The second installment of my trip report from the 2011 World Series of Poker main event is now appearing in the September edition of 2+2 Magazine. It covers my experiences on Days 3, 4, and 5:
There are people who are good at poker, and then there are people who are downright intimidating, players who are ready to fight for literally every pot that they believe they can win. A player like that is not someone you want on your left when you have a lot of chips. I tightened up my game pre-emptively, folding hands I otherwise would have raised because I knew that Gonzalez was waiting to attack me and I needed better than average cards to stand up to him. I watched him give hell to a lot of others at the table.
If you haven’t read Part 1, you can find it here.
In other news, the weather here in Canmore has been fascinating. Last week it was warm, sunny, and clear. This week clouds rolled in, blanketing the valley in fog and rain. Today they started to clear, and through the breaks in the clouds you can see all the snow that fell in the mountains. I never realized the extent to which the weather could be both cloudy and sunny at the same time!
Your website tells me my (longer) comments are spam, I don’t know why.
Probably because they are mostly about penis enlargement.
when even your spam filter thinks I am too loquacious I may to admit I have a problem. In any event, nice piece!
I always like these. The hands are interesting but you talk about other things too, which is a requirement to get me to read a tournament report.
Yeah I feel the same way about reading TR’s 🙂
Did you ever find out what charder had?
Nope.