On a whim, last night I went down to Harrah’s and played in a $200 buy-in tournament for the WSOP. I did not do well.

I managed to stay in for about 2 hours. But in the course of that 2 hours, the best hand that I saw was pocket Kings and I only managed to win the blinds with them, after raising in early position and watching everyone fold. Second best hand, pocket 7s. Blah.

The rest of the two hours, I got some pretty miserable hands. I lost a big pot with my ATo vs. KTo when he hit a King high flush to my Ten high flush. Eventually, the blinds were $100/$200 and I was looking at a stack of $450. I went all-in, in late position after 4 limpers, with 9-Ts. I didn’t think my extra $250 would scare anyone out of the pot, but I’d have good equity and probably two live cards. Anyway, I completely missed the flop (along with everyone else), but still lost to a pair of 5s.

The structure is really bad, IMO. You start with $1500 and blinds go up every 30 mins. It’s setup to be a fast tournament and if you loose the first big pot you play, you’re basically left with the situation I was left with.

They do have single table sit-n-go satellites though for $65/$110/$175 respectively. The run continuously in the main tournament room on a sign up basis. So perhaps I will try one of the $65 sit-n-gos later this week.

The $200 tournaments run nightly at 10 PM, although I don’t think I’ll be entering another one of those unless I do really well in a cash game and have some money to blow.

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