TV and Turningstone

Yesterday my WSOP final table episode aired on ESPN. I decided to have a small party at a local restaurant with friends and family to celebrate. About an hour before the episode, I got a call from a friend saying that the Cardplayer website was claiming a different episode was suppose to air at that time. This made me a little nervous because I also looked at the TV guide earlier in the day and the info section said it was a no limit event, but mine was a pot limit event. I really thought it wasn't going to come on and I felt really stupid for telling a bunch of people I was going to be on tv and even had a party for it. Luckily, my episode did air and everything was great. It was an open bar with lots of different appetizers and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. I didn't get as much tv time as I thought I would (they cut out my dramatic 99 vs. the AJ of Jason Lester where he hit a Jack on the river to take half my stack), but I can't complain as some of the other lesser known people hardly got any time at all. Travis Rice got really screwed. He's one of the more well known internet players and he did really well at this year's WSOP, and they didn't show one of his hands. They even further debased him by showing him shaking hands with everyone after a commercial break as he busted (didn't even include the bust out hand!!) You really do have to have a bracelet or be very well known for ESPN to truly focus on you. They did give me a shout out about me buying a lot of flat screen tv's so that was funny. I also stumbled upon this at the Bluff website: http://www.bluffmagazine.com/players/playerBIOs.asp?playerID=29298&pagecolor=FFFFFF#.


It gives all of the results of the tournaments I have cashed in during my lifetime, so if I don't keep track, I at least know where to look.

I'm leaving for Turningstone in about an hour, and I'm excited to play some live poker again. I think I will be playing in 2 or 3 tournaments, and then some cash games if I don't fare well in the tournaments. This tournament typically gets the youngest crowd because you only have to be 18 to play, but it definitely attracts the best online players. I remember last year when I wasn't as accomplished at poker (compared to now)during this tournament, I went to go into the cash game room, and there was a 25/50 NL game running and the average age was probably around 20. I'm definitely going to try and play some 5/10 and 10/20 but if it's filled with a bunch of internet kids, I will probably just play 20/40 or 30/60 limit with the old calling stations. It would be really nice to go super deep in the 5k event, even though I will most likely be staked again. Either way, I am there til Sunday so I should have plenty of opportunities to make some money...