22 July 2006
I played in my first WSOP Event ever earlier today, and it was a disaster. I lasted 2 hours in total (more than some, but not really much of a consolation) and made several key errors. With the format of these WSOP tournaments (tiny starting chip stacks, enormous starting field) anything more than two errors will prove fatal.
The highlight of my day was sharing a cab from the Bellagio to the Rio with Dan Harmetz, who already has 4 cashes under his belt at the 2006 WSOP. He guided me through the maze that is the Amazon room, showed me where to go and how to register, and was very interesting to chat to.
Harmetz told me what I already feared - that there was no place for finesse in these "small buy-in" tournaments because the chip stack matched the entry fee. If you played in a hand, speculated, and lost you would find yourself short of options from then on, and if you didn`t double through early on you would be gone.
I made one mistake that dropped me from 2000 to 1350, although it was against an absolute donk play (his T2 against my TJ with Ten-high on the board and he caught a 2 on the river). After that I got frisky with A6 in late position, got called by the big blind, flop came A-6-T and after he led out with a pot-sized bet I felt I had to raise all-in. He felt that his AT was good enough to win, and he was certainly right about that.
It gave me enough time to check out the tournament schedule at the Bellagio, and I`ll compete in the Bellagio Cup on Monday where $1000 buy-in gets me 5000 chips and more room to show my creative poker genius.
I am signing off, in low spirits but far from despondent. I still have the main event to look forward to after all...
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