WSOP
2003 Days 25 & 26:
Capricorn Ascending
Party
time is over, my friends went home (one
coming back next week), so now it's time
to play poker and win something. With
that super positive attitude, my focus
at 100%, and my lucky underwear which
I haven't washed for 12 years, it was
time to get serious. So, yesterday I settled
down on the bed and played the 2,000 player
Stars tourney. Lost. Played a Stars satellite
to get into the $200 Limit tourney. Lost.
Played a $30 Party single table. Lost.
Went downstairs and played one of those
$50 satellites to get into a super. Lost.
This morning played the $73 Stars tourney
to get into the $615 tourney. Lost. Went
downstairs and played another $50 satellite.
Lo..., oh, no wait, WON!!! So tonight
I have a cheap seat into the Super Sat,
it should be a good field too which is
what I like, hopefully about 12 seats
will be given away, and one will be mine.
Today
is the Women's event, coincidentally there
are more tournament staff and security
guards hanging around than I've ever seen
before, most of them weren't even scheduled
to work today. I of course was only there
to make sure the clocks were ticking each
second.
I found out today why I have been losing.
A small Chinese man on the rail who wouldn't
have looked at all out of place in a tiny
village in Xinjiang started telling me
about astrology, I think he said he is
a Scorpio and also a Chinese year of the
Tiger, apparently that's big and means
he's a risk taker, which would explain
why he has cheated death 13 times, including
8 from drowning and one from fire. He
said that when Men the Master's friends
all left him (I didn't know about that)
he gave Men good luck and he started winning
again. He also said he found a ten pound
pink rock in the desert and lent it to
a man who had never had any luck, that
man won $100,000 three weeks in a row.
The man never gave him anything for bringing
him luck so he asked for the rock back,
but the man said he had misplaced it.
He told me that there is an astrologer
in the Aladdin who is real (he said she
has been struck by lightning, and that
you have to have cheated death to be a
real psychic), he said you have to go
back every few months or the readings
won't work any more. I said I didn't know
that, he said I was a 'normal', and that
that was bad, and then he stormed off.
Even with that bad news I've decided I'm
going to try two $300 satellites (or more
if I chop) to get into the 3K pot limit
holdem, if I can get close to the buy
in I'll give it a try, it's my best chance
at the bracelet other than the trip to
the pawn shop.
Paul Westley
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