Suppertime for baby brings two updates:
4:38pm: played a hand badly. 4,000

and then...

4:55pm: 90 players left. 5600

5400

5800. 70ish left.

5725 at dinner break. Under 70 left.

Do we know what the payout structure is like for this event?

I found this () on pokerlistings but nothing about payout.

Yes, it's MathBabe...

EDIT: Just followed a sidebar and found an entertaining article on events 40-45 and why there is no coverage...

haven't heard anything about the payout. Pokerpages also has MINIMAL coverage of event 43 as well. As in "the cards are in the air" initial post and that's it.

"Im out. got all in w AK vs KQ preflop. he called my big all in reraise. turned gutshot straight on me. almost had a big stack. oh well."

shit thats worthless... what a joke.

wack... i really thought another deep cash was in order

That sucks TP.

Still a pretty good trip though. ;)

A pretty good trip, yes, but a disappointing finish. Then again, my AK beat AA all in preflop earlier, so I am in no position to complain about my AKs losing to KQ. Of course, I actualy played the hand correctly when I sucked out, where as the guy with the KQ made a terrible call. Here was the hand:

200/400 blinds, 50 ante. He raises in EP to 800. I know he's weak. I think about making a reraise but with only about 5k in my stack, I decide to just push in now. It's 4300 more for him to call... he thinks and then calls and turns up KQo. I'm supposed to double up here and have a nice stack, about 10 or 12 spots off the money, but no......... the flop comes T9x, and I know what's coming. The turn is a J, of course, and I'm drawing to 3 outs. No help for me on the river, and bam, I'm gone. It was nice plaing with Clonie and the guy to her right, Mickey, though. Good peeps.

Oh, and I did outlast Hellmuth.

The dancing comment, btw, was because I was in the UB VIP area grabbing a water and talking to Monica (KK's girlfriend) and some Eminem song came on that he apparently likes. He got up and started dancing right in front of us. I covered my eyes and said, "My eyes! It burns!" (Phil is not a good dancer), and then he stood right between us and kept dancing. It was actually pretty funny.

Anyhoo, after my disappointing bust out (I really though I was gonna cash again and maybe even get deep again - ANOTHER Final Table would have been really impressive), I headed over to the Bellagio and found Fabrice. He had busted out of the $10k and was sitting outside on the balcony in front of the water. He reached for his wallet as soon as he saw me and promptly paid me the $1000 he owed me. As I was counting it, one of the guys from his film crew came up to me and asked me if I had a minute. I said "Sure," and he handed me an ipod. I put the headphones in, having no idea what to expect until he started the video. It was a hand from the torney the other night where I had raised preflop and Fabrice moved all in over the top of me from the BB. They taped our conversation, and it's pretty cool. I'm basically trying to make a decision (even though deep down I knew I was folding the whole way) and I say, "I know exactly where I stand." Fabrice asks, "Tens?" I say, "Tens? No... I would have folded those by now. You have Jacks, right?" No response. After a bit more deliberation, I fold and he says, "I'll show if you show," so I show him AKs. He turns over JJ.

That's pretty cool, you have to admit. This will be aired in France at some point, and maybe in the U.S. too (on the Sundance Channel?). Fabrice said he'd tell me when he sees me next, saying, "You'll be on the tour, right?" Eh... not so much. I may make another stop or two this year, but that's about it.

Well, that's today's update. Tomorrow, I have to check out in the AM (so no more internet access), and then have nothing much going on until I fly out late tomorrow night... Unless pshabi calls me (he's due to arrive tomorrow), in which case I'll meet him for a drink. I'll probably swing by and say goodbye to my Vegas friends... but that's about it. No poker on the agenda.

I'm such an idiot. I just realized that my flight is TONIGHT!!!

Oooops!

Don't mind me while I pack, return my rental car and get myself to the airport... Yikes.

WTF? What time?

11:50 PM - Red Eye. I'm all packed now, and about to shut down.

In theory, I'll be home, in my own bed, in about 10 hours. I doubt I'll even sleep on the plane tonight... maybe a bit on my second flight from Atlanta to Melbourne.

Aiight, I'm out. Later kiddies.

Aww...why you gotta go through Atlanta at bumfuck o'clock in the morning?

That's the best time to go through that god awful airport! :thumbsup:

Nice trip TP, hope you made it home safely.

Home. Not sure if I should sleep or not....

Did I mention that in my haste to leave last night, I left a grand in the hotel safe? Ooops. I called them and they are going to ship it to me (in theory - there is paperwork to be done, of course).

Stay awake. It will suck, but if you can make it through the day and stay awake until a normal bedtime, it'll be a ton easier.

It would be awful to go to sleep now and be wide awake from 3pm to 4am or something

glad to see you made it home, guess its time to start playing satellites for Aruba and Atlantis.

If you're going to sleep - at least change my account so that I can change my title now before you do! :D

Unless your inbound flight is late and you miss your connection (the last one of the night) because it's 2 concourses over and the sonsabitches at the counter won't comp you a room because your inbound flight arrived at the gate 30 minutes before your departing flight, leaving you "plenty" of time (their words) to make your connection.

God I hate that place...

Typical behavior of the high-roller. :thumbsup:

I can handle being up until 4 AM (that's standard for me). I'm just worried about being up until 9 AM or whatever... I did sleep for a couple of hours, but fortunately, a friend called and woke me up, needing my help with something on the computer. This actually got me out of bed and I'm good to go now.

RR - You are ready to roll with the Custom title, sir.

omahilo - Hell yes about the sattys. I haven't made a "deposit" from my bank to an online poker site in almost 3 years, but I think I am going to put some of my WSOP winnings into play online and hit a lot of satellites. After all, that money is part of my poker bankroll. Last year, none of my winnings went online, but me thinks it's time for a bankroll boost this year. I have no intentions of moving up limits in cash games, but I am going to try for a lot more trips, since that's what I love most about poker (and apparently where I play the best too).

Edit: This has been a fun thread, and one I will enjoy looking back on in the future, I'm sure... but I'm home from Vegas now, so it's to for it to get unstickied and begin it's decent.

I agree you gotta give it a try...

2 WSOP FTs and ITM at Aruba in one years time, thats not bad.

During yesterday's tourney, before I took that sick beat... I actually had an interesting though going through my head. If you don't count the 8773 player Main Event from this year, had I been able to make the Final Table yesterday (definitely a longshot, but you never know - I would have had an above average stack with 55ish left in the field if my AK held up), that would have been three "consecutive" Final Tables I made at the WSOP. That's pretty impressive, if I do say so myself..... but alas, that's just a fantasy.

My REAL pattern, including the Main Event, is that I make the Final Table every other event I play in. And that puts me in mighty good position for next year! :thumbsup:

lol so true...

I wouldnt even count the ME against your stats, that thing is like a lottery but you never know, if you can have some very very good luck over 7 or 8 days then maybe you can go deep next year.

Wow, you kids think 4am is late? :rolleyes: :D

thanks
 

1st of all like to thank robbie, your updates were great and kept us all following right along. It was very cool of you to do and I know i for one appritiate it.

tp thanks for taking us along for the ride, it was really cool and made us feel like we were right there with you. Congrats on another solid cash at wsop and see you next year.

My pleasure! I had fun doing it - even if I did retire early the first night...

I feel like there is so much more I could tell you guys about that I never got around to mentioning. I'll post some specific HHs (I believe I misplayed at least three hands during my three tourneys - and I don't necessarily mean the ones that knocked me out), but I feel like there is lots of other small stuff I didn't mention...

Like, here's a fun story from after Jen Harman got moved to my table:

It's about her 3rd hand, and she's the BB. I'm in the CO. She thinks she's UTG and folds her hand, and then quickly grabs her cards back. I say, "I think that's a tell," and we chuckle. It folds around to me, and I raise. Obvious steal? Maybe. The button and SB fold and I'm ready to scoop the pot, but Jen doesn't fold. I say, "Oh, now watch her come back over the top of me," and she says, "Well, this didn't look good from UTG, but it doesn't look so bad from here." I say, "OK," figuring we're going to take a flop. She looks me over and then folds her hand and asks, "If I came over the top of you, would you have folded?" I told her I couldn't answer that, but OBVIOUSLY the correct play would have been for me to push in with any two cards there (depending how much her raise was, of course). I mean, I know she doesn't have a monster, and she can't call all in with AT, 44, 78, KJ or whatever else it is she though she was folding from UTG. She folded though, so it didn't matter.

How about this hand, from a few days ago: The SB completes (I am sure he's strong and trapping), and the BB pushes in. The SB immediately calls and turns up AA. The BB shows 23o....... makes two pair on the river and eliminates the AA. Sick.

Playing with Clonie was fun too - she's nice. I am well aware of my image at the table and I use it to my advantage. It takes a while for me to establish it though, so when I was dealt AA the very first hand at her table (I went card dead after that for a long while) and she raises one position in front of me, I wasn't sure how to play it. In hindsight, I wish I had smooth called or made a smaller raise (we were in MP), but I reraised her 700 to 60 (100/200 blinds) to 2300. She thought about the 1600 more (with 4000ish left behind, she would have had to push in, I think, or else Stop and Go on me), but folded... If I raised a little less there or just smooth called, well, you never know. These are the types of plays I find myself second guessing after I get knocked out.

The other hands I have in mind are definitely worthy of their own threads, so I'll post them there.

Oh, one more thing I noticed... you kow those pics of me that got posted a page or two ago? Well, in the one where I am sitting and you can see my chips, those are 1000s (yellow) and 500s (pink). We effectively started the tourney with ONE of each of those, and my mountain is made up of stacks of 20 (looks like almost 160k total). Not only that, but I actually had more than 100k MORE chips at my peak... Man it's fun having a monster stack like that.

GG Vegas. I'm lonely now.

Interesting 'what if' scenario:

If she PUSHED, what range of hands would you call her with?

Not my T7s.

Somehow this pic made the "Featured Photos" (along with Alan Cunningham and Phil Hellmuth) at CardPlayer today. It's linked to from hundreds of pages on their site.

The words on my chest are pretty clear... That would be sweet if it got us some new members.

I definately noticed that and I don't see how it won't get us traffic at least. BTW, congrats on being in the company of Hellmuth and Cunningham!

You will note that they have us ranked in order of skill: Cunningham, then me, then Phil. :thumbsup:

Scary how much you look like a good friend of mine... and his name is Mark too. :eek:

I finally got the pics from that day at Red Rock. Here are a few them... It really is a spectacular area, and one that I look forward to exploring more the next time I'm out there (hopefully when it's not quite so damn hot).

So I guess this post finally wraps up this thread. I had a great couple of weeks in Vegas - I can't wait to get back out there (and MAKE pshabi hang out with me)!

Edit: In the third pic, note the people standing on top of the ledge on the right - that will give you some perspective. And that last pic is after I climbed up that crevice. It doesn't look all that impressive from the angle of the camera, but it was a pretty decent climb. And like I said many pages ago, getting down was much harder than going up!