Arrived in Vegas yesterday mid-day (after taking the previous week off in Cleveland), and after crashing by the pool for a couple of hours, I put in an evening session playing 10-20 at Bellagio. I played well overall, but made two BIG mistakes in the two largest pots of the night. I folded the best hand once (I had top and bottom pair and the guy re-reraised me with a flush draw and a gut shot on the flop) and stuck it in drawing to 13 outs against a made hand. Fortunately, I rivered my opponent (SUCK OUT CITY), hitting my flush and ended up on the session just over 5k. The result was certainly nice but not exactly my best poker. (I can explain the two key hands in more detail later, but I have to be brief right now as the tourney is starting shortly).
The Bellagio main event starts in 15 minutes and I'm feeling pretty good. I worked out this morning (which I want to do every morning during the WSOP) and am feeling pretty sharp. 50k stacks and 90-minute levels means lots and lots of post flop play. My guess is with such a steep buy-in people will be playing squeaky tight, scared to go broke on day 1. It will obviously depend on my table draw, but I have a feeling that I will be quite active today. I just checked the board and it was at 500 total entrants, way above my expectation. Nothing like a 12 million + prize pool to get you motivated. Hopefully, I will continue running well.
I will update later, but cardplayer and other sites may have live updates.
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3 best blogs I found were the following:
http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/live_updates/14236
http://news.pokerpages.com/index.php?option=com_simpleblog&task=view&id=3086
http://liveupdates.worldpokertour.com/tournament/?x=updatesnews&postUserName=Live+Blog&days=
Though I think 2 of those might be on the same feed.
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