June 2, 2009
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WSOP Shootout Satellite King!
ID Start Time Name Buy-in Entrants Position Won Notes 92776610 Jun 02 00:16ET $30K Super Turbo Knockout 
$110.00 + $7 416 32 $149.76 92198701 Jun 01 21:31ET Main Event Shootout $200.00 + $16 81 1 $12,000 91034281 Jun 01 21:01ET $1K Monday 
$1,000.00 + $60 175 – 93513846 Jun 01 20:31ET $25,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) 
$30.00 + $3 303 127 – You made 4 rebuys/add-ons for $120.00 . 92057682 Jun 01 20:01ET $75,000 Guarantee 
$150.00 + $13 592 419 – 93635524 Jun 01 19:52ET Satellite to $1K Monday $265.00 + $16 9 8 – 93633561 Jun 01 19:34ET Satellite to $1K Monday $265.00 + $16 9 1 $1,060 93632670 Jun 01 19:31ET Satellite to $1K Monday $265.00 + $16 9 7 – 92744139 Jun 01 19:31ET $33,000 Guarantee (1r+1a) $100.00 + $9 162 9 $864 93630845 Jun 01 19:15ET Satellite to $1K Monday $265.00 + $16 9 7 – 93503073 Jun 01 19:01ET $40,000 Guarantee $69.00 + $6 595 351 – 93501293 Jun 01 18:46ET $15K Super Turbo KO 
$55.00 + $4 684 190 – 91034304 Jun 01 18:31ET Satellite to $1K Monday $100.00 + $9 166 76 – Total spent on buy-ins (incl. rebuys) = $3385
Today’s winnings/losses = $14,173.76
Today’s net profit/loss = +$10,788.76
Well I’ve been living in Vegas for about five days now, I’m just about settled in. I’m still not used to the fact that I live in a hotel room but it is becoming more of a norm as the days go by. It’s nice to come back to my room everyday and see that my bed has been made, trash has been takin out, all towels and toiletries have been replaced, and room has a fresh scent. Luckily, they did equip my room with a fridge so I keep cold-cut sandwiches in there to keep me from eating unhealthy casino food all day. One drawback is that my gym membership at the hotel for one month cost me a whopping $240, makes me want to workout everyday! Laundry may be a nuisance as well, either pay an unreasonable amount for housekeeping to do it for me or, spend a day at the laundry mat. I’m sure everything will just fall into place as time goes by.
Today was the first free day I had since I arrived and decided to spend it by playing online for the first time in a week. It was definately a good choice as I did win myself another $12k prize package to the WSOP Main Event. I won it playing the daily $216 buy-in Shootout satellite, which is how I have won the other three prize packages as well. There’s no doubt in my mind that I’ve won more seats to the WSOP ME than anyone else on FullTilt. Four $12k prize packages and four $2k prize packages gives me a total of $56k in WSOP prizes. This completes my goal of raising enough money to buy-in to all the no limit hold-em events at the WSOP. The likelihood of me playing in all 21 events is very slim as a lot of the events overlap depending on my performance but it is nice to know that if I wanted to I could without any financial burden. I will keep playing these shootout satellites as much as I can for several reasons, 1) I’m good at them, 2) competition is fairly easy, and 3) the $12k is just as good as real money as I can convert it from tournament credits to real cash for a small fee. I also made the final table of the $33k rebuy but got KO’ed in 9th for a small cash. The games online should be a lot easier since a lot of the pros are busy playing the WSOP, so I hope I can play as much online as I can.
If you have been following my twitter updates you should know that I didn’t run all that deep in my first WSOP event, the $1k “Stimulus” Event. My overall play in the event was my A-game. I hardly made any marginal mistakes and chipped up very nicely. I am also very content the way I played the hand that I got KO’ed with as I got my chips in as a slight favorite but just couldn’t hold. My approach to this turbo-like tournament was to gamble in spots I thought I had an edge in and play for the win, I feel that is how I played it and left it to the luck factor to lead me the rest of the way.
Tomorrow at noon, I’ll be playing my second WSOP event which is the first of many $1500 buy-in event. I’ll start with a few more chips than the $1k event so I could steady my play a little bit more. Hopefully I could play the same as my first event and run better for a deep finish. Follow me on http://twitter.com/ecafkrod if you’re interested in keeping updated on my progress real-time. Thanks to everyone wishing me luck!
