Brief Report from Day 1 of the £1k WSOPE

[tikay]

Here's the Man, being Presented with his Bracelet today.

Left to right, as viewed, Nolan Dalla, Jack Effel, JP, Mr Betfair, & President/Commissioner Polllack.

[Colchester Kev]

Did they play the National Anthem ?

[tikay]

Did they play the National Anthem ?

Err, no. "The confines of The Empire Casino make it impractical so to do" it was announced.

John Kabbaj was stood next to me when they announced that......

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Did they play the National Anthem ?

Err, no. "The confines of The Empire Casino make it impractical so to do" it was announced.

John Kabbaj was standing next to me when they announced that......

FYP

[tikay]

Did they play the National Anthem ?

Err, no. "The confines of The Empire Casino make it impractical so to do" it was announced.

John Kabbaj was standing next to me when they announced that......

FYP

I was writing in Yorkshire-ish.

[tikay]

I omitted to add.....

When they introduced JP as the Bracelet Winner, they announced his as "J P Kelly, from Allesbury".

[Karabiner]

I omitted to add.....

When they introduced JP as the Bracelet Winner, they announced his as "J P Kelly, from Allesbury".

Lucky he's not from Loughborough then, that one really stumps a lot of Yanks.

[action man]

The first level is 25-25 and starting stack 3000, 1 hour levels.
What a breath of fresh air compared to the now seemingly standard 10-15k starting chips when everyone wastes 4-5 hours of their lives just getting mentally and physically exhausted before the levels that matter.
Every single player I spoke to yesterday thought the structure was perfect and moaned about the massive stack nonsense. If you play poker for enjoyment and the soul destroying slow structures please go and play play money games or a £5 `pretend wsop main event' at a local casino.
I am soon to set up an organisation to preserve some sense in live tournaments `SOOS'. Save Our Old Structures.
One aim is to have multiple MTT's at a casino in one night. Ie. comps going off every 3 hours and lasting 3 hours. It is almost impossible to avoid the variance for `full time' players otherwise.
Ps. I don't know why anyone would 4 bet any hand early in this comp, but if you did and got 5 bet by a tight player, then 120bb's deep I would think kk is a standard fold.

hows the SOOS getting on?

[George2Loose]

OP is superb. Thx for the bump

[GreekStein]

lol good times

[Amatay]

Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".

Superb!

[George2Loose]

Next up I bumped into Alan 'Lucky' McBride and we chatted briefly before he took me over to see Alex Martins table. He was going nicely on 9k thanks to one hand which me and Alan caught the end of. I'll do my best to report the hand as Alex explained when he came and said hi to us on the rail. "I'll cut a long story short - I decided to isolate a mid position limp from the BB, purely for metagame purposes as my opponent was playing an exploitable 34/9 style. Before you ask boys, I was intent I could still take a profitable line playing semi-deep/shallow OOP with a mediocre holding. Anyway after c-betting a double bellybuster gutshot draw I decided to make use of my scarlet-pimpernell-like image and checkraise the turn as the marginal line of EV I was taking appears stronger against a semi-weak lagtard fishstick opponent. The river was where it really got interesting for though - he opted to induce a bluff based on a read of tendencies and treat the hand as is played in a vacuum of a single raised orbit in which the aggressor became the aggressee. I wasn't going to stand for that so I min 3-bet bluffed to induce a 4-bet bluff. I then decided to 5-bet bluff all in cos, well, fuck it. I won".

Superb!

should have been followed by a bump into Bazza neville who had a similar stack. Woulda gone something like:

Cos: How'd you get them chips Baz?

Baz: I were ooop n darrrrn on da flop