I covered Event #29, which was a $3,000 NL Holdem event. As most of you know, I hate NL Holdem, but I will play it and I will cover it because thats where the money is at. Tuesday night was the final table of the $3k NL event. John Phan and David Singer were two of the pro’s at the table. Continue reading
I am writing from Event #29, the $3,000 NL Event. Since I have last posted, we finished event #22, the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. event. Jens Voertmann won the event, but it was a fantastic final table with Marcel Luske, Steve Zolotow, Hoyt Corkins, and Jennifer Harman. Out of those four, only Marcel had any real shot to win as he finished 3rd. He was up and down a long time but finally his loose style caught up to him. I am glad that Voertmann won out of the two left, especially after one hand late. Doug Ganger and Voertmann were playing a hand of Omaha Hi-Lo where Ganger slowrolled Voertmann. After that hand, it was as if Voertmann said, “Ok, we play now.” He just flattened Ganger after that point.
Today, I am covering the $3,000 NL event. Some big names, but a lot of the top tier names are over in the $10,000 Limit Event. I would much rather be there, but I guess I have to do time in the NL jail. Actually, it’s not too bad to cover. Its actually simple. I think thats the point. Its so simple a game that after a while, everything is routine.
After this event, in three days I cover the $10,000 Omaha 8 or Better World Championship. That should be a lot of fun. The only down side to all this is that I am beginning to miss some of my friends, which was to be expected.
Unless I make a last minute change, I probably wont play in a WSOP event this year. I am planning on playing the Stud 8 or Better event down at Binion’s on the 24th, but right now anything else will depend on my schedule and how I feel. I may hang around and play over at the Orleans open next month, but I haven’t decided.
Anyway, I will try and write again before the end of the 3k event, but this event isn’t all that exciting.
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.
Well I have been officially working for two weeks at the World Series of Poker and I must say that this has been a fantastic experience. I have worked at least parts of 3 events so far. I first worked Event #2, which was the $1,500 buy-in NL event. I worked that for days 1a and 1b. I had a couple interesting posts about Scotty Nguyen on day two in which we talked a little.
Next, I worked Event #6 which is the $1,500 Omaha 8 or Better event. That was a great event. I worked it from start to finish. Saw a couple of people I knew and had a good time. Got to cover my first final table. I even got in a couple of media shots and I “may” get to be on TV as a result of that one. We will see this fall.
Right now, I am working Event #14, which is the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud World Championship. This one has been the most fun so far. I am doing a lot of coverage on a living legend of Vegas, Archie “The Greek” Karas. He is the man that came out to Vegas with $50, ran it up to $40,000,000 and then lost it all back. It’s been a lot of fun covering him and all the other pros. I will be covering the Stud World Championship to its conclusion.
Of course, if you want to follow my stuff, go to www.pokernews.com and click on the live reporting link. Any of my events, look for the nick of compncards, and you will find my stuff.
Got to go. I have to be at work in an hour. (If you want to call it work)
I still got it. At least for tonight anyway. I just took 4th in a H.O.R.S.E. tournament over at Green Valley Ranch. The structure was such where the game and the levels changed every 15 minutes. To a degree, that makes this tournament a luck fest. For those that can play limit poker properly, this isn’t as big a deal as one thinks. Continue reading
I officially arrived in Vegas on Saturday. For the first couple of days, I mostly hung around and spent time with a couple of friends and made a brief trip to Binion’s. Sunday, I moved into my current place of residence, all provided by the company I’m working with covering the World Series of Poker. If your interested in seeing my place, check out
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I haven’t played all that much, but for what I have played, I am down about $100. Part of that is a tournament, and part is a loosing Omaha Hi Lo session. I am playing way too loose in Omaha 8 and that’s the biggest reason for my loss overall.
There is a H.O.R.S.E. tournament at Green Valley Ranch, which is near where I am staying. They run it on Wednesdays and its a $45 buy-in. I’ll try my hand at it tommorrow. Ill probably spend most of this evening on Fremont, probably at the Plaza playing Sit-N-Go’s.
According to my boss, we did such a good job in New Orleans, we don’t need any additional training. As a result, we have most of the week to goof off. My first day of work at the WSOP will either be Friday or Saturday. I haven’t been informed as of yet.
Anywho, not much else to talk about at the present. I’ll update once something a little more interesting occurs.
I’m currently covering the World Series of Poker Circuit at Harrah’s in New Orleans as most of you already know. Day 1 was quite interesting. TJ Cloutier, Gavin Smith, Ted Lawson, Josh Arieh, Allen Kessler, Steve Bilarakis, and several other pro’s came out for the event. Right now, the only huge name left is Kessler.
It has been quite an experience so far. Very different than playing on the circuit. If you’re interested in seeing what I have written, head over to Pokernews.com and go to live reporting under the Harrahs New Orleans Event. All of my postings under Day 1 and today will be listed under my nick of compncards.
Anywho, I’ll update in the next day or so. Have fun.
Tomorrow, I embark on my summer journey as a reporter for Pokernews.com. Starting Monday, I will be helping to cover the main event of the WSOP Circuit. Afterwards, I will head out to Vegas for two months to help cover the World Series of Poker. I am really looking forward to the trip overall. There are some people I am going to miss from home, but I am really looking forward to get back out on the circuit road and hopefully reconnect with a few friends and make some new ones.
I will naturally get some time in at the tables as well, but not to the degree I have in the past. I will primarily be going out to Vegas to work the WSOP. I may play a couple of the Binions events or maybe ride out to Los Angeles and play at the Bike if I can get a day off during a mixed event, but I will not be playing at the World Series this year. It is just too expensive for my bankroll right now. Plus, to be honest, I just haven’t put in the time for anything other than Stud 8.
One good thing is that I have a couple of friends I can visit while I am out there, so I don’t HAVE to play poker on my off days. I may finally get around to seeing some of the sights this year not related to casinos or poker, but probably not.
Right now, I am scheduled to be out there until July 15th. After the 15th, I am not sure what I will be doing. I may stay out there another week or so and play a couple of Orleans Open events. Then again, if a certain thing happens in my personal life, I may be going somewhere to spend some time with someone. Everything is too iffy right now to really know.
For anyone interested, I will probably make some entries letting folks know what’s going on at the series. Otherwise, if any of you are interested in following my coverage, go over to pokernews.com and go under live reporting. Any entries with the nickname of compncards will be mine. I expect that at the series, you will see me covering primarily mixed games, especially stud based games.
Anywho, hope everyone has a fantastic summer and keeps reading as I will try and keep you abreast of my travels. Otherwise, I will see you around the end of July.
Here are some practical examples of various hands and scenarios. Tell me what you would do and why. Note: Suits, if used, are denoted by lowercase letters.
Just for the fish today, I decided to play in a freeroll at Full Tilt. (Fish, you know…the halibut.) I had built up my stack to about 8k when I picked up pocket aces. There was a raise to 250, and I made it 1,000 straight, and got called in 4 spot. Flop is 3, 4, 10. I am first to act and push all in. I get called in 2 spots. The powerhouse hands that called me were 3-4 and Q-4. Remember they called 1,000 pre-flop. No help for me, so I’m gone. (Yes, I was covered by the person with 3, 4.)
Lol donkeyments truly applies to freerolls. I have played a couple of Pokerstars and gotten really deep and all the players that have chips are playing like crap. I play crap and don’t catch. I guess freerolls truly are crapshoots. I know none of what I am saying is really earth shattering or ground breaking, but I just wanted to post about it.