Yesterday I decided to take another day off from the tournament, slept late, had a meal delivered to the room and watched a little TV. Then as I turned my computer on around midnight to see what was happening online, I saw "LadyMarmelade," the biggest pot limit Omaha loser of the year. You can't let a chance like that go. I got myself into the game without thinking about what I had planned for the next day.
Just ten minutes later I had lost three buy-ins against three and four outs. I ended up sitting at my laptop until 5 in the morning and then called it quits with a small gain and went straight to sleep. I had set the alarm for ten, but then just didn't manage to wake up after having played the entire night. I woke up at 12:15 and not even an hour later I was sitting in the pot limit Omaha tournament for a 1,500 dollar buy-in.
Right at the onset I was able to double and built up my stack further. With an average of 6,000 I had roughly 10,000 in chips at this point. Then came two pots that I couldn't win, in which I held aces of one suit in my hand, which cost me about 8,000. Shortly after that I went all-in with a 15 outs drawing hand, but didn't buy and with that my first PLO appearance in Vegas was already history.
Meanwhile, the limit Hold'em tournament for 2,000 dollars had already begun. Briefly I thought about whether or not I should even buy in, since I could still feel the after-pains of the night before, but never mind that – off I went to the registration and into a new tournament.
I must honestly say that it would have been better if I had left this tournament alone and had rested up for the 3,000 dollar H.O.R.S.E tournament on the next day, since after about 3 ½ hours this tournament was over for me too, without even having won a single pot.
So I headed off to my hotel and the realization buzzed around in my head again that playing a tournament without sleep is near impossible, since if I had stayed in the tournament, I would have had to have played at least twelve hours and that's not easy. So a small tip to all of my dear readers: should you be planning to fly to Vegas sometime for the WSOP, go about doing so relaxed and well-balanced, because otherwise there's no point. On that note, I'm going to relax now for tomorrow's H.O.R.S.E event, and then, of course, report back to you again afterwards about how it went for me.
Your Markus Golser
