Home Sweet Home..

Finally back in Sydney, after sleeping 20 hours on Monday I'm slowly returning to reality, I really missed my friends here and the food as well, Vegas food is the absolute worst, except for N9NE @ the Palms which was awesome. If you just want something quick and easy though, you're in trouble it's just grease city.

WSOP Main Event - Day 4, Busto!

It was a very tough day, I went from 170k to 500k back down to 120k
and had around 350k when the following hand came up. This young guy who
moved to our table an hour ago with 1.2 million in chips had played maybe 2 hands (clearly he was going fridge until more people went broke) raised to 30k on my big blind in late position, then the small blind made it 80k. I looked down at pocket kings and thought for a few seconds about mucking as the situation wasn't quite right, here was a relatively tight norweigan guy raising the massive chip leader who had barely played a hand in an hour, he has to be very strong. After some thought, I figured he could easily have TT, JJ, QQ, KK or AK in addition to AA -- since the pay
structure was moving slowly at this point and my stack of 350k was below the average
of 500k, the opportunity of getting a 700k stack was more important than surviving a while longer and passing KK is kind of ridiculous anyway. I shove all in, the original raiser folded, but the small blind calls quickly and confirms he has aces, I don't suck out on him and it's all over. It was the tournament of coolers for me, JJ vs QQ, QQ vs AA I could get away from, but KK is simply too big of a hand and you can't be afraid of the nuts all the time. Anyway, I finished 155th and was paid $47k US which isn't too shabby considering the size of the field, obviously disappointed I didn't go further. Even though I got my money in very bad, I felt at ease with how I went out, I doubt that many people would or could have done differently in that spot. Thanks for following along with my progress.

WSOP Main Event - Day 3

Wow -- what a day, I got up to over 200k at one point and was doing quite well
at my table. I ran into some very unfortunate situations, I got dealt QQ to another
player's AA, then JJ to another player's QQ, both times I got away from the hand preflop and was correct both times. I bluffed all in with 44 on a J89Q turn, correctly putting my opponent on AK and stole a big pot with 6s7s on a AJA7 board, both times these pots were in excess of 30k and while my plays were risky, I just felt my opponent couldn't call. We finally made the money, at this point I can do no worse than win $US 26k. I have 173k ending day 3 which is around average, I have to make a move tomorrow.

WSOP Main Event - Day 2

This will be quick -- I got exactly three pairs all day, QQ, JJ and TT. I didn't get AK
once, I had to manoeuvre to get all my chips, stealing, bluffing etc, I went down to 27k from 61k but ended the day with 105k, average is about 73k. Day 3 is on Friday and I have two days off. I had Phil Ivey at my first table, with nightmares of the Aussie Millions returning, but thankfully after an hour or so the table broke. I'm off to bed!