WSOP
2003 Day 14
39 to 1?, That's Merely A Flesh Wound
Another
day working in my room, well I have to
do something to support my satellite habit.
I went downstairs in the afternoon and
blew it very quickly in a no limit satellite,
raised to T100 on the button with 33 (blinds
were 15-30), got called by the big blind
and bet T300 on the very nice looking
944 flop. He check raised with his Q9o
and I decided (probably wrongly) that
I was pot committed as I only had 300
left, and also that he might be making
a move thinking I'd missed. ighn.
Today
was the no limit deuce to seven draw,
a paltry $5,000 with $5,000 rebuys and
add-ons. They had 28 players, sounds low,
but not when you consider they only had
34 last year, amusingly the audience was
bigger than the entries, surprising too
as this game is not exactly a thrill a
minute to watch. 34 rebuys and 8 add-ons
made for a decent prize pool. Allen Cunningham
won last year, this year he ended up caught
in a senior sandwich between Billy Baxter
(who I think has won it 5 times and may
have been at every final table when he's
played) and O'Neal Longston (sp?) who
took it down in this one day event.
Barry Shulman was in the final 4 of a
super tonight, 2 places got paid, he made
a huge all-in reraise on a guy who had
made a small raise with K7o, and after
a long think the guy, who had an equal
(large) stack, called practically all-in!
I don't get that at all, I mean even if
Barry was bluffing, what hands does he
think he can beat, he can't think he has
better than a 50-50 shot. But what do
I know, he won the pot and Barry was out.
As
I wandered through the satellite area
tonight I came across an amazing situation.
There were two guys heads up in a single
table satellite. It was a $500 (+vig)
buy in, 2,000 chips to start, so 20,000
chips on the table. One guy, a very aggressive
English player had 19,500, his conservative
opponent had the other 500, blinds were
100-200. As the hand was being dealt the
English guy offered to give the other
guy $500 to end it right there. I couldn't
believe he'd want to offer anything at
that point, but what I couldn't believe
even more is that the other guy turned
down the offer! I'm in need of a Yooner
here, how good was that deal? The other
guy won the hand, then folded to two raises
and was back down to T500. Then they dealt
another hand and the English guy offered
the same deal, this as he was raising
(with AJs). Again it was turned down and
called by T8o. T8o won and it looked like
maybe a miracle was about to happen. It
almost did when he then took his T7 up
against Q9 and flopped a 7, but the river
gave the English guy a straight and it
was all over. Rule Britannia.
Tomorrow
is the 5K No Limit Holdem, they are hoping
for around 100, then after that things
should pick up dramatically as we have
a long stretch of cheaper events coming.
The double-shootouts are possibly ending
May 1st., if so then the super-sats will
probably start to build a lot more steam,
although they should anyway as we head
closer to the 10K event. The ring games
and satellites remain very busy but I
haven't seen much of the $50 satellites
to the super-satellites. I think the 11
p.m. had about 100 tonight, not sure but
it was a decent turnout considering today's
main event and that tomorrow is also a
5K event so not too many people around.
Returning
to reality after my recent forays into
lobsters and fancy steakhouses I got the
late night steak deal in the coffee shop
tonight, $5 for a decent steak, baked
potato, salad and rolls, I fear this is
where I really belong.
Bracelet
Day T-2
Paul Westley
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