Friday, June 30, 2006

Event #4 $1500 Limit

Today was Event #4, $1500 Limit.

I got off to a quick start in the first level making a full house then winning with AA to get above 2400 chips. The rest of the first level and the second level were bad though and I was down to 1700 at the break. I caught a rush right after the break, flopping a set of aces against a pair of aces, then abusing the player to my left in quite a few pots. Come

Event #3 $1500 PL

Event #3 was over for me pretty quickly. I lasted just over two levels and was short stacked pretty much the whole time.

I got my chips in with AQ vs KK and lost despite flopping a queen.

Two people from my links on the right made the second day with decent chips, Brandon and Eric, GL to them.

Today is the $1500 Limit...

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Event #2 $1500NL

I drew a rather ironic starting table for the $1500NL. One my left was Steve Paul-Ambrose who won the Stars WPT Event this year and on my right was John Gale who won the same event the year before!

Steve was out early when someone took most of his stack with an oddly played 5 high flush draw (putting in almost 400 preflop against Steve's AA).

I played too loose at the beginning and got down

Monday, June 26, 2006

TOC

The TOC came and went pretty quickly for me. My table consisted of (from 1-9), Brad Kondracki, Chris Ferguson, Mike O'Malley, Clint Baskins, me, Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Scott Lazar and Darrell 'Gigabet' Dicken.

I had a rough hand come up early when I raised two limpers to 250 with JJ and only Clint called. The flop came T64 and Clint check called. The turn was a 7 and it went check check