The Steinhorn Stare

The streak is finally broken!

After missing the money in yesterday’s $2000 no-limit WSOP event, I played and cashed in a non-WSOP event today at the Venetian. As I mentioned in a previous post, the Venetian is running some great events ($10,000 in starting chips, hour rounds), and I decided that despite the glamour of the WSOP, a good tournament structure was more important (today’s $1500 no-limit WSOP event started with only $3000 in chips).

The Venetian event started at noon with about 600 players, and after some strong early play, I ran my $10,000 starting chips to about $35,000. Unfortunately, I was card-dead for the next several hours, and relied on some well-timed bluff reraises to keep my stack between $35-45K for the next 10 hours. At about midnight, we were down to the final 40 players and the money, and I still had my $35K in chips, well below the $120K chip average.

An hour later, I busted in 35th place…good enough to make a couple thousand dollars and break my horrible streak of non-cashes. I certainly would have liked to have gone a bit deeper in this event, but given my lack of cards for the last 10 hours of the day, I’m not complaining.

Tomorrow is another Venetian event, and Monday is the $2500 six-handed no-limit WSOP event.

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