Adam Junglen

Well, I busted Day 2 of the WSOPE ME. It was a roller coaster-ish day, with my high point being 85k, and my bustout hand being for a 60k pot going into 500/1k/100.

Blah.

EPT London sold out, and I’m somewhat burnt out. I decided to transfer my seat to my friend Dan, and catch a flight home. I’d much rather take the small equity hit and increase my happiness EV in a spot like this. It’ll be nice to have a week off to relax before WPT Niagara, and I’ve got one of my best friends in town visiting as well.

-Adam

Another quickie blog coming…

After five 2 hour levels (with 2hr dinner break/20min breaks after each level/13hr+ day), I ended Day 1B of the WSOPE ME with 41k – an average stack heading to day two.

I had a pretty “meh” table draw, which didn’t break all day. We only lost one opponent (Alex Jacob, no less) in the first 4 levels, and then a few short stacks busted during the last level of the day. So, basically everyone nitted it up, and it took hands running into each other for chips to trade hands. I kicked it up when the ante levels started and considering how the table played out – am content with my average stack.

Play starts back up in 2.5hrs and I’m on like 6hrs of sleep. Hopefully it’s another long day…

-Adam

Yesterday I played out the £1,500 WSOPE final table. Leading the tournament “wire to wire” and starting the final table with 795k (1/3rd of the chips in play), I really felt great about my chances to top 3 or better. Unfortunately, there seemed to be very little I could do to prevent my demise.

Early on during the FT I lost a small 200k flip to Jesper Hougaard (AK < 99). Roughly an orbit and a half later at 6k/12k/1k I opened to 33k with A9o from UTG+1 (8 handed) and it folded around to Jesper in the BB. He re-raised all-in for 138k more. I tanked and decided I had enough information to make a soul-read/call based on table dynamics. My read was right as he showed A4s. I believe the board ran QT5A4 and just like that I was down to 500k or so – still a top stack.

I maintained solid focus and don’t feel as though I let those pots bother me too much. I steadily recovered, winning my share of pots without showdown to build back up to over 650k. At the 8k/16k/2k level I got into an unavoidable coin-flip in a pot worth over 700k with J-J vs Yevgeniy Timoshenko’s AKs, all-in pre.

….If you can’t tell by now, I didn’t win a single all-in pre confrontation at the final table =/ After losing the flip I called a 190k UTG shove at 10k/20k/4k (6 handed) with AQo from UTG+1. My opponent held AKo, and then I busted out shortly after.

6th place paid £28.5k, or roughly $53k.

I’m honestly trying to think of a way to express my disappointment, but like….whatever. Just a silly WSOP final table, although the style points for winning a bracelet at my age would’ve been pretty sweet.

I don’t see how I could possibly skip the PLO tomorrow, then playing 1B of the main.

Thanks for the support everyone, there’s plenty more final tables to come though.

-Adam

Again, I’m extremely tired and play resumes in like 10 hours, so this will be brief.

But, I’m chipleader going into the final table of the WSOPE 1.5k. I’m playing very well, and am super-motivated. The stacks aren’t that deep at the final table, but I’m confident in my play with this type of structure.

Told you it’d be brief.

-Adam

Play just ended, and I’m too tired to give a detailed report….

But uhhh, I’m chipleader. Daniel ended day 1A as the chipleader with 73k, so I had to outdo that. I ended Day 1B leading the pack with 84.2k. I think I played pretty well, let’s hope tomorrow goes as well as today did.

Sorry, but that’s all. I’m pretty tired and need some sleep. Pokernews seems to have the best coverage if you want to check it out.

Later,

-Adam

I had a pretty good time in Barcelona. Watching a couple of my friends go deep in the tournament was fun and motivating. I was also asked to do a little bit of commentary for the EPTlive stream which was a pretty cool experience. Randal ended up taking 13th after grinding a short stack all day and never catching much of a break.

Around 1:00am on the 15th I realized I had a flight to catch to Malta 10 hours later. I hadn’t talked to Tommy (skier_5, who I’d planned on flying with) or Shaun Deeb who was also coming along. I e-mailed, texted, and sent numerous IM’s to Tommy without a response. I packed up half of my stuff, set an alarm for 8:10am and passed out around 2:30am. After hardly any sleep and looking at flights from Barcelona to London (and contemplating going back to sleep) I finally got ahold of Tommy and Shaun at about 8:45am. I frantically threw the rest of my stuff in my luggage and made it to the taxi by 9:00am. At the airport Shaun’s ticket (for some unknown reason) was cancelled. After going from kiosk to kiosk, dealing with airline employees who hardly spoke english, we found the right place to purchase the ticket.

We had 5 minutes to spare

Pretty stressful start to a relaxing stop between tournaments. I’m glad I came though. Tommy’s place is really nice and Malta’s a pretty chill city.

Originally I had planned on flying to London on the 23rd, but I’m really anxious/super-motivated to play some more live tournaments. Shaun hadn’t booked the first half of his London trip, so we decided to book a hotel/flight to make it for the £1,500 WSOPE event, which is on the 19th.

I’m rooming with Shaun in London until the 23rd (then switching over). On October 8th I’ll be flying back home with Dan Smith, and on either the 9th or the 10th we’ll be driving up to Niagara Falls for WPT Niagara. That concludes on the 16th, my 21st birthday is on the 18th – the same day as a Bellagio $5k, and two days before the Festa Al Lago WPT ME in Las Vegas.

I’m not homesick at all and feel a lot better than I did in Barcelona (I came down with a cold on Day 1, doh). I think I’m getting used to all this travel and am just anxious to get back to work.

Cya in London,

-Adam