WSOP 2007 - General Updates...

[Talking Poker]

MTTs.

[Talking Poker]

I'm home now, so I'm unstickying this thread.

For anyone still out there or anyone who heads out there any time from now through the Main Event, feel free to continue posting your personal updates here.

[juiCe[3x]]

You left too early TP. First you miss Hellmuth's 11th now this...

Gotta Love This Game
Right before the break a female player won a big pot when her Aces held up. She's apparently the excitable sort, because she let out a loud squeal, stood up on her chair, did a little dance, and then lifted her skirt and flashed the crowd.

The other players watched the performance and then quickly headed out for break.

[Wes]

I'll crosspost this from since it might entertain some of you...

I have been playing AWFUL this week online, so yesterday I decided I’d boost my confidence by playing in some live donkfest at the Rio. Anyone that says that live is harder than online is fucking retarded. If you can’t beat 2/5 NL live, you are terrible at poker. It’s as simple as that.

And people that say they do better at live because they “actually see the people and online feels like a video game”. No, you just are not very good at poker, but yet somehow find people worse than you to play against you live.

OK, enough rants, here’s some hands from yesterday.

I’ve been playing incredibly tight (really card dead with a couple morons that cannot fold) and then some 80 year old guy just sits down. He tries to buy-in for about 1100, but dealer doesn’t let him with the 500 max rule. So the very 1st hand UTG, he makes it 100 by sliding out 20 $5 chips. At first I thought he was trading chips for a bill, but he wasn’t since he’s dumb. I find QQ in MP and shove my 550 stack in. Everyone else folds and old donk says something to the effect of, “I always lose here, but lets gamble.” He calls and has 77. I win. LOL live poker.

I’ve picked up some hands previously and new people have joined the table so I don’t have the super tight image that I usually have live, not that it matters anyway since no one folds. So, I pick up two black AA UTG+1 and make it 25. I get 5 callers.

Flop is T63 with two hearts. I thought I bet 100 by sliding out one of my stacks of 100, but accidentally had dirty stacks and bet 105. One 50 year old lady next to me called and another somewhat competent guy called on the button after some thought. I had like 1100 to start the hand and button covers me and the lady had around 500 to start off with.

Turn is the A of hearts, completing the flush draw. I’m obviously not folding top set, but it also is sort of a danger/scare card that might get weakish lower one pair cards to fold. I check because I don’t want those hands to fold, although it would suck if it checked through and another heart would come. Everyone else checks through, so I’m now sure no one has a flush. River is a black J. I bet 250 and the lady now shoves all-in. I grimace after she does, but the guy is left to act behind. God I suck at giving off live tells. Anyway, he folds and I call the remaining 170 she has. She had JT which is just awful to shove with there.

Oh yeah, I now remember another somewhat interesting hand involving the old lady. At the Rio, they allow people to Mississippi straddle which allows you to straddle on the button and be the last one to act on all streets. Anyway, I do that every time to loosen up my image a little, and I’m sure it isn’t that -EV anyway. The old lady is now in the SB and the first one to act preflop. She makes it 35 and this is about her 5th hand she has been at the table (obviously no reads other than she is an old lady). One other caller and I call on the button with black 9s. Flop is 873 with two diamonds. She bets 75, the caller folds, and then I fold. I just didn’t think that an old lady would bet out there with anything less than something that crushed me. Like, she never has A8 or something there since he opened being the first one to act, and live people wouldn’t cbet there with overcards unless they had a flush draw with it IMO.

Yes, I am a nit. Berate me please.

One more hand. Old lady leaves once I bust her and some college kid with earings joins the table, and he somehow gets his hot girlfriend to sit there behind him and watch the action. She says that she actually likes watching poker. I think about proposing to her, but decide not to. She later asks me if I think I’m tight, to which I’m sure I could have been asshole and said “I’m tighter than you I’m sure. HARR HARR HARR.” but I don’t and simply say I don’t know.

Oh yeah the hand, I Mississippi straddle on the button and the college kid in the SB calls and everyone else folds. One time that night I had the Mississippi straddle actually folded to me. Blind min raise on the button FTW. On this hand though I pick up KJ of hearts and raise 35 more. College kid calls.

Flop is T97 all hearts. College kid checks, I bet 55, he calls. Turn is a non-heart 6. He bets 75, and I call. Not sure if I should have raised or called. He was kind of loose preflop, but didn’t seem like a dumbass postflop, so I don’t think I can stack an 8 here if I raise, but I think for sure that I’ll at least get this bet and one on the river (with either him betting or check/calling) so I call. Turn is another black 6. He bets 125 and leaves himself with about 200 behind. I shove obviously and he folds and says I have a set. He says he would have gone broke on the turn after I show him my KJ of hearts (I’m such a nice guy), but I think he was lying. Who knows though?

Anyway, so that is my 6th live session and I’m finally now up live after starting off -2k at 2/5. Luckily, that is 6 trips without getting carded too.

[sjay2k]

nit

[juiCe[3x]]

LOL, from pokernews.com.

Happy Hour on Table 32
John Phan has started a party on table 32; he has three Heinekens in front of him, next to a cup of ice.

He's also managed to get Kirk Morrison and Jeff Madsen to join him; they're all drinking beers to help get them through the slow early stages of the tournament.