I was very disappointed not to make the Final Table of the National Championship. The freeroll represented a lot of hard work on my part. When Day Two began and I was 21st of the 35 players remaining. I could have won the damn thing. Seriously. Why not me?
I never felt overwhelmed at any point. Despite all the great players playing in this tournament, I learned these men also put thier pants on one leg at a time, same as me. Great players have the slightest edge over good players and I have said that many times. To illustrate my point, Sam Barnhart was in bad shape at the start of Day Two and went on to win the Bracelet. A trusted source has told me "Sam is really just a $20/40 Limit Holdem player from Tunica." It was just Sam's day.
I am not taking away from Sam's accomplishment, I am simply stressing I had a chance to win. I have never bad-mouthed Harrahs (now Caesars Entertainement) in anything I have ever wrote. This all changes now. I received notice I was in six days before the tournament in the form of an email. The email included special pricing codes for National Championship participants. I walked into Caesars the night before the tournament and said "I would like to get a room for three nights." The girl at the desk said "sure". I then presented the pricing codes and she said she would have to talk to her supervisor. She then made it out they could not honor the codes for Friday and Saturday, but they could work me in for the night. I talked to the suits about it in the poker room and they stated they had absolutely nothing to do with hotel rooms.
All Harrahs properties on the Strip were sold out due to Memorial Day and I ended sleeping on Christopher and Gino's couch the night before Day Two. No offense guys, that couch sucked and I got a bad night's sleep. Sunday I would moved into the Rio with Joe Dub and then extended my stay in Vegas for another week. John Richards arrived and became my roommate for the duration. We stayed at the Rio for the first four nights, moved to Ballys and on to Planet Hollywood.
I never felt overwhelmed at any point. Despite all the great players playing in this tournament, I learned these men also put thier pants on one leg at a time, same as me. Great players have the slightest edge over good players and I have said that many times. To illustrate my point, Sam Barnhart was in bad shape at the start of Day Two and went on to win the Bracelet. A trusted source has told me "Sam is really just a $20/40 Limit Holdem player from Tunica." It was just Sam's day.
I am not taking away from Sam's accomplishment, I am simply stressing I had a chance to win. I have never bad-mouthed Harrahs (now Caesars Entertainement) in anything I have ever wrote. This all changes now. I received notice I was in six days before the tournament in the form of an email. The email included special pricing codes for National Championship participants. I walked into Caesars the night before the tournament and said "I would like to get a room for three nights." The girl at the desk said "sure". I then presented the pricing codes and she said she would have to talk to her supervisor. She then made it out they could not honor the codes for Friday and Saturday, but they could work me in for the night. I talked to the suits about it in the poker room and they stated they had absolutely nothing to do with hotel rooms.
All Harrahs properties on the Strip were sold out due to Memorial Day and I ended sleeping on Christopher and Gino's couch the night before Day Two. No offense guys, that couch sucked and I got a bad night's sleep. Sunday I would moved into the Rio with Joe Dub and then extended my stay in Vegas for another week. John Richards arrived and became my roommate for the duration. We stayed at the Rio for the first four nights, moved to Ballys and on to Planet Hollywood.
