Post WSOP blues

Well the WSOP is over for me. I went out with 3 minutes left in the first day.

I had my stack cut in half about 15 minutes into the tournament. A player raised under the gun and I called with 3-5 of diamonds. I flopped a straight flush draw and made the flush on the turn. Problem was the other player had the A-2 of diamonds. It took over half of the day, but I got the chips back from the same player, busting him after watching his stack fluctuate wildly the whole time, as he played like a maniac. He actually pushed all in, with a big over bet, against my pocket Aces after a flop of Q-x-x with his K-J drawing dead to two runners. He was from Argentina and wasn't an especially nice guy either.

I did have my starting stack back, but had been forced to play a different game as the short stack, and by the time I was back to my starting stack I was still short compared to the rest of the table. So I struggled all day and had to play kind of conservatively. Then in the last 15 minutes I had pocket kings against pocket aces, fortunately my opponent played it slow and I survived, but was busted one round later when I picked up Queens on the button and small blinds pocket dueces hits a set on the flop of J-6-2.

I should have stuck with my first impulse and played 1-d, my tables were ok, but not nearly as good as they could have been. I was also very bummed that all the UFC stars played 1-d as well, it would have been nice to say I knocked Chuck Liddel out, we would ommit that it was poker.

I am hopping to be over the post WSOP blues in time to play my A game in the Belagio WPT event Friday.