event 4: nlhe

Good effort, fun tables, mediocre play, lost a flip. Pretty much sums it doesn't it? Today's $1000 event saw 6008 players over two day 1's. I had, as you would expect, a very soft table, except of course for 'mastrblastr' (scott sievers) who was directly to my left. Not only is he an online monster in some of the biggest cash games on full tilt but he's also a damn good tournament player who won his first event last year. He was a lot of fun to play with and we were the only ones playing pots (him always flatting my opens). He really leveled me in one spot. I won a few small ones, then finally doubled up through him and then busted him with TT vs. A7o. He was almost trying to get busted as he had 25% of 'luvthewnba'(isaac haxton) who was on the final table of the 40k nlhe event...so he was in the preparation phase of maybe winning 400k without even being there. Anyways, I ran a big stack up early, then I got AKdd in vs. AA (my BB vs. the Button open from this pucker kid, there was a flat in on the button in between). Pretty standard hand except of course I showdown for almost all my chips with less than 10%. Anyways, I rebounded and built the stack back up, got through until level 9 (9hrs into day 1), then finally lost another flip vs. that same kid, AK vs. his TT. This young man, in these 9 hours, showed AA roughly 4 times, KK once, a full house, a royal flush, and most of these hands were for stacks. Anyways, I think I played good enough to give myself a chance to win today, things just fell on the wrong side of the fence. One interesting point was that a man named Mickey Appleton came to the table. He's a 4 time bracelet winner from the old guard and a professional sports bettor. He's been successfully handicapping sports at the highest level for over 25 years. Very interesting dude who had a monster stack when I flipped off mine. Anyways, not too sure if I feel like playing the $1500 PLO tomorrow. Wes and I get our separate condo and I'm looking forward to getting some space to spread out and play a little online. Anyways, the 8game $10,000 mixed event is coming up on the 4th, I may sit out a little until then, we'll see. Vegas got the best of the rest of the guys in one of the wildest nights in our wsop histories. Safe to say, being in game shape today was out of the question for the team. Very entertaining so far.