So, right now its the World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP), the 2-7 triple draw event. There were 750-odd entrants, and we’re down to 450 with me having around average chips. Actually i’ve been average or above the whole way. I was drawn on the same table as Isabel Mercier and Victor Ramdin, which is a tough draw, but I outlasted Ramdin already, coz he’s out, and now Bill Chen has arrived at my table 
) Its good fun – i’ve made a few errors but generally played my usual very tight game, getting paid off with the best hand. One of my mistakes was commented on by Ramdin after i beat him in a pot, which wasn’t particularly classy of him.
Its midnite – Blinds now 150/300 and i have 4775. Isabel has about half that, but Chen has about the same as me. I’m 212th out of 397 remaining, with 108 getting paid. I’ll update this post as we go.
Won a couple of reasonable pots then lost a big one to Isabel when my 86 was beaten by the nuts. However, i’ve just won a massive 3 way pots to get up to 6800, when Chen was pat all the way and i made a 7 ont eh 2nd draw. Dont know what the 3rd giuy had, but he called the raises all the way. 371 left.
00:15 – Blinds at 200/400. Chen is down to 1500. Given the 3 name pro’s at the table, there are a lot of observers posting comments supporting them all. Its pretty tiresome to be honest. One guy asked Isabel for an autograph ) So anytime a pro wins a hand, there’s cheering in the comments box. It would be nice to outlast them all.
00:30 – There are some big stacks on my table now. I’m still average, but i’m 5th out of the 6 on the table.
00:32 – Lost a big one, drawing 1 to the nuts and missing by a mile. Pots are very expensive to play now, i can only afford to lose another 1 or 2. Have to win the next one that goes to a showdown or i’ll be crippled… Down to 4k, 239th out of 290 remaining.
00:45 – Lost another one drawing 1 to the nuts. Down to 2.5k. Its turning into a repeat of the WSOP. And now we’re on a break. Any decent draw i get now i need to play hard and fast, there’s no point being left with a pitiful number of chips.
01:00 – Decided to go all the way with 367, missed all of my draws all the way against the big stack but took the pot with a stone cold bluff at the end, when i had a pair of 6’s. Still alive… 206th of 250, 3.5k.
01:05 – Massive pot, 6.k – won it with an 8 on teh last draw with 2345 in hand. Up to 7.5k, 125th. Then, made the nuts and up to 9k, then lost another 1-draw-to-the-nuts and back to 8.2k, now 89th of 220. Blinds now 300/600. Won a couple of pots, up to 10k for the first time, 92nd of 212.
01:20 – Bill Chen is out. Another pro gone. Blinds at 400/800, 114th of 195.
01:40 – 96th of 164, just beat Isabel in a decent pot to go back up to over 10k, but thats someway short of average at this stage.
01:45 – In trouble now. Lost a pot when drawing 1 to the nut 8. Drew an ace, then an ace, then an ace. Then lost a pot ehn my 86 was beaten by an 85. Down to 4.5k, 142nd of 158. Tilting.
01:50 – Stays alive by hitting a 7. Back up to 7.5k, 120th of 147. Blinds gone to 500/1k. Another draw-1-to-the-nuts sees me back in trouble…
01:55 – On a break. 129th of 141 remaining. I’m starting to think that when i get dealt hands like 2,3,5,7 i should just fold them, coz its always, without fail, those hands that cost me all my chips. The chance of hitting the out you have seems so small, and its so expensive to play all the streets, that these hands just bust you. But you can’t fold them, can you… The hands i’m winning with are the ones where i’m drawing 2 cards, improving on the first draw and winning without a showdown.
02:00 Back at 10k after hitting a 7 against Isabel for a big pot, and then making my play of the night, whcih was to stand pat with a 9 behind someone else standing pat, and winning with a better kicker. And then lost with an 87 to an 86, back to 7.5k again. This is painful. Won with a pat 8, up to 9.5k, lost when my 8 was beat by a 7, back down to 4.5k. This game is such a crock.
02:10 OUT. Outdrawn horribly to take me down to a miserly 800 and then lost in a 4 way pot. Finished in 130th, just 22 places out of the cash out of a field of 750 or so. Pleased with the showing, but gutted at the disgusting way i lost, it really is a sick sick sick game, make no bones about that. TDL tilts me in a way that hold ‘em never can.
Maybe i’ll play some other WCOOP’s…