Yes I’m ready! Well actually, not completely ready as currently the $10.000 is in the safe and we can’t open the safe anymore. It’s not that we forgot the code or used a wrong one, I can’t even type in a code. I hope maintenance is here in a short while because I don’t want to deal with it tomorrow.
I’ll start where I left of and that was Saturday I believe. You really lose count of what day it is as it doesn’t really matter here in Las Vegas. Everything is open 24/7 and the only difference between a weekday and the weekend is a little more crowd. I picked up that the Bellagio was completely full during the weekend and just heard downstairs that even during the week the Bellagio is almost 100% full, they only had rooms with 1 king-size bed left (so no 2 queen-size beds) and two guys didn’t really like that fact, I can imagine 😉 I don’t really have a lot to tell about the past days, I just did my routine every day and that was about it. But well, the blog would be very short if I would end it just there so I won’t.
The first cashgame session of this trip was pretty good but I must say I haven’t really won any money since then. I’m really happy with my play during this whole trip and I hope I can take some of it home so I can use it when I’m playing online again. Playing live always opens up my mind again as I can think more about situations which have become standard routine in my online grind. Sometimes these standard routines are not good, but you don’t really notice them because you are just clicking. Playing live makes you think more about certain situations and that’s always a good thing. Still I consider online to be much tougher then the live cashgames so you can’t always compare the two.
If I play the same way as I’ve played over the last week and just have a little more luck with the hands I get dealt I’m certain I can do good in the $10.000 event. I can’t really say if I have an edge but I think I have two things that will most certainly help. I’m 28, which makes me a very old guy online but a very young guy live. Most people see me as an “internet” kid and to most older people all these internet kids play really loose. I might play aggressive, but my pre-flop hand selection is probably too tight and not too loose. In combination with my aggression most people will 3-bet and/or call me down to light. This most certainly will give me some edge. During the $3k I’ve seen very decent players but even they got tilt or sometimes just bored. I’ve played so many hands online that losing a hand in Limit can’t really tilt me at all. Now I’m of course not 100% sure if the fact I’m playing a $10.000 tournament will affect me but I doubt it will. During the $3.000 event I didn’t really feel the pressure of the fact it was a tournament with a $3.000 buy-in and I think I can do exactly the same tomorrow. Now I’m probably not the best Limit player of the field but if I’m average and can use my image and the fact I can play my A-game all day long to my advantage I hope I can do some damage. Everybody knows you will always need a big chunk of luck to win a tournament and since it’s just a really small sample it could go any way but a man must have its dream. If I would win a big No-Limit tournament I would have to say that I’m not that good and just had a whole bunch of luck. If I win a Limit tournament I can confidentially say I’m good at the game and was lucky enough to win it.
Yesterday RJ and I went over to the palms again to watch X-men: First Class. Another good Marvel movie, I should do a marathon of all Marvel movies somewhere in the winter! Afterwards we went over to the Rio to rail Remko Rinkema (Pokernews NL reporter) who was playing the $2.500 8-Game Tournament. Unfortunately he couldn’t really get anything going and busted in the last level of the day with a cooler in Stud (His set on 5th street vs a full house). We agreed to go out for Sushi the next day so today we did. We went to Sushi Fever, somewhere far away from the strip and again I loved it. Rob Hollink joined us as well (his favorite Sushi place) and together with Frank and RJ we just let Remko order whatever he thought was good and it worked out really good again. I’ve really no clue what he ordered so whenever I go eat Sushi I’ll just have to take Remko with me 😉 Now I’m aware of the fact that the Sushi hype started years ago already and it seems to be trendy to brag about eating Sushi but if I would have had diner at a really nice Steakhouse I would have written about it as well. Which reminds me of the fact I didn’t go to a steakhouse yet this trip! I’ll definitely have to try a new one this trip but I can only do that if I bust the $10.000 event before the Final Table. If all goes well I’m playing tournament poker the coming 3 days and I only have the diner break to get some food which isn’t enough to try one of the many good steakhouses Las Vegas has to offer.
Next to playing poker and going out for diner I’ve seen the pool a lot and did some more shopping. Today I’ve finally bought something (besides a watch) for myself. I walked into a store since I saw a nice looking shirt and spent about an hour trying all sorts of cloths. I had a very helpful girl and she was Russian. Now I’m a sucker for girls with a Russian accent so I just had to say yes every time she brought me something to try on. Luckily I didn’t had too much money with me since I was only planning to get some breakfast but I still bought 2 shirts and some new jeans. I got my complete outfit for the coming 3 days ready and a perfect outfit starts with perfect underwear:
It’s more than an hour later and I still haven’t seen the maintenance guy. I’m ready, I’m looking forward to it but I need my “stack of high society” to play tomorrows event.
I hope he comes in a couple of minutes, else I will probably have to deal with it tomorrow. I will post updates on twitter as much as I can, the tournament starts at 17:00 (02:00 CEST) so most of you are probably sleeping but who knows? If you don’t have twitter you can read the updates on this website at the twitter column at the right. I’m not sure when I’ll write my next blog, that really depends on the outcome of the coming 3 days. I’m flying home on Saturday and I’m back in the Netherlands on Sunday so if I don’t write a blog before that I’ll probably do it somewhere next week.
5 Responses to “Ready for the $10.000 Limit Hold’em Championship, WSOP Event #27”
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Wish you good luck once again! Do you play the event all by your own it did you sell a decent amount? I mean, I would nearly never play a 10k event on my own (did it in pca main and think it was stupid, especially as I busted :D) and according to the limits we play my br seems not way smaller than yours. So I guess I would at least sell 50%, maybe even more in limit, because its soooo high variance plus I’d get more credit for it…
Anyway: Rock it!
Good luck man with the 10k limit hope you will score.
I never play backed and I’m almost certain I never will. I do always swap a decent amount of % with my best buddy since we normally always play the same tournaments. Since he didn’t want to play the $10k this time I sold him 10%, the rest I’m playing all for myself.
I don’t see these live tournaments as part of my poker job. I play poker online to earn money and instead of going on a world trip, I play the PCA or $10K limit and hope to hit my one outer. The variance in limit tourneys is of course very high but I like to do these things once a year and just hope I make it far just one time. I wouldn’t recommended it to anybody who still needs to build a roll. It’s not proper bankroll management for sure but as long as I only do these sort of things once a year (or twice this year), it should be fine.
Following it all at work, nicely doubled comeon hope you can survice the day, high blinds 1k/2k.
Hoping for the little luck that is needed sometimes.
Hope you got into the safe! Obviously you have the skills but I hope you get some added good luck too!