5k 6 max event, and some shipping

today was day 1 of the 5,000 dollar buy in shorthanded no limit hold em event at the WSOP, and I was woken up at 11am by Rob after his cruddy online session so that he'd have someone to go down to the event with. I was planning on sweating all the 2p2ers today and playing some side games at the Rio anyways, so I obliged right when I woke up and we headed down to the series.

Robs table wasn't anything special, but it featured Men "the master" Nguyen running over everyone. No one at the table ever folded to a 3-bet preflop, so it was really a waste for Rob and he couldn't get anything moving. At 100/200 blinds with just about 4.3k, Men opened to 600 and Rob shoved the small blind for a sizy reraise. Men literally beat him into the pot with the Js9s, and with a Jack in the door and a Ten, on no improvement, AdTd for Rob was no good. Great call Men, now I know why they call you "the master"....I also often put in 20% of my stack before the flop with no betting left with jack high. *clap clap*. I guess he did something right, because with about 90 players left tonight he was among the top 2 or 3 players in chips.

Anyways, I was walking around sweating all of our beloved trout, and eventually decided to sit some 2/5nl. I sat with the max of 500 (obv) and on the 1st hand took down a pot pf for a quick +150 when someone raised over a limper to 30, and an aggressive, young foreign player whom I had played with a few days previous 3 bet to 100 straight on the button. I looked down at the AK of diamonds and decided to jam for 500, not wanting to play this pot out of position against an aggressive player, and getting my chance to see all five cards if called. A while later, another foreign idiot sat down with a 200 stack and open to 30 UTG. I looked down at two red aces and make it 95 to go. It folded back around to him and he called, leaving himself just about 110 behind. The flop came KcTc4 and villain check/called all in. The turn and river brought sixes on both streets, and he turns over two sixes in his hand for running quads. Nice hand. Two hands later, I am in a pot with a middle aged guy that I apparently played a few underground cash games with at home in Maryland. On a flop of A9Q, I potted it with A9hh and got called. When the flush draw filled on the turn we both checked and a river put out a 4th spade and I ended up check/folding after getting runner runnered yet again. Weeeeeeeee. I didn't really want to get up from the table so sitting just under even again (still about 500), the runner runner quad fish limped UTG+1 and I made it 30 to go with the Jd9d. The F.I (Foreign idiot) calls and we take a flop of KdQXd, giving me a gutshot straight draw and a flush draw. F.I checks, I check behind. The turn bricks and we both again checked. The river brought the Ad and F.I led 55 into me. I raised to 210 and he pushed for just about 400 total. I called and he showed the Td8d for a nice deserving cooler. shipit fish. Between that and picking up some small pots i finished the session up about 400 after a few hours when the table become a cooler and/or nit fest, so I decided to get up and continue sweating some 6 man NLH.

I went over to the feared Zeejustin's table to sweat/get a chip count to send to the shipitholla ballas, when I started chatting with his parents who were also on the rail (Justin is from the D.C area as well). Eventually on Justin's break I finally got a chance to meet him and have a nice chat with him and a couple of other 2p2ers that I met up with throughout the day in the series including Slim Pickens, Noodleman, Irieguy, JSH06, and so on. Though Justin has a lot of stigma around him given the famous online scandal from a while back, he seems to be a really nice guy and certainly a solid tournament professional. He also seems to attract a lot of scuffle, because Phil Hellmuth was insulting him to his face at his previous table and he ended up calling the floor on him. Later, at the table I was sweating, another all in player ended up throwing his cards at Justin because the guy was a sore loser and thought the dealer made a mistake in chip counts. Justin's dad and this guy almost got into it with each other, but luckily ZJ's dad didn't feel much like brawling. After a while of sweating Justin, Phil (Jman) and Travis (TravestyFund), we decided to head back home. All three are in the money, Justin and Phil with some chips to work with. All of them have a shot and I'd love to see all of them final table this awesome event. Best of luck to all of them, and tommorow should be another day of similar action. Thanks for reading.


-Alex