Hello my name is Chris Louviere. I am 43 and have been rounding for the last 20+ years. When I have played occasional live tournaments from time to time the majority of the above said time has been spent in NLH cash games. From casinos coast to coast along with back door games in New Orleans and Dallas I have played with big names and literally played cash poker in just about every arena this country has to offer.
Up until about 9 months ago the idea of playing high profile tournaments was a joke to me for many reasons. In September of 2013 I went to a casino in Oklahoma called Indigo Sky to watch my best friend play in an HPT tournament. He ended up taking forth in the televised tournament.
My buddy asked me to go to the next HPT stop which was in Iowa at a racetrack called Prairie Meadows. Now as I have stated high profile tournaments were not for me but being the competitor that I am I just could not let my buddy one up me with the HPT final table. We made a deal with him putting up a satellite entry for me and the rest is history as I went on to win the satellite and the HPT main event.
Since then me and my buddy have arranged a staking deal which has been a win win for both of us. For me I have received life coaching and money management tools and for him I have won an HPT side event, WSOPC ring and multiple cashes and final tables at both HPT and WSOPC. Hell I almost made the WSOPC National Championship via points in just half the season finishing in 75th which you needed to be in 50th to qualify.
I have provided the above to give you a little history as you follow my progress at the 2014 WSOP. I am scheduled to play 8 events which I will list below. If we reach a designated goal through those 8 events then we will go on to play the main.


Event #4
#8b
#9
#19
#21
#26
#31
#33

Now as you can see we are focused on NLH as this is by far my best game. Obviously if any deep runs affect the schedule of any tournaments following then they will be cancelled. I will keep this entry updated on a nightly basis and I will be giving updates every other hour on my twitter account.
I sure can't predict the future but I will say that if you follow this thread you have a good chance at watching a random guy step by step win a bracelet.

Tonight is my last night at home as I will be getting up tomorrow and driving to Austin TX. to catch my flight. Can't stand flying so looking forward to the next 24 hours getting over with.

Have you played professionally for 20 years or just as a hobby?

And GL

In the beginning days of my poker playing (90's) it was defiantly recreational as the only games being spread in casinos were low to mid level limit games which because of the low level games I played (1-4-8-8, 3-6 or 4-8 limit) I had very little success. It wasn't till the mid 2000's when the lower limit NL games (1-2 or 2-5) took off that I took more of a full time approach to the game as I possessed skills in NL that allowed me to exceed for beyond the game of limit that I had known. I literally bought a cab and supplemented the income from that with poker. Got burnt out around 2010 and became a cat insurance adjuster and once again have come to play recreational which is where I am atm.

Thanks for the well wishes

work hard , self discipline can get you to WSOP .

Just boarded plane in Austin Tx to San Francisco with a one hour layover than next stop Vegas.

just reach San Francisco for my layover not stop Las Vegas

Odd route to Vegas from Austin.

Your telling me. As you will learn I hate to fly but i am officially lying in my bed in Laa Vegas. My backer has stated to me since we got in so late we may skip tomorrows tourny as I will update tomorrow. If anyone wants to follow closer with pics and what not my Twitter is Chris_Louviere.

Following along on here & twitter.
GL Sir.

Ok just had lunch as me and Eric (backer) discussed weather to play todays 1k and we decided to hold off to start on Saturday's milly maker. Since we have 2 days may play Rio or Venetian deepstack. Will keep thread informed

Ok since i wont be starting milly maker till Saturday Im gonna play the Rio 10 pm deepstack. I will update on this thread tomorrow morning and will be updating on my twitter account "Chris_Louviere". This is a cheapy but wtf

Sorry as i forgot to post yesterday on the 10pm deepstack. I went out in the 150~300 with 7 bb aipf 77 vs A 8 and he hit 8 on river. Was not impressed with structure but i guess for $135 you get what you get. Today i start the milly maker at 5pm. Once again i will keep twitter updated every other hour "Chris_Louviere" and will report daily of my progress on this thread.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts.asp



it can't be this easy huh. they to a start out with 38800 chips.

Guess it was not that easy lol. I finished 77th in the 1k WSOP event and Iam not scheduled for another tournament until Saturday.

Yesterday i played the 1500 and today I played 1k and busto before cash in both.