WSOP? Not just yet...

Wow... What a crazy ride the last few days have been in the Ottawa Poker Community!

Our very own Marc 'Myst' Karam placed 2nd in the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale netting him a cool $1.7 million! He was obviously disappointed with the outcome of the final hand, but I'm sure the money was ok with him! :)

http://eurolinx.com/en/content.asp?section=myst
http://www.jackseven.ca/forums/index.php?topic=3576.0

Skippy also played in this tournament after winning his way in form a PokerStars satellite. He made it through Day1 and into Day2 but unfortunately no further. Hopefully he knows how proud of him the entire J7 community was and that we ALL know that this was only his 1st of many appearances in this caliber of tournament!

So, back to my run at the WSOP... Not going so good! Hahaha....

As I'd previously mentioned I'd made my way into the 4000FPP Tournament on PokerStars last Sunday where 1st and 2nd were getting WSOP ME Packages. I was running really good for the week before and I was feeling really confident about my game going into the tournament. To my surprise they had a really good structure; 2500 starting chips with 30min. levels.

"Alright! We're actually gonna be able to play some poker here!!"

Or so I thought... 1st hand had 3people All In at my table! lol... So, it was gonna be like this was it? Ok... Not a problem! I'll re-adjust my game and wait for a premium hand!

Well, mid way through the 2nd level I get dealt pocket 10's and I bumped it preflop (I don't have all of the specifics with me here at work). I ended up getting one caller. At the River the board was 8high and ran into bottom set. I didn't lose all my chips but looking back on the hand I really mis-played it and I think this cost me a good run in this one.

After that it was all downhill. I was down to about 1000 chips which was still good considering the blinds but I just couldn't get anything going and I was out by level 4!

Meh... All in all I wasn't really happy with my play at all. I was playing too passively and I really mis-played the hand with the 10's.

So, with that said, I'll be making my way back to that tournament soon and taking a different approach! With Easter coming up this weekend I won't be playing alot (if at all) so next week it will be!