With all that has been going on with the status of online poker these past few months, it was really nice to get out to vegas for the 2011 Wsop. I had high hopes for my 2nd series, as I knew it could only get better after last years dismal performance. As I look back on my experiences this summer I don’t necessarily feel that I had improved that much at tournament poker. I do however feel that I was more confident and more experienced in the Wsop atmosphere. My summer started off well, cashing my first 2 of 3 events. Overall I had a great summer, cashing in 5 events, 3 of them being Wsop prelims. My deepest run came in a $1500 no lim,it event where I bubbled the final table, finishing in 11th for $31k. I felt I played great throughout the whole tournament but was unlucky to lose a coin flip with just 11 left.
Leading up to the Main Event I felt I was poised and ready to make a deep run. Unfortunately I busted midway through day 1. It was just one of those days where nothing seems to be going right and I was extremely frustrated for most of the day, not with my play, but with the types of situations I was being put in by recreational players, having to make big folds constantly. After the Main Event had ended for me I was pretty disappointed with the results of the summer, but still reasonably happy to be making it out alive and with a little profit!
Before I left Vegas, I decided to play the Caesars Megastack series Main Event. This was a tournament I originally wasn’t planning on playing but thought I might as well because the field was supposed to be big and very soft. It was a 1k reentry tournament with two starting days. I played day 1 and made it through the reentry period on my first buyin. I ended up busting towards the end of the night, and I left the casino ready to come back for the second day 1 and reenter. The next day I showed up a couple hours late to late register, and found out that they had shut out any new players, due to space and staff shortages. I wasn’t even upset because I had a flight home in a couple days and was pretty burnt out from the summer. Two of my friends and I decided to go eat at the Cheesecake Factory inside of Caesars to get some lunch. Towards the end of lunch, my one friend who had made it into day 2 called me saying that they reopened late reg and we could reregister. To make a long story short, I played day 2 and ended up making it to the final table where I chopped 4 handed for 190k! My summer had been saved thanks to a whole bunch of ironic events that seemed to lead me to this fairy tale ending.
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