 Vegas June 2025 (WSOP Part 1) |
| Day 6 - WSOP 9-Game Mix |
| Last Updated: 2025-06-22 10:37:42 |
| As great a day as Friday was, Saturday was the total opposite. Absolutely brutal.
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| It was Joann's getaway day, she left for the airport some time between 8 and 8:30 am, I hung out in the room until lunchtime and decided to repeat the day before and have Salt and Ivy for lunch again. It's easy and convenient, especially while we still have Platinum status and I can just walk past the regular line. In this case that did me no good as literally nobody was in line when I got there ... but I still walked up the separate Platinum line, dammit!
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| My server was not having his best day, that's all I'm gonna say. But the food was fine, I still tipped him as I usually would which is a little extra generous when I'm on my own because I know they're getting a smaller check to calculate a tip against. He wasn't awful just a little harried and not as attentive as he should have been, I gave him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he was handling too many tables.
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| I don't have a lot of poker to talk about, so I'm fillin' some space here :-)
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| On to the 9-Game Mix at the WSOP. The tournament I've been looking at since the schedule came out ...
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| The 9 games in order are No-Limit Hold'Em, Stud (high), Limit Omaha 8/b, Razz, Pot Limit Omaha, Limit Hold'Em, No-Limit 2-7 Single Draw, Stud 8/b and 2-7 Triple Draw. At the start of the tournament they pick a random game to start with, but from that point on it uses the above order to determine the next game played. 7 players per table, so 7 hands of each game (even if there are empty chairs) before moving on to the next game.
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| I assumed, incorrectly, with 2-7 Triple Draw in the mix this would be a 6-handed tournament. One thing I don't like is playing 3-handed for an extended period of time, but if you buy in before the tournament starts you usually have to for a while. I therefore made the decision to buy in late when there would be full or at least almost full tables. That part of the plan worked like a charm, when I sat down I was the seventh player at the table.
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| Could not have started out any better!
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| Playing PLO I'm in the big blind with AT99 with two hearts including the ace. Blinds at 100/200/200, an aggressive player raises out to 500. Small blind calls and I call as well.
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| Flop came K-9-6, first caller checks and I check hoping to check-raise but the original raiser checks. Jack on the turn and the small blind leads out for 1000. I call and the original raiser calls as well.
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| River was a 6 giving me a full house. Small blind checks, I lead out for 2600, aggressive guy folds, small blind calls and 9s full is good.
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| Nothing interesting in limit hold'em, but on to 2-7 single draw and you wanna talk about a "big blind special"!
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| Aggressive guy oddly decides to just call the big blind instead of his usual and frequent preflop raise. Small blind calls and me in the big blind is happy to check with AJJ64 (a really bad starting hand!).
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| I take three free cards ... and spike 8-7-3, so my hand is 8-7-6-4-3. This is a hand that will probably win triple draw, it's a monster in single draw!
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| Small blind also took two, the aggressive guy seeing us both take two pats his hand. 100% of the time he's betting out.
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| Small blind checks, I check, aggressive guy dutifully bets 1200. To my surprise the small blind calls 1200, I make it 4500 to go.
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| Aggressive guy folds, small blind thinks a little and calls. Table stunned by my crazy good luck drawing three!
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| Great start, 56k at the break from a 40k start. Couldn't have scripted it any better!
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| I never won another single pot of any size. Only a few small pots and some chops (basically getting my chips back plus a portion of some blinds) pretty much the entire rest of the tournament.
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| Not long after break I'm the unlucky person who gets moved to create a new table. Thanks to Cody I have some numbers...
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| One guy at the table has $1.5 million in career WSOP earnings alone. Another guy has about half a million.
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| Oh, and the guy immediately to my left that I'm betting into? None other than Phillip Hui of $3.7 million in WSOP earnings and $5 million-plus in overall career earnings. 433rd on the all-time money list.
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| A little while into starting up the table they actually decide to pull someone from our table to create another new table. They pull seat four, and he's replaced by non other than poker Hall of Famer Brian Rast. Over $28 million in career earnings, 33rd on the all time money list.
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| And little ol' me. Cody was checking the app and commented on the fact that I was the only person at the table without a "story" in the WSOP+ app. Thanks Cody... :-)
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| I actually played with Rast before. Years ago in an 8-Game Mix tournament I was betting into Dan Shak who crashed and burned, later in that day Rast joined my table and that time I also outlasted him. Not this time...
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| So sitting pretty on about 60k in chips and feeling good about how my day is going I was expecting to have a decent day!
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| I wasn't involved, but Rast decided to play an absolute crap hand in PLO (high). A-2-2-3 with one suit, an awesome Omaha 8/b hand but garbage in PLO. Unless your name is "Rast" apparently.
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| I don't remember all the cards but basically everyone had pairs and draws, but Rast spiked a 2 for a set on the turn and got two players basically all-in. Due to a rules quirk when the first guy went all-in over the top of the other two Rast nor the other guy were allowed to raise again so the other guy had a small amount of chips behind that couldn't go in until after the river (which they did). Rasts set held up and sitting at the table for all of 5 minutes he was triple a starting stack. Unreal.
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| I know Rast is going to be aggressive, so when he raised preflop in limit hold'em I'm going to reraise with 10-10. He calls.
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| Flop J-2-J. He check-calls my continuation bet. Turn a blank, this time he check-raises my bet. River another 2, he bets, I call, he had J-9.
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| Of course he did.
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| I'm down around 47k.
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| Every hand I played at that point didn't work out in any game. I fall down to a starting stack.
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| Start out with a decent 4-5-6-8-X starting hand in 2-7 Triple Draw. Hui called me down as I drew an 8, a straight and then a 6. Pair, straight, pair. All really bad.
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| Next hand a 3-card draw with 4-5-7, catch a 3 but never improve after that. I'm down to half a starting stack.
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| Card dead a while, cannot even get in a hand in the next couple of games.
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| We get to stud high and I start out with K-K-9 with the 9 showing. Monster starting hand. Raise into me, I re-raise, Hui 4-bets, I cap.
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| I catch a Jack, Hui a blank, I bet, he calls. 8 on 5th, Ace for Hui. I'm not really putting him on an ace, I figure he has some other hidden pair so I lead out. He just calls.
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| Jack on 6th for me so four to a straight on my board, Hui catches another ace. We go check-check.
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| I get a useless Q on the river, we go check-check ... Hui had three aces and was worried I had the straight. KK drawn out on.
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| I'm down to 11,400.
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| Well long story, short I win one small pot of bring-ins and antes in a round of Razz and we move on to Pot Limit Omaha.
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| Second hand Rast raises as he often did, guy on my right also a short stack pot's it and I decide that a 7-8-10-J rundown with one suit is good enough for me to take a shot at tripling up in PLO.
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| All my chips go in, Rast wants to put the other guy in but can't because my raise wasn't big enough just like the above hand I wasn't in, all he and the other guy can do is call.
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| Flop K-Q-X. The rest of the chips go in. I have an open ended straight draw, other all in has nothing other than a club flush draw and Rast has top two and not much more.
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| Club on the turn ends my day.
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| Brutal.
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| Calling an audible for today. They are running a 2-day tournament called "Battle of the Ages". It's a bracelet event, $1000 buyin, two starting flights same day.
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| The first flight, which I would play in, is 10am and only players 50 and older are allowed to register. Second flight is in the afternoon and only players under 50 are allowed to register.
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| Both flights play down to the money and stop. Then on Monday all remaining players in the money are combined to finish the tournament. |
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