yeah....
by thebigeasy59 on 06/05/10
Still not a whole lot to say, but there have been a few developments of late, so here goes.Got a message from my backer the other day. He was curious how deep I was, and I told him ~80 ABI. He told me that he's been on a big downer, and that he had to withdraw some for life stuff/WSOP, so he might not be able to top me up if things continue to go sour. The next couple of days were spent playing really really low stakes stuff (not that I go high at all in the first place). Wednesday night I shipped a $2r on ftp, and Thursday I successfully defended my title. Played again last night and lost a 100bb pot with KK<QTo for the chip lead with ~55 left. Meh.
Pretty sure I'm playing my ~first ever live tournament next weekend. I've played live cash at a casino a dozen or so times, and I've played tourneys at a bar in my hometown, so whatever, but this will be my first tournament at a casino. It's a $350 buyin, and is kind of weird. The poker room only has 6 tables, so they're having 3 separate starting heats, but people can play in multiple heats for some reason. So basically, they play 8 levels on day 1A (Friday), 1B (Sat AM), and 1C (Sat PM). You can play 1A, bust, buy in to 1B, bust, and buy in to 1C and be chip leader. Conversely, you can play 1A, make it to the end of the day, play 1B and try to get a bigger stack than your 1A, etc. If you get through day 1A as a chip leader but also through 1B with an even bigger stack, the day 1A stack COMES OUT OF THE TOURNAMENT. WTF? Seems kind of silly to me to let people play multiple day 1's, especially if they make it to day 2 the first time around, but whatever. Pretty sure I'm only bringing one bullet and I'll just play Sunday if I don't get to Sunday.
Quarter of the way through the WSOP and I don't think my fantasy team has a single cash yet, but it's a long series.
My team:
Andrew "luckychewy" Lichtenberger
Daniel Negreanu
Isaac Haxton
Steve "gboro780" Gross
Allen Cunningham
Shannon Shorr
Freddy Deeb
Steve Sung
Carter "ckingusc" King
Jennifer Harman
Here's hoping that they figure things out.
-Grady
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