Well, the 10k Stud World Championship is behind us and Eric Brooks wound up winning the event. With 16 players left we had Chad Brown, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, and Erik Seidel left in our field. Out of all of those, only Seidel made the final. Seidel could never amass a huge stack at the final and as a result finished 5th.
I was not surprised in the least that Kostritsyn finished 3rd. In fact, if not for some card catching, he should have been out long before then. He made a lot of rookie mistakes during the final table. From what I saw of his play, it amazes me that he even cashed, much less finished third in the event. He was a prime target to trap and take a lot of chips from. Eric Brooks caught on to this and took two huge chunks out his ass at the final table. I told my partner Heath that was covering the event that the true stud players would take advantage of him, and they did.
Today begins the 3K H.O.R.S.E. event. This should be a very stacked field as you will have mixed games specialist and a lot of pros trying to make their way through a smaller field. I would not be surprised if we had 400 or more players in this event. 500 wouldn’t shock me. I will be covering the event for Pokernews, so head over there and click on live reporting.
Finally got my first paycheck for this gig, so I finally have some money. I haven’t played much my last two days off due to the fact I was nearly broke. I mostly just hung out. Summer called me today and told me that she might fly out to see me while I am here. That would be good. I miss her. Of course that will just get a couple more guys talking more than they already are. I will go into that further in a future post.
Anywho, got to go get ready for work.