The Empire Casino was the venue for the WSOPE and playing there regularly I felt really focused on cashing or taking it down at my 'local'. I ended up playing the 1k side event day 1b with Sofia Lovgren, James ‘james666’ Sudworth and a few other PKR players including Scott ‘PKR_Scott’ Shelley.
Was really up for playing this event and I felt really confident especially after I sat down at my table to see a few regulars and some online guys. Was an empty seat and after 15 minutes none other than Phil Ivey sat down at the table. It was awesome to be playing in my mind the best poker player in the world. So I didn’t feel worried or anything I just went about playing my game and played pretty tight and grind up the stack for the 1st few levels. Ivey on the other hand took the role of the table captain and was crushing a few players and accumulated a big stack early on. I just played a few premium hands until one hand where I picked up 34o and decided to make a play using my table image I 4-bet Ivey on a pretty dry looking board with 4 high and managed to get him and another player to muck. Felt really good making the play and boosted the confidence and soon after picked up quite a few hands and got to about the 17k stack.
After talking with the PKR guys during the last break of the evening I felt I needed to double up to get a stack worth playing with for day 2. First hand back I had QQ on BB and button jammed on me and I snapped he tabled 44 and was eliminated I was on about 25k but really wanted to start accumulating some chips and with quite a good table even though Huck Seed was sat down he had very few chips. Unfortunately though I soon entered cooler-ville and my KK ran into AA and my flopped set of 6s were beaten by a better set of 9s to see me busted about an hour left of day 1. I was a bit annoyed as I was doing well but wasn’t meant to be. It really was a great day though managed to play with Phil Ivey, Huck Seed and a real funny American 24 year old called Chance Kornuth who was a great laugh and we had lots of banter (when I came home and checked pokernews I found out he had won a WSOP bracelet a few months back in Omaha for about 500k+).
PKR Scott ended up winning the event - sicko! Great lad and what a result. First off many to come hopefully!
After the WSOPE I decided to take the rest of the month off and enjoy my 22nd birthday with my girlfriend and all my friends and family.
Even though it consisted mainly of live poker I managed to win about 6.5k online on few MTTs on various sites and qualified for PKR Live V (where I will hopefully keep 100% record in cashing in the main event). I also played quite a bit of mixed games on pokerstars and won about 15 buyins ($2/4) mainly in stud and razz so paid for the live tournies I played in and was just something to keep me focused on building up a bigger roll.
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