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Excerpt: Unlike the previous two days day 3 was the first day that the field was combined. Chips were going to fly today and tons of people were going to bust out. My starting table was: 1 Joe Patrick (72900) 316 / 2 Patrick Grace (83900) 316 / 3 Daniel Horan (38400) 316 / 4 Vince Burgio (61300) 316 / 5 Vasili Firsau (130200) 316 / 6 Blake Stepp (39000) 316 / 7 Richard Taylor (81300) 316 / 8 Adam Levy (130600) 316 / 9 Jonathan Tamayo (110500) 316 The only person I recognized at my table was Jonathan Tamayo (driverseati online) and…

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Excerpt: Here’s my 2nd installment of my WSOP Main Event tournament report. It’s pretty long but an interesting read for any avid poker players. Seems like the first installment was well received so I’m looking forward to doing the rest of it. This week I decided to get a bit more specific with my table draws. So without further ado… Day 2 – Start of Day 2A Hour Left in 200/400 50 blinds. 54,425 chips Melvin Martinez 39,725 AMAZON / 310 / 1 Farhad Saadat 71,250 AMAZON / 310 / 2 Marco Mills 34,400 AMAZON / 310 / 3 Marian Kubis 2,325 AMAZON / 310 / 4 David…

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Excerpt: I’ve decided to do a tournament report of my super deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. Normally, no one wants to hear a story about how someone got 12th in a tournament but when it’s the Main Event, it’s a little different. With 7300 some odd players battling it out for a whopping 9 million dollars, this is a special tournament. Day 1 — Start of Day 1C 30,000 chips 50/100 blinds I started off in the Pavilion Room, a room even bigger than the Amazon Room, holding 300 tables. A good 100 more than the Amazon Room. My starting…

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Excerpt: Damn the WSOP is flying by! It’s like I want it to take forever but it always goes by so quick. Now that we are nearing the home stretch it’s time for that final push to make the big bucks. The past two weeks of the WSOP have been decent for me. I’ve had two more cashes in the 8 events I’ve played in that time. Solid cashes but nothing huge. Regardless, it’s been a cheap WSOP for me thus far because two of my three cashes have been the day before a $5k event. Of course I would’ve loved…

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Excerpt: My first week of WSOP events ended up being fairly eventful. The first event I played was a $1k and I grinded it out the entire day. My first table had my old roommate from Gainesville at it, which is about as random as it gets. He texted me beforehand to not even acknowledge his existence at the table so he could protect his crazy image. I thought it was funny and I obliged. My peak for the tournament was $10k and I lasted until the last level of the day, 400/800 but unlike last year I was running fairly…

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Excerpt: The first week of the WSOP has been an interesting one as expected. I arrived last Wednesday for the 3rd Annual Brunson Beer Pong Challenge at Hogs and Heffers located in downtown Las Vegas. It’s a 32-team single elimination beer pong tournament that has become quite the tradition. I teamed up with the one and only Trishelle Canatella and we were pitted against Scott Seiver and his friend Greg Dyer. We were definitely the underdogs but within twenty minutes we found ourselves on the cusp of winning. I sank the last shot in and if Greg and Scott missed their rebuttal…