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 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)