Only four hours into the tournament and I'm out! I was doing fairly well at my first table up about 1,400 but then doubled up a guy who had KK when I had JJ which left me with about 2,400. Our table broke up and I got moved to another table. Our table had an extremely slow dealer with slower players. There was a preflop raise almost every hand with a lot of action post flop. Unfortunately for me I became extremely card dead the second I moved to the table. I literally never have one decent hand the first hour at the table. The blinds were 100/200 and then 100/200 with a 25 ante. The blinds just ate away my stack down to 700. At that point I had to move in with any two cards. I was in early position. The guy under the gun folded and I pushed all in blind. Everyone folded around to the big blind who thought for awhile and then called with A5. I flipped over my 76 and the board didn't improve my hand. Even though I didn't last very long I still had fun playing. I looked around my table to see if any pros were playing the event, but I couldn't spot any. Evidently there were several pros playing in the event, but I guess they were out of sight from where I was at.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
First Day in Vegas
I survived my first commercial flight! Everything was smooth until we began to land. We were hitting small air pockets like crazy and it was making me feel really queasy. I was okay once we landed. After I got my rental car and got settled over at my sister's house I went over to the Rio to register for the World Series of Poker. This place is amazingly huge, holy crap! I make my way to the convention area and make my first stop to get the mandatory Harrah's Rewards Card. Next stop was tournament registration. There were two lines; one for pre-registration and another for non pre-registrants. The pre-registration line was a bit long (good thing I didn't pre-register Todd!), but the other line had no line! I gave him my rewards card and $1,500. He printed out and handed me my registration cards. One is to hand to the dealer at my table and another is for my records. They also gave me a voucher for $10 off any of Harrah's restraunts. This event is going to be a huge field! I'm at table 149 seat 9. My guess is that there will be at least 2,800 people if not more for this event.
In the same room was a field of poker tables with table numbers hanging on the lights above. While walking around I saw that the Rio had closed their normal poker room and are using the empty tables in the convention area for cash games. Also, event number 24 was in play which was a 7 Stud Hi/Lo event. I saw several notable people playing such as Steve Danneman, Gregg Raymer, Chip Reese, John Juanda, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, and Shawn Shikawn playing in the event. The Rio was also holding around the clock satellites for different events.
After strolling through the tournament area I decided to make my way to the Bellagio to check out their poker room. The room was packed with people and it was a fairly big poker room! There was also a high stakes section where I saw a notable pro who's name I can't remember at the time. I remember seeing him in the 2006 US Poker Championship. He sort of looks like a young Richard Kind (from Spin City). Surrounded by glass with fancy artwork was Bobby's Room. Unfortunately nobody was playing when I was there.
Today being my second day in Vegas, I think I'm going to go back to the Bellagio to play some poker!
In the same room was a field of poker tables with table numbers hanging on the lights above. While walking around I saw that the Rio had closed their normal poker room and are using the empty tables in the convention area for cash games. Also, event number 24 was in play which was a 7 Stud Hi/Lo event. I saw several notable people playing such as Steve Danneman, Gregg Raymer, Chip Reese, John Juanda, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, and Shawn Shikawn playing in the event. The Rio was also holding around the clock satellites for different events.
After strolling through the tournament area I decided to make my way to the Bellagio to check out their poker room. The room was packed with people and it was a fairly big poker room! There was also a high stakes section where I saw a notable pro who's name I can't remember at the time. I remember seeing him in the 2006 US Poker Championship. He sort of looks like a young Richard Kind (from Spin City). Surrounded by glass with fancy artwork was Bobby's Room. Unfortunately nobody was playing when I was there.
Today being my second day in Vegas, I think I'm going to go back to the Bellagio to play some poker!
Monday, May 21, 2007
2007 WSOP Event 27
Just three and a half weeks more and I'll be sitting down playing a World Series of Poker event! I did some grinding on the online felt to get my buy-in. I'm selling a third of my action and already have some buyers at my work. I'm also doing some intense study right now in order to be on top of my game when the time comes. Of course, all the study in the world won't reduce the chances of getting knocked out on a bad beat, but it just helps to come prepared. Poker Tracker has become an immense help for me in analyzing my play. Unfortunately, I only have a little over 20,000 ring game hands logged which isn't a whole lot. Any hard-core online player plays the same amount of hands in a month or less. Regardless of the small sample it still shows enough information for me to determine how I should tweak my game to improve my results.
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