2023 WSOP

[animalpoker]

Out at end of level 10.  Was down to 6k and got back to 32k but couldn’t push on.
It’s my new favourite tournament, for those that have played a $200 big o mtt at nugget before the standard was way way lower !
Currently on a corona fuelled big O session so won’t go into detail. 
Not sure if I fancy aria 600 plo tomorrow 11am.  May well stay late and have a more chilled day tomorrow. 

[tonytats]

Gl keep going and keep the updates
Safe travels to marky
Been back a week now n shit bored 😐

[animalpoker]

2am finish.  Followed by what i hope wasn’t a dodgy huge kebab .
I probably got to sleep before 3 but it’s all a bit hazy.
Deliberately set no alarm as didn’t think I’d play the aria plo 600. 
Woke up sometime after 9am and after jumping in the shower at 10 I made the decision to head for aria anyway .   Pool can wait or maybe later after bust 🙈
Get to aria at 10:50am to a short queue and realise it’s a plo8 tournament !  Im not sure if my mistake but more likely they adjusted the schedule after I’d wrote mine .
Anyways I’ve struggled to write this as we are 24 mins in and I’ve folded 1 hand preflop 😎

[Tal]

2am finish.  Followed by what i hope wasn’t a dodgy huge kebab .
I probably got to sleep before 3 but it’s all a bit hazy.
Deliberately set no alarm as didn’t think I’d play the aria plo 600. 
Woke up sometime after 9am and after jumping in the shower at 10 I made the decision to head for aria anyway .   Pool can wait or maybe later after bust 🙈
Get to aria at 10:50am to a short queue and realise it’s a plo8 tournament !  Im not sure if my mistake but more likely they adjusted the schedule after I’d wrote mine .
Anyways I’ve struggled to write this as we are 24 mins in and I’ve folded 1 hand preflop 😎

Quite hard not to have a hand when they give you all those cards and two ways to win.

Is it in the casino floorspace this year? Or at the back, by the door to Park MGM?

[animalpoker]

2am finish.  Followed by what i hope wasn’t a dodgy huge kebab .
I probably got to sleep before 3 but it’s all a bit hazy.
Deliberately set no alarm as didn’t think I’d play the aria plo 600. 
Woke up sometime after 9am and after jumping in the shower at 10 I made the decision to head for aria anyway .   Pool can wait or maybe later after bust 🙈
Get to aria at 10:50am to a short queue and realise it’s a plo8 tournament !  Im not sure if my mistake but more likely they adjusted the schedule after I’d wrote mine .
Anyways I’ve struggled to write this as we are 24 mins in and I’ve folded 1 hand preflop 😎

Quite hard not to have a hand when they give you all those cards and two ways to win.

Is it in the casino floorspace this year? Or at the back, by the door to Park MGM?

Casino right by card room.  Didn’t seem as noisy but then it was 11am.
I only lasted an uneventful 5 levels.  Did make 2 good back to back tough lay downs early when my big hands were good until the river. 

[animalpoker]

Good morning all.  I’ve finally made it to the pool here at horseshoe.  Seems basic but nice and found some shade for my lounger.  Music blaring far too loud for 10am so I’ve resorted to my own earphones in at a large volume instead.  This is my first time staying at horseshoe ( formally Ballys ) and to be honest there aren’t many downsides to it at all.  The air con kicking in can be loud but that’s prob my only down so far .  Key cards stopping working 4th day but can happen anywhere I guess .

I’ve stayed at lots of places in vegas over the years, easily into double figures , but in recent years other than a posh cosmopolitan last year it’s been the rio mostly.  So horseshoe is an easy win compared to rio on convenience, cleanliness, food options within 15mins walk.  I’ve not checked out the gym yet but will probably do some walking on treadmill very soon to ease myself back in after injury.  To be honest I’m a tad worried if doing weights in case I flare up the back injury .   Until 3 months ago I hadn’t lifted weights in over 20 years but got myself a personal trainer at start of March and am or was a keen addict to twice a week sessions.  Need to have a long think about that in the next week or 2 though as don’t wanna mess my back up long term.  I’ve only done it in worse twice before last Mondays nights incident. 

My wire still isn’t here so one more check at the desk around noon before absorbing more fees to enter todays 2pm Big O / PLO8 / limit O8 1500 at WSOP.   Really looking forward to this one.  I think I’ve played this twice before, 1st year I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing.  Last year however I got a really tough table with only one weak spot to my left.  This will be 7 handed so table draw is huge in my opinion. 

[animalpoker]

Some random hands from the big O 2 days ago:

AKQJ10 double suited utg.  Blinds irrelevant as we all deep.  Level 3.  I min raise and get 2 callers .  I bet 2/3 pot on a Q108ssx flop and get one caller from bb.  I have no spades.  Turn is a low club to give me nut flush draw and he check calls 2/3 pot again.  River is .   It goes check check and he shows just QQ and announces 3 queens.  Dealer incorrectly pushes me the 10k ish pot before he mucks the other 3 cards.  I don’t get a chance to stack but dealer had to make change for his 5k chip as I’d bet 3400 on the turn so does that .  After this point the guy finally tables his other 3 cards and someone else correctly spots he had a 28ss for the flush.  Much confusion and shouting from other end of the table as I want to recreate the pot to make sure I’m not being shorted pushing the pot back in case I let has merged with any of my chips and change part confused me big time.  Minor tilt or frustration and a minute later I politely remind the dealer she mustn’t push the pot until all cards are shown or mucked face down .  

same guy later check called my cont bet of 2k after I’d raised 2k and got 2 callers preflop .  Board read JJ2 rainbow and he had KQ833 .  We checked the 2 turn and 10 river. He announces no pair and tables hand to again make me think my A2348 for pair of 2 was good.  I’d missed a club flush draw I’d picked up on turn too.  

Later same guy tossed out 2x5k chips to try and call my 3k raise and flopped a straight with A,9,9,10,7 on a flop of 865 vs my A2xxx to chop.  

[animalpoker]

Toying with the odd update in running today.
I like to watch the table but might get time for odd ones. 
So 2nd hand of day starting on 25k I make it 200 in plo8 with 7523 1 suit. 
I was 100/100 100ante . Sb pots to 800 and bb calls as well as myself on the button.
Flop is rainbow a45 and sb check calls my 1000 flop and 2600 on king turn .
River pairs the 4 and I call his 5k bet to be shown a347. 
Shame I could have used those “spare” chips early . 
I’m still trying to see lots of flops in the pl games but am definitely playing a lot more controlled today.  We are now 50 minutes in and I’m happy with my table draw. 
Up to 30k now.  Just took 3/4 of nice pot but won’t detail it . 

[animalpoker]

9 mins to go to 1st break . 30k but just been allin in back to back hands. 
1st one complicated to write as big O but huge pot . 
Got it in with A2J56 on a board vs A23JJ.  It had been 3 way flop and I’d bet with naked ace of hearts looking to rep hearts if they hit. 
3rd chap had called 8400 on turn then tank folded and I couldn’t pass for 11k more after I’d bet. 

[animalpoker]

Next hand plo8 and I’m the aggressor in the sb with A295dbl suited .
Board runs out 98395 with 3rd diamond on river and kk73dd somehow got to river and paid me off back to 30k. 

[animalpoker]

Down to 16k after this hand in limit at 300/500 500/1000
Kqj10xddd on button .  ABC lady opens late and I 3bet to 1500, sb also comes along ( fishey player that thinks he’s better than he is ) .
Flop q93xhh sb leads , lady calls and I raise. 
Turn is 7x and just sb calls my turn bet. 
River is . Check check and he shows AKQJ no hearts to beat my KQ. 

Get some back next hand raising ax4x2c6c .  Same guy 3bet the button.  I check raised the K54ccx flop and led the 2x turn to which he folded.  Need to survive 4.5 more levels to avoid rebuy. 

Table not brilliant now after they high carded players away and nice Abc chap busted .

[animalpoker]

Starting stack at 2nd break.  Tough table except 2 spots now.  
Interesting hand just before break .  
In big O somehow heads up I managed to check down in position on turn and on river with a284K vs tight Abc lady on a 876QJ board to be shown a2qxx.  That took some discipline and I guess I lost the minimum .

Couple hands later it was complete opposite when I pot bet 10,800 on river with just nut low and pair of 3way to try go both out .  Weakest at table made a terribly good call to chop.  

[animalpoker]

Back to 20k
Just lost a huge pot in O8 with A1068 dbl suited on a board of J,10,9 hhx 7x Xx.  Table fish clearly has QK but it doesn’t stop mr know it all raising the turn so we get 3bets in and he pays him off on the river too.  Heart on the river and we go to about 45k, instead of 20k left.  
2 more levels to avoid rebuys.


Few hands later yet again I get it in bad in big O but this time with a lot of outs for scoop or at least at quarter.  This time fortunately a heart hits the river to give me the nuts to scoop a 41.5k pot.   In future I’ll sit out the round of big O I think. 

[animalpoker]

Peaked at 50k .  Card dead last hour or more.  45k just before end of rebuy period at 3rd break and we are on limit so can’t see me busting before that.   Alan Cunningham was the chap to my left but he just bust. 

[animalpoker]

Interesting hand in big O with k,10,9,7,2 in the sb
3 limps so 5 way to a flop of 654xss , all check
Turn 8x and bb bets 1.5k and I’m the only caller.
River is Jx and I check raise his 4k to 18k, he announces I knew I shouldn’t have bet that and tank folds.

Back to 32k though as a few hands later in plo8 I repot AaQq double suited and can’t get away from a shortish stacked player low cards despite flopping flush draw vs only a pair with it coming runner runner wheel .