WSOP Donkament

Yes, I did play a WSOP donkament event. It was the WSOP Event #7, $1,500 NLHE. There were around 2,700 entrants. I figured it'd be interesting to give it a shot. Some of the guys from the house I'm staying at played in it as well, so it was pretty fun to all play in the same event. John and Derrick actually ended up on the same table... with Derrick eventually busting John out. Derrick is still in the tourney and made the second day.

I busted out shortly before the dinner break after I shipped JJ from UTG+1 vs the UTG raiser, when I was sort of shortstacked. I still had like a 4-5xs raise of his open left. He called with K9 soooted and eventually ended up with trip 9's to scoop up the pot and eliminate me. I was crippled shortly before my JJ hand when I had to make a sick c/f on the turn with AA overpair on a really raggedy, wet suited board... the board was like 862 all spades, then another spade, 4s, came on the turn. It was so obvious the old dude turned the flush... he checked his cards before calling my flop c-bet and of course I did not have a spade. That was pretty frustrating... putting half my stack in and then having to just c/f the turn like an idiot, lol. Oh well, that's donkaments for ya.

I played a bit of $5/10 NL cash live so far, but have lost about a buyin total due to just not really winning any big pots and losing some big iso-raises and c-bets. It's just so painstakingly slow, I think I'm going to try and play a bit more online even though I'm in Vegas. It's just so ridiculously obvious to me that live cash isn't going to get me, personally, the best hourly rate.

Here's a pic of me, that's pretty lol from the WSOP. Appearantly they took pictures of everyone who played in the event, so they can make an extra buck from the people who actually buy them. I don't really look too thrilled to be playing the donkament in the pic, hahaha.