HugePoker

I’m having a pretty rough time at this year’s WSOP. I’ve got 2 small cashes - $500 in a single-table satellite and $1381 in a big event at Caesars - and several crushing defeats. I busted out of the only bracelet event I’ve played in record time (an hour and a half), I’ve been absolutely murdered by A-Q, both in my hand and in my opponents’, and yesterday I made deep runs in two mega-satellites (generally my bread and butter), actually bubbling the second one at 2AM this morning when I finished 7th, with the top 5 finishers getting $10,200 each.

I can’t even cash at the Wynn daily tournament, which continues to have some of the worst play imaginable (I’ve only played it three times this trip, so there’s still hope). Here’s an example from today’s donk-fest:

1st player: limp
4th, 5th, button: limp
SB: limp
BB: raise to 8BB
1st player: reraise all-in for 80BB
everyone folds to the BB who snap-calls 80BB

1st player (limp-re-shoving for 80BB): AJ
BB (raising and then calling off his 80BB stack): A5s

Thank god they chopped the pot - I didn’t want either of these players leaving my table.

Driving back from the Wynn I said to myself “OK, Huge, you’re having a pretty bad run, and it’s frustrating, but here you are in Vegas, playing poker at the World Series, hanging out with poker celebrities [last night Vanessa Rousso stopped by my satellite table, reached over my shoulder and knocked my chips over, which got some very shocked looks from my table-mates] and driving your sporty new convertible around - maybe your life isn’t SO horrible”. I’ll try to maintain a little perspective.

No definite plans for the coming week- I’ll play the mega-satellites whenever they have sufficient numbers, and I’ll probably keep playing the deep-stack tournaments at Caesars or Venetian, and the good old idiot-fest at the Wynn if I bust out early from a noon tournament.

still slugging,
-huge