WSOP Day 15

Event 24, $5k NLHE Shootout:  Had a ridiculously hard table with people like durrr, charder, Shannon Shorr, and Ashton Griffin, and really an entire table of people who are good players.  Somehow I chipped up from 15k to 40k in the first 4 hours without ever really winning a big pot, then I went really card dead when we were short  handed, and ended up heads up with a 135k to 15k chip deficit.  I won an all in with KJ vs AT when I hit a jack on the river, then I slowly chipped up to around 50k to his 100k.  With blinds 600/1200, we get it in preflop and I have 66 against his AQ, flop is ace high with 2 hearts, turn is a heart giving me a flush draw, but I blank the river to finish 2nd at my table.

Event 25, $1500 Stud8:  Busted just in time to register for this one, and I wish I hadn't.  Had a great table draw with people ready to gamble, but unfortunately I never dragged a single chip and busted within about 40 minutes.

$2500 NLHE 6-max tomorrow at noon and $10k limit holdem at 5pm if I bust that.

WSOP Day 14

Event 21, $10k Stud, Day 2:  Went into the day pretty shortstacked but hung around for a few hours with not many chips, and then after all that waiting I got my last chips in with 22A vs 555, not exactly the best spot.

Event 23, $2500 8-game:  Was really looking forward to this event.  Unfortunately it didn't go well.  I ran good in the limit games but in a NLHE hand I paid a guy off with pocket aces when he had a set, in a spot where I should probably lay it down but I paid him off for some reason.  After that pot I ran good in the limit games again, but then lost all of it in a big plo pot where I got about 1/5 of my stack in preflop with AAK9 with one suit, and got the rest in on the KT8 rainbow flop, and the other guy had T875.  Not much I can do there really, even against the hand he had I have about 36% equity, and I really think I could have gotten it in as a favorite a lot of the time since on the previous break I had heard him talking to his friends about how he was going to gamble it up in this tourney.

5k nlhe shootout at noon tomorrow, then 1500 stud8 at 5pm.

WSOP Day 13

Event 20, $1k donkfest:  Registered in level 3, busted in level 4, nothing very interesting.

Event 21, $10k stud: Ran good in the first few levels to get to around 50k chips but then ran bad the last level or 2 of the night, ended the day with 23,400 which is probably about half of average stack.  We restart at 3pm.

1500 plo and 2500 8-game tomorrow...2 great value tournaments to play.  Will play whatever I can depending on if/when I bust the stud.

WSOP Day 12, The Short Short Version

Event 18, $1500 NLHE:  Late reg'd, busted within an hour AJ < QT.

Event 19, $2500 Limit Holdem 6-max:  Had a ridiculous table draw at which it's definitely possible that I was the worst limit holdem player at the table.  Mix that with a little bit of runbad and it's a sure recipe for a quick bustout.

WSOP Day 11

10k 2-7 NL, Day 2:  Ran really good, getting action on my good hands and got down to about 23 ppl left with 170k chips which was probably about average stack, with the tourney paying 14 spots.  I know probably like 5 of my readers at most even play 2-7 nl but I'll post the hand anyway.  Playing 2k/4k blinds, utg+1 opens for 12k (playing 6 handed), I call in cutoff with 7532x, bb reraises to 42k, utg+1 folds.  I figure he has a pat hand here almost always but I also thought he could be kind of weak and I have a really good draw and maybe some bluffing equity if I decide to do that since I still have like 120k behind.  So anyway I call and he stands pat and I draw a king.  He checks to me and I tank for like a minute and I just decide I can get him off his hand often enough because he has to know I have a strong draw and could easily have a nut hand here, so I go all in and he tanks for at least 2-3 minutes and I really thought he was going to fold, but unfortunately he finally called with a 98642.  Oh well.

1500 donkament tomorrow and 2500 limit holdem if I bust that.

WSOP Day 10, Sooooo Close to a Bracelet

So yeah like I'm sure most of you know I finished 2nd place in the 10k o8 event for $287k.  Thanks so much to everyone who showed up to support me, and everyone who was watching online, it was so much fun having so many people in my corner rooting for me.  Hopefully I get another shot at bringing home the gold this year, but I'm completely happy with how I played the final table, so I'm not disappointed at all.  I lost a few key pots, any of which easily could have won the tourney for me, but it's pretty hard to be upset about getting 2nd place considering with about 25 people left I was last in chips and actually had less chips than at the start of the tourney.  On the other hand obviously it's hard to be that close and not be able to finish it, but I'm sure I'll get another opportunity sometime in the future.

It definitely feels good to get that WSOP monkey off my back though, since I've played somewhere between 150 and 200 WSOP tourneys in my life and never even made a final table before.

So anyway after busting I entered the 10k 2-7 NL tourney (event 16) and I made day 2 with 43,800 chips...maybe that will be my next chance?  Who knows...stay tuned to find out!

WSOP Day 9, It's Bracelet Time (hopefully)

Event 11, $10k Omaha8, Day 3:  Ok so yeah I'm really tired and sick right now so this blog post will be pretty short, but yeah I have about half the chips in play 3 handed right now and I'm guaranteed $214k at least, with $465k for first.  We restart at 3pm tomorrow, feel free to show up and root me on if you're in town.  :)