Napc 2008
So I went to watch my first big poker tourney today at Fallsview and was blown away by the whole thing. Just walking into the room was such a great feeling and being able to meet some amazing players was more then I could of hoped for.
I was able to meet and talk with Gavin Smith, an amazing guy who really was the only one talking with anyone today. I also saw Eric Seidel, but didn't really have the opportunity to talk to him except shake hands. I was shocked how completley dead the spectating viewing was....mind you there were still hundreds of players playing 1240s upstairs, at about 6pm I saw 8 tables going and over 80 names on the list, same deal when I left at 10pm. Anyways it was a great experience just to see it and good luck to those of you playing tomorrow/sunday.
There were 125 people played Friday and they played down to I think 85ish? but I could be way off, I kind of forgot that number. They also played untill about 9:15, I think it ended up being 10 minutes left in level 5? Correct me if I'm wrong...anyway it was a lot of fun to watch and play some cash upstairs, not too bad of a wait for 5-10 at all, and cool to be able to see some action downstairs.
Anyways good luck all, I'll be heading down again sat/sun and next week to cheer on fellow forumers!!
-jays88
I was able to meet and talk with Gavin Smith, an amazing guy who really was the only one talking with anyone today. I also saw Eric Seidel, but didn't really have the opportunity to talk to him except shake hands. I was shocked how completley dead the spectating viewing was....mind you there were still hundreds of players playing 1240s upstairs, at about 6pm I saw 8 tables going and over 80 names on the list, same deal when I left at 10pm. Anyways it was a great experience just to see it and good luck to those of you playing tomorrow/sunday.
There were 125 people played Friday and they played down to I think 85ish? but I could be way off, I kind of forgot that number. They also played untill about 9:15, I think it ended up being 10 minutes left in level 5? Correct me if I'm wrong...anyway it was a lot of fun to watch and play some cash upstairs, not too bad of a wait for 5-10 at all, and cool to be able to see some action downstairs.
Anyways good luck all, I'll be heading down again sat/sun and next week to cheer on fellow forumers!!
-jays88
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Good Luck to all forumers that are playing
I'm playing day 1c...I'm in it to win it!
Noah Schwartz87,000 15,000
Theo Tran66,000 5,000
Marc Karam62,000 8,500
Lee Markholt Jr.61,400 -5,600
Steven Van Zadelhoff54,000 -1,000
Barry Greenstein53,400 -6,600
Matthew Stout42,000 -1,000
Vanessa Rousso40,000 2,200
Dan Heimiller39,000 -6,500
Sorel Mizzi37,000 -3,000
Jason Potter36,000 1,400
Robert Mizrachi35,000 600
Jason Gray34,600 -6,400
Average 34,196
John Myung32,000 5,500
Jordan Rich31,600 2,600
Will "The Thrill" Failla31,000 4,000
Steve Brecher27,500 -500
Miami John Cernuto26,000 3,000
Kim Wooka24,000 -2,000
Danielle Micaleff18,100 -11,900
Craig Gray17,000 -4,000
Mike Leah17,000 -1,000
Yevgeniy Timoshenko17,000 -1,000
Steve O'Dwyer12,500 1,000
Active PlayersChip Count
Average 77,572
Maybe Blondefish will make the photo log by Day 2.
Glen if I see you on day 2, I will say hello. I have made it to day 2. I have an average stack! $ 41500. Blew off 15K in the last orbit.
Blondefish has in the 25K range.
As Steve mentioned, made by day 1. I have 60,100. Since i don't really know anyone by face, If anyone who made it into day 2 wants to say hi, i'll be the guy wearing the beige zip-up WSOP hoody.
Heading down again today for final day 1, Daniel Negraneau is suppose to be there according to his blog!! yayayayaya!!!!
gl all!
Good luck to all CPF members!
Here are the top 10 chipleaders from Day 1c:
1. Darus Suharto - 188,000
2. Stephen Chidwick - 165,700
3. Kenan Zhang - 155,800
4. Steve Paul-Ambrose - 136,900
5. Dashmir Zyli - 136,900
6. Erik Cajelais - 109,800
7. K.C. Yuen - 104,300
8. Vivek Rajkumar - 99,600
9. Gueorgui Tchaouchki - 89,500
10. Mike "Timex" McDonald - 86,900
He opens in EP to 1200...folds to me in BB I look at two red jacks and 3bet to 3200...he calls and the flops peels AKJ rainbow...I check he bets 2500 and i make it 6850 and he calls after taking like 30 seconds...The turn comes an offsuit 4 so that board now reads a rainbow...I bet out 8800 and he takes 2 min and calls...The river obviously comes the fucking T/ten and I stare at it for a second pondering whether he could have have had a pair with a gutshot unless it was with AQ...I would also add that we were on very good terms over the course of the day playing very few pots against each other and chatting on breaks so I didn't think he would be out to fuck me over so hard you know? Anyway so I only have 13k left on the river and I decided to be greedy and go for value betting 7k playing 6k behind...he takes 10 seconds and ships it...I end up calling bc i couldn't see him chasing a gutshot for that much of a cost...Anyway he instantly showed me KQo...Fucking sick...
stp
wow that is insanely fucking sick............
Good luck to the rest still alive!
and as for the poker room, it was pretty empty actually even thought the waiting list were very long ie 5-6 empty tables.
My buddy Greg or crazykoby is still in with about 90k in chips
as for other forumers that probably won't get mentioned on worldpokertour.com I am not sure about
I had a very eventful day.
first table is table 30, first to break. I am in seat 1 Barry Greenstein in seat 5, huge stack in seat 3, huge stack in seat 8, Bill Gazes in seat 10.
We only played for 30 min before we broke. Moved to table 8, Chow Giang (not sure how to spell it) in seat 4, me in 7.
Didn't get a hand to play for the first orbit. On the second orbit, (400/600) on the button I get Ac, 10c on the button. Folded to me, I raise to 2200. BB defends with a raise to 8K.....I call. Flop comes AK4 rainbow. He bets 10K, and I move in. He calls pretty quickly. He has A,3. Turn is a 3, river a K....doged one there.
I now have 72K. One orbit later the short stack to my left has 24K makes it 2200. I have KK. I raise to 4400. Back to him and he pushes. I call and he flops a strait! Back to where I started.
Next blind level, a aggressive player raises under the gun to 2600. I am in middle position with QQ and call. BB (another active player) makes it 10K. The way he looked at his cards and pushed it, I thought AK. UTG thinks for a while and moves in to isolate. I didn't think very long as I believed he had AK also.
BB also called as he was pot committed. AK vs AQ vs QQ, but I had a bad feeling.
Flop came with a K and I go home. For the three hours I played, there were no uncontested pots at my second table. Very wild, but good play.
Need to work on other portions of my game.
Ryan