Eric Lynch (Rizen) Reviews the 2006 WSOP: Part 2



In my last column, I talked about my 2006 WSOP, in particular the Pot Limit Hold’em event. I covered a lot of the early tournament play that brought me up beyond my starting stack and got me cruising through to the middle stages of the tournament. The middle stages were mostly a grind and there weren't a lot of significant hands involved. I kind of cruised my way to about 27 players left and, at that point, hit a bit of a wall. I had never really played much Pot Limit Hold’em before (although tons of No Limit) and started to, for the first time in the tournament, get short-stacked. I wasn't sure what to do in a Pot Limit tournament where you I couldn't go all-in and let myself bleed down in chips until I was 21st out of 21 players left. I distinctly remember the following series of hands that took me from 21/21 to 1/10 and eventually 1/9 going into the final table. The first one was probably the toughest. I was able to figure out enough at the table to know that my best bet when I couldn't just shove all-in was to find a spot ...

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