I arrived on tuesday the 19th rested then played the opening event on wednesday. played deep into the first day, but lost QQ versus A/J and was eliminated
On thursday I chose to play the pot limit omaha event and at the end of day one we had played down to 18 players in the money and went to bed at 2am, When play began on friday I was 6th in overall chip count. Pot limit omaha is a game that you have to be very patient at the high levels, and I knew that many of the remaining players didn't understand this concept. I was mostly card dead, but had managed to maintain my chip count by stealing a pot here and there. By 10pm we were down to five players three solid and two wild remained. I finally caught a big hand and doubled through one of the solid players leaving him chip crippled and he was soon eliminated. over the next hour the eventual winner had eliminated the two remaining players, and we were now head up. Although he had a three to one chip count over me I still felt that because of my experience, and the fact that by this time I was familiar with his betting patters, with a bit of luck I would trap him. However you cannot change fate or the cards,  and on our final hand with one card to come I had KK and his only win was an eight. The eight came and after 22 hours of play I congratulated him and had to settle for 2cd place.

I went to my room for some much needed rest for these old bones (69) and although I hadn't played for a few months  because of some health issues, it was pleasing to realize that I could still compete with all the young guns, who believe that I'm just another old man that thinks he can play. As indicated by the 23 year old youngster at my opening table who was being kind, and trying to give me lessons on which hands I should play, and appartently he taught me well as fate would have it I eliminated him from the event.

I plan on playing a couple more of the smaller buy in events then resting for the main event that begins on sunday.

Bill Seymour