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WSOP 2023


Date: 30/05/2023 1

I'm off to play the WSOP from the 6th of June to the 15th. I'll play the $1500 Badugi. And I'll play some cash mixed poker games. And some other stuff. I'll post my results below when I get back.



Date: 20/06/2023 2

Tournament Results

+$5,057
Event Date Description Place Entry Prize
#20 7th June Badugi $1500 47th/516 $1500 $3218
#27 11th June Eight Game Mix 6-Handed $1500 35th/789 $1500 $5439
#31 13th June $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em; Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack unknown $600 $0

Trip Summary

I played tournaments and cash games.

I played the WSOP 20/40 mix. An example of the mix:

There were all kinds of players. Barry Greenstein played one night.

Event #20 - Badugi

This was the first-ever badugi tournament at the WSOP.

Day One

I bluffed Bryce Yockey:

Pre Draw
Bryce opens UTG. I 3-bet from the cut-off with Th6h5h4c.
1st Draw
Bryce discards 2 - I stand pat. Check-bet-raise-call.
2nd Draw
Pat-pat. Bet-raise-raise-call.
3rd Draw
Discard 1 - pat. Check-bet-fold.

Day Two

I busted the tournament half-way through day two after spewing away some chips playing making a bad multi-street bluff (which wasn't even a proper bluff because I kept drawing. If I had stood pat I woulda won). And I made another bluff which was maybe good in theory but I didn't have the right table-image for it at the time. I blame lack of sleep.

Event #27 - Eight Game Mix

Day One

On day one, Chino Rheem was at my table playing loose-aggressive poker. He ended the day with a big stack. I managed to bluff him quite a few times in small pots so I ended up doing all right and took 71,000 chips with me to day two (starting stack was 25,000 chips).

Day Two

I won a big pot (~400,000 chips) in 7-card stud where I got dealt rolled-up queens and hit quads on seventh in a big multi-way pot.

I busted on a no-limit hold'em hand: The under-the-gun player opened 2.5x and I shoved over the top on the button with eights in the hole for about 25 big-blinds (PokerNews misreported how many chips I was playing in this hand). There was a 1.5x big-blind ante so it seemed like a fine play. After thinking about it, I think just calling is the better play, but shoving can't be too bad. And there was some weird anti-bubble type thing due to tax considerations which it may be made shoving the best play after all.