Thank Goodness that this isn't the $1500 Omaha Hi/Lo tournament I played a few weeks ago. In that tournament, I was at a table filled with complete lunatics, and it played more like a $5 re-buy tournament than a $1500 WSOP event. Today's event, went much different. My table actually played textbook Omaha Hi/Lo -- if there is such a thing. We started the day with 4000 chips, and I ended the day with 31,000 chips -- while the tournament average is 27000.

Today, June 6th, I decided to play in the 6-handed NL Holdem tournament at Binion's Horseshoe Casino. If I did well in this tournament, I was planning to play the $1500 short-handed NL Holdem event the following day. As you can tell from the title of this blog entry, I didn't do so well in the tournament. But I did do quite well in the cash games afterwards.

This year's tournament didn't go nearly as well as last year. Last year started rough, but I kept my cool and perservered to build a healthy chip stack which gradually took me to the final table. This year, my table played more like a $5 re-buy tournament at PokerStars than a $1500 buy-in at the World Series of Poker.

The road to this year's WSOP has been a long one. It really all started the day after I finished 6th place in last year's WSOP Omah Hi/Lo event. In the year since my 6th place finish, I've won five tournaments, placed second in another five; and in the process won over $9,000 in these small stakes tournaments.

Today I set off for the 2007 World Series of Poker. I'll be playing in two events this year: