Today’s tourney was the $2,000 NLH and attracted a massive field of 1912 runners. All the tourneys start at Noon and as I had not lasted to the dinner break in any of the competitions so far, I was determined to play tight not taking any risks.
£50 R/B
Aspers, Newcastle, Tue 04/Jul/06
£30 NLH D-C F/O
Grosvenor Blackpool, Tue 04/Jul/06(3) A Cash To Get The Ball Rolling
(2) Mixed Fortunes
Wednesday 28th June (continued)
Hmmm. Now I see the advantage of stopping at Hooters. You get up and trot down to breakfast and you are guaranteed to have a smile on your face before you sit. Pretty girls everywhere.
(1) The Annual Pilgrimage
Monday 26th June
I am booked on the Virgin VS43 direct flight from Gatwick direct to Vegas along with Marc Goodwin (right). Unfortunately, Mr Cool has the bright idea of checking in online, which includes having to type your password number in. Having driven from Birmingham to Gatwick at 5am, I now realise how dangerous it is to ever take my passport out of my laptop bag. I just don’t do it. And now I know why I don’t do it…
Riches to Rags
More from Rob Sherwood's WSOP diary, including a fascinating insight into the tragic activities of TJ Cloutier.
(5) Day 7/8 - July 2nd/3rd
On Sunday I managed to only play one $525 single table satellite. With 2,000 starting chips, I had 2,700 chips 3-handed and was offered $1,050 in a deal. Now at this point in time I figure my chip equity to be just under $700 (2,700/20,000 * 512), so I took the deal. I consider a winner takes-all single table sateliite to be similar to a cash game in that at a fixed point in time your tournament equity is directly proportional to the number of chips you have, which obviously is not the case in tournaments with staggered payouts. Every deal I have made so far I have received more than my equity at that point in time which makes these things even more profitable than they would be anyway. This is not precisely true, you could say you have more equity than your chipstack if you have the button next hand, or if any of the remaining players are liable to make mistakes in future hands (obviously pretty likely). Still, I think it's a good rule of thumb.
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