first blog entry...and what a day to do it

hello whoever is reading this. my name is raj and i am currently a professional poker player living in las vegas. i play mostly on pokerstars under the name "whaassuuppp". for those of you wondering...i created the name back in 2000 or something when those budweiser commercials were really popular. if only i had known it would be the name i am referred to as among the poker community, i probably would have thought of something a little more creative. anyway, this blog will entail some poker stories, and other random, general crap i feel like talking about. i created this site back in january and wanted to start writing then...i guess 9 months off isn't too bad to start my new years resolution?

so, i am primarily a heads up sng player, but i like to dabble in the occasional tournament. ive had some decent success, and its nice to have some change in my daily regimen. well...the last few days i have been playing a bunch of satellites into the wcoop. i won a couple entries and had 10k worth of w$. now...i wanted to SAVE those w$ whether it be for next years WSOP or a WPT event. but i also wanted to keep playing the event satellites. except for one little problem. pokerstars forces you to register with w$ in the event satellites if you have them available. you can't pay with cash. now my goal was to save it, and use cash to play whatever satellites i wanted to. so i had this genius plan on saturday to register for the 10k wcoop event to be played on sunday, which would eliminate all of my w$, so i could freely use my cash to pay for whatever other tournaments i wanted to....and just unregister when i was done playing my little satellites. oopsy.

sunday morning rolls around, im watching the magic of brett favre....and im in a 330 HU game. in the middle of the game, a window pops up with 9 people sitting at the table. my heart started to race, and i had no idea what that table was. i pull up the lobby, and i see its the 10k wcoop event. oh man. i had forgotten to unregister from the previous night after my satellites!!!! i was in total panic mode. i tried to sell portions of myself so i wouldn't have to take a 10k hit if things didn't go well. so i sold some of it, but still had a decent chunk of the buy in. the field was among the best i have ever seen in an online tournament. the caliber of play was very high. stacks started off at 25k and the levels were 30 minutes. it seemed like we were playing for days. and all the added anxiety sure didn't help the situation.

i was doing pretty well in the tournament, and won a huge 99 vs. ak race right around bubble time. it put me safely into the money, which was such a huge relief. it could have been a really disastrous day, but to slip into the money was amazing. shortly thereafter, i shoved with 6's in EP...i was pretty short, and got two callers. uh oh. 66 vs. kk vs. qq. BANG 6 right on the flop!!!! back up to the average stack, and things were looking bright again. i moved tables, and was on a very aggressive table. i went totally card dead, and the couple times i tried to make a move, i got reshoved on. i finally picked up 88 in the BB against a button raise....it got all in he had 77. the day was done as a 7 spiked the flop. i finished 29th out of 320 in a very tough field. i know if i won that hand with 88, i coulda been talking about a 6 figure score, but all things considered....it was a great day. oh...and i just emailed stars support to see if they could add a feature to select w$ or cash on their registration button. please help me out and do the same! i guess today...it paid to be a forgetful idoit.