The wsop ended in non dramatic fashion though I had a shot to score big in the last 1500 where I ended up getting around 80th. This and a 50th in one of the 1ks were my only two cashes for the summer amounting to 7182 and 7152 respectively. I was able to swap good and get some money back in a main event draft thanks to leggopokers own Richard Lyndaker and Ben Tollerene as well as the doctor himself David Sands.
After wsop I headed out to Miami to visit Caity and play the Florida state poker championship which included a 2k 6max and a 5k main event. The 6max had around 80 runners and I managed to stick around until 4-800 and had a really soft table with position on the only other competent player. Got put in some unlucky situations and busted in around 30th. Caity and I met up with leggo member toocrispy and leggo coach sc00t. one day for dinner and drinks and I did some other serious relaxing in my time off until the main event at a ridiculously baller house some friends rented which probably boded rather well for me.
I finished day 1 with 74k going into 4-800. Only played 1 particularly hilarious hand on day 1 where I got moved to a new table and the first 4 pots this young guy wins at a table full of old guys, the fifth pot he opens I 3b T9s oop at 50-100 blinds and he calls. Flop is KQJ with my flush draw(this is how you succeed in tournaments) I bet 1350 he raises me to 3550 I call, turn goes check check on a 6 bringing 2nd fd and on a blank 6 river I bet 6250 and he insta shoves for 18kish total. I stick the money in and he insta mucks what the dealer turns up shortly after, A9o.
Day 2 I got put in some incredibly fortunate situations with sets and boats and finished w 695k going into 4-8k w 30 left and 29 paying. The most awesome hand of the day featured me getting in TT v 99 on a QT88 board for an 800k pot at 3-6k. I think the old guy who spewed it in on the turn was angry at me for calling clock a few hands earlier. On day 3 with around 20 left I lost a 400kish pot at 5-10k with aq to kq aipf, rebuilt to over a million and eventually opened button to a minraise at 10-20k w 77 and got 3b to 111k from a seemingly competent regular. With stacks around 900k effective I decided to call and called 103k on 944r, turn T bringing fd and I bet 100k when he checked to which he flatted. We checked down on a Qo riv and his AA was good. The direct next hand I lost a flip ak v jj in co v btn for ~1.3m of 9.3m in play and was down to 5bb, eventually shoved 89s in co and couldn't beat A8o. 11th felt like a huge disappointment but I was so happy with my play throughout I knew I couldn't really be upset.
As I'm writing this I'm on a plane about to touchdown in Vegas where I'll be playing the upcoming epic poker league taking place at the palms. For those of you who don't know about the EPL you should check it out and try to qualify for next season because it's pretty awesome. Basically there are 4 20k main events(6 max, 8 max, heads up, and a tournament starting 9 handed, going to 6max and eventually becoming heads up) with 400k added prizepool money that have restricted access to EPL cardholders as well as a pro-am 1500 where anyone can play and the final table of 9 will be granted access to the main event with the remaining money paid out like a normal tournament, so it's like a satellite/tournament combo. At the end of the 4 main events the top 27 finishers will be entered into a million dollar free roll. CBS and discovery are going to be covering these tournaments which should hopefully be pretty sweet. If anyone's interested you can see a list of the card qualifiers and some other stuff about the league on the epicpokerleague.com website. Heres to me crushing some fools!
