I hope to share all awesome news after I embark to Las Vegas for the first time to play in the WSOP! (Event #54 $1,000 buyin, NL Hold'em) I have booked my flight and hotel $636 for the week. I''m leaving 6:45am from JFK on July 2nd. I'm so excited!! I'll be proud if I can even make it to day 2 xD

Edit- Tournament summary (Finished 720 of 4,576 people)

While I was playing Event #54 in the WSOP $1,000 buy in, I sent my best friend texts throughout the 9 hours that I was playing this tournament. Unfortunately he did not post them on Facebook like I asked him to/didn't post them like I thought he was going to (even asked him a few times) so anywho, I'm going to try and recount a few hands and situations the best I can do. I have no idea about stack sizes and blind sizes on the hands I will remember so bear with me!

The tournament started 12pm pst and a starting stack of 3,000 chips, 60 minute blind levels. I was very nervous as this was my first big event and the first time in the WSOP. I had 4 main goals, but sadly I did not get to achieve any of them. Make it to day 2, make it to cash, final table, then win the whole thing. I was extremely close to making it to day 2, I fell short by 37 minutes in an attempt to amass chips. The blinds started out fairly slow I thought 25/25 and 25/50. Pretty soon they were taking a steep rise and I felt like I had to take more risks to not get short stacked.

Prior to playing in the tournament I read a book that helped me develop a new way to approach tournament play. I'm glad I did because it changed my whole approach and I was able to slowly build a decent chip stack. I took stabs at pots and played position poker the best I knew. I stole blinds and made bluff attempts and I did well for a decent amount of time, the whole time I thought; I was proud of the game I was playing, it was very solid. I never had to show a bluff and I never took a bad beat really. The book showed me to play a range of hands I never really thought about, and it worked surprisingly well. One hand I recall was playing 89os in late position, I think there was a small raise and the flop came 5 6 7. I checked and then the turn came out I bet then everyone folded.

I made alot of position plays like trying to steal blinds and bluff at pots. I used my chip stack to make information bets and raises. I was happy all round with how I played and the reads I made were all pretty well, except for the last hand where I was eliminated. I don't particularly remember what the won with or how but I probably should have tried to see how closer. I think about it alot because I think it might have been a split pot. If so the dealer would have said something, few people said he had a straight so I guess I had lost.

The blinds were 300/600 and I had about 12,000 chips. I was in the BB and I looked down at 45s. everyone folded and the CO made a small raise ~750 more to me (looking back now I wish he had raised more). So I called and it was HU. flop was 5 x x I can't recall the cards, but there was def two over cards (middle cards like 9 7 or something) and two spades. I was out of position so I checked, and the raiser checked behind me. With the way he had been playing so far he was pretty tight player. He didn't really seem to make moves and by him checking on the flop, my read put him on high cards and I wanted to take the pot down. I decided to shove on the turn no matter what came down.

At this point in the tournament alot of people were shoving making plays to get more chips as my table was severely behind chip average as more players came to the table with a large amount of chips. I felt if I didn't make this play that I would become short stacked and I would be busted by a random hand to one of the chip leaders at the table. Sadly he called and he flipped up 56 or 57. I was out kicked and he also had a flush draw. I'm pretty sure there were two 10s on the board making us both have 10s and 5s and I think then that we split because our kickers didn't play and there was a higher card on the board. But others said he had a straight, I'm kicking myself now for not looking closer...Then again there might have been a 6 on the board and he had me with a pair of 6s, like I said I don't remember but the dealer would have made sure as well as the others on the table. Next time I will DEF pay more attention to the board and the hands, lesson learned.

I was successful at eliminating 3 people myself, sadly 2 were huge suckouts, but their stacks weren't that big to begin with....The first up I had KJs in late position. There had been a small raise, so I decided to make a 3 bet and see where I was at in the hand (with a cbet on the flop of course) before that could happen a player shoved all in (450 more after I put in 300 initially) The original raiser folded and I made the call cause it wasn't much more. I flip over my hand and the original raise said you raised with KJ!? I chuckled inside as I thought that was funny, it was a legit raise to see where I was in the hand, by his comment he prob had KQ or maybe even AK. Anywho, the guy all in shows AK himself. I was able to spike a Jack on the river and knock him out of the tournament and pick up a nice sized pot.

The 2nd elimination came to a guy I had been playing with since the beginning of the tournament, for atleast 5 hours or so maybe. I was in the small blind and I looked down at K10. Everyone folded and I raised 3 or 4x the blind. He made it 1,000 and I wanted to call. So I asked him how much more, 1,500 so I put him all in (I think I had 12k or so chips at this point) he called and showed KK. I was like WOW! I started to count out the chips and the flop comes 10 x x, turn blank, and spiked a 10 on the river. We all gasped and he shook my hand and was on his way. I felt really bad, but then raked in my chips and smiled

My 3rd knock out was my most proud knock out (hey not a suckout this time! haha) There was this kid on the table who had like 16k+ chips or something and the blinds really werent too high....but he decided to start shoving every few hands or so. I started getting frustrated with him and so was the table. One time he shoves and a kid finally calls him, he shows 56 and the caller DOMINATED him with K3. flop was K 6 x and blanks, so he stacked him down. He was my hero! After that the kid calmed down but was still shoving from time to time. Once was when I had Q10s I limped to see a cheap flop in early position, and he shoved. I announced, "I have you beat but I'm not going to take the risk." A little while later I picked up AKs and the kid was still pulling his antics, so I decided to limp again and call if he shoved. I think I was around 13k chips or so at this point, and I was lucky he shoved! everyone folded around to me and I snap called. He showed AJ and I faded the jack and took him out, I was so happy!

My most proud moment came when I made a sick read/call. We were HU, I had 23s. There might have been a small raise PF. I hit a duce on the flop. I think there was a bet somewhere on the flop or turn or maybe it was checked down to the river not sure. but anywho....I checked on the river and the opponent made a 1/2 pot sized bet and I sat there and thought. Fuck it, I'll take a gamble and called with my duces, they held up as he showed Ace high

Give the hookers my number you BIG PIMP!!...

haha these forums are deaddddd now man...
so much for the big plans haha

Oh yeah, good luck... you need it, cos your not me :PPPPP

Originally Posted by daniel1

wow ... good luck and your not going to vagas to make day2 ur going to get a big win good luck and hope it works out for u. for me to go to vagas its £1000 quid mabe next year :P

Thanks! Well, obv I wanna make it all the way and win lots of money. But its very hard esp when theres 4,000 other people oh yea and luck involved I'll let you guys know how it goes/went if I find a computer there.

Originally Posted by ImNotSpecial

Give the hookers my number you BIG PIMP!!...

haha these forums are deaddddd now man...
so much for the big plans haha

Oh yeah, good luck... you need it, cos your not me :P

Why give them your number when I can give them mine?? haha thanks buddy! I do need the luck Not you? You are right....sad panda Need the luckboxxing skills.

Originally Posted by Poker92

Dead forum, you're whack.

It is dead compared to before DOJ take over....used to be more posting. Its sad, because it was getting more traffic, then dropped dead again.

You guys do realize that prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas... you have to go way up to northern Nevada for that. Anyways, should be lots of fun; and Ill show you around some on my days off of work. And if I remember correctly there is $1 bowling overnight at the casino you are staying at, always something to do in Vegas if you know where to look.

I'm looking forward to it prof!! 17 days buddy!! Also I wasn't going to get a prostitute haha