WSOP ME Report (long)

[unglee]

Great Report-Some bad luck at the end, but at least you cashed! (I wish I could say the same for me).

Where did you win your entry for the Legends of Poker tourney? I'd like to look into it if they're still running satellites.

[SossMan]

really great report...so that's what i'm doing wrong...i'm not flopping sets and checkcalling all in enough..i'll work on that.

how much did you win?

[morello]

Good report, tough break. Keep playing like you do and you'll be winning these things soon enough.

[MSUcougar]

Very nice report... Tough way to go out.

I also noticed you're in Seattle... I just moved to the area. Do you play live locally? If so, what are the good local casinos to check out?

[bugstud]

For the record...

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I open 22 in CO for 600, button makes it 1500, blinds fold back to me. I’ve seen this guy reraise with AK, AQ, and he has reraised my LP opens before, so I decide to call and push any flop. Flop is 842. Okay, so maybe I’m not pushing any flop. I check, he puts me all in with 66, and I double up.


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that's one.
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I limp utg with 88 for 200, another limper, and LP makes it 800, both of us call. Flop is 876 two hearts. Checks to preflop raiser, who pushes for 7000, I call all in for something between 5-6K, other limper folds, and I crack AA.


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I limp 44 in EP, MP makes it 800, with 4500 behind, I call HU. Flop is T94, and for the third time I flop a set and get to check call an all in bet. AA no good. I’m somewhere around 20K.


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CO (stars kid begging me to take his chips) opens for 3200 I think. I have KJ in the SB and decide to just call. I feel like I’ve reraised him enough that he’s going to want to take a stand sometime soon. BB folds. Flop is KQ7r, I check, he quickly moves all in for almost 30K. I take off my headphones in a haste to make sure I heard him correctly, and almost call without even thinking about it. I probably got about half a syllable out of “I call” before I decided to take a second. After maybe 3 seconds I decided I wasn’t going to find a fold and made the call. He showed Q9 and my hand held up.


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Now I have a stack and am sitting very comfortably with around 100K. I had just raised and gotten reraised, so I decide to limp 89s utg. Folds to MP who makes it 4500 with 40K behind. This guy is bad. He loves to make big folds and show them. He’s the kind of guy who I think I can easily semibluff off a strong hand. For these reasons I call. The flop comes A88, I check, he moves in immediately, and I call before he could believe it. He was absolutely disgusted when I turned my hand over, and gave me a really nasty look. I can’t imagine how many times he’s told this story of the young donkey who CALLS A RAISE WITH 89. He had AQ.


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Blinds go up to 600-1200, I have about 140K.

I raise to 3600 UTG+1 with 97d, MP (another bad player) makes it 8K. He has between 30 and 35K behind. I make the obvious call of his 4400 reraise. The flop comes 972 two clubs. I check, he pushes, and I call instantly.


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A couple orbits into the level, monster stack (700+) open limps in EMP, button limps, SB completes, and I look down at KK in the BB. I make it 15K more, monster stack calls, the others fold. Flop is K73, two diamonds. I check, he puts me all in quickly, and I of course call

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giving you a hard time, but every story I heard was "I check, he push, I call."

quite an unlucky seventh time, but I enjoyed sweating you. hopefully you run this good next time I'm around.

[Double Eagle]

Holy cow, I played a day and a half in Atlantis and 13 hours in the Main Event and have a grand total of zero flopped sets. Not only that, I've never even mucked a small pair to a raise that would have been a set. Where can I go to work on this?

[bugstud]

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Holy cow, I played a day and a half in Atlantis and 13 hours in the Main Event and have a grand total of zero flopped sets. Not only that, I've never even mucked a small pair to a raise that would have been a set. Where can I go to work on this?

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hell, I even flopped one in the ME...you need to get a better luckbox. I'm about two versions behind colson it seems [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[PrayingMantis]

Nice report and great job. Your online and live success is pretty understandable, with your ability and feel of the game.

BTW, I know how painful it is to bust the way you did, but I really don't think there's a reason to feel too unlucky about it. Many people bust through very tough beats on the early hours of day 1 or 2. You were quite lucky at the early stages.

For a little perspective (it's not a rant or anything), I've played 4 EPT events this year (I've met you at two of them) and have never flopped any set with my PPs, while in the same time, at a few crucial hands where I had either a big pair (which ended as an overpair to the board), or a TPTK, someone flopped a set AGAINST ME. This was very expensive and painful for me, of course, although I did manage to survive 2 of these situations without taking a very big hit, which I'm proud of. People particularly loved playing TT to my PF raises and to hit a T on the flop... So feel good, you are running great! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] (and playing great too, which helps a lot...)

[burningyen]

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Many people bust through very tough beats on the early hours of day 1 or 2.

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No kidding. Here's one I saw at my day 1C table:

AA (shorter but decent stack) vs. KK (table chip leader) all-in pre-flop.

Flop: AKQ
Turn: T
River: K

[colson10]

Hi Praying Mantis, of course I remember meeting you at the EPT.

I didn't want to make it sound like I felt I was that unlucky. He hit his flush draw, it wasn't a bad beat. It was devastating though because I was getting to the point where I needed to make a hand, which just happened to be top set, the nuts at the time, and he happened to have the only hand that I was vulnerable to.

But I certainly realize I was very fortunate go get to that point. I was lucky to flop some big hands and get paid off way more than was necessary. However, I had my share of unlucky spots too.

I was also lucky to get away from the JJ when 99 basically saved me by pushing preflop.

The pain after busting out came from the fact that I had gotten that far, gotten my chips in with the nuts, and would have been in good shape had I won that pot. I was deep enough that the real money was in sight. One of my first thoughts after busting was that not only do I have to wait a year to play this great tournament again, but it might be a loooooooong time before I'm fortunate enough to make it this far in the main event again. It might be 10-20 years, or longer, before I get that close again in the main event (and that is assuming I play it every year). With the field as large as it is, I may never get that far again in this particular tournament.

I'm sure things will start going your way in these big events at some point. I haven't had a chance to play with you yet, but from your posts you seem like a top notch player.

colson10