Strange things are amidst at the WSOP…a blessing or a curse has yet to be determined
The last few events of the WSOP 2008 were not so eventful as I have been unable to get to the money rounds on any events thus far. My play has been solid, but like in any tournament, you have to win coin flips and get lucky in certain scenarios with timing playing an important role on collecting chips to advance and cashing in.
Yesterdays 6 handed $2500 event delivered a whole other kind of milestone I have never encountered in over 20 years of poker; I was out on the first hand. There was a main event (10K) back in 2003 where I was out on the second hand that I played and was actually the first player out of the main event that year; which at the time was a fairly spectacular piece of disappointing news with a record speed of losing 10k, however yesterdays unplanned event tops even that on many levels.
I have been trying to mix things up and decided to be fashionably late (Phil Helmuth style) and arrived about 12:30; 30 minutes after play began. My late entrance plays a key role in this mishap and wonderment of the story, as I ran up to the 6 handed event while the cards were being delt to my empty seat. The rule at the WSOP is that your hand is dead if you are not seated to receive your cards prior to the last card being delt to the button position. Upon seeing the last card not yet delivered to the last position of the button, I raced over quickly to sit down with my back pack attached, sunglasses and jacket still on. The other important note is that you must show your ID to the dealer to prove it is your seat prior to looking at the cards. I was about to muck my cards when I politely asked the players at my table if I could present my license to the dealer and take a moment to get settled, of which everyone grimaced a “fine…go ahead”. I quickly rummaged through my pocket to find my license in the loose leaf filing system I call a wallet (rubber band around everything in my pocket) and presented my license and the dealer a copy of my seat assignment. While the dealer was studying my picture and trying to match my name with the seat assignment card, I decided to take a quick peak to see my good/bad fortune and almost fell off my chair when I locked eyes with two aces. Before I get into the details of the events to follow, I want to explain (hear it again and aloud to myself) what the chances of walking/running up to a table at an arbitrary time and land two aces as a starting hand (220 to 1) with the multiplied odds of at least 10X based on the events leading up to this scenario. With this being described and the fact that I usually raise 90% of the time on the first hand to set tempo on what kind of player everyone can expect to play with (for those who don’t know my play); I am literally dying of joy and happiness on the first hand of event # 31 of the 2008 WSOP.
Now that the table has been set with semantics out of the way, I will begin to describe the emotional roller coaster of happiness, shock, disappointment and sadness at the most intense levels within 5 short minutes, the time it took to play out the hand. With aces in my mits, I slyly look around the table and say “let’s test the waters to see how you guys are” and announce raise. The blinds are 25 - 50, so i just raise to 125 to make it look like a standard raise, not a steal or a protection bet of a good hand (which people often do). Everyone folds around to the button who re-raises to 700, which is a very large, unusual but VERY acceptable re-raise to my two red aces. As the re-raise is announced and I see the chips that equal 6 times my original raise actually hit the felt, I am loving life. However, even with this amazing scenario of trapping a player like a rabbit with a titanium box and a pack of organic carrots, I take a quick moment to reflect and act as if my hand was just caught in the cookie jar. My thoughts of which direction to go of trapping him or just re-raising and taking the pot down, come down to the following:
A. If I re-raise I will certainly take down the $700 right here and now, especially if he is trying to make a move with nothing. However, if he has JJ’s or higher I will certainly get him to call or maybe even re-raise and get more money. With 30 seconds of thought and a some quick confused looks across the table to my opponent I decide that he probably has pocket QQ’s and wants to get me off my hand to avoid a bad beat and I raise the pot to 2100. He quickly makes the call, confirming my original thoughts that he has a pocket pair of JJ’s or better and will call whatever i bet if the flop is all baby cards.
Now I fully aware at this point that I can lose with pocket Aces if a J, Q or King falls even as a 45% or more favorite going into the hand; depending of course on what his cards and the flop are. The flop is 7d 4h 3s and I bet the remainder of my chips (2900) forcing him to call (hopefully) off the rest of his chips with his big pair while not giving him a chance to spike a J or higher on on the turn or river to spike a set. He immediately calls me, as I suspected, and I get ready to see his big pair and smile. He shows me the 7-3 of hearts and my eyes fall off my face onto the table. No need to go into the rest of the hand as the outcome never improved, but I can tell you the WSOP is a lot like the blackjack tables in Vegas; everyone has come to town to take a shot and spin the big wheel of fortune. Guys and gals from all over the planet are coming to take shots in the dark and are prepared to gamble it up with the hopes of taking it all down or go broke trying. The game is no longer poker…its Bingo, and I can’t wait to yell B-R-A-C-E-L-E-T someday soon.
On the enlightening side of things, I figure my luck and ’special’ events are going exactly how they are supposed to be, so after the initial shock (2 hours), I have chalked this up as ridding me from the poker demons of destruction and cleansing my body of all the unlucky anti-bodies prior the final event. I don’t know how many more of these I can take, however, I’ll keep absorbing the blows till my chin falls off if somehow I can reverse the luck factor and make it happen for me when the final events begins.
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