1. 2009-06-21 01:03:12

   WSOP Event #36 $2000 NL Holdem - 109th place out of 1695 - 171 paid

   Once again I had a nice long day one in a wsop event. Once again I was at a low numbered table so it never broke during the day, allowing me to get comfy in the same seat for the duration of the 10 hours of play. Once again I started out great, being above the average stack for over six hours. And once again I went card dead the last four hours of the night, causing me to finish below average, but still in a much better position than last time.

   Interesting hand:

   Guy sits down in the 10 seat, European kid who signed up late in level two, and it is his big blind. So I say out loud that "in honor of his first hand at the table, I am going to raise." I have and make it 275 with blinds 50/100. Everyone folds to him and he looks at me and then calls. Flop is . Yay...he checks and I make a standard cbet of 350 which he check raises to 850. I sit for about ten seconds looking a bit uncomfortable but not overdoing it, and call. The turn is . He leads out quickly for 1525, leaving him now with only 3200 left of his starting 5800 or so. I think for a while and say, "man, I guess I'm starting to not like the new guy very much already", and call. River is leaving me quite confident I still have the best hand and he checks now. So he has 3200 left. The pot is over 5k, so normally I would just put him all in here, but with him checking the river, I assume he doesn't have a very strong hand...maybe an A8 at best. So I try to figure out what looks like the weirdest move I can make here to get more chips out of him. So I bet 2000, a small bet that could look strange considering I'm leaving him with only 1200 more after that. And fortunately for me, he quickly calls, and gives a disgusted grunt when he sees my hand. After he busted out, the table agreed that my talking actually got him to pay me off and play the pot the way he did, which made me proud :). Another guy had folded J8 that hand...lucky for me.

   Another intersting hand:

   The big blind on my right was short stacked early on with about 2k when blinds were 75/150 with ante and so I told myself that I was going to limp big hands under the gun so encourage him to push over the limpers with his short stack. So I pick up and limp. The big guy two to my left looks at his hand and throws out a 500 chip and it was in a way that I wasn't sure if me meant to raise or not. The dealer says that it is a call because that's the rule when you put in one chip without saying anything, and he doesn't flinch and just agrees that he meant to call. I still wasn't sure though. Couple other limpers and it gets around to the big blind who tanks for a while. He is thinking of shoving, which I very much wanted him to do. He eventually checks, however, and the board of has me quickly check folding my hand. Well eventually two people get to showdown and the guy to my left who threw in the 500 chip ends up showing down and admits that he DID in fact mean to raise. So his accidental non-raise and the big blinds decision not to shove both saved me a LOT of money and trouble that hand. I was so relieved to realize what a bullet I had dodged.

   So I show up for day 2 with 35400 in chips, with 213 players left and 171 going to get paid. There are about 100 stacks shorter than mine, so I feel good about making the money, but also good about getting to stack some shorter people and build my stack for a deeper run. Unfortunately the cards decided for me that I wasn't going to really have a chance to go far that day. I never picked up any hands of any value in any position. To further smack me in the face...I was moved from my table three times in the first 90 minutes from the button or cutoff directly into the big blind at my new table. That's the most unlucky crap. My stack dwindled as I folded for 3 hours and occasionally stole blinds down to around 24k. I did bad beat a guy who shoved his little 11k stack in on the cutoff and I shoved my 25k stack over him on the button with my . Blinds were huge so I knew he'd shove most anything. Unfortunately he had but the ace on the flop saved me and put me back up to around 37k. So back to being down to 24k, I finally picked up my first good hand of the day... on the button... and with everyone folded around to me, made my very comfortable all-in. The small-blind instantly shoved all-in over the top and my heart sank. The BB folded and he turned up . The king on the flop further cemented the end of my journey. The Queen on the turn gave me an iota of hope, but the river blanked and I was sent packing in 109th place for a payday of $4658.00. Disappointing end, but nice to get that first WSOP cash in.

   Thanks for reading.

   P.S. I played a long time with some pretty well known players. Shannon Shorr doubled through me. I took a big pot from Michael Craig, the author of the Andy Beal story - The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King -, and Melissa Hayden (long time poker player and girlfriend of Allen Cunningham). She never stopped telling stories about pros all day long so it was entertaining. I took a decent amount from her as well despite her being on my left. She likes to make moves.

   Posted by WeezerMoo at 2009-06-21 01:03:12

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Comments on “WSOP Event #36 $2000 NL Holdem - 109th place out of 1695 - 171 paid”

1. • Posted by Nick L g 2009-06-29 09:28:42
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   • I liked the post quite a bit seems like a good call with that A8 like you said he could of had anything there. Congrads on cashing I just wish I can actually play in a event like that.

2. • Posted by Jason M g 2009-06-23 16:58:25
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   • damn! :D

3. • Posted by WeezerMoo g 2009-06-23 11:19:27
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   • Oh, I also had a hand of that UTG raised and UTG+1 got all super serious and intense as he carefully counted out his reraise and I just knew he had aces and mucked the hand, showing a few people near me. They thought I was insane until the two got all in and showed and . Naturally the flop was and I woulda stacked them both....but still I was happy to have made the fold confidently :).

4. • Posted by Jason M g 2009-06-23 04:55:20
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   • nice cash, jeff. very nice work with the . i was hoping you could go further, but you can only do so much without the cards... keep up the good work!

5. • Posted by BayAreaBoss g 2009-06-22 22:47:47
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   • congratulations on the cash. great read