WSOP 2010

So, as previously mentioned, I had won two separate packages from Cake Poker, one for $2500 to use in any tourney you choose, and a main event seat, worth $12,500.  This one also had the option to break into other events and not obligated to play the main, which worked out for me as the July 4th holiday is always a very busy time of year for me and hard to get away for that time period.  I worked out the calendar to get to Vegas for event 30, 31 and 34 in late  June.    Other venues are competing for the WSOP business with Caesars hosting a series of great events and the Venetian hosting big tourneys all month long  as well.  Casey, donkeyherder, and I set our sites on these events and headed off, staying on the strip, within walking distance all of these events.  As always when we make these trips, we "crew" , meaning we split all winnings of tournaments we both play.  We arrived at Harrahs and jumped into a small event in the first 10 minutes of being there.  It was a little 60 dollar buy in, but Casey won it and we split 1000.  The next day we played the Venetian, a great card room and this 330 buy in event got over 700 players.  Neither of us cashed that one. We got back to Harrahs and played a 150 buy in evening tourney and I chopped for a 900 profit, so 2 for 3 so far.  We also messed around and "crewed" up some craps and some blackjack to break up the time and we won every time we played, 300 here and 500 there, so good times so far. 

Event 30

Starting chips was surprisingly low at 4000, and starting field of 2394 players.  It was to be a 3 day event and hour blinds.  Within the first 30 min there were thousand chip hands frequently so I knew this would be almost turbo like and 243 players would get paid.  The first hand I chipped up with was A Q and a raise before me to 200.  I called and the flop came A A Q (holla) .  The raiser bet 400,, I called and player behind me calls.  The turn is a 3rd heart, the 10.  First guy checks, I bet 1000 and get two calls.   The flop is another heart, first guy pushes, I call and third guy calls too, with me tripling up.  The next big hand was me on the button with 10 10,  with a raise and 3 callers.  I call also, having position and wanting to see a flop.   The flop comes K 10 10, how sweet is that.  You know one of them has a K .  First player bets and one other caller and me.    The turn is a blank and the first guy pushes all in and I call, he turns over A 2, lol and I stack em up.  By the end of the day, we have lost over 2000 players and are down to 261, just 18 from the money.  It was like 2 in the morning and it's such a long day but a good feeling to be around to bag your chips.   I have 47k so I am feeling pretty good about getting to the money.  The one good thing is that the next day starts at 2:30, not noon like before, so a couple extra hours to rest up.  We get a redraw to a new table the next day and I have 2nd largest stack, two players are under 10k and therefore are trying to hang on to the money.  One of those short stacks, Christopher Gonzalez is sitting two seats to my right with about 9 k in chips.  He finishes 2nd in the tournament for a 360k cash .........anything is possible.  As far as my play goes, I hang around, not getting many playing hands, the few I get, I have players coming over the top all in and I end up laying down my A Q or my 6 6, etc.   I hang around for a few more hours and all of a sudden I have a short stack and end up pushing my A J in a 3 way pot against 9 9 and A 9.  The 9 9 holds up and I finish in 115th place for a $3800 cash.  I am now 2 for 3 in WSOP cashes.   I wanted to play those other events but it didn't work out, so will get over there next year to take some more cash..:) 

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