Well, I didn't end up playing in any WSOP events this year. My plan had been to play some satellites on Friday night right when I arrived, but I missed my flight so I actually didn't get there until Saturday afternoon.
Rahul played in the $1500 NL event on Saturday. He had actually won his buy-in into this event at a 2/5 table the night before. Unfortunately, he busted in 2 hours.
I played in a $150 limit hold'em tournament at Binions on Monday. I thought this was a pretty good tournament, well run and nice structure. And lots of people really don't know how to play limit. I think I definitely had an edge in this tournament. Unfortunately I had a couple of rough beats and made a couple of mistakes, to bust in about 2 hours.
The video poker plan didn't really work out either, because I just never found much time to play. I spent most of my time at the poker tables. Which is well enough; I came out about +$320 on the trip.
Anyways, my new summer project is to learn Omaha hi/lo. I've wanted to branch out from Hold'em for a while now, but for some reason never really found the time or motivation to do so. But this summer seems like a pretty good time for this. I really didn't know much about Omaha strategy before I started reading and studying over this past week. It's amazing how NOT intuitive it is after playing Hold'em. So I have a lot to learn. I'm looking forward to the challenge. Maybe I'll even go for a WSOP bracelet in Omaha hi/lo someday. You heard it here first.
