150 Seat Guarantee

Well, I said it:

"Meanwhile, WSOP satellites have started. I'm not going to make a real push at it this year since I'm pretty sure it would be a bad idea to try and actually go play it -- I still have my theory qual on August 26th. But, Full Tilt is as usual running their massive 150 seat guarantee satellite, this year on June 21st for a $535 buy-in. I intend to win a seat into THIS tournament, and it'll be my one shot at the WSOP this year."

and I just did it:



Unfortunately, I don't think I can play in this, because it starts at 3pm tomorrow and I'm playing at church this week, and have to be at practice at 4:30pm.

However, there's another $535 tournament, also a Main Event Qualifier, that starts at 1:30pm and should be much smaller. I might just do that instead... or I might just unregister and keep the tournament credits for later use. We'll see...

my gchat buddy list...

...now contains a WSOP bracelet winner!

Congratulations to Leo Wolpert who won the $10k Heads Up NL Hold'em Event which ended on Tuesday night.

Leo was involved in the Michigan-Ohio State last-longer bet that I organized for the Main Event back in 2006 (which I talk about back in
this post). I can't remember if I actually met him then, but we e-mailed back and forth a bit, and hence he's been on my gchat list since then.

I thought about shooting him a "congrats" on gchat but it would've been totally random to him and I didn't want to seem stalker-ish. Of course, you might say I abandonded that by making this post, but whatever.

The Main Event starts on July 3rd. Doesn't look like I'm playing this year... sigh...

Hello from Michigan

The spring quarter has come to an end, and you know what that means... more time for poker!!

Maybe. I still have to study for the big qualifying exam on August 26th. But I barely played ANY poker at all during the spring quarter, so almost anything would be "more" at this point.

Lish and I are at the tail end of our vacation in Michigan, centered around Emily's wedding on Mackinac Island, and followed by time in Ann Arbor and Detroit. We're not gonna hit the Detroit casinos though since Lish wants to save that for when we actually go to Vegas, but I did get to introduce her to a little Chinese Poker while we were out for breakfast the other morning :)

Tonight I crossed the $300 mark on PokerStars, woooo! No idea how DN is doing there since I can't find any updates, but under his scheme I'd be at $50NL now (actually, I would have been since crossing $250). But I'm at about 2200 hands of $25NL right now, so still chugging along to 10k on that. It's gonna be kind of funny if/when my Stars account surpasses my Full Tilt account, which may happen since I've been taking my Stars account so seriously, but just been monkeying around on my Full Tilt account. hah.