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In the morning, Watts and I order a cab to the Bellagio. Yet again, Watts loses the flip for the ride and has to dish out the 25 bucks. The starting field today has been reduced to 125 players with 100 paying, and my 106,000 chip stack leaves me in decent but not awesome position to make a run at both cashing and going deeper.
My starting table is not exactly ideal for said run. Almost every player at the table is a known player, including Ike Haxton, Todd Brunson, Fatal Error, John Gale, Apestyles and Glen Chorny. The cards get in the air at noon with the blinds starting at 1,200/2,400 with 300 ante. Only an orbit in I get involved:
My stack: ~100K, BB: ~45,000, blinds 1,200/2,400 with 300 ante. I hold 3d-4d on the CO.
Pre-flop: Folds to me on the CO, I raise to 6,200, button folds, SB folds, BB calls. The BB is one of the only unknown faces on the table, a middle aged guy who thus far hasn’t been very active.
Turn: Ad
Before I can consider what I want to do with that card, the BB fires out 20,000, leaving me zero fold equity and nowhere near the odds to call for my draw, so I toss my hand in the muck.
I fold for another round while the table trades chips back and forth, then get involved a few hands later:
My stack: ~90,000, Ike: ~430K, Todd Brunson: ~400K, blinds 1,200/2,400 with 300 ante. I hold As-Kh in the SB.
Pre-flop: Folds to Ike on the HJ, Ike raises to 7,200, CO folds, Brunson calls on the button, I re-raise to 25,200, BB folds, Ike thinks briefly then makes it 60,000, Brunson folds, I shove, Ike calls and tables A-Qo.
River: 4c
I tap the table and walk around the table to shake Ike’s hand and wish him good luck. If I’m going to bust, I’m glad it’s to a guy as skilled and nice as Ike and, with his stack, he’s got a real shot at making a deep run.
I find Sirwatts and tell him I’ve been knocked out. It looks like he has about half a million in front of him, making him one of the leaders of the whole tournament.
I catch a cab back to the house and spend the rest of my day on the computer clicking refresh on the chip updates on the WPT website. I get on AIM and tell Timex that Watts is going to win for sure, if only because his winning will probably allow me to buy a house.
My poker in Las Vegas is over now. I won’t be playing again until the Macau Cup in Macau on the 25th of July. Hopefully I’ll spend my time over the next couple of days sweating Sirwatts. After that, I’ll be traveling to Fresno for a few days to visit the casino of my friend Kyle, who runs www.tworags.com. After that, I’ll be going back to Melbourne to play in the Victorian poker championships and, when that’s over, I’ll finally have some time to rest and play online poker. That is, until I go back to Macau for the APT and APPT events. It never ends…
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