WSOP Dec 1

Well, my first day was..... expensive! I flew into Philadelphia to save some $$ on the flight. The flight to Philly was $100 and the flight into AC was $300. I was a little late arriving so I had no time to make any arrangements for the trip over so I had to just grab a cab. The price, $175. I told him that if I paid him $175, we'd have to play hold 'em in the car on the way over. He dropped the price to $150, but that was still more than I wanted to pay. Yes, I guess I'm cheap by nature. At any rate, I arrive in time and actually go through the casino at the Showboat on my way down to the tournament area. I stopped off long enough to play a few hands of one of my favorite casino games, 3 Card Poker. It's pretty much all luck and apparently I caught it at the right time as I plopped down $75 and hit a 30 to 1 payout with trip 10s. Now we're talking.

Today's tourney is $500/$60 No Limit Hold 'em with no rebuys. We get $1500 in chips with blinds starting at $25/$50 which I believe too few chips for this buy-in. In talking to others later, I wasn't the only one who felt that way. It almost felt like a shoot-out.

I get to the table and unfortunately didn't last long. I got pocket AA and pre-flop got all-in against QQ and JJ only to have the JJ hit a set on the river. Ouch! I said, "Damn, that's a suck out just like back home!" The table got a good laugh but I was pretty much crippled. I got JJ a couple hands later only to run into QQ that held up for him.So.... Off to the cash game. I met some great people there. It is funny though that there seemed to be a lot of red-necks there. It was an extremely small poker room that seemed to get very hot and stayed that way. I played at the $2/$5 table and while I didn't win a ton, I stayed up the entire night. I finally cashed out around 3AM and was up about $300. That plus my trips at the 3 Card Poker table basically paid for the trip and day one.