around New York-New York Hotel & Casino before going to bed around 01:00.<br />
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Paul left around 10:00 and I checked out of Hooters Casino Hotel and into Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower which was to be my fourth hotel of the trip. I chose Stratosphere as I had a free suite there available to me for my previous play credited to my acePLAY rewards card. So it was pretty cool to get early check-in via the VIP desk and complimentary mini-bar, local and international calls, free in-room movies, hi speed wi-fi, room service and gym/spa access all week. I won't tell you how much I lost to receive these benefits, but it's fair to say after accommodating me for the week they're still well ahead.<br />
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I spoke with the British Consulate General in Los Angeles and arranged an appointment on Thursday (2nd April) morning to sort my passport out. It was a really hot day so I just relaxed by the newly renovated swimming pool at Stratosphere until the Sun went down, then took The Deuce Bus ($8 for 24 hour pass) down to MGM Grand to play some 500NL for the night. I got beat up pretty badly and decided to leave around 03:00 to bed and accept my losses. I woke up pretty refreshed and decided to head over Orleans Hotel & Casino, who had there Tournament Of Champions festival running and today was #2 $500 PLO. In eleven years and a few final tables I've never managed to close out a PLO tournament, but I mean I haven't got a huge sample size and still think I represent reasonable value so I play them anyway. Again I battled through a field of 58 which I thought was pretty big for a $500 PLO tournament to finish in fourth for $5,500, although disappointing not to finish I was still stoked to run deep.<br />
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The following day I was back over Orleans playing #3 $500 NLH, unfortunately no luck this time as I 3BET 9Td from the BTN and emptied the clip after flopping a flush draw, gut shot and two overs (267dd). I missed the run out of course and shoved the river, the guy tanked for a while before eventually calling with JJ to bust me pretty early. No complaints and I'm happy with how I played the hand. So I headed back to Stratosphere to catch a few hours by the swimming pool working on my tan and then ventured out for the evening. I wasn't in the mood to play poker so opted to watch a show and I had my heart set on "O" at Bellagio, but by the time I arrived at the box office it was sold out so I instead went to see "KA" at MGM Grand. Both are Cirque du Soliel acts and I really loved "KA", so I will for sure in future visits make a big effort to see all other Cirque du Soliel performances up and down the boulevard.<br />
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Then caught a cab straight from McCarran International Airport to The Orleans Hotel and Casino to late register for the 12:00 #4 $500 PLO8 in the Tournament of Champions. Another unsuccessful but yet rewarding final table appearance as I bust in fourth for $2,500. I felt I got unlucky here, which I kinda did but after speaking with one of my friends and experienced players in split games. I think my biggest mistake was playing A5TJds, the board read TT346 so I ended up with TTTA6 for the high and a A3456 low. I was scooped by A235ds who played 23456 for a high straight and A2346 for the nut low. He explained reasons exactly why I shouldn't enter with bad low hands, which was demonstrated in the very hand that bust me. I'm okay with how I played in general and still very much a beginner in mixed games especially split variations.<br />
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Not to be deterred and pretty much because I'm just an out and out degenerate I was back over the following day for the $2,000 main event. I felt I played pretty good as I bagged up around 250,000 to take into day two, just a week after taking down the Mirage Poker Showdown main event I felt full of confidence and a strong sense of déjà vu. Things unfortunately didn't work out this time as I went back on Saturday and had a major blow up to bust in sixth for $5,000. Blake Bohn (nice guy and very good player) opened up the BTN to 16,000 (blinds 4,000/8,000/500) and I 3BET defended my BB to 36,500 with 83h, he made it 85,000 after a while in the tank I almost folded, but decided I couldn't get away from it so 5BET piled it for around 220,000 and he snapped with AA of course. <br />
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I didn't mind so much though as it was around 16:00 in the afternoon and I had ringside seats booked over at MGM Grand Garden Arena for Floyd Mayweather vs. Robert Guerrero, the card started at 18:00 so it was perfect timing for me to get to MGM Grand, have some dinner and take my seat for the under-card fights. The atmosphere was absolute electric, unlike anything I have experienced before and for sure worth every penny. This was Mayweather's first fight since being released from prison. After the first couple rounds, Mayweather was in complete control, catching Guerrero with right hand leads, counters and hooks. As widely expected Mayweather won by unanimous decision. <span style="color: red;"><i>#mayday #themoneyteam</i></span><br />
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After the fight I sat at the MGM Grand 500NL for a rather unrewarding few hours until around 05:00, losing two buy-in's before quitting. Then headed back to Stratosphere to get some sleep after being on the go for almost twenty hours. I woke up around 11:00 (Sunday 5th May) and headed to McCarran airport bound for Los Angeles, as I sweated out what I thought would be the last couple of days before my passport arrived. As it turned out, I was to be in Los Angeles longer than expected which I will detail more in ADV03.<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b><br />#lifeofdantrett</b></span>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-3682939012884062092013-05-09T23:22:00.000+01:002014-02-07T07:07:13.472+00:00American Digest Volume 01As I write this I'm currently sitting in Hard Rock Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard enjoying a rather unhealthy lunch. As I head into my fourth week here in the USA waiting for my replacement passport to arrive from the UK. I'm making the most of this predicament but I am looking forward to getting back to Sydney, especially considering I have flights already booked to come back here in less than five weeks. Moving on, I took the very long but extremely comfortable flight from Sydney > Los Angeles with Delta and flew in there BusinessElite cabin. This was courtesy of my good friend Monette, who listed me to fly as her buddy and as such I received all her employee benefits. She's such a great girl who I owe a lot and I'm very grateful for everything she has done for me. Upon arrival in Los Angeles I had a small hour layover before connecting to Las Vegas, which is just a short 45 minute flight and I arrived on Saturday 20th April around noon. I checked into the MGM Grand, check out room;<br />
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My boys from the UK didn't arrive until Sunday, so I just relaxed by the swimming pool until around 17:00. Then decided to head out for the evening to the Venetian to play a $300 Survivor event in their DeepStack Extravaganza series, I managed to run pretty well and close it out for $2,500. Whilst at the Venetian I also seen Allen Cunningham, who I introduced myself to and he was happy to share a Kodak moment with me.<br />
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I ended up pulling a graveyard shift at the MGM Grand 500NL table so by the time I crashed in bed it was around 11:00am Sunday morning. I slept all day until 18:00 in the evening, when I had arranged to meet the boys over at Pete & Shorty's in Hooters Hotel & Casino. Here I was introduced to some brilliant boys, some I was just meeting that evening and others I knew from previous trips. We all dived down Fremont Street as one of my mates got us on the VIP guest list at Gold Diggers in the Golden Nugget. I have very limited memory of the night, but check out awesome snaps below;<br />
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The following day most of the guys including myself were feeling a little bit worse for wear, so we had a relatively chilled out one. We went to the Crown & Anchor to watch Man Utd vs. Aston Villa and seen Van Persie net a hat-trick in half an hour which also crowned us champions. Then kicked it by the Hooters swimming pool for the afternoon, before myself and a couple of the guys decided to head back to Venetian for the $300 Survivor event of their DeepStack. We had no luck and I bust pretty early so joined the rest of the guys for a nightcap at Carnival Court, before having a relatively early night.<br />
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Tuesday I hit the poker hard playing the $2,500 main event and both the $300 and $200 side events at the Venetian DeepStack Extravganza. I had no luck as Jeff Madsen bust me in the main event as I got all in with AK on a AA6 board and he showed up with 66, then in both sides I made relatively deep runs without making the money.<br />
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Wednesday morning I had an early rise as I was off to the Grand Canyon with the boys. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time now, but for one reason or another I just never got around to it. I'm really pleased I've finally done it. The views are absolute phenomenal, especially from the new Skywalk. I went with five other boys, all of which I had just met this week and found all them to be great company during this excursion and throughout the week.<br />
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We were back in Las Vegas around 15:00 and I headed straight to MGM Mirage to get involved in the Poker Showdown I had seen advertised earlier in the week, I played the $500 and after running well I eventually bust in 4th for $2,000. So I was pretty pleased about that and decided to register for the $1,000 main event the following day with my winnings. Thursday morning and it was time to check out of the MGM Grand and into Terribles Hotel & Casino, this was to save on the weekend rates at the MGM Grand. I made a bad choice though with Terribles Hotel & Casino and found the whole experience very disappointing. Rude staff, dirty rooms, greasy food and a bad location. I'll not be staying there again that is for sure, see a couple of snaps of my room below;<br />
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I also lost my passport in the process of checking out of MGM Grand and into Terribles Hotel & Casino, but I'll go into that in more detail later. As mentioned earlier I played the Mirage Poker Showdown main event, fortunately I ran and played really well as I bagged up over 400,000 which was enough for the chip lead to take into day two and the final table. I had a rather restless night as I was really pumped to get the final started and spent most of the night surfing the internet. Nevertheless after having brunch with my boys at Aria buffet I returned full of optimism and after another great run of cards I managed to close it out for $34,000 knocking seven of my nine final table opponents out along the way. I loved every minute of this final and especially when my boys came to sweat out the action with five remaining. As any natural degenerate would do as soon as this was finished I headed next door to Caesars Palace and registered late for the $130 WSOP Warm-Up, another deep run here saw me bust in fourth for $1,574 to add another USA flag to my roll of honor over Hendon Mob. Needless to say the following day I relaxed drinking by the pool all day and celebrated pretty hard that night, with very limited memory of the evening. Check out some snaps below;<br />
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Sunday 28th came by all too quickly and I was saying farewell to all my boys from the UK and I knew when Monday came around it would be time to start making progress to get my passport situation sorted. But for today I decided to head back to Caesars Palace and get involved in their $240 WSOP Warm-Up, after three bullets and $720 later I eventually found some run good and again bust in fourth for $2,032. That pretty much brings an end to my first week here in the USA, but as mentioned earlier I'm still here and have a couple more American digests which I'll get written up over the next few days.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Don't go anywhere</b></span>Daniel Tretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16956958185042807541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2241931683256117298.post-10483617224690019282013-04-19T23:01:00.001+01:002013-05-08T00:09:14.513+01:00Australia Digest Volume 13As I write this I'm sitting in the International Business Lounge in Sydney Airport, enjoying an early morning flute of Moët & Chandon champagne waiting for my Delta flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. I've been confirmed in the BusinessElite cabin, so I'll enjoy the ultimate in dining excellence and in-flight comfort and amenities. This will go someway towards helping endure the marathon fourteen hour flight ahead of me. Needless to say life is pretty good right now and I'm stoked to see my boys and party hard in Las Vegas.<br />
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Last weekend I was invited around my managers apartment for a boys night in, there was five of us around all having a few drinks and some nice food including Scott, Julien, Peter and Geoff. He has a beautiful apartment just outside the city centre in a really nice area, this was a nice change which I enjoyed and will for sure go again to any of his future gatherings.<br />
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On Sunday 14th April I kept on pressing the tourists button as I headed over to Cuckatoo Island, this is a heritage-listed island in the middle of the beautiful Sydney Harbour. It only took a few minutes on the Ferry from Circular Quay and it is the largest and most impressive island in Sydney Harbour. I enjoyed a couple of signature cocktails at <span style="color: red;">The Island Bar</span>, before heading to a great picnic and BBQ area where I had some lunch. Then watched the sun go down over Sydney Harbour from the Camber Wharf on the Southern Apron. I had a magnificent day and fortunately it was a really nice day to boot too.<br />
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This last week I've only played one game of poker, when I took my seat in the $200 Monday Night Turbo. Things were going well as I had 24,000 when the average was 11,000 then I took a high variance line with AA for maximum profit which went wrong. Aggressive chip leader brought it in for 2,800 at 600/1,200 from HJ and I 3BET to 5,200 from the BTN. He took a flop which was 258r (one club) and he check/raised my 3,100 CBET to 8,000. I almost always shove at this point and if he has a set then cest la vie. But I was pretty certain he was on air and wanted to give him more rope. The nine of clubs hit the turn and he moved all in, I immediately called and he turned over a ATc for a turned flush draw which completed on the river. I'm pretty sure if my hand holds here and with 50,000 in a turbo I can put my opponents under a lot of pressure and expected to final table.<br />
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Tuesday I woke up pretty bored and restless, so decided to Google <span style="color: red;"><i>"Things to do in Sydney through the day"</i></span> and after searching through a lot of things I'd already done. I found a Jet Flight Simulator in Alexandria, which is a small drive from Sydney. So off I went and gave it a go, regular readers will know I flew an actual aeroplane at Las Vegas in March last year. So I mean of course it wasn't comparable, but I mean whatever it was still pretty enjoyable.<br />
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Then the following day on Wednesday 17th April I had Natalie and David Hodgson visiting Sydney. This was the first time I had met these guys and it was arranged by Dave Collins, who is the father of Natalie and knew we would be in Sydney together. Despite being violently ill for the most of the day, I was determine to make and effort to meet these guys. I'm really pleased I did as we had an excellent night together. We went to Kuanaville and Tokio Hotel Cocktail Lounge over at Darling Harbour for a few drinks and cocktails. Then had a late BBQ supper at a Korean restaurant which was very nice too. I got on really well with both of them and I'm really pleased to have met them. So thanks to Dave for having the foresight to put us in touch in advance.<br />
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I'll close things out now as I'm getting ready to board for the USA. Stay tuned for my Las Vegas trip report in a week or so and hopefully I'll be reporting some success in the Venetian deep stack festival. But win, lose or draw I'll have a brilliant time out there and will come back to Australia with some funny and entertaining stories.<br />
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