Ms. M makes the Top Ten at Bay 101 $2000 Event

I was one spot away from the WPT Spotlight Link (World Poker Tour) http://www.worldpokertour.com/players/?x=womenplayers&womenplayers=1

As most of you know I fallen on the Poker wagon and have been doing pretty well with it. I mostly play no-limit cash games but wanted to play the WPT-WSOP that San Jose Bay 101 is hosting this week. I occasionally go to Bay 101 and play some cash games where I've also met some new friends.

On Sunday I played my first WPT Event for a buy in of $2000, which half was staked. If I place in the money I would give the sponsor 40%. My current sponsor is a player that I met at Bay 101 who usually plays the $100-$200 limit game. The game started with 250 players and about 40 pro players (Todd Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Gavin Smith, Steve Wong, Miami John etc.) with everyone starting with 10,000 in chips at 11:15 am.

I got down to the final table of ten players (seven of the ten were pros) with $70k in chips, with the average chip count at $300k. At this point it was 2:00 am with a few breaks in between, sitting next to Todd Bronson, across from Miami John. The next player eliminated would end the days round for the true final table on Monday 3/12 at 4:00 pm. The first hand we played at the ten seated table was with a guy who was short stacked going all in and the larger stack next to him going all in as well. The short stack shows pocket queens, the large stack shows pocket kings. (I'm thinking to myself “wow, I'm really going to make the final table tomorrow.�) the flop is a blank, blank, blank, turn is a blank, river is a queen. I was sick…. Another short stack goes all in, gets called from a larger stack with a worse hand, and doubles up the short stack. The blinds are at $4000-$8000, ante of $200 and I'm in the small blind looking at A-8, in seat six. Seat two limps in; I call the four thousand and big blind checks. The flop is 2-2-2 at which point I'm first to act. I'm thinking my ace is best and bet out half my stack, big blind folds and seat two goes all in. I'm in a dilemma, which I'm now pot committed, I call, seat two shows pocket tens I don't get any more help and I'm out of the tournament. My payout was $7500, with 1^st place receiving $175k.

If I would have been able to make the next day, I would have at least made an additional $2500 or much more, had an article in Mercury News (this writer from Mercury News was preparing this story about me if I made the final table), I would also have been tracked by WPT with my wins on the website.

M

Comment from AM: Next time I am willing to stake Ms. M. Or, perhaps she can give me some lessons!@

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