By Adanthar on July 3rd, 2007 (more posts by author)

The rebuy results = pretty uneventful. I busted 370-ish out of 1000 after misplaying a hand, but in retrospect it was a pretty tough spot to avoid. I also had two major suckouts - one QQ > AA during the rebuy period that meant I was in for the minimum 4K, and one AK > KK hand to double through Marc Karam in a big pot (mind you, I already busted him in razz once) - so, once again, I can't really complain. I used a voice recorder for key hands (for both this and the 1500) and will be putting everything down as soon as I'm done with the limit shootout. Sneak preview: David Williams and Mark Seif both play weird, Shannon Elizabeth is a tiltbox, and I'm stealing so many lines from Jordan Morgan it's not even funny.

To add things up, my total this summer is 2 cashes in 13 big live tourneys with 2 to play (the main event and the shootout tomorrow), 3 day 2's, and a bunch of (probably 5 or 6) dinner breaks. It's not what I was hoping for, but on the other hand, I feel like I ran cold enough in enough critical spots [losing that gigantic coinflip in the 6 max event alone was probably worth 15-20 thousand bucks] that, if/when everything evens out long term, I'm a huge favorite in these things. When all is said and done, I get money back from my backers, and I add up the taxi rides, plane tickets, extra rent, etc., this will probably add up to be a relatively expensive vacation, but I've learned enough from this that I feel I'm a much better and more confident player for it, not to mention the contacts. It's going to be worth it in the end (unless I bubble the ME, in which case, look for me high jumping off the Luxor...just kidding), and frankly, I've made enough from poker that this stuff easily fits into the budget.

I play on day 1B (I think it's the 7'th) and Minsun, my wife, gets into Vegas for a week on the night of the 5'th, so essentially, after the LSO I'll be on a several day break from live poker. This is going to be a good time to go over all of my notes, think about hands, sit back and analyze the last month...not to mention have a bunch of fun hanging out with my lover and best friend I haven't seen in a month :) Life is good.