World Poker Tour

[TechLion]

It looks like I'm going to miss my first Lions game in a very long time tomorrow because I will be in Niagara Falls for the WPT North American Poker Championship. For those of you that are not familiar with poker, it's the tournament that's televised on the Travel Channel every week.

If I make it past the first day, you can check to see how I am doing on the live updates at

http://www.worldpokertour.com/index.php

Many of the top pro poker players will be there so making the money is going to be extremely difficult especially with 600 people in the event. The tournament could last as long as five days. It should be a great experience for me but what I would really like to WIN!

[RussMan]

I have 2 words for you.... check raise.

Oh and 2 more... good luck.

:occasion14:

and if you go out early you can come back and join us for some LRZ Monday Night Poker in the casino...

[TechLion]

Thanks!

BTW I played poker in Windsor with Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps on Friday. It was weird to have the best swimmer in the entire world sitting next to me.

[LionNation]

Good luck John and don't be intimidated sitting next to these guys. Play your game!

[LAW]

Only one word of advise for you: WIN

[Felix]

good luck...a little luck never hurts when playing poker

[Blog]

Tech already got into a fight with Dan Harrington regarding the talent of Joey Harrington.

[Blog]

Update: Tech holding his own, probably will make it to day 2

[LAW]

Good for Tech...must be inspired by the way KJ played today.

[Vic Turner]

Any updates?

[goldenlions]

Looks like he made it past the first day. But I don't see him on the day 2 list. But they only have about a 1/3 of the players on the chip count list. So either he is really low on chips or is already out.

[TechLion]

I was knocked out at 7:30 today. I started slow in day two but worked my way back up to a reasonable chip stack. I had a golden opportunity to double up and went all in with the best hand but the guy hit his set on the river. I really needed to double up at that point because the blinds were getting very high and I needed chips going into day three. If my cards held up I would have had an excellent shot at making the money. I believe I came in something like 100th out of over 500 players mostly pros. I was upset on how I lost but I had a great time. I made some great plays on some well known pros especially JC Tran. I almost knocked him out in day one and now it looks like he is one of the chip leaders. I went their to win so I can't say I am happy about not finishing in the money but I did come out of this knowing that I can play against these guys and I learned a lot from the pro players.

[TechLion]

Looks like he made it past the first day. But I don't see him on the day 2 list. But they only have about a 1/3 of the players on the chip count list. So either he is really low on chips or is already out.

Usually in the live updates they only update how the well know pros are doing. Not sure if they will post my results tomorrow.

[Vic Turner]

Good job Tech

Play to win, can't have scared money!

[TechLion]

Thanks!

BTW I played poker in Windsor with Olympic Swimmer Michael Phelps on Friday. It was weird to have the best swimmer in the entire world sitting next to me.


I wanted to bring this post back up because I can't believe, I played poker with this kid for three hours and spoke to him a lot during that time. Dan Miller the Lions play by play guy was in the same fantasy football league as Phelps last year.

[TechLion]

Nobody probably cares but I cashed in the Doyle Brunson World Poker Tournament in Vegas. Just about five hundred enties and every single pro I could think of plays in this tounament.

Place Name Prize
56 Justin Peche (Thompson, CT, USA) $23,420
57 Manley Freid (Encino, CA, USA) $23,420
58 Russell Boyd (Columbia, MO, USA) $23,420
59 Antonio Esfandiari AKA "The Magician" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $23,420
60 Scott Dorin (Medina, NY, USA) $23,420
61 Annand "Victor" Ramdin (Bronx, NY, USA) $23,420
62 Stan Jablonski (Fort Mohave, AZ, USA) $23,420
63 Binh Nguyen (San Jose, CA, USA) $23,420
64 Tyler Hamade (Abbotsford, BC, Canada) $23,420
65 Richard Wierzba (Canada) $23,420
66 Doyle Brunson (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $23,420
67 Michael Binger (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $23,420
68 Jean-Pierre Angelil (Laval, QC, Canada) $23,420
69 Shane Pacheco (Taco Vista, CA, USA) $23,420
TIE Kristy Gazes (Van Nuys, CA, USA) $22,520
TIE Curt Kohlberg (Western, MA, USA) $22,520
72 Jim McCrink (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $21,620
73 Jon Turner AKA "Pearljammer" (Henderson, NV, USA) $21,620
74 Minh Ly (Temple City, CA, USA) $21,620
75 Vladimir Peck (Glenview, IL, USA) $21,620
76 Annie Duke (Los Angeles, CA, USA) $21,620
77 Roy Winston (Rancho Mirage, CA, USA) $21,620
78 Humberto Brenes (San Jose, CA, USA) $21,620
79 Amit Makhija AKA "amak316" (Brookfield, WI, USA) $2,162
80 Paul Niemela (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $21,620
81 Steve Billirakis AKA "MrSmokey1" (Bourbonnais, IL, USA) $21,620
82 John Corsi (Northville, MI, USA) $21,620
83 Andy Seth (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $21,620

[Massa]

Tech these are the 10k buy in's right?

first off congrads on having the money to drop into a 10k buy in tourny, second off congrads on the cash

[Felix]

Nice....good work...congrats

[def]

That's awesome Tech!

You were just 15 spots back from the master Doyle Brunson himself.

Keep it up man!