dinne time

We just made the dinner break, and I'm sitting at 9000. My original table broke and I got moved to a tale that was much much deeper. There were 4 players over 10k so I expected dome action.

I restole all in twice to get my stack to 7000, then I had someone bet 1000 and then fold to my raise with only 800 chips left. He is your definition of dead money.

Right now I get a chance to relax and grab some food. We are on an hour and a half break, and dont get started up again til 9.

blah at second break

The three nits on my left busted right after the break, and were replaced by internet players. My table is now one of the worst I see around.

During the last level the antes kicked in and I was looking to pick up chips. Unfortunatly I went super carddead and was forced down to 4500 chips. Next level is 200-400-50 so I'l have to get something going quick.

playing at first break

At the start of the 2nd level I finally got my seat, but it wasn't what I was expecting. We wew supposed to start on new tables with all new players. Instead we got fucked and Harrahs just moved us into open seats on existing tables. That means we all started at a disadvantage.

I lucked out, though and got the Jesus seat at my table. To my left are 3 huge nits - to my right are 5 huge fish. The only decent player is 4 to my left, so I won't be playing many pots with him.

I am going into level 3 with 6000 chips. The gameplan is the same as always, and I'm going to try to build to the chiplead. So far I've played risk free winning what everyone doesnt want. Hopefully they contunie to let me abuse them.

alternat update

Looks like I'll get a sea within the first hour of play. I'm 260 on the list out of over 800 registered alternates. Play will be pretty fast with only 3000 starting chips so I'll be gambling early.

its a madhouse

We just got here to the Rio, and its crazy in here. There are people shoulder to shoulder across the hall and in the amazon room. I dont know when I'll get a seat, but I'll keep you updated.

wtf harrahs

If you have been following the WSOP at, you'll have heard of all problems with Harrah's management. But, I don't understand why they only have 5 people at the cage registering players.

We came to the Rio at 11pm to register for tomorrows event. The line was still 100s of players long and people were saying that it was a 3 hour wait. There was no way that I was going to wait for that long. We decided to go sleep til 4am and come back to register. No way the line is still long that late at night, right?

WRONG

They had better figure this out soon, as I'm sure they are losing players to these hassles.

and i'm done

The last two levels were more of the same; get three bet, fold, get three bet, fold. Eventually I picked up queens and got it all in vs this terrible asian chick, but of course I'm colddecked and she has KK. Board craps out and gg me.

Tomorrow is the $1500 nlhe event, and while I'm disappointed that todays great start didnt turn out, tomorrow is the day I've waited 4 years for.

from the god table to hell

Level 4 started just as planned. My table was so easy to run over and by half way though the level I was up to 25k. Unfortunately not all good thing last. Our table broke and I got sent away.

On my new table I wasnt so happy to see a few familiar faces. Three of the first four hands were 3bet, and the battle was on. At the 2nd break I'm sitting at 19000 chips and hoping to get moved to one of those juice tables I see behind me.

first break of venetian

I sat down to a great table. I soon realized that 2 seats to my left was a player taking every hand t the flop. Goal: Play as many pots with him as possibe. For whatever reason he started respecting my bets, and I started abusing the tablw playing as many hands possible. At level 3 I have 16000 chips and control of the table.

Interesting hands from these levels:

Two players limp in early pos, I open 97o from the cutoff and we go 4 way to the flop. Flop comes 832 and the callingstation fish minbets. I call for runnerz, and the turn comes a 6. He minbets again and all call. The river is a 10 giving me the nuts. Fish bets 300 and I raise to 2000 hoping he had somthing. He folded.

I open AJo over ep limp and he calls. Flop comes Q32 and we both check. Turn and river are both 6s and I call his 2 bets down. He gets upset and open mucks so I dont even showdown my ace high. thankyou

Play has started so back to the table.

lets start the madness

Today is the begining of what weill be an awesome summer. Brandon, Derek and I got up early and headed to the Rio. I had to grab a lockbox and wanted to check out the Amazon room. The amount of work they did to change it into the poker destination of the year is amazing. ESPNs set was all built, and it is going to be fun playing on it later this month. I decided to play the $550 deepstacked event at the Venetian today, instead of the $5k mixed, to get a warmup in before tomorrows event. First place might break $100k, so it is worth it anyway.

The crowds for the $5000 mixed holdem event were much bigger then I guessed. At 10am the line was already a few hundred people long, so I expect tomorrows $1500 WSOP nlhe event to be massive. I wouldnt be supprised to see 3000 players tomorrow.

Play starts in a bit and I'll keep you posted