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75k

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Hustler 75k

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Hustler 75k tourney

180k with 46 players left. Started the day with 238 players. 17 advance to day 2.




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Uphill battle - update #2

After flopping a set of kings against AK, I got it all in, only to get crushed by an A on the turn. Made a comeback but lost another 70% of my stack by flopping trips against someone else with a better kicker.

I'm building a stack again, but it's been a bit frustrating. My new table seems a bit easier, but a couple of players seem to play well.

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1k update #1

After a slow 30 minutes in which I missed every flop, I've started to build a stack. I had dropped to 2500 and am now up above 4k, which is something considering the 25/25 blinds.



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Let's get ready to (c)rumble!

We are just about to start. Unfortunately, we start with only 3K in chips. I expect quite a bit of action with the short stacks and huge field.

Tony Dunst is at the table next to mine, looking dapper.

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$1000 No Limit Hold Em - WSOP Event #8

The next tournament is only a couple of hours away. I bubbled yesterday's tournament, but I felt good with the way I was playing and don't have any regrets over not hanging on to cash. Whenever I'm given the choice between possibly doubling up and allowing my stack to dwindle down so that I can just make the cash, the choice is easy--I'll always choose to go for the double up.

O.k., that's not always true. If the buy in for the event is $10k and I'm right on the bubble and I have the chance to watch a couple of short stacks go at it against a big stack, I'll sit the hand out. But in 99% of the events I enter, it simply isn't worth playing if all I do is cash. Yesterday's event, for example, had a $235 buy in and just making the minimum cash (57th place) paid only $377. After 8 hours of play, I'm not looking for $142 profit.

I'm off to breakfast and maybe the cash games while I wait for the event to start.

Thanks for reading!

Tournament Update #5

Over 100k!


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Tournament Update #4

Just doubled up! Flopped top pair but was behind with my kicker. Turned two pair and doubled up to 70k!

Tournament Update #3

Things are improving. Shoved over someone's raise. He laid down AQs, I had pocket nines. Then stole the blinds twice for a little bump in my stack. Blinds are 800/1600 with 200 ante. I thought there were 250 players left (started with 500), but there are 270.




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Tournament update #2

I'm hovering around 30k. One bluff gone bad cut a bit into my stack, but I'm still above average.


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Tournament update #1

We're at level 4. We started with 15k in chips, and I'm at about 27k. My table is filled with tourists from the
Midwest and a couple from England. There are a couple of young guys who seem to play well, but they've shown me some respect since I showed down only strong hands for the first hour.


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Friday

I drove up from Los Angeles last night, checked in at 4am, and slept (as well as I could) until 9am.

I'm now sitting in a parking lot charging my iPhone before this trip's first tournament: a $235 buy in deepstack event at the WSOP. This isn't a bracelet event, obviously, but I figured it would be a good warmup for tomorrow, and if I bust out early I'll play the cash games at the WSOP or make my way to the Aria poker room.

As I started this blog, a Korean man approached my car and complimented me on my Ford Escape. The conversation drifted to his brother-in-law, who he described as a "short man who makes it rain money because he's insecure." Unsure of how to
respond, I simply said, "ah, I see." He then told me that his brother was stupid for showing off his money in the clubs because there were black people there and they probably had guns. I told him that most Americans, black and white, carried guns. He was on his way shortly after that.