WSOP Plans
My involvement in the poker world is like a corpse that will not stop twitching. I’m a net loser over the course of the past two and a half years. My government deleted online poker. And somehow I’m lucky enough to say that I’ll be going to the WSOP this year, the seventh year in a row for me. This is mostly due to the generosity and faith (or stupidity?) of one well-bankrolled French player who is still willing to invest in my action. I’ll be doing everything I can to validate that decision for him.
Last year, I was a 60-40 favorite against Christian Harder (charder30) in a pot that would have made me a considerable favorite to make the final table of the $1,500 pot-limit Omaha event. I lost that pot. But that’s the situation you hope to put yourself in at the WSOP: a good chance to have a good chance. This year, I’ve got another chance to have a chance to have a chance. I’ll be playing the following events:
June 11- $1,500 NLHE
June 12- $1,000 NLHE
June 13- $1,500 PLO
June 15- $2,500 NLHE/6
June 16- $1,500 NLHE
June 18- $1,500 NLHE
June 19- $1,000 NLHE
The WSOP is kind of the last poker frontier. Online poker is indefinitely extinct for Americans. I have no intention of leaving the country to change that fact. Live tournaments are spread too thin: field sizes and prize pools are getting smaller as less players decide between more options. For some of us, the WSOP is the only pot of gold left at the end of the poker rainbow.
June and July at the Rio in Las Vegas is the one time and place that everyone in the poker world unanimously agrees is the place to be. That’s what I love about the World Series of Poker. Well, that and the piles of money changing hands.
I haven’t been in Vegas since leaving to drive back to Houston last July. After six weeks of sitting in casinos being disappointed, I was ready to get as far away from the city as possible. But like a habit you can’t quit, a ten month hiatus has me itching to go back. I think one day I will look back with a great deal of fondness on the time I spent in Vegas as a young man. I’m not yet ready to be done making those memories and am excited to have a chance to go back. Nothing is guaranteed in life, so anytime you get the chance to pursue a dream or passion, you have reason to feel grateful.
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