blonde poker

 

487 entries in the $1500 limit shootout. Went to arena at around 3pm and bumped into Simon Trumper and Bushy. Bushy's table still had 10 players left on it, while most other tables were down to 6 players, he had a very tough table with Barry Greenstein and TJ Coutier (unfortunately he didn't get through). After a hour chatting to Aces Trumper in Starbucks, Paul Maxfield, who recently won $2m in the WPT $25,000 Bellagio tournament, turned up with his brother-in-law. Paul's a really down to earth bloke and has some interesting views on the future of poker and still definitely has his feet well on the ground (he was stressing the merits of the $10 lunch voucher you get with each tournament entry!).  They are expecting 1000 entries for the $1500 No Limit Shootout tomorrow, this means that you effectively have to win 3 single table satellites to win the event (1000 runners > 100 runners > 10 final table > 1 winner), and with1st prize being over $500,000 - what a tournament. My strategy is to play exactly the same as I do on the Partypoker Steps, very tight until the blinds get more than 10% of the average stack then very aggressive pre-flop later on. I won't be doing any calling, its raise or fold. This strategy has won me over $50,000 on the Partypoker steps in the last 12 months. I find these formats so different to multi- table tournaments due the fact that my hole card values change as each player gets knocked out, which rewards aggressive play later on. While I am very confident for tomorrows format, I'm still not happy with my multi-table tournament strategy for the forthcoming events, I'm doing something fundamentally wrong here, but I am fighting the temptation to tighten up my game too much and play by the book like nearly all of the field do, because you have no edge if you play the same as everyone elsestill, something needs to change. Maybe my coach and mentor, Willy Miagi Tan, can help me out when he arrives. On another note, there is a lot of internet qualifiers here that have not had their seat for the main event sorted out by their web site yet, the Rio have no record of their entry. If you've qualified on the net, I'd chase it up before you get here, the WSOP told me that if you have not received an email confirming your seat, table and day yet, they have not received your entry. I tried to find out when Karabiner was playing but drew a blank. Anyway, I need to give a good showing tomorrow, I am not including the $40,000 I won at Blackjack as trip winnings, so I'm still looking for that $50,000 to breakeven.