Day 9 at WSOP

Finally!!

I woke up and did some work on the laptop, then ended up falling back asleep. I woke to my friend inviting me over for dinner. He is sharing an apartment about 15 min from the strip with 3 other dealers from CO, whom I know from playing in Blackhawk. They are cool. Two of them were going out to see "The Hangover", for the second time!! They said it was hilarious. I stayed and ate, hanging out talking poker for a couple hours with his one roomate that has been dealing/playing 17 yrs, she knows her stuff. I planned on playing today, so  I went to the Rio to play some STS. I played great! I got 2 games in by 3am and won both! The first was a $125 which pays $1120. I got heads up and the kid had me covered by almost 2-1, so I offered to split it 50/50 $500 each and play it out for the $120. He agreed, haha!! Of course, I won the match and the extra $120, which I kinda thought I might, but I stilled made the chop go my way. Total win, $600. The second was a $175 which pays $1620. Both of these tourneys had 1k starting stacks btw. I got down to 3 handed and I had half the chips in play and said I’d chop 3 way if I got $1000 and they each got $500, haha. They wouldn’t take it. lol. I started playing hard and big and caught one of them with QQ>KQ. He stormed off surely pissed he didn’t take my chop earlier. Then, I turned to the kid still left and I told him I’d give him his buy-in $175 back. He took it. It took me a little angling, but he agreed. Total win, $1400. Awesome run. I would have continued playing, but that was the last STS until next day. I walked around and the final tables of a few tourneys were just finishing up. John Juanda is looking good in a stud tourney. I was going to play in the Venetian DSE $330 tomorrow at noon,  but I think I’m going to grind out a few STSs instead. I think I found my niche. Lets see how tomorrow goes.

Bankroll Update: -$700