Ended up playing a wsop satellite late afternoon Wednesday. Structure wasnt great but full of awful players and i knew it was probably going to be my last shot at the big one. $550 4000 chips with a 30 minute clock (compare that to a caesars 15,000 and 50 minutes !) so not much room for errors. Anyway without going into too much detail i climbed to just over 12,000 chips with some well timed plays and never allin preflop before i moved tables and slipped away. A few hands into the new table i was in the cutoff and a weak limper for 600 saw me raising Q7std to 3100. Unfortunately button had KK and sb had AA so i was left on 8200ish but limper did gamble his 6000 stack anyway with J10std so at least my read was right ! I then didnt find any spots and in the end bust next level 88 vs AK , ace on river to have gone to 14,000.
After the bust 4 of us went on the a party at the palms in the kingpin suite. This was apparantly a $8000 a night suite with 2 bedrooms, pool table, 2 bowling alleys etc. Azimut only won the little bowling comp they had there which meant we were left free in the suite for the rest of the night with beer and vodka remaining at the bar. Anyway after a long night we taxi back to the HGVC at 9am in time for a club sandwich before i crashed out waking up at 4pm the next day ! Conclusion - its definitely more difficult to focus on poker now a few mates are out !
Played the 7pm at the Rio yesterday, again structure not great but there aint much better in the evenings over here and i prob should have played a few more of these the first week. 5000 chips with a 30min clock. I never got going despite making a couple of well timed bluffs and having a good image i couldnt make use of it and eventually the crapshoot caught me up. Moving tables and on 2800 at 100/200 with blinds going to 200/400 50ante in a few minutes i knew i had to shove quickly. 10,8off got through from the hijack, think a guy said he didnt know my play and folded 10s on the button ! I then shoved 3200 next level with A4off , bb called with 33 but i hit and suddenly thought it might be my day. A couple of AQoffs later overshoving after a limper and continue betting on flop and turn allin on a 10,10,3,4 board to a fold i had risen to 12,000.
I then folded (hated it wanted to gamble but would have lost) 22 in the bb after an 8xbb shove and a 6xbb allin at 600bb level. Next hand i get the bullets and a shove of 4625 from early position shows the mighty 96off. Board comes J,5,7,4,3 and im on 6500 instead of 18,000ish. A round or so later very basic played limps utg which is always weak and i decide to shove any 2 from the hijack with more in the pot and we are only 7 handed at this point. I actually had 79std but after dwelling for ages same stack on button comes in with AJstd and i dont get any help. Pot was 15,000 but i cant complain, u cant do much in these tourneys if the preflop allins fail. Guess i was about 86% first one and 40% 2nd after winning the 45-50% flip.
That was it for the night as 11pm apart from a quick 16oz steak before a decents nights sleep.
Still trying to decide on today action. Probably gonna do a deepstack although wish it wasnt so early at midday, would luv to hav gone by the pool more maybe. $330 at caesars or $1050 at venetian. Im short of $ unless i attack the ATM so i guess its caesars or just wait until that rio 7pm again.
Other news i see littlewoods are moving to 888 network probably before the end of the year.
