 Vegas April 2011 (WSOPC) |
| Day 3 - Wynn, WSOPC |
| Last Updated: 2011-04-19 01:29:26 |
| Short entry today after the long one yesterday.
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| Unfortunately I've played so much poker that it's all sort of blending togather.
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| Started out at the Planet Hollywood buffet, it was OK. Breakfast is breakfast. Back to the room for a short nap and then we headed down to the Wynn for the noon tournament. My run of cards from the previous night continued, I started out a little slow but eventually had some big hands. And I'm so tired that I can't remember a single one of them. But I do remember taking out a bunch of people. I was never a massive stack, but I was double average for a good chunk of the tournament.
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| Paying six, Leon and I get to final table of 10 and then the suckouts begin. I doubled up a couple of short stacks, got short, but the blinds and antes were so big that a couple of preflop all-ins that didn't get any action got me at least to comfort.
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| And then Leon did to me what he always does to me when the two of us get to a final table (and we do that a lot!). We're down to eight, I get A-8 suited and shove. Leon is the only caller, he turns over pocket 10s. Flop A-8-x with two hearts. Leon has the 10 of hearts. Heart on the turn, heart on the river...Leon cripples me and I go out on the next hand when I only had one big blind left. He ended up chopping four places, good for him!
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| I really wanted to play in the Omaha 8/b tournament at Caesars at 4:00, when I busted out it was 5:30. But I know they allow buyins intil 6:00 so I hustle down and get there with about 10 minutes to spare. Unfortunately since it was a limit tournament with big stacks there was little chance of a bustout and there were no open seats. I was an alternate and I had two ways to get in: 2 people had to bust out, or 3 more people had to buy-in so that they would have enough to start a new table. With less than a minute left in the break the 5th person they wanted bought in, so we started a new table 2 hrs into the tournament, all of us with full starting stacks.
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| Unfortunately things didn't go too well. Every time I'd have an A-2 or an A-3 I'd flop the 2 or 3 I didn't want to see or I'd flop 2-3 big cards. Most of the pots I won were with junk hands, I caught quad 7s twice on hands I'd never play except for being in the blinds. But none of my legitimate hands held up and I only lasted about 3.5 hours.
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| So I bought into the 10pm hold'em tournament, and the structure required a lot more aggression. Only 20 minute rounds, I made some good moves but eventually got all in on a coin flip (straight draw with overs against top pair) and lost.
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| So one cash and a bunch of "almosts". I'm happy with how I played, a little frustrated at getting so close to the money so many times and falling just short, but that's poker.
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| Next trip will be the WSOP week in June. Thanks for reading, as always! |
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