The 2006 WSOP

It looks like everything is falling together just right for the World Series this year. Shannon and I talked for a while yesterday and set up the entire list of everyone who is coming to stay at the house with us. Shannon decided on one of the houses, but couldn't get a hold of the owner, so he tried another and said the guy sound "excited about the idea". They are both really awesome houses, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, pool, sauna, weightroom, pool table, really nice. I am really excited about getting to be around so many really good players for six weeks and learning different things from all of them. No matter how it ends up, the whole experience will be great and we will have a lot of fun.

I played some 15/30 and 50/100 yesterday, did terrible at 15/30 because I was running just awful, and played pretty well at 50/100 but only ended up about $500 after 3 hours because of some really rough beats. The really notable one was against the most aggressive and probably most profitable player at the table. This guy will regually 3 bet or cap out of position and play the hand in 5th gear the whole way. He won a lot of pots uncontested so it became really hard to put him on a hand. On this particular hand I had A5 suited on the button. I raise Hyper Agressive Guy (HAG) on his BB to isolate him, the SB folds and he 3 bets. I don't see much strategic value in capping against him so I decide to just call and play after the flop. The flop comes 234 rainbow *DOOOOHHH*, HAG leads out, I raise, he 3 bets, I cap. Pot is $725 at this point. Turn comes a 9 of diamonds making a flush draw, HAG leads again, I raise, he 3 bets, I cap. Pot is now $1,525 and I'm winning it. River comes 4 of diamonds to pair the board and complete the flush. HAG leads, I raise, he 3 bets, and I just call feeling kind of sick about raising with the 2nd best hand on the river. He flips over 99, for 9's full on a runner runner and takes down the $2,125 pot.... Ouch, that stung a bit. I ended up the day down about $800, which really wasn't that bad because I played a session earlier in the day as well and ran really, really bad there too. It's part of the game though and I'm happy that I'm getting better at distinguishing between when I am playing bad or just running bad.

I multi-tabled some 5/10 and 10/20 today on Full Tilt, ran poorly at first, then started to make some hands later. I did have a stretch of about 30 hands where I got AK SEVEN TIMES! That's usually awesome, except I did not flop a A or K on any of the seven... gross. I still played well against really weak competition and was able to show about a $450 profit for two hours of play.

It's late, I'm going to bed