Thursday, August 03, 2006
James Fails to Cash in WSOP $1,000 NL Event
It is 4:41 pm in Vegas. (8-3-06) I just finished 370th out of 1,100 players in the $1,000 2-day NL WSOP event that started at 11:00 am this morning. It will pay down to 99th place. My huge raise with AK was called by pocket 7's and I got no help on the board.
One interesting note is that the first big pot I won was on the 9th hand of the tournament with 68 offsuit. I was in the big blind and there was no raise. 655 flopped and I bet out. Another player put me all-in and I decided if he had a big pocket pair, so be it, but I didn't think he did, because he didn't raise pre-flop. I called and he had A7 spades (two spades in the flop) but he didn't get another one. That gave me almost twice the 1500 chips we started with.
Goes to show any two cards can win a monster pot.
One interesting note is that the first big pot I won was on the 9th hand of the tournament with 68 offsuit. I was in the big blind and there was no raise. 655 flopped and I bet out. Another player put me all-in and I decided if he had a big pocket pair, so be it, but I didn't think he did, because he didn't raise pre-flop. I called and he had A7 spades (two spades in the flop) but he didn't get another one. That gave me almost twice the 1500 chips we started with.
Goes to show any two cards can win a monster pot.
