I'm very excited and extremely nervous about the whole thing. I feel like I'm probably biting off more than I can chew (even though I am likely to take some staking), but the prospect of being away from home for over a week is just not something I really want to do. I've never been in Vegas for more than 3 nights in a row I don't think, and signing up for triple that is a little scary. Staying at a house off the strip with friends should certainly help extend my shelf life, but I'm concerned that I just won't be able to make it. And obviously the most likely outcome is that I don't cash in either event (they only pay the top 10%), which will basically mean I'll have spent 2-6 days traveling and playing to lose a couple thousand dollars when I could have been grinding out wins in the Commerce 20. But damn it, this is the world series and if I'm to take myself seriously as a professional poker player I need to show up and throw my hat in the ring. So ready or not, here I come.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
WSOP 2010
Last year I basically skipped the giant poker meetup that is the WSOP in Las Vegas, for a variety of mostly valid reasons. I was still getting my feet under me, playing tournaments of any kind just wasn't (and still really isn't) my thing, and ponying up a couple thousand dollars to enter even a limit hold 'em event for the right to skip out on playing in very profitable cash games just didn't seem like the thing to do. Up until a few days ago I was planning to do the same this year, mostly for the same reasons, but two nights ago I had a look at the schedule and gave it a good think and decided it was silly for me not to enter at least one of the events. I can drive to Vegas in a few hours now, and therefore have my own personal car when I get there, I have way more friends that will be in town now (one group of which has rented a house with space to stay), and I'm a bit more comfortable with the sums of money involved. And so I've decided that I'll be driving to Las Vegas tomorrow to play in event 12, the $1500 full ring limit hold 'em event that kicks off at 5pm on Friday. The current plan is to also play event 18, the $2000 full ring limit hold 'em event that starts Wednesday at noon, but that is a little more tentative. If things go well (which just probabilistically is extremely unlikely) I'll be in Las Vegas for the entire duration, something like 8-9 days. If I bust out on the first day of event 12, I'll come home for a couple nights in between and decide if I really want to drive back out there for the second event.
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7 comments:
Limit tourneys are strange games. A lot of luck involved. Nothing worse than bad cards as the blinds start to eat your stack.
Seems like the early blind levels plays like a .50/$1 game, then ends as a $30/$60 game. At least online, don't have any live experience with limit tourneys.
Good luck!
Don't forget, you can grind the cash games at the Rio too. I think you'll find tourney donks just as bad at cash game as commerce players
Yes, there will be plenty of cash games to play, including the always good Bellagio 30/60 game.
And yes, limit tourneys are more frustrating than NL, because there really isn't much you can do once you get shortstacked. Go card dead for 2 levels, and all of a sudden, the next hand you play will cripple you if you lose.
I think the limit shootout might be a bit better, because you get to play shorthanded (unless you are one of the first few out) and everyone is in the same boat.
I would consider skipping the tourneys all together and playing cash games there. I would take the 3.5k and invest it in a juicy 40/80 (or even 50/100) game. Way more EV+
To be clear I'm mostly doing this for the experience. I realize that playing the tournament isn't as profitable as just playing the Commerce 20, but I do that every day and feel like I should try something new.
As for playing a juicy 40/80 game, there are 4 of those every night at Commerce.
Good luck in Vegas, hope things are going well down south for you......GC 20/40 is crazy as ever.
sounds like alot of fun. Hope u have a good time
good luck & run gUt!!
We'll all be rooting for ya here..
...and of course when the dust settles we'll all be expecting that trip reports. ;)
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