WSOP Day 8

Event 11, $10k Omaha8, Day 2:  Ran really good for the first half of the day, getting my stack close to 200k at one point which was in the top 5 in chips shortly after dinner.  Then I went really card dead as we neared the money and I basically folded almost every hand and lost most of the time that I did enter, and as the bubble finally burst with 27 players left I was down to 52k chips.  After the bubble I didn't get a hand for a round and was down to 27k when I got it in in a 3 way pot and made a full house to triple up, then shortly after I got it in in a blind vs blind spot where we both had the same aces up on the turn but I rivered a straight to double up again to about 170k.  Didn't play any big pots after that and ended the day with 168k which is 14th in chips with 22 people left.  We restart at 3pm.

Gonna go rest up now, I have a nasty cold and had another minor nosebleed today at the table, luckily this one wasn't very bad and I don't think anyone noticed.  I swear there's something in the air here in Vegas that doesn't agree with me because every year I come here I get sick in the first week or 2 and I rarely ever get sick anywhere else.  I would blame it on the dry air here but I think the air is just as dry in Phoenix...who knows.

WSOP Day 7

Event 10, $1500 NLHE 6-max:  Late registered for this at the 75/150 level, got my chips in with TT vs AK about 15 minutes after that and busted.

Event 11, $10k Omaha8:  Had a pretty good table draw and ran pretty good all day, except when I came back from dinner and blew my nose just as we were getting ready to resume play, and then my nose decided to start bleeding.  It took like 10 minutes to get it stopped and I had to go to the bathroom and miss some hands to take care of it, and there was blood on my shirt and shorts, obviously on the one day I wear a white shirt.  Luckily most of the blood came out pretty easily when I cleaned it in the bathroom so at least I didn't have to walk around for the last 4 hours of the day with an obviously bloody shirt.  Anyway, I ended the day with 52,300 chips which is a little above average, and we restart at 3pm.

I'll play the 3x chance NLHE if I bust before late registration is over for that, but that's probably pretty unlikely unless I run bad in the o8.

WSOP Day 6

Event 9, $1500 2/7 NL, Day 2:  Kept up the rungood for the first couple hours and got my stack up over 100k with 35 ppl left when no one else had much more than 50k.  My table broke at 35 and unfortunately my rungood didn't transfer to the new table, losing like 7 showdown pots in a row including the last one where I got in my last 30k with 97532 pat vs 8654x draw, obviously he catches a 3 to bust me in 31st place with only 28 spots paying.  Just so damn frustrated right now considering how big a chiplead I had.  There wasn't really a hand I could have played differently, every hand I got it in with was standard, I just couldn't win any of them.  Bleh I guess I'm used to the wsop torture by now so whatever.

$1500 NL 6 max at noon tomorrow, and $10k omaha8 at 5.

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.