From: greatbrit Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker Subject: WSOP 2003, Day 14: 39 to 1?, that's merely a flesh wound Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 04:57:42 -0700 Another day working in my room, well I have to do something to support my satellite habit. I went downstairs in the afternoon and blew it very quickly in a no limit satellite, raised to T100 on the button with 33 (blinds were 15-30), got called by the big blind and bet T300 on the very nice looking 944 flop. He check raised with his Q9o and I decided (probably wrongly) that I was pot committed as I only had 300 left, and also that he might be making a move thinking I'd missed. ighn. Today was the no limit deuce to seven draw, a paltry $5,000 with $5,000 rebuys and add-ons. They had 28 players, sounds low, but not when you consider they only had 34 last year, amusingly the audience was bigger than the entries, surprising too as this game is not exactly a thrill a minute to watch. 34 rebuys and 8 add-ons made for a decent prize pool. Allen Cunningham won last year, this year he ended up caught in a senior sandwich between Billy Baxter (who I think has won it 5 times and may have been at every final table when he's played) and Oneal Longston (sp?) who took it down in this one day event. Barry Shulman was in the final 4 of a super tonight, 2 places got paid, he made a huge all-in reraise on a guy who had made a small raise with K7o, and after a long think the guy, who had an equal (large) stack, called practically all-in! I don't get that at all, I mean even if Barry was bluffing, what hands does he think he can beat, he can't think he has better than a 50-50 shot. But what do I know, he won the pot and Barry was out. As I wandered through the satellite area tonight I came across an amazing situation. There were two guys heads up in a single table satellite. It was a $500 (+vig) buy in, 2,000 chips to start, so 20,000 chips on the table. One guy, a very aggressive English player had 19,500, his conservative opponent had the other 500, blinds were 100-200. As the hand was being dealt the English guy offered to give the other guy $500 to end it right there. I couldn't believe he'd want to offer anything at that point, but what I couldn't believe even more is that the other guy turned down the offer! I'm in need of a Yooner here, how good was that deal? The other guy won the hand, then folded to two raises and was back down to T500. Then they dealt another hand and the English guy offered the same deal, this as he was raising (with AJs). Again it was turned down and called by T8o. T8o won and it looked like maybe a miracle was about to happen. It almost did when he then took his T7 up against Q9 and flopped a 7, but the river gave the English guy a straight and it was all over. Rule Britannia. Tomorrow is the 5K No Limit Holdem, they are hoping for around 100, then after that things should pick up dramatically as we have a long stretch of cheaper events coming. The double-shootouts are possibly ending May 1st., if so then the super-sats will probably start to build a lot more steam, although they should anyway as we head closer to the 10K event. The ring games and satellites remain very busy but I haven't seen much of the $50 satellites to the super-satellites. I think the 11 p.m. had about 100 tonight, not sure but it was a decent turnout considering today's main event and that tomorrow is also a 5K event so not too many people around. Returning to reality after my recent forays into lobsters and fancy steakhouses I got the late night steak deal in the coffee shop tonight, $5 for a decent steak, baked potato, salad and rolls, I fear this is where I really belong. Bracelet Day T-2 Paul