Druff will be playing this event on 11/7 (Day 1D).
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Druff will be playing this event on 11/7 (Day 1D).
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https://twitter.com/ToddWitteles/sta...56784507269120
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SURPRISE!!
Guess who decided to show up to the #WSOP Main Event and register for Day 1D?
I can sit on the sidelines no longer.
I have a mini Head-n-Shoulders bottle and am not afraid to use it!
Follow @DanDruffPoker at 11am PST for frequent updates.
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Awesome...Good Luck!
:popcorn
https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...28482217046018
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(Blows off dust from account)
Is this thing on?
Been awhile. Starting with 60k at the #WSOP Main Event. Updates will be frequent.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...39212429479940
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Uneventful first hour. Missed some flops, successfully bluffed one, had a big pair w/minimal action.
60800.
Don't recognize anyone at my table, but there's no big fish here. There is one guy in his 60s who can barely see, which is slowing down the game.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...56628379176965
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Weird final hand before break. Checked turn in position against BB who had something -- ranging from bottom pair to top pair from straight to flush. I had draw to 1-card flush.
Unsuited 7 hits, he bets 2500 (size of pot). I tank & fold. He shows 77. Ugh.
56100
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...57533010939905
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The guy bluffed earlier 3-handed with busted draw & was caught (not by me), so I considered calling -- but there really wasn't a draw to miss. Everything hit! Good fold but annoyed I got 2 outed.
Still early, obv inconsequential.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...63882025295876
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Same opponent. 75ss in blind. Flop AxKx8s. Check/check. Turn 6s. Couldn't be better. I bet, he calls. River Ts. I bet, he calls. I win, and river him this time. 61k.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...84211586146307
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AK beat AQ on a Q95KA board. Up to 77300.
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Justice for Druff!Quote:
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...91553446862848
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Not a bad level. 80k at 2nd break. We play 6 more hours.
Have one guy at the table who used to listen to @PokerFraudAlert but fell out of the habit after playing less poker. Another guy now lives in the same Vegas complex I lived in 2004-2007.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...23253291864065
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Board was 983 two diamonds. BB fired flop, I raised, button flatted, BB called.
I say to myself, "No queen of diamonds on turn!"
Turn: Qd
Of course. K5dd won hand, indeed I was best on flop. I didn't put any chips in after flop.
70k
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...29568990949386
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Didn't enjoy that level. Flopped 2 sets and got no action. There was that hand where I lost to that flush. Going to dinner with 69500, down from 80k last break.
Returning at 8:10 PT
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...48210797350926
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Whoops. I meant 7:10. Anyway, we are back. I didn't miss any hands. Returned with 1 minute to spare.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...63850023206914
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Won a nice pot, then a bit later JJ held up on a KTT8Q board. Up to 93k.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...79079683637250
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Friendly, mostly mellow table. Not the best table draw but not the worst.
90k at final break. 2 more hours of play.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...79434806894598
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Tomorrow (Monday) at 5pm PT, we will have @PokerFraudAlert Radio, including a recap of my Day 1 at the Main Event!
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...94186224394246
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I've had TT once, JJ twice, but no QQ or better today. Sad!
Very card dead this level, and I'm losing the few hands I play. Also sad!
Sitting with 80k, about 70 minutes of play remains.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...10401231749120
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When they draw how many hands left in the day at the 10 minute mark, I always seem to finish on the SB. I told the table this.
But no! I finish UTG!
Running well!
I have 87k, by the way, so not running THAT well.
#couldbeworse
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...15015905665027
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Finished day with 87400. Slipped to about 77k while card dead, then got some BACK.
Had about 94k a little before dinner, but never got back there.
Overall an okay (but not great) day 1, and probably sit at around average chips.
Day 2 is on Tuesday at 11am PST.
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As the tweet says, Day 1 was okay, but not great.
I got it up to 94k shortly before dinner, but never eclipsed that, and spun my wheels for the final 4+ hours of the day. I finished with 87,400, which should be right around average stack coming into Day 2.
We started at 100/200 blinds with a 200 BB ante, and finished with 300/600 blinds with a 600 BB ante. We go to 400/800/800 on Day 2, which begins Tuesday.
My chip stack isn't bad considering:
- I did not win any big pots
- I was never dealt QQ, KK, or AA
- I flopped 2 sets, but got almost no action. Both were against the guy to my direct right, who thought I was picking on him, but in reality I just kept getting hands against him (plus I noticed he was opening light, so I called/raised lighter against him). He had just finished semi-complaining that I was "always bluffing" him, and then I flopped my second set against him. I was waiting for him to take a stand, but sadly he check/folded the flop.
- What could have been my best pot of the night was ruined by a brutal turn card (see tweets above, where the Qd fell). I actually said in my head "Please no queen of diamonds", and there it came. On the plus side, I got out cheap, putting zero chips in after it fell.
The table draw was also what I'd categorize as "okay, not great". On the plus side, I didn't recognize anyone, and nobody had a particularly tricky or difficult-to-deal-with playstyle. On the minus side, most at the table generally knew what they were doing, and most people also generally took the attitude that they weren't going to spew off chips.
There was one really weird player at the table. This was a guy in his 60s, who seemed European, and didn't speak English well. His vision was REALLY bad. He had to lift the cards and put them up to his face in order to see them. Someone who wanted to cheat could have easily positioned a friend on the rail (though nobody did this). He also needed to stand sometimes to see the flop, and often asked people to read him the flop. You might think this was just a normal older guy with bad vision, but he also had a bizarre playstyle, often opening huge pre (like 3k-4k, with no raises in front of him), but then getting very passive postflop. Somehow I kept getting KTo whenever he did that. I probably got it like 5-6 times, and folded each one. Most of the time he wasn't entering light (because he wasn't playing that many hands), but toward the end he started opening a lot more, so I assume at that point he was. I did look him up with 9h8h in the BB against his 2k button raise (I had 600 in the BB), and flop was KhJh3s. Knowing he was passive postflop, and knowing he was opening lighter, I just donkbet the flop, and he folded. But other than some early hands with him, I never got the hands to really look up his big preflop raises, and I didn't want to do it with KTo. Not in this tournament at this stage.
People were joking about him on our end of the table (someone said he won an EPT bracelet, and then a new guy at the table was told that the guy had 3 EPT bracelets and a circuit ring), but this dude's hearing was also not very good, so it's clear he had no idea people were talking about him. Also, the guy barely spoke English.
The ages at my table were very mixed. Recall in 2019 when, at age 47, I was the youngest at my starting table by several years. Not at this one. There were two young guys (one 25, one 33), a bunch of middle aged guys, and that one older guy.
We return on Tuesday. I'm not sure how they are going to handle this, since Day 1F is also Tuesday, and it's expected to be a big field. Our Day 2 (combining with the 950-or-so total survivors from Days 1A and 1B) will probably have over 2000 players, so that should eat up a lot of the capacity. I'm not sure what they're going to do, and they haven't announced anything. We start before they do (ours is at 11am, Day 1F is at 12pm). Supposedly the WSOP assumed a bigger Day 1D field than they actually got, while at the same time understimating the likely Day 1F field. Oops.
There were rumors Day 1D would be 10-handed, which would have sucked. They decided to not do that, and instead were going to cap it at 2500 entrants, and stay 9-handed. They have announced that Day 1F might be 10-handed, and also might have alternates. Yuck.
I'll post seat assignments as soon as I get them.
The money should hit early Day 4, or possibly end of Day 3. Long way to go.
More info:
1939/2550 survived Day 1D, a staggering 76.03% of the field
Here's how the other 3 days went:
Day 1C: 433/600 (72.17%)
Day 1B: 611/845 (72.31%)
Day 1A: 348/523 (66.54%)
Not sure why such a higher percentage bagged in 1D compared to 1A.
Anyway, A/B/D combine on Tuesday. It's more players than I thought. 2898 people will return for Day 2!
My stack is also a bit better than I thought. Since 2898/3918 are returning (73.97%), the average stack is 81,118. So indeed I'm close to average, but I'm a little above, as opposed to a little below, which I had previously assumed.
What's also interesting is that my asssigned table will NOT have any Day 1A or 1B players there -- at least not initially. So looks like it will be all Day 1D players moving on to play with me at my starting table.
I guess they also didn't cap the field at 2500 like they said, as we got 2550 today.
At the moment, the WSOP has 4518 entries. They will need over 4100 players on Days 1E/1F combined in order to finish with more than 2019.
Joshua Greenberg LAS VEGAS, NV, US 94,200 Seat 1
Michael Scarborough (OH) CINCINNATI, OH, US 36,200 Seat 2
Anselmo Villarreal GREENFIELD, WI, US 105,100 Seat 3
Derek Bowers ALLIANCE, OH, US 64,800 Seat 4
Sean Kraper Apopka, FL, US 109,400 Seat 5
Adrien Delmas London, , GB 59,100 Seat 6
Todd Witteles LAS VEGAS, NV, US 87,400 Seat 7
Dean Rutledge Clemmons, NC, US 20,400 Seat 8
Shyam Srinivasan Toronto, ON, CA 206,000 Seat 9
Good news: I don't know anyone above.
Bad news: Dude two to my left has 206k
Good news: Double through Shyam once and you are chip leader at your table! Easy-Peasy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Druff
Considering people can enter on Day 2, anything over starting stack is a win! Go get-em! I'm telling the cards, "Obey my voice!"
(Thanks CM, for this strategy)
https://twitter.com/PFAJohnDaly/stat...77163868917764
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@DanDruffPoker it was good to meet up with Todd at the WSOP Main Event. Hope he doesn’t lose set over set like I did!
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...50837704794117
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35 spades on BB, was going to flat late raise, but 3-bet makes me fold. Flop 246 rainbow. Of course.
In the early goings of Day 2, I'm down to 84k.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...56254606495746
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Number of flops I've seen in first 30 min: 0
Number of females at my table this event, total: 0
Number of players at my table today who are under 30: 0
Amount of space for Day 1F players: Probably 0.
2898 players in this Day 2ABD.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...62221230411779
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Might be the first time I've played the first hour and seen zero flops. Super card dead, ran into big hands the few times I had something playable.
80k
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...66185720115201
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After not seeing a flop for 70 min, I tried to represent hitting the Q44 board holding A8 suited, betting flop when checked to, betting turn after being called, and then hitting A river. Guy had QT and I sucked out. Oops.
Up to 95k
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...69083686309891
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Picked up TT twice in a short time, not a good flop for either, no improvement, still won both.
Up to 112k
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...73987033280515
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My QJ ran into JJ which didn't 3-bet me, third guy came along. Flop A87, picked up double gutter with T on turn, but chickened out & didn't bet. Brick river & JJ took it.
Down to 99k.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...78993325154310
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Bizarre "dealer bathroom break" now, where everyone was abruptly thrown out of the room after Level 6, and told we will be out of play for an unspecified amount of time.
Something bad in the Rio water?
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...81263030829062
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After a super card dead first hour, and an uneven second hour where I bluff-backed into a winner, missed two draws, and had two unassisted TT win on bad boards, I sit with 99k while dealers use the toilet.
We return to 500/1000/1000 blinds.
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https://twitter.com/ToddWitteles/sta...84559309164550
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...02630350524420
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Only hands I seem to win today are ones where I fire from behind and river something. Did it again. I have 102k.
Much quieter table than yesterday, which had a lot of talking (and more action).
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...09493804666880
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Hijack opens to 2200. Cutoff all in 14500. I think and fold 99 very reluctantly. HJ calls, flips 77, CO shows AJ. Ugh. Board runs T6Q8 and 9 river completes straight for AJ. Glad I folded!
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...10710882701316
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Went 25k with a 4-bet against big stack preflop. Won after another 25k bet pre.
Lost 6k back to him when I had 77 on a horrible board.
122k now
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...16611769307142
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Laid down 22 against button raiser who overplayed 99 against an early raise & 2 callers. I would've flipped set and won. The guy who won (a flatter) had JJ. Sad!
Down to 115k at second break. #pfa67
https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...31650920239109
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Up to 134600. Quiet table for the most part.
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https://twitter.com/DanDruffPoker/st...45496326131713
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Had to make tough fold on T93K board to all-in after check raising turn. Fell to 109k.
Next hand QJ 3-ways, Q86 flop, I regret not leading out twice as K and A then hit. Still win.
Then win multi-way pot next hand, back to 139k.
#whew
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