I am sad to have just learned of the passing of the greatest poker player ever,
#DoyleBrunson
. His accomplishments dwarf mine, and it is a great honor to share with him the title of World Champion. One of the few times I got to play with him, the 2004 Tournament of Champions.
at the airport, flying to Vegas to compete in the online bracelet events. can't believe how many idiots and assholes are here, either not wearing a mask, or wearing it down (not covering nose and/or mouth). don't be a dick, wear your mask, or stay home!
And this image from the special tournament the
@WSOP
held for Main Event winners in 2008. The applause for
#DoyleBrunson
lasted longer than the rest of us combined. Deservedly so.
Tournament poker can be agonizing. It's easy to make a lot of mistakes. And easy to run bad for a long time, even if you avoid mistakes. I definitely make mistakes. But if you want to do this for a living, you have to withstand the variance, and play your best regardless.
Very sad news to learn that Gavin Smith has passed unexpectedly. One of the first great poker characters I got to know personally. A fun guy, great to be around him. If you're so inclined, drink a greyhound in his honor. Cheers, my friend.
This is a huge loss to the poker world. As much as we loved him, and will miss him, I am thinking mostly of his family. They will miss him even more. I hope they take some solace in how much he meant to us poker players. And in the knowledge that he left a true legacy.
Mike Sexton passed away peacefully at home earlier today surrounded by family members. He appreciated all the wonderful comments and farewells from poker players all over the world. Service details are forthcoming. For now, please keep his family in your thoughts as they grieve.
Just finished
#StarTrekPicard
, really good series, highly recommend. I was especially impressed by the performance of
@BrentSpiner
as
#Data
in the finale. He should be getting 100x as many job offers as he can accept.
Las Vegas here I come! It is time for the annual pilgrimage of poker players to the
@WSOP
(and events at several other casinos). I arrive late tonight, expect my first event to be the
@WSOP
#DealersChoice
.
#fun
#SummerofGreg
Chris Moneymaker won the Triton Montenegro $25,000 GG Million$ event, besting a field of 163 entries to secure the trophy and the top prize of $903,000.
This was the third-largest score of his career, bringing his total earnings to nearly $7 million.
🔗
Day 2
@WSOP
#MainEvent
I got down as short as 80K, built up to 106K, then got allin with JJ vs AQ after the QJ7 flop. Back in the chip lead at my table with 245K.
at the airport, happy to be getting home. I love poker singer camp, but this was a tough one. 47 buyins, just one cash. At least it was a win, but not big enough to even put much of a dent in the other 46. Real save was winning almost every cash game session.
Thank you all for your tremendous support, but it sadly won't be for the
@WSOP
#Colossus
. I played really well, but got rivered in pots of 12M and 14M. Got my last 6 blinds in with A8 vs T9 and lost. 56th will have to be good enough.
At my buddy's house in NJ, going for it again, 16 years later, playing for the WSOP Main Event title. Let's all have some fun, and hopefully, run good also!!
well, f@#%. Got short when the table lag hits runner runner flush with J9 to beat my QQ, then shove 30 min later with AJ and run into AA. not going to win the 2019
@WSOP
#MainEvent
. best wishes to those still in, have fun.
Just flopped my third ever royal flush in 29 years of playing poker. And I got bet into. up to 470K
@OrleansPokerRo1
8-game tourney, triple the average. just 4 from the money now
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The first answer is wake up. I am dreaming, there simply is no real-world chance this ever happens.
Second answer is "call". Almost every winning player will call. Most losing players pick fold. You can't be giving up this much equity, and expect to go deep in any event.
😮 | It's the first hand of the
@WSOP
Main Event. You're in the big blind and everyone at the table is ALL-IN. You look down at pocket 🅰️🅰️.
What would you do? Tell us why 👇
I'll be doing the official shuffle-up-and-deal tomorrow, then playing in the
@WSOP
#MainEvent
day 1b. Had to have a champion's dinner tonight. ribeye in Korean marinade with grilled zucchini
#yummy
Thanks to all of you for your kind words and tremendous support. I tried my best, but just got hit by too many bad runouts. I will not be winning the 2024
@WSOP
#MainEvent
sad news, KK<QQ to get short. Later shove KJ, same guy calls with KT. I flop a J, Q on the turn makes his straight. Out 40th instead of being a top stack.
@WSOP
#SeniorsChampionship
Thanks for all your support!!!
I had the big stack, and they gave me 10% over ICM, so I won in a 4-way chop!!!
@OrleansPokerRo1
PLO8. My first cash all summer is a win!!! Now, time to win a big tournament!
I am 82/3865 (plus however many buy directly into day 2ABC) with 201,400 chips. Other stacks at my table are 140K to 33K. I'll once again be wearing the lucky shirt from Sophie (it has been washed). Day 2
@WSOP
#MainEvent
My first splurge. my family arrives for my final table in 2004. 8 yo daughter sees this in the gift shop. "Dad, if you win, can I get the horsey?" now she's graduated from UMich, going thru her old stuff.
#SheGotTheHorsey
Thanks to so many of you for your tremendous support. Sad to report lost another big pot, and I'm out of the
@WSOP
#MainEvent
. Lost 4 huge pots today that were flips or bad beats. Win just 1 and I'm still in, with an above avg stack.
#frustrating
#firstworldproblems
I want to send a big THANK YOU to all of you who have shown me so much love and support. I also want to thank all of the staff and dealers at
@HPTPoker
and
@AmeristarEC
for doing a great job. Winning is great, but how you all have treated me is even better! Thanks!
Won my first big pot of the 2022
@WSOP
campaign. Flopped two pair, got a guy allin with his straight draw, turned a full house. From 50K to 135K now in day 1c of the
#Housewarming
. Still need to win almost a billion chips,
#longwaytogo
Had a short day 2 yesterday in the 2-7 Single Draw. Went to
@PokerRoomRWLV
to play cash. Long wait. Entered their $200 daily tournament rather late. Tripled up in first 2 hands. Long time later, I'm the winner! Now it's time to take down a big one!!
Now making my 2022
@WSOP
debut, just sat down in the
#Housewarming
. 50K stack, big blind at 400, now just have to win a billion chips to get that bracelet.
#easypeasy
Well, just set another personal record. Waited in line an hour to reg for
@WSOP
#event10
super turbo bounty. got to my seat, busted first hand really to me.
#sigh
The poker gods are testing me hard lately. If I make a mistake in a hand, the cards always seem to come that punish me to the max. If I play a hand well, I still take some kind of bad beat or cold deck much of the time. Only option is to make fewer mistakes, and do my best.
Managed to make the final table of the PLO at the PCA. Busted out in 5th. Pretty happy how far I went, given I went massively card dead for the last 5 hours. Not a huge cash, but always nice to get a good result.
Quite the ride in the
@WSOP
#Seniors
. From 33K -> 9K -> 100 -> 900 -> 4K -> 9K and now 26J on third break. Yes, you read that right, I was down to a single 100 chip.
#gogogo
Such BS from the DA. Chris gets all the legal clearances, spends a ton of money to open his business, and then just a few months later they change their mind. Shouldn't be legal to do this, or the county should owe him full compensation.
Wow, another shit day at the Rio. I really hate this place. AA cracked by JT, then squeeze with AQ, raiser folds, but the caller somehow has AK. I will not be winning the
@WSOP
#MainEvent
this year.
Will be coming back for day 2 of
@WSOP
#event61
#TheColossus
in 25th place out of almost 2000 players with 850K chips, or 85xBB. At a loaded table, double the avg chips. We are in the money for a mincash now, with a shot at $451K for 1st!
Change of plans. Was going to play the
@WSOP
Dealer's Choice that starts at 3pm. But got a very poor night of sleep, so don't want to risk $1500 in a tough field while not at my best. Probably debut at the Housewarming tomorrow instead.
at the airport, leaving Las Vegas. Had a great result my first week here, over a month ago. won the
@cardplayerlife
mixed game festival HORSE tourney and a
@PokerStars
#PlatinumPass
. Been a long tough grind, no other good results. poker can be tough, but it's still the best!
I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who tweeted kind words and supported me. You are greatly appreciated. I'm still way ahead in lifetime run-good, no right to complain. But, being human, we focus more on the "what have you done for me lately" stuff. Sorry about that.
181 left on final break day 2
@WSOP
#Colossus
. I have about 1.5x theaverage stack with 6.7M. 2 more hours tonight, next big blind will be 200K. Anything could happen, but I'm expecting a great finish!
Mike Sexton is poker’s greatest ambassadors. He authorized this tweet. He has only wanted to deliver positive messages so he kept his health problems private. Mike has been battling prostate cancer that has recently spread to other organs. He began in-home hospice a month ago.
Well, just, ... FML. For the bazillionth time this year I shove with AK and run into AA. That officially ends my Vegas trip, and not at all how I wanted. I sure hope this means I've been saving my run good for the
@PokerStars
#PSPC
I've played against Jonathan Tamayo (
@driverseati
) on numerous occasions. He's always been a nice guy, and a very tough opponent. He is certainly a deserving champion.
#Congratulations
Just made my 7th
@HPTPoker
#MainEvent
final table at
@MeadowsCasino
, will be going for a record-extending 5th win on this tour. I'm in 3rd now, with 1.2M of 8M chips in play, about 15%. $61,080 to the winner. Tomorrow is a good day to run good! ;-)
I flew to Las Vegas today, going to be here about 1.5 weeks to play in some of all these hundreds of tournaments going on. I start this campaign tomorrow in the Seniors event at the
@MGMGrandPoker
. Let's see how good I can play, and run, while I'm out here.
Got coolered twice on my two bullets at
@WynnPoker
. Then moved to
@PokerRoomRWLV
to play cash. and got my AA cracked there on a bad beat, and then coolered set under set. NOT a good day of poker for me.
at the airport, waiting to board, flying to HOU. My first real live poker tournament in over 14 months! Look out
@LSPokerSeries
@HTXChampions
, here I come!
Lost a big pot to a goofball play from this guy, then lost a few small pots, down to 725K. Called a shove from a good but laggy player with 99. it's a flip vs AK, he gets there, out 13th
@LivePokerRoom
#MainEvent
. Thank you all for a great sweat!
Tomorrow is going to be my last real day in LV. I am planning to enter the 1-day Ultimate Stack at
@VenetianPoker
, and win or lose, fly home Tuesday. It's been 8 weeks away from Cheryl and King Buddy. Time to go home.
And we're off! Just took my seat at the start of level 3 in the
@WSOP
#MainEvent
. And won my first pot on my 2d hand. QQ > TT on the AA932 board. Already up to 75K!
What a day. Just spent over a dozen hours, drove all the way to Easley, SC and back. We found our dream cat to adopt, a gorgeous seal point ragdoll rescue cat. He has a name, but we're thinking of changing. Ideas please?
Turns out I'm 61/117 from 3200 starters yesterday in
@WSOP
#Event13
#PLODeepstack
. We're well into the money, and playing to a winner today. I'm a bit below avg now with 675K, but well positioned to go all the way!!
Disgusting end in the
@WynnPoker
$500K guaranteed. Grinding hard for hours, manage to triple my stack despite being seriously card dead. Then get allin with KK vs TT for a huge 900K pot, T on the river and I'm out ~84th.
#gross
Very glad to be safely home with my wife and daughter. Was grinding at the house of my great friend Marc in Vegas, competing in the
@WSOP
online bracelet events. Made a small profit in those events, but that means disappointed in not winning one.
#soon
#nexttime
Looks like I busted the
@WSOP
#TheSeniors
at just the right time, as we just did a 4-way ICM chop at the
@PH_POKER
seniors, which paid almost as much as 15th in the bigger event. And done in 1 day! ;-)
No, there are no bankroll considerations at all. Bankroll should have been considered when deciding to enter. After you are in, there is no reason to consider bankroll. If there were, you shouldn't have entered in the first place.
Great start in
@WSOP
#event24
PLO, started with 30K several hours ago, now have 254K as dinner break ends. Plan to keep running good. And, as always, to Play Smart!
Standing in this line to get a seat in
@WSOP
#event18
, gam wants a picture. great, do it all the time. shows me his card protector. It's my HEAD. he ripped the head off my bobblehead, lol.
#CoolOrScary
?
Two disastrous hands in level 4, coming back to level 5 with just 27K, day 1c
@WSOP
#MainEvent
. But there's no quit in me, I'll bag a small stack if I have to. Whether it's tonight or day 2, I still expect to crush it!!
If you truly believe that you should fold AA to an allin preflop shove on the first hand, you need my book. Such a fold is costing you massive equity. Please see Ch. 18, The Value of Survival. Good luck!
Down to 45 players on first break day 2
@LivePokerRoom
#MainEvent
. Last hand before break I flop a pair and a straight draw, go allin. I get called by an overpair, and a set,
#aiyah
. I miss the straight, but catch a runner-runner flush!
#tripleup
515K and above average
got 2d,
@WynnPoker
seniors, couldn't overcome the run good of the winner. she hit every flop, I hit none. for those who have a piece of me this summer, we're not freerolling yet, but we're $34,000 closer to it!