Reno
Hilton World Poker Challenge - Day 1
I
knew it wasn't going to be a good day
when I got a wrong number call at midnight.
I called the operator to get a 'do not
disturb' on the phone, then at 3am I was
woken up by another wrong number. I called
the operator and then she tells me they've
had problems with the do not disturb system,
duh!
Today
was the first event, the $330 Limit Holdem,
I played BAD. Well actually I started
off with my usual bad beat syndrome, notably
the very first hand where QQ was shot
down in flames by the ever dominating
92o, and I was soon down to half my chips
(started with 1000). Then a long while
later I hit a couple of good hands and
was back to 1300, then I played two hands
really badly and was out soon after. With
both I had the best hand going in (AA
and TT), the story of my life, but the
thing was it was so obvious from the betting
that I was beat that I should have released
both of them early and lived to fight
another day, I have to stop getting married
to the best hand pre-flop, it doesn't
mean much after the flop. Later I played
2 satellites, split one with the always
nice and great to play with Chris Bigler,
went down in flames in the other.
Only
295 players, down from 440ish last year,
but still plenty of satellite and ring
action and the hotel is extremely busy,
at the final table tomorrow are Men and
Barry. There was some buzz about a hand
Men played, I don't know the real story,
but I got one version from rgper WenMax
who heard it from someone at the table,
and another from a guy who was at the
table but couldn't remember the details,
I think an rgper may have seen it happen
too. Men had (I think) QT, he called a
pre-flop raise from a guy with AA. Flop
was something like K83 and Men came out
firing, the AA raised and Men at least
called (maybe raised and called a reraise).
Turn was an Ace, the story is they capped
the betting there! Then the magic Jack
on the river and another capped round.
I hope someone knows the full story on
this one (was Men maybe four suited on
the turn?).
PartyPoker
sponsored the first event, Linda Johnson
introduced the promotion and I think it
went very well (they may be back for more!).
The clock ran great until I accidentally
moved the level back from 150-300 to 100-200
while I was entering the prize payouts,
oops. Luckily the players saw it right
away and I ran for cover after fixing
it. Then with 3 tables left the laptop
went nuts, the display went completely
haywire, I rebooted and it did it again
soon after. I was thinking a bad memory
chip or something then I realized the
PC was sitting pushed right up against
a cloth backdrop blocking the air vent,
it was probably overheating, I'll know
for sure tomorrow.
In
the nighttime super-satellite Spencer
Sun, minus hat, came second! Well done
Spencer. Talking to Spencer was Lee Jones,
a very nice guy who I finally got to meet,
and I also met Chuck, an rgper, equally
friendly to talk to.
Tomorrow
is the $330 Pot Limit Holdem, I have to
play this or I may not be allowed re-entry
into England, plus of course the embarrassing
headline in the Daily Star ('Brit refuses
to play pot limit game').
IGSleepN
Paul
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