Vegas and the 40k
Sorry for not updating my blog recently, was busy playing poker then relaxing. On Tuesday I flew out super early to Vegas, where I plan to be here for 7 weeks for the WSOP! This is my first series and I'm very excited for the next couple Months.
Today I played my first WSOP event ever, the 40 year anniversary, 40k NLH tourney. Unfortunately, I didn't do too well and was pretty bummed about it, but I'll get over it. I played a lot of semi- interesting hands verse Jay "Krantz" Rosenkrantz today, who's a very good high stakes online cash game player, including my bust out hand. Krantz and I had been going at it a lot, the first hand we played I open one before the hijack, he 3 bets the button, I 4 bet, he folds. The second hand I call his raise in the small blind with red nines and check call on T7x and we check down an Ace turn and river brick and his JT is good. The Last hand of 300/600 I open to 1800, he makes it 6k in the small blind, I call TT, we check down a J65.....9 (bringing flush draw)..... J board to the river, and he bets 25k into 14k, I tank for a really long time, and even though I don't think hes bluffing that often, I think hes sick enough to have worse for value, so I called and was shown J9o for the stone nuts and was shortish. Then I raised the cutoff at 400/800 to 2200 with AJcc, and an older guy called in the small blind and Jay made it 11500 in the big blind and I tanked for a while before making a little bit of an over shove for 64k total (might of been 66.2k, cant remember) and he called with JJ and that was the end of me. O well.
Anyways the 1k is on Saturday and It's going to be a massive field, I'm hopeful for that tourney and the rest of the WSOP, thanks for reading!
4th in WPT Championship
As you can tell by my title, I got 4th in the 25k buyin WPT Championship for about 570k. Pretty amazing experience and my biggest score by far. Obviously I'm a little disappointed about getting 4th, but what can you do. I went to the TV final table second in chips and couldn't get much of anything going under the lights. The eventual winner (Atimos aka Yevgeniy Timoshenko) deserved to win. I played too tight at the final table and let him run me over a little bit. Hopefully I can get another shot at a big final table soon, as I was a little intimated by the "lights." I have been too other big Final Tables before, but the WPT is a whole different animal. The table is very awkward and I had to physically lift my cards to get them to where the cameras were instead of naturally just sliding them back. It was a great experience for me though and overall I thought I played really well from day 1-6.
I'm in Annapolis (Home!) until the wsop starts. I'm happy to have some time to relax and stuff, I need to do a lot of shit, because I'm moving and am way behind on my pokersavvy videos! Ok until next time...