For this post and the next I'm going to be reposting the story of my second WSOP Circuit event (the first that I cashed in). I'm breaking it up into two blogs because it's a bit long for a blog and how else will I generate repeat visitors...other than putting 'to be continued' at the end of a story. Admit it, you always see the sequel no matter how bad you think it's gonna be. In my case, the SAW series is a perfect example of this...it sucks at this poitn but I see every one of them in hopes that they will turn it around. So, part one of the story:
"Crystal (My girlfriend) and I flew out Thursday after work and made it into New Orleans. The flight was good, got a nap in. I was surprised to find out that there is no shuttle service to Harrahs casinos once we got to the airport, no big deal though. So after a cab ride, we check into the hotel and make a plan for what we're doing on the first night. After a vote we decide, Buffet and play some video poker. After playing a bit we checked the line at the Buffet and it was not anything that we were in the mood to wait for, so back to the video poker machines. No luck this time on those machines so after some time we went back and waited for about 20 minutes for the Buffet. Once we get to the front of the line we realize that we have the wrong months coupon for free Buffet and the right one was back at the hotel. Thank goodness for the nice lady working that line. She said that we could go back to the room and get the right coupon (because I am NOT paying 60$ to eat dinner, no matter how good the food is if I canget it for free). We get back to be pleasantly siurprised to see that the woman didn't go directly on break after we left (which we thought would have been kinda standard in this situation). So, one word to describe the Buffet, great...except the rolls kinda suck there. After that some more video poker, hitting up the ol slot machines and then to bed for us. The next morning we had breakfast at a little place called Mothers which was a real dive but the food was good and it was PACKED. Good for them in a bad economy. Crystal then headed home with her brother to surprise her mom for mothers day weekend (since she didn't know we were coming).
After breakfast I headed over to the casino and got registered for the event. I was surprised at how small everyone expected this tournament field to be. In Atlantic City there were over 1000 people signed up for almost this exact same event. When I asked people if they thought there would be more than 1000 people in this one the looked at me like I had three heads or something. They were kinda right, although the field size was bigger than they have ever had here, it ended up being a field of 572. That equates to 54 people getting paid and a first place finish of a little over $40,000.
On day one I feel that I played well and the great thing was the structure of the tournament was set up so good players made the money, not the lucky ones, which suites me just fine as I don't fall in the lucky category too often (although I did once in this tournament-you'll see later). I did get knocked around a whole lot by people catching 2 and 3 outters early in the tourney and found myself super short stacked. To be exact I had 800 of fmy 7000 starting chips with about 250 people to go when the blinds were at 100. **I'll write a blog to explain this stuff because I know some of you that read this have no idea what I'm talking about.*** To come back from that I trippled up by getting all in w/ AJ against A9 and some 2 trash cards (which I thought was odd). After that I made a call to a min-raise (worst play in poker...EVER), and caught a set of nines. From there, it was easy to get the guy w/ AA to ship those chips on over. Once I had some chips it was pretty standard play to get back into the running although I only got 3 or 4 really good hands all tournament."
To be continued...
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