So far this WSOP has been super good. I've only played 2 tournaments ($1500 LHE and $2000 LHE), and moneyed in the $2000 for like $5,200. In that event, I finished 34th and feel like I really should've advanced much further than that if I didn't get unlucky and run reallly bad. When we reached the money with 45 people left, I was around 5th or 6th in chips, and basically from that point on I didn't win a hand and did the standard run JJ into QQ, run AQ into AK, etc type stuff and slowly but steadily lose my stack. Oh well. Tomorrow is the $10,000 LHE event and I'm really looking forward to it. This is the first $10,000 LHE event since my Party Poker Million win in March 2006, so I kind of feel like this is the quasi "title defending" event for me.

Since I haven't talked about poker a ton in my recent blogs, here are two hands I'm proud of since I don't think most people win the pot:

Hand 1 -- 100/200 game at the Rio. Teddy "Iceman" limps UTG, BK limps next in, another guy limps, and I limp in on the button with Jd5d. Flop of K64 with two diamonds. Checked to BK who bets, 1 fold, I raise, and BK calls. Turn 3. BK checks, I bet, BK raises, and I call. River pairs the King and BK bet, and I called and beat his 87 high.

Hand 2 -- 200/400 or 300/600 game at the Bellagio -- Folded to me in the SB and I raised with K8o. Max called in the BB. Flop 974. I bet, he raised, I called. Turn Ten and I check called. River ace and I again check called, to which he announced "pair good" and then I sat and waited for him to flip his cards or muck his hand. Then when it became apparent I wasn't going to show my hand he showed me an 8, so I flipped my K8 and then he mucked.

I am planning on returning back to Minnesota once my friends and I are all done with the $10k LHE event. And since I haven't gotten to brag about poker in my blog for awhile, here is what my 2008 WSOP cash game spreadsheet looks like thus far:

Good luck to everyone who's participating in WSOP tourneys or cash games. More later.