US Poker Championship
Sunday, November 22, 2009 - Michaelbinger
Hello all,
I’m in Atlantic City enjoying the incredible panoramic views from my hotel room. I’m here at the Trump Taj playing the US Poker Championship, which will have 2 events televised on Spike TV this year. The $2500 PLO event attracted a relatively tough field of 32 players, which played down to the TV final table of 7 over 2 days. I was fortunate enough to make it with 44k in chips, which puts me 5th out of 7. We have a 5 day interlude until playing the final table on Monday. Allie Prescott is the chip leader, closely followed by Matt Glantz, then Amnon Fillipi, Steve Zolotov, me, Matt Matros, and then a European player named Anton who is the short stack. As you can see a very tough table. But also a fun table… I am friends with several of the players and we all had a good time playing and bantering. Should make for good TV. I’m not sure if Allie and I will still have our Mutual Slowroll Destruction agreement in place… we basically both agree to try to slow roll the hell out of each other if we are heads up in a pot. Obviously, slow rolling is usually a scummy thing to do to someone… but we are friends and try to make it all fun and dramatic.
Yesterday I played the $1k NLHE tourney… sigh. I played great short stack poker most of the day, just surviving. Finally a chip up a bit to 19k in the 300-600 (75 ante) level when the following hand takes place. It’s folded to me on the button and I raise to 1600 with AcQc, the big blind massively over-bets all-in for 21k, I call, and he shows Ks8s. Now he has two live cards and will win 37% of the time, so I can handle losing that. But the flop came down Qd Qh 9c, making me a 98.2% favorite to win. And I lost. It came jack on the turn and ten on the river. Yuck! That would have given me a big stack of 40k with 20 left and the final table of 9 paid. Instead I’m just another railbird.
Tomorrow the $5k main event starts. The structure is really incredible, with 30k in starting chips and every level you can think of. I’m looking forward to that. The TV final table plays on Tuesday… it would be really awesome if I made both final tables! There’s nothing quite like waking up in the morning and knowing you’ve got a final table to play.
best of luck,
Michael Binger
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