Main Event WSOP 2008 DAY 2

SO I ended day 1 with 5720 in chips and feeling confident about my game.
My room mate Roberto was the star of day 1C having the feature table all day with Mike “the mouth” and played out of his skin. He folded monsters and check called other big hands and made some great plays through the day which will get him great air time on ESPN and perfect for his sponsorship deal with Full Tilt. He went down to 10K and grinded back to end with 35K so good Luck and hope to see you at the final next to me!

I was drawn on such a great table. I was nearly the big stack and there were many short stacks. The only problem was that we were the 5th table to get broken and it did not even take 30 minutes for this to happen. I manage to make a few moves on this table though and get my chips up a bit before I was moved to the table from hell!
I sat down in my seat and I was now the short stack with over 60K there were a few pros and 4 online qualifiers from stars the next shortest stack had like 110K.

The first pot I got involved in was a 50K pot. I raised to 1600 pre flop on the button with 99 the BB a Finish player re-raised to 4800. I called to see the flop of T72. He checked the flop so I checked behind him trying to be clever. The turn bought another Ten and I checked again knowing that he would now have to bet as I had shown weakness and he must think he can take it down. He bet 5700. I thought for a minute and decided to flat call so that IU could get some chips on the river. The river now comes Ten so the board is T72 T T. I think about leading out but if he has no hand I can not get any money so I checked and he now fires 13100 into this pot. I think and think and no there is no need to re-raise here but what can he have? I called and he turned over T8os LMAO and I just taped the table and said Well played.
What could I do? Well I could have re-raised him pre flop but I think if it was cheap enough he would call as he liked to play pots and I could have only lost more. I also could have folded on the river but the way the hand was played I thought I had to call.

I lose another hand with QQ v TT to a player but for not so many chips and then I lose a few more chips in hands I cant afford to call bets on the river.
All I wanted to do was get of this table and my wish was granted but late in the day.
I was moved to a perfect table during level 4. On this table not only were there 3 players I played with the day before all day who thought I was the3 dogs danglies but 6 really short stacks and The chip leader who was not bulling the table on my left.
I started to regain my confidence and my A game was back on.
I arrived at this table with only 20 something thousand and soon worked my way up to 30K plus.
There were a few pots I called all in players raises as they were cheap and I was trying to gain chips. I did not manage to win many of thse but I was playing well and making unbelievable reads.
A hand came up when I decided to limo UTG with a medium pair as the BB was short and if he moved in after a few limpers I could re-raise. The button My new friend Steve B made a small raise and then the BB moved all in.
WOW what a mess this is. I think for ages and decide that Steve must have a big hand as I limped and the BB was obviously going to push here and if not he knew I would 3 bet him.
I decided to fold and to my amazement Steve only had 55 and the BB had AK The good news for me is that he saved me money in the hand as a King hit the flop and I would have also lost the pot.
A few hands later the player to my right in the cut off makes a raise again for 4K the blinds and antes are worth steeling now and he only had 16K behind which I thought was enough to pass as he had me as a solid player and my image at he table for re-raises and big pots was good. I look down and see AJ and think I could move all in here and win the pot right now. If he had a pair I would take the race as I had pushed and I need some chips now as I was down to about 23,500. The small blind who was the chip leader with over 200K folded as he never tangled with me after the first time he doubled me up and the BB managed to find AK and move all in also. The original raiser folded which I new he would anyway and I was in need of a 3 outer to stay in the tourney. The flop came out T37 no help for me. I needed runner, runner or a Jack and the turn bought a 4. I was down to 6.6% and when the river paired the board my WSOP 2008 main event was all over.
I was sad and gutted but I managed to go out and get smashed which was great fun!
I will give you a report on the night life in Vegas tomorrow as there have been a few great nights out.
Good news is the WPT $15,000 starts in a few days and you get 45,000 chips. I will give that a go and keep you updated.
Until next time, Stay luckyJ