WSOP Time

Saturday, May 30, 2009 - Debo34

Tomorrow I will be heading to Vegas for the World Series of Poker. I’ve decided to drive this year since I will be there for the better part of 7 weeks. The drive will take me about 12 hours which I’m sure will royally suck, but it will be nice to have my car there and not have to rent one like years past. It will also be nice to pack my car full of whatever I want to bring that I couldn’t take on an airplane. My car will be jammed full of important stuff like my pillow, X-Box, extra monitors, DVD’s and anything else I can fit in there to make my 7 week stay as comfortable as possible.
 So this year will be a lot like last year. I’m sharing the same 8 bedroom house with the same group of guys. I’m looking forward to getting down there and settling in. The first event I plan on playing is the $1500 pot limit Omaha on Monday. Last year I bubbled this event taking 74th with 72 spots being paid. I am excited to play this event, since I feel like my PLO game is far better than it was a year ago. After this event I’m going to play it by ear. I still need to win my main event seat as well. Last year I won it in the very first $500 super I played so I feel confident that I will be playing the main event for the 5th year in a row.
 The WSOP is an exciting time of the year, but it can also be a very expensive time as well. Every year I set aside a certain amount to play series events and this year is no different. I see people lose their entire bankroll chasing the dream every year.  That’s the nice thing about this time of the year in Vegas. There are smaller tournaments all over the place including The Venetian, and Caesars which can help you build and stretch your WSOP bankroll. If things aren’t  going great at the series I will step back and play a few of these tournaments to try get the bankroll built back up.  I wish I had the type of bankroll that allowed me to play every series event I wanted, but I’m not willing to drop 100k on the series and damage my bankroll. I will just keep on doing what I do, playing small ball while taking a few cracks at some bigger events. It’s what I’ve done for 7 years so I’m comfortable with it.  Maybe someday I will find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that will allow me to play more big events, but if not I’ll be content and happy doing what I do. Playing a game that I love for a living isn’t so bad.
So my WSOP predictions are…Yes of course I’m a UB homer, but I think it’s going to be a big year for the Black n Gold.

Phil wins #12 , then a week later pulls in #13.
Annie wins the 50k HORSE event.
Team UB makes a total of 8 final tables and pulls in 4 bracelets total.
My good friend and roommate Pat Poels wins his 3rd bracelet. Yeah he has 2 and nobody has ever heard of him, but he’s the real deal.
One of my other roommates wins a bracelet.
I make my first WSOP final table.
Someone wearing the UB logo wins the main event. (bout time)

Good luck to everyone at the series.

Debo

Tags: Annie Duke, Ceasar's, omaha, Phil Hellmuth, ub, Vegas, Venetian, WSOP

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Poker and Friendship + WSOP

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - P0ker H0

I can’t even try to tell you all the great things poker has brought me. Friendship has to be #1; from Aruba to Vegas, Canada to Costa Rica I have been able to meet some of the nicest people from all over the world. 6 years ago I went to my first Aruba trip and to this day i consider the people i met there some of my closest friends in the world. People like the GREAT Legggggggggggy, knucklehead, Brsavage, Fatcats, Cunningham, Krazykanuck and Westtexasman. These are players that when I first started out i looked up to and watched play for hours on end.Then when I got to Aruba and got to meet them, it was one of the best experiences of my life. But after that, it really started to snowball with every Aruba after. Every time I go to Aruba the list keeps getting longer and longer. I can’t even come close to telling you what these friendships have meant to me. In poker the money will come and go ” for me it go’s faster than it comes” but the real prize pool for me, are the friends. Last week I had 40 players fly/drive into Madison to play in a couple of small tournaments at my bar. To have players come from Oregon, Texas, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois to play in a 10 dollar re buy meant a lot to me. I want to thank the Rounder’s guys Ace, Lake and Nikki, Susie Q and her Crew, my good buddies Debo, his buds Curt and Steve, Wisco, Low__chicago, Big Sh00ter. I can’t wait till September when we do it all over again. Maybe I can get Debo and Victor to pay their 2k bar tab then . I also want to say hi to all my friends that work behind the scenes at UB; the hard working people in Costa Rica without them there would be no UB. Thank you guys hope to cay all soon. And to the hardest working lady in poker Joanne she is the glue that holds it all together. Thank you Jo Jo!!!

With the WSOP starting up this week. Things are starting to get a little nuts. I start with the WSOP Academy this weekend where I will be teaching at Caesars, Saturday and Sunday with Mark Seif. Then on June 5-6 I’ll be teaching at the Lady’s Camp with Annie Duke and FBI profiler Joe Navaro. And then on June 29 – July 1st the WSOP Pimer with Annie, Greg Raymer, Phil Gordon and the GREAT Phil Hellmuth. If you’re gonna be in Vegas I highly recommend attending one of these. They really are life changing weekends for anybody who wants to take their game to the next level. Then in between camps there in a little thing called the WSOP. I can’t wait!!! To be around these great players all month and then be able to play poker at the WSOP on top of it. This is gonna be a really good month for P0ker H0.

Tags: Annie Duke, Aruba, Ceasar's, P0ker H0, Phil Hellmuth, poker players, Poker Poker Poker, Vegas, WSOP, WSOP Academy

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