ok - tbh the goal is to get my first wpt cash this weekend - and ACTUALLY tbh the FIRST goal is to still be in the tourny tomorrow night!

big goal as this is my first time playing a wpt. i've played with these people before though - have played a few wsop events and do the tourny trail here in los angeles... but never a wpt.

playing day 1b tomorrow for Legends.

actually going to play a $400 (for staker) satt today for the event but even if i don't make it in - staker (who has never staked me for this big of an event) is going to at least put in 1/2 of main event - i'll cover the other half if i don't satty in tonight.

so we'll see! good luck to me! and good luck to any of you that are joining me this weekend at the bike!

thanks moon!

GL bro, run good and post pics if u win

thanks niki - and absolutely will post pics if win!

good luck buddy, keep us updated.. detailed TR after too lol

sick life bro gl.

Good luck buddy, ship it

As we all know one of the most difficult things is avoiding the "landmines" that play so bad the first day of a tourny - get sick lucky - taking out good players right and left - get a huge chip stack and then of course they never win (or most of the time even cash)...

I couldn't avoid the most idotic landmine I've ever seen.

Set up:

This maniac was raising and reraising in or out of position - smooth calling raises oop - etc all day... he had already sucked out hard against 3 diff players in huge pots and now has over 76,000 chips (we started with 30,000).

In one hand very early - he raised and got called in two spots. Flop:
A
Q
5
suits don't matter. This guy shuvs all in (WTF?) to 25grand when with like 1,000 in pot. One fold - one snap call.

Donkey has 1010
Other guy QQ (set of QQQs)
Turn J
River K
Sick!!! qqq go down.

He proceeds to chip up then down then up then down - etc...

Oh I'm consitantly chipping up bit by bit...

Another hand - this guy shuvs 40K into a 2k pot on flop with gut shot only... a girl calls him with top two - this guy hits his gut shot - girl is out - this donkey chips up.

.......

Around 6 hours in - I'm at around $48,000 - this guy has $76,000 when this happens:

He's utg+1 - I'm midd.

Blinds 200/400 ante 50

-He raises from 400 to 1400 (one of his standard overraises)
-I click it back to 3000
-All others fold
-He clicks it back for 7000
-I think about shuving - but decide top see a flop (partly trapping - partly want to see the flop - as I have position on the guy.
**Pot about close to 24,000 with antes**


-I have:
Ah
Ad

Flop:


As 3c 9d (edited - had posted that the 9 was spade - but it was rainbow which made my decisions even easier)


He instantly leads out with 16,000

I pause for a second about what to do - just smooth now or just ship it as any raise is just an all in for me basically - and the guy isn't going anywhere anyway...

I ship.

He beats me into the pot!!!

He has:
Ac 10c ???????!!!!!!!! lol tyvm!!

Turn:
4c

River:
2c

I wondered later if I had shipped preflop if he would have mucked. (and did I really want that anyway??) Truth is he had called all in earlier on a guy with A9 - cracked the guys KK - another one of his great plays...

GG Me.

I so ***** hate that horrible play gets rewarded like that...

Would love to say it was fun - no real "names" at my table but they were all around...

So was it fun?

No. Not at all.

oh yea - this was all yesterday. i was out last night.

sorry this is wrong -the pot was about 15k at this point - which made his pot size bet on the flop just another of his stupid overbets of the day

just sick...........

i'm over it.

NOT!

thanks for commiserating with me though!

sigh!

Gross. I am tilted from just reading it. And you lived it.

yep. it was sick. i mean really sick (and i almost got sick physically)... i'm pretty sure that guy is not in tourny still (day 3 was today).

thanks for the bump though!!????? (kidding - thanks for your post.)

Thats so sickening.. I wonder how much this Guy is down Long Term... probably more sickening..