WSOP or Bust

I believe they call this a "Party Poker Flop":

#Game No : 3727762366 ***** Hand History for Game 3727762366 *****NL Texas Hold'em Trny:20963456 Level:10 Blinds-Antes(800/1600-50) - Sunday, March 12, 20:58:58 ET 2006
Table Regular(628718) Table #15 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: NoBlackAces ( $9872 )
Seat 2: mcdeebob ( $54861 )
Seat 3: swisstrips ( $13572 )
Seat 4: pumpking ( $17161 )
Seat 5: sdguard ( $23814 )
Seat 6: D_DAY123 ( $16595 )
Seat 9: jay32jeff ( $22055 )
Seat 10: touganal ( $42086 )
Seat 8: crazyhands7 ( $13073 )
Seat 7: jerry76123 ( $31775 )
Trny:20963456 Level:10
Blinds-Antes(800/1600-50)
NoBlackAces posts ante [50].
mcdeebob posts ante [50].
swisstrips posts ante [50].
pumpking posts ante [50].
sdguard posts ante [50].
D_DAY123 posts ante [50].
jerry76123 posts ante [50].
crazyhands7 posts ante [50].
jay32jeff posts ante [50].
touganal posts ante [50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to NoBlackAces [ 9c 9s ]
mcdeebob raises [3700].
swisstrips folds.
pumpking folds.
sdguard folds.
D_DAY123 folds.
jerry76123 folds.
crazyhands7 is all-In [13023]
jay32jeff folds.touganal folds.
NoBlackAces is all-In [8222]
mcdeebob calls [9323].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, Js, 9d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jd ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3h ]
mcdeebob shows [ Kc, Kd ] two pairs, kings and jacks.
crazyhands7 shows [ Jh, Jc ] four of a kind, jacks.
NoBlackAces shows [ 9c, 9s ] a full house, Nines full of jacks.
crazyhands7 wins 6402 chips from side pot #1 with four of a kind, jacks.
crazyhands7 wins 30766 chips from the main pot with four of a kind, jacks.
Player NoBlackAces finished in 154 place

1300 players, made it to 154th. I really do not mind flopping a set, turning a full house and losing.... to QUADS. Much better than a guy calling all-in with a gutshot and hitting.

It's funny to think about: I was dead to the case 9 on the flop and drawing completely dead on the turn with a full house!

Anyways, I turned $16 into a buy-in to the WSOP satellite tonight. It just started and I won the first 3 hands on an UBER-tight table then got moved after the 3rd hand.

They pay 1 WSOP ME entry for every 55 players. Top 7 will get paid with 1 - 4 getting an entry and 5-7 getting cash.

If I do anything in this tourney for once, I'll post a full report.

**** UPDATE ***

I went out in 76th place. With blinds at 200/400, I had 16,000 in chips and picked up AK of hearts in MP. I made a standard 3 x the BB raise to 1200 and it folded around to the BB who had over 32,000 in chips. (chip leader in the tourney with 8 tables left). He re-raised and made it 3,100 to go. Did he think I was stealing from MP because I had a bunch of chips, or did he really have a hand? I hated that I was about to call and see the flop with the chip leader, but thought at worst, it was a coinflip. If I hit my flop, I push, if I miss, I lay it down and still have almost double the chips of the average stack.

Flop came J-A-2 with two diamonds. I had position on him and waited to see what he'd do. There was 7,000 in the pot and he led out and bet only 2,000. Now this means one of two things: 1) He flopped a monster and is begging for me to call or 2) He completely missed and knows I have a big ace and hopes to see the turn for cheap. I put him on option 2 and raised it to 6,000 straight. He then pushed for his last 27,000 (had me WAYYY outchipped) and I quickly called. It was then that he flipped over pocket Aces and I saw that I was drawing completely dead.

It was rough, but again... I don't mind losing to an absolute monster. He flopped a set of aces and I flopped top par with top kicker. I don't think I could play it any differently. Just rotten luck, I guess. The worst thing about it? After the guy won that hand, he had over 50,000 in chips. About 10 minutes later, he ended up dumping more than 35,000 with the sucker-end of the straight against the nuts. He didn't even cash.

Overall, I played extremely well. I outlasted 70% of the field and when I went out, I went out with a real hand. I had 16,000 in chips when the average was under 9,600.

Best of all, I had a real shot at winning a $10,000 seat, hotel and travel accomidations and $1,000 spending cash... all for a $16 investment.

"I'll be baaack"