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Keep Things In Perspective


2007-07-02 14:46:53
By: Gene Bromberg

The World Series Main Event starts in just four days and, since I've been here since the WSOP started on June 1st, you may want to know if I have any advice to offer. Any little tidbits or hints that might help you wind your way to the final table, fame, untold riches, etc.

Uhh, not really. Beyond my usual advice of "make the best decisions you can and let the cards take care of themselves" I have no additional insights on how to make a deep run. Well, maybe just one--if you're the chipleader at your table at the dinner break, that does NOT mean you should start picking out an outfit to wear at the final table. I can't tell you how many times I've seen overexcited newbies walking around on Day One with cell phones pressed to their ears as they tell their buddies back home, "Yeah, I have like twenty thousand right now...yeah...can you get a flight out tomorrow morning? And guess what? Phil Hellmuth was playing two tables away! Yeah!!"

These poor souls don't realize how much work goes into making a final table, how you can win a dozen coin flips, crack Aces, and flop the nuts three hands in a row...and then get crippled on one bad hand. One bad hand that erases hours of hard work and leaves you feeling like someone punched you in the gut. Successful players shrug off those hits and go back to stealing blinds and chipping up. Un-successful players either turtle and try to protect those precious remaining chips (impossible in the face of rising blinds and antes) or they go berserk and start blindly shoving in the hopes that a few quick double-ups will bring them back to their former glory days. Either strategy is far more likely to land you on the rail than in the money.

So if you knock out a few players at your table early on, hit a few big hands after the second break, and maybe even see you name somewhere on the leaderboard when you're sent to dinner, just remember that you have a long, long, LONG way to go. That's the case if you're playing a 3-day $1,500 event, and it's especially true when you talk about the marathon that is the $10,000 Main Event. Stay cool.


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