wsop update

The WSOP has not been kind to me this year. After cashing in 40% of the events I played in the last 2 years I am now 0-10 this year in WSOP events. So when you are not making day 2s and cashing tourneys the buyins add up. I have cashed one tourney out here and that was the Venetian $1k. I got 11th out of 336 for $4k, it was $100k to win. It was real soft and I basically crushed day 2 but I could not win a hand at showdown and lost a flip to bust. Still got 5-7 events left so hopefully I can get something going.

We went out last night to Green Valley Ranch to see Steel Panther which is a 80s hair cover band. We got VIP seating in a horseshoe booth down on the floor that was a pretty nice setup. They kicked people out who were in our booth which was sort of awkward but whatever. Steel Panther was pretty good. Won $450 at blackjack, but I was up $1275 and announced last hand and put $275 out and of course I get 88. So I split, get a 2, double down and end up losing $825 on the hand to put me back at that $450 profit. Oh well. Green Valley is a pretty nice place and treats us pretty well picking us up and taking us back in limos or escalades. Though I talked to a host today who said they had my average bet last night as $50 and I wasn't very happy about that as it should have been closer to $110 or so. I seem to run bad at blackjack rating as I got screwed at the Gold Coast last year as well.

Sigh....

WSOP has been dumb so far. I've played 3 events and went deep in the $1500 but short of the money. I was sitting on $60k(double average) with 90 minutes to go in the night and everything went wrong to take me to busto. I ran TT into QQ in blind battle, lost a flip, then ran TT into JJ vs a 11 bb stack, then shoved K6 on button and AA and QQ were in the blinds. I lasted about 5 hours today in the 6 max building my stack up to 15k at one point but nothing good there either. No horses have done anything yet either, its been brick city...

The Future

I ran into a neat video of my favorite Hoosier last year, Verdell Jones. Verdell was criticized heavily during the start of the season all the way through the midpoint on Peegs, well some kept on him all year. I was super impressed when in his first college game, he runs the point and puts up one of the more impressive stat lines that you will see. He put up 18 points on 4-11 FG shooting and 10-13 FT shooting. Yes the fg shooting % isn't great but he gets to the line so much it compensates for his missed fgs as his TS% is very good. He also had 5 assists 5 rebounds 3 steals and 3 blocks! Easy game. Here is a youtube video of him with highlights from when he was like 10 all the way up through senior year of high school. I expect big things next year.

Omaha is fun and a score

Lindsay is taking a nap as she wouldn't go play basketball with me, so I figured I'd finally update this. A couple sundays ago I had my biggest score since November when I placed 2nd in the Full Tilt Mulligan for $33k, first was $53k and the final hand was pretty nasty so that sort of sucked but whatever.

I have pretty much been trying to get out of the tourney grind and move onto cash games for a long time it seems but I always come crawling back. I have never been able to get into NL cash games, I just find it pretty boring. PLO otoh has been an enjoyable experience thus far as I am up $10,000 in the last couple weeks in about 12k hands played. $5k of that came on one Saturday where I won $1500 in the car at 2/4 and 5/10 then won $3500 more at 5/10 that night in about 10 minutes. I ran really hot. The rest of the profits come mostly from 1/2 and a bit from 2/4 which I have played more the last couple days.

WSOP is coming up and I'll be out there the entire month of June and into July as the main event starts July 3rd. I will be playing lots of events and hopefully running better on day 2s unlike the last couple of years. I will be updating at my twitter with tourney updates each days so anyone who wants can follow along.

I'm Still Alive

Havent posted in six months, never been in a writing mood I guess... Still not currently, but will give a small update. The last six months of 08 went really well as I got 4th in the Stars Warmup for 40k and I won the $250k on Stars in November for $47k. Won a couple other tourneys as well for 8k and 12k. So with all that this was my best year yet. Had a 2nd/3rd already in 09 on the 1st and the 2nd for $8k combined, dumb I couldn't close one out, but decent start I suppose.