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Poker Trip Report

WSOP 2003 Days 27 & 28:
If This Was Baseball, I'd Be A Star

When last we spoke I had just won my $50 parlay into a Super Sat. I should have mentioned that these $50 sats are a great deal as the field is fairly weak and you only need to win one in four to make it worthwhile. My table had a player who had never even played holdem before, he kept trying to 'check' before the flop, not quite getting that you have to pay to play. He went out seven hands later when he called all the way, including the river, and turned over king high, unfortunately I wasn't the lucky recipient. When we were down to four an interesting situation came up. There was an all-in raise, and a reraise from the big stack. The problem I had was that if the big stack won there would now be two huge stacks to my small stack, and I'd have a lot of trouble getting into the top two. I looked down to find the dream hand so threw in all my chips. I was up against A6 and QQ, no problem, the 5 on the river sealed their fate when I hit my set, presto r00ls, and on the next hand it was all over and I had my seat.

On to the super sat, five seats were being given away. The deck hit me early on, I had an amazing AA four times and hit four sets, giving me an early chip lead with no rebuys and looking like I would coast in. But right when it mattered with the bigger limits I hit a couple of major bad beats and down to 11 was getting short stacked. It was checked around to me in the small blind and it should have been an obvious all-in. Blinds were 300-600, I had 1800 behind, I could have shoved in and taken my chances, but the big blind was a big stack (5K) and also a very loose player so I wasn't sure he'd fold. Instead I decided (maybe wrongly) to fold and instead attack the big blind two hands later, another short stack who I was pretty sure would fold. The deciding factor was that if one more player went out in the meantime I'd be at the final table, so it seemed worth it to not risk it right away. Two hands later I shoved in with a poor hand. And ran into AK and AA. ighn.

Yesterday I played my two $300 satellites to try to get my seat in today's pot limit holdem. I played bad, in both of them I had a great hand, but refused to give it up when I got raised on the flop, and both times took an early exit. No pot limit event for me. ighn.

The only thing to do when you are losing is to go out for an expensive meal, this time it was to Delmonico in the Venetian, one of Emeril's two Las Vegas restaurants, and supposedly the best steakhouse in town. It wasn't. The place was very nice, the service was excellent, the food was very good, but it wasn't great. The bill, that was great.

Tonight I tried another 11 p.m. tourney, you really need to build chips early in this as the blinds go up so fast at the beginning. I took my last shot with AQ and ran into JJ which held up. ighn.

One more $175 satellite tonight, made another mistake. ighn. I seem to be going home a lot lately, if this was baseball I'd be a star, instead I'm down 3K for the trip.

Today's Pot Limit Holdem had 218 players with 225K first place, but other than the 3K No Limit the next few days are expensive and weird events (like 2.5K Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys and 1.5K Triple draw) so I don't think they will have too many players, but I expect the supers to go insane with 10 or 11 seats per event. I think they are adding an 11 p.m. super starting on the 16th. in place of the $225 tourney. The 10K looks like it will be huge, it may even reach 700 players.

My plan now is to stick to the $50 sats and get into as many supers as I can, if I win two million that will put me ahead for the trip.


Paul Westley


2003 WSOP TRIP REPORTS

Day 0 Day 1a Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 & 8 Day 9 & 10
Day 11 Day 12 Day 13 Day 14 Day 15
Day 16 & 17 Day 18 & 19 Day 20 & 21 Day 22, 23 & 24 Day 25 & 26
Day 27 & 28 Day 29 Day 30 & 31 Day 32, 33 & 34 Day 35, 36 & 37

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