The first time I played the WSOP main event was in 2008. I was a 23 year old aspiring poker player who thought my excessive pot smoking and drinking habit only enhanced my drastically flawed strategy at the poker table. My dreams were crushed by Chau Giang. I shall elaborate further.
I had considerable success in Boston playing 10$ home games during college and had mild up swings at Foxwoods over the course of those years. Having honed my precious talents amongst the 5/10 foxwoods game I felt I was ready for the next step. Oh how wrong I was. Talentless and over confident I strode into the WSOP that year as if I was invincible. The first event I played was a 1500 buy in. Due to excessive drinking during day 1 and being smacked in the face by the deck, I somehow luck boxed myself into day 2 and essentially the money, and my first WSOP cash. However, being the degenerate I am, I partied til around 7 am and showed up 1.5 hours late to day 2. Needless to say, I had almost half my stack blinded away by this point and soon got it in with QQ only to lose to the AA of the focused and assured German pro in seat 1.
Now having achieved the milestone of a Min cash, I figured the main event should be a piece of cake. I managed to satellite in for half of the buy in, in one of those 500 dollar 10 man sngs. I stumped up the other 5k and my journey to the bright lights of ESPN was now assured in my deluded mind.
The dream was realized, I did end up on ESPN but not for the reasons I wanted. It was for a brutal bust out at the hands of none other than the legend himself, Mr. Chau Giang. I won't go into the spoilers. But the video can be seen here at the 6.35 mark. My name is Karan. I also got kidnapped and held for ransom when I was 18 in India, but that story is for another day. Anyway here it is. Chau Giang, the master, I salute you for busting me on day 3 about 100 players off the money. You humbled me and I am a better player for it. Only marginally though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsb-...e_gdata_player
6.35