Running World Series of Poker Thread

Kaplan isn't a joke, but he says he's lost a lot of money playing poker. And his record in the WSOP isn't very good.

I look forward to watching it on TV. Deeb is an excellent player.

 

Just played in my second career WSOP event today. If anyone wonders what it feels like to participate in poker's most glamorous event, I've developed a perfect simulation. Here's what you do:

1. Save up $1,500 (or the buy-in of your choice) through online winnings, local cash games, freelance work, etc.

2. Take the money and drive down to Home Depot, where all those guys are on the corner waiting for day work.

3. Hand the cash to one of the fellas wearing steel-toed boots.

4. Turn around, get into a three-point stance and have him kick you squarely in the balls.

Congratulations! You now know what it's like to play in the World Series of Poker!

 

That sounds invigorating. Please, tell us more.

 

Nobody likes to hear bad beat stories, so I'll spare you the details. The gist of it is that on the hand in question, there was only one card in the deck that could've beat me, and it was the one that made an honest-to-God royal flush. And the clown who held it had to call multiple raises with K-6 offsuit.

My bitterness might have clouded my previous post, but it really depends on your table. Last year I was seated for about six hours in a great spot (Annie Duke was two chairs to my right) where people took the game seriously and played solid, even brilliant, poker. I had an absolute blast. This year, my table was populated by three or four yahoos determined to see every pot and call every raise. To me, that's not poker. But then again, all this is coming from the loser who just had his nuts kicked.

 

Hard to bluff a calling station.

 

When dumbasses are playing $1,500 buy-in tournaments like they're free-rolls, there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

And if you held your cool after the one-in-100 kick in the crotch and didn't verbally berate the guy to the point where his great-grandkids would have self-esteem issues, well... you're a far better man than me.

 

OK, so I'm glad to report my faith in the poker gods has been restored. After a couple of solid days at the Flamingo no-limit cash game and a 17th-place finish in a 250-man tournament at Caesars, I was able to win back a decent chunk of my WSOP buy-in. Played about 45 hours of poker in three days, met a lot of great people, and mostly enjoyed the hell out of it.

As an aside, Caesars has what is by far the best tournament set-up I've seen on the strip. They have a huge poker room, including an area solely for tournaments (with an elevated final table complete with cameras and big-screen TVs broadcasting the action). And more importantly, the blind structure is fair. They have daily tournaments at noon and 11 p.m., and they tend to last about six hours each. Lots of good players to watch out for, but I'd highly recommend it.

Oh, and Doubledown68 -- I didn't berate the K-6 donk at the WSOP. I've seen far too many people make asshats of themselves by throwing tantrums, and I vowed never to be one of them. The royal flush hand definitely put that vow to the test, but I kept my cool, wished everyone luck and walked out of the room with grace.

Then I went to the john, punched a stall door and threw up...

 

8-9 suited not work out so well?
i assume you're all in on the turn when the Q hits

 

Best part of WSOP? The side action the pros get going like this 72-hole golf challenge Lindgren took for $340,000...

http://withleather.com/post.phtml?pk=3260

 

Doyle is in the mix for bracelet No. 11, in the World Championship of Pot-Limit Omaha, 10K buy-in. I love Omaha.

Tommy Ly 885,000
Robert Mizrachi 870,000
Rene Mouritsen 755,000
Patrik Antonius 658,000
Doyle Brunson 455,000
Steve Sung 435,000
Sylvester Geoghegan 345,000
Andy Bloch 345,000
Donn O'Dea 335,000
Jonas Flug-Entin 275,000
David Chiu 275,000
Roy Brindley 189,000
Marco Traniello 175,000
Stephen Ladowsky 99,000
Chan Ping Hsiung 90,000
Scotty Nguyen 90,000

 

Of those, Brunson, Traniello, Mizrachi and Antonius are all at the final table for tomorrow.

 

And Robert Mizrahi wins it when his set of nines holds up.

He beat his brother to a first bracelet.