Main Event Day 2
Day 2 was pretty irritating. I had a real good table, started well and had 135k at dinner but everything went wrong in the last four hours. I made two pretty dumb plays (once paying a guy off who I shouldn't have for like 20k over two streets and once failing to follow up on a bluff and basically handing a 40k pot to a guy who would have folded). Then I got KK outflopped for a big pot where the flop was terrible (J98ss) but I don't think I could have folded. He had T7ss. And then right when I got some momentum back and was back to 60k I lost JJ to 99 allin pre for 45k or so. So I finished with 36300.
The nice thing about the main event is that the structure is so good that I still have 30bb. It's not the 100+ I thought I was going to have, but still very playable. I'm going for my first cash in four years in this thing. I'm not sure if we'll make the money Friday - the extra starting chips might mean it takes until Day 4. Either way I need some double ups, though at least I can be patient, especially in the first level tomorrow which is one of the lightest ante % rounds (6/12/1).
Main Event Day 1
I played Day 1d at a fairly soft table with the exception of Ryan Daut, a winning online MSNL-HSNL full-ring NLHE player who also won the PCA a couple years ago. I finished with 64k chips, mostly from the same guy (two coolers - flush over flush and set over set, once where he bluffed into my KK, and then I busted him last hand of the night AQ>KJ allin pre for about 20BB). I wrote up a detailed report with a bunch of hands but decided to hold off until after the event to post it, just in case someone I play with later sees this. That probably means I'm posting it tomorrow night.
Day 2b tomorrow looks like a tough table, with three good players on my left and a EPT winner two to my right. stacks are fairly evenly balanced, with most of us in the 50k-70k range.
plotheory.com/WSOP
As some of you know, I've been working for the past few months on a PLO theory book and accompanying coaching packages. The book should be done in a month or two, and I recently set up a website with all of the info and several samples. The book and coaching is expensive - book costs $2500, hourly rate is $250-$300, and the main combo package costs $5k, but regardless of whether you can spend that much I recommend checking it out if you're interested in PLO. I've posted 15-20 pages of sample material from a few different chapters so there's plenty of free stuff to look at.
In other news, WSOP events went badly, though I have managed to win a bunch online and in live cash games while here. But despite good starts in all, I whiffed 4 10ks (8 game, plo, stud 8, and o8) and overall have 1 mincash in 12 events.
A few hands worth recounting from the 10ks:
In the 8-game I had 40k (30k starting stack) after grinding the limit games for a while and then all hell broke loose in (of course) a PLO pot where 4 people got in 3k each pre at 100/200 and I ended up losing with 8765 on 964r to 6543 for ~90k. As we rolled the hands over one kind sir told me he folded 887x preflop, but it turns out I'm still a solid favorite even with the cards dead (straight up it's 63/37, if 887 is really dead it's still upper-50s, but turn and river were different broadway cards and I was done)
In the PLO I was down to 15k in level 6 or so and called a raise w Jh9c8h7c, 4 way pot, I flop the world Tc8c5x, get it in versus JT97 no clubs, turn T which is the worst card in the deck, river Jc for the straight flush > boat. But later I get it in in an 8-way limped pot with T986 v Sammy Farha's JJ77hh on T76 - the two pair blockers/redraws makes me a very slight favorite but he made both a flush and a better boat than me on a heart turn and 6 river.
In the Stud 8 I started Day 2 with 40k and was up to 80 pretty quick but then went card dead and anted down before getting scooped by Doyle in a huge pot at 3k/6k.. I had (AhQh)8h and opened in the effective CO, he flatted behind me with a 7 and the bringin called with 2h, which was the only dead heart. Doyle caught A, 2h caught 9h and I caught 3h, Doyle bet, 2h9h called (which sucks because he really should have hearts to peel here) and I call. Fifth street Doyle cataches a 4 and I catch a 7, he bets, other guy folds which makes me feel better a little about my flush draw, and I call again.
Even though his board is bad as big as the pot is getting and with the fact that on top of the flush draw either my low draw is live or my AQ-high is good I just have too much equity to fold. 6th street he catches a 2 and I catch a 9 which is really ugly. I might be able to fold here but the pot is huge and it's still pretty likely I have tons of outs for high even if my low is as dead as it looks (his board is now 7A42 and I'm drawing to an 87). I catch a black 4 to make an 87, call again and get scooped by a 7 and a rivered pair of 2s. A few hands later Doyle finished me off, so I guess that's a good enough story to tell the kids one day. Not worth 10k though.
I play the main event on Monday (day 1d), gonna play a couple of the megas the next few days and work some on the book. I just recorded a 2 hour 2/4 PLO session which we'll make into two videos, and plan to get back to the theory series when I get home.