WNP and WSOP

Left football practice a little early to race over to what is simply called "Wednesday Night Poker" or WNP - a weekly game where some of the best poker players in Ottawa perfect their skills in a $30, two table, freezeout tournament. I arrived a little late but thankfully the game started a little late, I think I may have missed one hand.

I sit down to a table of people I have never played with except for Joe (Joe and Marco are friends of mine who were also making their debut at WNP) - I look down to presto, 55 - No preflop raise, 3 players, flop comes 2,5,8 all clubs - someone raises, I reraise and take it. To be honest, there werent very many great hands to post - before i was knocked out, I only ever showed down one hand and it was checked down.

I was playing well, I had a really good table image, every time I raised or reraise - it would get folded to me. I used that to my advantage a couple of times, reraising preflop when I though there was weakness with any tho cards. Funny thing about poker, you can be playing great but make one mistake and your busted - and thats what happend.

I limped in on the cutoff, the small blind raised 3BB, the big blind folded and I called with Ac/10c - what a monster of a mistake, especially considering the player who raised was fairly tight, I guess for some reason I though he was stealing, in which case I should have raised, anyway never call with a weak ace... -Flop came, Jc, Jd, 10h - small blind raised 3/5 of the pot, I pushed in for about a double what he raises - I really figured he had either A/K, A/Q or a PP less than 10 - he finally called and showed K/K. I didn’t improve and he took it down. Good call, I was certain that he didnt have a jack and doubtful that he was that strong. Would I do it again, probably - will I ever call with Ac/10c in that position again? No way.

I have alot of things to do tonight so im not sure if im gonna have time to play any poker. Gym, Football and then im going to see Superman - If I get some hands in, Ill let you guys know.

Here some updates from the WSOP, Ill probably post you guys a small update every day.

WSOP Event #2 - $1500 No Limit Hold'em

Jennifer Harman was eliminated in 11th place with $51,155
David Ulliott was eliminated in 25th place with $13,641
Phil Gordon was eliminated in 46th $9094
Erik Seidel was eliminated in 49th place with $9094
Greg Raymer was eliminated in 63rd place with $7,578
Phil Hellmuth went home in 67th place with $7,578.

Final Table:
Lee Padilla - 753,000
Mark Ly - 516,000
Mark Swartz - 359,000
Brent Roberts - 260,000
Carlos Mortensen - 337,000
Brandon Cantu - 753,000
Ron Stanley - 283,000
Drew Rubin - 573,000
Don Zewin - 342,000

WSOP Event #3 - $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em

Chip Leaders after day 1:

Randy Jensen - 59,500
Chan Hua - 55,000
Rocky Encisol - 48,000
John Juanda - 44,500
Annand Ramdin - 44,000
Gavin Phillips - 42,500
Allan Gilbert - 42,000
Marcello Cabrera - 40,000
Tri Tran - 36,400
Greg Mascio - 32,000