WSOP 2012 Sweat Thread

[El Protoolio]

steve! Don't forget to order a pizza to the table and not offer any slices to anyone.

[steve]

Good luck with that, chap. Wil you be posting updates?

No, I don't have a smart phone I have a Jitterbug. I'm in such a high variance position with short chips in a two-street game I don't expect there to be much to report other than that I'm busted or still sitting there. That's just the nature of this game.

[P.J. Craven]

Way to go, sir! Until Rahm opens up mad casinos downtown, make your killing now! Er, I meant to say, while you can!

[Jodi S.]

Good luck with that, chap. Wil you be posting updates?

No, I don't have a smart phone I have a Jitterbug.

The mental image of you with a Jitterbug sent me into hysterics that I still haven't shaken.

[chumpchange]

Good luck with that, chap. Wil you be posting updates?

No, I don't have a smart phone I have a Jitterbug.

Never heard of this. Just looked it up - it's the PT Cruiser of cell phones! Now it all makes sense.

[steve]

I lasted less than 3 orbits of day 2. Moved in from the button with A7632, the Small Blind moved in over me and patted. I drew one, and as is the custom in these situations we both showed our hands. He had 97653, which is about as good as I could hope for, since his hand removes pair cards from the deck for my hand. I win with a 9,8,5 or 4. Unfortunately I drew another Ace and busted something like 60th position.

But I don't care about that because our guy Brandon and another good friend Eric Rodawig are in the $10k HORSE event and in great shape going into day 2. Brandon is Third in chips at the moment with 94,000 and Eric has 41,700, still above average.

Brandon has been playing his balls off and the deck hasn't been shitting on him for once, so he's really charging ahead. Still a long way to the money but he is in great shape.

[seanurban]

The most impressive thing is Brandon got all of those chips at Ivey's table.
He's still in there with 89000.

[Bill Flaig]

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[John Houlihan]

GO! GO! GO!

[syntaxfree07]

Great game, fella.

[Flaneur]

Poker News sez:

There are 30 players remaining in the field. By our count there are 17 WSOP bracelet winners still in the field. They have a combined total of 39 WSOP bracelets!

Nice company, Brandon.

[steve]

Third in chips with 450,000 at redraw, covering his whole table. Well into the money with 22 left. He can basically fold his way to day 3, that's how good his position is right now.

[steve]

Brandon is 5th in chips with t500,000 going into day 3 with 15 runners left in the tournament. This is an important event, and if he makes the final table of this one too his life will likely be a lot different. The payout structure is really progressive:

1) $451,779
2) $279,206
3) $183,784
4) $134,056
5) $99,739
6) $75,511
7) $58,093
8) $45,360
9) $35,923
10) $35,923
11-15) $28,862

He's guaranteed $28,862, but if he makes the top 5 he'll not only have a lot more of his own money but also attract the attention of people and companies who can sponsor him and offer backing to play bigger games, which is where things could get really interesting.

I'm super stoked for him. Although today is going to be a frantically busy day for me -- long story, but I'm committed to helping a chef friend of a friend cook for 20 people for a fancy dinner tonight -- I'm going to bust my balls trying to finish my obligations and get down to the Rio to sweat our guy on the final table.

[Ranxerox]

There's an amusing and, for the cunts, instructive short film in all of this in re how friendship and being happy for excellence should mesh with the competitive urge, etc. I'm watching it in my mind, and its pretty interesting.

[seanurban]

Most of his opponents are backed or sponsored. They don't know him at all. Advantage even. He's in great position to do some damage and make some noise this WSOP.

[oscillator_wsop]

Hi friends! Real quick before I head off. WSOP hands you this sheet to fill out so that they may read off neat factoids about you for the "crowd". Hopefully they will oblige me.

How I learned to play poker:

I first learned of poker as a five year old, when my surrogate father, Kelly "Fabulous" Bangs, placed me atop the barroom table of an illicit 7 Card Stud game he frequented, as collateral, along with a handful of Werthers Originals, 2 crumpled up $20 dollar bills, and a stamp. "This one cant lose," he recited incessantly, as he rifled through his pockets looking for anything else of worth to bet with his two pair, nines and threes.

About Me:

Born a test tube baby mishap, I was lovingly nestled between 3 large glad bags inside of the Laboratory back alley dumpster, where I would be familied by a pack of wild cats until the age of 4. I was sent off into the world shortly after learning to walk, where I would be scooped up off of the streets and sold for a bag of oranges. This began a long time span of using me for trade. From then until now it's been a mix of blackouts and circus tricks. I'm not exactly sure how I got here. I wish somebody would tell me.

Thanks for your support!

[Flaneur]

Ivey's back.

[steve]

Brandon just busted in Omaha. He flopped the nuts with A783 on a board of A7A, got all his money in against Phil Ivey who had A93K, so he only loses if a King or Nine comes, and even then he has a low draw to chop. Turn Nine, river Trey, busted in 10th place for $36,000.

Flopped the nuts and got it in, you can't really do better than that. GG kid.

[John Houlihan]

Great job and a bad bit of luck there. Omaha is a dumb game. Flop aces full and lose. Dumb game.

Nice work, Brandon!

[sleepkid]

...I would be scooped up off of the streets and sold for a bag of oranges.

The way I heard it told they were tangerines...

Brandon just busted in Omaha. He flopped the nuts with A783 on a board of A7A, got all his money in against Phil Ivey who had A93K, so he only loses if a King or Nine comes, and even then he has a low draw to chop. Turn Nine, river Trey, busted in 10th place for $36,000.

If I was a conspiracy theorist, this is so bad I would almost say it was fixed to keep someone like Ivey in the game. What an incredible piece of dumb luck for him. But dumb luck is something you can never entirely eliminate in Poker.