WSOP 101: Making the Final Table

The Main Event has shed 84 players from yesterday to leave us with 101 players. Phil Ivey is the lone mega star left and is doing well in the top 25. Another pro, Kenny Tran is hanging on but is dead last with 262,000 chips.

Peter Eastgate and Prahlad Friedman are in the 50-75 range. Dennis Phillips and Antonio Esfandiari are looking even better with both placing in the top 35.

I have a very good feeling about Ivey. He’s much different from other pros in that he doesn’t play with fear. He has ice in his veins and a cut throat mentality at the table. A lot of other players freeze up their play once the field shrinks as they fear getting knocked out. I have to admit that this would probably be me.

My strategy would be to make as much money as possible. I’m a money man. I would love to have the most prestigious bracelet in the world but my eyes would focus solely on raising my increments of money – even at the final table. I’d probably only act on the nuts or near nuts. Of course, I may actually play different than I think but I do know lasting as far as possible would be my primary concern. I’m not a fame guy or a prestige guy. Just give me the cash.

Of course many of Ivey’s opponents are thinking more along the lines of me. I think Ivey is going to take advantage of these amateurs concern for finances and chip away off smaller chip stacks.

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