WSOP Step 2

Using my free buy in form my Step 1 SNG result I sit down at a Step 2 tourney with 8 other players hoping for a first or second place and a Step 3 seat.

I get nice cards at first but AQ suited, KQ suited and AQ os all miss flop.

About 20 hands in my QQ runs into low flop and 99 - nice pot puts me to chip leader.

Later on my KK holds vs AQ off suit. Soon after a player who has been raising alot puts about a 4x raise in and I look down to see Jacks. I immeadiately raise him all in only to then see another player yet to act who I had missed. He calls with KK and shares the big pot with the original raiser hits a set of nines on the river. This leaves me with about 3 big blinds and all but out.

Pocket eights are then not good enough as and I end up in 5th place with 5c for my troubles!

My 10c for the WSOP has ended there!


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WSOP!!

Ever fancied playing in the WSOP main event? I have but I am a bit short of the $10000 buy in! Whilst playing on Absolute Poker I noticed they are running Sit N Go tournaments that start at 10c. The idea being that you win places to the next step with the winner of step 10 advancing the Main Event.

I am not really a tournament player so some SNG practice can't be bad for my game either. I find a Step 1 table that soon fills up but after about half an hour end up in 5th place, missing out both Step 2 seats and a free retry at Step 1. I decide to have another go and soon find myself with 3 other players and a guarantee of at least a free go at another Step 1 tourney. It is of course a first or second place and a Step 2 seat that I am after. I knock out the 4th place player with a checked flop which he stabs at and I quickly call. Now there are 3 players left and a tense battle begins for the 2 seats.



After about 20 minutes the slightly bigger stack wins an all in against the other remaining player and knocks him out leaving me about 2:1 down and heads up! In doesn't matter as the tourney ends there as both 1st and 2nd place prizes are the same. Step 2 is now here and the WSOP is 1 step nearer.