Reno
Hilton World Poker Challenge - Day 19
Today
was the first day of the final event,
33 entries, first place 70K. They just
got down to 9 players at 11pm, some were
upset that they weren't playing down to
the money (3 places were being paid, but
they adjusted the payouts to pay off 5K
for 4th. and 5th.). This means 4 people
at the final table at 2pm tomorrow won't
get paid. My horse died a slow agonizing
death when he couldn't catch any cards,
and when he did he ran into bigger cards
so got short stacked. Still, he did his
best and it was fun for me to have a horse.
I wish Jack Fox was my horse, he won a
satellite this morning to get into the
main event and is now one of the major
chip leaders, he is playing fantastic
and must be a favorite. Other notables
are Miami John, Randy Holland.
I
played the limit holdem tonight (120+100),
my sad story continued with a nice amount
of chips early, but then I ran into three
river beats and I was gone:
First
was my AKs vs the correctly s00ted AKs
(I know I should only play spade s00ted,
not heart s00ted, but I was feeling reckless)
then my BB A8 vs SB AJ A8x flop, J river
then my final all-in of A3s Vs KTo with
ATx flop, K river. IGHN.
Tomorrow is also the final evening event,
the 120+100 No Limit, I have one day left
to redeem myself.
Card
Player sent me a nice banner ad for the
clock, it informs us that Rick DaVoice
Charles is broadcasting live tomorrow
(1:15pm PST), and listeners can win two
$330 entries to the upcoming Commerce
event (it says to see Card Player site
for details).
I
played some video poker tonight, I usually
play a lot (Reno Hilton has full-pay deuces
wild) but haven't done much this trip.
I flopped 4 deuces and ended with a nice
$300 profit which paid for my limit holdem
disaster today, so unless I bet 9K on
Tyson winning a Nobel peace prize, I'll
be going home a winner.
Paul
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