I played in the 2005 WSOP (the $500 buy in anyway) |
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Posted Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:27 am GMT by darthsikle
I was in Atlantic City this weekend. It was the opening event for the new WSOP circuit events. Friday had a $500 + $60 NL event. I was going to pay, but while I was in line, I heard they were running sattelites for $55 + $20. I figured, what the hay.
I finally got into a satellite about 3:00 AM. One guy at the table suggested we each put up an additional $10 for second place. Beleive it or not, 3 of the 10 had no more money and said they came down just to play this satelite and that was all the money they had.
I was behind most of the night. Down to me and one other about 5:30 am. He had about 70% of the chips. We were playing so long, the floor manager told us we were allowed to split the entry. We would each get a voucher for 50%. Of course i was for it, the other guy said no. So we kept playing. About 5:50 am, I was pecking away at his chips, I now had about 70% of them, he then offers to split. I was so tired ( the $500 tourney started at noon that day), I told him to f*ck off. {I immediately apologized as it was uncalled for, he said not to worry about, he was tired as all hell also.) Finally, about 6:10 am I took him out.
I then go upstairs to my room and get about 3 hours sleep when my soon to be ex wife calls and wants to know how I did. AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Anyway, Harrah's was so unorganized the touney was delayed till 1:00. They had 518 entrants and 150 alternates and they turned away at least 500 more people. While waiting, I made $300 on Let it Ride.
Tourny starts, I get A2....3, 4 and 5 show up on the flop. A wheel!!! Guy around the table bets 100 (10% of the chips given), I'm so excited I yell ALL IN!!!! He puts his card down in disgust and says "This is the first hand kid, nice straight."
Anyway, that was the best cards I had all day. I went out right before the first break. I think since I won into it, I wasn't playing my best game. Lost most of my chips chasing flushes.
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Posted Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:18 am GMT by campbeas
Moral of the story
Don't chase flush draws.
I rarely if ever chase down a flush draw. Even when the pot odds are amazing....I just can't bring myself to put my money down on a draw hand (unless of course I happen to have top pair along with it). I havn't found it to be profitable in my experience. I'd rather wait out a good hand and have that flush chasing money to bet on my nuts and take more guarunteed money from someone.
But thats just me.
And its just based on the dumb bad luck, chooseing to chase the flush with good pot odds at the wrong times and never hitting it.
Posted Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:45 pm GMT by ZZZinindy
Hey, at least you made it to the $500 table! That's worth smiling about anyway. Better cards next time.
ZZZ
Posted Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:06 pm GMT by wEbMaStEr
great story, great read :D
sorry you couldn't make it further, i am sure the majority of the players were no better than you but sometimes you chase to accumulate, sometimes it works, sometimes you go broke.
| darthsikle wrote: | About 5:50 am, I was pecking away at his chips, I now had about 70% of them, he then offers to split. I was so tired ( the $500 tourney started at noon that day), I told him to f*ck off. {I immediately apologized as it was uncalled for, he said not to worry about, he was tired as all hell also.) Finally, about 6:10 am I took him out.
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I'm glad you told him to flick off, I would have done exactly the same thing, he thinks he has you so it's "no way" then when roles are reversed it's a good idea? Yeah right!
I am not a fan of splits anyways but if you say no it's NO! You can't then suggest a split when you're on the shortstack.
| darthsikle wrote: |
I then go upstairs to my room and get about 3 hours sleep when my soon to be ex wife calls.
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Love this phrase  "My soon to be ex-wife" along with "And this is my first wife........" there is nothing better to rile a woman 8)
Good story darth ty 
Posted Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:33 pm GMT by darthsikle
| wEbMaStEr wrote: |
Love this phrase "My soon to be ex-wife" along with "And this is my first wife........" there is nothing better to rile a woman |
LOL...this is actually the case. We are seperated and the divorce is not yet final. We get along better now that we are not together. So my terminology is actually correct. When we are out together with the kids I sometimes introduce her as that and it does rile her up even though it is correct. 8)
Posted Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:46 pm GMT by wEbMaStEr
oh! 
sorry to hear that
Posted Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:55 pm GMT by darthsikle
No problem. Life is better now and I actually mean that. It seems after a seperation, first you miss the person...then you think life is better, then you miss them again and finally it's great again!
Posted Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:29 am GMT by HitTheFlop
We'll unfortunately I played in the same event.
I say unfortunately because Harrahs at best was unorginized. I would say that if this is how they are going to run things they should give it up. I got there 3 hours early had to stand in THREE seperate lines to get registered. Than had to wait until 1:30 not 1:00 for a tourney that was supposed to start at noon.
The structure was horrendous $1000 in starting chips starting blinds of $25/25, increasing at a mucho rapid pace every 45 minutes. Blind stucture as follows 25/25, 25/50, 50/100. 100/200, 100/200 w/25 ante etc.... Making moves was not required but was without doubt going to happen if you wanted to survive such a rapid pace. Anyone not catching a descent hand was at the mercy of an all-in bet and at best a race situation by the time we were at level 3.
They started each table with 11 players and it was so crowded you could barely squeeze into your space at the table of course I started at a stud table which only made things worse.
The only positive was PLAY was so bad that any reasonable hand was way overplayed and you knew where you stood at all times. Of couse play was so bad I thought I was playing on-line, I never saw so many bad beats in a live game in one day. A6 beating AA, KT beating KK etc... and all the beats I saw the worst hand got there money in with the very worst of it. My own personal beat which crippled me happened late in the 5th level when I bet enough to put the big blind all in from the button and he calls with JQ and bust's up my JJ by flopping 1 of 3 outs. with only about $900 left in tourney chips I get no hands and finally move in with 88 in late position when the small blind wakes up with AK I and lose the race to an AK when a K comes on the turn. Oh well, I did play great cards all day and busted late in the fifth level and managed to bust around 150th place or so. Still no $$$!!!
We as a group went down to AC this weekend to play the first 3 Tourney's at harrahs but hated everything about it so much that we ended up playing cash games at the Trop for another day and came home early.
Peace, HTF
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