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The board runs out and Le improves to a full house.

Adam Levy is eliminated in 9th place, earning $46,020… just one spot from the Televised Final Table (again!)  In the first EPL Main Event, Levy finished 7th which was one spot short of the six-handed Televised Final Table.

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 he had a real deep run last year in the Main Event. By the way, I’ve started capitalizing “Main Event” because it’s unto itself. It’s just this badass 7000 man tournament that pays three times more than the 2nd biggest tourney of the year. Thus, it deserves some capital letters. Anyways, him being on my left could get annoying. It depends on how he plays because I know he can play maniacal or play like a tight old nit. Blake Steppe was apparently a former Gonzaga basketball player turned poker pro now. Vince Burgio had an array of different cashes spanning twenty some odd years for about $1.5million. I wasn’t sure whether to be afraid or happy knowing he was older. Vasili Firsau had the 2nd most chips and had a few hundred thousand in tournament winnings so I assumed he might’ve known what he was doing. Everyone else had no cashes and I was looking forward to playing with them all.

I was on time getting to the Amazon Room but apparently our table was moved to a different table at the last second. I ask the floor person where Orange 316 is and he tells me it’s in the Pavillion Room. So I dart over there and only to find out this particular floor person was wrong. The table was in fact two to the right of the original Orange 316. So I book it back to the Amazon Room and find that I had now missed the first two hands of the day thanks to a clueless floorperson. Thanks guy! But now that I was situated it was time for some poker.

Right off the bat at 500/1000 100 Jonathan Tamayo was trying to do what I failed at doing earlier in the tournament on day 1, beast the table. Only, he succeeded. Within the first two orbits he had 3bet, 4bet, 4bet folded, and played about 8 of the first 18 pots. He had quickly doubled his stack up to over 200k. This caused me to change my approach to the table and nit it up for a bit while he ran it over. I was okay with that. Sometimes you have to swallow your ego. I was palying tight and waiting for good spots. Early on it was tough to find any traction. The other big stack three to my right, Vasili Firsau, was raising a ton and Tamayo was 3betting a fair amount so it was tough for me to flat in position. I thought about 3betting him a little bit but with the other side of the table playing weak/tight I figured I would wait it out. After Vasili and Tamayo had gone to war a bit, Tamayo coolered Vasili in a 3bet pot for nearly all of his chips. After that, Vasili busted shortly thereafter and Tamayo slowed down a bit after amassing nearly 300k in chips.

I really had not done much and I lost about 10k after the first level. Luckily, early on at 600/1200 200 Tamayo lost a lot of his momentum after Vince Burgio shipped 50 bigs to his open with AK. Tamayo quickly called with KK and Burgio binked the Ace on the flop. After that, I knew I could probably get away with a little more. That’s when I started opening more and Tamayo and I played no more than 5 pots together the rest of the day. Even though that was good, it was irrelevant because I was running bad. There weren’t really any notable pots except for a bunch of failed continuation bets and a laydown or two. All of a sudden I was at 70k at 800/1600. It’s pretty funny when you freak out about having that small of a stack in any tournament. Heck, in any given online tournament having 45 big blinds at that level would be considered a decent stack. But in the Main Event, it feels short. A few hands in, Daniel Horan who had initially been tight had starting shoving his 20 big blind stack a bit so when I picked up AQo and he shoved his stack in, I wasn’t super happy about it, but I wasn’t folding either. I called and he flipped over 44. In that spot, I’d rather see a legit hand like 99, not some measly pair like 44 that’s still got me beat. But whatever, because I scooped the pot with a Queen on the flop. Back to starting stack woohoo!

Midway through the level, I witnessed an awesome hand go down. Vince Burgio now had 160k at 800/1600 200 and was under the gun. He thought for a few seconds and shoved the full amount in for 160k. Sayyyyy whaaaaaat?!?!?! It folded to Tamayo who thought for a little bit and I was thinking that’d be so sick if he had KK but he folded too. After the hand, we were all astounded by Burgio’s move and he wasted no time by showing us pocket aces. I bet you never thought this hand would only involve a single person.

When it rolled around to 1k/2k 300 I started putting together a string of wins and was up to 180k. At the beginning of the day, it seemed like this table was going to be tough, it turned into the softest table of the tournament even with Tamayo on my left. I think he realized the same thing and we stayed out of each other’s way. With an hour left at 1200/2400 300, a guy wearing a UB patch got moved into my table with about 250k in chips and as did his buddies on the rail. And, while I am sponsored by UB, the UB qualifiers are notoriously worse than Poker Stars or Full Tilt so I had to whet my lips a little bit when I saw he got moved to the table with heaps. The first pot, I pick up Kings, raise to 6250 from utg, and he flats me from the button. The flop comes A102ss. I opt to check-call any bet by him. He bets 10k and I call. Turn is a 6 and I check again. He bets 20k and I reluctantly decided to call again. As soon as I made the call, I hated myself. I just felt like it was an impulsive call on my part and when he bet 40k on the river I quickly folded. But it can be tough to gauge new players at the table especially when they have a huge stack and are a satellite winner.

With 30 minutes left in the day, the spot I had been waiting for all day finally happened. The UB satellite winner raised it up to 6500 from utg+2 and I flatted the sb with 109hh. The flop came 1096 2 spades 1 club. BINGO!!! He bet 9000 and I check-raised to 28500. He shoved within 10 seconds and I snap-called. The second before the cards were turned over I fully expected to see a huge flush draw or an overpair but flipped over the J10cc. What a massive shove for a 200 big blind pot but whatevaaaa. I was a little tense though because remarkably this was only the 2nd time in 3 days I had been all in for my tournament life and it was the worst I had gotten it in somehow. Regardless, I was still a huge favorite but there are so many bad cards in the deck on the turn. The turn rolled off and it was the Ace of spades. Not a great card but I actually was happy to see it only added 3 outs to the deck, not 9. The river came an 8 and while I was pretty sure I had won, all his friends on the rail started cheering for him so I had to double check the board. Yep, I still win. I overheard his friends being like “6,8,9,10,J…Oh, that’s not a straight. Darn!” I couldn’t exactly start laughing out loud at the table but inside I thought it was hilarious.

After that hand, I didn’t play many more pots and finished the day at a pretty hefty 323,700. 175th out of the some odd 1200 players left Definitely a great position to be in going into to day 4, when we hit the money. I should finish writing day 4 on my flight to Borgata on Saturday. Should be up Sunday or Monday.

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 Ventura 45,125 AMAZON / 310 / 5
Adam Levy 54,425 AMAZON / 310 / 6
Rory Cox 19,050 AMAZON / 310 / 7
Alexey Yuzikov 19,825 AMAZON / 310 / 8
Gregory Brooks 66,975 AMAZON / 310 / 9

My table draw was pretty good. I didn’t know anyone at first glance but later found out that Rory Cox was Moosedebator online. Gregory Brooks was a good online cash game player who refused to tell me who he was. I always think it’s hilarious when young kids do this for many reasons. First off, I have the table draws, your name, and a little website called Google. Also, playing with someone live for an hour will tell me so much more about someone than playing online tournaments with someone here and there for a month. Alexey was a good solid Russian player. Melvin Martinez was a guy who played in a home game with 9 other friends. Every week for 10 weeks they put up $100 each until they have enough for 1 WSOP Main Event seat. He was the winner of the league and got into the tourney for $100. Pretty cool story. Farhad Saadat appeared to be a rich guy from Los Angeles who loved to throw chips around. David Ventura was a really tight, friendly guy. Everyone else at my table I didn’t get to know that well. So on to the poker!

Early on in the day I saw Farhaad Saadat was opening a fair amount of hands. He raised to 800 and David Ventura flatted. I decided to reraise with KJo to 3050. it folds around to Farhaad and he flats. David folds. The flop comes QQJ rainbow. It checks to me and I check back. Turn is a 7 bringing a 2nd spade. Farhaad bets 6k into about 7500. Deep down I felt like I should fold but the logical part of me told me to call considering it seemed like he’s been throwing chips around already. Also, it’s not very likely he has another queen. So I call but didn’t like it. The river comes an offsuit 4. He bets 15k instantaneously. Once again, my gut told me to fold but I had to think about it for a little bit. Ultimately, I decided to fold and felt good about it although I was annoyed I didn’t just fold the turn. Later in the day I realized my fold was correct. He was throwing around a lot of chips and raising a lot of pots but he would bet pot or more when he had a huge hand.

Moving forward, by 250/500 I was down to 35k. It was shaping up to be a tough early part of the day. Early on in this level, I raised up J10hh from UTG+2 to 1250 and got flatted by Melvin Martinez in the hijack with about 20k. The flop came Q92hh, I bet 1800 and he called. The turn brought an offsuit 3. The way Melvin had been playing I had seen him call 2 barrels with midpair in and out of position but whenever he bet, he would bet well no more than half pot. Factoring all this in with his stack, I decided checking was the best option with plans of calling most bets on the turn. So I check and he bets 2900 which was exactly around what I expected. I call and the river is another offsuit brick. I check, he checks, and flips over KQo. I was very happy with my assessment of the hand and was happy to preserve my stack even if it had dwindled to around 25k. I chipped back up to 30k when I had a huge turning point. The last hand before the break, I raised A10o in the cutoff to 1250 and the big blind, Greg Brooks called. He had been defending his big blind a lot and it also seemed like he was going out of his way to play pots with me. I’m not sure why he would when there were tons of other soft spots at the table. Regardless, he defends and the flop comes A73 rainbow. I bet 1800 and he calls. The turn was a Js. He checks, I check and the river brought a non-spade 4. Greg thinks a few seconds and he fires out 10k into about 7k on the A73J4 board. A rather perplexing bet. I initially was calling any bet but this made me think twice. So what does he have? He had already overbet the pot a few times against me but I never had anything to call. There was no way he had it every time. Yes, he could have AJ as well as AQ. But AQ didn’t seem too likely because I figured he would 3 bet it a fair amount. It could’ve been a weak Ace, A8 and A9. I wouldn’t put it past him to be making an oop(out of position) float to try to take the pot from me on the river. After much deliberation, I called because it just felt like my hand was under repped and he seemed a bit unpredictable. He flipped over A9o and my kicker played! After this hand I was back to 45k and he said sarcastically in disgust “What a slowroll.” What??? You merged your bluffing and value range but I was never calling with much worse than what I had so you trying to valuetown for that size is a bit greedy. Anyways, after that my confidence was restored and so was my day.

I didn’t do much at 300/600 75 but a funny thing happened. Greg played a pot against Farhaad where Greg called Farhaad’s utg raise in the small blind. The flop came 834dd and before Greg even checks, Farhaad shoves all in for 80k. Another what!?!?!? But this time, it deserved exclamation points. That’s just crazy. So it’s ruled that Greg still gets to act and he checks. Farhaad is bound to shoving and he is perfectly fine with shoving 80k into a 5k pot. Greg folds but we all thought it was pretty hilarious.

400/800 100 is when things really started going my way. I still had around 45k at this point. I open for 2200 from the hijack with QQ. It folds around to Melvin in the big blind and he just sticks his pile in for 32k (40 big blinds). Earlier he had shoved for a similar amount and I just mucked my hand. I honestly didn’t think he was light but I also didn’t think he had Aces or Kings. Hard to find a reason to fold the 3rd best hand so I call and he flips over Q10o. Another whaaaaaaaat?!!!? He was drawing dead on the turn and I was up to around 80k. For someone who had actually played decent and had been pretty patient all day, he decided to spaz out at the wrong time.

The last level of the day was 500/1000 100. Halfway through the level, another funny coincidence happened. My good friend and only person I swapped 1% got moved to my table to replace Melvin. Like what are the odds??? It’s crazy how often it happens too. There was a period where anyone I was either rooming with or lived with would randomly be at my table in massive field live tournaments and this was like no other. Just so weird. At least it was great chats though. Always is when you have friends at the table. Once I got some chips I started opening quite a few pots and it seemed like people didn’t really want to play with me until I picked up QQ again. David Ventura who had been up and down all day raised on the button to 2700 with about 30k. I reraise to 8200 and Rory, shoves within 5 seconds for close to 30k. David folds and Rory shipped it in for around 30k. Now, Rory had been BY FAR the tightest player at the table the entire day so this wasn’t a snap call. He kept recalling how he used to play loose but now he’s a nit. He really was soooo tight. He grinded a 15k stack all day then won a flip when he was at 10k and won another flip when he was at 15k. He was really friendly so I was rooting for him but in this situation and the timing of his shove I had to call. He flipped over Ace King and the board was all bricks. All of a sudden I had 110k and won a few more pots to finish the day with 130,600. What a great turn-around from early on in the day.

End of Day 2A Hour Left in 500/1000 100 blinds. 130,600 chips

Next week, I’m going to do day 3 and 4 to coincide with the rest of the WSOP telecast.

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 table wasn’t particularly soft but I only knew a couple faces. Ironically enough, one person was Diego Sanchez, a friend who was one of eight people that I bought action from in the Main Event. Pretty sick odds of us being at the same table. The table had a few online players and a couple amateurs mixed in but no one was giving it away. Early on I decided I wanted to beast the table. Try to throw around some chips and make the table mine. Within a couple orbits I had already lost 5,000 chips trying to do this. What I realized was the two players to my left were pretty good and were not going to allow this to happen but I kept doing it. I even floated out of position early on with King high and bet out when i turned an open-ended straight draw. The kid, who I later found out was a UB cash game grinder GuiGui88, raised my turn bet and here’s where my entire mentality changed. A little bit of backstory, the previous night I had watched some WestMenlo Card Runners videos because I loved his style. His videos were two years old but still they were so good. He just played tight, solid, smart poker, much similar to my style. I said I was going to play like that. However, when I got to the table I decided I wanted to play crazy. So anyways, on the turn I thought for a minute and decided I was going to concede the pot. But as I was doing this I said to myself, “Dude, what are you doing?!?! This is the Main Event. Don’t play like a monkey. Just think, what would Menlo do? So after that hand, I calmed myself down, went back to my nit cave and started playing solid poker. This mantra permeated through my game for the rest of the tournament. After this I had 22k of my starting 30k. Things were not going well.

Halfway through the 2nd level, 100/200 I overlimped in the cutoff with J8hh in a 5-way pot. The flop came JJKdd and the sb bet out 800. The initial limper flatted and I opted to flat. The turn was the 9. THe sb bets out again. This time to for 1600. The other guy folds and I don’t like this card but I still decided to call because we are most likely chopping if he does have a J and could be betting a flush draw still. The river is a 4 and he bets out again for 3800. Pretty gross bet and after a couple minutes I decided to fold. The guy answered my queries about what I had cryptically and it wasn’t until he got moved tables that he told me what he had, J9. I was pretty stoked to have made the laydown. Yet, still I was just not running well. The Aussie to my left would 3bet a third of my opens and when I did make it to a flop I wasn’t hitting them.

At 150/300 25 a player gets moved into our table. As he is sitting down he reaches into his pockets and pulls out his chips. You don’t see that very often but for anyone who doesn’t know, this is against the rules of tournament poker and strictly enforced. The dealer immediately called the floor over and the floor had to deal with the situation. I’ve never witnessed this first hand but for it to be the biggest poker tourney in the world for it to happen, just seems so brutal. The player was extremely lucky because the floor person had not escorted him to the table but had verified how many chips he had. While almost always the player would have to be disqualified, in this specific situation he was not. I think I saw the guy on day 4 and he ended up cashing too.

My lowest point came around this time when I found myself at 12k. I had made some good laydowns but unfortunately you don’t get chips for making an excellent laydown. I wish you did! It was at this point that things started turning around. I was able to win a string of pots without showdowns and get back to 15k. Then at 150/300 I was able to get 3 streets of value against the Australian kid to my left on the J34dd38 board with AJo against what I presume was top pair with a worse kicker. I was up to 22k and looking to start my steady rise to the top but it was not to be. Well, not yet at least. I lost more chips when I called a couple raises and bricked a few flops. Then, at 150/300 I picked up the biggest pocket pair I had seen all day, JJ. The cutoff, who happened to be the tightest player at the table by far opened to 900. When I say tight, I mean this was his 5th hand he had played in 5 hours. So I definitely did not want to reraise him with plans of getting it in here, even if I was on the button. So I flatted. The small blind, the Australian kid, made it 3400 to go. The cutoff deliberated and folded his hand. Initially I thought, this kid has got to be tight here because of how tight the other guy was so i didn’t feel comfortable shoving here. I was going to re-evaluate on the flop. The flop came KJ7 2 spades 1 diamond and he checked. Yeah, solid flop to say the least. I decided to bet super small and bet 2900 into a pot of 8k. Within 3 seconds he took a chunk of 5k chips and stuck them out there effectively putting me all in. I snap called and he flipped over the…wait for it……..96dd!!! Yes, 96 high with straight and flush draw runners only. As I was calling I was thinking AK, KK, AQ, flush draws were in his range but never in a million years would I have said 96dd. I immediately jumped out of my seat and said “What a helluva way this would be to bust”. The turn was a 6 and he was drawing dead. And just like that I was above starting stack with 34k.

The rest of the day was pretty easy. I played tight, picked up small pots with little resistance and slowly chipped up. It wasn’t until the last hand of the day where i played the biggest pot of the day against Diego, the person I bought action of. With 3 hands left in the day, I opened at 200/400 50 to 1050 with KK, the first time I had seen this hand all day. He flatted out of the big blind. The flop came 482ss. I bet 1400 and he called. Turn brought an offsuit 4 and I bet 3300. He calls again. At this point I’m almost positive I have the best hand. The river brings the 4 of spades. So the board reads 482ss44s. He checks and I think for 30 seconds and decide to bet 12k. Almost immediately he starts agonizing over it and is completely disgusted by my river bet. So now I think he has a flush and that this would be an easy fold. A few minutes go by and he’s still hemming and hawing while I’m just shuffling chips away waiting patiently on the other side of the table. Finally, he calls and I flip over my Kings and he immediately felt gross about his call. I later found out that it wasn’t a flush but in fact 1010. It sucks that I had to take chips from my horse but hey, that’s how it goes.

At the end of day 1 I had 54,425 and I couldn’t have been happier. Going from 12k at 150/300 to 54k in 2 levels’ time is fine by me.

End of Day 1C – 54,425 chips 1 hour left in 200/400 50 blinds

Hope you enjoyed the first installment of the tourney report. Yes, I know it’s a little long but there are a lot of cool little details that went on each day and I would like to be thorough in writing this to give the reader a better perspective on what I went through.

My 2nd cash of the series was in a $1500 and I started short on day 2 but had some amazing skills when all in. My first dub came when I had A5o vs AJo and the flop came J32. Turn 5, river 5!!! That was epic. I then won a nice pot with top pair top kicker vs a weaker top pair to get to 120k at 1k/2k. After that I lost a couple all ins and then made a bad shove with AQo vs QQ to cripple myself. I busted shortly thereafter but there’s nothing I hate more than losing a huge pot due to a mistake made on your end. I can deal with taking bad beats or losing flips but man it hurts when it was something you could’ve controlled. It happens to everyone from time to time though and you have to move on and erase it from your memory. It wasn’t a huge mistake but I hold myself to a really high standard that even the smallest of mistakes I will really get mad at myself for.

My 3rd cash was in the $1500 triple shootout. I truly love shootouts. In order to be good at shootouts you have to be versatile being able to play ten-handed, shorthanded, and then finally heads up. My table had a few good players but it wasn’t particularly tough. I knocked out a couple of the short stacks and was able to chip up to 8k from the starting stack of 4500. Once we got shorthanded I couldn’t get anything going. If I 3bet light someone would 4bet and I kept missing a lot of flops. Luckily while I was sitting back and folding players were busting and after Hevad Khan lost a massive pot to the fish at the table, I found myself 3-handed with 10 bigs with the fish and a solid Russian guy. First hand I pick up QQ and the Russian has KK but I bink my Q on the flop. Then the fish loses a big pot to the Russian guy and I finish him off with A8ss holding vs K9hh. When I got heads up, I really started running sick. I was backdooring gutshots, hitting sets and getting paid, and then I rivered two pair against what seemed like a worse two pair to get him down to 900 chips at 200/400. I then proceeded to double him up 4 times in a row and he was almost back to even at a point until I got 1010 in vs his 88 to win the table. The next day I had a very good table and was slowly chipping up until I ran into Chau Giang’s Aces 5 handed with AKo to bust. It was a pretty brutal way to go but I was okay because like I said before, I didn’t play bad. It was just a simple cooler.

Next week I’m playing 5 more WSOP events and then after July 4th the main even starts and I can’t wait for that one. It’s the best structured tourney in the entire world as well as the one that pays by far the most. Seriously, it can’t get here soon enough. So good luck to everyone and hopefully I’ll see you guys in the main event too!

The next tournament was the first $1500 of the year and after the first break I had $14k at 50/100 from my $4500 starting stack. I got Aces all in on the flop of 1084ss against a guy’s AJo no spade. Needless to say, he was dead on the turn. The action went as follows: he overbet pot, I 3bet about 2.5x and he jammed for a little more. It was a pretty nice gift. By 100/200 I had $20k after winning some nice flips. Then I got moved to a pretty tough table for a $1500. Yes, there were soft spots but they weren’t that soft. Combine that with playing 10-handed and it wasn’t an enjoyable table. I ran trip kings into a full house, lost some other small pots, and found myself down to $8k on dinner break. Once I got back from dinner break our table broke within 15 minutes and I loved that. Sometimes, the worst thing that can happen to you in a tournament is a table change. New faces, no reads, and the cards can just turn on you sometimes. But conversely, the opposite can happen so it’s a love/hate relationship. Anyways, I grinded for a little bit at my new, easier table and then got it all in A10o vs KQss and the flop was 237ss. Somehow he bricked and I was up to 15k. Then our table broke again a couple minutes after I dubbed. The next table I was pretty carddead and raise/folded once. A couple orbits later I found myself at $9k and shoved KJss at 400/800 utg 8-handed and got snapped off by the guy next to me with KQo. Was a bit surprised with his call but that’s the way it goes. The dealer flipped over the flop and the door card was the Qh. So I’m like uh oh, I gotta start calling for cards. He moves the other two cards out from under the door card and I see they are spades so I start calling for more spades. As soon as I do it dawns on me that they are the 10 and 9 of spades and I basically flopped the immortal nuts. Nut straight with a straight flush redraw. It was a good chuckle afterwards. Everyone was like, this guy (me), yea he’s a realll professional. It was all in good fun. Even the guy who got 3 outed wasn’t in too bad of spirits. Shortly after my table broke yet again. This time I got moved to a decent table with some good players but a lot of soft spots. Within the first orbit I picked up Queens and shoved in 18k, got called by Nines and swiftly doubled up. At the tail end of 400/800 I played a really sick hand. I raised Q9dd to 2300. Mark Seif flatted on the button and the big blind who seemed really spewy flatted as well. The flop came K3K one diamond. The big blind checked and I bet 3200 into about 7500. A pretty small bet but for that board I can expect to take down the pot a fair amount. Mark quickly folded but the big blind instantly check-raised to 12k. Now, earlier that day I felt like my thinking was right but I wasn’t going with gut instinct. This time, I just decided he didn’t have it and that I was going to go with my read. I decided to call the bet because he had to think I had a king if I called here with only 20k behind as well. The turn brought the Q. He thought for a bit, checked and I did the same. It was funny though because while I had a plan to shove the turn or check and shove the river, my plan immediately changed once I hit my queen. The river brought a brick 2. He checked again and I checked. He flipped over A4o high and I scooped the sizeable pot. I maybe should’ve value shoved the river but I thought maybe he could have a better queen every so often and would’ve reraised JJ, 1010, and 99 preflop. By the end of the day I had $64k and was pretty satisfied with my play.

Day 2 I started with Dwyte Pilgrim on my left with mountains of chips. I think 202k to be exact at 600/1200. I had to be tight with him to my left and tons of chips. After a while I got it in with AKo vs 99 and rivered the Ace to get up to 100k. Then I won a nice pot against Dwyte Pilgrim by value raising top pair on the river and it was good. I was up to 170k at 1k/2k. But unfortunately that was my peak. Im not really sure how I lost a lot of my chips but a couple raise/folds here, one ill-fated 3bet and I found myself at 100k. With 51 left I decided to ship 44 after someone limped from 3rd position at 3k 6k. He tank-called with 1010 and I was out of the tournament. I cashed for $8500 which was a solid start to the WSOP.

The next two tourneys I was out before the dinner breaks. One I was out in 40 minutes wit Q8ss on the 882 board against deuces. The other I built to $20k rather quickly and then played a massive pot against a super fish with QJo vs his K5dd on the Q23Jddd board. It really sucked but I knew that he was incapable of folding a lot of hands so I had to get it in in that spot.

Well, I hope you guys liked a very poker-oriented blog this time. Oh, and if you want to follow my WSOP progress, I’m Roothlus on Twitter. Peace.

Thursday and Friday I spent moving in to my place at the Meridian. It’s not Panorama but it’s a pretty good setup and allows for me to just hang out and relax away from everything. It’ll definitely be way easier to stay focused this series and not let other things get in the way. On Friday night we went out to a nice dinner at RM Seafood at Mandalay Bay. I think Mandalay Bay is very underrated but RM Seafood was pretty blah. Later that night my girlfriend Shana, Darryll Fish, and I went to Rain at the Palms to see my favorite DJ, Z-Trip. I saw him at Coachella by accident and I’ve spoken about him at length in previous blogs but I just love his willingness to try anything. We ended up dancing for two hours nonstop. I’ve honestly never done that anywhere before but he just kept playing great songs over and over. Whenever we were like, let’s stop dancing, he’d put something on to keep us going.

On Saturday we got up early and went to Rehab at the Hard Rock. It was only my second time there and it was a blast. It wasn’t super packed like on Sundays but it wasn’t empty enough to be lame. We met up with a bunch of peeps from Panorama and all pitched in for a cabana. It was a chill day with good music, great people, and lots of alcohol. We all got pretty hammered which is standard protocol for Memorial Day weekend. Later that night I went over to Aaron Been and Steve O’Dwyer’s place at none other than Panorama to watch the UFC fights. Some of the fights were just alright but the main card lived up to the hype and was a solid fight all around. It featured Rampage Jackson, who will be in the upcoming A-Team movie remake so that was cool to watch. He’s definitely going to be a great Mr. T.

On Sunday I played poker but who really cares about that??? Nah, I’m just kidding. Next week, I’ll talk about the first week of WSOP events I played including that event. Until next week, peeeeace.