the world series of poker main event ten thousand dollar buying day one d
supposed to be the biggest day about two thousand entrants estimated just for today hopefully they
don't make us go ten handed that wouldn't be fair since all the other flights were
we're in seat two not my favorite seat but we're gonna make the best of it
we're gonna play aggressively and fearlessly today is our day to build a huge stack to give
us more cushion for any possible bad beats that lie in the future if the options are
call or raise i'm usually going to be going with raise today it's only ten thousand dollars
i'm down approximately 130 thousand dollars since i am one for 15 in this event this is my 16th
world series of poker main event i think this is the one it's not a sprint it's a marathon
you're not a tournament player world series of poker main event is special it even brings in
pot limit omaha cash game players we're back to nolan holding but it's uh
oh you're back i mean a little bit of everything oh
[ __ ] it's just my five percent swap i depend on you four points you get here
here's my plane you know checkers charles this one
with blinds at 100 200 200 under the gun plus one opens to 600 and it's on me in middle position
with the six seven of hearts i know what you're thinking just fold wait for a better spot that's
no fun i saw michael adamo three bet this holding numerous times so we're gonna do what adamo does
and make it 1800 to go everything's going according to plan until the big blind puts in
the cold four bit 6200 to go original razor folds it's on me 60 000 starting stack my gut says to
fold but i don't want the table thinking i'm just three betting light we do a position and we do
have the aces cracker so we put in the call flop comes 944 rainbow not the best flop for her hand
i expect him to down bet to around 4 000 on this texture but he checks what's he rapping aces ace
king no reason to start bluffing just yet i put in the check turns to six we got a pair uh we do beat
ace king and when he checks i'm actually confident that he has exactly ace king so all things
considered time to protect get some value and i bet 5 500. andy psy calls rivers a three he checks
and i don't think we can get much more value out of here we check behind any shows ace king and
we take down our first big pot he looks at his table mate and says is that six seven off suit
suited and we're off to a good start the very next hand i looked down at pocket aces
making 600 to go same guy the small blind calls and we're heads up to a flop of 9-5
deuce and he wants revenge he leads out 600 to go call's definitely fine but let's get some more
money in the pot i think i have the best hand to make it 1800 to go he calls turns to 10 hopefully
he doesn't have 910. he checks to me and the plan is to continue betting until raised then we'll
figure it out 3500 is my bet and he puts in the call queen on the river no flush on board should
be a green light for three streets of value he checks about ten thousand any folds good start
it's a party how are you buddy doing great good to see you man we feel a little something's in
the air today it feels right after then it's nice that's what i do blind's at 100 200 200
jason summerville opens to my left under the gun to 600 gets three calls including the small blind
i'm in the big blind with pocket aces great time for a squeeze we make it 4 200. plays it
everybody folds but an overcaller asian male with big pot poker on his hoodie let's play a big pot
ten thousand in the middle flop comes king six deuce two diamonds we don't have a diamond at 3500
and he quickly calls snap calls that usually means they got a medium strength hand turned to ten i
bet ten thousand and he quickly quickly called so if he didn't even think about raising still
gotta think i had the best hand a three comes on the river and we're gonna go for that value uh
twenty five thousand one green chip is what i wager grabs for his chips
and eventually puts in the call and we take down a monster pot with one pair
the following hand happens with one minute before second break blinds at 200 300 300
under the gun makes it 800 have been pretty quiet for the last two hours so under the gun plus two
with six five of hearts it's time to put in that three bet make it 2500 to go action folds to the
small blind who just eliminated a player with aces first kings the previous hand
and he puts in the cold four bet same guy that cold four bet me with ace king before this time
it's a little bit smaller 6 700 relative to uh the open raises original razor folds and
here we are again with six high in position i put in the call and the flop is an action one ace six
five let's hope he doesn't have aces let's hope he has ace king more likely to have ace king
when he bet seven thousand my read is confirmed small possibility of kings maybe queens so with
two clubs on the flop we have position we're just gonna play various run outs and just call
shouldn't really have a raising range here turns the nine of clubs eight seven gets there a2 club
hand gets there any checks time to go for value putting him on ace king or freeze him up if he
has aces or kings or queens with one club bet 12 000 and he calls looking for a clean river and
the river is an ace we now have three pair and we beat absolutely nothing he checks over to us
and i don't think he's capable of folding trip aces so we check behind he shows ace king off suit
and scoops a monster pot and we're back to starting stack four hours in
what what's up have a break how you doing
six hours down 90 000 chips coming back from dinner break
good time with the acr crew eating some chinese 20 off local discount dollar saved is a dollar
with blinds at 300 500 action folds to the cutoff who opens to 1200 he's done this
many times it's a long day a lot of play great structure holds me in the big blind look down
at 7-5 of clubs i think about three betting this holding maybe to 5000 really put the pressure on
but instead we decide just to call see a flop and a flop we do see ace eight six two spades one club
the combo and a half draw we checked the razor and he bet 1600 he does have the asacs advantage
here but sometimes they'll just bet every ace high board so i think it's a good candidate
to check raise to 5200 he thinks about it and puts in the call the turn brings the
three of clubs open-ended with the backdoor flush draw possibilities coming in we want to size up to
10 000 on the turn try to get that fold or get there on the river he quickly calls the 10 000
and the river is the king of clubs we got there less than a pot size bet remaining i shove all
in having him covered and he quickly calls off his last 27 000 chips with six eight of clubs
nice board dealer not rigged at all and we're down to 30 000 chips on last break of the night two
more hours till we bag attack with blinds at 300 600 there's an early position open to 1500 button
calls and i'm in the small blind with ace queen off kind of gotta respect the early position open
usually i squeeze here been going to war with the person on my right on the button a lot but we just
set the trap we put in the call big blindfolds we're three ways to a flop of ace nine five two
diamonds we have the ace of diamonds checked the razor who checks looks like he's given up and the
button who has about 150 000 chips puts in a bit of 3 200. of course we're just gonna call here and
uh let him overvalue all of his ace x holdings original razer folds for heads up to a turn
that is a off-suit jack we check and he bets again pretty small size 5600. of course we call again
the river's a three of diamonds we do have that ace of diamonds he does not have the nut flush
i'll tell you that we check and he bets 12 600 interesting size very precise still under wrapped
we don't like to see the flush getting in but not everybody's gonna barrel
flush draw on the turn we put in the call and he shows us jack 10 of diamonds and we lose a healthy
pot down to about 30 000 again i play aggressively the last few hands of the night get some three
bets through and we bag up 43 800 peaked at 115 bottomed at 30. we'll take it another day in the
books we bagged and we tagged at the rio world series of poker main event stay tuned for day
two bag and tag
i'm encountering a lot of traffic entering the rio day two of the world series of poker main event
another 10 hours of play 13 hours of actual time at the rio and we'll be bagging up a fat stack
for day three i know that during the last world series of poker main event on day four i discussed
superstition and numerology especially in the chinese culture yes how much and i announced 84
000 goes deep into the tank and folds i show johnny backs my jack eight we get a nice bluff
through after the hand i tell gus and johnny about my theory with the 4-4 and the 8-8 and they
they laugh and they think it makes a lot of sense and we now have 500 000 chips a few orbits later i
raise it up to 18 000 at 4 8 000 with jack knight of hearts in middle position gus hanson puts in
the call and we're heads up to a flop flop comes seven seven five two hearts good flop for me i bet
twenty thousand and gus in under one second says i can't resist and he makes it forty four thousand
just splashes it in there i'm kind of feeling this for weakness i think he would have thought
a little bit longer usually does like the chip dance and everything so uh definitely a standard
call here but i think we can take the initiative and make it 94 000. just a 50k on top huge sign
of strength pretty rare to three betta flop at seven seven five unless we have specifically no
repair or the random seven he eventually puts in the call he has us covered with about 500k
behind the turn is a six we could have eight nine we could have a boat pocket fives pocket sixes
it's time to continue the story i don't want to check call and i size up to 130 thousand
with jack high gus goes deep into the tank and he folds we take down a nice pot he has to see
one and we show him the jack of hearts could be pocket jacks it could be ace jack of hearts
we'll keep him guessing feeling good up to 600 000 chips in the world series of poker 10 000
main event number eight is extremely lucky houses that end in the number eight or have multiple aids
in them come at a premium while on the other hand the number four is very unlucky the pronunciation
of it in chinese i believe or mandarin sounds very similar to how they pronounce the word death
so they want to avoid force at all costs many casinos don't have the fourth floor on the
elevator it's unlucky just like a lot of elevators don't have the 13th floor if you believe in that
sort of stuff i don't think it's scientifically proven but when i found out that my table draw for
day two was table 44 seat four i figured that's too ironic to really represent my death in the
squid game that is the world series of poker main event so i'm gonna be optimistic and look at this
as more of a blessing and more of a troll from the grand simulator than an actual doomsday curse i
believe i can win luck does play a big part in it but that's the wrong way of thinking about poker
make good plays get your money in good good things will happen in the long run let's get lucky
the blind's at 400 800 one orbit has gone by we still have uh 43 000 ships action holds to
a recreational older caucasian man in the cut-off and he opened raises to six thousand my cameraman
nick just arrived so uh maybe it's time to play a hand but i can't even imagine how many hands i'm
gonna play versus six thousand chip open rays off of his 34 000 chip stack action folds me
the big blind and i look down at a ace don't be a queen it's another ace pocket aces the
question is do we flat and set the trap or do we put in a small raise just keep building that
pot not very balanced but uh you gotta do what you gotta do eventually make it twelve thousand
we don't want over cards or something coming to his jacks or queens we wanna get the money
while the getting's good he quickly shoves all in we have them covered and we have pocket aces
i snap call and he has pocket queens board comes king seven six and it turns a queen the table oohs
and oz and devastation the river's a brick and we lose a seventy thousand chip pot with pocket
aces all in pre-flop in the ten thousand dollar world series of poker main event like oh my god
oh my god sorry buddy but that's poker i like to think i'm numb to these types of emotional swings
but that one hurt the good news is we still have 8 300 chips 10 bigs we know what to do with that the
good news is i still have 10 blinds we got this there's a little bump in the road 70 000 shitpot
aces versus queens when he opened to 8x priya i knew he had a big hand luckily i had a bigger hand
but that's poker folks
one orbit later under the gun with queen jack off suit 8 300 chips i shove all in pretty loose but
gotta win your all ends action holds around to the button the same guy that had the queens and
he puts in the call and says i got a pretty good hand that's a problem the blind's folding we're
up against king jack flop comes three hearts we have the only heart and here's the video
anything going to happen yep
like a heart pop off
poor queen good hand thank you
play a few more pots and we're on break with about 22 000 chips 1k big blind 22 bigs
let's find good spots three two one boom just a big fan of jeff
i hope you run deep where are you from new york what's your name brandon there you go
is your name michael
with blind's at 501 000 we can move to a new table out of the brazilian room and
into the pavilion where the chairs are much much less comfortable but that's out of my
control let's make the best of this experience we do have seat five which is my favorite seat
fold for quite a few orbits no real good spots i get one squeeze through with a
good hand in the big blind action folds to the middle position player who makes it 2500 to go
he has long red hair and a red mustache caucasian man i'm on the button with king queen of clubs
and about 24 000 ships i contemplate shoving all in seems like a little much we do have position
let's see a flop i put in the call we go heads up to a flop of five deuce deuce he bet small as
he should with his whole range 1500 i put in the float it turns a king great card for us he checks
i'm putting him on a lot of ace highs and mid pair type hands so let's get that value about 5 500 and
he take calls rivers a 10 hopefully he doesn't have pocket tens i have 14 300 behind seems
like a slam dunk value jam but no reason to risk at all i bet eleven thousand to get that value
he immediately says i think you have aces but i got a call what does that mean that means that
he has ace king offsuit and he trapped us good horrible turn card miracle two outer for him and
we lose the majority of our stack i now have three thousand three hundred chips at one kbit blind
shove jack 10 off suit very next hand button has ace five her head's up and we got video
i knew
i get the double and we're right back in it with nine blinds a few hands later look at
pocket sixes in middle position pretty easy jam here 9 300 to go play position asks for account
and puts in the call hopefully we're flipping we're heads up and he shows pocket sevens
it's got me pipped let's get lucky here's the video
all right attention restart main event players day two restart players only there's a whole bunch of
things going on so make sure this announcement only goes to restart players for the mayor
we're going to do this break here the exact same way we did the first one and we're out
of the world series of poker 10 000 main event many memories were had and in the end another ten
thousand dollars is gone 16 main events in the books with one min cash that's tournament poker
for you a lot of luck a lot of butterfly effect but in the long run good play will be rewarded so
don't give up unless it's really affecting your finances and your mental life poker is a great
game especially when you're winning take care good game good luck to everybody else still in
you