WSOPE Satellites

Pud's Poker Progress / Matthew Pitt / 04 September 2008 / 2 Comments

I played the first of my three $55 WSOP Europe (more...) satellites last night and despite not winning a seat to the super satellite on September 7 (more...), I left with a ton of confidence. (writes Yorkshire Pud)

Starting with 2k in chips and 15 minute blinds led to a decent structure that allowed a decent amount of play. Sixty-seven runners meant that there was a 1:11 chance of claiming one of the six seats to the $550 game on Sunday.

My first table was table one, which meant that if I were to make it to the final table then I probably would not be moved seats during the whole tournament. Sometimes this is a great thing but other times, like Monday's game, it can be a massive hindrance.

Usually I like to get involved early with suited connectors and medium pairs but none of these came my way. One thing I noted from the off was there was a maniac in my BB, which meant I would have to be more selective in my starting hands when I wanted to steal. Quite quickly, there were two bust-outs, one when AA held against an OESD and another where AQ clashed with Q4 on an xQQxx board.

The hands dealt to me early doors were a load of tripe, 63o, T3o, T2o, K6s stuff like that. I did play QJo and rivered a straight which netted me a 780 chip pot. The next hand I played was TT, but when I raised, I got four callers including the maniac BB. Flop comes 457r and I c-bet and get two callers. Turn is a jack and I have already given up the hand and check. Crazy BB makes a huge overbet that puts the other caller all-in and he calls. River is a five and crazy BB shows J5 for a full house and the other guy 99! Unreal!

I folded, then folded and even folded some more due to unplayable hands and finally picked up KQ. I raise and steal the blinds! Very next hand I get QQ and again only take down the blinds. More folding ensues and I look down at AJo and decide this is the hand I am shoving my 12BB stack in with. After a raise in MP, I shove in the BB to find myself against 44. A board of 5T25J sees me double up and puts me on an average stack.

The next series of hands were so bad I wrote them down! With blinds 75/150 and me having around a 3.5k stack I was dealt the following: T5s, 64s, 84o, J3o, 83o, K2o, 93o, J4o, 73o, 85o, A3o, 32o, J7s, 75o, A7o, 97o, T7o, 92s, T7s, 96o, T3o! LMAO! I then see I have 77 in my hand and after folding the above rubbish holdings, it looks like a monster. A new player to the table raises UTG and I shove my stack in, hoping to take the dead money but the button has other ideas and calls with JJ. The board runs out 35696 and I bust out in 19th.

Finishing so far away from the top six was disappointing but with the hands I was dealt I think I did a good job. Having the crazy player in my BB did not help things and he really put me off my game. He was not a good player, just mental! My notes on him simply say "total f$%!ing fish!" My mate finished watching the game and with seven left (six paid) Crazy was second in chips and ended up fighting with the chip leader and winning a decent pot with the pair that was on the board. Best of luck to whomever he was, he is really terrible.

I will be playing my next game on Thursday night. The plan was to play on Wednesday night but I have been at the coast all day and feel totally shattered and not in a good frame of mind for playing my best poker. I hope that the Betfair RNG will be a little more kind to me this time around and keep me away from the crazy fishes!

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!

Comments (2)

1. Rossi | 04 September 2008

   good luck in your game tonight, hope you get dealt some better cards m8

2. Pud's Poker | 09 September 2008

   Thanks for the good luck wishes Rossi., I did have a touch more luck and came 7th for $300. Would have been nice to get one of the six seats but whatever.