World
Series of Poker T+27,28,29
OK,
3 days ago, I played two $225 satellites,
lost them both, I have no idea what else
I did, probably watched a final table.
Then yesterday I played a $125 satellite,
got back $100 in a deal three handed,
then blew it. Then I played another one,
except when we were down to 5 I found
out I was going to see Star Wars at 12:20am
at Neonopolis. I'm not one to suddenly
play crazy and it was 11:50 pm, so it
didn't look good for making it to the
movie. Then 2 people went out and I tried
to make a three way deal so I could leave,
no luck, one of the guys had a backer
so said he needed to play it out. Then
we got heads up, again no deal. Then I
got ahead and he said OK, deal, but as
I was ahead I wanted the extra $100 (the
prize was two $500 lammers + $100 cash),
he said no, so we played on after agreeing
to a $100 save. I finished him off at
12:25am, $1000 richer but too late for
the movie, DOH! So then we found out it
is playing 24 hours a day over in Summerlin,
we headed over there and on the way a
giant rock (a real rock, not a poker player)
came flying across the road and smashed
my headlight. DOH! We got to Star Wars,
got out at 4:15am, then I got back, set
up the clocks for the day's two events
(seniors and some weird stud game), got
to bed at 7am, hence no trip report yesterday.
There was a lot of talk yesterday about
Brian Nadel who apparently attempted to
have a real fight with Daniel, I don't
know the details but I know security got
involved and that it could have turned
ugly.
Numbers
were very good for the seniors event,
I think it was something like 336 players.
What with that and the Deuce to Seven,
and the final table of the holdem/stud
event all going on at once the place was
a zoo today. Downstairs was also a zoo
with a line around the poker room waiting
to get into the super satellites. I decided
to try a couple of supers, my strategy
was going to be just one shot ($225) each
time, no rebuys. The supers have been
steadily getting bigger, the 4pm today
had over 160 people and gave away 10 seats
and some cash. I played the 4pm, got knocked
out in about 30 minutes. I really should
have rebought as the blinds were still
low and I would save on the $25 vig of
buying in again, but I decided to stick
to the plan so I got up, then sat in a
10-20 holdem game, and in an hour had
exactly made back my $225, wooooo, so
I quit while I was even for the day.
I
decided to try the next super at 8:45pm,
again a huge crowd and 10 seats and cash.
I had a great start and tripled up early,
this was what I had been hoping for as
I now made it to the end of rebuys with
a very good stack that would be able to
compete with all the rebuys the others
were doing. Somehow I got down to the
final 18. 10 would get a seat + $400,
11th. getting $2300, 12th. Getting $1200,
and 13th. Getting $800 (or something like
that). We managed to make a deal where
14 through 18 got $500 each, the money
coming from $250 from each of the top
10 spots. I was thinking I'd like to come
11th. as that would pay for my trip with
a nice little profit too, but it was not
to be. Greg 'fossilman' Raymer was at
my table, he played great but went out
just missing getting a seat. Mark Napolitano
was also at my table, he and I were the
shorter stacks at our table, I was in
the worst shape after I'd tried to steal
the blinds with QTs and got called by
the small blind with A9s. We were down
to 11 players, I had 3500 with blinds
of 600-1200 coming up in two hands, so
I was going to need help. Help came from
the other table when one of the big stacks
made a very small raise with ATs when
he could instead have gone to bed and
been guaranteed a seat. The chip leader
guy to his left decided to go all in,
and why not, he had AA. Then the miracle
happened, the first guy called! This was
a huge mistake, his stack was still good
and if he'd been paying attention he'd
have seen that others would go out long
before he did. The AA held up, Mark has
a seat in the 10K event, and so do I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Paul
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