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I couldn’t really be bothered playing online today, but Donnie was back in his grinding shoes . . . and it paid dividends!

He managed to finish 3rd/2,451 in the Full Tilt Poker $9,500 GTD Rush Rebuy. The buy-in was only $2.20 and he re-bought nine times, but walked away with $2,200 for his third place . . . nice run sir.

With Lynn heading to the gym and me and GG doing nothing, he happily(?) drove me to this place called Too Hotties to get my hair cut. As you walk in there were maybe six or seven hairdressers who were stunningly gorgeous and all young. There was a pool table, flatscreen TVs, massage chair, PS3 and XBox 360 all for the patrons or guests to enjoy.

“Do you guys want a drink?” asked the receptionist.

“I’ll grab a beer!” and extremely excited GG added.

As GG sipped on his Bud Light while getting a chair massage, a petite brunette named Lacey began on my hair. We exchanged normal haircut banter of work etc, and I found out that even though she is only 20-years old, she has never been out of the country! This shocked me, because at the same age I already had been to eight different countries with nearly twenty trips to Asia to holiday or visit family.

Ending the haircut with an awkward but enjoyable face massage, I was extremely pleased with the result, as nothing beats your personal hairdresser back home . . . and for $23 it felt like a bargain!

With GG and I a little hungry, we ventured next door to Firehouse Subs where I bought us some late lunch / early dinner before picking up Lynn on the way home.

We decided a few days ago that we were all going to play the Green Valley Ranch weekly $45 HORSE tournament, and tonight was the night for us to check-raise some senior citizens and have some fun!

Lynn didn’t really want to play due to her lack of knowledge in the games, but that still didn’t stop Donnie, GG, Jane and I donating our money as the $45 entry got us a 2,500 starting bank. Unfortunately the Tournament Director was a bit of an idiot – and although there were four tables in operation – they still managed to seat Donnie, me and GG in the one, two and three seats respectively on the same table. Throw in the fact that we were nine-handed and played each game for a fifteen minute level instead of eight hands, really underlined the quality we expected.

“So what order does the games go in?”

“What exactly is hi-lo . . . razz . . . or stud?”

These were just a handful of the comments that we heard in the first few minutes of the tournament as we all just gave each a look of Oh My GOD!

I chipped up pretty easily in the Holdem orbit, but then played a terrible Razz hand where my made 8-7 perfect was rivered by a guy after I bet every street in a mult-way pot. I managed to pick up some chips though, and finished the first break with 4,600.

With the blinds climbing every game, I tried to play tight in the stud games, but when we returned to Holdem I won about nine pots to get my stack up to 6,500 and then 11,000 by the Razz orbit.

Reaching the final table of eight with 11,200, I was sitting third in chips (chip leader had 33,500) with Stud being the game with an ante of 100 and betting limits of 500-1,000. My stack slipped a little as we lost just one player before I managed to win a hand in Stud Hi-Lo with two-pair against two lows; one of which was the losing hand of Donnie’s.

With only five people getting paid, once we lost seventh, we made a deal for the bubble boy and chuck in $10 each so that he would at least make some profit. Once he exited, I had 14,500 during the Omaha Hi-Lo orbit with blinds 500-1,000 and was sitting on the button.

The remaining four players then started talking deals of chopping the prizepool five-ways for $220 each. The player on my left only had 8,500 and Donnie 6,500 in the big blind, while the two players on my right had 25,000 and 18,000. I felt that I had a great enough skill edge to keep playing, and running ICM equities saw that I should earning a little more. I obviously was beaten into submission and took the deal as we made our way home.

Not having played online all day, I decided to load up a couple of tourneys on Full Tilt Poker to fill in some time before doing some work.

I busted a Rush tourney quite early, but was also playing a $3 PLO Six-Max Rebuy tournament. Although I was in for five rebuys, I had a better than average stack after the rebuy period was over with Donnie also still in. We ended up being seated on the same table for quite a while which was pretty funny as I held the chip lead with 45 players remaining of the starting 77. Once there were about 29 players left, I lost a couple of big pots here and there and slipped back to around fifth only to see Donnie exit when I guy – that I proceeded to berate afterwards – called off a pot raise preflop and then a pot-sized shove on the flop for 80% of his stack with just a straight draw for the wheel.

With only eight players cashing, I doubled a couple of short-stacks up when we were twelve-handed, and consequently had to grind the short-stack on the bubble. I then managed to find two massive double ups after flopping the nut full twice against two players and doubling in the first before eliminating the guy that busted Donnie in the second to take the chip lead into the final table with 40% of the chips in play.

Unfortunately after losing one, I played a massive pot holding K♥ K♠ 9♥ 4♦ against A♥ A♠ J♣ 8♠ after I raised, he potted, and I put him all in. The board ran out 6♥ 9♦ 9♣ Q♠ 10♠ to see the suck, re-suck cost me a chip stack of well over half the chips in play.

Not letting it deter me, I still continued to open fairly regularly to pick up the blinds while also making some sneaky check-raises in blind-on-blind battles with the virtual nuts. I still managed to lose some crucial pots to prevent me returning to my once powerful stack, and consequently when I reached heads-up play, I was nearly a three-to-one underdog in chips.

I managed to take a few dints out of his stack, but he pushed back a couple of times to see me slip back to a three-to-one underdog before this final hand occurred.

Seat 1: tRaMSt0p (90,516)
Seat 3: molchun17 (305,984)
tRaMSt0p posts the small blind of 5,000
molchun17 posts the big blind of 10,000
The button is in seat #1
Dealt to tRaMSt0p 8♥ J♥ 7♣ 7♥

tRaMSt0p raises to 22,500
molchun17 calls 12,500
*** FLOP *** J♣ 7♦ 9♠

molchun17 checks
tRaMSt0p checks
*** TURN *** J♣ 7♦ 9♠ 4♠

molchun17 bets 22,500
tRaMSt0p raises to 68,016, and is all in
molchun17 calls 45,516
tRaMSt0p shows 8♥ J♥ 7♣ 7♥

molchun17 shows 9♣ 7♠ 5♠ 4♥

*** RIVER *** J♣ 7♦ 9♠ 4♠ 9♥

tRaMSt0p shows a full house, Sevens full of Nines
molchun17 shows a full house, Nines full of Sevens
molchun17 wins the pot (181,032) with a full house, Nines full of Sevens

With the final hand occurring around 5:30am, I was fairly disappointed not to take it down and top off a good day, but will take the $159 for 2nd/77 players.

As I mentioned in my last post, I would hopefully have something interesting to post here related to poker . . . and now I do!

I recently made a deposit on Absolute Poker to take advantage of 30% rakeback and supposedly soft players. With a fair chunk of money on PKR, it sucks because I can’t play on that site while I’m still over in Las Vegas – and not wanting to play on PokerStars or Full Tilt – I decided to choose Absolute Poker for some low-stakes cash game grinding.

Starting at just 10NL and 25NL to get use to the software and the players, I’ve noticed that the players are incredibly weak-passive, with the majority of them being terrible short-stack players. The one adjustment I have made in my game is opening my range when entering the pot with a raise, because it is so easy to pick up the blind, and if you eventually get some action, you can easily outplay them on the flop or turn. As for the short-stackers, I’ve noticed that they will often call off a good percentage of their stack preflop and simply check-fold to the majority of c-bets. When they shove over your open however, it is normally the nuts!

With Donnie playing a heavy MTT schedule, and GG moving over to sit-n-gos, they both managed to lure me back to the tournament grind also. I had back-to-back cashes in the Absolute nightly Sniper 3k GTD KO, where I finished 61st yesterday and 40th/667 tonight when I shoved my Aces from the small blind for 12k (at 500-1,000) over the under the gun’s open of 2,275 with J♠ 10♠. He called it off (el oh el) and flopped a straight draw, turned a pair then rivered two-pair. First was $800-ish, so it was pretty disappointing to bust for a virtual min-cash.

Donnie, Me and GG grinding online . . . degens we are!

I ran deep in a PLO rebuy, but got bounced a few levels from the money when my A-A-Q-J was all in on the flop of 10-9-3 against Q-J-10-7 and K-Q-J-2. The turn landed an Ace and the river a 7 to send me crashing out in a pot that was for the chip lead! There is a $11 Rush 135-player tournament that we’ve all been mucking round with, and I final tabled one of them the other day; but was denied a win when my 7♦7s couldn’t hold against Ace-10. However it was the $10+1 $9,500 KO GTD today that really broke my spirits!

After winning a huge pot when my A♠ K♠ made a flush against Kings, I began playing a Carter Phillips-esque poker of raising nearly every hand to build a stack, before taking down this pot.

Then a few hands later, I made a straight on the turn, but my opponent bet-folded from the blinds before this hand went down a few hands after that.

As we approached the money (189 of the 1,875), I was looking to improve my already top-ten chip stack so I could have a good crack at the $3k-plus first prize. Unfortunately, I would play this pot out – which if I won – would have lauched me to the chip lead with a five-time average stack!

I did manage to sneak into the money and eventually bust in 81st place for a $32 payday (courtesy of a few KOs) after my 6♥ 2♥ went down to 10♠ 6♠ on a 6♣ K♠ 6♦ 10♥ 8♦ in a blind-on-blind battle after all the money went in on the turn.

Although I’ve been wanting to focus on cash, playing tournaments with the boys have got me back into the grind that so many people seem to love.

I’m not sure if I’ll continue with it on a full scale effect, but probably will dabble a little when the cash games are running on the low side . . . don’t worry, I’ll keep you updated on all the bad beats I deliver and am delivered in return!

With the WSOP now wrapped up and Donnie and I predominately having the house to ourselves, our days consist of listening to music, nanna-napping on the couch and a lot of online poker!

Playing a small MTT schedule on Full Tilt mixed with cash games on Absolute Poker, I might delay the poker talk for a few days until I get some interesting hands, and instead share with you some of the songs that have been on loop over the past few days.

Listen to them, like them or share them . . . it doesn’t bother me, but I assure you that they will continue to play wherever I am in the world!

I also wanted to include the song Silly Boy by Eva Simons, but couldn’t find a version that let me embed it.

Simons is a Dutch singer who won Popstars in 2004 as part of the band Raffish, before embarking on a solo career last year after this song was leaked, and then gained popularity, online.

Simons has a style and look of Rihanna mixed with Lady Gaga, but her biggest drawcard is a hairstyle that for some reason reminds me of a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

Check out the song here.

After doing some household tasks during the day, Donnie decided that it would be a good idea to play The Orleans $75 nightly tournament.

We picked up his friend Bob from around the corner, before making our way to the Strip to pick up Jane from work. Once at The Orleans we registered for the tournament and grabbed a quick bite to eat before settling into one of the best nightly tournaments in Las Vegas.

The levels lasted twenty minutes for the first three levels before switching to thirty minutes thereafter and we all began with a 7,500-chip starting bank as around 68 runners entered the tournament. They also allowed you to repechage – or re-enter – over the duration of the first three levels . . . something that Jane took advantage of!

My first major hand came when I opened to 375 at the 75-150 level with 9♥ 9♠ from middle position and was called by the player on the button as a 9♦ J♣ 4♥ flop fell. I fired out 475, and the button called, before calling 1,175 when the turn landed the Q♣ as we both checked the K♠ on the river. I scooped the pot to move to 9,925 after he tabled his inferior 8♠ 8♣ before reaching the first hour break with just over 9,000.

With blinds at 150-300 and now a 25-ante, there was two limps ahead of me, and I decided to do the same from the button with 5♠ 4♠ as both the blinds completed to see a five-handed flop of 9♠ 8♠ 5♦. The under the gun limper led out for 700, and after one fold, I bumped it to 1,850. The blinds passed, and he tank-folded to see me climb to 11,175.

My table broke, and on my first hand in the big blind I squeezed to 1,700 over a limp for 400 and a complete from the small blind with Kings, but got no action as I moved to around 12,700. Then with blinds at 300-600 I opened to 1,500 from under the gun with 9♦ 9♥ and was called by the button and big blind to see a K♠ K♥ 6♠ flop fall. I really wanted to fire out a bet, but checked instead, as the button fired out an overbet of 7,000. The big blind folded, and after some deliberation, I did too while slipping to 8,700.

Just as the end of the level was nearing I felt that I need to try and pick up some chips. With two limps for 600 in front of me, I made it 2,300 to go from the cutoff with Q♥ 10♥ and was called by just the original limper as a J♥ 3♠ 4♥ flop fell. He checked, and I shoved for 6,000 and some change as he instantly called tabling his 3♥ 3♣. The turn landed the 7♣, and river the Q♣ to see me exit in 32nd place or so to join both Jane and Bob on the rail.

Donnie was on a complete roller-coaster of a tournament, but still held a comfortable chip stack as we sweated his potentially deep run . . . well we did all have 5% in each other . . . so that was a little of an incentive too!

After walking around The Orleans for a while, I decided to take a seat on a $2-4 Limit Holdem table to kill time while Donnie hopefully shipped the $1,590 first prize.

Buying in just for $200, I raised the first five hands – all with premium holdings of course – but was unable to make any hands as my stack somehow slid down to $120 within the first few orbits. Finding the powerful K♦ 2♦, I rivered flush after it was capped on the flop and the turn in a five-handed flop to see my stack soar to $220.

My Aces were then cracked by Ten-Nine before my A♠ 8♠ lost to Ace-Six on a 6♠ 6♦ 4♠ 9♣ A♥ before it was then my turn to crack Aces with 5♦ 3♦ when my straight draw improved into a flush. I then three-bet pre, capped the flop and turn before exchanging two bets on the river with 4♦ 3♦ on a 8♦ 6♥ 4♥ 3♠ 3♥ board before making a discipline fold on the river with Ace-King against Aces-up and a set. My final hand saw me flop Broadway with K♣ Q♣ and hold as I collected a mighty $10 profit as Donnie collected $385 for his 4th place before we all ventured home.

Waking up to a barrage of emails regarding our Visas for Brazil, both Brett and I decided to make an unexpected trip back to the Rio to the PokerNews office.

I had to fill out an online application twice since the first one decided not to work, before Brett and I were finally free so as to enjoy his last day in Las Vegas. Venturing over to the Miracle Mile shops, we walked round there for an hour or so, not really finding anything until the very last store; Urban Outfitters.

I found about a dozen t-shirts that I instantly fell in love with, along with a couple of cool jackets, but decided to hold off until later in my trip before I leave. Mickey wanted to join us for dinner, and since we had around $120 in Hard Rock comps, we decided to eat at Johnny Smalls. Johnny Smalls is a really nice restaurant located at the back of the casino that serves tapas-styled food at a semi-reasonable price. With the three of us being joined mid-meal by Brett’s friend Jess, we ordered over twenty dishes while – since we’re all degenerates – playing nine-card Omaha flips as the bill totalled a little more than we expected.

With nearly every media member that was still in town heading to the Gold Coast for some midnight dollar bowling, the four of us made our way there.

As the beers began to flow freely, the cards came out once again as we played an intense hand on nine-card Omaha where Mickey flopped middle set, Elissa top and bottom set, Brett a straight flush draw and I a gutshot and nut-flush draw along with an overpair. I dinged an Ace on the turn to take the lead and leave everyone drawing dead apart from Brett who held the one-outer draw . . . of course it was delivered on the river as I spat chips and made a hasty exit from the bar to hit the bowling lanes.

Brett and I both valued ourselves as decent bowlers and decided to play 25 cents a pin, 50 cents a spare and $1 a strike, while also spotting Mickey fifteen pins to make the game even. Unfortunately for Brett and I, we bowled like complete dogs, and although we still beat Mickey, the fifteen pins we spotted him hurt our pockets. The next game I managed to convince both Mickey and Brett to spot me the fifteen pins. Mickey bowled roughly the same score of around 125, Brett bowled something in the 150s, while I bowled worse then an epileptic salmon and struggled to even pass 100 as I shipped the moolah to both of them!

I opted out of the last game as I decided that I wanted to bowl left-handed. Originally I tried to get a line off Brett at bowling over 75 pins, but he wouldn’t give it to me. He must have sniffed something as I came out and bowled a whopping 147 left-handed while he still managed a strong 170 and Mickey a standard 124 as we called it a night and headed back to the Hard Rock.

Brett and I decided to play some late-night cash as a send off to his Vegas trip as we both found ourselves on separate $1-2 NLH tables.

Brett scooped a huge pot just as his table broke to see cash out a rack and change as he called it a night as his flight left in a few hours, while I tried to stick it out to try and make some money. Finding myself all in preflop with Kings against an online kid’s Ace-Queen seemed good until an Ace found its way on the flop and I made my way up to the room to try and get some sleep before checking out tomorrow for Donnie and GG’s place.

When Brandon Steven’s A♣ K♠ was unable to improve against Matthew Jarvis’ Q♣ Q♠, to send nine players on a hiatus a guaranteed $811,823 richer.

My World Series of Poker (WSOP) was all about long nights that turned into daylight finishes, mixed with -EV gambling and plenty of colourful stories, but let’s end the Mecca of all poker tournaments with my continued tournament recap with the The Eight Points of Enlightenment: WSOP.

1 – Tournament Layout: For 2010, gone were the small Brasilia and Miranda rooms as the Pavilion Room (right) trumped them all with over 250 tables allocated for day ones, cash games and satellites. The Amazon Room housed all the restarts and 5pm starts, and consequently was a lot less cluttered than in previous years. Throw in the two additional staged tables for final table overflow or additional feature tables, and it really made viewing a pleasure. The WSOP really got things right this year with the way they structured both rooms and ran the tournaments, and hopefully they don’t find a need to change it again next year (like they have every year previously).

2 – Schedule: Although many praise the schedule of the WSOP, I would personally like it to become well-rounded and offer a greater range of non-holdem poker variants. At this year’s World Series, 33 of the 54 open events were holdem ones, while on the other end of the spectrum there were only five HORSE variants. Since the WSOP is a true test of tournament poker skill, I believe the schedule should be designed along these lines too.
If you spread buy-ins of $1,500, $2,500, $5,000 and $10,000 (championship) in each game of HORSE, 8-Game, Stud, Stud-8, Razz, Pot Limit Omaha, Pot Limit Omaha-8, 2-7 Draw, along with Pot Limit Holdem, Limit Holdem and No Limit Holdem then it would truly be a test of poker skill. Since holdem is what everyone wants to play at the moment, you could also add in four six-handed events of the same buy-in, along with triple-chance and shootout events of the three smaller buy-ins. Now with some space in the schedule you could also throw in a $10,000 Mixed Stud and Chinese Championship to make it a truly well-rounded World Series!

3 – Structures Too Good?: When poker tournaments are run, the major complaint is normally always revolving around the structure of a specific event. With reasonable buy-ins and a triple-stack starting stack, there isn’t really a chance to complain too much about the WSOP structures. Well apart from the fact that they may be too good!
The typical event at the WSOP is supposed to reach a final table by the completion of day two (after twenty levels), but I don’t think a single three-day event ever reached the final table before the start of the last day. With players getting better, and more and more players entering these three-day events, in a few years you will have to see a fourth day implemented so that the final table can be set aside solely for the last day . . . maybe with this a 4x starting stack will also come into play?

4 – Bracelet Display: Last year the WSOP conducted a daily bracelet ceremony in the Amazon Room that included a few words by Jeffrey Pollock before the presentation was concluded with the playing of the respected player’s national anthem. This year they moved the ceremony into the Pavilion Room so that a guaranteed large audience (due to the day one starts being located there) was there to greet the recent bracelet winner with a round of applause.
The one aspect that was added this year was that the bracelets were on show in a big display in the Pavilion Room for the public to view. Once a bracelet was presented to their recipient, the case where the bracelet was housed was replaced with a winners photo so as to see who had won each respected bracelet. Definitely a must for 2011!

5 – Poker Kitchen / Food: In one word . . . AWFUL! The salad bar was dishing out food poisoning everyday, the chinese food was always stale-tasting, and the pre-made salads and wraps were disgusting. Apart form the occasionally good burrito or quesadilla, the options from the poker kitchen of real food (minus snacks and drinks of course) were just terrible. After the first two weeks of putting up with it, the PokerNews team – and I suspect many others – would do anything to be offered a dinner option outside of the Rio regardless of cost! The WSOP really need to provide better options for their players and staff, preferably healthier ones too, but just better on all levels.

6 – No Service: About mid-way through the WSOP, us PokerNews peeps were refused service from the waiters stating that only players were allowed to order cocktails. Of all the media outlets, we are ones that don’t get a $10 food voucher (due to the size of our team), and consequently getting refused cocktail service just sent us into a spiral of tilt!
Like in all seriousness, we tip when we get a water or whatever, so it shouldn’t be that much of a big deal . . . but fortunately for us, we were allowed into the dealer break room which housed an unlimited supply of soft drinks, water, coffee, chips and the occasional dinner, so that the lack of cocktail service became an obsolete issue.

7 – Where To Sit?: Although we had issues with cocktail service, the media was still treated fairly awesome when it came to location in the Amazon Room. There were two dedicated two-level L-shape platforms in two corners of the Amazon Room that hugged each of the overflow final tables. Around twenty people could be spread in the media towers, and if there wasn’t enough room there, a media room located adjacent to the Amazon Room that housed flat-screen TVs, plenty of desk space and an unlimited supply of cold water and beef jerky could keep you happy. There were additional desks based in both the Amazon and Pavilion Room for the PokerNews crew to continue their exclusive live coverage, but the media towers was where all the degenerate prop betting went down . . . along with the occasional amount of work!

8 – Player of the Year: I personally view consistency as the ledger to mark poker success, and consistency is extremely important in tournament poker if you are to be regarded as one of the greats. Over the past few years there has always been a lot of talk regarding the WSOP Player of the Year and how it is exactly calculated, and with some mixed results this year, it has sparked even more interest.
Frank Kassela will be 2010 WSOP POTY but can tie with Michael Mizrachi if he is to win the Main Event. With only those two being in the race, there are many others like Allen Kessler (eight cashes, one final table, four final two table finishes), Shawn Buchanan (eight cashes, one final table) and Dan Heimiller (seven cashes, two final tables) who really stood no chance at capturing the POTY award despite such a great summer.
For this to be regarded more highly, the powers to be at the WSOP really need to take a better look at the points scoring system so that it is weighted more appropriately in relation to buy-in, field size and game type.

With the World Series all wrapped up . . . well until November anyway . . . I have a little time off before heading to Brazil to cover the LAPT Florianopolis leg before finally returning home after being on the road for over four months!

Unfortunately there will be nearly zero downtime as the Victorian Poker Championships will be in full swing on my arrival back in Australia as I hope to be again behind the computer for the series where it all began for me!

My final day of work for the Summer would also be the penultimate day, with Day 7 of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event kicking in with me at the Feature/TV table again.

Unlike yesterday – since the size of the field had been reduced to 78 – I wouldn’t have to cover the secondary feature table as Heath was located there, while all I had to worry about was my starting eight players.

Seat 1: Duy Le – 4,100,000 (in chips)
Seat 2: Damien Luis – 1,850,000
Seat 3: John Racener – 720,0000
Seat 4: Jeff Banghart – 645,000
Seat 5: Tony Dunst – 1,550,000
Seat 6: Sergey Rybachenko – 1,010,000
Seat 7: Jean-Robert Bellande – 700,000
Seat 8: Matt Harris – 965,000
Seat 9: empty

Jean-Robert Bellande made an oops of a three-bet shove with Q♦ 10♦ and was four-bet by Duy Le with A♥ Q♣. Once the original raiser – Jeff Banghart – folded his Jacks, Bellande was unable to improve and hit the rail in 78th place for a $94,942 payday much to the disappointment of the media and his many fans.

Arguably the best dressed man in poker; Tony ‘Bond18′ Dunst was unable to gather any momentum on his appearance at the final table. At one point he found himself all in holding Queens against Hasan Habib’s Ace-King. A King spiked on the flop, but a Queen on the river saw Dunst double through in a hand that will surely make the ESPN broadcast.

Unfortunately from then onwards, Dunst was unable to pick up any chips, and eventually committed his last 1,075,000 with a Jerry Yang-esque inspired “one mirrion” raise over William Thorson’s usually light open. Thorson made the call holding a dominating A♠ K♥ against Dunst’s A♣ Q♥. A chop draw fell on the turn, but a King on the river would see Dunst eliminated in 50th collecting $168,556 for his efforts.

Although play stalled around dinner time, we still managed to reach the final twenty-seven in reasonable time as Joseph Cheong would take the chip lead into the final day with an amassed 24,490,000 of the 219,570,000 in play as Matt Affleck, John Racener, Scott Clements, David Baker, Michael Mizrachi, Adam Levy, William Thorson, Johnny Lodden and Hasan Habib all remained with a glimmer of hope of making the 2010 November Nine!

With the blogging team reduced to just five of the best and Day 6 of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event starting with just 205 players, I was the fortunate one to be based at the Feature/TV table!

David Baker, Eric Baldwin, Adam Levy, Matt Affleck and Christian Harder were spread between both the main and secondary feature tables as I gathered hands from both over the duration of the day.

At one point the tables were switched out as both Michael and Robert Mizrachi, along with Theo Tran, John Racener and Alexander Kostritsyn being spread over the two tables before chip leader Theo Jorgensen arrived a little later.

Apart from some unusual six- and seven-way pots that didn’t result in too many fireworks, the only interesting hand I reported was this colour piece.

“What Is This Exactly?”
“So what is this exactly?” asked a railbird.

I guess it’s not too late for people to come check out the World Series of Poker Main Event!

The end of the day saw just 78 players make it through with Theo Jorgensen on top by nearly 2 million over Michael Mizrachi and John Racener as the highly-skilled players of Phil Galfond, Robert Mizrachi, Tristan Wade, JP Kelly, Theo Tran, Jesper Hougaard and Christian Harder all the bite the dust along with fan and fairy-tale favourite Johnny Chan when his Kings and Jacks were unable to improve against opponents’ Aces.

The Day 6 Feature Table (blogging desk located just out of picture in background on right)