Today is a day of great anticipation, with the field all coming together for the first time at the Main Event. Yesterday was also a day everyone was looking forward to, as anyone who wanted could get everything done they needed to.
For Pauly, it was going out to Henderson to do some laundry. For Otis, it was playing some serious poker (BadBlood is out, and he was treading water at Caesar’s). Otis had a mountain of chips at a NLHE table there, so either he bought in for $4k or all this poker has rubbed off on him. For me, it was sleep. I got in bed around 11:00AM and woke up finally at 6:30, so it was great. Some adventures last night (bumping into a major story I’ve been following), ate at Carnegie Deli at the Mirage, brought some cheesecake to Michael Lynn and his mom. He is the winner of a seat from Activision, and I’ll have an article on him from the interview I did. Really nice guy, and him mom is a sweet cutie as well.
This is the view from window last night. I didn’t realize that I had a view until I woke up yesterday, but it is very nice. Played a little $3/6 at Caesar’s with Pauly and change100. First table I was at I renamed $15/3/6 as people would cap betting pre-flop then revert to $3/6. Kings cracked by 10-4o on one of those (he capped it with 10-4 and made second pair on the turn). I moved to Pauly’s table, although leaving that fishfest was painful. I got stuck for $140, card dead and playing VP$IP 47% will do that to you. change100 took the 7s after Rachel Leigh Cooke in a hoodie from Central Michigan folded two a 2-bet re-raise when the pre-flop pot had 14 bets plus three others besides me (folded pocket tens). She whined about it, only had $20 behind, then would have caught the straight with her tens (Pauly’s kings were cracked by 8-9o for rivered two pair). I brutally brutalized change, cracking her kings with 7-4s for a rivered straight (I called three-bets pre-flop) and beating her tens with eight’s (set on the turn on a jack-high flop). She hated me for either thirty minutes or the rest of my life, I’m not sure which. Ended the session down $40 with those evil pots. I just haven’t been in the mood for real poker, more interested in casual fare.
Look for a serious post in a few hours. Also check out a couple other posts and articles of interest:
- Should you fold your way into the money?
- Freeroll qualifiers
- Joe Tehan interview
There also should be an article up soon heading into the day with an analysis of tables and top players (top three tables by chip count, etc.). There are two tables under $300k with blinds at $600/1200 and $200 antes. The question I pose in the interview is what prevents these players from deciding to raise 3x on the button everytime, fold around, all wait until they get in the money, even get more sophisticated and play to hide it, all the while either cashing or moving up? If the table never broke, they could theoritically nurse their collective short stacks into $15-25k through the day. Hmmm.
Need to do a bit more work then get a bite to eat, so thanks again. Take care, and email me at csquard@gmail.com or leave comments if you need anything.