yeffy 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Ok so I really got 6 FCP shirts and a bunch of other free gear from other sites. Just got back from the WSOP and I am very dissapointed in my performance. My main goal was playing in the Stud 8 event on Monday. I had won $1500 in tournament entries on Full Tilt. Stud 8 is my best game but i didnt even have a chance. I made AA345 on 5th street twice and lost both ends of both pots! Thats hard to do. I played for 6 hours and never scooped a single pot. I had this old guy at the table who told me "you can't outplay me kid I've been playing this game for 40 years" Gee 40 years ago 563Q3 must have been a good hand with which to call a bet against a board showing A34 all spades! Well apparently he knew more about the game then I did since he caught a 4 on 6th and a deuce on 7th. I made aces up and a 7 low and almost puked on the table when he turned over a straight 6. OK OK no more bad beat stories. I had a lot of hope for the event since my table was full of really bad players. There was one guy who was decent and Simon "Aces" Trumper was also at my table and he played ok. Other then that these guys were hopeless. But I caught nothing and was out.The next day I got up early and played a couple of single table sat's in the morning. I took a 1 chip save in the first ($500 tournament buy-in chip) and lost with set over set in the 2nd one. After losing the 2nd one I walked out of the room and ran directly into Phil Gordon...literally. He looked down at me and said "hey, 2 seats left in the World Series of Roshambo want one?" Well poker wasn't going to well so I signed up. It was a 64 player bracket style tournament with a $500 buy-in best 5 out of 9 throws in each round. First place was $10,000, $7000 for 2nd, $5000 3rd, and $3000 4th with $7000 going to charity. Man was this thing fun. All of these big name pros talking trash and making side bets. My first round match up was against Tex Barch. He was kind of hung over and I busted him 5-1. Next I would face the winner of Joe Hachem and Gavin Smith. Gavin beat Joe and it was on to the round of 32. Gavin and I traded some trash talk and then got under way. I went up 3-1 real quick and he stopped to take a breather. He then ties it up 3-3 and we then traded wins to make it 4-4. One throw would decide the winner. Grinder and Tex made a side bet on the final throw for $1000 Grinder took Gavin and Tex took me. I was sure he was going rock. I was right my paper took out his rock and I made it through to the round of 16. Well I was 2 for 2 against millionaires. That was were things took a bad turn. I faced off with this guy named Big Lee and the money meant something to him too. He had my number, he threw scissors in the first throw which really took me by surprise and I never recovered. I lost 5-1 and that was that. Annie Duke went on to win the whole thing. She made the final 4 last year too and claimed shes been training all year. Interestingly enough the second place finisher Mark Goodwin donated an extra $1000 to the charity and Annie put her 10 g's in her pocket. Each to his own I guess.The next day I played another early single table and chopped taking 2 $500 chips and $120 in cash. I used that to buy in to the $1060 mega super sattelite on Wednesday. We started with 45 tables giving away 41 seats in the Main Event. I played great for 7 hours or so and then lost with a suited AK clubs against pocket 10's on a 9 high flop with 2 clubs. I was a small favorite when the money went in but couldn't catch and was out with about 8 tables left. That was my last shot at the big one.I got up yesterday and went downstairs. I had a $100 chip left in my pocket and went to a craps table with it. There was TJ Cloutier with $50 on the line and $250 odds. I got my money down on TJ's roll. He set the pint at 9 and threw a 7 right away. No wonder everyone says he's broke the guy's a jinx with the dice. That was the start and end of my casino gambling for the trip.I wandered around the lifestyles show for a while. Met Gov at the FCP booth and left Vegas with my tail between my legs. Not a great trip really but I had some fun. Link to post Share on other sites
Ron_Mexico 4,219 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 enjoyed the read. thx Link to post Share on other sites
sixhands 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Sorry to hear about your crappy Vegas trip. I am glad that I am not the only one who couldn't catch anything and yet everyone who played against me caught just what they needed.Thanks for the read though. Good luck next year.Next year I will be entering a couple of events in the WSOP. I am hoping that this will give Vegas a chance to redeem itself for the way it has treated me in the past Link to post Share on other sites
Dr_Shakes 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Cool Report and Nice Avatar.These type of post are what make FCP boards worth reading.Sorry you couldn't catch any thing in the stud. B) PS Did you get a chance to meet Jennifer? Link to post Share on other sites
tobytobey 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Great story. Sorry about your luck in the card games, but that Roshambo story is totally 1.4! Link to post Share on other sites
dna4ever 2 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 He had my number, he threw scissors in the first throw which really took me by surprise and I never recovered.thats funny stuff right there Link to post Share on other sites
SwamiSwan 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Ok so I really got 6 FCP shirts and a bunch of other free gear from other sites.It sounds like you did well in the satellites, so it really didn't cost you that much. The experience you had with that charity event was worth arguably the trip to vegas. I played in event 16 1k buyin got bad beat out; long story short early in tourney I flop straight w/ 2-4 o on BB and got '*** ended' where calling station caught gut shot. I am going back (dammit, im a donk) for last leg of low buyin events and mabey catch the last few tables of ME. I want to satellite in so I hope I can discount like you apparently did.All in all: you have a story of a life time for a couple thousand bucks, if that. congrats. Link to post Share on other sites
bossyrossy 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Good Read I will post my Vegas Report tomorrow and a link to some funny pictures of me and the pros.. Link to post Share on other sites
yeffy 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 Cool Report and Nice Avatar.These type of post are what make FCP boards worth reading.Sorry you couldn't catch any thing in the stud. B) PS Did you get a chance to meet Jennifer?Jennifer is actually one of the few pros I never saw on this trip. I've met Jennifer a few times before. Once about 3 years ago at the Bellagio she let me sweat her in the big game for a little while. She is very sweet and very cute. I'm still plotting against Marco. Link to post Share on other sites
chester97 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 I'm still plotting against Marco.aren't we all. good luck with that. Link to post Share on other sites
yeffy 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Author Share Posted July 28, 2006 thats funny stuff right thereHey a scissors opening is very advanced. Most newbs open with rock making paper a solid opening. He read through that and went to the scissors double counter. It was a good read and a show of respect. Open with scissors against a weak player and you're asking for trouble.Don't knock the multi-level strategies of roshambo. I left out meeting a couple of army members sunday afternoon on their way out. Sorry I forgot the names. I played some live Omaha hi/lo with a forum member whose name also escapes me. I managed to win $150 in that session despite playing like a total donk after tilting from taking a $400 swing in one orbit.I also met Patty who was very nice and seemed to still be smitten with her job and Mike who gave me the gear for the promotion. Link to post Share on other sites
mrdannyg 274 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 It was a 64 player bracket style tournament with a $500 buy-in best 5 out of 9 throws in each round.um, we've played Roshambo before.Good read, I hope others will follow your example and post paragraph-laden trip reports. Better luck next year. Link to post Share on other sites
socalpoker_j 1 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Nice trip report. Damn that Annie Duke. Link to post Share on other sites
silkyjonson 1 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 does'nt suprise me that annie duke took the money and ran, she's such an overrated poker player and must need the money to feed her kids Link to post Share on other sites
blakheart 3 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 good story- hard to beat the pros in Roshambo. They just have more live expierence. Online just isn't the same. Link to post Share on other sites
NicksDad1970 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Good read....nice gamble in Roshambo. Link to post Share on other sites
AlTrade 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 Sounds like Vegas hit you hard. I'm going in October hope I have better luck.Great post!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
SweetDaddyFreak 0 Posted July 28, 2006 Share Posted July 28, 2006 good story- hard to beat the pros in Roshambo. They just have more live expierence. Online just isn't the same.Online is rigged, there are so many bad beats, just when someone makes rock coming down the next thing you know its magically paper and you've lost your entire bankroll Link to post Share on other sites
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