I think I give up on the WSOP this year...

Many of you know I planned to make an attempt to play The Main Event at The WSOP. The plan was to win a seat via Full Tilt Poker's 30 Seat Guarantee Tournament today at 3:30.

Actually, the plan was to satellite into today's tournament on Friday night but I thought the satellite started at 11:30 but it started at 10:30.

Next plan was to play the satellite on SAturday night at 10:30. However, I had too many margaritas and pig sammiches at a Jimmy Buffett/Pig Roast Party and got in too late.

So, the last plan is to get up on Sunday morning and play some single table satellites and win my way in. That didnt work either. My Internet kept going down (as it has done for a few weeks now and they hadn't found the problem) in the middle of my play and I busted out of 2 games as a result.

Well, Comcast finally discovers the problem but cant get anybody out to me til Tuesday. On top of that, FTP has stopped the satellites today since its close to starting time.

So, I think I'm going to just chuck the idea of playing the main event this year and wait for the Eastr Coast swing of poker tournaments to hit starting in September. This will include The Borgata Poker Open, The U.S. Poker Championship at The The Taj and then the big one at Foxwoods.

Anyway, here are 3 hands I am studying from my play today in the last single table satellite. The first is a hand where I started to chase a straight draw but fell back and waited. The second is a hand that was crucial to my stack and sent me from sitting pretty to dig-in short-stack mode. The last hand was my all-in to either get back in or bow out gracefully.

I dont usually show my hand histories for fear of someone getting reads on me and using it against me in future play. But I'll tease ya with these:

Dealer: Hand #135876158
Dealer: Lakini posts the small blind of 25
Dealer: KappaMan posts the big blind of 50
Dealer: You have been dealt [Qs Kh]
Dealer: LordFarquad raises to 100
Dealer: Mad Crab folds
Dealer: jpotts folds
Dealer: cjpilam folds
Dealer: carpediem251 folds
Dealer: hugo13 folds
Dealer: CSHPLYZ calls 100
Dealer: Lakini folds
Dealer: KappaMan calls 50
Dealer: The flop is [Js Tc 3h]
Dealer: KappaMan checks
Dealer: LordFarquad bets 280
Dealer: CSHPLYZ raises to 800
Dealer: KappaMan has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: KappaMan folds
Dealer: LordFarquad has 15 seconds left to act
Dealer: LordFarquad folds
Dealer: Uncalled bet of 520 returned to CSHPLYZ
Dealer: CSHPLYZ mucks
Dealer: CSHPLYZ wins the pot (885)


Dealer: Hand #135880737
Dealer: CSHPLYZ posts the small blind of 30
Dealer: Lakini posts the big blind of 60
Dealer: You have been dealt [Ac Kh]
Dealer: KappaMan raises to 240
Dealer: Mad Crab folds
Dealer: jpotts folds
Dealer: cjpilam folds
Dealer: carpediem251 folds
Dealer: hugo13 folds
Dealer: CSHPLYZ folds
Dealer: Lakini calls 180
Dealer: The flop is [Ad 3c Jc]
Dealer: Lakini checks
Dealer: KappaMan bets 510
Dealer: Lakini raises to 840, and is all in
Dealer: KappaMan calls 330
Dealer: Lakini shows [As Js]
Dealer: KappaMan shows [Ac Kh]
Dealer: The turn is [8s]
Dealer: The river is [Ah]
Dealer: Lakini shows a full house, Aces full of Jacks
Dealer: KappaMan shows three of a kind, Aces
Dealer: Lakini wins the pot (2,190) with a full house, Aces full of Jacks

Dealer: Hand #135886902
Dealer: Lakini posts the small blind of 50
Dealer: KappaMan posts the big blind of 100
Dealer: You have been dealt [Qh Kd]
Dealer: jpotts raises to 350
Dealer: cjpilam folds
Dealer: carpediem251 calls 350
Dealer: hugo13 folds
Dealer: CSHPLYZ folds
Dealer: Lakini folds
Dealer: KappaMan raises to 550, and is all in
Dealer: jpotts calls 200
Dealer: carpediem251 calls 200
Dealer: The flop is [8d 5s 2h]
Dealer: jpotts checks
Dealer: carpediem251 bets 905
Dealer: jpotts folds
Dealer: carpediem251 shows [7h 7d]
Dealer: KappaMan shows [Qh Kd]
Dealer: Uncalled bet of 905 returned to carpediem251
Dealer: The turn is [Jd]
Dealer: The river is [Ac]
Dealer: carpediem251 shows a pair of Sevens
Dealer: KappaMan shows Ace King high
Dealer: carpediem251 wins the pot (1,700) with a pair of
Sevens
Dealer: KappaMan stands up

Good Luck to all of you at The WOrld Series of Poker. Lord willing and the creek dont rise, I'll be there next year.