One of the best things about Twitter is that it forces you to be brief and get to the point. With Facebook and email you can witter on endlessly, boring everyone around and making everyone forget what the initial point to the story or message was. This isn’t the case with Twitter and when Sam Trickett (@Samtrickett1) updated his status from Australia, it was fairly obvious how his latest poker game panned out.
Lasted 2 hands today! Pretty annoying to get out of bed for that…..
That is not the sort of tweet you want to see from anyone but given that Trickett was looking to push on in the hunt for a WSOP bracelet, it is doubly disappointing. There is still an awful lot of poker to be played at the WSOP-APAC festival but every time you get knocked out of an event, it is understandable that your nerves will increase and your confidence will dip a bit further. It can only be hoped that Trickett bounces back from this quickly and to be fair, even the best players know that they lose a lot more than they win. It is how you bounce back from defeat that marks you out as being a top poker player and you can bet that Trickett will be on hand sooner rather than later!
Poker players fell quickly
The PLO event at the 2013 WSOP-APAC is the second event where a bracelet went up for grabs. More than 170 players were involved at the start of the play and by the end of 8 levels of poker play on the first day; this had been whittled down to 29 players. By Monday morning, there were a total of 10 players in the running.
At this point, Jim Collopy was in the lead with respect to chips, holding 207,000 while Dan Shak was in second place holding 122,000 chips. There was a fair spread all the way down to 10th place with Scott Reid looking nervously over his shoulder. Reid was holding on to 29,000 chips at this point but of course, a lot can happen in a moment or two at a poker table.
The final table is scheduled to begin at 12pm local time and play will continue until the event is done. This means that there will be a WSOP bracelet making its way to another player before too long, it’s just a shame that it won’t be going to Sam Trickett.
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