Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Anyway, I cashed. Not the greatest day. My won-loss record of pots entered versus pots won was horrendous. Fortunately I was able to avoid losing much on any single hand, played small ball for the most part, and did get one cooler in my favor where I had nut flush versus Q high flush.

Didn't take any bad beats, either.

I just realllly did badly regarding both running into huge hands pre and missing flops (or them hitting way better than me).

But I survived, cashed, and have average chips coming into Day 4 (385k), so it could be worse.

High chips was 550k for me.

I spent almost the entire day above the 300k mark I came in with.

I did run a nice bluff late in the day on a JJ6 board against two people when I had air.

Day 3 has tortured me this decade. After making mid-late Day 6 in 2010 (88th), I made Day 3 in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2017, all with reasonable chips, and failed to cash all four times. Had things gone a little differently, I could have cashed in 6 of the 10 Mains in the 2010s. Instead I'll have to settle for 2-for-10. Still, I'd love to make this one a deep run, and will need some luck going forward.

This is my second consecutive WSOP cashing 4 times, despite entering a limited number of events.
Technically, you’ve only “reached the money”. Because if for some bizarre reason the tournament director boots you and takes away your chips before you get paid, you will not have cashed. And this tourney *is* run by Caesars, so who knows *what* might happen. Right?