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#187 – WSOP #36 – I Never Get Tired of Hearing It
I finished 7th in the $1,500 Mixed Hold ‘Em yesterday (June 26), as has been widely reported, including in this blog. I have been thrilled and gratifed by the number of e-mails I’ve received wishing me good luck (before) and congratulations/condolences (after).
Thank you all so much.
I was playing the victim for a little while after it was over, but not for too long. No matter how you WISH it went, it’s ridiculous to get down about such a thing. As I noted in the blog entries about the break-in of my car, I know the difference between what happens to me and “bad stuff.”
So the bad part of my day was finishing seventh when I thought I had the chips and the skill to win a bracelet. I still made my first WSOP final table and won over $22,000.
I started the day doing a photo shoot for Full Tilt. And I was consoled afterwards by Victoria Coren, a first class writer and poker player from England, who happens to be beautiful as well. (She has also achieved to of my long-held, unrealized ambitions: she has one a big tournament – the EPT’s London Open – and produced a porno movie.) She left her cash game at the Wynn to buy me champagne. Along with her friend Hugo, we plotted schemes for the WSOP Europe in September, which now doesn’t seem like a ridiculous thing for me to look into.
Then I went back to my room and signed books for the Second Edition of the $10 + $1 FULL TILT POKER STRATEGY GUIDE Tournament, which is this Saturday. (July 1, 14:30 EDT)
So unless I’m speaking in jest or it’s five minutes after something happens, smack me if you hear me complaining about how hard my life is.
P.S. – I’ve gotten to the point where I’m checking the Hendon Mob Database to see my World Series ranking. I am now 362nd on the money list for the 2007 WSOP. That in itself isn’t as impressive as who I’m looking up at: #361 is Jerrod Ankenman, who co-wrote THE MATHEMATICS OF POKER, so he has an IQ of about 300; #360 is Johnny Chan. So I gotta deal with feeilng inferior to THOSE GUYS.
