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Jim’s World Series of Poker® Adventure
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buy-in made her want to gamble it up and either get some chips to go all the way. e pros don’t want to survive for 12 hours to crawl into $2,000 cash.
WSOP Main Event runner-up Steve Dannenman told me, “I did so well last year because I didn’t have aces as many times as I should have.”
ere is a saying in poker that with (pocket) aces you win small pots and lose big pots. But I also felt like if I
were going to have a chance to do well, I would have to be cracking aces once in a while. Does this mean I was hoping to get super lucky? No. It meant I couldn’t just play pre- op poker. I was going to have to get in there and mix it up and try to nd spots when the price was right to play drawing hands and try to outplay my opponents.
Well, for better or worse, later in the tournament, I found myself playing for almost all of my chips with a
TJ. I had a healthy stack and was really in contention to make the money. Over half of the 2,800-peson eld had dropped.
Come back next week to nd out whether I chickened out to survive or if I went for broke.
SPOILER ALERT: Jim Mercurio is a writer/ lmmaker and poker player. His lm Hard Scrambled will be out on DVD soon. He cashed in his rst-ever WSOP event in June. You can contact him at jim@jamespmercurio.com.