By Adanthar on May 31st, 2008 (more posts by author)

For the last day or so, the rumor was that day 1 of the $1500 event (Saturday) would be sold out, as every online pro picked it over playing live on Sunday. That turned out not to be true, as I was able to register 90 minutes before the start (props to the Rio - this year, everything seems to be well organized for a change.) Unfortunately, I lasted all of 90 minutes or so in the event, but I actually feel like every bustout should be like this one - very quick, with every hand basically completely standard. I played a couple of pots where I overlimp/called and open raised about 5-6 other hands, but only won 1 total pot the entire time; every hand I played wound up 3 handed to the flop and I simply only ever paired up once.

The bustout hand was the only remotely interesting decision; with about 1700 behind at 50/100, I raised K[s]K[h] in EP and got called by a pretty loose/bad middle aged Asian player on the button. The flop came down A[h]J[h]T[h]; rather than bet out (never folding out an ace in a million years) or check/shoving (eh...nah, he's never folding either) I check/called a pretty standard 2/3 pot bet that basically told me he had some kind of hand, then decided I may as well induce a bluff again and check/called the last 1K all in on an A[s] turn vs. what turned out to be A[c]6[c]. Not getting there on the river kinda sucked, but oh well, standard.

It appears almost everybody else is also busto already (that's what happens when you start with 60 BB/it turns to 15 BB 2 hours in), but Vivek is still in during hand for hand in the 10K pot limit event. Hopefully, he can win this thing and unbusto WC; even if he just manages to FT it, it looks like we're set for a while.

Tomorrow's Sunday, i.e. playing online day; I might also sit out Monday because neither the 1500 PLHE or the 5K mixed NL/limit donkament particularly appeal to me (I may just grind sats), but there's a 1500 6 max on Tuesday that I definitely want to go for. That'll probably be my next event and my next update here, unless, that is, Vivek wins the whole thing.

PS: Vivek's haircut makes my occasional 'too lazy to go one block' 3 month old Jewfro look seem totally hot, imo.