@AsianSpa Blogs: Trip to the Bike, Negreanu's Ban, and More
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I am blogging on my return flight to Vegas from five days in the lovely city of Bell Gardens home of the Bicycle Casino for the Winnin' o' the Green series. I played four events, Events No. 15 through No. 18 with no cashes. I came close in Event #17, the NL Deepstack, and was within seven spots to the money. I enjoy playing at the Bike and the cash game action is sick.
I played roughly 30 hours of $5/$5 and $5/$10 no-limit hold'em. I covered the trip �� tournament expenses but failed to bring home more than four figures. It was great to get out of Vegas for a few days, see some L.A. friends, and have a few drinks with my boy @PhongTurbo. I hope to return prior to the WSOP.
Looks like the Las Vegas weekly #HorseC**kAMent tournament hosted by Karina and Chip Jett has moved to the MGM. This is a great weekly event where for a small buy-in you can play alongside some top notch poker pros. I did see on my Twitter feed where Allen ��chainsaw�� Kessler will not be attending anymore MGM #HorseC**kAMents due to the fact of the noise from the adjoining bar. And per #TeamSpaLoyalist @KevinHoff, said he felt Kessler might not be getting enough #Trinkets (comps/swag) from the MGM. I will look into this next week and get the skinny, as I plan to attend the tourney.
Today the movie I have been waiting to see is being released. The movie is called All In: The
Poker Movie. I pre-ordered this about a month ago, and I am waiting for them to send me the download link, so I plan to watch it tonight and will give you my review next week. In the trailer on the site, I heard the best quote ever, it was Howard Lederer stating ��Heroes in poker don��t cheat.�� This has to be the greatest one liners I��ve heard in the past year.
The other item of the week was the banning of Daniel Negreanu on TwoPlusTwo. I just have to laugh at how the TwoPlusTwo moderators run the site like the Gestapo. I have an account on there, but I also added an account for AsianSpa two years ago, but was banned before I could even put up a post! I think poker needs a site where people can #TruthSpeak and not worry about getting a 24-hour ban, or as in my case a lifetime ban.
It��s been a slow week with news on my end, being out of town. I will be hitting the poker rooms this week and see what I can dig up.
Till then I send #GoodJuJu & #SpaRunGood,
@AsianSpa
