Because I only seriously started playing poker (after unseriously playing five-card draw thirty years ago and not knowing what I was doing–I mean even more so than now–the first couple of years I was playing No Limit Hold’em), I didn’t cut my teeth on online poker. I had accounts on a few sites by Black Friday, but nothing serious and nothing big; I think if my Full Tilt remission ever shows up, it’ll be under $20.<\/p>\n
But on one of my trips to Vegas last fall, I did put a small amount in the\u00a0WSOP.com account I’d opened last summer, though because it was just after they got the site up and running, there wasn’t much going on, and I didn’t get a chance to play any of it, then I didn’t get back into Nevada until today. I was looking forward to it in par because now there was a lot more traffic, and because a former Portland player had great success in the WSOP satellites, winning two $1,500 seats and a $3,000 entry in the first half of the series, on total expenses of less than $200.<\/p>\n
I got into one this evening (after busting both the Wynn $30K guarantee and the $235 Rio Deepstack) and could see I was seated to the right of the afore-mentioned player for a coupleof hands while he felted a player and was moved to another table opening up. Then the guy who rebought went all-in with 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on a T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop against my A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> and caught two pair on the river, so the parameters of my evening were set. I busted out of that tournament after two rebuys and an addon in something like 75th place out of 91.<\/p>\n @DollarCars<\/a> Line over 50. pic.twitter.com\/Xej0VIUEq6<\/a><\/p>\n — Poker Mutant (@pokermutant) June 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n