Generally I tend to get in with the best hand. If they hold up, I do well. Today I played four large pots. Twice I was a major underdog and won. Once I was a huge favorite and lost. Once, on what was likely my final hand of live poker for several months, I was a slight favorite and lost.
Just a wacky wacky tournament - probably the strangest I've ever played. I went ten hours without a pair bigger than eights or an ace-king. A truly mindboggling shitstorm of cards. And yet, because of the two big suckouts, I was poised to make a ser ious charge before the tides of fortune turned and my own big hands were run down by lesser ones.
The whole WSOP main event is playing out like a $50 tourney online, not a $10,000 championship. I can't believe what I saw today.
I know this is a long tournament with a good structure. The bad players will eventually be filtered into the garbage can, I think. Right now though, the world's best can't get anything going and the fools are running amok.
It will be a fascinating tournament to follow. I think that final table will be composed of excellent, if unknown players. Right now, the fish are feasting.
If you are interested, I've also posted an "anthology of hands" from my Day 1.
