Well in an unusual turn I am out early. Called a pre flop with KK. Flop K J 4 rainbow. Perfect for me. original player makes it 600. Other player calls. I make it 2200. Both call. Turn a blank. We get all in AA my top set and the KJ and an ace hits the river. Set over set. Still shaking. And as it turns out it was a one outer. Only ace left in the river. Only hand which could take me out hits. Bad luck. Let’s get these bad beats out before the Main Event. Ya listening?
Out of today’s event. Seems like I lost every race I was in. AK vs QQ and then when I had QQ lost to AK. Happens but ya gotta win some of those. One of those days but am overall pleased with my game. Almost 2500 players and I lasted to 390 without winning a key race. Something to be said for longevity. New day tomorrow.
One thing this Series has taught me is to master the other games. There is better value in a 2500 300 person PLO than there is in a 4800 person $1k event. Yesterday with no event I could play I played the daily deep stack for $200 with 450 other people. Now that’s a way to frustrate a poker pro .. but a high motivation for this one to learn the other games. Today is the $1500 NLH so back to work in a couple of hours.
Well this World Series is different for me. Last year was a hunker down boot camp and this one has just been frustrating. Doing well, making money but I am no longer here for the learning curve, I’m here to win, I’m here to make my case. This structure with the small chip start just makes it tough.
Played the six handed event the other day. Michael Mizrachi was late to the table and started hammering. I knew I was good when he overbet the river and got half his stack, got the remaining ones on the next hand when I knew he was on a major tilt. Nice to take advantage of that. Then this next hand happened, small blind, big blind, unraised pot. (Yes, my friend Chris Bigler has warned me of unraised pots and this is a perfect example of why). I am the big blind, small bling completes. I have Q 2 of hearts. Flop 2 2 Q. We both check, turn a K, he bets I smooth. River a Jack. I’m waiting for this guy to catch up, two pair, straight, something as I have the boat. He bets 400, I make it 1200 and he makes it 2600. I call of course only to see K 2 for a higher boat. The odds six handed. Just bad luck. Didn’t go broke which no one at the table could believe. I had to burst out laughing ….but that’s how the Series has gone thus far.
Well I’m still here slugging it out at the World Series. Playing well and with some success but not a huge hit yet. Funny though I believe it will come. Lincoln called me today and said he was mad when he found out I was bumped out because he thought I was going to make $15,000 dollars and he wanted to use that money to buy a helicopter. I told him he was going to have to learn to deal with it. Ha.
Had every intention of playing the deep stack at the Rio today but it didn’t work. Drivers license expires in 10 days and my two previous attempts to renew it have been for naught. Decided to venture out today. Gave up on Summerlin and headed to Henderson. Line still long but the people were more humane. Since the time I’ve had a drivers license I’ve kept my office address as my address vs my home address. Feels safer not giving out my home address. No way they told me. Must be your home address. Where’s the supervisor I ask. Still no way he says, 911 and all that While doing the processing paperwork the computer glitches over my social security verification. It took 45 minutes and some remote fixer person to get it unglitched but when it was done my social was verified and my address listed is my office. Yes. God protects me in some of the most interesting of ways. I’m grateful.
