I havent wrote a post in some time and thought it would be a good time to update some stuff from here and there. I got back from Vegas about 2 weeks ago and after a short break(5-6days) I was back in action at the Isle Florida State Championships. There is also a small series going on at Stax Poker Lounge here in Coconut Creek. During the past week I have been playing in both of those series back and forth.
Back to the WSOP, my Main Event was pretty disappointing for me. I was able to make day 3 for the 4th year in a row and actually made it the furthest I have ever gone. I was in the last level of day 3 which is (4000-8000) and I had about 76k in chips. My day 3 had been up and down while I had just got moved to a new table with a couple of known pros. I refuse to name any of them since one of them was completely obnoxious to the point that I almost felt bad for him. What can I say, the TV cameras do something to people that I can not begin to explain or understand myself. It seemed like the camera was stuck on me, I guess they were waiting for me to bust, LOL. As soon as the Espn people and cameras left, I was dealt AKo (7handed) and decided to open shove(go all in)!! I was quickly called by Sam Cohen (from south florida also), she had pocket Jacks and it held like steel and I was out of the biggest tournament of the year for a 7th year straight with no cash!! With tradition, my flight was booked 30 minutes after this hand and I would be home in South Florida within 30 hrs.
So back to the current moment, like I said I have been playing this Pompano and Coconut Creek series since I have resumed playing. So far in the Pompano FSC, I have cashed once and bubbled once. I am currently on the bubble of the 5k Main Event and after 4 people are eliminated I will be down to 18 and in the money. First place is 291k and I really need to make a deep run so I will do my best as usual. In the Creek series I have played 2 events that were rather small, a $300 shootout and a $250 heads up event. I was fortunate enough to get second place in both for good money and a definite confidence builder going into the 5K that I began on saturday.
Well that is all I have for now. Just wanted to give a quick overview of my Post WSOP activities. I start day 3 of this Isle main in 30 minutes so gonna head out now. Until next time, thanks for giving these words a look.
SK
Monday, July 30, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
On to day 2 of the WSOP Main Event
Decided to give the old blog a quick update since we are finally at the crust of the pizza which is this WSOP Main Event. I played my day 1 yesterday, like I stated in the last entry. On monday, I actually arrived at the Rio at 10 am, as I wanted to beat the "Space Mountain" type of lines that any late registration for a tournament can get. Day 1c had over 3,000 players competing, which I am sure you can imagine what kind of wait it must have been. After getting my golden ticket for the price of $10k, I headed over to my favorite breakfast spot and had my usual mexican omelet.
After getting back to the condo and cleaning up I headed back over to the Rio to start my day. Even though this is my 7th Main Event, I still get butterflies like I am sure everyone except for Phil Ivey does. I actually wrote out a complete game plan for the situations that I thought would face early in the day. Most of my notes consisted of the instructions to "stay in position(last to act) and to limit my calling of other opponents". In my recent experience in the Main, early on many of the straight forward players usually have the hand they are representing and it is easy to fold in many key situations.
My day 1 went pretty smooth in all regards. My table consisted of 8-9 other players depending on the time of day because of the fact that you start the day 10 handed. To my immediate left was a guy from Bulgaria that played extremely well and 2 positions away from him was a younger internet fella. On the other side of the table were 3 pros in the 8,9, and 10 seats respectively. I had position on these guys since I was in the 2 seat and my only threat was the Bulgarian that reraised my opening bets quite a bit. Like I said in my notes, I didn't want to play o.o.p. and pretty sure I folded every time he reraised me as I decided to leave my pride in my backpack.
After 4 levels I had ~ 39k units with 2 hrs left in day 1. This was somewhat frustrating as you want to have as many chips as possible. Fortunately it was also in my game plan to stay patient and just wait for good spots to get my chips in the pot. I was able to win quite a few hands at the end of level and wound up finishing the day with 58k, which is over 100 big blinds going into wednesday. I can't complain about my first day of the ME as I survived with a nice stack and ready to move through tomorrow onto day 3 on thursday.
Well I said this would be a quick one. I am probably gonna see a movie tonight here at the Palms. A couple of my friends want to go see Ted and have offered to "treat" me. The only problem is that I have seen this movie twice and cannot imagine sitting thru it again. I think I am gonna go check out the new Pixar movie "Brave". Fitting title as I want to continue on in this Event. Pixar has not made a bad movie yet so at least I have a good chance not to be disappointed like so many other films have this summer. Time to go, I can't wait to update this thing with news on continuing to day 3. Until then, good bye and thank you for reading.
SK
After getting back to the condo and cleaning up I headed back over to the Rio to start my day. Even though this is my 7th Main Event, I still get butterflies like I am sure everyone except for Phil Ivey does. I actually wrote out a complete game plan for the situations that I thought would face early in the day. Most of my notes consisted of the instructions to "stay in position(last to act) and to limit my calling of other opponents". In my recent experience in the Main, early on many of the straight forward players usually have the hand they are representing and it is easy to fold in many key situations.
My day 1 went pretty smooth in all regards. My table consisted of 8-9 other players depending on the time of day because of the fact that you start the day 10 handed. To my immediate left was a guy from Bulgaria that played extremely well and 2 positions away from him was a younger internet fella. On the other side of the table were 3 pros in the 8,9, and 10 seats respectively. I had position on these guys since I was in the 2 seat and my only threat was the Bulgarian that reraised my opening bets quite a bit. Like I said in my notes, I didn't want to play o.o.p. and pretty sure I folded every time he reraised me as I decided to leave my pride in my backpack.
After 4 levels I had ~ 39k units with 2 hrs left in day 1. This was somewhat frustrating as you want to have as many chips as possible. Fortunately it was also in my game plan to stay patient and just wait for good spots to get my chips in the pot. I was able to win quite a few hands at the end of level and wound up finishing the day with 58k, which is over 100 big blinds going into wednesday. I can't complain about my first day of the ME as I survived with a nice stack and ready to move through tomorrow onto day 3 on thursday.
Well I said this would be a quick one. I am probably gonna see a movie tonight here at the Palms. A couple of my friends want to go see Ted and have offered to "treat" me. The only problem is that I have seen this movie twice and cannot imagine sitting thru it again. I think I am gonna go check out the new Pixar movie "Brave". Fitting title as I want to continue on in this Event. Pixar has not made a bad movie yet so at least I have a good chance not to be disappointed like so many other films have this summer. Time to go, I can't wait to update this thing with news on continuing to day 3. Until then, good bye and thank you for reading.
SK
Monday, July 9, 2012
Main Event Week
It is Main Event week here at WSOP and for many poker players who have been out here all summer it is the last chance to make some noise. I have been on a rather cold streak lately in these tournaments myself. The last few preliminary bracelet events did not go well for me as I did not make a dinner break in the last week or so.
In the last couple of days the focus for me has been on the mega satellite tournaments that you can win a $10,000 Main Event seat. In the last 72 hrs I have played 3 multi table tournaments for a seat along with 9 sit and gos. They offer these opportunities every day at the Rio, but at the end of the summer is when the biggest fields and the most seats are given out. Of the 3 tourneys I played, they were giving at least 82 seats in each of them. Fortunately, I was successful at the single table tournaments or sit and gos and this was able to pay for the 3 mtt format satellites that I did not win.
Tomorrow is day 1c of the Main and the day that I will start climbing this mountain. I have waited till the last day each time in the past 6 years of this thing. I guess I like the feeling of surviving in this tournament as long as possible. As I begin tomorrow, many of my peers have already been eliminated, including my roommate, Chris Bolek. CB has been on a slide lately and he will conclude his summer when he enters the Caesars 1K main in the next day or so, I hope he makes a run in that one.
I guess I don't have much to say at the moment. I am about to get some rest before I begin my journey in the morning. They are expecting about 3,000 people for tomorrows final day 1. In the first 2 days the field is at a total of around 3,100 so this will put the total amount of runners at ~6,100 or so. This should create a prize pool of nearly $61,000,000, which I would estimate first place at around $7.5 million. I really need to get my hands on some of that money as I feel I am overdue considering I am
0-6 lifetime in the Main Event. The past is the past they say, tomorrow may be the beginning of something special, I certainly hope so.
SK
In the last couple of days the focus for me has been on the mega satellite tournaments that you can win a $10,000 Main Event seat. In the last 72 hrs I have played 3 multi table tournaments for a seat along with 9 sit and gos. They offer these opportunities every day at the Rio, but at the end of the summer is when the biggest fields and the most seats are given out. Of the 3 tourneys I played, they were giving at least 82 seats in each of them. Fortunately, I was successful at the single table tournaments or sit and gos and this was able to pay for the 3 mtt format satellites that I did not win.
Tomorrow is day 1c of the Main and the day that I will start climbing this mountain. I have waited till the last day each time in the past 6 years of this thing. I guess I like the feeling of surviving in this tournament as long as possible. As I begin tomorrow, many of my peers have already been eliminated, including my roommate, Chris Bolek. CB has been on a slide lately and he will conclude his summer when he enters the Caesars 1K main in the next day or so, I hope he makes a run in that one.
I guess I don't have much to say at the moment. I am about to get some rest before I begin my journey in the morning. They are expecting about 3,000 people for tomorrows final day 1. In the first 2 days the field is at a total of around 3,100 so this will put the total amount of runners at ~6,100 or so. This should create a prize pool of nearly $61,000,000, which I would estimate first place at around $7.5 million. I really need to get my hands on some of that money as I feel I am overdue considering I am
0-6 lifetime in the Main Event. The past is the past they say, tomorrow may be the beginning of something special, I certainly hope so.
SK
Monday, July 2, 2012
World Series of Food
I feel like I am in my fifth week in vegas now, I guess I could always look at these receipts from the countless amount of tourneys I have played and determine my stay. As I move right along, I have pretty much given up on any attempt at all to eat healthy. Today for instance, I had an tasty mexican omelette and a slightly robust dinner at Michael Mina's "American Fish". The latter was absolutely amazing, the former is a 3-4 time a week occurrence.
I would also like to congratulate Kyle Julius on his heads up in the 5k. KJ finished 2nd at PCA and won the Sunday Million on Poker Stars in between. This guy is definitely one to watch and his brother Ryan is also an unbelievable player. Both of these guys have a ton of talent but more importantly, are also extremely polite and professional. Could be the Peyton and Eli of poker, talent basically goes either way and you can book that!
P.S. I had to add this, Anyways the other day in the 5k these 2 really known poker players were asking me who was a better spot in ONE DROP, Mercier or Negreanu? I couldn't even believe this was a real question and I asked them twice what they were talking about. This is not even close, Jason is always gonna execute in key spots and Daniel is gonna explore too much.(hero call)
I have played a couple tournaments in the past couple of days and ran pretty poorly during these things. I played the $1500 no limit yesterday while double barreling the doubles event at the same time. I waited until an opportune moment to enter the 1500, it was a time when we were on a 20 min break in the doubles and then my partner Jeff Fogel was gonna play his turn, which is actually in 30 min increments. So by entering at this time, I would only miss 10 minutes in the first level I played because the 1500 went on a twenty minute break in 60 min. Don't worry, I realize that my explanation here is starting to sound like Inception, but it did not matter as I would bust the bracelet event in 12 hands.
My bust out came up when I was dealt AKoff utg, I opened to 300/150 and got called by four people thru the button. The small blind was thinking of making a move but eventually folded, leaving the big blind to act. After I opened my Ace of diamonds flashed so that the 1-3 seats could see it.(me 4 seat) I said out loud, "I guess the leveling begins"! The big blind is a player from Florida that I actually know, he decided it was a good idea to snap shove for 6800 with J2dd. I guess he took a shot and figured I would fold like A10 but I would gladly call this freak with King high. I beat this kid into the pot and obviously will never win in that spot, 10 high board with a Js on the river. AK<J2dd
While I was very disappointed in my exit from the $1500, I realized that I still had a great opportunity in the doubles event. Jeff was playing great, which also included adjusting well after losing a pot early on. I can honestly say that I have not felt that much pressure playing poker for some time. My partner was executing very well and I really did not want to make any mistakes or put myself in any spot where I would be gambling since I knew if we were careful, we would definitely make a deep run.
The bust out hand for our stack came when we were about 8 away from the money. It was my turn to play our stack and throughout the level I had passed up a lot of spots where I would be aggressive by either re raising or just shoving from the blinds. I was dealt KsKc while utg and opened to 35k/16k and the big blind decided to defend. The flop came J73hh and he check raised my 48.5k lead to 110k total. I did not hesitate to raise all in for ~160k more, he tanked about 5 minutes and eventually made a terrible call with J9off, 6d turn and 9c river. Getting knocked out of that event was right up there with the worst bust outs for me this Summer.
I played in the $1000 bracelet earlier today. I made a really bad call early with AK high on sixteen streets(never do this) and found my stack at 150 units(3000 starting stack). Really fought my best and got my stack back to 4100 even after losing a 3way all in with QQ VS JJ and AK. My major hand occurred when I was dealt KQo in the big blind. If you know me pretty well, you know that KQ is my favorite hand and I rarely folded especially when defending my big blind. The flop rolled out K108dd and we got it all in, unfortunately he had AK and it held. Got the last of it in with 33 to 44 and was out and about the RIO.
I wandered over to my friend Angela Moed's final table. Angela is a really amazing person and happens to be my buddy Mike Moed's wife. Mike has been around the scene for years, I remember playing against him back in the days where I was more than terrible. Anyways, Angie made the final table and finished 4th which is absolutely outstanding. I remember 3 weeks ago how disappointed she was when she bubbled a $1500, pretty sure she lost AA<89 or some other awful equity failure. It was so nice to see her make a final table 3 mtts later and I am sure this will propel her to be more confident in her game and probably take some shots at bigger tournaments. Great Job final tabling the WSOP while also cashing in the Venetians woman's event. #patience
I would also like to congratulate Kyle Julius on his heads up in the 5k. KJ finished 2nd at PCA and won the Sunday Million on Poker Stars in between. This guy is definitely one to watch and his brother Ryan is also an unbelievable player. Both of these guys have a ton of talent but more importantly, are also extremely polite and professional. Could be the Peyton and Eli of poker, talent basically goes either way and you can book that!
In closing, something has to give with the eating habits. I understand I devour this stuff because its comfort food, but c'mon Karp. I am seriously considering eating only at home for about 45 days when I get back to Florida. It will probably be essential that I cut out all fluids except for water for a month or so, when I say this I mean no alcohol, not even wine. This wsop lifestyle I could never do 12 months a year and yes I know I can order All American Dave...
bye bi
SK
P.S. I had to add this, Anyways the other day in the 5k these 2 really known poker players were asking me who was a better spot in ONE DROP, Mercier or Negreanu? I couldn't even believe this was a real question and I asked them twice what they were talking about. This is not even close, Jason is always gonna execute in key spots and Daniel is gonna explore too much.(hero call)
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