WSOP 2007 - General Updates...

[Wes]

And yeah Mr. Shabeeyyyyy, you can buy me drinks or some other drugs if you still want to hook me up like that.

[melioris]

TP- nice digs. I guess live play is going to become a bigger part of your poker life?

Wes- a big glass of water and couple aspirin before you go to bed will help with the hangovers.

[sjay2k]

Haven't been on the comptuer much, so sorry for lack of updates.

The night before the 2k event, mayhem, Vos and I went out drinking and trolling for girls. We ended up going to the venetian and decided to f--- around in a 1/2 game. Mark is raising to 20 or 30 nearly every hand and owning everyone postflop. the most ridiculous bluffs and value bets, it was really something to watch. he won 10 buyins in two hours playing 95/70 style poker. the whole table was on tilt. we were all really drunk and laughing the whole time. one guy got really pissed off and told mark never to come back to this game. a nit was calling mark a donkey. then we ran through the fountain outside Caesars at like 6am. we woke up an hour before the event and caught a cab to the Rio. A $1000 Rio chip fell out of my pocket in the cab, which tilted me badly. nearly as badly as getting 11 hours deep in the tournament when i would have cashed in another hour or two.

just before i busted, i was talking to this young guy at my table.

"Are you Australian?"

"yeah"

"Were you at the Venetian last night?"


lololol

[sjay2k]

yesterday in the 2k event, it's folded to me in the SB and i shove with 45o. the girl in the BB tanks, saying how she really should call consdiering pot odds etc.

then Kathy Liebert (sitting on my right) says "c'mon don't bust all the cute boys"

BRAG

ps she folded

[Reel Deal]

You bagged that hippo later that night did't you... c'mon it's OK, you know you want to tell us.

[MAYHEM45]

Sorry for the lack of regular updates from me, but its hard to get everything down when I only have 20 minutes here and there to check in. I'll write up a full trip report of all 8 days I was here when I wake up in my own bed saturday morning.

[sjay2k]

She was actually really nice to talk to and gave me some donkament tips along the way.

[Talking Poker]

I would have loved to have seen that $1/2 game. Winning 10 buy ins playing 95/70... that's just awesome.

Sucks about the $1000 chip. Some tourist is going to be awfully lucky.

[PShabi]

Hold your breath.

[Talking Poker]

Played in today. It sucked. In the beginning, I erred on the passive side a little bit, but I certainly don't think I played badly at all. To give you an example, I opened from the CO with AJo, Jeff Madsen reraised (to what amounted to about 20% of our stacks), and I folded - that sort of thing. I was moved to three different tables in the span of 4 minutes at one point, which is pretty annoying. Then I was card dead. Then I ran into bigger hands. Then I was out.

I know it's just poker and how it works, but it's frustrating when you're as psyched as I was and playing as well as I have been when you feel like you didn't even have a chance, ya know? Bah.

After that, I sat down in a $5/10 game for a while. , I ended up down a little bit - not much.

After that, I grabbed a bite to eat and just relaxed outside for a while. Then I stood in the satellite (SNGs, basically) line. They were filling a $325 when I got to the front, so I bought into that. Early on, my JJ sucked out on a VERY short stacked KK's all in. It was cool how the hand went down:

He shoves, I call.
Flop is KTx.
I say, "OK, give me a Queen."
Turn is a Queen.
I say, "Cool, now give me an Ace."
River is a 9.

Meh, close enough. The moral of the story is I can't seem to win lately when I get my money in good, so maybe I should start getting it in bad more often!

When we got down to three players, we agreed to give whoever finished third his money back. A couple of hands later, with big blinds, the button (who BARELY had me covered) shoved. I look down and see As7s. I think for a bit and decide to fold. The BB calls and flips up KK. The button shows KQ. Naturally, the flop comes 7xx with 2 spades and the turn AND river are both spades.... If only I would have taken my own advice.

So, heads up, we decided to chop what's left of the prize pool. He has me outchipped something like 11k-4k, and we agreed to split the remaining $2800, $1700/$1100. I'll take it.

As for what's next........... I'm going to play in tomorrow. Rather than feel confident and psyched and feel really good about my game, I'm going to go on record saying I feel terrible, I'm dreading this tourney, I hate the structure, and I'll probably be out really early. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[de-coder]

who else is playing in today or tomorrow?

[MAYHEM45]

Chillin in the airport waiting for my flight home. Kinda bittersweet, missing my friends and home, but I know as soon as the plane takes off ill wanna turn around and come back. Way too much good times down here, thanks again everyone, it was really cool finally putting faces to names and hanging out with all of you. I'm sure we'll all meet up again sometime. I'm trying to get my busto friends to come down with me for a weekend sometime this summer, one vegas trip a year isnt enough!

[MAYHEM45]

This is way cool. My home newspaper. Third paragraph down.

[de-coder]

Cool beans dude!

I'll be coming to vegas in november. It's "business" trip but I plan on having some fun while I'm there. I'll be there from the 11th to the 17th.

[Invigilator]

Dude, if that's in the print version too, I want it autographed this summer so I can put it up on my poker wall!

Edit: I'll bring to you Mr. Superstar

[Zybomb]

Way cool -- but you live in too small of a town if that made the paper@!

Edit: I also love how they say AND OUTLASTED DANIEL N!

[Talking Poker]

LOL at this part:

As if that means anything.

Cool beans though. You're famous. That said, talk to me when you have - ahem - TWO WSOP final tables under your belt.