LET US GOGOGO

Haven't been playing much poker lately, thus the reason there have been no posts in nearly 3 weeks. Today the WSOP started with the coveted $500 Casino Employees event. I remember following that event last year, when it was actually the final event of the WSOP. It came down to Gavin Griffin and Corbin Doyle, both of which found last minute casino jobs so they could enter the tournament. Griffin ended up making a deal for the bracelet, turns out he made a prop bet that he would win another bracelet within 5 years of winning his first, and that tournament was his last chance. Good stuff. Anyway, Full Tilt also started its "Mini Series of Poker" which mirrors the WSOP events but with 1% of the buy-in. Thankfully, one did not need to be employed by an online casino to enter this corresponding $5+$50 tournament. 8,297 people entered, and even 2 red pros (Gabriella Hill and Chris Glecz) participated.  As for the tournament itself, not really much to tell. Stacks started at 3,00

So FTOPS started on Wednesday and similar to SCOOP, there are lower buyin tournaments to give us small time players a chance to participate. Looked at the schedule and it wasn't looking good for me to be able to participate, but a late change in my work schedule gave me a rare weekend off, so no better way to kick it off than some Friday night stud. Buyin was $22 and over 1500 participated (as opposed to 500 for the $216 event. Here's some fun hands. Tournament - 7 Card Stud High-Low (30/60), Ante 5, Bring-In 10 ( converter ) Seat 1: 4,328 Hero: 3,975 Seat 3: 3,975 Seat 4: 4,177 Seat 5: 3,975 Seat 6: 3,930 Seat 7: 3,640 Seat 8: 4,000 3rd Street - (1.33 SB) Seat 1: xx xx 3 ___calls Hero: K K J ___calls Seat 3: xx xx 2 ___ brings-in Seat 4: xx xx 8 ___folds Seat 5: xx xx 8 ___folds Seat 6: xx xx 6 ___calls Seat 7: xx xx 6 ___calls Seat 8: xx xx Q ___folds I get to close the action here with two wired kings. I almost certainly have the best high hand but I can't see myself