On day 1 of the 25K WPT Championship I was pumped and ready to go. As the people were filing in I began to root silently for certain people to pass my table. After it was all filled in I was thrilled. I had Carlos Mortenson, Chris Moore, and Eric Siedel all on my right. Nancy Todd Tyler and Jim Bectel were also at my table but did not see any real problems with them. One hand ONE I find KK. Eric opened to 550 (100/200 blinds) and I elected to be tricky and just call. Jim 3 bet huge to 4500 and Eric folded. I know a lot of peoples strategy in deep tournys is to over bet AA so I was a little weary, but just called. The board was Q88 with two clubs. I checked and he over bet the pot to 10K. I called hoping he would slow down and I could control a bet on the river. The turn was a 6d and I checked. He bet out 40K basically committing himself to the hand. AA, KK, QQ, and AQ were all possible, but I was sure he had AA and I folded. The rest of the day went like that for me. I got a lot of good hands (never AA) and was always up against slightly better. I folded QQ preflop twice (I was right both times), I had JJ vs KK on a 1098 board. I rivered a king hi flush and took it against an ace high flush. Then I had 2 pair on a J10752 board against 98. Needless to say I was short at the end of the night. At 300/600 Carlos opened and Eric called. I had about 18K (30 BBs) and thought it was a good spot to squeeze so I shoved with K7ss. Carlos folded and Eric called with 1010. As I was out the door the table errupted. I looked back and the flop was Js6s2s giving me the flush. I ended the day with 28K.
More is coming about the rest of the tourny. Still a little painful.
Justin "robert07" Young
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