For all of my blog readers, who aren't really interested in the poker content I sometimes write about, (Joann), you are about to be inundated these next few days as the Main Event of the World Series of Poker has begun. As previously mentioned, Michael played yesterday on Day 1c. Play lasted for ten plus hours and he made it through Day 1 and on to Day 2 which begins on Wednesday. The day ended in Vegas at 1AM which was 4AM my time. I stayed up until then following all of the action on http://www.pokernews.com/. I'd like to thank Pokernews for this great picture. There were 1928 players who started and when they had finished, they were down to 1026. Of the remaining one thousand plus players, Michael is in 14th place with 123,025 chips which is quite an accomplishment.
Since Day 1 was divided into four separate days, all of the remaining players from each day will move on to Day 2a and 2b. At that point, there should be about 3000 players out of a field of approximately 6500. So he still has a lot of work to do but it's certainly nice going into Day 2 as one of the chipleaders.
I wasn't sure if he'd get any mention on Pokernews because of the huge number of players but there were two different cases where he was mentioned....
Dmitri Nobles Eliminated
Let no man say that Dmitri Nobles doesn't like to move his chips. With an Ad 10d 2h 5c Qh board showing, all the money was in the middle with Nobles holding top pair with Ac Kd. But Michael Martin flopped a set with 10h 10c and grabbed up all of Nobles' chips. Dmitri is out of the Main Event and Martin is now sitting with one of the biggest stacks in the tournament with 103,000.
(I'd like to add here that 10 10 is one of Michael's favorite hands so it was nice to see him take down a huge pot with it)
Top Chip Stacks
The top chipped players as the final Day 1c levels begin:
Michael Martin 98,800
Brian Rast 94,500
Brad Booth 90,000
Diogo Borges 84,000
Igor Ioffe 78,000
Martin Dartin' Up Leaderboard
Michael Martin just eliminated an opponent when his 4d 4s cracked the shorter-stacked player's Ad Ac. Martin flopped a four, and they got it all in the middle thereafter. Martin has tripped up to 105,000.
This is from http://www.pokerlistings.com/ recap of Day 1C and it says it all....
"There's also a huge number of big time pros who managed to weave their way through the mind field that is a Main Event Day 1, including David Baker, Arnaud Mattern, David Singer, "Yukon" Brad Booth , and EPT Grand Final final tablist Michael Martin, who all have over $100k."
So I get three days of rest before play begins again for him on Wednesday. A number of his friends are playing today and, hopefully, they too will make it through to Day 2 and then I can update you on all of their progress. As they say in poker, I hope they all go "deep."
3 comments:
Even though my eyes may glaze over when I see the words "flip" and "flop" and "flopped a set" and "down the river" (or up the creek) and so on, I DO like to know how Michael is doing.
And then there is always the added pleasure of seeing something like this " through the mind field" and I have to remind myself that this writing is not a great literary effort or the writer would know that it is MINE field. LOL
Hope you can take a nap on Wednesday if you are staying up late. That's my birthday, so maybe it will be his lucky day.
LOL -- I looked at that "mind field" expression and even though the usual term is mine field, it was a play on words since poker is such a mind game.n The writing at pokernews happens to be very clever. If it wasn't, I would have thought they had made an error as well.
Here's hoping that he's very lucky on your birthday.
The writing at pokernews.com may be clever, but that does not mean s/he didn't write the wrong term. Cleverness is not an excuse for that, IMHO, of course. I have seen some awkward writing there. You know me, ever the editor. LOL
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