Poker League Season 10 is starting, first game is 11/23/13, not sure who's hosting as of yet, but it should be a great season. 10 is a great number for me to finally get my name on the Trophy, right? Also in November, The Rivers casino is hosting another Pittsburgh Poker Open, Winter Series from November 21st to December 2nd. I'll be playing in at least 2 tournaments. My early prospects are Events #2, #8, #10, and/or #13 with the possibility of playing in a 55+7+3 satellite for the Main. All of these are normal NLHE, except Event 10 is a 6-max. It would be really awesome to cash in one of these, even more awesome to cash enough that I could buy-in to the Main Event. Events #2, #8 and #13 have a 5K guarantee, which is nice, but I also want to test out my 6-max ability in Event #10, however it's on a Monday night with no guarantee, so I'll have to gauge how much popularity the other tournaments are bringing in to see if no guarantee would be worth it.
Also November had the WSOP Champion be crowned, Congratulations to Ryan Riess, who defeated Jay Farber Heads up last Tuesday night. He's actually who I picked to win the entire thing based on ESPN's November 9 photo. I actually thought he looked like what I envisioned the 2013 Winner to look like. And I actually thought, after reading one of ESPNs articles last week that Riess was actually Newhouse. When I got home Monday night and started watching the coverage, I first saw the list of who was still in and who was knocked out and saw Newhouse 1st out and I was like, crap, I was way wrong...until I saw the actual table and Newhouse was actually Riess. After watching 4 hours of the footage prior to passing out on the couch I thought I made a good pick, Riess played really well, picking spots, building his stack, letting others make moves against each other and striking when opportunity knocked.
Once Riess got stacks even after the hand he held Jacks I figured there was no easy way Farber would be able to overtake Riess. I believe Reiss took the lead for a few, then Farber, then Riess whittled him down to 77K vs 113K. Then arguably, the hand of the night happened: Riess opened to 2.5M, Farber calls, flop is 7c-3s-3 rainbow. Farber checks, Riess bets out 3M, Farber calls. 2c on the turn and Riess bets out 5M, to which Farber raises to 13M, after some thought, Riess calls. At this point I really thought with stacks the way they are and the pot the size it is, 38M, Farber either has to give up or make a huge bet. I also thought it would be tough for Riess to get away from most hands he'd have played this way, too. 9s hits the river and Farber bets out 24M, leaving him with, I think something like 30M+ behind. I thought that it's a tough call, but it appeared to me that Riess, unless he was hoping to make a similar play on a checked river and had nothing, he'd find it hard to fold. I also felt like a had a really nice read on Farber and he looked really weak to me, very similar to a couple hands he was weak with the night before. Farber played his hand like he had a 3 or a boat or nothing. I suppose it would be easy for me to say I'd be able to call in Riess' shoes, but something just seemed funny and I like to think I could've made that call(though you can't raise there, ever.). Riess thought for 6+ minutes and folded, he must have thought something smelled funny, too, but didn't want to fall too far behind in case he was wrong and there's merit in that, too.
Farber had 5-6 for 6-high and Riess had Q-7 for a pair of 7s, top pair until the river 9.
Riess was able to come back from that and retake the chip lead, whittled Farber down a lot faster, and had a few better hands while Farber ended up having a few 2nd best hands when Farber shoved with Q-5 and Riess woke up with AK to make the easy 15BB shove call and become the next WSOP Champion. It was pretty awesome to see how much it meant to him to win, he teared up. I believe he'll be a good champion/ambassador for the game in the next year!
Update(11/11/13)
Poker League is on November 23rd and looks like it'll be hosted at Chivers place. Excited to see his place, he just bought it in the last year I think.
Excited to get the next group of tournaments I'm playing under way!! Be they Poker League or Rivers PPO Winter Series.
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