Dave's WSOP Advetnure - My final day
Morning of May 26 – Sad News
Everyone reading this will already know that I was out in 96th place. Sigh.
Nonetheless, here are my notes from my final ten hours of WSOP competition…
Before breakfast I am a little tired. Getting to sleep has not been a
problem at all. Staying asleep has been. I am waking up a little earlier
than I want to but after breakfast and a coffee I feel fine. Ready to go.
Level 13 $300 ante $1,000-$2,000 My stack $189,700 (26th of 270)
My first seat is at table 173. There are two other big stacks. Also, Paul
“Greatbrit†Westley. I introduce myself to Paul. Very nice man.
Unfortunately he is quickly eliminated. It looked to me like this was going
to be a very good table. I quickly ran my stack up to $240,000K with a steal of the blinds and then an interesting hand in which I waited until the turn to take a pot off the small-blind who had been leading at it. Our table
broke and I got moved to the TV table. Yup. ESPN. I will look like some
Hoboken on TV wearing my “dollar sign shirt.†Cool.
In my VERY first hand I steal the blinds holding T-8s. Woohoo.
The big problem with the TV table is the lineup. I am seat one. In seat two
is a young man from Sweden named Mattias. He is a Bugsy’s club winner. In seat three is Julian Gardner with lots of chips – he is the 2002 WSOP runner up. Not at first but early on Dan Harrington is moved into seat four (one time WSOP champ). First Dewey Tomko (short stack) and then Frank Grabac of RGP in five. Eric Seidel (short stacked in 6) is replaced by a VERY tough player with lots of chips. Seat seven is Frank Laing (?) – another tough player with lots of chips. Seat eight is a tight and aggressive player. And Gus Hansen is in seat nine. I am pleasantly surprised to find Gus on my right. I have basically NEVER seen Gus play but his aggression is legendary. I am in the ideal position to re-steal from him. For a couple of days I have enjoyed chip farms. Not today. There are five “problems†at the table and there are no short stacks. At one point Gus had $125,000 chips (average for the room) and was the smallest stack at the table! This was a very tough table. Very tough.
The first time that I am in the small blind Gus raises from the button. I
discover A-A. And put in a re-raise hoping for action… None. Sigh.
Next time the button comes around Gus is in the cutoff. He says to Julian
Gardner “Don’t re-raise me this time when I raise you big blind.†I
announce, “Don’t worry, I will re-raise him before it gets to you so you won’t have to worry about it.†Sure enough, Gus raises, I find A-2s and
re-raise. All fold.
Level 13 $300 ante $1,000-2,000 My stack $250,000
I have not yet shown down a hand at the table with the exception of the A-A which I chose to show.
Gus raises UTG. I flat call with J-Ts. All fold. Flop T-9-3. Gus checks, I
check. Turn is 4. Gus bets. I flat call. River J. Gus bets. I call. He taps,
I show, he mucks. I took $72,000 on the hand. A ROCK in seat 8 comments “I wish I could get cards as good as J-T.â€
Dewey Tomko goes broke on the bubble in the same hand as a player at another table. Each will get $5K but Harrah’s announces that they will top each player up to $10K. This, of course, means that the ACTUAL bubble player was #227 who not only got nothing but also did not get the ESPN interview.
I make a steal against a short stacked big blind with 7-6s. He re-raises. I
call getting 2-1. He shows 5-5. I river a flush.
With 1:40 left in level 13 I have $350K.
A new BIG STACK has been moved into seat 6. He knows Gus. They exchange pleasantries when he arrives. I attempt to steal his big-blind with 9-5s. Making it $6K to go. He makes it $15K more. I make it $60K more. I assumed that he was a variance monkey (I do not use that term in a bad way – I also am a variance monkey). I wanted to know and I found out. He folded.
A couple of things about playing on the TV table:
(1) The pace of play grinds to a halt. At one point we played ten hands in
an hour. This is not the fault of TV per se. ESPN does nothing to slow down
the play. This is the fault of the players who seem, to me, to be taking a
LONG time to make some very simple decisions. I am, long and away, the
fastest player at the table (Dan Harrington also plays quickly).
(2) Being at the TV table is not as distracting as I thought it would be.
There is a minor inconvenience of having to slightly change your routine to
show your cards to the camera but overall I did not find the “celebrityâ€
feeling to affect me at all. The table itself is very brightly lit. The
result is that there is sort of a curtain of darkness and you can make
yourself unaware of the cameras and crowd.
Level 15 $500 ante $1500-3000 My stack $370,000
(Obviously I missed level 14 somehow?)
An interesting hand that I was not involved in…
Gus raises. Mattias calls. Frank calls. Flop is Ks-Ts-5h. Gus checks.
Mattias bets $10K. Frank raises to 50K. Gus re-re-raises all-in to 127K.
Mattias calls. Frank moves all-in. Mattias calls. Main pot about 500K. Side
pot another 100K.
Frank K-To (in the lead – 79 % to win)
Mattias As-Qs (lots of outs – 14 % to win)
Gus 8s-5s (two outs – 6 % to win)
Mattias hits a spade and take is down. Wow. I am relieved since it moves Gus off the table and he is, obviously, a very difficult and dangerous foe.
I make a little more money this level with a couple of steal and a BIG
re-re-raise pre-flop with K-K there was a short stack raiser, a short stack
caller and a big stack re-raiser and I put in a big re-re-re-raise to really
sort things out pre-flop.
At the mid-way point if this level the average is $189,000 I have $430,000.
In terms of the weapons one needs in their arsenal, you need to not only
have “steal†and “re-steal†but you probably also need to have
“re-re-steal.â€
Just before the dinner break I played an interesting hand. Tight aggressive
player raises in early position. I call with 6-4s. I am hoping, of course,
to hit a big flop and take him off his stack. The flop is K-Q-7. A complete
miss. He checks. I put him on one of two possibilities. Either he has J-J or
T-T, or he has flopped a set and it looking to trap me. I check behind him
intending to take it on the turn. The turn card is an ace. He bets $20K. I
did not believe he had an ace. Moreover, if he did have an ace I thought it
would be A-J which he would lay down. I raised to $80K. I then got the
pleasure of staring him down for seven minutes. Seven. He is really
struggling with the decision, that much is obvious. Eventually he says “Show me a bluff†and tables A-Q for two pair! I show him 6 high. Whew. Got away with one. I never considered the possibility of A-Q. Lucky for me that I didn’t I suppose.
Level 16 $500 ante $1500-3000 My stack $440,000
After the dinner break we are moved off the TV table. My guess is that once Gus busted they didn’t find the rest of us that interesting. Although, the ESPN guy did tell me that I gave them a few interesting hands to look at. I will have to figure out how to get my ESPN episode on tape. It will be fun to be on TV playing poker.
OK… here comes THE HAND of the day for me. The theme of the hand is
“sometimes when you are right, you are still wrong.†I played this hand
badly. This is an example of “time in the trenches.â€
I am in the big blind with A-K. The tricky aggressive player raises my big
blind. I re-raise pre-flop. He calls. At that moment I KNEW that I was going to bet the flop and he was going to move all-in and I was going to call. I KNEW it. Weird. Something Paul Phillips once wrote put me onto what I will call the “rhythm of the game.†This player was a tricky and aggressive player who knew that I was frequently out of line. I just felt like he was going to move on me in this pot. The flop was J-7-2. I bet forty and he moved in. I got a chip count from him and discovered that even if I lost I would still be at $250,000K which was a very respectable stack so, as planned, I called with ace-high. Well, sometimes you are right… and still wrong. I was right, he had moved on me. But… I was wrong because he had a better hand. He had 5-5. Another 5 hit the turn and I lose the pot. Ugh.
In retrospect, I played the hand VERY badly. I had him set up to move on me but I didn’t have an adequate hand to call with. Since I was willing to lose the pot (it didn’t kill me) I should have moved all-in myself on the flop. If I had hit a piece of the flop I could have gone for a little bet hoping
to induce that all-in bluff. Or, I could have gone for a check-raise bluff.
In any event… this hand is, I think, one of three that I regret in 36 hours
of poker. The first one was the A-K call on day one in which I got dumb ass lucky and beat K-K. The other one is the NEXT hand…
Dan Harrington raises UTG. The tight aggressive player that laid down A-Q
earlier re-raises. I am the button with A-K. I give it some thought. I even
thought I picked off the shaking hand tell from TA player. Yet, I called. In
retrospect, there is NO flop that I could have felt really comfortable with
in that spot and I should have saved the $30K and folded. I do get really
lucky though. Dan Harrington re-raises all-in. The TA player re-re-re-raises all in. Now I fold. Harrington J-J. TA player A-A. Whew. Harrington wins with a flush.
I play a couple of HUGE pots with Julian Gardner. I double through him (back up to $400K) when my J-J beats his 9-9. In the VERY next hand I raise with A-J and he re-raises all-in. I decide there is a big enough range of hands he could have that I need to call. I do. He wins with A-Q. Back down to $250K. I am a variance monkey.
The LAST hand before the break TA player raises my blind. I re-raise with
4-3. He lays down A-J. Whew.
Waterloo… Everyone has their Waterloo…
Late position I steal with A-8o. Dan calls. Flop is a semi-dream A-9-8 with
two diamonds. Dan checks. I bet, he check-raises. Could he have a set? I
didn’t think so. Any hand that makes a set would, I think, have warranted a re-raise from him pre-flop. 9-8 was possible. A big draw was possible. A big ace was possible. I doubted A-9 since I didn’t think that was the kid of
hands that Dan would call pre-flop with since it will tend to get a person
in trouble. I re-raise all-in. Dan calls. He has 8-5 of diamonds. I am 65%
to his 35%. Diamond on the turn. No help on the river. I am within 12K of
being eliminated and I AM eliminated a couple of hands later.
Nothing can see to do differently in this hand. Get it in with almost a 2-1
edge and hope that the Buddha gets you there. He didn’t this time.
Paid $20K. After withholding $14,000. Each percentage for my investors is
worth $140 for now and more coming when I get the rest back (almost a year from now).
Other stories and observations from the WSOP:
I got a ride in a cab and driver tells me he picked up a guy at Binion’s who
gets in and says “drive.†The cabbie says “I need a destination.†The guy
drop $200 on the seat and says “Drive.†The cabbie throws the money into the back seat and says “I need a destination.†The guy throws $400 into the front seat and says “I was up 90K but I have lost back $50K in the last hour. I just want to sit in the back of the car and snort some cocaine. Drive.†Six blocks later he says “I’m done, take me back.†Twelve blocks -- $400 fare.
Focus. Always focus. Always be putting your opponents’ into boxes. Always be revising the boxes. Too many players – too many pros – don’t really focus. Frankly, I think that some of the players I came up against never really gave me any credit. They were not focused on the game enough to realize that I had some game. I am not a “crummy amateur player†nor am I a weak tight rock. I am a dangerous opponent with a lot of different moves. Not as many as the best. Not as skilled at the best. But, I am skilled enough that with a small measure of luck I am capable of winning that event or any event. I think that many of my known foes never paused and focused enough to put me I the right box. Good for me. Bad for them.
Shaun the short-term variance pro phenomenon. Met a young guy from Las Vegas who won his way in and made it to the money. He is going to try playing for a living now. Neither Ralph nor I had the heart to tell him not to because, well, it would be a bad idea. Buy, He came in 220th spot and he now perceives that he is the 220th best player in the world. Beware of becoming enamored with short term results in a game like poker.
On our last night in Las Vegas we are having a beer at the bad in the Plaza. The Plaza is … um … not that clean. Yet, there is a huge crew cleaning the glass ceiling/chandelier entrance to the theatre. Ralph and I get to discussing how often it is cleaned. I espouse that view that for some weird reason, in the midst of all this filth it gets cleaned a lot. I set the line at two weeks. Ralph takes over. The answer: every six months. Oops.
I also realize that learning poker is a very complex journey. I have many
many many pieces of the puzzle in place. The sources have come from all over the place. Howard Lederer’s trip reports from last year were instrumental in putting the issues of focus and endurance into my head. Paul Phillips comment about changing gears gave me a lot of food for thought. Conversations with Paul (and others) focused me on balance and variance and the peaceful realization that it’s OK to go bust if you are playing well. I did and I did. I’m disappointed (I had a 65% chance of being in 10th place heading into day 4) but it will not linger. This WSOP was the end of a journey that began, for me, about seven years ago when I walked into the Emerald Casino in Saskatoon and discovered that the casino now had poker tables. I have been on a steep learning curve ever since. I boast a lot of success along the way. To once again quote William Hung: “I have no professional training. I already gave my best. I have no regrets.â€
I am expecting that next year I will be forced to iron out as many as 4,000
slack jaws to get at my money. That will be something.
Everyone reading this will already know that I was out in 96th place. Sigh.
Nonetheless, here are my notes from my final ten hours of WSOP competition…
Before breakfast I am a little tired. Getting to sleep has not been a
problem at all. Staying asleep has been. I am waking up a little earlier
than I want to but after breakfast and a coffee I feel fine. Ready to go.
Level 13 $300 ante $1,000-$2,000 My stack $189,700 (26th of 270)
My first seat is at table 173. There are two other big stacks. Also, Paul
“Greatbrit†Westley. I introduce myself to Paul. Very nice man.
Unfortunately he is quickly eliminated. It looked to me like this was going
to be a very good table. I quickly ran my stack up to $240,000K with a steal of the blinds and then an interesting hand in which I waited until the turn to take a pot off the small-blind who had been leading at it. Our table
broke and I got moved to the TV table. Yup. ESPN. I will look like some
Hoboken on TV wearing my “dollar sign shirt.†Cool.
In my VERY first hand I steal the blinds holding T-8s. Woohoo.
The big problem with the TV table is the lineup. I am seat one. In seat two
is a young man from Sweden named Mattias. He is a Bugsy’s club winner. In seat three is Julian Gardner with lots of chips – he is the 2002 WSOP runner up. Not at first but early on Dan Harrington is moved into seat four (one time WSOP champ). First Dewey Tomko (short stack) and then Frank Grabac of RGP in five. Eric Seidel (short stacked in 6) is replaced by a VERY tough player with lots of chips. Seat seven is Frank Laing (?) – another tough player with lots of chips. Seat eight is a tight and aggressive player. And Gus Hansen is in seat nine. I am pleasantly surprised to find Gus on my right. I have basically NEVER seen Gus play but his aggression is legendary. I am in the ideal position to re-steal from him. For a couple of days I have enjoyed chip farms. Not today. There are five “problems†at the table and there are no short stacks. At one point Gus had $125,000 chips (average for the room) and was the smallest stack at the table! This was a very tough table. Very tough.
The first time that I am in the small blind Gus raises from the button. I
discover A-A. And put in a re-raise hoping for action… None. Sigh.
Next time the button comes around Gus is in the cutoff. He says to Julian
Gardner “Don’t re-raise me this time when I raise you big blind.†I
announce, “Don’t worry, I will re-raise him before it gets to you so you won’t have to worry about it.†Sure enough, Gus raises, I find A-2s and
re-raise. All fold.
Level 13 $300 ante $1,000-2,000 My stack $250,000
I have not yet shown down a hand at the table with the exception of the A-A which I chose to show.
Gus raises UTG. I flat call with J-Ts. All fold. Flop T-9-3. Gus checks, I
check. Turn is 4. Gus bets. I flat call. River J. Gus bets. I call. He taps,
I show, he mucks. I took $72,000 on the hand. A ROCK in seat 8 comments “I wish I could get cards as good as J-T.â€
Dewey Tomko goes broke on the bubble in the same hand as a player at another table. Each will get $5K but Harrah’s announces that they will top each player up to $10K. This, of course, means that the ACTUAL bubble player was #227 who not only got nothing but also did not get the ESPN interview.
I make a steal against a short stacked big blind with 7-6s. He re-raises. I
call getting 2-1. He shows 5-5. I river a flush.
With 1:40 left in level 13 I have $350K.
A new BIG STACK has been moved into seat 6. He knows Gus. They exchange pleasantries when he arrives. I attempt to steal his big-blind with 9-5s. Making it $6K to go. He makes it $15K more. I make it $60K more. I assumed that he was a variance monkey (I do not use that term in a bad way – I also am a variance monkey). I wanted to know and I found out. He folded.
A couple of things about playing on the TV table:
(1) The pace of play grinds to a halt. At one point we played ten hands in
an hour. This is not the fault of TV per se. ESPN does nothing to slow down
the play. This is the fault of the players who seem, to me, to be taking a
LONG time to make some very simple decisions. I am, long and away, the
fastest player at the table (Dan Harrington also plays quickly).
(2) Being at the TV table is not as distracting as I thought it would be.
There is a minor inconvenience of having to slightly change your routine to
show your cards to the camera but overall I did not find the “celebrityâ€
feeling to affect me at all. The table itself is very brightly lit. The
result is that there is sort of a curtain of darkness and you can make
yourself unaware of the cameras and crowd.
Level 15 $500 ante $1500-3000 My stack $370,000
(Obviously I missed level 14 somehow?)
An interesting hand that I was not involved in…
Gus raises. Mattias calls. Frank calls. Flop is Ks-Ts-5h. Gus checks.
Mattias bets $10K. Frank raises to 50K. Gus re-re-raises all-in to 127K.
Mattias calls. Frank moves all-in. Mattias calls. Main pot about 500K. Side
pot another 100K.
Frank K-To (in the lead – 79 % to win)
Mattias As-Qs (lots of outs – 14 % to win)
Gus 8s-5s (two outs – 6 % to win)
Mattias hits a spade and take is down. Wow. I am relieved since it moves Gus off the table and he is, obviously, a very difficult and dangerous foe.
I make a little more money this level with a couple of steal and a BIG
re-re-raise pre-flop with K-K there was a short stack raiser, a short stack
caller and a big stack re-raiser and I put in a big re-re-re-raise to really
sort things out pre-flop.
At the mid-way point if this level the average is $189,000 I have $430,000.
In terms of the weapons one needs in their arsenal, you need to not only
have “steal†and “re-steal†but you probably also need to have
“re-re-steal.â€
Just before the dinner break I played an interesting hand. Tight aggressive
player raises in early position. I call with 6-4s. I am hoping, of course,
to hit a big flop and take him off his stack. The flop is K-Q-7. A complete
miss. He checks. I put him on one of two possibilities. Either he has J-J or
T-T, or he has flopped a set and it looking to trap me. I check behind him
intending to take it on the turn. The turn card is an ace. He bets $20K. I
did not believe he had an ace. Moreover, if he did have an ace I thought it
would be A-J which he would lay down. I raised to $80K. I then got the
pleasure of staring him down for seven minutes. Seven. He is really
struggling with the decision, that much is obvious. Eventually he says “Show me a bluff†and tables A-Q for two pair! I show him 6 high. Whew. Got away with one. I never considered the possibility of A-Q. Lucky for me that I didn’t I suppose.
Level 16 $500 ante $1500-3000 My stack $440,000
After the dinner break we are moved off the TV table. My guess is that once Gus busted they didn’t find the rest of us that interesting. Although, the ESPN guy did tell me that I gave them a few interesting hands to look at. I will have to figure out how to get my ESPN episode on tape. It will be fun to be on TV playing poker.
OK… here comes THE HAND of the day for me. The theme of the hand is
“sometimes when you are right, you are still wrong.†I played this hand
badly. This is an example of “time in the trenches.â€
I am in the big blind with A-K. The tricky aggressive player raises my big
blind. I re-raise pre-flop. He calls. At that moment I KNEW that I was going to bet the flop and he was going to move all-in and I was going to call. I KNEW it. Weird. Something Paul Phillips once wrote put me onto what I will call the “rhythm of the game.†This player was a tricky and aggressive player who knew that I was frequently out of line. I just felt like he was going to move on me in this pot. The flop was J-7-2. I bet forty and he moved in. I got a chip count from him and discovered that even if I lost I would still be at $250,000K which was a very respectable stack so, as planned, I called with ace-high. Well, sometimes you are right… and still wrong. I was right, he had moved on me. But… I was wrong because he had a better hand. He had 5-5. Another 5 hit the turn and I lose the pot. Ugh.
In retrospect, I played the hand VERY badly. I had him set up to move on me but I didn’t have an adequate hand to call with. Since I was willing to lose the pot (it didn’t kill me) I should have moved all-in myself on the flop. If I had hit a piece of the flop I could have gone for a little bet hoping
to induce that all-in bluff. Or, I could have gone for a check-raise bluff.
In any event… this hand is, I think, one of three that I regret in 36 hours
of poker. The first one was the A-K call on day one in which I got dumb ass lucky and beat K-K. The other one is the NEXT hand…
Dan Harrington raises UTG. The tight aggressive player that laid down A-Q
earlier re-raises. I am the button with A-K. I give it some thought. I even
thought I picked off the shaking hand tell from TA player. Yet, I called. In
retrospect, there is NO flop that I could have felt really comfortable with
in that spot and I should have saved the $30K and folded. I do get really
lucky though. Dan Harrington re-raises all-in. The TA player re-re-re-raises all in. Now I fold. Harrington J-J. TA player A-A. Whew. Harrington wins with a flush.
I play a couple of HUGE pots with Julian Gardner. I double through him (back up to $400K) when my J-J beats his 9-9. In the VERY next hand I raise with A-J and he re-raises all-in. I decide there is a big enough range of hands he could have that I need to call. I do. He wins with A-Q. Back down to $250K. I am a variance monkey.
The LAST hand before the break TA player raises my blind. I re-raise with
4-3. He lays down A-J. Whew.
Waterloo… Everyone has their Waterloo…
Late position I steal with A-8o. Dan calls. Flop is a semi-dream A-9-8 with
two diamonds. Dan checks. I bet, he check-raises. Could he have a set? I
didn’t think so. Any hand that makes a set would, I think, have warranted a re-raise from him pre-flop. 9-8 was possible. A big draw was possible. A big ace was possible. I doubted A-9 since I didn’t think that was the kid of
hands that Dan would call pre-flop with since it will tend to get a person
in trouble. I re-raise all-in. Dan calls. He has 8-5 of diamonds. I am 65%
to his 35%. Diamond on the turn. No help on the river. I am within 12K of
being eliminated and I AM eliminated a couple of hands later.
Nothing can see to do differently in this hand. Get it in with almost a 2-1
edge and hope that the Buddha gets you there. He didn’t this time.
Paid $20K. After withholding $14,000. Each percentage for my investors is
worth $140 for now and more coming when I get the rest back (almost a year from now).
Other stories and observations from the WSOP:
I got a ride in a cab and driver tells me he picked up a guy at Binion’s who
gets in and says “drive.†The cabbie says “I need a destination.†The guy
drop $200 on the seat and says “Drive.†The cabbie throws the money into the back seat and says “I need a destination.†The guy throws $400 into the front seat and says “I was up 90K but I have lost back $50K in the last hour. I just want to sit in the back of the car and snort some cocaine. Drive.†Six blocks later he says “I’m done, take me back.†Twelve blocks -- $400 fare.
Focus. Always focus. Always be putting your opponents’ into boxes. Always be revising the boxes. Too many players – too many pros – don’t really focus. Frankly, I think that some of the players I came up against never really gave me any credit. They were not focused on the game enough to realize that I had some game. I am not a “crummy amateur player†nor am I a weak tight rock. I am a dangerous opponent with a lot of different moves. Not as many as the best. Not as skilled at the best. But, I am skilled enough that with a small measure of luck I am capable of winning that event or any event. I think that many of my known foes never paused and focused enough to put me I the right box. Good for me. Bad for them.
Shaun the short-term variance pro phenomenon. Met a young guy from Las Vegas who won his way in and made it to the money. He is going to try playing for a living now. Neither Ralph nor I had the heart to tell him not to because, well, it would be a bad idea. Buy, He came in 220th spot and he now perceives that he is the 220th best player in the world. Beware of becoming enamored with short term results in a game like poker.
On our last night in Las Vegas we are having a beer at the bad in the Plaza. The Plaza is … um … not that clean. Yet, there is a huge crew cleaning the glass ceiling/chandelier entrance to the theatre. Ralph and I get to discussing how often it is cleaned. I espouse that view that for some weird reason, in the midst of all this filth it gets cleaned a lot. I set the line at two weeks. Ralph takes over. The answer: every six months. Oops.
I also realize that learning poker is a very complex journey. I have many
many many pieces of the puzzle in place. The sources have come from all over the place. Howard Lederer’s trip reports from last year were instrumental in putting the issues of focus and endurance into my head. Paul Phillips comment about changing gears gave me a lot of food for thought. Conversations with Paul (and others) focused me on balance and variance and the peaceful realization that it’s OK to go bust if you are playing well. I did and I did. I’m disappointed (I had a 65% chance of being in 10th place heading into day 4) but it will not linger. This WSOP was the end of a journey that began, for me, about seven years ago when I walked into the Emerald Casino in Saskatoon and discovered that the casino now had poker tables. I have been on a steep learning curve ever since. I boast a lot of success along the way. To once again quote William Hung: “I have no professional training. I already gave my best. I have no regrets.â€
I am expecting that next year I will be forced to iron out as many as 4,000
slack jaws to get at my money. That will be something.
Comments
I followed your progress the whole way through, was exciting as heck knowing someone who was playing in the WSOP. I THINK YOU DID A GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!
Next time I deal poker to you,(At the Emerald) I'll be thinking "MAN I"M DEALING TO A GUY THAT PLAYED THE WSOP MAIN EVENT" Pretty Cool!
WTG,
Debbie
I followed your progress the whole way through, was exciting as heck knowing someone who was playing in the WSOP. I THINK YOU DID A GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!
Next time I deal poker to you,(At the Emerald) I'll be thinking "MAN I"M DEALING TO A GUY THAT PLAYED THE WSOP MAIN EVENT" Pretty Cool!
WTG,
Debbie
Sorry this is on twice, Forgot to sign up.LOL
4000 will definately be something!!! :shock: Holy COW! :shock:
Great Job Mr.Scharf! You are definately a force to be reckon with
you've made this years WSOP very interesting for all of us...Thank You!
Best regards,
Jim
Regards,
all_aces
"Dave Scharf (Sasquaton, Canada)"
I wanna move to Sasquaton
Could you sign my copy of your book?
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doh...they're on to you... :shock: now cant find Sasquaton...
now which way to Sasquaton?
Calgory Albeta...Haha lovin' it