WCOOP Recap
The final event of this year’s World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) was yesterday (hasn’t actually finished yet, 178 players restart on day two of the Main Event in a few minutes). I made a pretty big effort to participate in this year’s series and played 15 of the 45 events. Last year, when I actually had more of a “real” bankroll, I think I only played in 7 or 8 events. Funny how that works.
I think the worst thing that happened to me was cashing in the first event. It got my tongue a little wet with what a modicum of WCOOP success tastes like and so I wanted to play as much as reasonably possible thereafter. I was 0/14 in the subsequent events.
I wish I was of strong enough mind to say that it doesn’t bother me to go 1/15 while watching guys like ElkY and djk123 win multiple events, but it does. Not that I think I’m anywhere near on the same level as those guys, but I certainly expect and hope to have at least a couple of deep runs.
In the Main Event yesterday, I got former tennis star Boris Becker all-in with pocket Queens against his pocket Tens. He hit a Ten on the flop. My would-be chip count had he not hit that card was more than I ever wound up accumulating despite remaining in the tournament for another six hours. The structure of the WCOOP Main Event is so ridiculous that a cash actually started to seem possible for a while. After nine hours of play, I had just the starting stack which was still enough chips not to feel too desperate. How many online tournaments allow you to do that?
I re-raised all-in for 17 big blinds with pocket Jacks and was looked up by Ace-King to bust out somewhere around 570th (306 paid).
My gloomy mood was exasperated when I woke up this morning to see that TheMasterJ33 is the chipleader. Here is a hand involving him and Bryan Devonshire from my starting table:
PokerStars Game #33081236533: Tournament #200909045, $5000+$200 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level I (25/50) – 2009/09/20 16:26:53 CT [2009/09/20 17:26:53 ET]
Table ‘200909045 164′ 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: D.K.5 (18150 in chips)
Seat 2: KidPokerJD (22375 in chips)
Seat 3: TheMasterJ33 (19075 in chips)
Seat 4: Taknapotin (20825 in chips)
Seat 5: badbeatninja (19450 in chips)
Seat 6: jcada99 (20500 in chips)
Seat 7: Ozone23 (22300 in chips)
Seat 8: Boris Becker (10500 in chips)
Seat 9: GeoffRas22 (26825 in chips)
jcada99: posts small blind 25
Ozone23: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Ozone23 [4h 6c]
Boris Becker: calls 50
GeoffRas22: folds
D.K.5: folds
KidPokerJD: folds
TheMasterJ33: calls 50
Taknapotin: folds
badbeatninja: raises 200 to 250
jcada99: folds
Ozone23: folds
Boris Becker: calls 200
TheMasterJ33: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [7d 8h 4d]
Boris Becker: checks
TheMasterJ33: checks
badbeatninja: bets 500
Boris Becker: calls 500
TheMasterJ33: raises 1450 to 1950
badbeatninja: raises 3470 to 5420
Boris Becker: folds
TheMasterJ33: raises 13405 to 18825 and is all-in
badbeatninja: calls 13405
*** TURN *** [7d 8h 4d] [6d]
*** RIVER *** [7d 8h 4d 6d] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TheMasterJ33: shows [Kd 3d] (a flush, King high)
badbeatninja: shows [8d 8s] (three of a kind, Eights)
badbeatninja said, “sigh”
TheMasterJ33 collected 38975 from pot
When you see a guy get 400 big blinds in the middle with a non-nut flush draw and no pair and go on to be the overnight chipleader… it… well… I don’t really know how to finish that sentence… so I guess I’ll just say it leaves you speechless.
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yah fuck that guy!