WSOP Day 5

Event 7, $10k PLHE, Day 2:  Started the day with 41k at 500/1000 blinds.  First hand the big blind is sitting out, I'm on the button.  Cutoff raises to 2300, I call on the button with T8ss, small blind raises to 6500 and has me barely covered to start the hand, cutoff folds, I call in position.  Flop comes K42 with 2 spades.  Small blind leads for like 12k, I'm not crazy about the spot because it kind of seems like he likes his hand, but if he's even folding a very small % of the time then I pretty much have to shove since I have decent equity when called, so I shove and he calls with AJss which is pretty much my worst case scenario.  Jack comes on the turn and I'm drawing dead, busting on the first hand of the day.

Event 9, $1500 2/7 NL:  Not really much to say here, just ran like god all day, with all my good hands getting paid off and I don't think I got caught bluffing a single time.  Ended the day with 52,200 chips which according to PokerNews  is by far the chip lead; they have 2nd place with 33k chips right now.  But anything can happen in this game since there's so many big pots, but obviously I like my spot going into tomorrow.  We restart at 3pm with about 70 people left and 28 spots being paid.

WSOP Day 4

Event 6, $1500 Limit Holdem:  Had a pretty tough table draw for this one considering it was a $1500 buyin.  Never got much going, got to dinner break with 1700 chips at 400/800 level, but then went on a little run the next few hands to get to around 10k, but then lost a few hands and tried to ninja the shortstack for a while but it didn't work.  Busted just in time to register for...

Event 7, $10k PLHE:  Registered for this one at the end of level 4.  Played pretty tight the next 2 levels and ended level 6 around 28k, then the last 2 levels I got in a few pots.  My chips got down around 16k at one point, and I got up to 60k from there without ever being all in, but I lost a few medium pots right at the end of the day, ending with 41,300 chips, which is a little below average.  We start day 2 at 3pm.

Will play the $1500 2/7 NL at 5pm if I bust this one.

WSOP Day 3

Event 4, 5k NLHE:  Had a really tough table draw today.  Obviously a field like this has a lot of good players but some of the other tables looked way better than mine.  Never really got much going, my peak stack was around 35k from the starting stack of 15k, and I busted with about a half hour left in the day.

At least I lasted long enough to miss the 1500 stud I guess.

1500 Limit holdem at noon tomorrow, and 10k pot limit holdem at 5 if I bust that.

WSOP Day 2

Event 3, $1500 Omaha8:  This game is boring but people play so bad at it.  So many 7-way limped pots and people missing so much value on every hand.  Anyway my day was pretty uneventful, I think my peak stack was like 8k from the starting stack of 4500.  And I made the least optimal use of my time possible in this tourney.  I won or chopped 3 pots in the last 15 minutes before dinner break to get from 900 up to 2800 chips going into dinner, then lost them all on the first hand after dinner.  And dinner break was extended like 20 extra minutes because the chip-up took forever, so basically I waited almost 2 hours to bust in one hand.

5k nl at noon tomorrow and 1500 stud at 5pm if I bust that.  5k gonna be huge with probably over a million to first.

WSOP Day 1

Event 2, 25k Heads-Up NLHE:  In this structure we start with 25k chips at 200/300 blinds and can add on for 25k chips twice during the match.  I drew Steve Billirakis in my first match, who goes by MrSmokey online.  I've played lots of sngs with him over the years and he's a very solid player not the kind of player I'm really hoping for with this structure.  The match started off slow and for the whole first level (levels are 20 minutes) most pots were won preflop.  He won about 5k chips off me in a decent pot where I laid down 3rd pair, but other than that not much happened.  So we go to level 2 which is 200/400.  One of the first hands of this level I raise the button to 800 with a6dd, he 3bets to 2500, I call.  Flop comes TT6 with 2 spades, he bets 3200, I raise to 8k and he shoves and I call, he flips over KK and I don't suck out.  So now I use my first addon chip, and maybe 5-10 hands later I get KK and get it in and he has AA, and I don't suck out.  Now I'm down to my last 25k.  We get into level 3 which is 300/600, I minraise the button to 1200 with A7, he raises to like 4k and I shove for like 25k and he calls, flop comes ace high so I'm in good shape to double up, but a 5 comes on the turn and I'm done in about 45 minutes.

$1500 Omaha8 at noon tomorrow.

WSOP Time Again

Well it's that time of year again.  I don't really feel like I have much different to say about my attitude going into the WSOP than I did last year, so I'll just link what I wrote last year:

http://jorj95.blogspot.com/2010/05/most-wonderful-time-of-year.html

The one key difference obviously being the baby.  I hope he is a good luck charm.  I promised him I'd win him a bracelet this year so I have to uphold that.  Luckily he's probably slightly too young to remember just in case I don't happen to win one.

First event is tomorrow, the 25k Heads Up event.  I'm playing pretty much every event, basically signing up for the next one when I bust, just like I have the past few years.

I will try to blog every night like I did last year but I'm not promising anything.  I will definitely update my Twitter a lot if you want to follow me during the events.

Also I'm not on PokerStars Team Online anymore as of a few weeks ago, because I didn't want to relocate right away, and I may not want to relocate at all.  I wasn't ready to commit to all that yet, having just had a baby and having bought a new house.  I'm not going to worry about any of that stuff until after the WSOP is over anyway.

I have nothing but good feelings towards them still and am happy to have represented them for the the last year or so.

Now time to put up some good results for once at the WSOP!

WSOP Package

Quick post...

I'm selling pieces of myself for the WSOP for anyone who wants a fun sweat this summer:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/184/staking-selling-shares-live/jorj95-full-wsop-packages-1034461/