2008 WSoP Post 3 - My first Las Vegas tournament win!
No, I don’t have any new bracelets to show off when I get back home. Yet. But I did finally take down a tournament in Las Vegas – in fact, this is the first time I’ve ever cashed in a tournament in this city.
Sadly, it was only a $60 tournament with rebuys at the Harrah’s Casino. The payout was nice, recovering some of the losses from yesterday. And even more sadly, it took three tournament entries today to earn the win, meaning I more or less broke even for the day.
At least the tournament win comes with an entry into a freeroll tournament in early July here. Guess now I have to win enough in a big tourney to enter the WSoP Main Event.
Other thoughts for the day:
n Obviously, story #1 is the Celtics’ return to the top of the mountain. As it was happening, I found myself thinking that it was almost too easy – there was never a doubt in my mind that the C’s would win Game 6. But by 40 points? Really?
n About 10 minutes before tip-off I was in the Harrah’s poker room and thought about running to the sports book to get a parlay on the money line, point spread and the over. I decided against it, but the guy sitting next to me thought it was a good bet and dropped $50 on it. I’m sure he’s thanking me right about now.
n How good was this Celtics team? Just look at all the records they set this postseason: Biggest win in a Finals clincher. Biggest comeback in a Finals game. Most home wins in a single postseason. Most steals in a Finals game. Most three pointers in a Finals game (Ray Allen tied the record). Most road losses in a postseason (that one’s not so good, but consider they set that record and still won the title. First team to win a title while playing 25 or more playoff games. I mean… wow.
n The fact that Bartolo Colon was injured swinging a bat tells me that, no matter how good he’s been pitching, he’s just not durable enough at his current build to be a reliable pitcher. I wish the Red Sox had put weight clauses into his contract, a la Curt Schilling.
n Kid at my table earlier tonight – “I fucking hate
n By far, the worst part about the manner in which I busted out of yesterday’s tournament… There were 1012 total entrants in the tournament – when I busted out after only 4 hours, there were about 475 left and an average chip stack of around 6000. By the end of the day, there were only 73 players left (top 108 got paid) with an average stack of about 70000. And at the end of today’s action, with the final table set for tomorrow, it only took 183,000 chips to still be alive. Had my hand held up, I would have had about 32,000 chips already. Can you say “Dominant tournament chip leader”? Guh… I need to move past this. It really hurts my head.
n I’m still up in the air about playing in Event #36 on Thursday or Event #39 on Saturday. I’m actually enjoying playing low limit cash games and daily tourneys at other casinos. Maybe I’ll stick with that for awhile. Gonna be awful hard to earn the $10k I need for the Main Event in two weeks that way though…
n And finally, I’m still keeping myself off of the blackjack and craps tables – my only foray into non-poker gaming is a promotional slot play I have here in my hotel. Probably use that tomorrow morning. Can’t wait to get to my next hotel on Saturday, where they’re giving me like $300 in cash and free table play. I like that idea.
Back again at some point tomorrow (whatever day tomorrow happens to be).
Labels: Gambling, Las Vegas, poker, Tournament, World Series, WSOP
posted by Big D @ 7:36 AM
1 Comments:
Nice work, now go win a big one. I've found myself living vicariously through your poker exploits.
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