Kapow!

The picture says it all - our first representative to play in the World Series of Poker this year, ran good and ran deep in last Tuesday's' WSOP Event #12, a $1500 No Limit Hold-em event.

Eric L. found himself accumulating chips early on and kept that momentum going, at the end of day 1 he was one of the chip leaders with over 100,000 in tournament units!  There were just 275 players still alive out of almost 1800 that had started the day, and Eric had a lions share of their chips.

I can't put into words how excited I and the rest of the gang were.  We followed the chip counts with great interest and even got to read through a couple of hands on the official news stream.

This was his biggest pot that was reported on - it was at this point that we all got super pumped.



This was another enjoyable one.

Then as the dinner break came and went on Day 2, Eric texted us to tell us that he was out.  This is how the hand that crippled him went down.

And so that was that.  But what a run!  Eric finished 36th out of nearly 1800 players!  He collected almost $10,000 in prize money, 40% of which will be shared among the other satellite participants. This amounts to almost $500 apiece, a tidy nearly $100 profit for our endeavor!

We are free rolling with Jeff G. who plays a week from Saturday.  Hope you can play and run as well as Eric did Jeff!

Again - a huge congratulations to Eric, you did us proud my man!  What a run!  I've never known anyone who did what you did.  I am super happy, a little bit jealous, but mostly proud that our little game brought the pain to the WSOP!  Bravo!

Hopefully Eric will do a little write up for this blog and the main PSP blog as well.  Can't wait to hear more about the adventure!