Subject: WSOP 2003, Days 25 & 26: Capricorn ascending
From: greatbrit <pwestley@pacbell.net>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 17:10:36 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker

Party time is over, my friends went home (one coming back next week), so now it's time to play poker and win something.  With that super positive attitude, my focus at 100%, and my lucky underwear which I haven't washed for 12 years, it was time to get serious.  So, yesterday I settled down on the bed and played the 2,000 player Stars tourney. Lost.  Played a Stars satellite to get into the $200 Limit tourney. Lost.  Played a $30 Party single table.  Lost.  Went downstairs and played one of those $50 satellites to get into a super.  Lost.  This morning played the $73 Stars tourney to get into the $615 tourney. Lost.  Went downstairs and played another $50 satellite.  Lo..., oh, no wait, WON!!!  So tonight I have a cheap seat into the Super Sat, it should be a good field too which is what I like, hopefully about 12 seats will be given away, and one will be mine.

Today is the Women's event, coincidentally there are more tournament staff and security guards hanging around than I've ever seen before, most of them weren't even scheduled to work today.  I of course was only there to make sure the clocks were ticking each second.

I found out today why I have been losing.  A small Chinese man on the rail who wouldn't have looked at all out of place in a tiny village in Xinjiang started telling me about astrology, I think he said he is a Scorpio and also a Chinese year of the Tiger, apparently that's big and means he's a risk taker, which would explain why he has cheated death 13 times, including 8 from drowning and one from fire.  He said that when Men the Master's friends all left him (I didn't know about that) he gave Men good luck and he started winning again.  He also said he found a ten pound pink rock in the desert and lent it to a man who had never had any luck, that man won $100,000 three weeks in a row.  The man never gave him anything for bringing him luck so he asked for the rock back, but the man said he had misplaced it.  He told me that there is an astrologer in the Aladdin who is real (he said she has been struck by lightning, and that you have to have cheated death to be a real psychic), he said you have to go back every few months or the readings won't work any more.  I said I didn't know that, he said I was a 'normal', and that that was bad, and then he stormed off.

Even with that bad news I've decided I'm going to try two $300 satellites (or more if I chop) to get into the 3K pot limit holdem, if I can get close to the buy in I'll give it a try, it's my best chance at the bracelet other than the trip to the pawn shop.

Paul