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Matt Stout on Black Friday and the WSOP So Far

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:35:53 -0700

I've been a little too busy figuring out where the hell my life goes from here and doing some moderate drinking in the interim to blog, I guess.

I'm definitely not heading for the hills, freaking out, or considering leaving poker like some people are. I've always played a lot of live poker and am able to sell shares/get backing for the live events that are too big for my bankroll.

I've also been planning on doing more poker training for a while, and the extra time I have without online poker will definitely help me make that happen.

I certainly fall into the more fortunate and less affected category of poker players than the dedicated online-only grinders, but it's certainly going to screw with my business model to say the least.

I bought a house in Vegas six months ago and got dogs because I was planning on settling down, playing more online, and spending a lot less time on the road.

Now I'm left thinking that my best option is to get a second apartment in Vancouver just to be able to fly to ANOTHER COUNTRY and play online poker.

The short story of my WSOP so far is that I am piling on heaps and heaps of tournaments and going extra hard on the post-DOJ live poker grind.

So far there hasn't been much to write home about...I min-cashed one $1,500 NL and finished 46/1951 in the $1500 NL 6max after making a good call and getting binked on for HEAPS of chips.

I'm playing well though, and in tournament poker that's all you can do or expect of yourself. I know a lot of people who beat themselves up unnecessarily over standard tournament variance while they're playing well, and it's just absurd to do.

I'm on a huge downswing right now but am still feeling pretty good about life and don't think I've let it impact my play much, if at all.

I've started my own website at www.stoutpoker.com where I'll be posting some extra blogs/video blogs in addition to the ones I write for PokerListings. Eventually I'll also be setting up training camps and schedules for one-on-one private poker training, which you'll be able to book directly through the site.

It's in its infancy right now, but I'm pretty excited about making this thing grow!

As always, thanks for reading.

Stout

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Stout's Last Sunday Report from the Before-Times

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:45:08 -0700

It's painful for me to even look at this stuff right now with the current state of online poker, because my Sundays will never be the same again thanks to the good old DOJ.

I'm going to post my results for last Sunday's session on Lock Poker in a few days, but it's definitely not quite the same as my usual Sunday grind.

Anyway...I made a deep run in the Brawl but not quite deep enough. I went deep in the 109 cubed turbo again (third straight week), and once again busted in 6th place this week just like two weeks before. That cash was good for almost $10k, and brought me into the black for my last hardcore Sunday grind for a while.

I'm going to be playing a bit more live for a while to compensate, but don't be surprised if you see me crossing some borders to get my Sunday grind on in the near future. If I don't do it before WSOP I'll definitely be doing it after.

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.rawvegas.tv/watch/gavin-smith-slaps-allen-bari-really-hard/74846c4584a1aea35eb4c39fd50b2c

Length of session: 10:03

Total # of tournaments played: 38

Total # of cashes: 7

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $10,095

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $12,318

Net win/loss for session: +$2,223

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: +$5,972

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Stout's Sunday Report: April 3, 2011

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:42:15 -0700

I set up shop in my buddy's office at his house in Orlando and was ready to crush it and make fat stacks of cash. Unfortunately that plan went as well as Tiger Woods' plan of keeping his infidelity a secret.

I made deep runs in two of the huge multi-entry shenanigans including the $163+rebuys but busted 29th and 53rd in fields of 4474 and 1454, respectively. I had heaps of chips deep in the Sunday 500 as well, but eventually started losing every pot I entered and busted well short of the final table.

I stayed focused and played really well throughout the session, but even the $215+rebuys couldn't pull the Mariano Rivera-like save it usually does for me as I lost a huge flip in it to bust 69th.

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKcFPnS9r8Y&NR=1

Length of session: 12:12

Total # of tournaments played: 57

Total # of cashes: 9

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $12,462

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $6,449

Net win/loss for session: -$6,013

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: +$3,749

Don't forget the Bluff Pro Challenge running on Lock Poker throughout the month of April. The player in the contest who has the highest profit in MTTs + cash games for the month will win a Lock Pro contract and be featured on the cover of Bluff Magazine! Registration is still open at http://www.lockpoker.com/challenge/players.

Stout

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Stout's Sunday Report: March 27,2011

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:00:00 -0700

When I say that I don't just mean that it's fun when I'm winning and it sucks the rest of the time. Losing is never fun, but the only thing that's brought me as far in this game as I've come is a true love and passion for poker that has very little to do with money. Without it I'd have never pursued this dream and would not be the person I am today.

It's what keeps me going and hungry when I'm on downswings that stretch deep into six figures, like right now. I suppose it just courses through my blood the way tiger blood and Adonis genes do for Charlie Sheen!

The first of my final tables came in the PS $109 1 rebuy/1 add on turbo, which was about $45k for 1st. The turbo structure made the final table a crapshoot, and I busted sixth for $10,404.

Then I made the final table of the Lock Poker $60+rebuys guaranteed and had more than half of the chips in play five-handed, and more than five times as much as my nearest competitor. I somehow managed not to punt that large of a lead, and took it down for $4,884 to guarantee a nice profit for the day.

I stayed as hungry as always though, and managed to make the final table of the FT Sunday Mulligan. David Chiu, Ed "foxypham" Pham, and I had one hell of a three-handed battle for a while, but unfortunately I was the first one to fall in third place for $22,704. Congratulations to Ed Pham on taking it down though!

Joe "Joey Capp/Cappuccio816" also put Charlie Sheen's motto "I'm Bi-Winning!" into action by winning two tournaments outright for ~$40k himself.

Another one of my good friends who'd been running terri-bad had a huge score as well, and it seemed like my Facebook feed was full of friends who'd CRUSHED it for the day. All in all I've got to say...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CPlF-IEkXQ

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAexf4IUWQ

Length of session: 13:32

Total # of tournaments played: 48

Total # of cashes: 7

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $10,617

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $39,470

Net win/loss for session: +$28,853

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: +$9,762 (Every dime of that will go back into play this coming Sunday session, but for now...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fSEjlLQcRY)

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Stout's Sunday Report: March 20, 2011

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:19:48 -0700

I tried to act on my hands but one site stopped responding ... followed by another ... followed by the blank white screens in place of each table, which is the sure sigh of "YOU'RE F'D AND YOUR CARDS ARE PROBABLY ON THEIR WAY TO THE MUCK."

I am definitely the jackass here, because as I scrambled to my bedroom to grab my laptop while my desktop rebooted I was left thinking to myself "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, Shame on me." This sucks on multiple levels, including the fact that I was fooled twice by an inanimate object. How stupid am I? Shame on me, indeed.

I managed to make another run in the tournament I lucksack the most -- the $215+rebuys -- but it wasn't quite to be and I fell a bit short of the final table that often saves my Sunday session, finishing in 14th place.

Anyway, here it is...and cheers to better Sundays this 2011 for us all.

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u2HsIaDg5s

Length of session: 13:11

Total # of tournaments played: 44

Number of times I wanted to punch a hole in the wall of my new house: 2 (directly related to the number of times the computer crashed)

Number of times I refrained from doing so: 2 (My only victory of the day)

Total # of cashes: 3

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $9,669

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $2,870

Net win/loss for session: -$6,799

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: -$19,091

Matt Stout

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Stout's Sunday Report: March 13, 2011

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:30:25 -0700

I managed to lucksack a final table in the PS $215 hyper-turbo, which is even more of a crapshoot than the name implies. I finished 7th for $4k, which wasn't bad because I had about 5 big blinds from 14 players on and somehow people just kept busting around me. Then I went deep in a tournament that requires a tad more skill than that, the PS $215+rebuys. It's EASILY one of the toughest tournaments in online poker, probably the toughest, even. However I've always believed that I run far above expectation in it, and my stats are telling me the same now that I'm researching.

I've played 232 $200+r tournaments on PS and am up $114k in it for a return on investment of 81% ... a FAR higher ROI than I have in any buy-in level I play regularly.

As usual the final table was stacked. I even made a comment about how it always feels more like a home game between top online players than one of the bigger final tables of the day.

The short version of the final table for me was that I went in with the chip lead, spewed off a bit, then lost a pretty big flip with A♦ K♦ when Brandon Adams piled 4♣ 4♥ in my face.

I was still happy to have a profitable Sunday anyway, especially since 2011 has been nothing like 2010 for me in Sunday donkaments! Good game to my buddy Jordan Morgan who took a bunch of my chips and then chopped the tournament heads up for around $32k.

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg

Length of session: 13:12

Total # of tournaments played: 35

Total # of cashes: 5

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $9,314

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $16,916

Net win/loss for session: +$7,602

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: -$12,292

Matt Stout

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Stout's Sunday Report: March 6, 2011

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:28:12 -0800

Then since I didn't want to drive 25 miles home in LA rush hour, I decided to kill some time by playing a $10/20NL cash game at the Commerce a few miles away.

I proceeded to lose $2k, then went back to get Joey. He'd lost most of the 100k he was up to after busting me, and was back to around starting stack of 30k.

Just as a kicker, we went and got some Taco Bell on the way home. I'm eating a bit healthier nowadays, so I just got one regular taco and one of the new shrimp tacos I was dying to try.

Joey somehow managed to eat the ENTIRE taco without noticing that it was, in fact, SHRIMP and not BEEF in the taco. Just one final little "F*** YOU" from one of my best friends for the day. =)

Sunday didn't go any better than Saturday … see for yourself!

Matt Stout

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PsnxDQvQpw

Length of session: 10:29

Total # of tournaments played: 39

Total # of cashes: 5

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $9,587

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $2,434

Net win/loss for session: -$7,153

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: -$19,894

Matt Stout

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Stout's Sunday Report: February 27, 2011

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:30:30 -0800

Ironically I grinded the session at my friend Bryan Paris's house, even though he was still in the LAPC main event, since my good buddies Bryan Leskowitz (IKnewwwIt/Boston3Party), Jason Wheeler (jdtjpoker/jdpc27), and Chris Bonita (BonesMaster/BoNeZee) were all grinding there.

We also had the pleasure of having Bryan's awesome fiancée there to cook and help out. Thanks, Nicole!

To be honest I was really happy with the way I played pretty much the entire session, but the results just didn't come.

Lock Poker ran a $100k guaranteed $109 2 rebuy/1 add on tournament that got almost 750 entrants and paid about $22k to first. The Lock Pro rungoodsauce failed me when I ran T♣ T♠ into Q♠ Q♣ on the stone bubble for the 250k chip lead against a very loose player. I flopped a set, and lost to a turned flush.

I definitely got my money in bad and should lose, but the combination of it being a great spot for me to get it in and flopping a set definitely made it brutal...not to mention I'd LOVE to represent Lock Poker well by winning their first ever $100k guaranteed event on the Merge Network after winning their $50k guaranteed two weeks ago.

I made a lot of runs and had big stacks in a LOT of other tournaments as well with a total of seven cashes, but took a couple beats and couldn't win flips when it counted.

Congratudolences to Chris "BonesMaster" Bonita taking 9th in the Sunday Million to be the only one of us who profited for the day, but losing a 20 million chip flip for the chip lead. Gee gee, buddy. =/

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/user/jeffreygeiger123#p/u/5/Q5UQoKYW70Y

Length of session: 10:29

Total # of tournaments played: 35

Total # of cashes: 7

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $8,258

Total # of pepperoni slices Bryan's new chihuahua puppy Fred ate off a slice a pizza before any of us noticed: 4

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $2,708

Net win/loss for session: -$5,550

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: -$12,741

Matt Stout

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Stout's Sunday Report: February 20, 2011

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:14:19 -0800

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/719364/

Total # of tournaments played: 34

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $10,477

# of times I'd rather bash my head into a wall full force than have to relive this session: 46

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $992

Net win/loss for session: -$9,485

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: -$7,191

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Stout's Sunday Report: February 13, 2011

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:12:05 -0800

February 13, 2011

I made a run early in the session at the Sunday Warm Up, but it fell apart pretty abruptly. I re-focused and managed to pull out a win in Lock Poker's $109 $50k guaranteed Sunday tournament for $11,340 though. Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! I closed out the session by winning a satellite for next month's $5k event at the Bike in LA that I was going to buy into anyway, so winning the package was just about as good as winning cash anyway.

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

Total # of tournaments played: 46

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $11,516

# of times I pounded my brand new desk after watching 600k chips at 4/8k in Warm Up melt away: 2

Total cashes/bounties: $21,878

Net win/loss for session: +$10,362

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: +$2,294 (oh hi overall 2011 Sunday profit, nice to meet you!)

Matt Stout

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Stout's Sunday Report: Jan 30 and Feb 6, 2011

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:18:11 -0800

January 30, 2011

This was an epic session since one of the major sites allowed multiple entries in all tournaments with guaranteed prize pools for the day.

I was stuck about $12k for the day 12 hours into my session and had just two tables left to salvage the session.

Fortunately I took down the $109 cubed (1 rebuy, 1 add-on) six-max for about $24k to save the day!

Total # of tournaments played: 54

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $13,814

Total cashes/bounties: $28,752

Total keys that flew out of my keyboard during the session: 4

Net win/loss for session: +$14,93

Net win/loss for the year in online Sunday sessions: -$2,437

Matt Stout

February 6, 2011

I took down a Lock Poker $109 tournament for $2,000 and had a couple deep runs in other events, but fell short of a profit for the day by a BIG margin. Back to battle next week.

Anti-tilt video of the week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU

Total # of tournaments played: 48

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $9,985

Total cashes/bounties: $4,354

Net win/loss for session: -$5,631

Net win/loss for 2011 in Sunday online tournaments: -$8,068

Matt Stout

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Welcome Back to Stout's Sunday Report

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:06:40 -0800

The last Sunday Report was for the Halloween 2010 session, and it had me up ~$146k on Sundays since I'd started the Sunday report on February 7, 2010. I closed out the year strong and probably would have ended the Sunday Report for 2010 at +$160k or so.

I'm also probably going to have my own media site soon where I'll be posting more in-depth info as well as some other blogs and video blogs. Should be a lot of fun. More details to come in future Sunday Reports.

So without further adieu, I present you with 2011 Sunday Report!

Total # of tournaments played: 52

Total buy-ins/rebuys/add-ons: $10,737

Total cashes/bounties: $5,625

Net win/loss for session: -$5,112

Net win/loss for the year in online Sunday sessions: -$17,375

This reflects a loss of $5,544 on January 2nd, $2,089 on January 9th, and $4,630 on January 16th. Not the way I planned on starting the year, but there's a lot of Sunday online poker action left in 2011 and plenty of six figure prizes!

Matt Stout

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Stout's Sunday Report: November 7, 2010

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:15:48 -0800

I started the day off with a deep run in the Sunday Brawl. I had a huge stack deep in this tournament and was one of the top three stacks with about 100 players left. I made one big bluff that failed, and then ran Q♠ Q♦ into my buddy Todd Terry's K♠ K♥ to bust for a pot of about 55 BBs.

The ladies failed me again when I got it all in pre with them against A♦ Q♠ for more than enough chips to coast to the win for a ~$16k PCA package deep in the $700 satellite, which was another reason I was really happy with the way I had played for the day ... albeit a bit frustrated, of course.

On the bright side I managed to salvage a win for the day in one of the new late night turbos. I lucksacked my way to the final table of a tournament where the average stack is usually under 10 BBs without ever getting really short.

I was chip leader three-handed, but that obviously doesn't mean too much in a turbo structure and I finished third for almost $11k, which was more than enough to save the day!

I also took down the Stars six-max $109+rebuys on Monday night for $18.6k. I think it's time for that little downswing to be over and for me to get back to being a lucksack teeming with rungoodsauce! =)

Matt Stout

Total tournaments played: 32

Total amount of buy-ins: $8,800

Total number of cashes: 2

- 62/2,881 in the Sunday Brawl, $1,037.16

- 3/306 in the Stars $215 2x chance turbo, $10,825.40

Length of session: 10:48

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $12,082.56

Net win/loss for the day: +$3,282.56

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$149,124.21

Read More Stout's Sunday Reports:

October 31, 2010 October 24, 2010 October 10, 2010 October 3, 2010

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Stout's Sunday Report: October 31, 2010

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:36:43 -0700

I was also fairly disappointed to even be home at all for this day to be honest. My original plan involved being deep in the Foxwoods WPT event that I finished third in last year for the biggest score of my life.

I had a pretty good day one and finished with almost three times starting stack and over 200BB, but had a gross day 2 and fizzled out.

I also busted around 50th in the first ever $10k WSOP Circuit Regional Championship in Hammond, IN (near Chicago). It drew 226 players, which sounds low compared to WPT events but represents a HUGE turnaround for the WSOPC.

They also have a WSOP Circuit Championship event at the end of the year that's freerolled with the juice from the season's Circuit stops, has a $10k prize pool, is only open to 100 players who win their way in through WSOP Circuit cashes/final table finishes, and awards a bracelet to first place.

On to the online session ... it was a decent one. I cut out a few smaller tournaments in an attempt to play fewer tables at a time and concentrate on the larger events.

I had a couple of cashes in early big ones, but never went super deep and lost a couple huge flips. I saved the session by winning a $700 satellite for a $7k package to the $5k NAPT event at the Bike that I was going to play next week anyway.

I also made another deep run in one of the late night heads up super turbos, which are a ridiculously fun and degen way to try to salvage a win at the end of the night. Tying for ninth didn't quite squeeze out a profit for the day, but losing less than $1k of >$9k in buy ins for the day is basically like breaking even anyway.

Matt Stout

Total tournaments played: 34

Total amount of buy-ins: $9,429

Total number of cashes: 4

- 215WU (585/4680 $336.96)

- 109r3 (97/1154 $759.96)

- T1/85 in $700 satellite to NAPT at the Bike in LA, $7,000 ($5k seat, $1,150 hotel, $850 cash)

- Tied 9th/354 in Stars $101 super turbo heads up w/bounties $265.50 + 4 bounties, $465.50

Length of session: 10:48

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $8,562.42 (including the $5k seat and $1,150 hotel room in package)

Net win/loss for the day: -$866.58

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$145,841.65

Read More Stout's Sunday Reports:

October 24, 2010 October 10, 2010 October 3, 2010 September 26, 2010

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Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:20:38 -0700

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Stout's Sunday Report: October 24, 2010

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:57:59 -0700

Total tournaments played: 38

Total amount of buy-ins: $8,506.45

Total number of cashes: 4

- 16/260 in Cake $109, $185

- 14/141 in Stars $109 2r1a, $678

- 124/1346 in Stars $109, $242.28

- 112/1128 in Stars $23.45 hyper-turbo, $51.88

Length of session: 11:51

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $1,179.16

Net win/loss for the day: -$7,327.29

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$146,708.23

Read More Stout's Sunday Reports:

October 10, 2010 October 3, 2010 September 26, 2010 September 19, 2010

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Stout's Sunday Report: October 10, 2010

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:51:45 -0700

And that I did! Even after final table bubbling my very first tournament of the day -- the Tilt $109 -- I kept playing my best. Then 14th in the Cake $109. 10th in the Stars $109 2r1a.

I finally managed to not final table bubble the Stars $109 turbo when I got deep in that, though! I took 9th.

At this point Brian Devonshire came over with his usual positive attitude and some alcohol to boot. Hanging out with him and my roommate Jon Eaton and having a few beers definitely made me feel a bit better.

I was a bit frustrated, but on one level I was really proud of myself for taking it in stride and continuing to play my best all day.

Then I played the late night super turbos and got my best finish of the day, a tie for 5th in the Stars $102 hyper-turbo heads up. The $8k+ for the winner could have salvaged a profit on the day but my 5♠ 5♦ fell to the mighty T♠ 4♣ in the final hand to bust me 5th and end my day.

...and then we drank some more!

- Matt Stout

Total tournaments played: 38

Total amount of buy-ins: $8,953

Total number of cashes: 9

- 10/693 in Tilt $109, $727.65

- 39/257 in Cake $109, $165

- 339/7661 in Sunday Million, $597.55

- 14/444 in Cake $162, $877.50

- 10/130 in Stars $109 2 rebuy 1 add-on, $750.75

- 83/1340 in Stars Second Chance, $509.20

- 9/879 in Stars $109 turbo, $1,230.60

- 51/507 in Stars $204 hyper-turbo, $405.60

- 6/256 in Stars $102 hyper-turbo heads up, $896

Length of session: 10:58

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $6,159.85

Net win/loss for the day: -$2,793.15

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$154,035.52

Matt Stout

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October 3, 2010 September 26, 2010 September 19, 2010 September 12, 2010

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Stout's Sunday Report: Oct 3, 2010

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:16:32 -0700

I seem to have an odd curse when it comes to Sundays in London. All three Sundays I've spent in foggy London-town have seen me go into day two or three of a live event to start the day.

Now, that'd be a great problem to have if it weren't for the rest of the story. I always go into the late stages of a live tournament and bust out in time to play at least the majority of the online schedule only to bomb the online session as well.

The fact that London is five hours ahead of New York time, so the Sunday Warm Up doesn't start until 6pm, obviously helps me make a lot more of these sessions. However, it also makes for some ridiculously epic sessions , the likes of which I haven't played since I started grinding out Tropicana's cash games in Atlantic City when I was 21.

Last year I got bluffed in a really sick spot near the bubble of EPT London, grinded my stack back up, and lost a 60 big blind flip to bust about 5 spots from the money in the event. I went home to run J♠ J♣ into an abolute spazzbox psycho's A♠ A♣ with two tables left in the 750k guaranteed on Tilt for a boatload of chips.

It was an outrageous 18 hour session that easily qualifies as the most disgusting day of poker in my life.

This year's versions haven't been quite as brutal, mainly because they weren't peppered with quite as much hope as previous ones. This year I busted in 16th place for £2,900 in the £1,600 pound EPT side event on Sunday afternoon, first place was £101,000 (~$160k), and went on to have the lackluster session detailed below.

I'm glad that my girlfriend and I had a lot of fun on this trip, because it sure as hell wasn't a productive one as far as poker went!

Total tournaments played: 34

Total amount of buy-ins: $8,832

Total number of cashes: 6

- 131/1596 in Tilt miniFTOPS $11+rebuy Rush, $68.54

- 37/1941 in Stars $109, $349.38

- 498/4338 in Sunday Warm Up, $329.68

- 66/1079 in Stars $109+rebuys, $883.52

- 54/556 in Tilt $163+rebuys, $825.30

- 94/1201 in Sunday Mulligan, $360.30

Length of session: 10:22

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $2,829.72

Net win/loss for the day: -$6,002.28

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$156,828.67

Matt Stout

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Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:34:44 -0700

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Stout's Sunday Report: September 26, 2010

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:27:44 -0700

Negative variance has truly started to rear its ugly head in my Sunday sessions.

I said a few weeks ago that these blogs weren't really showing what I originally intended it to do, show the huge ups and downs of my Sunday swings, because I'd been running too well. That's finally starting to level off a little bit, although I'm still showing a healthy profit for the year and plenty happy with the overall results.

This particular Sunday session actually started out as a live session for me, and I was truly hoping not to make it back home in time for online tournaments. It was day three of the WSOP Europe £10k (~$16k) main event. 60 players were remaining of over 300 entrants, and 36 spots were paid out.

Unfortunately, I didn't even get to sniff the bubble on that one. I squeezed out of position against Phil Ivey's open and Andy Frankenburger's flat on the button with A♠ K♣ with a stack of about 80k at 1200/2400. Ivey instantly announced that he was all in, Andy folded, and I quickly called.

Ivey showed T♠ T♣, and we were off to the races.

Since Ivey had won a huge pot by freerolling with A♦ K♦ against Nick Schulman's A♠ K♣ the previous hand, I looked at Ivey and said "C'mon Phil...can I have this one since you just freerolled Nick?"

"Actually, tell you the truth, this is the first one I feel like I'mma win."

Now let me tell you ... I'm such a relentlessly positive person that even with Ivey telling me he was going to run good I was SURE I was going to win that pot. The flop came T♦ 3♥ 4♥ LOL...maybe I was wrong. Perhaps there's someone who is able to outdo my rungood? Only Ivey though.

I picked up a sweat when the Q♣ hit the turn, but I bricked the river and was out the door less than 30 minutes before arriving for the day.

That meant that I had a few hours to kill before the $5k WCOOP main event with over $2 million to first.

Total tournaments played: 26

Total amount of buy-ins: $13,303.74

Total number of cashes: 2

- 50/1344 in Stars $109+rebuys, $1060.08

- 55/680 in Cake $268, $480

Length of session: 11:42

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $1,540.08

Net win/loss for the day: -$11,763.66 (...-$28,013.66 counting the £10,350 WSOPE buy in, but running tally is online only)

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$162,830.95

Matt Stout

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Stout's Sunday Report: September 19, 2010

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Variance decided to rear its ugly head for another Sunday session. Good thing I ran great most of the Sundays this year so that there's a mountain of 2010 Sunday profits to chip away the losses from. =)

The hand of the day was a little dirty. I made a really close decision to get it in with A♣ 9♦ on a 9♠ 6♠ 3♦ flop for a huge pot, 200k at 1200/2400. My opponent had A♠ 8♠, so I was in really good shape to be near the chip lead playing for $92k with 50 players left.

He binked the river, and I failed miserably for the session as a result.

Matt Stout

Total tournaments played: 39

Total amount of buy-ins: $9,815

Total number of cashes: 2

- 27/1022 in Tilt $75, $317.33

- 50/669 in Tilt $163+rebuys, $930.60

Length of session: 10:02

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $1,323.93

Net win/loss for the day: -$8,491.07

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$174,594.61

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Matt Stout VLog: Days 1B and 2 at WSOPE Main Event

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Stout's Sunday Report: September 12, 2010

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

I went crazy trying to figure out what the accounting errors were for this session. Part of it was me forgetting that Stars now uses separate account for US dollars and British. So now when I buy into satellites for EPT London, I must do so in British Pounds.

Now, if this were going to simplify things for British players I would understand. But the fact is that the vast majority of Stars tournaments and cash games are spread in US dollars anyway, so I'd have to imagine that this is just a bad idea all around and even a pain in the ass for British players.

Feel free to comment below, especially if you're British/know why this would be good for British players.

Anyway, I was nearly able to pull off the same trick as the last two weeks ... the one where I get stuck anywhere from $10-20k during the course of the day and manage to lucksack my last tournament of the day and get almost all of the money back.

This time I was stuck about $9k, and the attempted save-my-ass tournament of the week was the Stars $215+rebuys. I was cruising along slightly above average for quite a while as we approached the final table.

The Jon "apestyles" Van Fleet and I got into a pretty standard coin flip for the chip lead. I had A-K against his 10-10, and we got it in pre for 410k at 3/6k. The flop came K-8-4 rainbow, but the turn was a ten and I was drawing stone dead.

Not quite sure why the flop can't just come 10-2-2 if he's going to win the pot, and I'd like to tell the RNG to GFY for that reason. =)

Matt Stout

Total tournaments played: 40

Total amount of buy-ins: $9,873.51

Total number of cashes: 4

- 100/1056 in Stars $109+rebuys, $565.60

- 53/1196 in Stars $55+rebuys, $584.50

- 86/1305 in Tilt $75, $139.57

- 10/352 in Stars $215+rebuys, $3,581.20

Length of session: 12:42

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $5,020.87

Net win/loss for the day: -$4,852.64

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$183,085.68

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Stout's Sunday Report: September 5, 2010

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

This Sunday's session was eerily similar to last week's, but on a larger scale. Last week I was able to squeeze out a win in the $109 2 rebuy 1 add-on for $8,600 to end the session only -$19.52.

This week helped me dig a deeper hole to get out of, thanks mostly to the World Championships of Online Poker High Roller event. It was a $10,300 buy in, and I doubt I won a single pot of more than 50 big blinds the entire tournament LOL …

I made a slow and steady nosedive for several grueling hours before being eliminated in far-from-spectacular fashion.

In fact, I managed to do about $17k in buy-ins on Stars that day without a single cash!

Fortunately for me Tilt was a much different story. I played a very limited schedule on there so I could focus on the $10k and all the juicy stuff happening with WCOOP. I made runs in their two biggest tournaments of the day, but couldn't break the top 100 in either.

I did, however, manage to parlay my smallest buy in of the day (besides the $53 super turbo 300 chipper), $75, into over $18k and nearly get me out of the red for the day! Weeeeeeeee!!!

I got ridiculously lucky nine-handed at the final table when I turned top two against Broadway holding A-Q against K-10 on a rainbow board. I was all in and facing elimination and a -$17k day, but managed to pull the miracle four-outer boat on the river in standard "sick life" fashion. =)

In continuing with that fashion, I picked up A-A against K-K and 10-10 with seven players left to bust two people. I had over 1.5 million and about half the chips in play five-handed after that. The second stack was about 400k.

I never looked back from there, and managed to only be down $280.97 for the day. Considering what I was able to make up for with a $75 tournament, I doubt I've ever been so happy to almost break even for a session in my life!

Total tournaments played: 31

Total amount of buy-ins: $20,073.71 (new record!)

Total number of cashes: 3

- 193/2820 in Sunday Brawl, $451.20

- 119/3397 in Tilt $750 gtd, $750

- 1/1,203 in Tilt $75, $18,261.54

Length of session: 12:47

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $19,792.74

Net win/loss for the day: -$280.97

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$187,938.32

Matt Stout

Stout's Sunday Report: August 29, 2010

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

It's official, this is THE LATEST Stout Sunday Report of all time! ::blows airhorn::

I'd like to apologize to my good friend Bryan Berc and his buddies, who have apparently been anxiously awaiting this report. I got yelled at while trying to motivate myself to write earlier this evening. It helped.

I had a flight out of Vegas at 7am on Monday morning and have been spending time with family and my girlfriend ever since. At some point on Friday I said to myself, "Holy shit, I didn't even do the Sunday Report yet!"

So here I sit, 4:42am on Sunday before one of the biggest Sundays of the online poker year (WCOOP, including the WCOOP high roller $10k) writing the Sunday report.

I did something on this Sunday that I've never done before...and not something I'd particularly like to do again. I cashed eight times and won a tournament while losing for the day. Quite a feat!

There were three different $700 satellites on Stars last Sunday, which didn't help the cause. Neither did a total of $1,509 in buy ins for the late $109+rebuys. Easily the most I've been in for in a $109+rebuys since Neteller left the US market and people stopped playing the rebuy hour online like they were all smoking crack. Ahhhhhh, the good old days...

I took down the $109 + 2 rebuys and 1 add-on on Stars for $8,600. The only thing noteworthy was the heads up match. I got heads up with a guy didn't seem particularly good, so I said "No thank you, good luck" when he requested a chop.

He immediately proceeded to raise to 140k on the button at 5/10k while we were on ~500k stacks each. He'd made a lot of huge preflop raises earlier at the final table, so I decided to shove with A♠ 8♠. He thought it over before calling with 8♣ 9♣, and I took it down. Good times. ;-)

Total tournaments played: 45

Total amount of buy-ins: $12,409

Total number of cashes: 8

217/2587 in Tilt $256 Sunday Brawl $413.92

895/6899 in Stars $55 $68.99

410/8190 in Sunday Million, $573.30

435/13,864 in Turbo Takedown freeroll, $260

1/131 Stars $109 2 rebuy, 1 add-on, $8,600

91/1307 in Tilt $75, $135.27

23/236 in Stars $215+rebuys $1,768

56/760 in Cake $268, $480

Length of session: 12:03

Total amount of cashes/bounties: $12,389.48

Net win/loss for the day: -$19.52...pretty funny after 8 cashes and an outright win LOL =)

Net win/loss in online tournaments on Sundays since the start of the Sunday Report (February 7, 2010): +$187,938.32

Matt Stout