WSOP
2003 Day 16 & 17
Do You Have Any Flashlights On The Menu
Yesterday
was the final table of the 5K No Limit,
as you'll have heard by now it went on
past midnight with Johnny Chan victorious.
Even at the end the crowd was huge, thanks
mainly to the great game going on, but
also because John Bonetti had taken over
the microphone and was in rare form entertaining
the crowd with stories and some pretty
good one liners (introducing famous players
in the crowd..."Here's Kathy Liebert,
she goes on a cruise and wins a million
dollars, I go on a cruise and get seasick").
The downside was if you were one of the
players then it must have been quite a
distraction.
I
had dinner with a friend at the 4 Queens
in the steak house in the cellar, I have
no idea what I ate as they have one candle
to light up the whole place, I just pointed
randomly at the menu and ate whatever
they put in front of me, it tasted pretty
good though. One nice thing here is the
salad cart they bring around, you get
to choose from about 10 ingredients that
they then toss together at the table,
very nice.
Today was supposed to be bracelet day,
it wasn't, but it was one of the weirdest
tournaments I've ever played. In a period
of 30 minutes at the second level I got
the most incredible rush of cards:
44 (I limped in a multiway pot), mucked
on flop
77 (I raised), got called by the big blind,
bet out the Axx flop and he folded
AK (I raised), got called by a tight player
in the small blind, he bet out the Qxx
flop, I raised, we both checked the turn,
Ace on the river, I bet and he checkraised,
I called, he had AQ. I think I messed
up here, I should have checked the river
AQ (in the big blind, called a raise from
the button), check raised Qxx flop, won
a decent pot against AK
TT (I raised, they all folded) 55 (I limped
in a multiway pot, yeah, I know), folded
on the flop
KK (I raised one limper), got 3 more callers,
flopped Kxx two hearts, limper bet, I
raised, we were heads up. Turn was the
third heart, she checkraised, I called
(still had outs), and called the river
(maybe a bad call but I though she might
have two pair), she had J6 of hearts,
that one cost me a lot
QQ (I raised), one caller, I bet the low
flop, he mucked
JJ (I called a raise in the big blind
hoping to trap an aggressive button stealer,
except it came Axx and he had A5o, I checkraised
the flop, he reraised and I mucked), more
chips gone
JJ (I raised), one caller, I bet the low
flop, he mucked
T9s (I called a raise from the same aggressive
button, maybe this is a mistake but he
had raised every single time and T9s didn't
seem like a bad hand to take to the flop),
this is the one that did me in, flop was
T9x, I check raised the flop, he reraised,
I called. 8 on the turn, I bet, he raised,
I called. Q on the river, I checked, he
bet, I called, his JJ had just got there
and I was almost out of chips
ATo, my final hand, short stacked with
the blinds coming up I raised, big blind
reraised me so I was all in, flop was
Kxx, he had KJ, and ighn.
So
that just leaves me with the 2K Pot Limit
in a couple of days, I don't think I'll
play any others unless I win some satellites.
I'll also try a few of the $50 satellites
that get you into the $225 super sats
as I really want to try to get into the
10K again this year.
Today
at 6 p.m. I'll be playing my semi-final
for the PartyPoker cruise, but I've only
got 700 extra starting chips (out of a
possible 2000) so I'll need to get lucky.
A
disappointing day, tomorrow I'm going
to go shopping for lucky charms and maybe
check out the pawn shop to see if that
bracelet has been sold yet.
Paul Westley
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