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Message: [QUOTE="baby kahuna, post: 872603, member: 36368"] Well I landed in Vegas on 8/4 to begin my Oddysey to the Caesars Classic in October. (WARNING NON POKER PART) I get on my flight and sit next to a beautiful young lady. I ask if the seat was taken and she says in a tough NY accent "SIDDOWN"! Wow! Then she smiled and man I was smitten. We talked and told me she was from visiting her brother who is in a Federal Pen and has 6 months to go. Ill make it short here but I noticed some tattoos and saw one that said JOE in bold black letters. So I did not want to make some wrong moves here. But she was very nice and that smile was so beautiful. I asked her about her tats and she said she had 6. One on her neck. 2 on her arms, and 2 on her ankles. I said deviously "Uh but thats only 5". She smiled again and looked around and pulled up the 2 most beautiful globes ive ever seen from a low cut blouse and spread them apart and there was Chinese characters between those breasts. You couldnt see them without her spreading them apart. I just stared and she just kept laughing and laughing. I thought this was a lucky sign. (BACK TO POKER) So I get in and get to a small tournament at the Caesars ($70). The room is great. A lot of space and comfortable. The staff is very friendly and helpful. August is a slow month and everyone is fighting for customers. I get to know a lot of dealers and floor guys and they seem generally happy that Ill be back for the Classic. I play the tournament and end up 7th. 3 away from the money. All in all a good nite. The next day Barry Tanenbaum stops by on his way to his game at the Bellagio. He gives me an hour of his time. Usually he doesnt come to your room unless it is for 2 hours but he is having some work at his house and he makes an exception. $200 for the hour. Barry is a Card PLayer columnist, Author, Coach, and pro player. I was very impressed by him at a seminar he gave at the WSOP in 2006. He didnt teach me anything that the books by Sklansky, Harrington, et al have been saying. But the extraordinary thing he did was gear it to my personality. He started with the basics then started to "read" me as the type of player I am. Telling me the faults in my thinking and approach. Essentially saying I needed to be more aggressive and become aware of "situations" that I can profit from. Telling me to remember that the players who consistently make the money on the tournament circuit are not getting better cards than the players that dont. But that they are playing better POKER. He then proceeded to give me hints when to do that. I dont know if I retained anything he said. Certainly it wasnt earth shattering or different from many of you out there has said on the forums. But Barry is a great man with a lot of knowledge and experience. He told me to try and change my play on some cheaper tournaments and see how I do. Around $50 to $100. Hour was up and he went on his way. All was good. Then I went across the street to Caesars poker room. It was 11:30 by then and didnt feel like playing in the last tournament but thats what I came for and did enter the $70 one. To make this long story short. I ended up with 4 players left and we chopped the prize money. I ended up with $250. A small sum but what struck me is that Barry's words kept spinning in my head and gave me the confidence to play a more aggressive game particularly when the antes were in. Reraises and Shoves at the most opportunal times kept me in the game and always with a nice size stack. Barry said to me if I continue in playing my Survival tight ways I was "Doomed to play continuously with a small stack hoping for good cards". Of course there are more specifics that he gave me. But all in all I am on my way to enter into the 10K Caesars classic with more confidence. SORRY FOR THE LONG POST [/QUOTE]

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