main event news coverage
by huge on Sep.30, 2008, under Poker
The donkeys bit back yesterday - I was doing reasonably well in a $200-rebuy super-satellite for the Aruba Classic main event (since I already have a seat, winning the satellite would have awarded $5500 in cash). We were down to 14 players and the final 5 would get seats, with 6th-8th getting some cash. I called a small raise with 88, saw a flop of 6-6-3, called a bet on the flop, called off all my chips on a raggedy turn - bad player with a pile of chips says “great call - you win” and turns over K-Q. King on the River and I’m out in 14th.
But that’s old news. In three hours I start the main event, $4 million prize pool, $1 million for first. I’m starting on Day 1B - they had 262 players yesterday and are expecting more than that for today. They played until 11:15PM Eastern, and got down to 151 players. I expect we’ll play the same amount of time today.
For HugePoker news junkies, you can find coverage during the day in a couple of places:
[They don't have a "Day 1B coverage" link yet, but they should open it shortly. This is the place most likely to cover my progress, since I'm a member of PocketFives. Not sure how often they'll check on me, but I'll try to report in when I can]
[pretty self-explanatory. Lots of pictures and stories of funny or exciting events in the tournament]
[Click on "Live Updates" for news. If I'm a chip leader or I tangle with a famous player I might get in here, or if I'm sitting next to someone "notable" when they take their picture. But they should have more coverage of interesting hands/situations that come up.]
