My multi-table tournament results continue to be depressing, and after two more bustouts yesterday followed by two failures in the single-table satellite room I was feeling pretty discouraged. In one of the tournaments I thought I was finally on a roll when, in the first hour of play, I took a cheap shot with 6-5o, flopped K-4-2 for a gutshot, called a small bet on the flop and turned the mortal nuts with an offsuit 3 and got all the chips in against the poor sod with 4-4. No pair on the river and I was sailing with 16,000 chips – a truly massive stack with the blinds at 25-50. But a couple of hours later I ran my KK into a set of Tens and I was crippled, busting soon thereafter.
So I was not a happy camper last night. And to top it all off I somehow missed a phone message from Mark inviting me to dinner, so I ended up sitting around my room at the Gold Coast and watching episodes of “Law and Order” and playing poker online. This would have been completely pathetic if not for the fact that I had a couple of good results online in single-table “Steps” satellites – first playing and winning a “Step 4” tournament yielding me a $700 “Step 5” ticket, and then playing and winning the Step 5 tournament, so that I am now the proud owner of a $2100 “Step 6” ticket. Step 6 is the final step – if I can win that one I’ll pick up another $12,000 WSOP prize package.
I then proceeded to play almost zero poker today – I sat by the pool, did some busy work, took a nap, had dinner by myself and didn’t even make it over to the Rio until 6:30. I played one single-table satellite and pretty much demolished it. When we got to heads-up the other guy asked if I had any interest in chopping it and I said that I’d rather just play it out – I was pretty sure I could outplay him soundly – and a few minutes later that was looking like an excellent choice on my part when we got all our chips on with my A-J against his A-4s, but the moron rivered a spade to give him a flush. Even so he only had a 3:2 chip lead, but at that point I was happy to make a deal and convinced him to take $880 to my $740.
So I’m taking all of that to be a small glimmer of a recovery, and it made me feel better about signing up for the $1500 WSOP event tomorrow morning. As usual, if you want to check on my progress:
You can check for personal updates HERE
You can also get updates on my event at cardplayer.com and pokernews.com.
Send the good-card-vibes toward Vegas in the early afternoon – that’s when you really need to catch a couple of good pots in these $1500 events.
I’ll keep you posted.
-huge
I sense the tide is beginning to turn your way. Have no mercy on the poor besotted vegetables that are doomed by your karma.