Close, but no Cigar. WSOP 2009 by Andreas Hoivold aka _Theah_

I came to Las Vegas two weeks ago looking forward to playing a lot of events and my plan was to win only two bracelets in this year’s World Series of Poker. My plan got kind of crushed after playing 8 events without making day 2! I have played a lot of different tournaments. Hold’em no limit of course, but also pot limit Omaha 8 or better and two mixed games tournaments, one H.O.R.S.E. and one with 8 games. I was really close to make day two once, but my A-Q was eliminated to K-J after being all-in preflop two hands before the end of day one.
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Since poker have been kind of useless other things has become more useful. Partying for instance. I was lucky enough to be invited to a party at Neil Channing little house here in Vegas. Or should I say Neil’s big mansion. It was a really nice house they rented here, and the party was nice! Really nice. I would not be surprised if there were more than hundred poker players visiting the party, most of them from the UK, but a few exceptions. I believe I was the only (crazy) Scandie there. But they treated me nice and I had a really good time!

It was time for my ninth event, WSOP event # 50 that was. $ 1500 Texas hold’em fixed limit shootout. Before starting day 1 I had a filming with Ladbrokes together with Nebuchad and Skalie. I got second thoughts about playing, so I did not register before 6:36 PM, 1:36 after the tournament had started. But I played a really good game, and won my first table. I was really happy about getting my first WSOP cash this year!
In the second round I continued to play well. I was on a table that took the longest to finish. We played 8 tables with 8 players this day. All the other tables were finished when I was playing an Italian that was kind of lucky.
In one hand I had him all-in preflop holding K-J. He had 9-8. The flop was the very good looking K-Q-10. But a jack on the turn and a blank on the river doubled him up.
I had him in one more time with top pair top kicker against K-6 with the six of hearts. He got the flush on the river and doubled up again.
After playing for way more than two hours heads up he managed to win with Q-9 beating my A-10. It didn’t feel good. In fact it felt really, really bad!
9th place in a WSOP event is not bad. But getting to the final table would have been so fantastic. But I guess I’ll save it for the main event!
Andreas Hoivold aka _Theah_ , Las Vegas, July 29th 2009
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